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The 1970s were
an awesome time to be a kid.
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It was the Wild West.
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Bike helmets hadn't been
invented yet or car seatbelts
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or even normal adult supervision.
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Dads weren't around
as much as they are now.
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And my mom was busy running the house.
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She had a lot on her plate
and no time for tomfoolery...
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whatever that is.
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There were eight of us boys,
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including my oldest brother,
just home from college.
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That's a lot of testosterone
under one roof.
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Mouse, you'll do.
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When I was a kid,
nothing bugged my mom more
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than seeing us happy and relaxed.
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You're not gonna
spend the summer lounging around
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like it's some filthy mud-pit
at Woodstock.
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Outside.
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We were expected to get summer jobs,
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and since I was the creative type,
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I always sought work which allowed me to
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express myself as an artist.
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Tell me... did you go to school, stupid?
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Yeah. And I came out the same way!
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Unfortunately,
a mysterious basement fire
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compromised my co-star.
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So, Knuckles, do you have a girlfriend?
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Yeah.
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Unfortunately...
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...she's a dummy.
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Uh... uh...
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The guy at the shoe repair
said he can fix Knuckles' face,
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but he wants 20 bucks.
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You could help me on my newspaper route.
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I need someone to protect me from dogs
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and some of the bigger cats.
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I'm holding off
for something more suited
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to my artistic temperament.
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You know, when you say things
like that, people don't like you.
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Hey, guys, Dad's pulling in with...
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He has feelings, you know!
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In our house, Dad handled
the grocery shopping...
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20 bags, eight half-gallons of milk,
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two or three times a week.
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And if we expected to eat any of it,
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we had to help load it in.
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Let's go, people! Move! Schnell!
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These frozen pot pies...
they are ticking time bombs!
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I'm coming! I was in the bathroom!
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Oh, at last, Eddie deigns to join us.
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Meat first, then milk!
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Look at all this processed food.
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You know, at the seminary, we
ate more fruits and vegetables.
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We eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
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Grape jelly.
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And every kind of potato...
chips, flakes, and tots.
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I mean fresh... food that gets to us
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before Dow Chemical
has their way with it.
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I mean, seriously, do we even
know what's in this stuff?
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Look, I don't know
what's in the polio vaccine.
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I'm still glad some of you kids got it.
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Your father works real hard
to pay for...
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$32?! Holy moly!
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Something might have to go back.
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Imitation SPAM?
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We don't even get real SPAM anymore?
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Oh, big opinions from the guy
who got to the car last.
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Hey, don't bury that imitation SPAM.
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It's on the menu for breakfast.
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Dad, I was actually just asking Mom
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about maybe adding
some produce to our diet.
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Ooh, then maybe you should
produce some money
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to pay for it.
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Rabbit food ain't cheap.
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Yeah, but this stuff isn't healthy.
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I mean, seriously, is Pat even growing?
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He's growing... enough.
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We certainly don't want him
growing any faster.
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He'll catch up to William before
William's done with his clothes.
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- Give me that.
- Fresh fruit is a crapshoot.
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You need to eat it right away,
when they tell you to.
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With this stuff? Ho ho!
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You are not my boss, broccoli.
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Lawrence, we're just not
fresh-vegetable people.
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I mean, who we trying to impress?
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I don't know. Our colons?
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There we go... my newspaper.
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Sorry.
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The Parks Department is holding
a kids' poetry contest.
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First prize is 25 bucks!
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I can get a new face for Knuckles!
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Knuckles! Listen to this!
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Can, uh, other people see Knuckles?
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All right.
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All right, buddy,
we're gonna win the prize money
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and score you a new face.
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I'm so creative.
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I'm a shoo-in.
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So many ideas.
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Too many.
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They're popping in my head,
like popcorn.
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Maybe I'll make some popcorn.
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Okay.
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Nature.
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The topic is nature.
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I could go outside
and look at a lamppost.
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Or fire hydrant.
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Have I ever seen nature?
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You're thinking too hard.
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Don't make a federal case
out of it, like you always do.
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It's like the time Aunt Alice
asked you for ideas
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for what to name her baby,
and you just kept saying "puppy"
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and then had diarrhea.
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The deadline is tomorrow.
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You can do this.
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I wrote plenty of poems in school.
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Easy peasy, lemon-squeezy.
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Did you just do that?!
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Did I just watch that happen?!
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You're not the only creative one
around here.
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A poem's much easier than some
story that has to make sense.
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If your poem confuses people,
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they just think you're deep
and they're dumb.
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And that's the whole point of poetry...
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making other people feel dumb.
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Ah, here it is.
My old rhyming dictionary.
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Yeah. Maybe it'll help.
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But honestly,
rhyming doesn't even matter.
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I'm telling you... poetry's a racket.
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"Mountain," "fountain"...
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"countin'"?
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Okay, you're really cutting
some corners there,
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rhyming dictionary.
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And there it was...
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a poem my mom had written
in high school.
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"Ode to a Tree."
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And I knew it was really good
because it made me feel dumb.
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I was a decent enough kid
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to know that stealing her poem
was wrong.
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In retrospect, I choose to blame
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the void in moral leadership
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which defined the Nixon administration.
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A week and a half later,
and the verdict was in.
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Frank, give it to me! It's my letter!
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What does it say?!
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It says, "To the parents
of Timmy Cleary."
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Thank you.
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"Congratulations.
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You won first prize."
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I won! I won!
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- I won 25 bucks!
- Let me see that.
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Says you'll be
receiving your prize money
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at a special ecology and nature fair...
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Oh, brother... held at Oak Park.
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- Nice!
- "...at which you'll read your poem aloud
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for assembled dignitaries,
friends, and family."
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- Family?
- And dignitaries.
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You wear the new velour shirt
I got you for your birthday.
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You got that for me.
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You didn't win anything. It's his now.
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I'm not buying it.
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You're no poet, and I know it.
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Joey.
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I'm in trouble.
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Maybe you can help me.
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You do a lot of bad things.
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I keep busy.
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The poem is stolen.
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It's something Mom wrote in high school,
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and she'll recognize it
the second she hears it.
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I guess we don't let her hear it.
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Crap. She already wrote it down.
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But, unfortunately,
she'll be a little late.
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Cover her eyes.
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That's really good!
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I've been turning F's
into A's since 1966.
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I also do Mom's signature.
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I've been on field trips with
schools I don't even attend.
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Oh, uh, didn't hear the horn, Pop.
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It's fine. It's just the two bags.
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Lawrence, get in here!
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I got inspired, picked up something
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for our eldest to shove in his mouth.
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Oh, look, son, a surprise...
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two bags of veggies and fruit.
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Oh, great! Now I'm gonna
have to spray for ants.
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Right on, Dad. You really listened.
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Grapes and lettuce harvested
here in California.
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You're welcome.
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You've got to be kidding me.
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The grape and lettuce pickers
are on strike.
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Haven't you heard about the boycott?
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I might have heard
Cronkite mention something
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on his nightly coverage
of whiners and crybabies.
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The migrant workers
are picking this stuff
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for mere pennies an hour.
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I guess that's why it's so cheap.
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Let's hope the bacon workers
strike next.
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Very funny.
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Well, I, for one, won't be eating any.
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- Seriously?
- Those are racist grapes!
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They are steeped in the sweat
and tears of oppression.
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Good! Then we don't need to wash them!
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Unbelievable.
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No gratitude.
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That clown is never happy.
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What am I supposed to do
with all this stuff?
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I have no idea,
but we're not wasting it.
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Throw it in a stew or something.
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Hey, this would be a good moment
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for Pat's lost hamster to turn up.
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Yeah.
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That's not gonna happen.
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The day to read my poem arrived,
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and, fortunately,
Mom was thoroughly distracted.
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Grape casserole, grape loaf...
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grape Suzette.
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- Fancy.
- Mm.
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♪ Don't it always seem to go ♪
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♪ That you don't know what
you've got till it's gone? ♪
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♪ They paved paradise
and put up a parking lot ♪
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A big thank-you to Valerie
for the singing.
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Valerie is my niece,
but she did have to audition.
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And now it's my pleasure to
introduce a very special guest.
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He hates pollution. We all do!
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Welcome, Woodsy Owl!
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Give a hoot!
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Woodsy's appearance gave me a respite
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to reconsider what I was about to do.
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I hadn't done anything terrible yet.
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If I walked away now,
refused the prize money,
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didn't read the poem,
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I could go back to being
a basically decent person.
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Or...
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- You ready, kid?
- Am I ever!
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And now, to recite
his prize-winning poem,
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our own Timmy Cleary!
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Thank you. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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"Ode to a Tree."
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"Your branches doth spread out,
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reaching like outstretched arms,
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welcoming morning dew..."
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JFK, The Beatles, me.
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So few had the charisma necessary
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to mesmerize the masses.
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The audience adulation knocked the fact
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I didn't write the poem
completely out of my head.
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Was I becoming a sociopath?
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I actually prefer another word
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meaning roughly the same thing...
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a showman!
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"At last, our willow
shall weep no more."
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Knuckles!
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Thank you!
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She heard it.
My mom heard her stolen poem.
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Well, 12 years...
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that was a decent lifespan
in Roman times.
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- You came.
- I almost didn't.
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00:09:45,182 --> 00:09:47,450
Somehow I wrote down the wrong time.
260
00:09:47,484 --> 00:09:49,586
Luckily, Frank reminded me.
261
00:09:49,611 --> 00:09:51,423
I didn't know you had such a fondness
262
00:09:51,448 --> 00:09:52,782
for flowering dogwood trees,
263
00:09:52,807 --> 00:09:55,154
which are non-native to California.
264
00:09:55,179 --> 00:09:57,425
Very curious.
265
00:09:57,450 --> 00:09:59,693
Don't be ridiculous. He got it from me.
266
00:09:59,740 --> 00:10:01,122
What?
267
00:10:01,147 --> 00:10:02,381
Your creativity.
268
00:10:02,415 --> 00:10:05,183
What else would you have gotten from me?
269
00:10:05,218 --> 00:10:06,485
Nice poem.
270
00:10:09,155 --> 00:10:11,200
She's got to know I copied it, right?
271
00:10:11,225 --> 00:10:12,626
I knew in five seconds.
272
00:10:12,660 --> 00:10:14,825
You're not a big user
of the word "doth."
273
00:10:14,850 --> 00:10:16,363
But then why didn't she bust me?
274
00:10:16,397 --> 00:10:18,802
She's being really nice,
and it's freaking me out.
275
00:10:18,827 --> 00:10:21,496
I suppose it's possible
she doesn't remember writing it.
276
00:10:21,530 --> 00:10:23,998
Mom might be senile.
277
00:10:24,032 --> 00:10:25,233
She is really old.
278
00:10:25,267 --> 00:10:26,768
Mom is playing you.
279
00:10:26,802 --> 00:10:28,469
She enjoys tormenting us.
280
00:10:28,504 --> 00:10:30,004
I don't think Mom's that twisted.
281
00:10:30,038 --> 00:10:32,306
Oh, yeah? Remember
the mysterious basement fire
282
00:10:32,341 --> 00:10:34,342
we had last Christmas?
283
00:10:34,376 --> 00:10:36,410
The one where Knuckles lost his face.
284
00:10:36,445 --> 00:10:37,445
Yeah.
285
00:10:37,479 --> 00:10:40,592
Mom might have certain evidence
implicating me,
286
00:10:40,617 --> 00:10:41,623
including a bill of lading
287
00:10:41,650 --> 00:10:43,417
from a Mexican fireworks wholesaler,
288
00:10:43,452 --> 00:10:45,253
but she's never once accused me.
289
00:10:45,287 --> 00:10:47,522
She just keeps sighing
and saying how sad she is
290
00:10:47,556 --> 00:10:49,190
someone in this family can't be honest.
291
00:10:49,224 --> 00:10:51,325
She's waiting
for my conscience to kick in.
292
00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,193
Good luck.
293
00:10:52,227 --> 00:10:53,995
The best plan is to just come clean
294
00:10:54,029 --> 00:10:55,363
and take your punishment.
295
00:10:55,397 --> 00:10:58,533
- That's what I doth think.
- But what if she really doesn't know?
296
00:10:58,567 --> 00:11:01,169
The big win for Mom here
is getting you to confess.
297
00:11:01,203 --> 00:11:02,470
Then she gets to punish you,
298
00:11:02,504 --> 00:11:04,305
pretend you learned a valuable lesson,
299
00:11:04,339 --> 00:11:06,107
and feel like she's
a really good mother...
300
00:11:06,141 --> 00:11:08,109
the Catholic guilt trifecta.
301
00:11:08,143 --> 00:11:10,111
Just like Jesus taught us.
302
00:11:10,145 --> 00:11:11,145
Mm-hmm.
303
00:11:14,416 --> 00:11:16,684
- What is that?
- Waldorf salad...
304
00:11:16,718 --> 00:11:18,386
lettuce, grapes,
walnuts, and mayonnaise.
305
00:11:18,420 --> 00:11:19,887
They served it
at Tricia Nixon's wedding.
306
00:11:19,922 --> 00:11:21,455
If it's good enough
for the First Daughter,
307
00:11:21,490 --> 00:11:23,024
- it's good enough for us.
- Mm-hmm.
308
00:11:23,058 --> 00:11:25,393
- It tastes weird.
- What you're tasting is exploitation.
309
00:11:25,427 --> 00:11:27,361
Well, if that's the case,
they should bottle it
310
00:11:27,396 --> 00:11:29,564
because it's delicious and cheap.
311
00:11:29,598 --> 00:11:31,566
Hey, Timmy, I saw Reader's Digest
312
00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,067
was having a contest, too,
313
00:11:33,101 --> 00:11:36,838
judged by top poets,
like Rod McKuen and Dr. Seuss.
314
00:11:36,872 --> 00:11:38,239
You win this one, millions of people
315
00:11:38,273 --> 00:11:39,407
will see your poem...
316
00:11:39,441 --> 00:11:40,975
that you wrote by yourself.
317
00:11:42,077 --> 00:11:43,244
That's okay.
318
00:11:43,278 --> 00:11:45,079
I don't want any more attention.
319
00:11:45,113 --> 00:11:46,647
Yeah, isn't there stuff to talk about
320
00:11:46,682 --> 00:11:48,732
other than poems and salads?
321
00:11:48,757 --> 00:11:49,975
I've also been thinking about
322
00:11:50,018 --> 00:11:52,520
the mysterious basement fire
last Christmas.
323
00:11:52,554 --> 00:11:54,088
Destroyed the only photograph ever taken
324
00:11:54,122 --> 00:11:55,523
of my great-grandfather.
325
00:11:55,557 --> 00:11:56,759
My Pop-pop.
326
00:11:57,793 --> 00:11:59,393
He'll always be in your heart.
327
00:11:59,428 --> 00:12:01,998
- I'll have more salad, Dad.
- We all need to have more salad.
328
00:12:02,033 --> 00:12:03,900
We're not eating it fast enough.
329
00:12:03,935 --> 00:12:05,402
In fact, the kitchen's on lock-down
330
00:12:05,436 --> 00:12:07,137
till all the lettuce
and grapes get consumed.
331
00:12:07,171 --> 00:12:09,005
- Thank you, Lawrence.
- Yeah, thank you, Lawrence.
332
00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,509
I'm sorry that I care about
people less fortunate than us.
333
00:12:12,543 --> 00:12:14,444
- Wait. We're allowed to leave?
- No.
334
00:12:14,478 --> 00:12:16,613
Mike, you need to make
a food exception for Timmy.
335
00:12:16,647 --> 00:12:18,581
I baked him a cake.
336
00:12:19,984 --> 00:12:22,252
I know you're not supposed to
have a favorite child,
337
00:12:22,286 --> 00:12:25,588
but when one is this creative,
who we kidding?
338
00:12:25,623 --> 00:12:27,424
I'll probably just e-eat it later.
339
00:12:27,458 --> 00:12:30,593
- Absolutely outstanding, Peg.
- Aww.
340
00:12:30,628 --> 00:12:32,762
You don't think
of putting mayo on a grape,
341
00:12:32,797 --> 00:12:34,497
- but here it is...
- Mm.
342
00:12:34,532 --> 00:12:37,600
...a winning combination.
343
00:12:37,635 --> 00:12:38,468
Mmm.
344
00:12:41,138 --> 00:12:43,173
Something is very wrong, Joey.
345
00:12:43,207 --> 00:12:45,375
It's chocolate, my all-time favorite,
346
00:12:45,409 --> 00:12:49,012
and I feel so guilty,
it just tastes bitter.
347
00:12:49,046 --> 00:12:50,680
That's because Mom
didn't put any sugar in it.
348
00:12:50,715 --> 00:12:51,815
She's messing with you.
349
00:12:51,849 --> 00:12:54,551
She wants you to think you can
no longer experience joy.
350
00:12:54,585 --> 00:12:55,485
Are you serious?
351
00:12:55,519 --> 00:12:57,120
You should have tasted
the guilt meringue pie
352
00:12:57,154 --> 00:12:58,555
she baked for me
after the basement fire.
353
00:12:58,589 --> 00:13:00,023
That means she absolutely knows.
354
00:13:00,057 --> 00:13:02,125
Like I'm saying,
now you just wait her out,
355
00:13:02,159 --> 00:13:03,193
and you can win this thing.
356
00:13:03,227 --> 00:13:05,962
Joey, I'm not built like you.
I have a conscience.
357
00:13:05,997 --> 00:13:07,897
A disadvantage, but I believe in you.
358
00:13:07,932 --> 00:13:11,067
No! I-I've got to admit to her
I stole the poem!
359
00:13:11,102 --> 00:13:12,569
Of course you did,
360
00:13:12,603 --> 00:13:15,505
and I found where you stole it
from, you little crook.
361
00:13:15,539 --> 00:13:19,476
I camped out in the library,
and look what I found...
362
00:13:19,510 --> 00:13:23,580
"Ode to a Dogwood Tree," 1914,
by David Langford Lawless.
363
00:13:23,614 --> 00:13:27,584
Everyone made fun of me for
laminating my library card...
364
00:13:27,618 --> 00:13:29,886
but this is the ticket to secrets.
365
00:13:42,599 --> 00:13:44,032
Whatcha doin', Mom?
366
00:13:44,060 --> 00:13:47,508
Oh, just a new outfit for Knuckles.
367
00:13:47,533 --> 00:13:49,067
That's really nice of you.
368
00:13:49,101 --> 00:13:52,904
We all express our creativity
according to our own gifts.
369
00:13:52,938 --> 00:13:55,507
My mom taught me to sew.
370
00:13:55,541 --> 00:13:58,743
It's still making something
out of nothing, but...
371
00:13:58,778 --> 00:14:01,746
'course, it's not at the level
of your literary achievement.
372
00:14:01,781 --> 00:14:04,282
But how could I even dream
of ever writing a poem
373
00:14:04,316 --> 00:14:06,785
as good as yours?
374
00:14:06,819 --> 00:14:08,787
I keep thinking
maybe Knuckles has a secret
375
00:14:08,821 --> 00:14:10,255
he wants to tell me.
376
00:14:12,358 --> 00:14:15,460
If I hold him up to my ear...
377
00:14:15,494 --> 00:14:17,962
maybe he'll whisper it to me.
378
00:14:17,997 --> 00:14:19,264
He's a doll, Mom.
379
00:14:20,399 --> 00:14:22,300
I know.
380
00:14:22,334 --> 00:14:23,334
I just thought...
381
00:14:23,369 --> 00:14:26,805
sometimes it's easier
to say things that way.
382
00:14:26,839 --> 00:14:28,840
There is something I wanted to tell you.
383
00:14:31,811 --> 00:14:33,311
Okay, then.
384
00:14:33,345 --> 00:14:36,014
- About the contest.
- Mm.
385
00:14:36,048 --> 00:14:38,016
The Reader's Digest contest...
386
00:14:38,050 --> 00:14:39,918
I want to enter it.
387
00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,456
All that's left
is your signature as my parent,
388
00:14:44,490 --> 00:14:46,458
swearing that I am the author,
389
00:14:46,492 --> 00:14:48,960
legally binding
under penalty of perjury...
390
00:14:51,163 --> 00:14:52,964
...and in the sight of God.
391
00:14:56,168 --> 00:14:58,002
You sure you want to do this?
392
00:14:58,037 --> 00:14:59,337
Oh, absolutely.
393
00:14:59,371 --> 00:15:01,639
I want more people to read the poem...
394
00:15:01,674 --> 00:15:03,408
even people in Wisconsin,
395
00:15:03,442 --> 00:15:06,010
birthplace of David Langford Lawless.
396
00:15:07,179 --> 00:15:09,347
But compared to his poetic genius,
397
00:15:09,381 --> 00:15:12,050
I'd only give myself...
398
00:15:12,084 --> 00:15:13,384
an A-minus.
399
00:15:14,887 --> 00:15:16,054
And that was it.
400
00:15:16,088 --> 00:15:17,922
Mom knew that I knew she stole it,
401
00:15:17,957 --> 00:15:19,858
and I knew she knew that I knew.
402
00:15:19,892 --> 00:15:21,860
But neither one of us
could bust the other
403
00:15:21,894 --> 00:15:23,661
without admitting their own guilt.
404
00:15:23,696 --> 00:15:25,163
This was crazy!
405
00:15:25,197 --> 00:15:26,865
If Reader's Digest printed the poem,
406
00:15:26,899 --> 00:15:28,767
we would both be exposed as frauds.
407
00:15:28,801 --> 00:15:30,735
But Mom was not only willing
to risk humiliation,
408
00:15:30,770 --> 00:15:33,104
she was willing
to waste a six-cent stamp.
409
00:15:38,277 --> 00:15:39,744
Well...
410
00:15:39,779 --> 00:15:41,679
we should mail this.
411
00:15:41,714 --> 00:15:44,449
If we hurry, we can make it
to the box for the last pickup.
412
00:15:50,790 --> 00:15:52,924
It was poetry-contest chicken,
413
00:15:52,958 --> 00:15:55,426
each of us refusing to blink.
414
00:16:09,946 --> 00:16:12,277
- Well, that's that.
- Yes, it is.
415
00:16:12,311 --> 00:16:14,112
I realized then that my mom and I
416
00:16:14,146 --> 00:16:16,047
were more alike than I'd ever thought,
417
00:16:16,081 --> 00:16:18,316
both sharing the same self-destructive,
418
00:16:18,350 --> 00:16:20,118
stubborn streak.
419
00:16:20,152 --> 00:16:23,054
And I suddenly felt very close with her.
420
00:16:31,864 --> 00:16:33,064
I'll take that bologna.
421
00:16:33,098 --> 00:16:34,399
Oh, hey.
422
00:16:34,433 --> 00:16:36,000
I wasn't gonna eat that.
423
00:16:36,035 --> 00:16:37,802
It was just in the way
424
00:16:37,837 --> 00:16:40,104
as I was reaching for more salad.
425
00:16:40,139 --> 00:16:42,106
I really developed a taste for this.
426
00:16:42,141 --> 00:16:43,107
Great.
427
00:16:43,142 --> 00:16:44,843
Have a seat.
428
00:16:51,350 --> 00:16:52,383
Enjoy.
429
00:17:02,795 --> 00:17:04,095
Mmm.
430
00:17:04,129 --> 00:17:07,966
It's all kind of slippery now.
431
00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,033
Slides right down.
432
00:17:11,971 --> 00:17:13,338
Hi.
433
00:17:13,372 --> 00:17:15,006
Hello.
434
00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,008
How was your dinner out?
435
00:17:17,042 --> 00:17:18,142
Met some friends,
436
00:17:18,177 --> 00:17:21,479
ate, uh, a lovely meal
at a... at a vegetarian place.
437
00:17:21,513 --> 00:17:24,148
Who are these friends...
a rabbit, a turtle, and a bird?
438
00:17:24,183 --> 00:17:26,117
It was actually really tasty,
439
00:17:26,151 --> 00:17:28,620
although I was starving again by
the time I hit the parking lot.
440
00:17:28,654 --> 00:17:31,155
- You can have most of this.
- Oh, no, that's all yours.
441
00:17:31,190 --> 00:17:33,691
Eat up. That mayonnaise
isn't getting any younger.
442
00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,294
Have a slice.
443
00:17:40,199 --> 00:17:41,232
- Thank you.
- Oh, see?
444
00:17:41,267 --> 00:17:44,302
That wasn't so hard, a "thank you."
445
00:17:44,336 --> 00:17:46,304
Where was that when I picked up
the lettuce and the grapes?
446
00:17:46,338 --> 00:17:47,739
I guess I was taken aback
447
00:17:47,773 --> 00:17:50,074
that you didn't care
about the farm workers.
448
00:17:50,109 --> 00:17:51,476
I mean, you say you admire hard work,
449
00:17:51,510 --> 00:17:53,678
but somehow that doesn't seem to apply
450
00:17:53,712 --> 00:17:56,748
with people of any shade darker than...
451
00:17:56,782 --> 00:17:58,883
No. This isn't about color.
452
00:17:58,918 --> 00:18:00,151
You said you wanted produce.
453
00:18:00,185 --> 00:18:02,086
I saw a good price, and I jumped at it.
454
00:18:02,121 --> 00:18:03,221
I don't care if the guy who picked it
455
00:18:03,255 --> 00:18:06,724
is as white as that mayonnaise or...
456
00:18:06,759 --> 00:18:09,260
brown as that other mayonnaise
on the edge there.
457
00:18:09,295 --> 00:18:10,728
You can eat around that, son.
458
00:18:10,763 --> 00:18:12,931
You just enjoy a good bargain?
459
00:18:12,965 --> 00:18:15,199
I like providing for my family
460
00:18:15,234 --> 00:18:16,301
and nobody going to bed hungry.
461
00:18:16,335 --> 00:18:18,202
I'd give anything to go to bed hungry.
462
00:18:18,237 --> 00:18:21,172
Dad, nobody's going to bed
hungry in this house.
463
00:18:21,206 --> 00:18:22,840
It's not something any of us
have to worry about.
464
00:18:22,875 --> 00:18:25,043
Because I worry about it...
465
00:18:25,077 --> 00:18:28,179
every day and every single night
since that morning in 1952
466
00:18:28,213 --> 00:18:30,581
when I walked into that room
in St. Vincent's Hospital
467
00:18:30,616 --> 00:18:32,350
and met my firstborn son,
468
00:18:32,384 --> 00:18:35,186
premature and needing
all sorts of expensive medicine.
469
00:18:36,822 --> 00:18:38,356
That was a long time ago.
470
00:18:38,390 --> 00:18:40,024
You're not struggling now.
471
00:18:40,059 --> 00:18:41,392
I mean, nothing's gonna happen.
472
00:18:41,427 --> 00:18:43,461
Sure.
473
00:18:43,495 --> 00:18:45,430
Probably.
474
00:18:45,464 --> 00:18:48,533
But a man can't just turn off the worry.
475
00:18:48,567 --> 00:18:50,201
You'll see someday,
when it's your responsibility
476
00:18:50,235 --> 00:18:52,370
to fill that box up three times a week.
477
00:18:54,173 --> 00:18:57,141
I've been where your farm worker
fella has been.
478
00:19:00,612 --> 00:19:04,048
I feel like I should apologize
for calling you a racist.
479
00:19:04,083 --> 00:19:05,817
Up to me, your friends Paco and Pablo
480
00:19:05,851 --> 00:19:07,285
would get every peso they're worth.
481
00:19:07,319 --> 00:19:08,920
And then you say stuff like that.
482
00:19:08,954 --> 00:19:10,054
All right, how about this?
483
00:19:10,089 --> 00:19:14,325
I promise, no more green food
in this house again...
484
00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,161
once Eddie finishes that.
485
00:19:17,196 --> 00:19:18,429
Yum.
486
00:19:21,834 --> 00:19:23,067
So, what do we got here?
487
00:19:29,341 --> 00:19:31,442
Knuckles got his new face and threads,
488
00:19:31,477 --> 00:19:33,277
and we got back on the party circuit.
489
00:19:33,312 --> 00:19:35,646
I even updated my act
with topical references.
490
00:19:35,681 --> 00:19:37,682
So, Knuckles, why did the lifeguard
491
00:19:37,716 --> 00:19:39,917
not save the drowning hippie?
492
00:19:39,952 --> 00:19:42,253
Because he was too...
493
00:19:42,287 --> 00:19:44,155
far out, man.
494
00:19:44,189 --> 00:19:45,790
Weeks passed.
495
00:19:45,824 --> 00:19:48,092
Mom and I didn't speak
of the poem again, until...
496
00:19:48,127 --> 00:19:49,260
Mail's here.
497
00:19:49,294 --> 00:19:50,328
This came from Reader's Digest.
498
00:19:50,362 --> 00:19:52,363
Our only hope
for not being publicly shamed
499
00:19:52,398 --> 00:19:53,865
was losing that contest.
500
00:19:53,899 --> 00:19:55,099
- Crap.
- Darn it.
501
00:19:55,134 --> 00:19:56,467
And yet when it happened,
502
00:19:56,502 --> 00:19:58,269
we were both strangely disappointed.
503
00:19:58,303 --> 00:20:00,438
This makes no sense.
That poem is wonderful.
504
00:20:00,472 --> 00:20:01,939
Yeah, but Timmy didn't write it.
505
00:20:01,974 --> 00:20:03,641
Oh, be quiet. You wouldn't understand.
506
00:20:03,675 --> 00:20:05,810
Yeah. You're not creative,
like me and Mom.
507
00:20:05,844 --> 00:20:07,011
Timmy's not creative.
508
00:20:07,046 --> 00:20:09,380
- Oh, really, Frank? Where's your poem?
- Yeah, Frank.
509
00:20:09,415 --> 00:20:11,282
Where's his? I can show you in a book.
510
00:20:11,316 --> 00:20:13,651
Oh, books!
I once read a book about dragons.
511
00:20:13,685 --> 00:20:16,054
They don't exist.
You know, these poetry big shots
512
00:20:16,088 --> 00:20:17,555
are always threatened by fresh talent.
513
00:20:17,589 --> 00:20:20,625
Fresh? The guy wrote it in 1914.
514
00:20:20,659 --> 00:20:22,060
Who are these people to judge us?
515
00:20:22,094 --> 00:20:23,194
They're the judges.
516
00:20:23,228 --> 00:20:24,629
Wait. There's something else.
517
00:20:24,663 --> 00:20:26,831
"Dear poet, your poem was super groovy.
518
00:20:26,865 --> 00:20:28,466
You have lots of potential,
which will only get better
519
00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:31,035
as you work at it, so keep on truckin'.
520
00:20:31,070 --> 00:20:32,804
Peace and love. Rod."
521
00:20:32,838 --> 00:20:35,306
Rod McKuen sees potential.
522
00:20:35,340 --> 00:20:37,208
I know I act like a cool customer,
523
00:20:37,242 --> 00:20:38,576
but it is nice to get encouragement
524
00:20:38,610 --> 00:20:40,144
from a fellow poet.
525
00:20:40,179 --> 00:20:42,413
Nobody in this room is a poet.
526
00:20:42,448 --> 00:20:44,482
Mr. Rod McKuen disagrees.
527
00:20:44,516 --> 00:20:45,483
Thank you, Timmy.
528
00:20:48,620 --> 00:20:50,388
Rod McKuen.
529
00:20:50,422 --> 00:20:53,224
My mom and I together had
committed the perfect crime.
530
00:20:53,258 --> 00:20:57,028
We stole a poem and somehow
convinced ourselves we hadn't.
531
00:20:57,062 --> 00:20:58,830
That might be why she cherished
that letter so much.
532
00:20:58,864 --> 00:21:02,200
It connected us
in a true act of creativity...
533
00:21:02,234 --> 00:21:03,701
reinventing a frustrating world
534
00:21:03,735 --> 00:21:06,404
and insisting that others play along.
535
00:21:06,438 --> 00:21:08,506
My mom taught me that a small amount
536
00:21:08,540 --> 00:21:11,242
of cheerful self-delusion
is sometimes necessary
537
00:21:11,276 --> 00:21:14,846
in nurturing a gentle and artistic soul.
538
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,305
Keep on truckin', Peggy.
539
00:21:19,102 --> 00:21:21,182
Joey, be a dear and run down
540
00:21:21,207 --> 00:21:23,026
and get me that bolt
of dark green corduroy
541
00:21:23,051 --> 00:21:24,973
- from the basement, hmm?
- Sure, Mom.
542
00:21:25,007 --> 00:21:26,530
Ah, wait.
543
00:21:26,555 --> 00:21:27,576
Darn it all.
544
00:21:27,610 --> 00:21:29,177
That fabric got destroyed
545
00:21:29,212 --> 00:21:31,179
in the mysterious basement fire.
546
00:21:31,214 --> 00:21:32,881
- That's too bad.
- Mm.
547
00:21:32,915 --> 00:21:35,550
That corduroy was very special to me.
548
00:21:35,585 --> 00:21:36,885
The same fabric as the dress I wore
549
00:21:36,919 --> 00:21:38,687
to my grandmother's funeral,
550
00:21:38,721 --> 00:21:39,888
God rest her soul.
551
00:21:40,923 --> 00:21:42,390
You win some, you lose some.
552
00:21:45,728 --> 00:21:47,462
That kid's going places.
553
00:21:47,602 --> 00:21:52,602
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