Hello and welcome to the Tribalcast, episode, Q Choir of Heavenly Angels.

Not really, just a children's choir sadly. But still, a children's choir in heaven, tragically, which is still better than hell,

comparatively.

But I also don't know where they went after that bus crash, admittedly.

Maybe nowhere at all, possibly,

just the cold, empty void of eternal non-existence which soon awaits us all, inevitably.

They sound happy enough, though, but I also don't speak Latin, so who can say?

I'm your host, by the way, Norm Sherman.

And while I can't say with certainty that those children are trying to tell us from beyond the grave,

I can tell you that I'm pretty happy about this particular episode,

because it's episode 500, and that's quite a landmark.

I look back and think about how long I've been doing this,

and how long some of you have been doing this with me, and it feels like quite the journey.

Almost half my life.

Eighteen years of strange-ass stories.

That's how long porcupines live.

Well, not always.

I never would have guessed back then that we'd still be here doing this a whole porcupine

later.

Has a lot changed for you in the past 18 years?

A lot's changed for me and for Drabblecast.

18 years ago we sounded like this.

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