So he's telling Tucker about how he didn't kill that whistleblower, and the whole time I'm just hearing these witch nails on the world's most ragged chalkboard coming out of his mouth.
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See, bird lungs only flow air in one direction, so to mimic mammalian speech, lizard people have to eat a witch (usually one of their own children specifically raised for this purpose) and a chalkboard and squeeze their gizzard muscles to produce a simulacrum of speach. The reason you can barely hear the words is because they also hijack your brain and convey most of the meaning telepathically,