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1:04:00
I could sure use some.
1:04:02
Where would you put it?
1:04:03
Oh, no problem. We rotate the stock.
1:04:05
Out with the old. In with the new.
1:04:07
Look, this one here. It's my pride.
1:04:10
It's been on four years, two months.
1:04:13
The rest of them, I just kind of keep them going.
1:04:17
I'm kind of working up a harmonious relationship with them, an equilibrium.
1:04:21
- Have a seat? - Sure.
1:04:24
Uh, Pop-Tart? There's red ones. Blue ones over there.
1:04:27
Oh, no. No, thanks.
1:04:31
So, uh, what is this...
1:04:33
some kind of psychic TV-type parallelism?
1:04:38
Well, we all know the psychic powers of the televised image...
1:04:43
But we need to capitalize on it...
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and make it work for us instead of us working for it.
1:04:51
- Like how? - Well, like, to me, my thing is...
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a video image is much more powerful and useful...
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than an actual event.
1:05:02
Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out...
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I was walking down the street and...
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this guy came barrelling out of a bar...
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fell right in front of me and he had a knife right in his back...
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landed right on the ground.
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And -
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I have no reference to it now. I can't refer back to it.
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I can't press rewind. I can't put it on pause.
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I can't put it on slo-mo and see all the little details.
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And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood.
1:05:30
The hue was off and I couldn't adjust the hue.
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I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right.
1:05:36
And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part.
1:05:41
- Too bad. - Yeah.
1:05:43
Well, I got something to show you. I just got this new tape...
1:05:47
through some contacts of mine.
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It's by this grad student over in the history department.
1:05:54
Did you hear about him? He took his whole thesis committee hostage.
1:05:58
- No. - Yes, it's true. It's unbelievable.

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