Hello, you perpetual emits. Welcome to the Blind By Podcast.

Before we begin this week, I think we're gonna start off with a little poem, because

there was a poem that was submitted by Irish singer-songwriter Christ the Burgh sent this in

last week, so I'm just gonna read this out first to kind of relax us all and set the scene.

So this poem is called The Cliffs of Malin Head by Christ the Burgh.

Before to be on The Cliffs of Malin Head, October 1987, with your suitcase full of chewing

gum, bare chest and excited. Winter winds from Greenland clipped the waves like ancient

ships.

Don't swallow the chewing gum, you would say. It gets stuck in your gut and farms a hard

lump, and I'd laugh. At the Atlantic void, and stuff my face with more. My jaws aching,

chomping with gusto, too much chewing gum in my mouth. If they could only see me now.

The spearments saliva rising up to burn my eyes, fully tumecent, with my mouth full of chewing

gum.

Thank you, Christ the Burgh for that. Lovely piece of poetry there. So welcome everybody.

This week, welcome to the, there's some new listeners that have come over from my parents

on the Adam Bocsdom podcast. Still getting new listeners from that. What's the crack?

How are you getting on? And new listeners I always suggest. Go back and listen to some

previous podcasts. Listen to some of the earlier ones. Establish yourself within the

lore of this universe. Learn what a podcast hug is. Which is the goal of this particular

podcast to provide what I refer to as the podcast hug. Which...

It's a state of calm concentration that's only a podcast can offer. And traditional

media these days fails to offer what I call the podcast hug. When you listen to a podcast

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