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00:00Poppy hmm. Why do you boys have penises and girls have vaginas? I don't know. Can you not say penis?
00:16I was gone. What's wrong with her? She's old. What's wrong with you, man?
00:21How do you keep your clients? I didn't charge her. Thanks Jim. That's how he keeps his clients. That's how I stay poor
00:31Is she gonna die? Yeah. When? I don't know. How do you get kicked out of an elementary school assembled?
00:39Call Bruce Frasowski a jackhole. And he's a 6th grader. A jackhole 6th grader? Do you like being a Grammy?
00:48Love it. Wish I could have just skipped to that. What do you want to be? I don't know. Maybe a cop.
00:57You could have been a cop. Yeah, well back in those days things were different.
01:10Has Matty ever talked to you about how he sees himself? How he sees himself? Yeah. I don't know. What do you mean?
01:18Well, I gave away this writing assignment in the class.
01:22We worked on it for about a week or so. The prompt was
01:25The day of your dreams. What's the best day you can imagine?
01:30If I told you something
01:34Will you promise not to call me any names? Has Matty ever mentioned anything like this to you before? It is what it is.
01:42Well, Bernie, what if it's something more? Like what? Like Matty's feelings about who he really is.
01:52Yeah, you want to toughen him up?
01:54Put him in hockey. Yes.