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wherever you get your podcasts. From the I read Jude the Obscure Out Loud and comment on it as I go. I am your host, your friend, your ear lover,

Michael Ian Black, and I don't think you can hear what I'm hearing, although you might be able to.

But my shitty little rat dog, Jackchak, is currently having a freak out on the throne, the reading throne behind me.

If you recall from last episode he had undergone a medical procedure and was forced to wear an Elizabethan

rough as a result. Well the rough is still about his neck, although Jack, stop it, put it back on. He just got it off. This is the thing. This is why he's still wearing it a week later because he keeps getting it off and then when he gets it off he goes at his healing wounds and starts pulling at them and

starts pulling at them and tearing at them and licking at them as anybody would do.

If you have an injury, your first thought is to, you know, put pressure on it,

lick the blood off, whatever you do.

I have always been a blood liquor.

But Jack does not know that he needs to just leave it alone.

And so you can't

you can tighten it to a certain degree,

but then it becomes self-defeating because you end up strangling him to death.

And there's no return on investment if he's dead.

So he's uncomfortable.

I don't blame him.

I would be too if I had to wear one of those things.

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