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1.37sIt's insulting to the reader.
1.07sWhat do you mean?
1.27sWell, it's just bad storytelling.
1.5sLet's see. How can I explain this to you?
1.47sDid you ever see the movie Contact?
1.63sYeah.
2.6sSo, like, they spent a trillion dollars building this mile-high space machine,
1.83sand Jake Busey blows it up.
2.97sSo now they're all like, "Oh, no! We can't use the space machine."
7.87sBut then this other guy's like, "Hey, it just so happens "I built another identical trillion-dollar space machine "at my own expense on the other side of the world."
2.7sAnd we're supposed to believe no one noticed that?
2.7sWell, I stood up in the theater, and I said, "No!
6.44s"You can't go into space because the machine "already got blown up by Jake-cockadoody-Busey."
1.67s- Start over!
- Fine.
2.7sBut you're gonna have to go into town and get me some more paper. I'm all out.
3.07sI don't know, Paul. Let me see if I can get the Big Wheel started.
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3s(IMITATING ENGINE TURNING OVER) I don't know, Paul. It's not starting.
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1.6sI'm afraid I'm gonna flood it.
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4.77s(IMITATING ENGINE STARTING) Okay, I got it now. I'll see you in a bit.