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A Limited Amount of Empathy? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Do human beings have a limited amount of empathy? It's
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  Speaker 1: one more thing, I'm strong and getty, one more thing
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  Speaker 1: three two one. Yeah, I don't know how well you
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  Speaker 1: could hear that? Three two one see you The last
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  Speaker 1: words of a British daredevil as he attempted to base
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  Speaker 1: jump off a twenty nine story building in Thailand. His
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  Speaker 1: shoote did not open, he went splat on the cement
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  Speaker 1: and he is no more. So my question was, and
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  Speaker 1: I think this is an interesting one, do human beings
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  Speaker 1: have a limited amount of empathy? Individual human beings? Because
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  Speaker 1: when I I hear a story like that, I have
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  Speaker 1: no feeling whatsoever, like of sadness or you're dead, because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've only got so much empathy and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna save it for those soldiers that died sleeping
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  Speaker 1: in their barracks and Jordan the other day, and their families,
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  Speaker 1: and you know a million other examples you come across
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  Speaker 1: every single day in the news or maybe even your
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  Speaker 1: own personal life. But somebody who decides to be a daredevil,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole point of being a daredevil is sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't work. Otherwise you're not a dared devil yours,
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  Speaker 1: I mean It's as similar to sitting in an office
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  Speaker 1: chair every day. I mean, if there's no risk, there's
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  Speaker 1: no excitement to it, and if now and then it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go right, I just I feel nothing for that person.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it.
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  Speaker 2: There's death defying stunt and death said you know today
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  Speaker 2: I went or would you say? Look, there's no limit
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  Speaker 2: on empathy. You can be empathetic toward the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the parents of the child who was abducted, or those
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  Speaker 2: people who died in Jordan, and this guy who got
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  Speaker 2: squashed because he has people who love him also, Which
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  Speaker 2: is it, Katie?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you putting me on the spot to make
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  Speaker 1: you uncomfortable? Very good? I think, I don't know. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do when the guy died? Well, no
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  Speaker 1: part of me's with you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, well, if he hadn't to jumped off
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  Speaker 3: the building, you wouldn't be dead, correct, right, So obviously
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  Speaker 3: my heart goes out more to those people where it's
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  Speaker 3: an uncontrollable situation. But then again, of course I think
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  Speaker 3: about this guy's family too, and I kind of you
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  Speaker 3: know that sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of empathy for him. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have antipathy though, I'm not like to the guy
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  Speaker 2: and thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Yes what you get? No, no, no, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: that at all. I just got nothing. I have no
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  Speaker 1: feeling whatsoever for it. Huh. Sometimes it doesn't work. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: work this time. He struck a bargain he was comfortable with.
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  Speaker 2: He had a life I'll bet he enjoyed very much,
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  Speaker 2: and an all an ever present possibility came true.
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  Speaker 1: Fair deal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a big scale of people's emotions too,
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  Speaker 3: because I mean there'll be so many times where I'll see.
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  Speaker 1: A video and somebody will be like, oh, I'm crying.
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  Speaker 3: Why is there?
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  Speaker 2: We go?
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  Speaker 1: My phone won't silence, so there we go, Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Or somebody will be like.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm watching this and I'm crying, and I'm going,
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  Speaker 3: why why are you? What is what about this is
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  Speaker 3: making you cry? It'll be some heart touching thing.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. I think it's a different range
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  Speaker 1: and emotion for people. Hmmm. Somebody might be that in
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're dead inside, just like Jack.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, more likely I was trying to figure out if
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  Speaker 1: I'm a bad person. But as Joe always says, there
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  Speaker 1: are plenty of examples of why you're a bad person.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to look to this one again. We
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  Speaker 1: could hold another staff vote if you'd like, but I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to be in on that vote. Another staff vote.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone say, I I an.
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  Speaker 3: No, I.
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  Speaker 2: I admire a guy like that on one level, but no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to pretend to be heartbroken. He lived
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  Speaker 2: an exciting, wild, short short as it turns out, was
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  Speaker 2: he married?
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't say I doubt it. He was like in
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  Speaker 1: his I think he's twenty nine or something.
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  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say that would be that's I
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  Speaker 3: dated a daredevil who used to love to do things
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  Speaker 3: that would end up in injury, and it was the
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  Speaker 3: most frustrating relationship I've ever been in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll bet I don't know so anyway, So you've
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  Speaker 1: got that, do you feel anything for that? And then
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  Speaker 1: this one came across this yesterday, and I'll just tell
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  Speaker 1: you that our friend Tim sand Online responded to this
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  Speaker 1: with I guess I must be dead inside. Then oh,
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  Speaker 1: a phrase that several of us have already used about
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  Speaker 1: this story. Here's what it was. Somebody tweeted out the
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  Speaker 1: picture of Travis Kelcey kissing Taylor Swift when they met
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  Speaker 1: on the football field after the game and he said, hey, sweetie,
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  Speaker 1: and she walks up and kisses him, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was cute. But anyway, here is the tweet. I
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  Speaker 1: love this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people.
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  Speaker 1: They are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school.
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  Speaker 1: They represent the summon of popularity and success. Those who
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  Speaker 1: fall short this ideal cannot help but feel the sting
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  Speaker 1: of envy mirror into your soul. And Tim said, I
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  Speaker 1: must feel dead inside then, because I feel nothing about this.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was cute. I thought, oh, two young
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  Speaker 1: people in love. We should leave him alone when I
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  Speaker 1: saw it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, I'm trying to process that. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: in Syria, I reacted badly to it because I'm jealous
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  Speaker 2: of them from my high school inadequacy and my phone.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, he's saying, you like it because they portray
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  Speaker 1: what you wanted you wanted to be. See. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I buy this or not, although I think
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  Speaker 1: you're lying if you didn't, If you if you say
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to be the high school football star
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  Speaker 1: or homecoming queen or in love or popular? Really, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I was not envious of
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  Speaker 1: those people, Like I didn't walk around envious, But I'd
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  Speaker 1: be lying, wouldn't if I said, I really don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be that now, I legitimately wanted nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with that in high school. I did not hear that
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  Speaker 1: I did too, but I think it was it was
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  Speaker 1: some sort of protection mechanism for my psyche or something.
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  Speaker 1: It seems weird to like, you don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: popular or attractive and in love.
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  Speaker 2: Who doesn't want to be popular or attractive and in love? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just and I don't want to be rejects. Premise
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  Speaker 2: out of hand guy, Because I haven't thought about this.
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm soft
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  Speaker 1: and thoughtful and have the heart of a poet.
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  Speaker 2: What but what when Iday, when I see Michael, Michael
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  Speaker 2: says what, I'll come in there and slap you silly
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  Speaker 2: if you don't admit I have the heart of a poet, Michael.
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  Speaker 2: But if I see like an old couple holding hands
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's really.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet, it's simple they love each other, you secretly want
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  Speaker 1: to be elderly? Yeah, just I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: buy it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I get way more of a reaction out of an
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  Speaker 1: elderly couple than a younger couple. Yeah, a couple of young,
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  Speaker 1: hot people are in love. I don't. Again, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have antipathy for them. I'm I'm mad at them.
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  Speaker 2: For that, but I don't particularly you two hotties go
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  Speaker 2: off to get a room.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so I guess I got both going at the
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  Speaker 1: same time in that, Like when they put the camera
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  Speaker 1: on Taylor and she's jumping up and down in a
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  Speaker 1: hugging Patrick Maholmes wife. I think, Okay, you're young, you're beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: you're unbelievably rich and famous. Of course you're happy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it just disgusts me on many levels. But on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, to say I don't want to be young, rich,
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  Speaker 1: attractive and admired would be who am I trying to kid?
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  Speaker 1: Of course everybody wants that, don't they. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'm just questioning whether that was any part
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  Speaker 2: of my reaction to the two of them spooching at Midfield.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if that has anything to do with the other,
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I don't think it was that deep yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I were that deep. I just thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's cute. I love love. I'm pro love. I hope
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  Speaker 1: those two kids are happy. Okay, So you're uh okay
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  Speaker 1: with not having much of a reaction to a guy
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  Speaker 1: going splat on the pavement if it was his choice,
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  Speaker 1: and not much of a reaction to the people kissing
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  Speaker 1: at the fifty yard line. Okay, correct.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not dead inside. I'm just mostly numb. It's like
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  Speaker 2: two hours after a dental appointment. My lips sagging and
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting spit all over my chin.
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  Speaker 1: But I can feel a little bit. Yeah, still can't
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  Speaker 1: drink out of a straw. If Travis and kel uh
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  Speaker 1: take two? Yeah, take two, Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: get married, I hope to register to Target. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: they have lots of kids.
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  Speaker 2: America could use a new generation of super beautiful, talented,
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  Speaker 2: virile children.
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  Speaker 1: Mumm, well, I guess that's it.