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This is a live recording of VACATIONLAND, the show that became the book of the same name. I recorded it on 9/29/2015 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto. It's maybe my best performance of the show, and certainly my favorite. I had performed it at another venue the night before in Toronto and made the mistake of reading a review of that performance just hours before I went to the QE. The reviewer really disliked the show, which was his right. People like what they like, and he really hated what he hated. But my worry was that people who had tickets for the Queen Elizabeth show would read it and stay home. They didn't. Everyone showed up and it was one of the truly warmest and loudest and happiest crowds I've ever played to. It was a reminder. John Flansburgh told me when I first started doing my version of comedy that in live performance, sometimes you just get punched in the stomach. Bad review. No show crowd. Whatever. But you get up and you do it again anyway. Thank you Toronto for reminding me to keep getting up. I hope you keep getting up. Anyway, I just decided to post this, so I had to pick some album art quick, so I grabbed this blurry photo of me in Maine last year and those are lobsters as epaulets, obviously. Toronto, I salute you. That is all. JH

VACATIONLAND Live in Toronto

I, PODIUS is a special podcast miniseries in which I, John Hodgman, and He, Elliott Kalan, watch and discuss each and every episode of I, CLAUDIUS, the famously saucy and character-actory 1976 BBC miniseries about ancient Rome that defined PRESTIGE TELEVISION and delightfully traumatized a generation of PBS households and High School Latin classes. ALL EPISODES DROP on 2/17/2020 (Gregorian calendar), but for now, here is a little PROPHECY OF WHAT IS TO COME.

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