Comedy
Kento Morita came alive in Saturday School.
In this episode of 'No Suggestion,' hosts Aston Holland and Ralph Jean Pierre welcome special guest Kento Morita for a lively discussion filled with humor and improvisation. The trio explore...
Kento Morita came alive in Saturday School.
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the kitchen.
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Oh, hello.
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Oh, cool.
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Good to know.
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We're live.
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Hello.
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Good evening.
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Hello.
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Oh, can you hear yourselves in there?
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What a beautiful evening.
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Hello.
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I cannot.
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I think just, yeah, oh, that's good.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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About time.
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Hello.
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Oh, wait.
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Yeah.
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Is it low?
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It's a little low, I think.
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Turn it up for you.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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It's better.
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Yeah.
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Let me know if it's too loud.
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That's good.
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I think it's good.
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Okay.
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We can figure it out in motion.
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That's true.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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The cat is the cat over the top.
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That's beautiful.
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Oh.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Welcome to no suggestion.
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An improv comedy podcast.
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I am your co-host, Aston Holland.
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And this is our host, Ralph Jean Pierre.
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Hello.
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And we have a very special guest.
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What is it?
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Just realizing I don't remember your last name.
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Okay.
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I'm going to do first name, Ken Toe.
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Last name.
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Let's guess.
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Oh.
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Marie.
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Marie.
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Binghamton.
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Oh, Marie Toe.
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Oh.
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Marie Toe.
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Marie Toe.
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Marie Toe.
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Marie Toe.
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Marie Toe.
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Marie Toe.
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Who is there?
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Is somebody else's famous person with the last name?
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Yeah.
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Can see you.
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The former CEO of Sony, a Keo Morita.
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That's not who I was thinking.
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Wow.
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That's what we were all thinking.
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All right.
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Guys, you guys got Marita.
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Yeah.
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Max on, Max on.
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Also, who is the unhappy days?
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You see him in happy days?
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He was somebody in happy days.
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I haven't watched it.
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Just another Morita.
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No, it's the same guy.
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Mr. Miyagi was in happy days.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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I only know the theme.
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But I haven't seen many happy days.
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Oh, yeah.
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You guys are a little bit.
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You're not.
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Yeah.
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When I was a kid, there was like happy days all over the damn place.
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I guess I was on like, you know, happy days.
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Happy weeks.
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Happy weeks.
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I think he's the whole fucking childhood of happiness.
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Wow.
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That's a, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know, you know, his, like, he was, he, Pat Morita came up as a stand-up.
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Yes.
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And his, his, uh, I had no idea.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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His, uh, his name was Pat the Nip Morita.
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Oh.
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The Nip.
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Sounds racing.
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He was.
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Whoa.
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Wow.
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You know, as back when Dr. Seuss was being like, ah, let's draw cartoons about the fifth
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column, the scary Japanese.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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What is the fifth column?
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It's like, it's, it's just some typical xenophobic rhetoric that they used to put Japanese
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people in camps like, oh, wait, it's history is rhyming.
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Yeah.
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Uh, it's a bummer.
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It's a time.
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It's a time with, let's listen.
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Let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, we don't
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have things, things don't have to be okay.
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Things are dark right now.
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Things, you know, have things, we lost the farm.
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We lost the farm.
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Things, we lost grandma last year.
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Yeah.
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We lost our, I lost my older brother.
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I lost my crop of corn.
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The whole crop is gone.
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It's gone.
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Crop.
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Pigs, pigs die.
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Things have always been dark.
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Let's let them be, I'm Harriet.
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I got a new philosophy in life.
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Let's let them be dark.
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Let's let it be dark.
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I don't want to fix anything anymore.
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Okay.
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So.
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So if you want to, if you want to, if you want to take, if you want to for a close in my
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land, let's get the for a closing.
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I want you to fight back.
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I can't, I can't, let's let hair.
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I like, I'm tired.
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Me and my wife are tired.
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We've been through a lot.
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What?
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We always do this parade where I come in and say I'm going to raise, raise the rent
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by $10 and you guys say, oh, please don't.
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And then I eventually let you guys not get raised, and that's our charade.
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I'm lighting up a cigar.
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Okay.
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You got to raise the rent.
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If we lose this land that we've been on for what?
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Both.
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So many years.
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We raised our children in this land.
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If we got to lose this land, let it be.
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Oh, I see.
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You've been reading all that nihilism propaganda.
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Perhaps.
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What's it matter?
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If I die, if my wife dies, if we die together, if we die apart, what's it matter?
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You guys, you guys always read a book of philosophy and that becomes your whole thing every
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year.
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That's true.
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Last year it's stoicism.
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That's true.
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You wipe, you take your muddy boots off, or you came into my house?
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Good.
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Keep them on.
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Oh, no.
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Oh, keep them on.
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Wow.
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You have to admit.
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Keep them on.
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Ready.
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The build up is sweet.
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Why don't you take a seat at the head of our table, seat up on a seat right next to the
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picture of my dead knee?
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Oh, yes.
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Please sit down.
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Sit right there.
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It's a picture of my dead knee, sit right there next to it.
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Oh, that's my sitting down.
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Oh, you just plopped down so well.
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What do we usually do?
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I'm sorry.
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We don't really have anything to offer you because we have lost everything in the
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drought.
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But we do this every year.
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My wife has been trying to have children, or we tried to have a...
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But there's a drought in my body.
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I cannot have.
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Her body is dry.
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Her body is dry.
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I don't know if I want to hear this.
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I just wanted to do this.
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I'm sorry.
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That was personal.
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Try to plow the earth when it's full dry.
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Well, there's a doctor in town that I can refer you to.
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But my wife and I had some...
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This is named Dr. What's the Point?
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Because what is the Point?
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Oh, no.
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I'm not sure with that nihilistic crap again.
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Tell us about your family.
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How's your family doing?
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My family's great.
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You know, my son is off to college.
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It's good to hear Mr. Howard.
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That sounds nice.
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That sounds real nice.
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Yeah, he's studying philosophy.
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Mmm.
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Oh, smart, smart.
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Smart.
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Smart boy.
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My wife Harriet, she tried to study philosophy.
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I did.
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Unfortunately, she came down with the...
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That makes you dry.
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Also, she came down with a terrible illness.
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It's called being a woman.
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They kicked her out of the college.
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It didn't feel good.
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Let me tell you something.
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They found you out?
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Well, that's what happened.
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It was more like a slow hazing.
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Oh, no.
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It's kind of forced to have...
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So are you gonna raise the rent this year?
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You're gonna raise the rent, what?
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Oh, you got me.
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You got me.
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I'm not gonna raise the rent.
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No.
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What a relief.
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Oh, my gosh.
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We've got each of us have a bean.
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What is this picture you need?
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This is...
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Let us sit there.
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She was beautiful.
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She was beautiful.
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She was beautiful inside now.
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Oh, wait.
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This is a real picture.
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Yes.
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She died.
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Oh, I thought it was a bit.
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We were gonna adapt her because my wife can't have anymore data.
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That's also real.
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She had six.
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Oh, I wanted to say that.
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This is our real story, sir.
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Oh, that's why this felt so real.
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God.
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It's real.
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This isn't real.
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This is not real.
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So Garza's sugar cane.
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I'm sad.
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Yeah.
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No, that threw me up.
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You see, like, that was the first thing I saw.
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You know what?
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We could lower rent.
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Yes.
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Yes, please.
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I accept.
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Or raise it.
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Nothing matters.
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It matters.
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It matters.
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Yeah.
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If he lowers rent, then things then something matters.
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Yes.
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I think you should listen to her.
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Just accept.
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Maybe good things will happen to us.
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Let me put it towards painting and nursery.
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I'm gonna look into the eyes of my dead niece and see what I feel.
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Maybe.
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Yeah, hold it up.
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Maybe she'll come back to life.
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What?
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If you lower the rent, maybe our dead niece will come back.
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Yes.
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She'll resurrect.
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I said, how much are you gonna lower this rent?
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By $5.
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Just to make it clear, the original rent was $10.
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Don't cry.
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Okay, six.
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There's no tears because I can't even cry.
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There's no moisture here.
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It's so dry here.
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It's so dry.
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My lips are bleeding.
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Welcome to the Dust Bowl, Mr. Howitzer.
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I am a raisin now.
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I have turned into a...
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What?
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What?
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Yikes.
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Wow.
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That was awesome.
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Beautiful time.
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Women shrinking.
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I don't like it.
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Yeah, I don't know everything.
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I don't like it.
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Yeah, growing to your rightful glory.
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Sorry, ladies.
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But that voice that I did is everyone I did.
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I love it.
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I can't wait to hear it here and again.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have just two voices.
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It's not much.
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I was rethinking on the way here.
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I always want to do an accent and then I can't maintain it.
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I can't maintain it or with great difficulty, maybe I can kind of maintain it.
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But little kids, like...
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When I was a little kid, I could like maintain
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a comedy accent.
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You know?
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And I'm just wondering why...
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Why do we lose?
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Why do we lose that?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, why do we lose that?
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You know how the older you get time gets faster and faster?
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Yes, no kidding.
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You might have just still been only doing an accent for five seconds.
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Maybe.
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Wow.
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That's a good point.
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Yeah.
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I'm trying to think about if I had no awareness really of acting when I was a kid.
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I bet you were a little performer.
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I love you Mr. Bean.
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Sure.
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I was...
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I was...
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We were always funny.
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I mean my sister's really always funny.
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But I had no idea that it was something you could do.
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I still really don't.
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It's still a hard...
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I think some people...
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That is a thought I've never had before.
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I think some people have like an external idea of like their talent or their capacity to be funny and do comedy.
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And to me, it's still just a part of life.
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Like they kind of like have a third-person camera view.
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Maybe or it's like a commodity to them that they can wield.
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And I don't see it like that.
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I just see laughter as sometimes the things that happens in life.
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Sometimes I'm part of it.
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Sure, sure.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But I've never...
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It's very hard for me to...
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I feel like I'm a comedian because I try to do it a lot.
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But I don't...
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I think some people really can see it like a talent to basketball or something.
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That's interesting.
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Yeah.
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That's an interesting point of view.
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I mean like the whole idea of comedian as like a label is a really interesting one.
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Because like if you are a plumber, you are dealing with plumbing.
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Plumb.
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But like comedy or just funniness.
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Yeah, it's more like an attribute of something.
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Like you can't be a professional red.
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You know?
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Or like a professional...
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Let's see a damn communist.
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That's true.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Like a Marx.
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A beautiful Marx.
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Marx, come a car.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Marx, brothers, we're back.
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The comedy, baby.
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Oh.
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Good one.
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Well, if you...
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I want to know more about our special guest.
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What can't though?
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What is it?
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Where did you...
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You fell out of the sky.
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Where did you come from?
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Um...
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How did you end up here today?
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Um...
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My parents...
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Start from the beginning.
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Yeah.
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Start from how they met, how they fell in love.
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Like just doing some basic maths, I think they had me on Valentine's Day.
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Wait, when is your birthday?
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November 5th.
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I'm November 19th.
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Oh, you were like conceived on Valentine's Day.
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I think so.
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Yeah.
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I think I was birthday sex.
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It's what I was thinking.
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Birthday sex.
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Why birthday sex?
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Who's...
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Who's birthday sex?
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I think it was probably my dad's birthday.
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Oh.
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Are your parents birthday's close together?
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Uh...
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Kind of.
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This isn't about me.
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We're talking to Kendrick.
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Birthday sex.
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Yeah.
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Scorpios, I think are...
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Romantic.
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Yeah.
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We're Valentine's babies.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think it goes awry with other bigots.
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Cute.
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To...
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Get your Scorpio.
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Yeah.
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And you're also a Scorpio.
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What day?
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5th.
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November 5th.
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Are you crazy in love?
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Yeah.
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I get crazy.
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You know, shit.
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I think...
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I think...
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I think...
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Maybe.
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My last two relationships for like seven years and two years.
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Damn.
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I'm just like...
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I'm committed.
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Are you...
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Are you serial monogamous?
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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I have...
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I also have ADHD.
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And I'm just like that aspect of life, I cannot be distracted.
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Like I just...
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I'm just like...
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You're hyper focused there.
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I just want to know.
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And then I'm going to be like...
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I don't want to be distracted there.
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Like I want to like allocate my distraction points to other aspects of life.
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Say more about this.
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So you're saying...
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You know mine being distracted in other places, but I do not want to be distracted here.
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Yeah, I think it's just going to destroy me.
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Love.
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Oh, you like...
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If you take your eye off for one second, it's going to come and kill you.
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No, like it's like...
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I think...
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I think like...
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I could get...
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Very distracted.
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I don't know what I love.
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I love.
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Right.
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Like it's so potent, it power that I could be like...
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Oh no, there's 3.5 billion people out there that I'm conventionally attracted to.
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Everyone gather around close.
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Pay attention.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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What's going on?
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I know that they're out there.
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And they are...
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They're everywhere.
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And I'm just...
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I'm getting a little afraid.
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We've all been...
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cooped up in this apartment.
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I can't leave.
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After what happened.
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And...
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It's just...
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It's been 28 days.
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Yes, 28 days.
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We...
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Everything is destroyed.
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Who knew?
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Who knew that too much of a good thing is so terrible.
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I know.
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It can't just be the 3 of us left.
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It has to be more.
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I don't know, but I'm afraid of the love zombies.
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Yeah.
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I'm really afraid.
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They love you, but the bites of love.
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All the hugging and the kissing and...
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Oh, God.
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Once one of them...
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Because it seems...
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Look, it seems like they're...
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At times I was telling this.
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It seems like they're happy out there, but I don't think they're happy.
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No.
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Because they're in love against their will.
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They don't have to get fall in love.
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It's automatic.
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It's automatic.
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No choice.
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You guys, I don't want that to happen to us.
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Okay.
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I want us to stay...
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Potonic.
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Yeah, just stay as we are.
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It lets things flow naturally.
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Yes.
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Something's going to flow naturally.
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It's like a damn...
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It's like a damn...
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Like when we message each other on New York City Housing Forum...
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And then it's becoming roommate.
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Did I check out Y'all's Instagrams?
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Yes, I did.
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I did.
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I did.
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It works.
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I...
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I held off until right before we met and then I was like,
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Fuck, I had to check.
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I got to check.
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That's why I was like...
spk_0
But, but, but...
spk_0
That's why I was like...
spk_0
Other households don't have synergy like this.
spk_0
I said it was so lucky.
spk_0
Because my train got caught underground.
spk_0
I was not underground.
spk_0
I got off of the train and I hid near the train stop and I looked at your Instagrams for
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45 minutes.
spk_0
That's okay.
spk_0
You made me awfully specific.
spk_0
spk_0
As if you were...
spk_0
I was crouched.
spk_0
I was crouched and scrolling.
spk_0
You rehearsed this alibi.
spk_0
What?
spk_0
I said I was...
spk_0
I was stuck in the train and I'm really...
spk_0
spk_0
What's...
spk_0
I think you've been checking our Instagrams since before you messaged us on the Facebook.
spk_0
Uh...
spk_0
Claire, don't look at me that way.
spk_0
Peter.
spk_0
I don't want your trust in you.
spk_0
Are you one of them?
spk_0
Wait.
spk_0
Peter?
spk_0
Show me your neck, Peter.
spk_0
Peter?
spk_0
No, no, no, no.
spk_0
Peter?
spk_0
I just got one day.
spk_0
spk_0
You're so sneaky.
spk_0
Come on.
spk_0
What are you doing?
spk_0
Come on.
spk_0
What are you doing?
spk_0
Look at her.
spk_0
Come on.
spk_0
Let me...
spk_0
Let me hear.
spk_0
Let me hear.
spk_0
Let me hear.
spk_0
Oh my gosh.
spk_0
I don't know what to do.
spk_0
I don't know what to do.
spk_0
We can be more than friends.
spk_0
I don't know what to do.
spk_0
We can be more than friends.
spk_0
Only two puts on a paper.
spk_0
I like you.
spk_0
What do we do?
spk_0
I'm pan.
spk_0
I'm pan sexual.
spk_0
I'm pan sexual.
spk_0
I'm...
spk_0
I'm freaking out.
spk_0
I'm freaking out.
spk_0
I'm freaking out.
spk_0
See this.
spk_0
I'm like, look, now we're...
spk_0
All the sides are there.
spk_0
All the sides are there.
spk_0
Look, look, now we're...
spk_0
He was like suddenly remembering birthdays.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
That's right.
spk_0
He was like...
spk_0
He was like cooking for more than him.
spk_0
He's singing love songs.
spk_0
Oh gosh.
spk_0
I'm gonna be sick.
spk_0
Are we gonna die?
spk_0
Are we gonna die in here?
spk_0
Mikey?
spk_0
Not unless.
spk_0
I'm making my thingy.
spk_0
I have a confession.
spk_0
I'm just not making a confession.
spk_0
spk_0
Look at my neck.
spk_0
Oh my god.
spk_0
What?
spk_0
What has happened?
spk_0
I can't even do the cross face.
spk_0
I can't even do the cross face.
spk_0
What does that...
spk_0
What does Michael Bolton...
spk_0
No, that's not right.
spk_0
That's great.
spk_0
Wow.
spk_0
I can't remember another scene like that.
spk_0
that they're horsing.
spk_0
Oh, I was influenced by your or inspired by your like loving too much.
spk_0
Love zombies.
spk_0
Too much love.
spk_0
What do you do you identify?
spk_0
How do you feel about the zodiac?
spk_0
The dangerous Gemini.
spk_0
Oh, come on.
spk_0
I'm Scorpio rising.
spk_0
What month is Gemini?
spk_0
What month is Gemini?
spk_0
The late May to mid June.
spk_0
So August, September.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
Start of school.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
So, are you, do you have siblings?
spk_0
I do.
spk_0
Older.
spk_0
Oh, there you go.
spk_0
So, so here's what, here's the scenario.
spk_0
What did you just figure out?
spk_0
The older sibling.
spk_0
The older sibling went to school.
spk_0
No.
spk_0
The home.
spk_0
It was a temporary empty nest.
spk_0
And they were like, there's still more space.
spk_0
Get more babies in here.
spk_0
Let's make more babies.
spk_0
Put more kids in here.
spk_0
Let's make more babies.
spk_0
And then what is the older, are you an oldest or where do you at?
spk_0
I'm an only child.
spk_0
You're an only child.
spk_0
Only child.
spk_0
I told my parents when I was four years old, they asked me whether I wanted a sibling
spk_0
and I said no, it's too expensive.
spk_0
Whoa!
spk_0
Get out.
spk_0
What a practical young man.
spk_0
Are you still that practical?
spk_0
I think so.
spk_0
Unfortunately.
spk_0
Wow.
spk_0
Do you have a good relationship with your parent?
spk_0
Maybe that's very personal.
spk_0
You don't have to answer.
spk_0
No, they're cool.
spk_0
Yeah, they're cool.
spk_0
Like cool.
spk_0
But you know, like they obviously have ADHD as well.
spk_0
What a...
spk_0
That's cute the whole family.
spk_0
Yeah, we're all distracted.
spk_0
And hyper focused.
spk_0
Does it manifest like in different ways and in different people in your family?
spk_0
Yeah, like my mom, I just remember like she would do Saturday school.
spk_0
She was a Saturday school teacher.
spk_0
So Friday night is when she is working.
spk_0
Like everything she's been putting off till Friday.
spk_0
Wow.
spk_0
And then like Friday night is just like insane.
spk_0
That's an interesting thing to watch.
spk_0
I don't think I have that experience of watching my parent procrastinate.
spk_0
spk_0
Me either.
spk_0
Well, maybe one, yeah.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Well, they hit it really well.
spk_0
Like it's like they're doing something else.
spk_0
You know, they're cleaning the house.
spk_0
You know, like that's what I would...
spk_0
That's a voidant.
spk_0
Yeah, but they need to be doing it.
spk_0
But up to a voidant.
spk_0
Yeah, yeah.
spk_0
And that's what I do too.
spk_0
Like I'm like if I really don't want to file my taxes, my bathroom's clean as well.
spk_0
Sure.
spk_0
Well, have you known for a long time that you are ADHDers that are recent?
spk_0
It's recent.
spk_0
Well, six years ago, like during the pandemic, right?
spk_0
Is that the timeline?
spk_0
No, five years ago.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
How did you find it?
spk_0
Did it just popped up or you were like, I've had this going on for my whole life.
spk_0
I got to see if this is...
spk_0
No, it was like the social isolation.
spk_0
And then what I found out is in ADHD, you self-medicate with stress hormones to give
spk_0
yourself the motivation to do things.
spk_0
So neurotypical people, they would check off stuff off of a list and they would get
spk_0
like a dopamine hit.
spk_0
But for me, I don't have that.
spk_0
So the way to motivate myself is to put myself in a fight or flight response by putting
spk_0
off something and then now I'm panicking because intellectually I know I'm screwed and now
spk_0
I could push myself through things.
spk_0
But now that I was socially isolated, I ended up taking up like three full-time jobs at
spk_0
the same time.
spk_0
That sounds like too many.
spk_0
Wow, yeah.
spk_0
Because like I needed a due day every day to have myself be productive and I just like
spk_0
burnt out.
spk_0
Yeah, that sounds really stressful.
spk_0
Because I would take on these gigs and then I would not do them until Thursday.
spk_0
And then Thursday is hell.
spk_0
That sounds so stressful.
spk_0
And I did that for like months and then my partner at the time was like, why do you not
spk_0
work on Monday when you're so stressed on Thursdays?
spk_0
And I'm like, what do you mean?
spk_0
It's like, no, I just see you just scrolling Wikipedia on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday
spk_0
and Thursday you're just like, you wake up at like 4 a.m. to do like everything.
spk_0
Like your mom.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And I was like, oh yeah, that is weird.
spk_0
I thought that was just like a lack of discipline.
spk_0
That's like, when you realize that you want Saturday school.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Anyway, that didn't land the way I wanted it to.
spk_0
Go ahead.
spk_0
No, I missed the first part and I just heard Saturday school.
spk_0
That was it.
spk_0
Oh, Saturday school for me was like the time where I could mess around because Saturday school
spk_0
grades didn't go on your quote unquote permanent record.
spk_0
You want to go on Saturday?
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
For Japanese school.
spk_0
Oh, what is this mean?
spk_0
I don't know anything about this.
spk_0
Were you in Japan?
spk_0
No, in the US.
spk_0
So the Japanese government set up a bunch of schools and a bunch of cities around the US
spk_0
because there are a bunch of Japanese people came to the US in like the 60s, 70s, 80s.
spk_0
And those people weren't like permanent immigrants.
spk_0
They were just here to work for like five years.
spk_0
During that time, the kids need to be kept up with the Japanese school curriculum.
spk_0
So they set up these schools on that the kids could be sent to on Saturdays.
spk_0
Saturday school.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Saturday school.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And then so we do like a whole week of work on one day.
spk_0
Damn.
spk_0
It's only like five days a week.
spk_0
Like how many hours?
spk_0
It goes from like eight to like four.
spk_0
That's a lot.
spk_0
That's a lot.
spk_0
What did you hate it?
spk_0
I was like, it was my one opportunity where I could just mess around.
spk_0
So like I remember literally like writing jokes on Friday night.
spk_0
I was just going to ask like, were you a comedian in Saturday school?
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Like you know, learn magic tricks on Friday night.
spk_0
And then I'll be like, Saturday school.
spk_0
That's pretty dope.
spk_0
It's show time.
spk_0
That'd be a cool.
spk_0
I feel like this would be a great premise for a TV show.
spk_0
Just a little little kid.
spk_0
Saturday school.
spk_0
That's good.
spk_0
That's good.
spk_0
Fingalist gloves.
spk_0
Saturday school.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
That would be a, hey, you sit down there.
spk_0
No, this isn't, this school doesn't matter.
spk_0
I told you no skateboarding in the hallways.
spk_0
Oh, then I'm going to bring two skateboards and I did because I knew you were going to
spk_0
say that teach.
spk_0
That's impossible.
spk_0
Chester, sit down.
spk_0
No.
spk_0
This school doesn't matter.
spk_0
Tricksie, you stop it.
spk_0
What?
spk_0
Tricksie, don't play innocent.
spk_0
I'm just, I'm very delighted.
spk_0
And then just laughing.
spk_0
Don't enjoy Chester's answer.
spk_0
Chester's so funny.
spk_0
Come on.
spk_0
Oh, you know it, Tricksie.
spk_0
I know.
spk_0
Don't point that way with both hands, Tricksie.
spk_0
I love you, Chester.
spk_0
One hand.
spk_0
And the other hand.
spk_0
There is no reason you're directing some sort of traffic of mischief.
spk_0
Two hands.
spk_0
Two hands, Chester.
spk_0
Wow.
spk_0
Tricksie.
spk_0
Chester's so magnetic.
spk_0
Do you think?
spk_0
I didn't authorize those large spiral lollipops.
spk_0
Put that away.
spk_0
Put those away.
spk_0
But it's Saturday school.
spk_0
Chester is not magnetic.
spk_0
Stop saying that.
spk_0
Chester is not magnetic.
spk_0
He's a trouble maker.
spk_0
Look at him.
spk_0
I'm literally magnetic.
spk_0
He's dynamic.
spk_0
See that.
spk_0
See that.
spk_0
Cell phone in your pocket.
spk_0
Oh, my pockets.
spk_0
It's in my hand.
spk_0
He's also like magneto.
spk_0
How cool is Chester?
spk_0
Every time I turn around Tricksie, you're sending clothes to the Chester.
spk_0
Stay over there.
spk_0
It's Saturday school for the music.
spk_0
I'm standing at Contra Postal One Hand on your hip like you run the school.
spk_0
I'm the principal.
spk_0
I'm hooked.
spk_0
Tricksie.
spk_0
You.
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Stars in my eye.
spk_0
Do you think about your future?
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
You used to be a straight-a student.
spk_0
Now you're thinking to a, you may have a B minus average.
spk_0
Think about your future.
spk_0
What?
spk_0
Yeah, you're in Saturday school.
spk_0
This school doesn't matter.
spk_0
I'm this, I'm the principal of Saturday school.
spk_0
This is one of the highest posts in the school.
spk_0
You're like one school sub principal because you only do one day in a week.
spk_0
Oh, that would be one seventh.
spk_0
Oh, God.
spk_0
Oh, so in your world school happens seven days a week.
spk_0
I didn't think so.
spk_0
You take a full bite of her lollipop, Tricksie.
spk_0
That's.
spk_0
It's delicious.
spk_0
That's a smack.
spk_0
Heck yeah, Tricksie.
spk_0
Two hands.
spk_0
Chester.
spk_0
That's raw copper you're throwing around.
spk_0
Stop it.
spk_0
Chester.
spk_0
Chester.
spk_0
spk_0
spk_0
spk_0
spk_0
spk_0
spk_0
Chester.
spk_0
Chester.
spk_0
Chester.
spk_0
Chester.
spk_0
How, how, how can I be magnetized like you are?
spk_0
What do you do Friday night?
spk_0
Do you prepare for Saturday school?
spk_0
I just write jokes.
spk_0
It's a razor for us.
spk_0
Alone in the room.
spk_0
Chokes.
spk_0
But I've been too shy to say any of them out loud.
spk_0
If you both don't settle down, I'm going to make sure both of you are disqualified.
spk_0
I'm going to make sure that you're not disqualified from the school talent.
spk_0
Teach we're having a moment.
spk_0
What the, I'm stuck to the ceiling.
spk_0
The talent show sounds pretty cool though.
spk_0
You might really succeed there.
spk_0
That's true.
spk_0
Chester.
spk_0
Oh, oh, oh.
spk_0
Sorry, I got distracted.
spk_0
Chester's so magnetic.
spk_0
I've seen it.
spk_0
Oh, that was fun.
spk_0
I felt like an episode of Say by the Bell.
spk_0
That was really fun.
spk_0
If you think about it, if you think about the X-Men, okay, how dope is Magneto?
spk_0
Can you imagine the one of the most powerful?
spk_0
I mean, maximum power.
spk_0
Any kind of metal get out.
spk_0
No, he's way too overpowered.
spk_0
You know what makes him so great.
spk_0
There's like red blood cells in our bodies that iron are technically metal, right?
spk_0
He could, he just wins.
spk_0
He could do whatever.
spk_0
He ripped Wolverine's adamantium off of him.
spk_0
Oh my gosh.
spk_0
Wolverine is so, gosh, the X-Men are cool.
spk_0
We talked about this before.
spk_0
Do you have batman?
spk_0
You also love the X-Men?
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
I think the X-Men was like major, major huge when I was like at the perfect age to soak it all in like 92, 93.
spk_0
Yeah, that's when the X-Men cartoon was like, oh, storm.
spk_0
Storm.
spk_0
Storm is sick.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
The, yeah, Magneto, you know what that's based on?
spk_0
Storm?
spk_0
You know the, nor the lore of the X-Men, Magneto, Professor Xavier and Magneto?
spk_0
I'm going to say something dark and scary like eugenics.
spk_0
Malcolm Maxson, Martin Luther King.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Yeah, that's what it's based on.
spk_0
It's a whole allegory.
spk_0
The way.
spk_0
The way.
spk_0
The allegory for the several, you said it.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Stanley and Jack Kirby.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Another, another appropriating.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
They're like, let's do that.
spk_0
Make them white.
spk_0
Make them white.
spk_0
Then call them mute.
spk_0
Oh, no.
spk_0
Wait a minute.
spk_0
They're not frills.
spk_0
They have superhuman abilities.
spk_0
They're stronger than us.
spk_0
Oh, no.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
That's where it comes from.
spk_0
Beautiful.
spk_0
Beautiful lore.
spk_0
You learned something about it.
spk_0
Pitch of racism.
spk_0
That's all you need.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Just a little bit.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
A little bit.
spk_0
I love X-Men, I love the cartoon, I love the books.
spk_0
I read tons of the books.
spk_0
Were you a comic book kid?
spk_0
Were you a cartoon kid?
spk_0
Where can I kid where you?
spk_0
I was.
spk_0
You were in an Saturday school.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
So, Saturday school.
spk_0
Starts at.
spk_0
Like eight.
spk_0
But my mom.
spk_0
Maybe my mom was a teacher there.
spk_0
So I had to like, leave home at like 630.
spk_0
Totally.
spk_0
Like, like seven.
spk_0
That's early.
spk_0
Yeah, because I only get to see the first half of you, Gio, on WB.
spk_0
Kids WB.
spk_0
On Saturday.
spk_0
Like, it was either like seven to seven, fifteen or whatever.
spk_0
So I always get like the rising action.
spk_0
Damn.
spk_0
But never the rising.
spk_0
No.
spk_0
And then the next week I'll be like, trying to piece together one.
spk_0
I was like, he must have won because the other guy's got.
spk_0
You get no you, you know, EO.
spk_0
No.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
So yeah, any comic books?
spk_0
No, no.
spk_0
Not many comic books.
spk_0
Anime and manga.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
That's what it mostly was.
spk_0
But like, I didn't quite grasp a concept of scheduled title vision.
spk_0
Like I didn't really understand what that meant.
spk_0
Well, I'm assuming that you're probably you're maybe thirty right now.
spk_0
Yeah, thirty one.
spk_0
So you're you're in the generation where it's like that's destination viewing is fading out
spk_0
and the internet has become a more prominent.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
But I think people understood when when they would see like blah blah blah show at eight p.m.
spk_0
on Tuesdays.
spk_0
And I was just like, I don't understand what that means.
spk_0
Like I just had this like mental block of like, wait, you could just schedule one to watch TV.
spk_0
Like TV was available when dad wasn't watching it.
spk_0
And that could happen at any time.
spk_0
And whatever it was on is what you're going to want.
spk_0
Yeah, whenever that's happening is when I get to watch TV.
spk_0
So like it is a very fractured experience for me.
spk_0
So like long narratives episodic stuff.
spk_0
I never got into because of that because like I can't really rely on.
spk_0
Are you still that way?
spk_0
I'm I'm trying to binge in any shows.
spk_0
I'm trying to like be more like watching episodes after episode now, but it's been a rewiring.
spk_0
Like I watched the sopranos for the first time last day and you went way back.
spk_0
And I was like, oh, this is this is a form.
spk_0
It TV show.
spk_0
Wait, wait, you're you're doing some shows there, right?
spk_0
Are you big and show?
spk_0
Yeah, I mean, I like yes, I like shows.
spk_0
I don't like shows.
spk_0
I don't like some.
spk_0
No, you don't like a long a long form story.
spk_0
No, what's that?
spk_0
Oh, yeah, you're like, Ralph is in that into story.
spk_0
I love story.
spk_0
Story is like major for me.
spk_0
I don't like him.
spk_0
No story.
spk_0
Just me out.
spk_0
It's too like I love movies.
spk_0
Oh, you like movies, but that story.
spk_0
Of course, stories are how we learn.
spk_0
But the he's the thing.
spk_0
The thing about cinema for movies have story.
spk_0
What do you mean?
spk_0
Well, for sure.
spk_0
But the thing about cinema is cinema is ruled by color and texture and tone.
spk_0
Story is what holds it together.
spk_0
TV is very artful.
spk_0
Absolutely, but TV is ruled by the writer.
spk_0
TV is story.
spk_0
TV is long narrative.
spk_0
TV isn't driven mostly by like there's all movies where he's like, what happened?
spk_0
I don't know what happened.
spk_0
It was just it was just pretty for two hours.
spk_0
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
spk_0
But TV can't do that.
spk_0
I don't agree.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
There's some TV that does that probably.
spk_0
Maybe like Bob Ross.
spk_0
Yeah, there's like, there's like, and that's the TV.
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I like non-episodic.
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Like shows that I can just watch any episode like SNL or Conan O'Brien or Bob Ross.
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Like Twin Peaks gets into that kind of territory.
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So good.
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It's just like sometimes it's just colors.
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Yes.
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Yeah, or sometimes it's just, yeah, weird.
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Weird stuff.
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I don't want to be bound by having to watch episode one than two than three.
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I don't I want to watch episode 27 than 80 than three that I don't want to.
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I'm pretty sure David Lynch would be totally cool with that.
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I hope so.
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He probably would have.
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Yeah.
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That's the way you're supposed to watch them.
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Yeah.
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I'm trying to do his voice.
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What a great guy.
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He was a sick sweet man.
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RIP.
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So cool.
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Um, and, uh, oh, wait, you were saying something earlier.
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Oh, yeah, you, you do that.
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You do a jazz.
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Yeah.
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Do you want to call it for jazz?
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No.
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Well, I got into NYU with like, uh,
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I did a jazz performance.
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That's how you got in on a video.
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And I got into the music business program that way.
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Um, but yeah, there was like a component of like, show us how musical you are because.
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I don't know why, but then I did.
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And then they were like, you're in.
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Um, but yeah, like through elementary, middle and high school, I was in jazz band.
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Um, playing trumpet.
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What, um, was that something your parents put you into?
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Was that something you were excited about?
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How did that?
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Yeah.
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Like, I loved solos.
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I, I lived for not having a script.
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Um, yeah, improv was always improv.
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Improv with brass.
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And then like, I loved how like literally you make a mistake, but then you repeat it.
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And then you repeat it over and over and make a rhythm out of the repetition.
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And it's like, oh, it was intentional.
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And I'm like, I was like, yeah, you could never fail.
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If you're audacious enough to just repeat your failure.
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Wow.
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I love that.
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You're aware of your failure.
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Then you could just own it.
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And I really like that.
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Um, about, about jazz.
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I, I meant to do that.
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I meant to do that, guys.
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So, uh, no way, man.
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I meant to do that.
spk_0
No, you just kicked that basketball and it just destroyed that window, dude.
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I meant to do that.
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Uh, my, I would say sorry, but that's what I meant to do.
spk_0
So, uh, who broke the window?
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Mr. Patterson, you're going to have to forgive us.
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Uh, because, uh, you know, we had, we had something to express.
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We had something to express, Mr. Patterson.
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So I will, I will, I will, I will know your lawn for the next, for the summer.
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Excuse me, boys.
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My window was just broken.
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Okay.
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Charlie.
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You need to, you need to go out here.
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What's going on out here?
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Miss Dolores, uh, I meant to break a window.
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Oh, gosh.
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I had something to express.
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Why would you do that?
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Charlie, Charlie.
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I had truth to express.
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Sidebar, sidebar.
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Charlie.
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Sidebar.
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Um, when you are apologizing,
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my window to the person you've wronged.
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Miss Patterson seems sad.
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You don't want to emphasize how you meant to do that.
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She's a lonely brood over there.
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But what, what did you learn that language?
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She's a lonely brood.
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Charlie.
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I shouldn't have, I can hear you.
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Mr. Dolores, it's Charlie.
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It's your, it's your, it's your, it's your old pal Charlie.
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Charlie, you're usually such a nice young man.
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I'm growing up.
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He, he, he, he didn't mean to do that.
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I'm growing up.
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Boys.
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Lloyd is my friend is trying to protect me, but I, I meant it.
spk_0
No, no, he was trying to do a trick shot like we saw on YouTube.
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You made a mistake.
spk_0
I didn't make any kind of mistake.
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Stop.
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I meant to break the window.
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I meant to fail out of high school.
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I meant to get my girlfriend pregnant.
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Charlie.
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I meant to get drafted in the military.
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I meant to do these things.
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Charlie.
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I've never made a mistake.
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Just because you heard Miles Davis say one mistake you suck into its jazz.
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Doesn't mean you just need to keep on making these mistakes.
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There's no such thing as mistakes, Mr. Dolores.
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If you've ever made a mistake in your life, that was your first mistake.
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I never make mistakes.
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I'm going off to war in four weeks.
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I want to come back.
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I want you people to change.
spk_0
What are you implying about war?
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You think you think that's a mistake?
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Absolutely.
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No, it's not because I saw the patterns there.
spk_0
You listed off mistakes and then you ended up at the war bit.
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You're the Trump, you're the Army Trumpeter.
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I'm sorry.
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I didn't mean to.
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I didn't want to.
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That was not a mistake.
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That's the universal sound of a mistake.
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You made a mistake.
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Look away, Mr. Dolores.
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My window.
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Wow.
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That was elemental.
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Two characters.
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Those many characters.
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Yeah.
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Those.
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Impressive.
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You filled out the neighborhood.
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Yeah.
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What?
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What?
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What?
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What am I?
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We were just talking about jazz.
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Oh, wait a minute.
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You went into the music business.
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Yeah.
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Did you stay?
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No.
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What was it like in there?
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It was like.
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It was like, so I got into school 2012.
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My teacher was like, so this new thing called Spotify.
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I don't get it.
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Oh.
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And I was like, that's not, that's probably not good that our teacher has been away from
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the music business as long enough to not know what streaming is.
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2012, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And we were like, oh.
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And then, but it was a good program.
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And then my parents finances went belly up like year two of college.
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Wow.
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And then something similar happened to me.
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I went to a expensive school product and why you?
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then I had to graduate like as soon as possible.
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Wow.
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And then I looked at my credits and found out that math was the way.
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Math was the way.
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It's because you were the furthest along in math.
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Yeah.
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It just happened to line up that way.
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Wow.
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So I like doubled up on those credits.
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There's a pattern here because earlier in your life you told your parents don't have
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another child.
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It's going to be too expensive.
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And then you completely changed the course of your life by just going into another measure
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where you had the most classes.
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I want to know how it feels to be good at math.
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I want to know too.
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I am terrible.
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You must, I mean, you must have an ability to do math.
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Mathematically I know how terrible I am.
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Like it's like irrefutable proof that I'm not below average at best.
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But you got a math major.
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But you're a math major.
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I do have a math degree.
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Well, so I mean, was it not stressful?
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It was.
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But you just did it because it was the cheapest thing.
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It was the cheapest thing.
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And why didn't you just transfer it in?
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And why you?
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It was like, it was like.
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There was a lot of inertia.
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There was like, we already got the apartment for a year.
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So I had to be in New York.
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And like, it was really stressful.
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And like my mom got diagnosed with cancer at the same time.
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You're a good booster.
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And she's in remission now.
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She's, yeah, it's been, it's been, but like.
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And then like the last, last moment, I had a C minus in computer science 101.
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And then I was like, could I get some extra credit?
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And she was like, no.
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Wow.
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Which meant like, I can't graduate.
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Wow.
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Isn't C minus is passing, though, right?
spk_0
No, I think that's just, that's a hair.
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Yeah.
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Like literally one more point of extra credit.
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And I would be, but then I was like, I literally can't afford this.
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And so like, I wrote this like letter to the dean.
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Like, okay, I tried every route up from the teacher, but it's been and all that didn't
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get any like traction.
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So I emailed the dean.
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I was like, I thought NYU's mission statement, quote, is to prepare the future blah, blah,
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blah.
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But what you're doing is saddling me with 180 grand in debt with no paper.
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And you're just sending me out into the world.
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My mom has cancer.
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Like I wrote everything.
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And then he invited me over to his office.
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And he was like, okay.
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So bad news is that she's not going to change the grade.
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And I was like, great.
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She wouldn't change a point.
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There was nothing to do to it.
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She was very stubborn.
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And then that's wild.
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Yeah.
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No, I don't, I don't think she is not like you earned it.
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You're a D or an F.
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Yeah.
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And I don't think she's a great educator.
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Like I don't think she has her priorities straight.
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Anyway.
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And then he was like, but if you take another class, would you pass?
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And he was like, I wrote in my letter that I cannot afford another class.
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And he's like, shut up.
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Like, would you?
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And I was like, yeah.
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And he was like, I'll write you a personal check.
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$5,000.
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If you just, so you're going to pass, right?
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And he just like put me through a summer class.
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And that's how I graduated.
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Wow.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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How'd you do in that class?
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I did great.
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Okay.
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Cool.
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Good motivation.
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It was the best time I had with math in my entire college career.
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I have a congruent story, not parallel.
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Maybe not even similar.
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Math.
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I went to art school and I did the entire program.
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Before I got to that school, I went to community college and I failed
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remedial math.
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I think three times pre algebra.
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Yeah.
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I failed it.
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I think at least twice.
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I do have had to retake a math class.
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This was like the, this was not even college math.
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This was free.
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So I, then I went to college.
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I took all the classes that I need to at art school.
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Yeah.
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That's sad.
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Except for then, I graduated, I walked across the stage.
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I had one class left.
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I visited New York for two weeks knowing I was going to move here in just a few months.
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Yeah.
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I visited.
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And then by then I'm from here.
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But I moved away when I was 11 and came back right after college.
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So I visited right before.
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The first time I'd been in New York, I'd be like 10 years.
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Wow.
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So my heart was then here.
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Yeah.
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Then I had to go back to Georgia and take my last math class.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Oh.
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For the sun.
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Wow.
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And I failed five take home tests.
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That's a bad feeling.
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Because your heart was somewhere else.
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I was already, it was the biggest, I don't say it was a big mistake in my life, but it
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was a huge mistake.
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I was going to be here in just a few weeks.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The visit, the visit.
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I visited between, I think I came up, maybe the audition for grad school acting programs,
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which I didn't even really prepare for.
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It was just a huge, just fucking up in every way possible.
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Oh wow.
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Maybe I have ADHD.
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I was just.
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I think I do.
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I'm actually taking a test next week.
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Really?
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Is it a take home?
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I think it's like.
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It's like a take home.
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My doctor gave me like a take home version.
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He's like, you can look at this in advance or we can just go over it together next
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time.
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Because when I, like the take home test that I had to take, I did not do until like 10
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minutes before the session, it was due.
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And my doctor was like, noted.
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And then three more sessions later, he was like, yeah, like 10 minutes into our first
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like consult.
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Like I knew you have ADHD, but we had to go through all the tests to clinically make
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sure.
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But like it's very obvious.
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It's so interesting.
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It really manifests differently like, you know, in different people.
spk_0
So interesting.
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You've been pleading innocent to this murder.
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I think you did it.
spk_0
All right.
spk_0
You've been pleading innocent here for hours, but we've got evidence.
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You got, you got nothing on me.
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I'm going to, we're going to give you a lie detector test.
spk_0
All right.
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It's a take home test.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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You take this test home and you do it right.
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All right.
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You put the little, you put the thing across your chest.
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Yeah, you explain.
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I don't know how to do.
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I don't know how to put an an inspector.
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All the wires.
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You hook up all the wires.
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Come on.
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You take it home.
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The green goes to the green.
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Yeah.
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The thing moves.
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The thing moves.
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Yeah, it moves.
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The thing moves.
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The thing moves.
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The thing moves.
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The thing moves.
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And we'll just, that's very important to our investigation.
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Bring it back in three days.
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Got it.
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Don't have somebody else take the test for you.
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We'll know.
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Yeah.
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Oh, cool.
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Because we'll be able to do a lie, huh?
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How, how was you now?
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Because if you're lying about it, we're going to be able to be like, we'll find out.
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We'll find out.
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Got it.
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We'll find out.
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Don't worry about how we'll know.
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We'll find out.
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All right.
spk_0
You put the electrodes on yourself and you move the things around.
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Yeah.
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Tell, tell, tell, tell, tell this perp how accurate it is.
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You're already walking down the stairs.
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Yeah.
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I'm going home.
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I did it.
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Hold on.
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I'm going home.
spk_0
No, we didn't give you the kit yet.
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Hold on.
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Come back.
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Come back.
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I'm back.
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I'm back.
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I'm back.
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I want to know.
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I'm accurate.
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Go home and not give the test to somebody else.
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Don't give the test to somebody else.
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Don't you will know.
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I didn't know.
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I didn't know.
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This is ways to know.
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All right.
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We've been doing it.
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We've been in the detector.
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I've been in the detector for 27 years.
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Yes.
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Wait.
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You just, yeah, hook up the electrodes to me.
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Yes.
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You got the kit for them.
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I'm going to give you the kit yet.
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This is not allowed.
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Yes.
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It's 26 years.
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You're not an inspector.
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What?
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You're not an inspector.
spk_0
What?
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Money.
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I'll put down enough money.
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You can't afford to leave it tight anymore and be sad if you're paying it too much.
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You can't afford to give it all at once.
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You need that money to be brought to the circuit.
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I will tell the doctor and he's not the last to have it.
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I'm right.
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He'll say,
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you a little bit. I don't know, there's something about you that I like, but that's not my job to like you.
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You did the crime. I know you're a guilt. I know you're a guilt. You really believe me.
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I don't know. There's something about him. He did the crime. Don't make me feel good. The
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chief is an expert. Is that human-loyden? I will go and get the chief. All right, don't get the
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chief. I'll go and get the chief. I'm in a hot water. I got to see minus last term. I'm going to get
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the chief. I got to see I'm in the hot water. I'm in the hot way badger's hanging in the balance.
spk_0
I guess metaphors don't he's on his chief. Oh, I'm the chief. We are having difficulties
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interrogating this. So smacked. You have nothing on. We'll not follow the rules.
spk_0
Let's take a look at this guy. Yeah. Let's take a look at this guy. See if he's all kind of
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liar. He is. Oh, it's got a she can smell. He can smell. He can smell. And it's in sort of guilt.
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I can smell a rat. Yeah. What do you think, chief? Do we put the puffs on her? You brought KFC in
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here. You brought chicken in here? Yes. We're interrogating you. Yeah. You brought you in.
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We want to get chicken before you came in here? Yeah. It was a long interrogation.
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Don't I like this guy. Get grease. I like this guy. I think he's telling the truth.
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Inspector. No, I gotta go. The chief. The chief okayed me like I could take this home.
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I can take the take a test. I expect the law. And what do you think? I'm going to find a way
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to get to the real we can do it here, but it just it saves time when you do it home. I'm going to find a way to get to the real.
spk_0
Let's get this over with click click click click. You're gonna do it right here. Click click. Yeah. Okay. Ask me the questions.
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I just take your shirt off. You didn't have to do that.
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D. C.
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I'll never know what it was. I was
spk_0
fantastic. This has been good times. What didn't we cover? Where were you hoping to talk about
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and get to know? No, no, no, no expectations. What are you up to now? That's exciting and you would like to share.
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Oh, I'm working on a one person clown show. Cool. Yeah. It's I'm doing doing some I work shopping it right now,
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like taking like 10 minute bits of it and then like doing it at one show and another show.
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Oh, the kind of county bit that you might have seen. Right. Yeah. At the what was that occasion? Beautiful at the at the
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Clown Review. Yeah. Yeah. The Clown Review. Shout out PCC. Shout out Pescus Chris Manley. Telly Medell. Yeah. They're awesome. And yeah. Yeah. I did this like.
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Beautiful. Thanks. Thank you. Yeah. I'm trying to I'm trying to do this clown clown bit and yeah. It's it's I have a I have like a I have one that's like
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untested right now. But I'm trying to do like a say ounce. Oh, one person say ounce. One person say ounce.
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And I'm like, noodling with the idea of like, maybe like I
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under the guise of something else record people's answers to like random questions. And that would be that answers.
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That would be the voices I hear. Wow. You know what something just occurred to me? I just had an epiphany.
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Which is that I only know this the small pieces of your story. Yeah. From this from this
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blessed hour who've been able to spend we of your math major you ended up choosing your major and
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choosing that to have siblings out of sheer visceral practicality. So that but you have ADHD which
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then also kind of constrains you to like, oh, I'm only going to really work if I have this pressure.
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That's kind of the way but it's still an organization of sorts. It's fascinating. I am also a clown but I have no
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drive to create clown work. I don't know like individual clown work. But I think I'm very opposite to you.
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I'm very I'm very I'm like I can organize things in a way where I can like get things done but like
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ideologically I'm very and sort of my wiring is very impractical and very so it kind of feels like
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there isn't a there isn't a thing that's making me go like I want to create some
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some yeah some some playing some wildness yeah out of my life is like that like I've never had a regular
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sleep schedule ever in my entire life since I'm like a baby everything is everything is wild everything
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is all over the book. That's the same with me. My sleep schedule is messed up. Like when when
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tonight you know we're like oh it's 10.30 pm and I'm like yeah that's totally fine. That's
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yeah that is see that yeah that's like are you a creature of the night? I don't know that's just like
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my my I think my sleep schedule is following on like some 26 hour schedule. It's just slightly off
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and it just keeps moving forward. Wow and this is like a perpetual jet lag. Yeah this is a little bit
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of that yeah because I also I love the day yeah I can be up it. Sure the day the night it's all good.
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I love all of it. I can be up it. You gotta like it all but it's not good. I'm all wonky. I got to
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I've been starting to I really have been I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna journey I can't talk about
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now. Okay uh share your Instagram. Yes where can we find you at kento.nyc that's knto.nyc.
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All right. We're gonna look out for your clown shows coming up. Yes. Tell us ask them what you
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get going on. Oh um I uh I got a bunch of stuff going on. You can find me on Instagram at
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aston holens a stl and hodw i ns how about you Ralph? Um I'm I'm happy to tell you about the
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Ooh that's our new Instagram and uh yeah also get call me and get my mixtape if you haven't
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followed me uh and for more information about that and uh that's it. It's the new year.
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Oh yeah we're counting down to the new year okay. Good night thank you kento. What a what a
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wonderful guess. All right everybody three two one Saturday school. Saturday school.