Due to budget cuts affecting the verifineal flex corium, today's episode of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast will sound different in certain important aspects. The engineering room apologizes for the inconvenience.

Thank you. Welcome Welcome to episode of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast.

It's February 2nd.

Did you know that if you see,

a full-grown manatee can weigh up to 1,200 pounds?

Dispatch 11 from the podcast Engineering Room.

Charlie, the vocal tantrometer is gone and the Windasing Oct Fralum has lost all oil pressure.

Not to mention the 10-man casualty with the H-pack, but I know you don't care about the men.

You care about the podcast.

We're looking at a meltdown, Charlie, a real deal meltdown.

I'm sorry about that.

I don't know what happened, but just to be sure I have had Luther shot.

I want to dedicate this week's episode to a persistent commenter on this podcast in the Apple Podcasts app, whose screen name, hello, is Boiling Rug.

Now, at various points since I started this, I've made the joke

that if you're still listening to this show after 50 episodes

and you hate it, then you might want to have your head checked out.

And Boiling Rug, who hates this show, but keeps listening... your head checked out.

And Boiling Rug, who hates this show, but keeps listening,

quite literally fits that description, which is pretty impressive.

So congratulations, welcome.

It's less impressive, though, than his commitment to listening to the editors' podcast,

which is the other podcast I'm on,

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