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Speaker 1: Since my best friend is a domestic terrorists, radical activists,

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Speaker 1: Getting her to admit what she's up to shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: Perhaps I'm being naive, but I think I can stop

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Speaker 1: Is there something I can help you with? Really? She

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Speaker 1: your name Bobbins. Interesting? Interesting? Is that a nickname? So? Like,

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Speaker 1: There's literally dog feces on the ground, peeling paint, hardly

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Speaker 1: Why is Rebecca living like this? Her family is very

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Speaker 1: much middle class and she's a Berkeley graduate. Not to

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Speaker 1: Let's take off. Let me introduce you everybody else. Throw

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Speaker 1: in the living room people. This is Savannah's sister, Beulah, Beulah.

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Speaker 1: This is Jompall and Kenya more urban hillbillies. Why are

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Speaker 1: My family's originally from Louisiana. It's kind of a southern name.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Make yourself at home. By the way, have

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Speaker 1: you seen anywhere you like? Should I sit on the mattress? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: squatting you? I'd have to argue that no persons a squatter,

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Speaker 1: since housing is literally a human right. Let me rephrase that,

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Speaker 1: The owner is just a slum lord. You don't seem

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Speaker 1: that's where people go and to feel like they're not

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Speaker 1: That's not really just you seem supertense. I'm fine, thank you, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that ship went down with that girl and her pants? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: That was me. Damn. That's so fucking sad. I see

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Speaker 1: they're like huge in San Francisco, but it's hilloo Kian ship,

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Speaker 1: know hold down here is broken, but you can use

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Speaker 1: the one Rebecca's room. Where is that upstairs? Firs store

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Speaker 1: wonder Savannah was all fucked up. Rebecca's friends are certified crazy.

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Speaker 1: But there's just no way these people are involved in

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Speaker 1: What's this hold on? I've seen this cup before, a

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Speaker 1: She got it from a spy shop for Fisherman's War,

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Speaker 1: your friend gave it to me as again, she argued,

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Speaker 1: my god, Belah. You should see the look on your

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Speaker 1: that I know what you're doing? What am I doing?

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Speaker 1: You never left the FBI. In fact, we know you're

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Speaker 1: probably part of some cointel pro operation, like the same

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Speaker 1: scumbags who loved at my uncle. You ought to know

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Speaker 1: up tactics. I know how this looks, Rebecca. I left

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Speaker 1: once in your life, as if you leave your dream

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Speaker 1: I mean yes, that's exactly what I'm doing, Savannah. Is

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Speaker 1: now we're getting somewhere. What do I have to hide? Poppy?

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Speaker 1: That place is creepy and weird. Why they're because it's

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Speaker 1: where you're going to be reborn. The days following Shaunta's

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