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[upbeat music playing]
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[DJ on radio] Good morning,
simulation farmers.
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This is the Pyromoth keeping you warm
on the Ribbon and cool in your heart.
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This just in from Magistrate Hoops:
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"Be careful downloading
unverified emoji packs.
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Many contain spoofs, hacks, and viruses."
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-And now a track...
-[barking]
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...from Clint Smith's
new album, Sponge Cake Summer.
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[grunting]
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-[audio stuttering]
-[groaning]
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[squealing]
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-There's no such thing as...
-[audio stutters]
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-Thank you for having me!
-[rewinding]
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Thank you for having me!
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[rewinding]
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[computer] Master, I have something
I need to show you over here
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if I could just have
a moment of your time.
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Maybe in a second.
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I'm messing around with this
new emoji pack I downloaded.
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It's badass. Look at that.
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-Huh.
-[bird chirping]
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Love emojis.
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[chirping]
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-[light rock music playing]
-[Clancy sighs]
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[chirping continues]
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-Hmm.
-[computer beeps]
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Fucking upload it, you fucking shitbags.
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[computer beeps]
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[scoffs] What the fuck?
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-[engine grinds]
-[computer beeping]
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-[computer] Good morning, Clancy.
-[Clancy] Good morning, Computer.
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[computer]
Which universe will you choose today?
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Uh... this one, this world.
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-[beeping]
-[Clancy] What?
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-[rooster crowing]
-[dance music playing]
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Deactivate. Deactivate pop-up.
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Deactivate pop-up now!
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[computer] It's difficult to concentrate
when you're being yelled at...
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by a friend.
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[groans]
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Okay, just please deactivate pop-up.
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What-- what--
And decline.
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[computer] Avatar purchase accepted.
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Fuck!
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[computer] Are you into this song?
Are you into the driving bass line?
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Do you hear the sound
of the hoofed one in the forest, Master?
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Do... you... Mast--
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-[music stops]
-[computer winding down]
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[modem dialing]
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[high-pitched tone ringing]
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[buzzing]
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[whirring]
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[computer] Good morning, Clancy.
Which universe will you choose today?
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Good morning, Computer.
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Hey, why do all these planets
have Xs on 'em?
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[computer]
Because they are dying, as I am dying.
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You're not dying. You're a machine.
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[whistles] Look at that.
Send me to Clown Planet.
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-That place looks fun.
-It's all right.
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-You don't think clowns are fun?
-They're terrifying.
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Come on!
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-[computer] You come on.
-[Clancy] You come on.
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-You come on.
-You come on.
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[computer] No, you come on.
You come on, times a klobexia!
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-[Clancy, muffled] What's a klobexia?
-[computer] I don't know. I made it up.
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[muffled] That's a good one. Simulate.
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[computer]
Merging with Simulator in three...
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-[whirring]
-...two... one...
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[Clancy] Whoa!
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Drone One,
pull up some happy nature music.
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Not that.
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Yes!
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As I stare out at this majestic scene,
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I can't help
but think of my sister, Sarah...
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[thud]
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...who said,
"Clancy, I'll loan you this money,
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but you have to promise not to spend it
on a used Universe Simulator."
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And I said, "Sarah, first of all,
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I'm getting a really good deal
on a simulator,
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and second of all,
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there are beautiful, wondrous worlds
inside these old simulators,
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full of intelligent beings
with stories to tell,
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and I'm gonna interview them,
and put my interviews online,
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and make a bunch of money
and pay you back, so suck my dick."
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[insect buzzing]
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[squeaks]
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[Clancy] Here we see...
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[mellow music droning]
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...the cycle of life.
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-A beautiful clown baby, freshly born...
-[giggling]
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[high-pitched, indistinct singing]
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...from...
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his fruit.
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[giggling, squeaking]
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[Clancy] Many clown babies now gather,
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and singing their song of joy...
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to these noble, peaceful deer-dogs.
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"How are you doing?"
they say in their way.
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Truly a scene from heaven.
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[Clancy] Whoa!
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-[clown babies screaming]
-[Clancy] Stop! Don't eat 'em! Hey!
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What are you doing?
No, they're clown babies!
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Why are you eating the clown babies?
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[panting]
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Shit.
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[Clancy screaming]
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Why does this always happen
in this fucking thing?
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Can't there just be, like,
one place where there--
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[all screaming]
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-[deer-dog grunts]
-[Clancy] Oh! Ah!
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[Clancy screaming] Ooh!
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Ooh!
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Just friends in a truck.
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[exhales] Hoo!
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Hey, you mind if I interview you
for my video spacecast?
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-Um, okay.
-You can talk?
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[low voice droning]
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-[Clancy] Sorry, what was your name again?
-Annie.
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I'm Clancy.
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[buzzing]
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-So sorry, I gotta set up for a second.
-[Annie] Okay.
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Basically,
this is just like a classic vid-stream.
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So excited!
I've always wanted to do a spacecast.
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Annie, welcome to Midnight Gospel.
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This is... It's so cool!
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My first question to you is, um,
are you worried?
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Because it seems like
we're all about to die.
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Hmm... It does feel that way,
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but I've actually had
a lot of deaths in my life.
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If you've read my stuff,
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you'd know my dad died very tragically
of brain cancer...
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And then my best friend died
after I had my baby.
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-Good Lord!
-Yeah, and I've just been somebody
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that if someone in someone else's family
is gonna die,
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they know I've already been through it.
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So, I've always been sort of summoned
because I don't feel scared about it.
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And Neal, my partner,
is a hospice volunteer.
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He's always coming home
from people he's just visited.
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And so, I thought it was funny, yeah,
because there are so many young people,
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and everywhere they went,
it was like, "Death, death, death, rot..."
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When you're a kid, when you're young,
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there's a lot more worms involved
in the discussion of death, right?
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There are songs that go with it.
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Oh, my God, worm songs!
I used to love worm songs, growing up.
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Classic Worm Songs of the Sixties.
I had all ten albums.
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♪ Down in the dirt we will fall ♪
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♪ 'Cause death makes a meal of us all ♪
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You guys don't know this one.
Sorry, Annie. Go ahead.
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Oh, well, when I was young,
my dad got so sick,
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and this is in the mid-late '70s,
and you literally didn't mention death.
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-It was bad manners.
-[Clancy] Hmm.
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[Annie] You were supposed to not notice,
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you know, that they weighed 70 pounds.
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Seems impossible!
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Because we were polite.
We were children of the '50s.
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Neal's heard this a thousand times,
but when my dad got sick,
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we had a really dear friend
who also had cancer at the time, Susan.
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They would sit outside the coffeehouse
and Dad would say,
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"Susan, how's your cancer today?"
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-Really loudly, you know?
-Nice.
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And then my dad would say,
"Well, my cancer's..."
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Susan would say, "My cancer's okay,
I think. Ken, how's yours?"
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And he'd say,
"Well, I think I'm a little weaker."
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And my first novel
was called Hard Laughter,
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and it was about laughing
about this very hard stuff.
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Then I got involved with reading
Ram Dass's books early on,
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and that took away a ton of fear.
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You're very... How old are you?
Do you mind my asking?
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-Forty-four!
-Are you really?
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God, you are so great-looking!
You have beautiful skin.
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It's a blessing. There's no reason
to feel embarrassed. It's a blessing.
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I think probably God
just loves you more than other people.
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-Oh, you... That's--
-Yeah, that's how it works.
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That's the Christian path, yeah.
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-There is a hierarchical love with God.
-There definitely is.
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But you may get a much nicer seat
in heaven because of it, too.
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Like, near the dessert table,
or the cheeses!
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-You're not fooling me?
-No, it's true.
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-[male dog] It's the cheese.
-The cheese and the baguettes.
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[all laugh]
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[Annie]
But, anyway, so I think it's scary.
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It's kinda tough stuff,
but if I were young...
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Oh, my God, if I had had this information
at, you know, 30 and 40,
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my whole life would have been
quantifiably better,
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easier, much more free.
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[Clancy] The information you're
talking about, acknowledging death
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-is an inevitable part of--
-Yeah, it's so freeing to accept it.
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Annie, that is so beautiful,
and I hate to ruin this moment,
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but I'm gonna be honest,
I gotta take a shit.
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Do you mind?
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-I just need to use the bathroom.
-Oh! No, not at all.
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Um, how are we going to do--
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I don't know yet. I don't know.
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[door opens]
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[Annie] I don't know what I'm supposed
to do, right this minute.
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[Clancy] If you just put your head down
first... I'm so sorry!
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-[Annie] Oh! No. The--
-[Clancy] I'm sorry.
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-[splashing]
-[Annie] What--
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Okay, how about this?
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Back out of the stall, turn around,
and then walk into the stall backwards
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and climb up over the toilet
with your back leg.
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-Just stick your hooves right there.
-[Annie] Like this?
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-[Annie laughing]
-Oh, my God, Anne, it's not funny. Please!
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[Annie] I'm trying. This is...
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All right, I think this is
as far as I can go up.
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[Clancy sighs]
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This is gonna be a nightmare.
This one's gonna haunt my dreams.
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Would it help if I sang a song
and closed my eyes?
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[exhales]
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Yes, Anne. It would help.
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[door clatters]
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[Annie] ♪ You are my sunshine ♪
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♪ My only sunshine ♪
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-♪ You make me happy ♪
-[toilet flushes]
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♪ When skies are gray ♪
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My mom used to sing that to me
when I was little.
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I can't do this.
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Oh, no!
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-[Clancy] It's okay. Thank you.
-[Annie] I can hum a different song.
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[Clancy]
No, but thank you. I'm gonna hold it.
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[Annie] Okay, but that's not good for you.
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-Oh! Whoop...
-[beeping]
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Sorry, gang. Have a great day.
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[beeping]
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[Clancy] When I cut you off,
we were talking about accepting death.
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[Annie] Yeah. All truth is a paradox,
and I hate that the culture tells you
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that you will get over it.
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I think that anytime anybody says
the words, "You'll feel better in time,"
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they should be sliced in the ass.
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My friend Joey Diaz told me that's one
of the worst things you could do to a man,
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slice his ass,
'cause he can't sit down for weeks.
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[chuckles]
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-Yeah, people who say that make me angry.
-If I could let go of this right now,
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believe me, I would.
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I don't love being in this clenched,
rashy state.
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Do you feel like it all the time?
How often do you feel that?
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The stuff that enlivens us and heals us
doesn't come on bumper stickers, you know?
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It's hard-fought.
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It takes death to help you let go.
You know, go, "Okay, fine."
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Okay, fi--
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[grinding, splattering]
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-[Clancy] Oh, that's great!
-[Annie] And that's...
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Yeah, that's sort of how I had
my beautiful moment of surrender with God.
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It's, I say with enormous bitterness,
"Okay, fine."
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[Clancy] I love that! That's so beautiful.
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-That's so pure and real.
-[male dog] Good mantra.
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[Clancy] Yeah, that's a mantra.
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[Annie] Yeah, okay, fine.
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[Clancy] You know, so many artists
I've talked to, particularly comedians,
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when they're confronted with the idea
of doing anything therapeutic
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to help them with anxiety about death
or just when they consider healing
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their broken, neurotic, fear-riddled mind,
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they think that it's gonna destroy
their ability to be funny.
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Do you ever think, "Well, wait!
Maybe if I encountered this early on,
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I wouldn't have been such a great writer"?
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[Annie]
Well, yeah, um, by the time I was sober,
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I had four books out already,
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and I had a career,
I had this whole thing.
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I still live in the county
where I was born and raised. I'm 64.
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You know, everyone I love and need,
everybody was there,
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so I was loved out of
all sense of proportion.
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And I felt terror
that if I stopped drinking,
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I would never write again,
because I needed the misery.
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-Because I needed that edge.
-[tires screech]
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-[Clancy] Right.
-[Annie] And I... You know, and I...
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And I needed the shame,
and I needed the raging sick ego.
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And I felt that without those,
I wouldn't be sufficiently crazy enough
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to even be funny anymore.
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But that's one of the lies of the disease,
you know, or of the ego,
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that if you are well
and if you're happy, the jig's up.
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[Clancy] I think this, in Christianity,
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this is one of the really cool things
about Christianity,
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-is that you get to use the word "Satan."
-[Annie laughs]
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[Clancy] And I can't think of anything
truly more satanic than that thought,
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a force in the universe telling you
that should you become happy and healthy,
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then the thing you love
doing the most will suck.
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-[male dog] Yeah.
-[Annie] Right.
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-That's straight out of a... imp's mouth.
-[male dog] I never told you this.
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It made me think about it.
So, when I was 24, off I went to India.
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I met Ram Dass over there,
and up I went to the Himalayas
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and finally met my guru.
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And I said, "So, how do I meditate?"
I was thinking "mantra," "meditate."
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-I didn't know what I was talking about.
-[Clancy] Yeah.
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[male dog]] And he said,
"Meditate like Christ
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when he was nailed to the cross.
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He felt love, not pain.
He was lost in love with everything."
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The next day, we went back.
I got Ram Dass to say,
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"Well, how did he meditate?"
You know, this famous story.
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And he just went back,
closed his eyes,
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and tears came, and right then,
we experienced Christ in that moment.
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And we were all Jewish,
who had no relationship...
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I had never read the New Testament.
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And then after, he used to say,
"Did you read his book?" "Huh? Who?"
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"His book! Isa."
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-Which is "Jesus" in Hindi.
-[Clancy] Yeah.
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[male dog]
So, there is a tremendous teaching
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that we got around Christ in India
before anything.
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It was Christ and Hanuman,
they're the same. A service to man.
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-And so, anyway, I--
-[Annie] Yeah.
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[male dog] Um, one of the things that Bob,
our friend Bob, said--
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[female dog]
It's pronounced "Bob-wah."
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-[male dog] Bob-u-wah!
-[Clancy] Hey, Bob-wah!
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[male dog] So, you know,
the thing she said that really struck me
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is about what this fabric of our lives
is really about.
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[Bobua] Yeah,
and just how we're connected to love.
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[male dog] Which is a tough word,
because...
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It means romantic love to us
here in the West, but the Tibetans,
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how they approach it,
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love means how happy
you can make another person.
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[Annie] Right, yeah.
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[male dog] What the fuck?
That kid took my eyeball!
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[Clancy] This is truly the thing
that seems the most confusing to me
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about the concept of love in general.
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[male dog] Think of generosity.
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Think of when you start
thinking about somebody else
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and wanting to give them anything.
That's what it's all about.
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[orchestra tuning instruments]
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[bell chimes]
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[tuning continues]
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-[electric guitar power chord playing]
-[orchestra playing same chord]
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[rock music playing]
♪ Death makes a meal of us all ♪
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♪ Into the depths you will fall ♪
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♪ To the worms
Your coffin is like a wet bar ♪
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♪ No matter how rich or how poor you are ♪
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♪ You all end up in the ground ♪
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-♪ And the worms are not found ♪
-[laughing]
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♪ They put you in a big black box ♪
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♪ And cover you up with dirt and rocks ♪
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♪ All goes well for about a week ♪
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♪ Until your coffin begins to leak ♪
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♪ The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out ♪
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♪ In your belly and out your snout ♪
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♪ They eat the jelly between your toes ♪
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♪ They eat the memory
Of all you have known ♪
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♪ They eat your heart
They eat your soul ♪
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♪ It's the dawning
Of the end of the world ♪
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♪ Bow down to the worms ♪
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[Annie] I was thinking, also,
what one of you guys said.
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-There's a story of a little girl...
-[crowd screaming]
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...who's scared to death
to go to sleep in the dark,
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and she keeps calling out for her mom,
and her mom'll come in and say,
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"Jesus is right here with you.
Don't be afraid." You know?
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And the child says,
"I need someone with skin on."
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-[Clancy] Ah, yes!
-[Annie] Right?
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And that's what we need here sometimes.
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Through love,
all pain will turn to medicine.
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And Jesus says, "Everything I can do,
you can do." You know?
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-[male dog] Yes.
-[Annie] He had a very human death.
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-[Clancy] Yeah.
-[Annie] He's in labor, you know?
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And God never leaves him for a second.
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You have not gone through labor yet.
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-It's a big "yet" for you.
-[Clancy] It's a long time down the road!
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And that-- [Annie laughs]
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You're just in a process.
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It's contraction and release
and breath and peace,
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and, "Oh, no, here, it's back!"
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It's okay. Remember the last one?
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You contract and you constrict
and then you release...
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and you breathe.
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And it's what heaven will be like.
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-[Clancy] Beautiful.
-[male dog] Absolutely.
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[Annie] A new pair of glasses,
and they give you ice chips
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-and some very cold apple juice.
-[male dog laughs]
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[Annie] Yeah, and then you know
what comes out? New life.
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And that's what Jesus was saying.
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He was saying, "I'm gonna do this.
Only love is holding me here."
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If you were the only person on Earth,
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Jesus would have died
that humiliating and excruciating death
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because he was in labor,
and he had this labor coach.
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You know? Mother God.
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[male dog] Hmm.
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-[Clancy] Beautiful.
-[male dog] Beautiful. Wonderful!
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-Thank you, Annie.
-[Annie] You're welcome.
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-[Clancy] Thank you.
-[male dog] Thank you, Duncan.
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-[Annie] You're welcome.
-[male dog] This is...
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[Clancy] Thank you! Are you kidding?
Can't believe I got to be here!
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-[male dog] My favorite people.
-[Annie] Thank you!
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-[man] So lucky.
-[Clancy] Thank you.
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Duncan? Who's Duncan?
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[blows horn]
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[buzzing]
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[gasps, grunts]
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[grunts]
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[grunts]
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[sighs]
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[sighs]
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[gagging]
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♪ You are never gonna die ♪
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♪ Never, ever, ever, ever gonna die... ♪
[echoing]
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Hmm.
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Hmm.
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♪ You are my sunshine
My only sunshine ♪
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[echoing] ♪ Sun, sun, sun ♪
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♪ Worms ♪
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♪ Do you hear them singing? ♪
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♪ Singing from the graveyards ♪
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♪ Worms ♪
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♪ Were the midwives in the garden ♪
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♪ Turn your mothers into flowers ♪