Name: Ellen Celebrates National Quiet Day... Well Kinda
Uploaded: 2020-01-11T05:16:04.000Z
Duration: 2 min 51 s
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00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,935 Today, if you don't know, today is National Quiet Day.

Past simple

to take a break from all the noise in the world.

There's so much commotion on the radio, on the internet,

on our phones, people who go to the movie theater

and open a Werther's Original behind you.

00:00:34,140 --> 00:00:37,890 So I thought, instead of doing a monologue,

we would honor National Quiet Day by being quiet,

00:00:47,202 --> 00:00:49,410 For the next couple of minutes, let's enjoy the quiet

00:01:01,664 --> 00:01:03,997 I don't mean whispering, I don't mean anything like, oh,

I want it to be so quiet that you can hear a pin drop.

People say that and then they don't drop a pin.

00:01:26,229 --> 00:01:27,020 Couldn't hear that.

00:01:30,344 --> 00:01:32,509 I thought I would, but because you are being quiet--

00:01:51,248 --> 00:01:53,196 [VACUUMING]

00:01:55,631 --> 00:01:58,757 So while we're being quiet, I want

Which is an expression-- quiet as a mouse.

But I don't know why they say that because mice aren't quiet.

When they're eating their little nuts or whatever mice eat.

Pick an animal that's your quiet animal and be quiet everybody.

Honestly, you're distracting me the way you're just

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Ellen Celebrates National Quiet Day... Well Kinda

expression

distract

suppose

stare