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I've been doing this a long time.

I've been in radio business a long time.

I've often said that the only ailment that can cause you not to work is laryngitis.

And I've had laryngitis before, and I haven't been unable to do radio because of that,

because I've lost my voice.

I would like to add to that list really biting your tongue because I guess I'd bit my tongue when I was younger, but I hadn't done this in years.

I did it over the weekend on Sunday.

And I am still feeling the wrath.

And so I'm in the injury tent is where I am.

I'm in the injury tent right now.

And I'm heavily medicated.

I took some, as my friend Luni would say, pharmacy grade ibuprofen.

I took some of that.

Tom Looney.

All kinds of ailments.

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