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The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

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Melissa and Nick Are Getting a Divorce

I don't think Melissa and Nick like each other. Well, I remember Chris Rock's comedy special before his last comedy special. He was talking about something about marriage and goes, all right, now go in there and make this bitch happy. And maybe she is so wise that she would think that's funny to some degree. But no, that's a, like, I don't know if he knows this or not, but he's getting a divorce. Because you can't want like, can you say things like that? Sure. It kind of presumes she wanted it to be over. And then, perversely, is like, oh, you want him? Okay, now

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