Clicks and Pops Issue

There are some clicks and pops on my audio track, a recorded lecture. I have gone into the Sample Editor and used the Pencil tool to draw the clicks out. However, when I play back the track, I can still hear the click. There is no click showing in the waveform. Is there something I need to do to get the track to update? Any ideas why it might not be working?

Drawing an actual waveform that will not glitch is near impossible. I wonder what the pencil tool is even there for. If the glitches are small enough, you might have more success setting the editor to snap to zero crossings and then zooming in and selecting as little of the waveform as is necessary, and then just command x delete the pop.

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