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Before you ask, the tongue is still effed up.

It's still messed up, so I know.

Probably shouldn't be here, but here we are. Back at it again. I couldn't miss this night I had to be here tonight this is a good night to do talk radio good to be here and so

ta-da here we are making radio magic and I recorded a podcast earlier that would be up on Friday, which also was not a good idea.

So I've actually been talking all day.

I have been talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

So here's the Malar Monologue.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And final point, blah, blah, blah, blah.

There it is.

Right there, done.

Thank you very much.

No, the Thursday night game, we'll start with that.

Why?

There's a couple reasons.

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