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Cry with Nile of the Nine Hostages, you sausage-less castigans.

Welcome to the Blind Boy podcast.

If this is your first episode, consider going back to an earlier episode of this podcast to familiarize yourself with the lore of this podcast.

We're nestled in the comforting breast of autumn here in Limerick City. The leaves are going all rusty.

There's a healthy wind and a freshness of the air.

I have a thirst for layers underneath my jacket.

And I was walking up, up Henry Street, Henry Street the other day.

Lovely powerful breeze coming up Henry Street up from the river.

And I bumped into,

bumped into someone I hadn't seen in, in fucking 15, 16 years, maybe longer.

A fellow I went to school with who would have been in my class.

His name is Jerry Soft.

And it was lovely to see Jerry Soft.

I hadn't seen him in fucking years.

And turns out Jerry listens to my podcast.

And he said to me, I was listening to your podcast a couple of weeks ago when

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