Bob Saggett's 'Tight Five'

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i urge all our listeners to watch it. It's so good, and i think so. Here's a moment at the end when he stops doing the stick, ye, and he just says some really nice things about bob saggott. Yeh. And you can see bob sagott like about to cry, eh. Because if norm goes out of his way to say something that nice and sincere then it means a lot. Even norm looks like he's choking a little bit, a choking up alitle bit. There is this beautiful tension between the odd absurdest sincerity in which he's telling, giving these zingers, and then his switch to just being absolutely, a hundred

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