The Paris, please give it up, Mr. Greg, Prips. Thank you.

Adam.

It's so exciting.

Whoa, it's so exciting to be here.

I'd like to remind you before we get started.

First of all, thank you, Shakespeare and

Company, for having us here. We were here last year, but in a private room. Now this year, we're

in this room. I want to say hi to everybody hiding in the back there if

I could describe the scene to the people listening on the podcast we're

trapped in a garret in Paris like Victor Hugo there's no air. There's lights and there's people sitting in the back who have the slightest notion of why they're here.

And that's what makes it awesome.

What I wanted to remind you of before we get started is that this show is free.

So if you have any complaints, the complaint of Marment is so closed right now.

We have people who speak English here, I hope.

Okay, hooray, right for me.

Looks like we might win this one.

Thank you for coming out.

I am an author, I wrote a book.

Here it is in paperback, look, I haven't seen it in a few years because

I quit drinking and so I lost the book that I had my copy I probably I might read from it a little bit later, but mostly I just wanted to talk to you because this is a podcast here and we're in Paris and I couldn't be happier for one thing because well it's this time of year, isn't it?

And to be in Paris at Christmas is, I'd like to start with some schmaltz.

I realize there's probably a lot of English people here,

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