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Speaker 1: Yeah you can give those give those idiots what they deserve. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't get a car. You don't get a car.

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Speaker 2: So you don't get a car, anti Oprah. This is

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Speaker 2: a hot topic in my family at the moment. I

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Speaker 2: Tellia's opiece has it that I appeared on a few

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Speaker 2: that's right. I thought of a believable lie. Before where

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Speaker 2: I entered the show, we had to list five things

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Speaker 2: my family are split into two camps. Some people think

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Speaker 1: I want to know what you guys think of the

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Speaker 1: And you have ever lied? But John, what do you think?

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Speaker 1: Or I like it because because here's here's what I'm

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Speaker 2: I accidentally became Jewish for ten years. What an accident?

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Speaker 1: You know, you just slip and then all of a

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Speaker 2: Tip of your penis and hey, you're Jewish. Hey how's

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Speaker 2: a boutasleta. Several years ago, after a bad breakup, I

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Speaker 1: For no cost, free bacon, free bacon, Let's no baby,

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Speaker 1: And then I quipped, ah, free bacon, the classic Jewish dilemma.

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Speaker 1: Matthew's expression immediately changed, and Derek said that I shouldn't

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Speaker 2: Derek continues to tell everyone that we meet that I'm Jewish,

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Speaker 1: Am literally just like I can feel that the pa,

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Speaker 2: It feels like a Seinfeld episode, Like George Costanzo would

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Speaker 2: so there is an update. Contrary to a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: Oh, it would be so dishonest, like so dishonest to.

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Speaker 2: Tell them, and then you need to write an update

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