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What comes to mind when you hear the word wealth? Wealth can, of course, be something you

measure in dollars and cents, but you can also be wealthy in love, luck, or in the case

of a man we're about to meet. Smarts.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called Poor Rich. Versions of this tale originally come from the Eastern

European country of Ukraine. Some really great people came together to bring you our

folk tale, including Broadway veterans Michael Cerveris and Patrick Page. Tony Award winner

Michael Cerveris also fronts the band loose cattle. Their latest album Heavy Lifting is

out now. Tony Award nominee Patrick Page is currently starring in Hades Town on Broadway.

You Grown-ups can check out both Michael and Patrick in the HBO drama series The

Guilded Age. So Circle Round everyone, for Poor Rich.

Once upon a time there was a land full of lush and fertile fields and a great deal of

those lush and fertile fields were owned by a land lord, a very rich land lord who hired

hundreds of local villagers to work his land. The land lord was every bit as pompous as

he was prosperous. His snobbery was deeper than his pockets, and given the fortune he owned,

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