from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library in the wilds of Connecticut. This is

obscure. The podcast in which I read you the obscure out loud and comment on it as I go.

My name is Michael Ian Black.

I am your reader, your host, your friend, your confidant, maybe your pen pal. I don't know who I am to you, but I know who you are to me.

You are my best friend.

You may be thinking, who me?

But I'm just a humble. You may be thinking, who mean?

But I'm just a humble listener of obscure.

No.

No, you're so much more to me than that.

And because of that that I am thankful.

And it is a week of thanks here in the wilds of Connecticut.

It is Thanksgiving week. As I record this, yesterday was

Thanksgiving Day. I visited family, my brother's family and we did all the traditional Thanksgiving stuff including

stuff in and we hung around and we ate food and we played pinball because he's got a pinball machine and was fabulous.

And he lives very close.

So the commute was easy. We talked about the theater because one of his sons is

interested in the theater. We talked about the high school production of Le Misarab, which my family saw at the local high school.

It's a production I had mentioned during the end of last week's episode and guys I got to tell you if you're wondering how a bunch of high school kids can sing the operetta

Le Misraub the answer is fabulously. It was just great. And you think to yourself

watching these kids, 16, 17, 18 years old, well, you know, some of these kids may have a future in the showbiz and how nice

that they have that option how nice for them that they can dream like that there's a song

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