Bring Hogs and Smiles, your 9-inch Niles. Welcome to the Blind Buy Podcast.

Before we begin this week's podcast, I'm going to read out a sharp piece of prose

that was submitted to the podcast by Hollywood actor Gary Sinise. I haven't seen Gary

Sinise in much recently, but I was at a soft spot for Gary Sinise, he's like the thinking

man's Jeremy Renner. But, recent acting career aside, who am I to turn down? The

prose of Gary Sinise when he sends it into this podcast. So this poem was called The

Day I Poked My Belly Button by Gary Sinise. One day, when I was alone in my bedroom,

I poked at my belly button. I taught about how it once tethered my umbilical cord as I

swam in an ocean of amniotic fluid to think that that sack of amniotic fluid was the

known universe to me at one point. It must have been like being unmarried. I wondered if

I could use my belly button to turn myself inside out. So I tried. I took both of my

fists and I pulled as hard as I could, but it would not work. It was paying for a

tool and all the skin on my belly was red. A beard appeared at the window. It was a

kestrel. I grew concerned that the beard had seen me trying to turn myself inside out.

I grew concerned that the beard would tell the tabloids and it would end my career as a

Hollywood actor. So I gave chase. I ran to the window and reached for the beard, but it

flew away. I fell out of the window and landed in my garden. A large puddle of water had

broken my fall. I was drenched in mud. I reached for the garden hose and attempted to fuse

it with my belly button as if it was my umbilical cord of your. Water splashed all over me

like I'm the attic fluid. Everything here reminded me of being in the womb. As I got up, I saw my

neighbor and I said, the garden has just given birth to me and my neighbor said, could you repeat

that please Gary? Powerful stuff there by Gary Senees. If you're new to this podcast,

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