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Now, you guys are clapping, but he's not leaving.
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I've already asked him, I said,
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Frankie, what do you want to do with your life?
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Mm-hmm.
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Have you thought about college?
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Just now.
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I'm like, Frankie, you do realize that all you need to do is get accepted.
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I tell a lot of jokes.
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I will pay for your entire college education,
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no matter where you want to go.
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As long as you get accepted.
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What do you think about that?
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Mm-mm.
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I said, you know, if you want to go to school in California,
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we'll make it happen.
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You want to go to school out of state, we'll make it happen.
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I said, hell, I'll even do one of those international programs.
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You know, the ones where you give them one of your children,
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and then they give you one of their children?
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What is it called when you kid swap?
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Exchange.
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Thank you.
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Sorry.
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That's right.
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Exchange.
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Some of you are like, that's called human trafficking.
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Different program.
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I would love to do an exchange program with my son,
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but don't give me a regular kid.
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If I'm going to do an exchange program,
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give me a kid from like a hardcore third world country
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so that he appreciates all the basic things most American children take for granted.
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That's why I say give me little Tombutu
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Give me Tombutu I would love Tombutu And Tombutu would love me Mr. Fluffy Yes,
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Tombutu I was wondering what time do we go to sleep
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You go to sleep whenever you like This is your room We sleep next door All of this Is for Tumbutu?
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Yes, all of this is for Tumbutu In my village,
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two families Sleep in an area this big Well,
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here in America One big ass Mexican kid sleeps right here
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Enjoy And then I would take him to like IHOP
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or Denny's and let him order Whatever he wants and just watch him lose it You know
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This is the Thanksgiving I heard of Thank you, Mr. Fluffy.
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Thank you.
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If there is anything Tombuto can do for you, please tell me anything.
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Can you help me take out the trash?
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For you, I will eat the trash.
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Meanwhile, my son's on the other side of the world on top of an elephant trying to get Wi-Fi.
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Tell your kids something, that's one thing.
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When you can get their friends to say what you say,
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you can't pay for that.
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and they're always doing it.
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You know, Frankie, you're lucky, man.
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Your dad's trying to help you go to college.
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My dad wants me to get a job.
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Frankie, you're lucky, man.
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Your dad's trying to give you a car.
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My dad doesn't even trust me to walk.
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You're lucky, man.
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And I hear this, and I'm like, I love these kids.
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Because, see, my son is very numb to this situation.
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He's very numb to all of you,
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and he's very numb to Fluffy.
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Okay, he doesn't see Fluffy.
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He sees, Dad, Dad.
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I'm just Dad.
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You know, I'm the guy that tells him,
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clean your room, take a shower,
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and put on deodorant, which he does very well now.
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But you guys saw what I had to do to make that happen.
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See, his friends, on the other hand,
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they still get excited when they see me.
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They still geek out.
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I walk into the living room.
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They're all sitting there.
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Frankie sees me, hey dad.
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His friends see me, they see this.
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With like doves.
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Can you imagine if every time you walked into a room that happened?
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He's here.
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Ladies, imagine if your partner could do that for you.
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It's your anniversary, a celebration,
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some magical moment, or you're just laying there and you're drunk.
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And you're just like, what are you going to do to me?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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One extra dove.
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And by the way, guys,
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if you're ever able to pull off the doves,
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just leave it at that.
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Don't try to top the doves.
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It's very hard to top the doves.
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Don't start running your mouth and talking smack.
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You're like, she's laying there.
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And don't start, you know,
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you don't even know what's going to happen to you.
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You don't even understand.
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You're going to get it.
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Don't do that.
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Because ladies, all you have to do is look at him and go, ah.
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It's on a different meaning.
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Now, I heard a woo.
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Do we have people in the house from the UK?
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All right, let me tell the rest of the people about you.
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I love it whenever people from the UK come here to the United States because when we hear you speak,
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you sound incredible.
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You sound amazing.
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You sound educated.
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You sound inspirational.
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That accent is so proper.
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It is so proper.
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It doesn't matter what you're talking about.
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We're drawn to whatever it is.
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You could be talking about trash.
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It sounds amazing.
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Who could leave all this rubbish here?
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This is such a travesty.
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This is all this destruction here all over the sidewalk.
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Someone must tend to this at once.
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This is ridiculous.
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People are listening in.
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I don't know what happened over there,
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but the shit hit the fan.
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That guy from England is pissed.
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I don't know.
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What the hell is rubbish?
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See it's very different now
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when one of us goes over there Man it's very very different
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because see we don't sound the same as them as a
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matter of fact as Americans we we have a certain way
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with the English language Do you understand how we sound to them?
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I mean seriously, do you know how you know how they look at us when they hear us speak?
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We sound like this to them I'll tell you right now the other day I was hanging out with Phil right?
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That son bitch come over the house.
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We had ourselves a good old time.
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Who's that me and Phil?
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And by the way, if you sound like that here tonight, I'm just kidding.
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There's just jokes.
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Don't feel like just, you know,
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I'm going to wait for his ass outside.
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I see how funny he is when he gets to the parking lot.
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Fluffing my ass.
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I just think it's funny that no matter what they talk about over there,
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they sound the same.
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It sounds the same.
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You know, whereas with us Americans,
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we speak according to our environment.
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We change it up.
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We morph, we adapt.
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We all have our, for example,
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we all have our trying to get a good job voice.
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When you walk in for that interview,
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you don't sound the way you sound on a Saturday night when you're having a couple of drinks.
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No, you clean it up you practice in the car and
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when you walk in you turn it on
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if you'll check my references you'll see him more than qualified
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for this position please feel free to call Frank Torres Frank
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will tell you the amazing job I did for him two
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and a half weeks ago listen I'm ready to work seven
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days a week 365 days a year no job is too
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big no task is too small you can count on me
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I'm the right person for the job please keep me in Thank you so much for your time.
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And then you get to the parking lot.
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And then you get to the parking lot, and you're like, whew.
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Hijo a la chingada, ojala que me de trabajo porque no. No,
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ta cabron, wey, man.
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No, I need a job, man.
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I need a job.
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Whoo.
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You guys know we all have our daytime voice
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that we have around our family and our friends and our children, you know?
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And then we have our late-night voice,
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you know, our party voice.
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GIGAR!
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And then
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if you're lucky enough you have your late late late night voice destroy You don't even know what's about to happen
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Look at some of you're looking at me like oh my god fluffy's a freak I'm just giving an example
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All the kids are like oh this is different Sorry cuz I see those kids and they're just like Uhhh!
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Dad's like, pinchy fluffy.
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No, no, no, no. Bad fluffy, bad fluffy, bad fluffy.
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But see now, over there,
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they sound the same no matter what they're doing.
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When they apply for a job.
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If you'll check my references,
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you will see I'm more than qualified for this position.
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When they party.
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If you'll pour me the wine, I will drink it.
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It is brilliant, I tell you.
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When they're making love.
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I'm going to part your legs like the Red Sea.
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Oh, I'm going to defile you in such an amazing fashion.
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You will rule the day you came across me at that local pub.
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I'm going to lower my drawbridge and introduce you to the Queen, yes I shall.
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And when you arrive at that magical moment,
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I want you to scream victory.
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Victory!
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My job is done here.
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The only messed up part about that joke is that that's the only joke the kids remember That's a bad segue No,
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there's no horse at this hotel.
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Listen I
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Would like to personally thank the promoters for not only making this special happen But for taking really good care of us.
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They put us at a hotel that's right across the street you guys
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and you know You know you're in a good hotel when you get inside of the elevator and it talks
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It's one of those, you know First floor Second floor Third floor I'm like man,
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she sounds hot Fourth floor Fifth floor Oh yeah
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Martin asked me how far are you going up?
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I said all the way
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I gotta see how this ends you know what I'm saying well sometimes we don't have a permit okay so
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but it doesn't mean the food is not good for me to know
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that I'm gonna have a good experience at a taco truck I always researched
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and I look to see who's running the truck for me to know
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that I'm gonna have a good time I want to make sure that it's an all-female crew not to sound sexist
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It's just that when it's all women running the truck,
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they make me feel good about myself.
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They make me feel special.
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When I walk up at 1 o'clock in the morning and I have a buzz,
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they make me feel good.
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Hello!
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They come to the window.
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Hola, mi gordito, como estas?
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Como estas, gordito chuleto, este gordito?
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Como luto?
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A ver, a ver, ojitos, ojitos.
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Ojitos.
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I feel like a kid.
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I'm like, can I have a taco?
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Whatever you want me to do, I'll give you.
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Now see, when it's an all-Mexican male crew running the truck, it's late.
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They're tired.
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They're bitter.
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Customer service isn't our strongest point at 1 o'clock in the morning.
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And then you gotta deal with a drunk knucklehead like me.
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Hello?
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And they come to the window.
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What you want?
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What you want?
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Hey, what's up, bro?
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Can I have a taco?
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Okay, what else?
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Let's sit.
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That's not even a word.
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But you know exactly what he just told you.
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For some reason, Mexican people and only Mexican people have this sound that comes out of us
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that can just discredit anything you put in front of it.
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It doesn't matter what it is.
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We can kill it with that sound.
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I just graduated from college, top of my class.
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Ah!
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Well, fine, I'll work at Burger King.
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Papi, this is my fiancΓ©.
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He loves...
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What is it you want me to try?
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And they said, well, they sell a thing here at Portillo's called a chocolate cake.
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I said you had me at chocolate.
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They said, well, you got to go to the special window and you got to order it from the lady.
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So I'm like, okay, cool.
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So I get up and I walk over to the lady and she's like,
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can I help you?
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I say, yes.
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My friends are telling me that I need to try this thing called a chocolate cake shake.
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Okay, what size would you like?
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How good is it?
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You want a large.
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All right, can I please have a large chocolate cake shake?
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No problem.
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And I pay.
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And she turns around.
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She turns around and she walks over to this little refrigerator that's on the counter.
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And she opens it up and she pulls out a piece of chocolate cake.
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And I'm thinking to myself,
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she must misunderstood what I said.
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I didn't ask for a piece of chocolate cake.
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I asked for a chocolate cake shake.
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she must have heard what I was thinking because she's walking by and she's like it's gonna happen
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she walks over to the blender she takes the freaking lid off
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and she just looks at me and does this and I was like no And she's like, oh yeah.
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She pours it and she hands me this like 44 ounce chocolate shake,
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which is way more than anybody should be drinking.
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The straw was so thick you could almost fit your thumb in it, okay?
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So I grabbed the shake and I begin to attempt to drink it.
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So I'm just...
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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And I can see the shake coming up.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Context & Background
In this humorous segment from Gabriel Iglesias' stand-up comedy performance, he engages in a lighthearted conversation about college aspirations while playfully discussing the concept of child exchange programs. Iglesias' comedic style combines personal anecdotes with cultural observations, making his material relatable and engaging for a wide audience. His use of humor, combined with insightful commentary on societal norms, showcases the intricacies of American life and family dynamics.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- βWhat do you want to do with your life?β - A great opening question to understand someoneβs ambitions.
- βWeβll make it happen.β - A supportive phrase indicating willingness to help or facilitate someone's dreams.
- βThis is your room.β - A statement that emphasizes ownership and comfort, often used when welcoming someone.
- βI will pay for your entire college education.β - An impactful commitment to support someoneβs education, showing generosity.
- βEnjoy!β - A simple, friendly way to convey goodwill and cheerfulness.
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