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Episode Transcript

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Well, almost made it through thewhole school year. I got two you

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were really good this year got uh, you're a good father. Two more
events like an honors thing, andthen uh what they call elevation, which
is an eighth grade graduation. Thatmakes sense. But I'm on my last
concert last night, last night,doubleheader seventh eighth grade choir. It was
late. If I remember correct,I'll tell you thirty last Oh my gosh.

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So seventh graders sing, then seventhand eighth graders sing, then eighth
graders sing, and then the eighthgrade orchestra comes out and plays. So
Carter was in the orchestra, thechoir, chorus, and the orchestra.
So you saw her saying and thenyou spend you got to see her do
the thing. Okay, all right? So as it packed it was packed
house everyone, everyone, every dad. They're wearing his best short sleeve button

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down. I had mine on.Yes, I love it. Man.
That's so like we're down to thelast last song of the of the night,
five and a half minute peace.By the way, he did the
dust in the wind, did they? So the orchestra is playing and this
guy in front of him, you'dhad his phone up sporadically during the other

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performances. At the beginning of thefinal song, pulls it out. You're
an older general. I'm not surehe was a dad or he's a grandfather.
His driveway can Tara. So dude, he's got it up with two
hands right up above his head.I'm behind, I'm behind right and and
he's like, and it's a wideshot, so like, I don't even

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know what kid is his, soyou can see the shot I'm watching,
but he's not like, which kidis yours? What instrument are you?
Like? Has he taken any filmclass? And that's terrib hilarious. And
if he is only filming on awide shot, he's probably just the he's
probably just like you know, weekdaydad, or he's coughing, which is
gonna be on the mic, andhe's leaning forward. So now the wide

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shot is now a close up ofthe back of the woman's head he's sitting
behind. Then he's back to ithere and I'm watching it tick the five
minute mark, and I'm thinking tomyself, Vince, I'm watching the concert
through his phone, and I'm thinkingto myself, are you ever gonna watch
this again? This is you evergonna watch this steaming behind him, and

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he's he's just you know, buttondown shirt dad, and with the camera
in front of you. At aboutfive twenty into the performance, I leaned
into him. He's houlding up withtwo hands, fairy thing about you can
you get the phone? And hehigher and he brought it down in front
of his face. Film performance.Say when your daughter is having the musical

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crescendo of her eighth grade year,I gotta tell you it wasn't even I
didn't even. Of course I wantto see my child perform, but it
had nothing to do with that.It had to do with a year's worthing
of these Karen's and these men marriedto Karen's, holding their god to himself
and filming a six and seventh inthe eighth grade production that you're never gonna
watch him yet? Did you?Did you use that tone really quick?

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Did you use that there was alittle bark, a little bark. Did
the guy react in any way apologizethat the performance sece you feel bad?
When he apologized, I didn't saymuch. What I wanted to say.
It was, buddy, come on, are you gonna watch that again?
What's the last time you watch anythingof that length on your phone that you
filmed. He's, he's. Hemight be hearing this right now, don't

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you. Buddy. We call theshow because we want to know if you're
gonna watch five and a half minutesof all of them, all the kids,
graduation. Oh man, you don'tdo it. Oh my god,
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