from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut.

This is obscure season four in American tragedy.

I'm your host, your friend, you are your lover and literary mansplainer in chief Michael

Ian Black.

Just a couple hours away from leaving the United States of America for Italia, Alitalia, going to Italy. Today, we'll be there for a month

exploring northern Italy, eating a managot. And who knows? Who knows what I'll be eating? But

chances are I'll be eating a lot of it as you do when you go to Italy. We'll be staying

in the Lake Como region, though not in Lake Como itself. And I don't mean within the body of water, there's a town there, as you probably know.

But we're staying at a different town nearby.

But we do apparently have a view of Lake Como from at least one room.

If you peer out and you stand on one foot and you squint, you might be able to see the lake. So we had no great plans while

we're there. We're going to goof off and amble and luxuriate and drink apparel spritzes and eat

potato chips and all the rest of it. So that should be fun. It is an adventure. And I am not, as you probably know, the most adventurous type. It's not the sort of thing I love. I don't love escapades. I prefer to be supine on either the Jack Jack Memorial Reading Throne or any other Memorial Reading

Throne. But I'm looking forward to it. It should be a good time. And the kids will be joining us

for about a week of it. I think I mentioned all this in the last episode. But it's hard for me

to keep track of such things. So here we are. And we're still trying to get through Clyde's

testimony on the witness stand. And I didn't read ahead, but I happen to look ahead to see how many

more pages in the chapter. Because I think the chapter probably coincides with his telling of the

tale. And I feel like we've been in this chapter for at least two episodes,

and we may be in it another two if I don't get Cracken. So the last time we left off,

Clyde had been essentially lying under the auspices of his barrister, one Mr. Rubin Jefferson. And they've gone through all the evidence, all the damning evidence, the suit, the camera, the tripod, the fake names, this, that, the other thing.

And Jepson is trying to convince us, us meaning the jury, that all of this, all of this damning evidence

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