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We snap them open to get to their hearts.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

It's not that violent.

I'm glad you're addressing it, though. It is kind of a crazy thing to say.

I know. I do like it. But I did, I also wrote a really emo poem, which I still have some funness for, but I did have an emo little poetry phase in my undergrad.

And I wrote this really, this poem that's just like about breaking spines,

and it's a metaphor about, like, love and poet.

Break that spine.

I do like the violent imagery, actually.

I think it adds a little.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I forgot to say with your host's Ariel Beset and...

Raylene. Hello. Hello. No last name given. Just kidding. Yeah, I was like, wait,

do we usually do the last name? No, we don't. I'm frazzled to all hell because let's cut to

the chase here. Yeah, let's get to it. There was a hurricane, and I lost power for three days oh my god and when did it come back on

two hours ago we didn't know if we were going to be here today folks no so i texted raleen

last night and i was like raleen here's the situation the power has been gone for two days

the power outage map thingy that will like tries to give an estimate which I don't trust it because I think

they were just so overwhelmed that like I don't think that it was actually saying anything but like

yeah I was like the power outage thing he says we're not going to get power back until like today's nighttime. So like another whole day

from when I texted you. And I was like, I don't think we can record because I literally don't

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