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Hey! Hey. Hey, I want to. Hey. Hi. I, you know, fuck up. Hey. Hey. Hey, everybody. It's your best friend Sarah Silverman coming to you from the Invisible Studios in WeHo.

And I, you know, I jotted this down to say something about it, but I don't know if I have a like full, complete thought, really.

But I just, how do I get people to stop taking up so much space, exhaustingly apologizing for their very existence and qualifying what they're about to say.

It takes like three minutes of like, I mean, who am I?

But I mean, don't listen to me, but I'm a piece of shit, but here's, I have an opinion, but I don't want to say it because I, I mean,

you know it better. I don't know. I, you know, it's like fucking exhausting, like,

reassure someone to have to like ad nauseum, du laus someone into what they are looking to say to you. Just fucking say it. You're a human being with worth and you're taking up more

of my time on this earth apologizing for your very existence and it's exhausting. Here's an adjacent

thought to that, a stepbrother to this thought, if you will. How do we stop people from thinking that saying what they don't

want is what they want out of some bizarre notion of politeness? I'm trying to think of an example.

It's like, should we drive there or should we walk? I mean, my knee's been bothering me. Oh,

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