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All right folks, enjoy the show. I'm going to do. Hello and welcome to the travel cast Best of Directors Cut Special.

Charlie the Purple Giraffe was acting strangely by David D. Levine.

I really enjoyed producing this week's story back in May 2009 when we first ran it as

episode 113 but I might have enjoyed it even more this go-round, getting to talk

with the author himself, the one and only David D. Levine.

You might remember from last week how we do this. We're going to run the full story uncut here in a minute

for you folks that haven't heard it or maybe want to relive the zainy, mad cap, existential horror of it all,

and then minute 22 of the episode, begin with part 2 where David and I will talk about it with

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