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Typically, we dance around a topic and usually we begin right at the anus.

I always found the Land of Make-Believe to be very scary.

The garbanzos are invading!

I just never leave a review, because the only thing that would make me want to leave a review is I am so mad right now at this vendor or whatever, and then you just get a world where everyone has just five-star reviews and one-star reviews.

Governments should ignore their loudest citizens.

J: I have been to North Dakota many times. K: You’ve seen all the highlights. All zero of the highlights.

There can’t be that many Togolese women in the dating apps in Pyongyang.

K: You can’t start a self-reliant Marxist state here in Burien, Washington, for example. J: Not a Marxist state, but you certainly could have a Marxist book club.

It would be like us being kidnapped to Alberta and forced to do game shows and indie rock respectively.

I don't come from a culture that gives babies Tabasco sauce.

How do we demonstrate our humanity and make it so that no AI could possibly generate generate our level of wit and banter?

I spend that much just on cigarettes every day. 60 bucks on cigarettes. I don't even smoke them anymore, I just throw them in the toilet.

I don’t need to clean out my browser results after every Omnibus, do I?

I, for sure, have told her that if she ever calls me “bro” again, she’s going to sit on a hard chair facing a corner for at least an hour.

She thinks that the show is about you and I‘m the color commentator.

Maybe you were just not racist enough to know this urban legend.

If Mount Rainier built a 95 foot tower, it'd be taller than Mount Whitney and then California could stuff it.

I have salary and net worth and I don't have wife.

I think what ruined it was probably Americans.

K: The earth is an oblate spheroid. It's flat around the poles and bulges at the equator. J: You’re an oblate spheroid. K: I kind of am actually, as I age into my fifties. I bulge at the equator for sure.

We're nerds. And the nerdiness expresses itself in different ways. Like, I'm going to go down the stairs instead of the elevator like all the snorks.

Here cometh another song. Here cometh an antique one. Seeth if thou knowest it.

J: One time they asked me to go out into the forest and hide with my acoustic guitar. K: Until the festival was over.

Oh, you've got an oppressive caste system? We can work with that.

You were supposed to pretend to be cooking with a stick. You're not supposed to speak French.

Look, a lot of things didn't start as a racist project.

Even the bad-intentioned people weren't like, “I'm a bad-intentioned people.”

I want to be over here in this corner doing my brick wall and you can make your own creative decisions over there.

Ethical behavior is impossible altogether under current capitalism — and I feel like we can use that fatalism to absolve us of all responsibility.

Maybe I should try giving my daughter a seal pup, but I think it would be frowned upon in my current neighborhood.

It's not my fault this is what the universe is made out of. Look, molybdenum was not my idea.

J: And I think starting at a certain point, and again, 18th century. K: And maybe ending at a certain point, like right now.

This show has been translated into Chinese, then Polish, then back to English.

K: It's fair dinkum. J: It is fair dinkum.

Gen X has always been worse than everybody. That's our calling card.

We’re in the suburbs. Any time is a scary time — it could be someone with a leaf blower, or a neighbor with a vengeance.

It’s possible that there may have been a serrated knife involved in the negotiations.

That’s how you know you’ve got a good priest: when he says the immortal phrase, “And I’ll be your business manager.”

Everybody was Comic Sans fighting.

There's no law saying a dog can't play basketball.

You're planning on an analog apocalypse.

I missed all the orgies, but I got all the galleries.

And of course, the Louvre being the center of French culture, this theft is immediately discovered 28 hours later.

We basically are 60 French detectives in an overcoat.

I would have done whatever it took. I mean, up to, but not including getting a job.

Spread your elephant wings and fly.

You don't want your politician to be genuine, and you don't want your leather to be genuine.

From just watching billionaires in the wild online, I've come to realize not every problem can be solved with money — and this is the realization that is driving these men mad.

I have a belt made out of gold doubloons and I have this jacket that's been drawn on with white Sharpie.

I don't think anybody buys a pair of Uggs and thinks they're going to battle the Romans in them for 20 years.