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Foreverdog. Hi, everybody. It's Julie Klausner, and it is time for another episode of Ask Julie,

wherein you ask me Julie Klausner questions such as, no, I'm not going to get to the questions yet.

First, I'm going to ramble aimlessly about things that are bleak such as the

average lifespan of Americans now has dropped from 79 to 76 as in trombones.

That, that, that, that, that, that, that too bad.

I hope everybody is enjoying the end of their summer.

I hope that you all know that we're the only people working here in the last week of August.

I love saying that to people this week. I've said it three times. It's killed. It's killed.

I said it on a zoom today. I got a hearty laugh. I said, oh my god, it's like we're the Marines.

By the way, there is a lady on TikTok who has, I, I'm going to mangle the name of this breed.

Belgian Malinois. Is that what they're called? These are Belgian shepherds.

And this lady who is a Marine has three. And she makes TikToks with them. And

because she was a Marine, she says that her dogs are not Marines. They are Mal Marines because

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