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[ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today im in rolling meadows, illinois. Its a suburb of chicago. Some weather, huh . Im here to meet two brothers whose strange inheritance had some serious strings attached. My name is justin snyder. And in 2006, our friend and mentor bill fosser passed away, leaving my brother and me a sort of Chicago Institution his puppet opera. Hi, justin. Im jamie. Jamie, nice to meet you. Im told that you have something that i may never see again. Here, follow me. I will. Justin leads me behind the scenes of a most unusual opera house. All these boxes here contain costumes for various, different productions. Wow this is my kind of wardrobe. If only it came in my size. The costumes are so small because the players taking the stage arent the supersized tenors and sopranos you expect to see at the opera. Theyre 16inch puppets. The maestro behind this pintsize production, justins boss, t ....
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today im in rolling meadows, illinois. Its a suburb of chicago. Some weather, huh . Im here to meet two brothers whose strange inheritance had some serious strings attached. My name is justin snyder. And in 2006, our friend and mentor bill fosser passed away, leaving my brother and me a sort of Chicago Institution his puppet opera. Hi, justin. Im jamie. Jamie, nice to meet you. Im told that you have something that i may never see again. Here, follow me. I will. Justin leads me behind the scenes of a most unusual opera house. All these boxes here contain costumes for various, different productions. Wow this is my kind of wardrobe. If only it came in my size. The costumes are so small because the players taking the stage arent the supersized tenors and sopranos you expect to see at the opera. Theyre 16inch puppets. The maestro behind this pintsize production, justins boss, the late bill fosser. ....
Yes. Im jamie colby, and today im strolling along the swanky streets of the Upper East Side of manhattan. The heir in this story reached out to us just a short time after her husband died. She wanted to talk about her strange inheritance, which she tells me takes up an entire room in her home. My name is carole postal, and less than one year ago, i lost my beloved husband, bob. He left me nearly 10,000 toy soldiers, which he called the guys. A whole room on the Upper East Side im hoping its shoes. Uh, not quite. No way. Its not shoes. Its soldiers . Across glass shelves, the tiny troops stand shoulder to shoulder, ready for battle. Lets see. Theres george washington. Generals robert e. Lee and ulysses s. Grant. Not to mention ancient and medieval warriors. A history of world combat in one jampacked man cave. Your husband mustve spent a lot of time putting this together. Lov ....
They offer a sobering view of how the world really works. We may once have trusted. Jay was an investigative journalist that broke the Panama Papers. He earned his first field surprise for National Coverage of the financial crisis in 2011. Hes written for the national post, the guardian and has appeared on bbc, nbc, cnn and npr. He was the editor of the texas observer. Lets give a warm welcome. [applause] wow. All right. It is great to be here. It is great to see so many old friends that we havent seen a long time. Thank you so much to books and books and to mitchell kaplan, proprietor of this wonderful bookstore. I dont know if you all know but mitchell now makes movies in addition to selling books in his latest is currently in theaters called the man who invented christmas. My wife and i saw the other day and it was delightful. The secrecy world. What is it . It in compas ....