from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Salchery, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure season

four in American Tragedy.

I am your host, your friend, your lover, your literary, Mansplainer in in chief and georgenologist Michael, Ian Black International

Man of Misery back from Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Wear a plate me some high-stakes poker.

Now if you're interested in learning more

about my high-stakes poker adventures,

you're certainly welcome to read my

sub stack where I wrote a little bit about it I was a little bit vague in my

descriptions because the company that is shooting the television series in which I appeared

asked me not to reveal too much information and so I did not.

Suffice it to say it was an incredible and thrilling experience, also a nauseating experience sitting

there for 10 hours where every decision I made easily could cost me thousands upon thousands of dollars.

It is not an experience for the faint of heart and friends.

I am the faint of heart. I will say this though as we head

into today's episode that the year that just passed, the year that just passed in which I found myself living abroad across the pond in

a Roma and London town without work or work prospects was a very costly one, financially speaking, and the wife

and I really did not quite know how we were going to get through the year. Without giving too much away, I will say that a good way to make a lot of money very quickly is playing extremely high stakes poker if the cards fall in your favor.

Now I'm not saying that happened or didn't happen, but you can read between the lines, I suppose.

It is about always in this nation of ours

and maybe this world writ large.

It is always about the Benjamin's, is it not, in some fashion or another. We are a people

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