Hey, cats and kittens, welcome to a special edition of the commercial break.

And by the way, best to you.

You know I love a good quirky documentary or a quirky podcast, and I think we've got a good one for you to take a listen to.

Our network Odyssey is putting out an original podcast called Cement City.

And today, we're excited to share a preview of that new podcast.

Cement City tells the true story of a little,

broken downtown, at a precipice. De Nora, Pennsylvania. The population is only 4,650. The town has no

schools, no banks, no grocery stores, no gas stations, but it does have a smog museum and a mayor

named Piglet. I said that correctly. The name is Piglet.

Narrator and writer Jean-Marie and her friend with the microphone, Aaron, arrive in town

at a pivotal moment. De Nora has hit bottom. But there is hope. For the first time since the

steel mill left 50 years ago, something might be moving into town instead of leaving it. And there's

an unlikely cast of flawed heroes and

rainy day optimists who are determined to make it happen and save the town. As mentioned, Cement

City is an original Odyssey podcast in partnership with Cement City productions. And it's now available

on the Odyssey app or wherever you're listening to this podcast. So let's do this. Why don't you relax?

And I'm going to press play on a sneak peek. Did you know that there is actually a band,

a local Pittsburgh band called De Nora? They were driving down the highway and they seen the sign

for De Nora. And they said, hmm, that sounds like a really cool name.

What's that? I love that band.

I think I like you. I'm sure, I'm sure I do. I don't remember the other words to it.

A few years ago, I pulled off the highway into a dying town I'd never heard of. It was just one of those exit signs I'd always whizzed past on my way to someplace else. And I was curious. I brought my friend Aaron. She brought her microphone. We came here with one burning question. What's it like to live here in a dying town? See, that's what we really don't need. I'm not buying a house, honey. Well, that's why I'm asking you. And then suddenly, I'm buying a house. I think I like you. I'm pretty sure I'm sure I do. I'm Jean Marie Laskis. Welcome to DeNora, Pennsylvania. Population 4,650. So what did you just say about? It's what? It's the home of champions. DeNora's the home of champions. The sea home of champion. There was a billboard announcing it when we first drove into town. Talk to some people around here. You'll find out too. But it seemed like there wasn't much else. You know what I mean? Put a gas station and give us a grocery store. Just one restaurant and a dollar general and a smog museum. I mean, those are things that people need. You know what I mean? A bank. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Damn it, we got smog? Everybody else got pumpkins and apples. We got smog. But we stuck around. What the hell we did with smog? What we found was a dying town with one hell of a will to live. Dinaura PA will not go down without a fight. Tick, tick, tick goes the clock. 19 days and there's an election. Tick, tick, tick, tick goes the clock. I need to do this, and they expect someone like me to do this, so I should do this. Theodore Roosevelt, the man in the arena,

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