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So I guess we've got to talk about the Irish men in the room.

That was your big intro you were so excited about?

All right, so I feel like you probably weren't a big Seinfeld watcher. Is that correct? Is that fair to say?

It is fair to say because I've told you that. Okay, so anyway there's a Seinfeld episode where

there's a doctor and Jerry Elaine and George go up to their

friends Beach House and the doctor is this dashing young guy that Elaine is

interested in and he calls her breathtaking and Elaine gets all a flutter because she's

excited because this handsome doctor calls her breathtaking and then he looks at the

friend's baby and George and Elaine and Jerry have already said,

this is the ugliest baby they've ever seen.

And he looks at the baby and he says,

the baby is breathtaking.

So he Lane realizes, okay, there's no way that this guy is using breathtaking

in the right way.

He's just throwing it out to everyone.

And that's the way I feel about you using the word masterpiece

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