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Bonus IMPROV - There's Not a Lot of People in Toronto · Very Fine Friends

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  high and high with lonely goat
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  Thank you, baby.
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  What doing?
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  Hmm.
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  Welcome to very fine friends.
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  bonus
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  improv
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  Joe can we get a suggestion for our improv please
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  you sure can your suggestion is
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  poem
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  did you know I write poems
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  I did not
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  and I am not surprised
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  you didn't know
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  oh yeah I like to write poems
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  it doesn't surprise me at all
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  you should read them sometime
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  you seem like a poet
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  I don't know if you want me to read them.
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  You hate poems?
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  I do hate poems for the most part.
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  You would like my poems.
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  Okay.
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  They're really good.
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  I'm sure I would.
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  Yeah, and I tend to write shorter ones.
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  Okay, that's good.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know if I should feel bad about not liking poems.
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  I think that I don't like a lot of poems.
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  What did you say?
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  Is that uncouth?
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  Is that your word?
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  Yeah.
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  I really don't like a lot of poems and a lot of style of poetry.
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  But I will find one where I'm like,
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  I've been like moved to tears because of like a poem.
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  So I think there is a poem for you.
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  What does a poem do that prose doesn't?
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  Well, it's just a kind of prose.
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  It's just like structured in a different way.
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  So I think it like,
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  I think when you read poetry,
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  you're in pursuit of a feeling.
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  You like want to connect with something.
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  In prose, I think you more get lost in, you know?
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  What do I know?
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  I've got ten poems.
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  What if you read them and it's like,
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  the sky is blue, blue as a color.
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  I have no sisters, I have no brother.
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  That's, oh my God, I'm crying.
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  That's really good.
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  It's a bad example because it's actually a really good poem.
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  Listeners, don't steal that.
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  They can't.
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  It's copyrighted the minute it came out of my mouth.
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  there a little copyright symbol after every word that coming out of your mouth yeah whoa look at all those big nutty C in circles Yeah I don know
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  I think really well-written prose is,
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  I can get my jollies from that.
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  I can too, definitely.
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  I just think, I don't know.
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  I think poetry is,
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  it just lends itself to just the shitty,
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  like every
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  teenage girl
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  thinks that that's like
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  a sophisticated advanced way to
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  get out her feelings or whatever
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  like I don't know
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  I feel like it's too much of a
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  normies think they can do it
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  and do it well
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  and
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  I agree yeah
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  they can't
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  I've written bad poems I just don't publish those ones
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  you shut your mouth
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  where wait where are you publishing these i mean i post them i have a poetry account
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  on instagram really yeah that i don't follow you i don't know do you i don't think i do i think i
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  only follow your main account we'll have to check it out yeah wait have you like reposted some of
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  your i think no i don't i don't ever do that on my main account yeah that's not myself but i think
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  I followed, oh, never mind. I don't want anyone to find me. Okay. It's a different persona. It's a
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  chance for me to be someone else. Yeah. And now, improv. Margaret, Margaret, come here. What? I did
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  it. I quit my job. Oh, oh my God. Yes. Oh, I can't believe it. That's great. You've hated that job.
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  I know. Two weeks ago, I entered this poetry contest, and I won.
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  Oh my God, congratulations.
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  Yeah, so now I don't need that stupid job anymore. I'm a poet. I'm published.
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  How much did it pay you?
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  Sit down.
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  Oh my God, this is exciting.
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  $40.
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  What?
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  Margaret, this is fantastic.
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  $40?
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  Yes, I can fill up my car.
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  once.
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  Susan.
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  Susan.
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  You...
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  You work...
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  No, that's not enough.
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  You...
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  Huh?
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  You quit a job
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  where the company name is
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  literally $40 an hour
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  dog walking.
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  That's the name of the company.
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  You just quit one hour's worth of,
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  because of one hour's worth of work.
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  It wasn't my passion.
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  But besides you don understand this Once you get published once you hot Everyone wants you I never have a problem again I don know about that I gotta be honest Susan
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  I don't think I've ever seen a poem published one time.
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  Where did they even get published?
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  The Daily Star.
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  Is that a real?
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  That's a real paper?
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  Yeah, it's one of the ones that you can get for free
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  if you open the newspaper container.
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  So how are they gonna be paying you?
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  I trust that the money will come.
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  All right.
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  This is fantastic.
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  I just feel so free.
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  I think it's amazing that you got published.
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  And it's a really big deal that they picked you out of how many different?
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  Ten.
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  Oh.
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  Oh, out of just ten?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  That's even more impressive, actually, because there were nine other people.
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  Yeah.
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  No, I was thinking that was going to be like 3,000 or something.
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  Well, the Daily Star of Toronto doesn't have a lot of...
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  Well, there's not a lot of people in Toronto.
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  Yeah, everything's digital these days.
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  Also, not a lot of people like poetry.
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  Yeah, most people don't.
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  Yeah, but the ones that do, buy a lot of it.
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  Do they really?
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  Yeah, Margaret.
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  All hoarders, that's what's in there.
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  It's just poetry?
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  Yeah, but they never show you that on the TV shows.
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  No, they don't.
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  Yeah, poems on poems on poems.
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  So anyway, if you need anything, I'll be up in my tower.
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  writing more poetry.
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  Okay, well, I mean, I hope this works out for you.
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  It will.
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  And I'm going to make you a promise.
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  Yeah.
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  It's not going to change me.
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  Cut to five months later.
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  Susan?
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  Susan?
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  It's Margaret.
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  Margaret.
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  Margaret.
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  Oh, I didn't see you.
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  My glasses on.
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  Yes?
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  what that's it i haven't seen you in like five months um i thought i just i i this is so weird
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  i've been trying to get in contact with you and i'm trying to you were my you're my best friend
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  i haven't talked to you in five months i was i was worried about you i you're not responding to
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  any of my texts or emails or i even i even sent you a singing telegram it was a clown
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  he came back crying
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  I feel that if you really wanted to get in contact with me
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  you would have taken the personal ad out in the Daily Star of Toronto
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  oh I didn't know that's how people contacted you
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  well you know that's where I am, you know that's what I'm doing
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  I know, I mean I just, well anyway, okay, I'm sorry, next time
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  Martha?
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  it's Margaret, you know it's Margaret
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  I do apologize, you know a poet's mind
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  no I don it moves it follows in the dark it wallows at night it sings and in the day it rings And in the afternoon it touches a spoon
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  Oh, I'll write that down.
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  Oh, don't cry.
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  No, do cry, do cry.
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  That was beautiful.
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  Here, I'll sign it.
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  I just wrote it all down.
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  Susan, you promised you wouldn't let this change you.
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  I feel like you're changed, you're different.
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  Maybe a little, but my life has changed.
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  I'm a superstar.
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  People walk in front of my building all day,
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  and I know that they're wanting to see me.
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  Hey, is that Susan?
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  Oh, my God.
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  Oh, that's Susan.
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  Hey, Craig.
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  Hey, Paul.
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  I don't know if that's their names.
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  It's not, but we're honored.
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  Craig and Paul know it all.
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  I will see them in the fall.
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  Come back in the fall, gentlemen
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  Well, I don't want our relationship to suffer
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  I'm sorry that I'm a total bitch now, but
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  Your words, not mine
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  Although I did come here to tell you you're being a total bitch now
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  No, you don't have to
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  Okay, God
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  Margaret
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  Yeah?
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  Maybe if I just wrote you a poem
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  It would be the way we were
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  Okay, I think that would make me feel better, I think
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  Okay, are you ready?
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  Yeah
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  Inspiration
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  One fish, two fish
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  Red fish
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  Blue fish
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  Susan, you dumb bitch
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  What?
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  That's Dr. Seuss
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  Oh
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  That's Dr. Seuss
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  Oh my god, I just sent that one off
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  Dr. Seuss
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  You just what?
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  I just sent it off to the Daily Star of Toronto
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  That is
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  Dr. Seuss was my great grandfather
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  Are you stealing
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  From my family?
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  What? No
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  Mine is called Green Eggs and Yams
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  You stupid
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  Bitch
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  You
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  Stupid
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  Bitch
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  If you rhyme one thing with it, you could be a poet too
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  I think I'll kill you
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  I've got the itch
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  Well, I've got a gun
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  Unseen
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  you