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  • I have to say I'm impressed with your backdrop.

  • Uh, it's absolutely gorgeous.

  • Smart, very smart.

  • Your background says I'm very smart.

  • My background says I have no friends.

  • Yeah, on an abandoned it looks like the basement from you.

  • It does?

  • Yes, it does, actually.

  • No.

  • This is, um it's a abandoned theater Largo in in West Hollywood.

  • But, yeah, Largo is a very special place.

  • Although it's it has an odor right now.

  • Um, e you know, I walked in, and I'm like, it's kind of Siegel e.

  • It's kind of got a Siegel stench.

  • Where?

  • Where are you, by the way?

  • I can see that you're in a some kind of public library in a very well to do school.

  • But where are you, Jack E?

  • Yes.

  • Well, right now, right now, I'm in my house.

  • Um, I live like, a couple hours outside of Los Angeles.

  • Low farm Town.

  • Oh, nice.

  • Do you like, Do you like, uh, I mean, small town living, Is it?

  • Is it boring?

  • Is it okay?

  • It's boring in a really great way.

  • I really liked I don't know.

  • I had grown up in L.

  • A and never left a nine moves to this little town and pretty instantly, right?

  • When I arrived, I went to the grocery store and a man sized me up as an outsider.

  • And it was like, Welcome to town.

  • Don't be an asshole.

  • Wow.

  • Okay.

  • He said because that would make you the town.

  • Asshole.

  • I like this place.

  • I wish someone had told me that when I came to L A I didn't know.

  • I just e yeah.

  • The nice thing about being an asshole I have found in L.

  • A s.

  • I blend right in.

  • Uh, no, I really like I really like knowing my neighbors.

  • And it's a really nice feeling.

  • I like it a lot.

  • Yeah, also, though you do have to I've always heard that people in small towns, like people like John Mellencamp, were always singing the praises of small towns.

  • But the truth is, everyone gossips about everybody else.

  • So you you have Thio.

  • You've got to make sure that you stay on the straight and narrow and that nobody knows your business.

  • You have to just do nothing, you see?

  • Oh, absolutely nothing.

  • Uh, I'll tell you a story that we're told before, actually.

  • Okay, I popped up some cabins.

  • I live in an orchard, and I popped up some cabins for guests come to visit.

  • And, uh, one of the guys who was popping up the cabins made some off handed joke.

  • He was like, What do you?

  • Uh, you started a nudist colony, and I kind of laughed it off.

  • I was like, Yeah, then, like a year later, I was at a restaurant and the waitress was like, Okay, you have to answer because all taking bets back there, Is it true you moved here Thio e a that spread around that I was You know, I did something a little like that once I was in a restaurant and it was after hours and they were sort of closing the place down.

  • And everybody was like, laughing and in a good mood, and I said is a complete joke.

  • The waiter was like saying anything else and I said, Cocaine for everyone, You know what?

  • Whatever.

  • And everybody laughed and the waiter laughed.

  • And then I swear to God, a year later, I went back to the restaurant there, Like when we were here at the time, you were demanding cocaine.

  • Like I said.

  • And I said, I've never done cocaine in my life.

  • I am the squarest.

  • I don't do drugs.

  • I was kidding and they were like, Whatever, what?

  • E can't convince someone that's out there?

  • I tried to express, like, you know, I've shown my body in several movies.

  • The chances of me like being a nudist are pretty minimal.

  • I have a better body by now.

I have to say I'm impressed with your backdrop.

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    林宜悉 posted on 2021/01/28
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straight

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  • noun
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convince

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UK /kən'vɪns/

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express

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demand

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  • other
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spread

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  • noun
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  • To place over a large area; to cover a large area
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  • (Of ideas, gossip) to pass to and affect others
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instantly

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  • adverb
  • Immediately; at once.
  • In a manner without delay; immediately