Due to budget cuts affecting the Verifinial Flex Chorium, today's episode of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast will sound different in certain important aspects.

The engineering room apologizes for the inconvenience. Now, Welcome to episode 53 of the Charles CW Cook podcast.

It's Jeff 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 tentrameter is gone and the window sing octfralum has lost all oil pressure.

Not to mention the 10-man casualty with the H-back, 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 Podcast's 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, quite literally fits that description, which is pretty impressive. So congratulations, welcome.

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

which is the other podcast I'm on,

which is now at least 618 episodes,

many of which have bad reviews from Boiling Rug.

So my hat goes off to you, sir.

You are a man among men and keep practicing the recorder.

Before I get to my guest this week, I want to tell you about a podcast.

Our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute are back with new episodes of their

breakout How the World Works podcast, which is hosted

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