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The Gift Shop

Aired Apr 13, 2023 291 lines Auto-transcribed

A few customers peruse a gift shop.

Speaker 3

Acts of service, words of affirmation, quality time, physical touch. If these are your partner's love languages keep on driving but if they like to receive gifts maybe you want to pull over to this location

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Should we get her just like one of these little novelty license plates that says karen yeah i don't know it just that feels like

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she'll know that we got it for her on the way there you

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know i don't want her does scream i don't want to walk in the door and be like

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hey we finally thought of a gift for you to get a gift for you when we were on the way here you know it's been a long time since we got to celebrate her birthday with her i want i want it to be special

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you know we can't find the right nameplate we probably

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should right we should just get her one that

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says her

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name is probably shouldn't get karen yeah i thought because it rhymed like it would be close enough it's funny it's definitely funny

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and she has a sense of humor i wasn't really even going for funny i was just going to write sharon over the top of karen i see yes i don't know i think we should just think about it more i don't think we should buy the first thing we've got

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like a half an hour yeah we're barely even in the store we're we're we're right by the front yeah

Speaker 3

hey over there no high pressure sales for me but if you have any questions let me know and um i i hear you might be buying a gift where are you

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i i don't

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see you very low pressure for sure that's okay

Speaker 5

no pressure at all are you behind those decorative pillows

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think again i don't just tell us i'm not even here i want you to feel like you're shopping with no prying eyes nobody hovering around you

Speaker 1

okay um the hot sauces are very popular and might i add funny yes

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oh yeah i do like the one it's is this one this one looks good it's called blow it out your ass

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it has a donkey on it i think that's a little too

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it's a little

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too that's so intense

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yeah oh okay this

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are you i just saw something moved back by the chimes is that you oh close but no cigar

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one's where

he must be running around the store because the chimes are definitely sweet and chimes

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there i guess there's a little bit of a

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breeze definitely a

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gling gling gling going on

not even here shop as if it's just the three of you

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i'm

okay okay thank you thank you we'll ask we'll let you know if we have any questions well since

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he's not by the decorative pillows i mean these are kind of nice and you know

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they're sort of yeah for a woman she wants to maybe she's older you know yeah she sits around a lot should we get this one with her name on it

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pamela okay i mean but i feel like we could turn the p into an s and then they're just right h a r i know you just found a marker

we don't have to use it it's called toilet

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but

for life

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toilet for life what do you think that means

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i think it means that

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you're gonna you're gonna eat it i think it means you'll eat it and you'll be on the toilet for the rest

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of your life i'm not sure what it means that's

sorry sir sir you can't be wrong sir

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wrong

dude did you you've you've corrected us with two of these hot sauces are these like in -house like homemade or like artisan sauces that you make for the store or are these that you order from like a warehouse or order from a

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warehouse but self -named i'm not even

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here i'm not i'm pretty

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sure that's you in the clock i'm pretty sure i'm starting to feel like i'm in a saw episode like a movie of saw

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no no no no this is a nice experience and i'm not even here

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well

Speaker 1

maybe since you're chiming in maybe you could help us we're trying to get a gift for our mom we haven't celebrated her birthday with her in a while

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we haven't given her a gift for 19 years straight

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but this year we're not forgetting yeah we are at the roadside gift shop and we're gonna get her something nice we just don't want it to seem like we bought it on the way

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to see her does that make sense yeah does she like triple xl t -shirts making fun of vegans maybe

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maybe i'll take a look at them yeah

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over here go check out the shirt wall oh here you are here's the guy okay so

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is this a fun house mirror wait where are you yeah you're looking at yourself

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god i look just like i imagined that guy would look

like the idea

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wow

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of me yes that is a pretty intense fun house mirror they usually just stretch your body but this changes your facial structure pretty good

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anyway uh but i i don't know like these are pretty uh

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yeah i don't know they says fuck vegans it's not

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really like it doesn't

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really make fun yeah them it's

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just go to hell i'm eating here anyway i don't really get that so you don't like them

Speaker 5

uh that's fine not for us or not for our mom they're homemade they're homemade

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yeah that's fine someone was like

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they're definitely homemade

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do you have a scream press or what do you even make these with a what

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it's how you make little customized shirts

it's not how

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no

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okay

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i do

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you could even iron little letters on one at a time oh good idea i think we're getting distracted talking to the owner of the store we need to just find a gift for mom

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right let's

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think about it for real what

like she

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does mom

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like we don't want to get our house house we don't want to get her

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pillows i mean she likes uh

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she birds

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she likes birds she loves birds she loves binoculars

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with her birds yeah she looks at them she loves outside

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bird watching she basically so

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we've just described a woman who loves bird watching right so

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she loves being outside looking at birds with binoculars what about a new crazy hat what about a

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new hat that looks crazy everywhere except for bird watching right

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which i

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feel like

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she has so many

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yeah

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i feel like bird watching

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specific hat that's a good point yeah um point

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i what about this grave digger hat like a you know monster truck i don't know i just feel like a trucker cap with grave digger that says not the real grave digger for licensing

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purposes written underneath it yeah we want the official yeah it doesn't feel like anything in here is like

Speaker 5

you can't sue me for that you can't sue me for that sir i feel like it's you're still using a picture of grave dig the hearse with big tires though i feel like it's like maybe you could get sued have you been sued by grave digger specifically

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not since i put the sign underneath yeah but yes grave digger is the most litigious of trucks

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i did when i pulled up i did see because i feel like that's how i know you're a real person i did see you handing a man in a monster truck cash and him speeding off into the mountainside yeah i paid truckosaurus

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not using the roads

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of course that's a

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smart you can't tell anybody you did not put a hit on grave digger from truckosaurus i would that that was truckosaurus you were killing

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that's unbelievable

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you can't tell anyone you can go to truck prison for life for that

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you're telling me

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where are you is that you the mannequin behind the front desk caught me

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wait

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wait wait but you're a mannequin

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wait you're

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you're not

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okay

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the mannequin

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has a speaker box yeah look okay take take look take the hat off he's got a little camera in the eyes

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just kidding

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what

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you know what you all might like placemats we have a lot of lovely

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placemats in the middle of the store mom's table is a wreck from putting hot soup

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down it really is oh that's great do you have any table tops

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because the wood is completely stained with circles but not from liquid yeah i mean at this point mom just has four legs with no table top

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they stand up just fine though

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and so we we we have to eat a lot of meals like it's hook like like in the movie hook

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somehow um

yeah yeah do you okay well yeah i think we could we could get our

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tabletop later but like placemats would be nice yeah you get placemats or tabletops in the corner um yeah there's lots there's novelty funny ones like the hot sauces or kind of more standard

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tabletops oh this one's kind of cool it's got like a dead body drawn on it

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like like here's a dead body on the table that's kind of funny for like halloween or something

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oh okay

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that's not for halloween it's year -round

Speaker 2

can excuse me sir uh host host or whatever i appreciate the no hard sell thing but i think it's just getting confusing at this point could you just come out and help us

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okay sure

Speaker 2

host please come

help please we're simply lost you must have three men coming in here to get a gift for their mom at the last minute all the time

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out and

we're already late like

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just help us please reveal yourself he's in the bathroom he's going to the bathroom go go go go that makes sense but sit down

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it's empty

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there's not even a toilet in here god no one's in

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here so someone is in here saying that

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i'm gonna guys i'm scared too but i'm gonna open the shower curtain okay

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okay that's all i'm gonna pull out my

Speaker 5

knife hang on all right get ready to stay just wait we can't kill another person we cannot kill

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another person because we're scared what if the person hiding back there is nefarious it's a good

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question you're thinking of nosferatu

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no i'm not

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is there a person named nefarious

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no

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this guy no no this guy's just slacking on his hosting okay i'm gonna open it let's not stab

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okay but i'm gonna have my knife out yeah just have it out yeah of course

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i won't only have it out you pull it get behind me yeah they'll see that i have the knife i won't need to use it

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right and you stand behind me okay yeah all right how am i gonna get out of this show okay

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he's in

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there the host is

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in there okay yeah wait all right

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i'm just gonna show

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knife yeah three show brandish

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okay i'm gonna open

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you brandish yeah hold

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what are you just doing i'm just standing in the back i'm standing near the door okay lock it in case he comes out we need to kill him lock him or

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wait wait

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on wait

Speaker 5

lock us in yeah at least he won't be able to get out i don't think he's in i don't listen let's listen for one second but i will i will

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swing open i'm gonna reach back and i'm gonna turn on the water we'll see what happens smart smart turn it's just hot so you're gonna do

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pretty much everything i'm gonna you brandish you turn on the

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hot water on the water

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huh

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me you're not doing

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anything i don't know how to

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do

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that i don't know why don't we load you up and

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we'll do okay yeah all right let's listen for a second just

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confirmation

like he's just in the bathroom

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okay sounds

there is no toilet there must be a toilet in the shower it's a trick

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that

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makes sense

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oh my god stink is going up

Speaker 1

did you guys invest

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i did i did okay i have three stink i have three stink oh whoa

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yeah i got it wow i got it like 0 .76 stink

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yeah yeah wow that's

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it's it's not bad that's not bad

three

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that's more than

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fours yeah oh okay maybe it's not the toilet in there okay ready so yours i'll open oh you're turning it on okay i'm opening i'm opening

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i'm opening

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we

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see you is that you

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no

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no sorry oh god thank god i missed four times in a row you step directly into the drain with big misses

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is that you host jesus christ yes what are you doing trying to stab the host of the store

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we're sorry

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yeah it was

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just

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we didn't

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know

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if you were nefarious or not

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nosferatu

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don't know what that means means guy with bad intention yes like nosferatu the vampire

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is a name no we're saying the same thing sir sir please now that we've caught you will you please help us buy a gift for our

Speaker 3

mother you're caught and please tell us you have bird watching stuff please i'm trying to be such a low pressure salesman i've hit all the way in here and you still wanted to stab me you scalded me with hot water i i i just fantastic heating by the way as soon as i turned it on it was piping i pay extra for that well come on out yes i'll take you to the bird watching stuff

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it's our most popular stuff it might be sold out um

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damn so here's damn it

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every place we've

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been watching stuff you cannot say that to us we're so

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mad

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i'm sorry i'm sorry i can tell you're disappointed but

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bird watching stuff has been flying off the shelves there's a there's a

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bird

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watching stuff has been

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flying off the shelves why don't you put that on a t -shirt instead of toilet for life

that was an actual write that down and put it on a t -shirt right now i don't know what that t -shirt's for but we'll take

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and stuff like that

that bird watching stuff is flying off the shelves okay all right all right hope tell me you have screen printing no i

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had never heard of it until today what do you do stencil

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okay easy

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that's actually easier it feels like less work okay geez

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i feel like

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we've gotten into a big fight because i tried to stab you i'll take the aggression off the table stop brandishing i can't stop brandishing okay

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fair fair all right here

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so we do have a notebook oh i'm making you the shirt

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okay bird watching has been flying off the shelves yes we're

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watching stuff

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do you want to say dear mommy or anything like that no yeah we want to say we wanted to say

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dear

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christina what about dear dear christina sorry we couldn't get you a gift bird watching stuff

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has been flying off the shelf love your sons the three sharons

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she'll get it she'll get it it's an inside joke

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well it will be after

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okay great

yes

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we're gonna

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we're gonna really

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we'll really sell hammer at home

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okay i will be honest i went way too big with deer so the rest

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is gonna be pretty small that's funny that's

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funny that's funny

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god whoo this is strong

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in here is there any ventilation spray paint

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or any what that's like that's the machine they use to paint the yellow lines on highways so you've seen it before do you by chance have

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respirators or we'll have one for you this is

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have three more

the only respirator right

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now

is that you uh operating the machinery or is that a monster truck out here outside oh no did you fucking tell grave digger what you saw in

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okay

here no no

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we didn't know grave digger oh my god

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if grave digger finds me in here it's toilet for life for me okay we use the hot sauce to kill grave digger i don't know i can't i'm

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not gonna stop making the hot sauce is weak it's not hot

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what wait no

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what you're overcompensating with the label

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it's

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all ketchup with pepper in it

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blowing out your ass just

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use your hottest one and scream the label when you throw it grave digger and make it funny

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three three two one grave digger suck on this clogged flush

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god damn it god damn it

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working

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it's

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he's digging his own grave he's digging his own grave

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he's corroding i'm going down oh a priest is

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here yeah i bless you to hell

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i'm halfway to the core surely i can get out of the hole if i keep

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digging i bless you to hell yes oh and the priest is

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covering him up and the priest uh the priest the grave digger has been put in the grave who's that me down here the

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driver of the grave digger

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oh i've been put in the grave pallbearer yes i needed a gig pallbearer driving grave digger i thought you were dead i used to work for undertaker cover

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him

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up priest

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okay

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wow

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every day like this i'm going

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back to the

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vatican

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goodbye whoa that pope mobile sped off dirt i need to watch that thing he's been driving around in it from the vatican

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you

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know

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what i think we should just get this karen nameplate and call it a day you know what that's what i think can we just check out with the karen nameplate thanks we're going to write sharon over the top of it thanks

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who are you talking to

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i'm sorry what who are you where did he that was not you there's just a skin suit on the ground and some bird uh line of

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birdie going into the back

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i think it was him he just skimmed himself and now he's skeletons in the back it's not worth it

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it's not worth it

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sir you have to ring us up please check yourselves out

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24 this thing's a piece of you know what

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we don't want it

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hey mom's just gonna have to go year 20 yeah

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let's get her a

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gift certificate we ain't getting mom's shit our presents will be present enough that'll be fine let's just go eat soup on our laps at her house yeah hey when we get there yeah will you guys not get in a fist fight with mom this year

Speaker 6

no promises yeah