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One of the funner things
that we do here in Pawnee
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is the annual easter egg hunt.
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Tom hides the eggs,
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and I have to say,
he did an exceptional job this year.
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I've been searching for 25 min,
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and I haven't found one.
And I'm an adult.
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Yeah, I forgot to do that.
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Maybe Tom's trying to make this year
a challenge. And if so, he's succeeding.
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I don't think an egg
has been found yet.
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Let's keep looking.
We're gonna find one.
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- Feygnasse Team -
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Synchro: mpm, So.
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Épisode 101
Canvassing
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I'm going to see my mom.
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She's a big mucky-muck
in the county school system.
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She's my hero.
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How do I explain her?
She's...
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as respected as mother Teresa,
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she's as powerful as Stalin,
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and she's as beautiful
as Margaret Thatcher.
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- In or out, Leslie. Doorway is creepy.
- Right, sorry.
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Choosing in.
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So, what do you want, Leslie?
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Just here to gossip, gab, chat.
Stuff we do.
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But it looks like you're super-busy.
And I am super-busy,
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so I shall bid you adieu.
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That's weird.
I just remembered something.
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I have my own subcommittee now.
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I'm sure you've heard something.
People are talking.
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We're having a town hall meeting
tomorrow at 7:00 p.m.
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At the Smithfield community center.
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Yeah, I'm leading it.
It's no biggy.
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I mean, it is.
It's a big deal...
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I don't know, I mean, you know...
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Wanna come?
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Honey, jeez, you know how busy am.
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I know. I know.
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That's why I fake-invited you.
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I'll try to be there.
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Okay, so everybody's here.
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Let's get started.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
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- Metal. Sorry.
- It was really loud.
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Subcommittee members,
are we prepared for tomorrow night?
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- Have you booked the hall yet?
- Yes, sir.
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- Ann, did you clear your schedule?
- I did. I changed my shift.
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Leslie, I just have to say
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I think you might be taking this
to the public a little bit too soon.
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It doesn't matter
what you propose to the public,
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they might call for a vote.
If they vote you down, then you're done.
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I don't care if there's gonna be a vote.
I have a secret weapon.
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Canvassing.
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Nothing better than good old-fashioned
door-to-door campaigning.
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I'm not above using my expertise
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to change hearts and minds
if the cause is just.
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When I was in sixth grade,
I was voted best dressed by 87 votes.
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And there were only 63 people
in my class.
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Andy fell into that pit.
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I fell into that pit.
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How many more Pawnee citizens
have to fall into that pit
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before we turn it to park?
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Zero.
Say it.
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- Zero.
- A hundred.
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I've got some sunscreen
for your beaks.
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Tom, you probably won't need any.
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And this is our canvassing guide.
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This is gonna be the script that we use
when we speak with people.
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"If a person is a man,
turn to page two."
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"If the person looks like a celebrity...
Example: Jack Nicholson...
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"Use this to help your pitch.
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"Example: You can't handle the pit.
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"That's why we need
to turn it into a park."
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This is really thorough.
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Ann and I are a team. You too.
We have even sectors.
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You have odd sectors.
And we're gonna win.
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Win what?
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Go!
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Someone's in there.
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- That's gonna be fun. Excited?
- Yeah.
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- Ready? Are you pumped up?
- Yes.
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Look humble.
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But confident.
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Good afternoon. We are representatives
from your local government.
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May we speak with you
about the Sullivan street pit?
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Sure.
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Excellent.
Positive response.
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How would you feel if we turned that pit
into a beautiful community park?
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Yeah, that would be a great idea.
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Good, I live in the neighborhood,
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so I could probably tell you
a little bit about...
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Section three.
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We are having a public forum
tomorrow night.
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And that would be great
if you could come
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voice your strong support.
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Tomorrow? I can't.
I'm busy. Sorry.
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We understand that people are busy,
but we would love for you to come to...
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Sorry. Good luck, though.
I'm all for a park.
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- Would it change if we told you that...
- She's gone.
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Yeah, a park.
That sounds like a really good idea.
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Great. Would you be willing to come
to a town meeting and show your support?
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Absolutely.
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Now, is this park gonna have
a playground or a pool for the kids?
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How old are your kids?
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No kids.
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- I'm gonna put him down as a yes.
- Don't.
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Also is the park gonna be at least
a thousand feet from my house?
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Because, yeah,
I really can't move again.
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April, please stand behind me.
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That's it.
That's all that we got.
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- No flier?
- Nope.
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Man, this is great.
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This is so great. I love canvassing.
What a great way to spend my time.
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All right, team Haverford,
you guys are awesome,
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but I think I might work better
as a solo artist,
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so I'm gonna head out, peace.
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- He runs weird.
- He really does.
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It's a good idea.
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But I'm just not sure.
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Okay, which part
are you not sure about?
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Turning the pit into a park.
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That's kind of the whole thing.
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I think this is a great idea,
but I can't make any forum.
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- I would have to get a babysitter.
- How old are your kids?
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Four and two.
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Could the four-year-old
watch the two-year-old?
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Mickey!
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What's up, buddy?
How's my number one sod man doing?
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Here's the 1, 2, 3 of the situation.
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One: we're building a new park.
Two: I'm on the committee.
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Three: you're putting in the sod.
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Maybe down the line, situation'll arise
where you could hook me up.
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Are you gonna commit to coming
to this forum or are you a bitch?
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Yes, you do owe me.
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Okay, keep going.
Keep moving.
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Nose to the grindstone.
No means yes.
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Can we stop, please?
Because it's really hot and I'm tired.
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Yeah, I'm hot too.
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Let's blow in each other's faces.
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- Or we could drink some water.
- Let's do that.
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My house is really close by.
Let's go take a break for an hour or so.
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Look, I didn't want it to have
to come to this, but, Ann,
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please open the sealed envelope
that's in your binder.
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This is a little something
I learned from Karl Rove.
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If you want to guarantee
the results of a survey,
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you design the question to give you
the answer that you want.
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"Wouldn't you rather have a park
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"than a storage facility
for nuclear waste?"
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That seems iffy.
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- Don't worry. I made it all up.
- Yeah, that's what I mean.
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Wouldn't you agree,
like most decent Americans,
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that it would be a good idea to turn
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the abandoned lot on Sullivan street
into a beautiful community park?
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Actually, no.
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I'm not really a fan of parks.
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Very noisy.
Barbecue smell all the time.
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Would you change your mind
if I told you
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that nine out of ten meth users
said the same exact thing?
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What?
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How would you even know that?
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Survey.
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We surveyed crystal meth users.
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We're actually having a little
town meeting tomorrow night
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- if you wanted to...
- I know it sounds weird,
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but I just don't like
living near parks.
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So do you have a flier or something?
I'd be happy to take it.
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You don't care about your kids
if you don't support it.
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Excuse me?
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It's... what I mean is,
kids love parks
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- and you should too.
- If I don't support your project,
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then I don't love my daughter?
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- I didn't...
- What time is this thing anyway?
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- It's next month. Forget it.
- It's tomorrow night. I'll be there.
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Great.
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Okay, come on.
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We got one.
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Am I talking to the two sexiest thighs
in landscaping?
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Yes, I am, 'cause I'm talking to Marcy.
How's it going? Tom Haverford.
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Kevin, your sandboxes are the best.
That's why I want you involved.
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I want the best monkey bars in my park.
I don't mind hooking you up.
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Maybe down the line, there will be
a situation where you can hook me up.
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Thank you for your time, sir.
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He said some upsetting things.
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I can't believe you gave him
your home phone number.
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Well, I'm a public servant.
I need to be accessible.
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What the hell is wrong with people?
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I should show them
Andy's medical bills.
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- Maybe they'd have a little sympathy.
- Oh, my God.
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Ann, game changer.
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- You busted the game wide open.
- How?
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We need Andy.
He's our symbol.
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We'll wheel him around
the neighborhood to get sympathy.
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He's a cute FDR.
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- Ron, You got minute.
- Sure, Paul. What can I do for you?
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Sullivan street park project,
you fast-tracked it, right?
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Yeah, absolutely.
We have a public forum tomorrow.
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Okay, great.
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- I'll be there.
- Great.
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"You fast-tracked that, right?"
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I'm sorry.
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Did you say something?
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You didn't say anything to me?
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There's a new wind blowing
in government, and I don't like it.
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All of a sudden, there's all
this federal money coming in,
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and Paul, the city manager,
is telling us to build parks,
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start new community programs.
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It's horrifying.
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- Do you have like a nurse's costume?
- Costume? Like scrubs?
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Yeah, put those on.
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Bass, come on!
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- It can be tricky...
- Don't.
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Why do I want
to build this park so bad?
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Maybe because
a pit filled with garbage
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isn't the best we can do in America.
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You know, in Russia...
they could pretend that pit was a park.
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Bring their kids down there.
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"Hey, Vlad!
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"Look at these rocks.
Let's pretend they're potatoes.
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"Nikolai,
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"do you want to swim in the dirt?"
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But not here.
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'Cause we're a nation of dreamers.
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And it is my dream
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to build a park...
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that I one day visit with
my White House staff on my birthday.
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And they say, "President Knope...
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"this park is awesome.
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"Now we understand why you are the first
female president of the United States."
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Builder of parks.
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- How was canvassing?
- Canvassing was... okay.
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But... I think we're going to have
to postpone the town meeting.
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Postpone?
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Only for 1 to 90 days.
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No, you're doing this meeting.
You have my full support.
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I was talking to the city manager,
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exchanging ideas.
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There's a mutual
respect there. And...
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together, we have decided
to fast-track your project.
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City manager?
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Really?
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I have to cancel this meeting.
Fast-track?
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Did my nane come up at all?
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- This meeting needs to be canceled.
- No, it's happening.
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Look, just...
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Just do a good job tomorrow.
We have to push this thing through.
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Of course.
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I'll push anything through anything.
You know me.
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- Are you sweating through your suit?
- I doubt it.
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It's a very breathable fabr...
Yeah, I am.
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Jerry, what's up, man?
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You're into pretzels, right?
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Hit 'em up. Thanks for coming down.
I got a seat for you over there.
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My top priority:
getting your fences in there.
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I drove your fences the other day.
I was, "that fence looks awesome".
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"Of course, Roy's."
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If you're into chocolate muffins,
grab all you want.
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Some people may say that bringing
in these contractors this early
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is jumping the gun.
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Well, guess what?
Here's the gun. Here's me.
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Victor Miles,
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Tom Haverford. How are you?
Thank you so much for coming down.
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I want to introduce you to Leslie.
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He's a gentleman I met canvassing.
He also happens to be the top sod guy
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- in Indiana.
- That's terrific.
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I really want you to nail this.
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Don from Don's Cement,
Tom Haverford. Good to see you.
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Thinking of a jingle
for your company. How's this?
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Don's Cement,
is the best you can get
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Don's.
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- I'm so glad you're here.
- Andy came too to give support.
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- I have a lot of stage experience...
- This will be fine, right?
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It's a park, for God's sakes.
How much can they hate a park?
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A lot of them seemed
to hate a park yesterday.
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April, I need you in the audience.
Wait. And...
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If the questions
start getting negative,
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I need you to sell the crap out
of the park. Can you do that?
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Please, this is serious.
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Can you do that?
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- Probably.
- Good girl.
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Good probably. Good girl.
Here we go. Line up, everybody.
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My mom's here.
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I can't do that.
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That's illegal.
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Thank you so much for coming out
tonight. This is our first town meeting
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about the proposal to turn
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lot 48 on Sullivan Street
into a community park.
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This is gonna be a train wreck.
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I want my daughter to be successful.
Which is why I always tell her,
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"there's nothing wrong
with being a wife and mother".
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Now, there are many people
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that I spoke to who are passionately
in support of this idea.
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None of them were able
to make it tonight, unfortunately.
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But...
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they totally exist.
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I did not make them up.
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I see a question.
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- No questions.
- My name is Kate Speevack.
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- I remember you.
- And I live in the neighborhood.
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And I am 100%
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against this park.
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I cannot believe the department
is moving forward with a project
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without a single
environmental impact study.
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And if you guys agree with me,
let's take a stand!
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We are a little ahead of schedule
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because we're holding
this town hall meeting so soon.
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Which I was warned about
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by Mark Brendanawicz, our city planner
assigned to this project.
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So, what would he say?
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Here we are.
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Should I give them
some background info on the site?
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Absolutely.
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Mark Brendanawicz knows
the answer to every question.
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He's amazing, and congratulations
for hearing him speak.
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Hi, there. Leslie might have
oversold me a little bit.
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Certainly did not. He's the man.
He's capable of anything.
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Lot 48 is...
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It's a rectangular lot.
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It's got excellent drainage, and it's
on the corner of Sullivan and Collins.
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Any questions?
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I have more of a comment
than a question.
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- Go for it.
- It's for the guy in the cast.
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Here we go.
Lawrence.
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That is Andy Dwyer.
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He is a local resident,
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and he tragicay fell in the pit.
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Yeah, I don't care
about any of that.
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He's the guy that plays music all night
in his garage. It's driving me nuts.
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Lawrence lives with...
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his grandma.
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Which is pretty awesome.
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He takes care of her, I guess.
But whatever. He's a douche bag.
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It's loud. It's abusive.
And it's waking up my birds.
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You have birds now?
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Yeah, I have birds.
I have nice,
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pretty, expensive birds. And you play
that music, and it wakes them up.
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00:16:25,484 --> 00:16:27,658
Look, I don't work
for the government.
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I do play rock & roll.
Guilty as charged.
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I'm in a band.
It's called Just The Tip.
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And, actually, if anyone here
plays bass, we need a bassist.
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Let's take a five-minute break,
shall we?
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It is not...
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going well at all.
It's going very poorly.
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- Like you're crashing and burning.
- Democracy's happening.
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People are talking. I mean,
at least they aren't apathetic, right?
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You're right about that.
They're deeply negative.
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You need to put a happy face on this,
give me a few positive talking points.
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And whatever you do, avoid a vote.
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I'm oddly attracted
to Kate Speevack.
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Before we continue, I'd love
to just give you a little history
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of Pawnee.
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The city of Pawnee
was incorporated in 1817
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when a young man by the name
of Reverend Luther Howell
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came from Terre Haute on an ox.
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He planted his flag in the ground
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and was met soon after
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by an angry tribe
of Wamapoke Indians,
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who, when seeing
the whiteness of his skin,
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twisted him to death.
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Flash forward to 1969.
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Man walks on the moon.
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Pawnee is lousy with hippies...
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My God, she's filibustering
her own meeting.
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Filibuster.
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They can't touch you
if you talk forever.
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I can't speak of the future.
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But I will.
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The future of Pawnee will involve us
flying around in space taxis,
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where we will communicate
on watches...
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and blink our feelings to each other
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rather than use words.
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And now I'd like to take
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a magical journey through...
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a little something I like to call
The Phantom Tollbooth
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- by Norton Juster.
- Excuse me, can't you read
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- that children's book on your own time?
- I have the floor.
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"There once was a boy named Milo
who didn't know what to do with himself.
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"Not just sometimes, but always..."
- You know what? This is a public forum,
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00:18:35,917 --> 00:18:38,534
which means that we all get
to tell you what we think.
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00:18:38,912 --> 00:18:41,112
Well, you did already talk, ma'am.
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And I would love to listen
to someone else, someone I don't know.
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That girl , long brown hair
and yellow top.
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Could you tell us
how you feel about this park?
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Go ahead.
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I'm a youth in the community,
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and I think a new park
is a great idea.
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And I fully support it,
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as would the rest of the youth
in the community.
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I recognize her.
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- That kid came to my door yesterday.
- Oh, my God.
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They have planted people
in this audience.
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Unbelievable.
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00:19:13,807 --> 00:19:17,489
We all agree that this park is
a bad idea. We should just take a vote.
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We will take a vote.
Before we do that,
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I want everyone up,
lined up behind that microphone.
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I want to hear from all of you,
one-by-one.
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That was brutal.
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A couple weeks ago, I was yelling
at Leslie at a public forum.
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God, I hope I wasn't as obnoxious
as those people.
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I wasn't, right?
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At 5:00 in the morning, every morning:
Beep... I don't want to hear that.
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How long is this project gonna take?
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That's what I wanna know,
what's important to me.
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- Because I need my sleep.
- Thank you, ma'am.
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That concludes our meeting.
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- What about the vote?
- We're out of time.
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It's 9:00.
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But we will have many public forums
in the future,
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and we hope to see you all there.
Thank you so much for coming.
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It was tough.
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00:20:12,086 --> 00:20:14,986
But, you know, that's Pawnee.
That's democracy.
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A lot of people here want this park. You
just gotta get past the negative people.
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But guess what?
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My subcommittee held its first
town hall meeting tonight.
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God, I loved it.
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I loved every minute of it.
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- Hey, park lady.
- Yeah?
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You suck.
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Hear that?
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He called me "park lady".
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Normally I don't agree with Leslie
about anything, but this book...
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is awesome.
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