Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the United States of America, and I am delighted to have you with me. The phone number this open line Friday, 8779373425, should you wish to be on the program?

Listen, I appreciate everybody calling in and give me a break.

I cannot explain to you how bad my mouth hurts.

Every time I talk, I chew.

I haven't had good solid food since Wednesday because of these stupid...

I think I got to go to the orthodontas and tell them to take these things out. This is just

ridiculous. Every time I speak, if you're just tuning in, let me reset for you. Have braces. Got

about a month and a half ago. I'd just long story short, needed them. An invisible line doesn't

work. Can I have real braces. They added brackets on Wednesday to these back molars on my upper teeth and they have dug in so much.

I'm literally in commercial break having to pull them out of my, the lining of my inner

cheek and it just, I'm on blood thinner. So I got every time I talk I got blood it hurts I don't

like this this is deeply uncomfortable and the wax is not helping they saw wax put

the wax is not helping the wax goes away my my wife gave me some little pads to

put in they dissolve over time I'm this isn't working this I am just I I'm making me so, I'm trying not to lose my

temper on radio, but I have, this is not, my job requires I use my mouth and this is

impeding my ability to do my job. And I'm, it just makes me furious. And I'm hangary because I

haven't had a good meal in three

days. Now great weight loss plan. I will say that. Who needs those shots when you can actually

just get brackets in your mouth that dig into your gums and cause you to bleed while you're trying

to chew in any of it? I will move on from my personal problem. It's just to say thank you for a good quality

phone calls today so I can take a break from some of the talking. I'm going to buy some

orthodontic pliers and pull them out myself this weekend if they won't do it. Now, I got to talk

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