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carlin or text carlin to 500500 to get started. I've just heard the audio that you're

about to hear. And this is my own critique of the audio that you're about to hear. And

it's a little redundant only because I actually start off the program with a little bit of

that sort of talk too. So I apologize for the redundancy. But I'm going to call this

episode, I'm going to throw a nightmare somehow because it sounds like a nightmare. And I don't

just mean because of the material, which is nightmare-ish. Nothing new about that, of course,

on what we do. But almost my recounting of it is like that. Like you woke up in the middle

of the night, you know, screaming. And the next morning your spouse says to you, what the

heck was that all about? And you try to recount, you know, what happened to you in your nightmare.

And it always sounds like a bunch of disjointed flashing images. You know, we always like to

try to put a little artistic touch, your little flair here or there with the big hardcore

history shows. And I feel like that's what's missing in the audio that you're going to hear

now. It sounds like a nightmare. It sounds like I'm just telling you the highlights are

worst moments or the things that freaked me out the most or whatever is sticking in my

memory after going back to sleep in the middle of the night. But for some of you, especially,

I think, you know, those of you who already know some of this or all of this story, it will

remind you once again that, you know, if I'm recounting a nightmare-ish sort of story to you,

I mean, think about how many people actually woke up in the night for many, many, many decades

after this event with this exact same nightmare. And it's pretty safe to say that unlike me,

who wasn't there, the people who were there would probably be unable to tell anyone else who

wasn't there, you know, what they were seeing in their dreams. So apologies for the lack of artistic

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