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Stinky Vintage is really...
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Stinky Vintage is not great.
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Stinky Vintage.
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It would be funny to have a shop called Stinky Vintage.
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Where'd you get that?
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Oh, you got a Stinky Vintage.
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Stanley Tucci!
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Come on!
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He's literally...
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I don't know.
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I would disagree.
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What do we think?
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I think...
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I love an Australian accent.
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On a man or a woman or...
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On a guy.
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I like an Irish accent.
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Yes.
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Northern Irish.
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Irish.
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Scottish.
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Yeah.
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For me, those are the ones.
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French accent is just so sexy.
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Divine.
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Man, woman, dog.
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No, I actually think Italian accents are really sexy, but I'm kind of scarred in this respect.
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So that's true.
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Yes.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Yeah.
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So I'm so I disagree.
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Don't listen to him.
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Yeah.
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Annie never wants to hear her name said in an Italian accent.
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I will say I do actually love when I meet people, they go, "Anna." - Anna.
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- Anna.
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- I'm Anna Atheway.
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- Anna Atheway, yeah.
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- So I do like that, but that's not sexy.
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- When I go there, I'm Mel Strip.
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Mel Strip.
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- When I go there, I'm Simon.
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- Simon, yeah.
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- Simon.
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- Totally, I'll get in a car and they're like, "For Simon?" And I'm like, "Yes." - Hello, I'm Simon.
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- Yes, exactly.
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- Stanley, this one's for you.
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- Jesus.
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- You should only wear athleisure wear if going to the gym.
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- Yeah.
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I have a dot.
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I think...
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Sometimes I just can't. Be honest.
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It's a strong answer.
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I don't want to see it at the airport.
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Look at you.
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I don't want to see it.
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I love seeing it.
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You.
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I love seeing you in it.
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Yeah.
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And people who are athletic The athletes.
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The athletes.
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I disagree because I would live in it if I could.
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I love a pair of sweatpants.
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I agree, but I don't strongly agree because my husband wears it a lot and he's
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magnificent at like getting stuff done so I'm like whatever it works.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Good luck.
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- You know.
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- Well, he stays away from the leg.
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- If this was vodka...
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- This would be fun.
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We're not allowed to...
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- Who's gonna know?
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- My both aren't telling anybody.
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- No, who's gonna tell?
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Guys, this is how a murder works.
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It's aluminium, not aluminum.
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Wait, no, I did that wrong.
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I did that wrong.
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Oh, well done Stan.
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Well, I live here now.
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No one understands what you're saying.
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It's some aluminum.
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We lost an eye.
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Yeah, I don't know where the difference came from.
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Aluminium. And Nicaragua. Who says that?
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I do like the word aluminum a lot, but it's classy.
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Aluminium.
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Vintage is always best.
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No. No. No. Can't say.
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Not always.
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Depends on what state it's in.
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Yeah.
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Stinky vintage.
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And the smell.
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Stinky vintage.
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Stinky vintage is not great.
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It's frequently the best, but not always.
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No, not always.
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Stinky vintage.
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I think it'd be funny to have a shop called Stinky Vintage.
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Where'd you get that?
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Oh, you got a Stinky Vintage.
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Nothing is worse than when you buy a beautiful vintage something
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and you get it home and you've tried it on and then like an hour later you're like, - Oh no, the musk, the musk.
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- Yeah.
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- And it just comes up and it's just someone else's hormones.
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- It's someone else's hormones.
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- Into a boil.
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah.
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- Merrill, why I strongly agree?
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- I just believe that in people.
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Aww!
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Yeah, but we weren't talking about that.
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Meryl, we're talking about stinky vintage, alright?
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Stinky vintage, yeah.
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Wines and cheeses and all that.
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You can't have a vintage cheese if I just made that up.
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Would you like some vintage cheese?
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Vintage cheese.
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Ignore me, I don't work in these industries.
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It's fine, it's fine.
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Alright, this wasn't on my list, but it was a good debate before the cameras started rolling, so I'm gonna do for Emily.
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Oh, God.
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food.
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- Oof.
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Oh no. - Okay, can we get a sample of what British food is?
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Okay, let's say a shepherd's pie over.
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- Name an American food.
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- A cheeseburger, let's say.
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- Oh, not even American food.
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- Cheeseburger always.
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- I love shepherd's pie so much, but I know a burger's not technically American, is it?
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- Nothing is technically American.
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- Where's burger from?
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- Caesar salad is the closest thing.
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- Corn on the cob is technically American.
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- A hot dog?
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- No, it's German.
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- No, that's German, yeah.
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- Oh yeah.
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- But I will say, okay, Yes, a shepherd's pie for dinner is better than a cheeseburger, but at 2 :00 a .m a cheeseburger is better than shepherd's pie.
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There you go.
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I don't like shepherd's pie.
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Neither do I.
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What?
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I don't like mashed potato.
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Do you like cottage pie?
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It's not the meat, it's the potato.
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It's the mashed potato pie.
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You can make it with like a sweet potato top or like a parsnip.
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I think it's more of consistency.
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I like my meat.
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Parsnip, maybe.
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Sweet potato, no, it fights the...
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No. Sweet with the meat.
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Okay, well, if you have an allergy, it's not bad.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet with the meat.
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Sweet That's a good name for your butcher shop.
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- Too sweet for the meat.
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- Too sweet for the meat.
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- Oh no, Tucci's gonna have a pub called The Girded Loin.
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- Oh, that's a great place.
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- As we said that today in the car, I was like, I'm opening a pub called The Girded Loin.
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- And I'll be able to retire The Girded Loin.
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- You've got stinky vintage and then stinky vintage.
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- So that's where you go, you've got a stinky vintage, and then you go have a nice bite of The Girded Loin.
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- All of the old costumes from The Devil Wears Prada.
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- In stinky vintage.
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- Stinky vintage.
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- Come smell like an actor.
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- Do you remember the Snooty Fox?
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- The Snooty Fox.
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- The best pub name.
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- Yes.
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The real pub.
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- The Snooty Fox.
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- Wait, I remember you talking about this.
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- We were in the Cotswolds and we couldn't stop saying it all week.
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- Snooty Fox.
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- And especially the way he says it, the Snooty Fox.
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- He's obsessed with that.
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- In New York, isn't there a restaurant?
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It's called like, I walk past it all the time.
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It's called Tee Cheese or something like that.
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- Oh yeah, there is a guy.
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his name he
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so he's legally allowed to use it yeah yeah I'm gonna
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do all right is there more there's a couple more oh yeah yeah yeah there's endless more but - No.
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- Irish exits are perfectly acceptable when leaving a party.
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- Yes, absolutely.
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- Yeah.
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- Absolutely.
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- What's an Irish exit?
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- The Irish goodbye, you go.
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- You just leave it up, say goodbye.
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- You go, you put a jet nap on.
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- Oh, I always thought it was a French thing.
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- I've never heard of the French exit.
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- French exit.
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- I only know the Irish goodbye, which is like you just-- - That's where you just go.
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- Disappeared.
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- I think it's the same thing.
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- I think when leaving a party, especially if you're having to say goodbye to a lot of people, I think a Houdini is the right move.
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Just get out of it.
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Vaporize.
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- Now you're making it Italian.
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Now it's just so confusing.
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- Houdini.
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- Houdini.
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I don't know.
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- How do you feel though if you're the host and everyone's just...
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you know, Houdinied.
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- What about that dance?
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- Bye.
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- Goodbye.
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Honestly, then you're a terrible host.
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No, it's like you kind of read the room, and then you just send a text and just be like, "You look like you're having such a good time, didn't want to interrupt." I think it just depends upon the size of the party.
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If it was an intimate dinner party, somebody would just leave.
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That's f*ing weird.
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But if it's a large group of people and you're like, oh, it's going to take an hour to go.
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Like you didn't say goodbye to me last night.
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No, I didn't.
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You just evaporated.
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I did.
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It was fun.
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It was fun.
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It was fun.
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It was fun.
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It was fun.
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I had pasta.
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By the way, you know that mocktail that I made up?
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I added an orange slice to it and it turns it into Fanta.
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In a good way?
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I can't tell yet.
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An orange slice to what?
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champagne glass and then you add an orange slice to the top.
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And she was wasted last night.
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I was the party.
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That's why everybody did an Irish exit.
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She's on the mocktails again.
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Run!
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Crocs are the greatest fashion faux pas of modern times.
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Yeah.
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I think they are.
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Where's it green?
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Enous things.
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You should never ever wear them.
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- They look awful.
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- Yeah.
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- But usually the people that wear them, wear them with cargo pants.
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- Pants, why?
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- It's too much.
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- 'Cause there are greater fashion faux pas.
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- No. - The greatest fashion, and also-- - What do you think is a greater faux pas than a croc?
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- Athleisure.
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- Athleisure wear?
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Really?
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What?
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Wow.
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I think wearing athleisure to the opera.
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I think wearing athleisure to elevated surroundings.
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- I wouldn't wear it to the opera.
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- To the opera?
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No, no, well, by the way, they do make...
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I have seen people make cute crocs.
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-I have.
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-For three -year -olds.
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-Vintage crocs?
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-No. No, no, vintage crocs are a big no. You will not find any crocs at Stinky Vintage.
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Stinky Vintage.
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Guys, it's gonna be huge.
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-I think so.
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-Stinky Vintage.
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-Gerded loin.
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-Crotchy croc.
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-Crotchy.
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-Oh.
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All right.
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Stinky Vintage will have a whiff of crotch, Yeah.
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That's the lingerie section.
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That's the lingerie section.
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Oh look.
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Oh!
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Final one.
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Yeah, no, just one more quick one.
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Okay, great.
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A nice one.
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I love working with the people opposite me.
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- Oh!
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- Oh!
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Can you imagine if I went?
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- I don't know what's that, you have this idea of London, which is just completely fictional.
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- I'm sorry.
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- You don't live there anymore.
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I live there more than you live there.
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There's no diners.
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- There is this like, what's that place called, Van Katch? Who?

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