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Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Tim McIntosh.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the In-Curial Reader on which we

are discussing William Faulkner as Azz a little dying and Tim is making distracting faces.

Have we ever gone over the professional?

It's like a thing. I wish you guys could see this.

He looks like one of those big floppy balloons with arms that's like at a outside of like a car

dealership.

Like a Rose Bowl parade?

Oh, yeah.

Like the balloon man. Like a Rose Bowl parade? Oh, yeah. No, like the balloon man.

What is that guy called?

Lucy got me like a little man, a little one for Christmas in my stocking because I'm like

obsessed with those things.

I think they're hilarious.

And I drive like really slowly by them whenever I see them.

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