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S-Town - Chapter II

One of my first phone conversations with John before we'd met, I asked him if he thought

it was possible that maybe Capron Burr hadn't killed anybody.

If it was possible that the murder he'd contacted me about was actually just a rumor, a fiction.

No John said, there was little down his mind that it was true.

And then by wave explanation, he launched into this parable.

Let me tell you something I saw one time.

I should admit that at the time this story was completely lost on me.

Man Roger Price had worked with the truck stop together to get a little dinner.

We came back by, it was passing by the South 40 trailer park.

So Roger's one of these dudes he's a darn transmission mechanic.

He's not really talking to him, he's a good dude, but he just, you know, he only has one tooth.

And it's really amusing to see how he can balance a cigarette on that one tooth.

The whole time he's talking, it's cigarette, it's just bouncing around all over that one tooth.

So we're coming by, this is welcome to South 40 Cent.

And there's this girl out there walking around in front of the damn side holding a cell phone

and she's got own a pink top and nothing else.

No fucking panties, no goddamn socks, barefoot.

I probably said, my God, look at her or something like that.

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0:00.0	Chapter 2
0:02.0	One of my first phone conversations with John before we'd met, I asked him if he thought
0:06.9	it was possible that maybe Capron Burr hadn't killed anybody.
0:09.9	If it was possible that the murder he'd contacted me about was actually just a rumor, a fiction.
0:15.5	No John said, there was little down his mind that it was true.
0:19.4	And then by wave explanation, he launched into this parable.
0:22.4	Let me tell you something I saw one time.
0:25.3	I should admit that at the time this story was completely lost on me.
0:28.6	Man Roger Price had worked with the truck stop together to get a little dinner.
0:32.4	We came back by, it was passing by the South 40 trailer park.
0:36.8	So Roger's one of these dudes he's a darn transmission mechanic.
0:41.0	He's not really talking to him, he's a good dude, but he just, you know, he only has one tooth.
0:45.2	And it's really amusing to see how he can balance a cigarette on that one tooth.
0:48.4	The whole time he's talking, it's cigarette, it's just bouncing around all over that one tooth.
0:53.4	And he never loses that son of a bitch.
0:56.2	So we're coming by, this is welcome to South 40 Cent.
0:59.0	And there's this girl out there walking around in front of the damn side holding a cell phone
1:04.2	and she's got own a pink top and nothing else.
1:08.0	No fucking panties, no goddamn socks, barefoot.
1:14.0	And I remarked that to Roger.
1:16.2	I remember what I said.
1:17.6	I probably said, my God, look at her or something like that.
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