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[Mr. Burns grunts]
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I'm just gonna attach this lapel mic, sir.
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[Mr. Burns groans]
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{\an8}So you want me to talk about
Persephone Odair. That's easy.
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{\an8}She was a brilliant entrepreneur
who wanted to save the world.
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{\an8}How I wish that was her only shortcoming.
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{\an8}My company, LifeBoat,
can take an ocean of salt water
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{\an8}and transform it into clean drinking water
cheaply and efficiently,
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{\an8}with a machine only the size
of a can of oats.
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{\an8}[audience gasps] Oats!
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{\an8}Now, the doubters
call this goal impossible.
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{\an8}But I prefer to say, "I'm possible."
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{\an8}[audience applauds]
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{\an8}[documentary music playing]
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{\an8}[narrator] This story's about
a little girl who had a dream.
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{\an8}But it begins with another little girl
who allowed us to use the footage
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{\an8}from when she interviewed the first little
girl who was no longer a little girl.
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I'm so excited to be interviewing
Persephone Odair, CEO of LifeBoat.
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{\an8}So, Persephone, you were the most
be-badged Girl Scout of all time,
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{\an8}and then followed in the footsteps of Bill
Gates by dropping out of Harvard early.
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{\an8}The earliest ever.
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Our car didn't even slow down
on freshman move-in day.
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So inspirational.
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What was the aha moment that gave you
the idea to start LifeBoat?
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{\an8}Great question.
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{\an8}And, Lisa, great questions are
the jackhammers
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{\an8}which demo the walls
built by disruptophobes
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{\an8}to create the open floor plan
of innovation.
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I've always thought that about questions.
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[Persephone] Lisa,
my grandfather was a World War II sailor
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whose ship was torpedoed.
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He was stranded on a lifeboat, Lisa.
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Surrounded by water,
but not a drop to drink.
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Don't tell me he died.
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{\an8}Worse. He gave up and then he died of
quitting and super-duper dehydration.
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{\an8}But I will never give up
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{\an8}until I've raised enough capital
to make LifeBoat a reality.
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{\an8}So if you know any billionaires...
[chuckles]
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{\an8}Well, the only one in our town
is Mr. Burns, and he's awful.
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{\an8}Once, he clear-cut a forest
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{\an8}because he thought
a squirrel was looking at him funny.
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[dramatic music plays]
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{\an8}Montgomery Burns. Mmm.
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{\an8}Interesting idea, Lisa.
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{\an8}No, I didn't say it to be an idea.
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{\an8}He's terrible.
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{\an8}Whatever you do, don't go to him.
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{\an8}[narrator] But the woman who once
tried to clone Sheryl Sandberg
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{\an8}for a school project
would not be deterred.
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Welcome to Orlando. Quick heads-up,
we may have to cut this panel short
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due to our third once-in-a-million-year
hurricane this season.
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- [wind whistling]
- Put this on my reel!
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Terrible luck.
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No fault of anyone's.
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Mr. Burns, climate change
has left the Earth in peril.
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{\an8}Who sent you? John Muir?
Friedrich Engels? Mike Doonesbury?
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I'm getting word that this hurricane is
meeting up with the Everglades super fire.
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Montgomery, I'm the founder
of a desalination company.
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Our world is running out of water,
and we need a hero to rescue us,
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and I believe that
that hero is your money.
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[wind whistling]
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{\an8}We sell chemicals
that could put out that fire.
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Granted, those chemicals
turn alligators into Godzillas.
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But we're working on a bomb
that can fix that.
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{\an8}Sorry, miss. Desalination is a snooze.
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But I do want in on the Godzilla bomb.
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[narrator] Persephone was not shy about
hounding Mr. Burns.
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And he wasn't shy about hounding her.
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Some fish just swim with the tide.
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I'm the kind of relentless fish
that falls down ten times
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before it runs up the mountain
on ocean shoes.
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[airplane approaching]
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[groans] Fine. You've got five minutes.
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Who are these goateed wastrels?
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A documentary crew.
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Only the most paradigm-shifting
start-up CEOs have them.
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Mr. Burns, I see your life
as a beautiful business opera
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and investing in LifeBoat
as the climactic aria
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{\an8}that will put you in the same pantheon
as Getty, Vanderbilt, the Spanx lady.
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Desalination is an expensive
and inefficient industry
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begging to be disrupted.
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Success is a decision.
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Dare to choose it, sir. Dare to.
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Of course.
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Like how I chose to be born rich.
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Together we can disrupt big salt water.
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You mean the ocean?
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Exactly.
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- Or should I say, excellent.
- Excellent.
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Not only am I pledging much of
my personal wealth to LifeBoat,
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but I'm giving the company Cooling Tower A
to use as its headquarters.
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{\an8}Cooling Tower A
was Mr. Burns's favorite tower.
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{\an8}He always said it held
so many precious memories.
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In addition, all workers in Sector 7-G
are immediately fired--
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Hey, that's me!
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Screw you, pig!
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And are rehired
at higher tech industry salaries.
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Bless you, pig!
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[narrator] Burns brought his wealthiest
friends into Persephone's fold.
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When I invest, I look at
the business's key fundamental:
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Am I under the delusion
that I have a shot with the CEO?
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[chuckling]
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[narrator] Burns and Persephone were soon
running the new company side by side,
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overseeing a start-up culture
where everyone had a creative title.
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Persephone Odair, Founder
and Status Quo Demolitionist.
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Montgomery Burns, Chief Change Alchemist.
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Waylon Smithers, Purposefulness Warlock.
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Carl Carlson, Brain Dump Magician.
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Lenny Leonard, Storytelling Ninja.
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Homer Simpson, "Competeticy" Rock Star.
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[producer] Competency.
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Say it again.
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{\an8}If anyone can transform Burns,
it's a visionary like Persephone.
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{\an8}Like, if you work at LifeBoat, you have to
use these metal drinking straws.
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It's so easy to clean after every use.
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[grunting]
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I'm just-- [groans]
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Why does it have to bend?
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Come-- [grunts]
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{\an8}♪ This is my fight song ♪
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♪ Take back my life song ♪
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♪ Prove I'm all right song ♪
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[Mr. Burns grunting]
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My fellow LifeBoaters!
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I'm so excited to have you
on this journey with me.
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Imagine a world
with an endless supply of drinkable water.
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A world where every hotel towel can be
used once and then dropped on the floor.
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Oh, there were a lot of changes.
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Unlike when this was a nuclear plant,
security's super tight now,
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and we have to sign stringent NDAs.
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And I am bad at keeping secrets.
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Like how I'm not supposed to talk about
Lenny's crush on his Italian tutor.
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Homer, ti ammazzo. [speaking Italian]
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{\an8}[narrator] LifeBoat was soaring,
but no one could have predicted
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{\an8}what shocking turn was in store
for the company.
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Um. Is this one of those documentaries
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where I'm not supposed
to look at the camera?
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Or is it like The Office,
where I always look at it
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and do a big take so the audience
knows when to laugh?
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"...in richness and wealth,
for richer and richer,"
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I now pronounce you husband and wife.
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[documentary music playing]
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I'm still pinching myself.
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I'm married to Montgomery Burns,
nuclear industry legend.
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Chief s'more toaster
at the Bohemian Grove.
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The first man with no blood type.
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What a joy to wake up in the morning,
turn my head on the pillow,
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and see her bedroom door through
the glass of my hyperbaric chamber.
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[narrator] Soon, Persephone and Burns were
the new It power couple.
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And the press couldn't get enough of
this May-last-minute-of-December romance.
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It's so refreshing to see a young person
with the world at her feet,
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who also sees the glory that is
Montgomery Burns.
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[swallows, grunts]
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[narrator] Now it was up to Persephone
to create a working prototype
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of her amazing desalination technology.
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{\an8}The water in front of you comes from
the functional prototype
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of the LifeBoat desalination machine.
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So, everyone, please raise a glass
to milestone this history-defining moment.
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- [murmuring]
- What's going on?
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- Hey--
- Oh, no, you can't drink it now. No.
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Our competitors could steal
the proprietary aquatech in your urine.
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[chuckling, chattering]
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And just in case any of
our patented evaporated mist
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made it into your bladders,
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we've arranged
to have you all catheterized.
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- [chattering]
- Ooh! Yeah!
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[catheter whirring]
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{\an8}So LifeBoat was just following
the tech industry playbook.
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{\an8}Fake it till you make it.
Or as I call it "lie-PO" until you IPO.
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{\an8}But the employees
were already dreaming of cashing out.
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Tech salaries are the greatest.
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This week I gave Marge 200 stock options
to go grocery shopping.
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It didn't work at all.
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I had to put all the food
back on the shelves.
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[narrator] Meanwhile, the newly-minted
tech workers were adapting to
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a much different corporate culture.
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At the new company,
people were so secretive,
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they actually moved the Post-it notes
with their passwords off their monitor.
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[Homer]
Workers were getting fired every day.
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That tattoo is the intellectual property
of the company.
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The whole company got so paranoid.
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Because of those NDAs he signed, Homer
couldn't even tell me how his day was.
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I can neither confirm
nor deny I had a day.
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Well, it was strange they wouldn't
let me look inside the machine,
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since my title was Chief Engineer
of Inside the Machine. [coughs]
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[Professor Frink]
Whenever a reporter came by,
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it seemed like they were trying to
cover something up.
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Well, still better than
working for Zuckerberg.
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They were hiding something,
and it was really freaking me out.
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So I emailed Persephone.
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And the next day, Carl was gone.
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[narrator] Despite the red flags flying
from this lifeboat,
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there continued to be believers.
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Persephone dominates my vision board.
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Sure, she married Mr. Burns,
but as CEO, a woman had all the power.
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That's what made
the Internet trolls so mad.
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[narrator]
All the online negativity stirred up
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the finger-tented anger
of a different kind of troll.
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Hmm.
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♪ This is my fight song ♪
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♪ Take back my life song ♪
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I wanted to give my wife--
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Wow. "Wife."
Still getting used to saying that.
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A little something special
for her birthday.
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A Twitter gift card?
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No. I bought you Twitter.
The whole company.
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It was a bargain.
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The previous owner had to sell it
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after his self-driving Mars rocket crashed
into the International Space Station.
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[Persephone moans]
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Mr. Burns, you deleted all negative tweets
about Persephone.
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Is that evidence
that you're in a kind of cult
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and won't hear any criticism
of your leader?
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Yes, I am in a cult.
It's called a marriage. [laughs]
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My wife is the head of it,
and my job is to support her.
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Now, maybe you're the cult leader
in your marriage, Andrew,
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but, uh, I know Pilar
and I suspect she'd disagree. [laughs]
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[both laugh]
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[narrator] But LifeBoat was rocked
by a fresh scandal,
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{\an8}when an anonymous whistleblower bravely
came forward with damning new information.
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{\an8}[low-pitched, distorted]
My best friend, Carl, was abducted
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{\an8}because he was about to go public with
a story that would destroy this company.
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{\an8}People need to know the truth.
The LifeBoat machine doesn't work.
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[narrator] The whistle was blown
and the damage was done.
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Ma'am, ma'am.
The whistleblower claims the only person
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who has seen the inside of
your desalination machine has disappeared.
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Isn't that suspicious?
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Why do you doubt a female CEO,
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but believe the silhouette
of a man sitting in the dark?
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News flash, women have faces now.
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[narrator] At this moment,
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allegations that
its core technology does not work
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are threatening LifeBoat's very survival.
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Is this the beginning of the end
for this once promising start-up?
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[narrator 2]
And the answer is, absolutely not.
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LifeBoat will save humanity and become
the world's most profitable company.
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Join us next time for LifeBoat Afloat:
Persephone's Total Vindication.
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{\an8}[Mr. Burns] This documentary series
is now a BurnsCo production.
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Montgomery Burns wasn't happy with
the documentary about his wife's start-up,
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so he bought the company that made it.
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But that didn't stop others
from telling the story,
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because the business
of business documentaries is big business.
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We've unearthed even more
never-before-seen footage of the Beatles.
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Including six hours
of them discussing drinking water.
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The thing about water,
you can't make tea without it.
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What if you made tea out of coffee?
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What if you made coffee out of tea?
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Uh, fellas,
maybe we should play some music.
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Why do they call it H2O?
I bet no reason at all.
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[glass shatters]
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[narrator] Just weeks ago,
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LifeBoat stopped payment
on their stadium-naming rights.
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Despite the glut
of LifeBoat documentaries,
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the definitive version was made
by a storyteller so compelling,
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he made 12 hours
on the national parks feel like 11.
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[ambient music playing]
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[Peter Coyote]
The mysterious whistleblower alleged that
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Persephone's desalination
machine was fraudulent.
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{\an8}[low-pitched, distorted]
The LifeBoat machine doesn't work.
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{\an8}[Peter Coyote] Unfortunately for him,
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{\an8}Mr. Burns's legal team
had acquired the raw footage
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{\an8}of the whistleblower's damning interview.
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{\an8}[low-pitched, distorted]
The machine doesn't work.
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{\an8}Hey! I ordered this sub toasted.
This is only lightly toasted.
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{\an8}[normal] Is this how you treat
a whistleblower? Uh-oh.
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[Peter Coyote] Mr. Burns and Persephone
now knew the identity
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of the man who betrayed them.
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And the hiring of lawyers
to destroy Homer Simpson
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proved to be quite the aphrodisiac.
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[no audible dialogue]
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[Mr. Burns, Persephone moaning]
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[Peter Coyote] LifeBoat lawyers were
relentless in trying to subpoena Homer...
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- [Homer screams]
- ...and sue him for breaking his NDA.
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[Lisa] My dad got an anonymous message
saying there was something he had to see,
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so I went with him.
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What I saw changed the one thing
I thought could never be changed,
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my mind.
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[gasps] Carl, you sent the message.
You've been working in the lab all along?
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If I didn't do their dirty work,
they'd tell the world my dark secret.
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I've been to 700 Jimmy Buffett concerts.
I'm a Parrot Head.
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"Cheeseburger in Paradise"!
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[Lisa] So, what are they making you do?
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I'm putting something in the LifeBoat
machines called Jab-a-tose.
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Well, if I may Frink-splain,
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{\an8}in 1970, a very popular diet soda
called Jab was discontinued
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{\an8}because of the overpowering sweetness
of its artificial flavor.
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{\an8}LifeBoat bought up thousands
of cases of unsold Jab sodas,
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{\an8}because Jab-a-tose was so strong, it could
completely mask the taste of salt.
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Oh, my God.
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This machine doesn't take out the salt.
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It masks it with sweetness.
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That's the Jab-a-tose.
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Ocean water enters the machine
and when it comes out, it tastes normal,
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but still has more salt
than all the glasses in Margaritaville.
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Oh, my God.
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LifeBoat is built on a lie,
and Persephone is a fraud!
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But her merch is... [sniffles] ...solid.
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[Peter Coyote] Action was needed,
and island time was running out.
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The fateful demo day had arrived
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for LifeBoat to finally prove its concept
at Springfield Elementary.
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The school's drinking water
had been replaced with LifeBoat liquid:
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Jab-a-tose-infused salt water.
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LifeBoat employees had drunk the Kool-Aid.
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And now it was being served up
to the children.
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- [crowd cheering]
- Mr. Burns! The LifeBoat water isn't safe.
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It's just super sweetened ocean brine!
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Nonsense. My wife is a beautiful genius
who succeeds at everything she touches,
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and everything she says
makes perfect sense.
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The wheel of tomorrow is an aqua circle.
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- Let's make it rain!
- [crowd cheers]
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Buddy, buddy, buddy.
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What you're feeling towards
that lady is fresh love, not married love.
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But we are married.
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Yes, but the married love
hasn't kicked in yet.
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When it does, you'll see your spouse's
flaws in 4K HD TV you can never turn off.
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What are you driving at?
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I think you need to look
at your wife with marriage eyes.
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Water is the original crypto.
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Every drop is encoded
on the biological blockchain,
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and we are the aquanauts
of the potable future.
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- This is Wet 3.0!
- [crowd cheers]
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I don't understand a thing
she's ever said.
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Now you're married.
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{\an8}And since you're seeing things clearly...
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Oh, dear.
Those children are going to drink poison,
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and the bad news is
I am going to be liable.
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Liable!
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[children groan]
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[people scream]
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[Peter Coyote]
That is what would have happened
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had Homer not turned the valve off.
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Sorry, we only put that
in there for the trailer.
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Do you know how hard it is to get people
to watch a documentary
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that's not about a small-town murder?
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Please, honey, come clean.
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Your miracle invention is nothing
but claptrap.
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If you can just admit that,
maybe we have a chance.
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Babe, the underlying imaginary technology
still works.
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[Peter Coyote] And in that moment, this
unlikely and super gross love affair died.
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Yes, I was besotted.
Blind to her machinations.
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She cost me billions.
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It wasn't that she was evil. I love evil.
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It's that she still insists she's good.
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[Peter Coyote]
LifeBoat had finally hit the reef,
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drowning its investors and employees
in poisoned water
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and counterparty risk lawsuits.
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{\an8}But to this day, Persephone has refused
to admit any failure.
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Testing showed your desalinator
did absolutely nothing,
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your company is bankrupt,
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and in the divorce, Mr. Burns
somehow got your high school friends.
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What happens from here?
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Well, Christiane Amanpour, as you say,
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things have never looked better
for the company.
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I didn't say that.
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The reality is, you're in jail.
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[gates close]
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Christiane, have I ever told you about
my grandfather's experience on a lifeboat?
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Even that was a lie.
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Her grandfather wasn't in the war,
and he didn't die on a lifeboat.
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He's a CPA whose hobby is fixing
British spellings on Wikipedia.
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[computer keys clacking]
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[sighs] Not only did I miss out
on once-in-a-lifetime start-up riches,
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but I lost the most amazing woman
I ever met.
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I think in a few more months,
she might have even slept with me.
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It's great to meet you in person
after seeing so much footage of you
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in our documentary,
The Man Who Sold Horse Meat Sandwiches.
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Anything else to add?
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Just this: Don't feel sorry for me.
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Time to rebuild and reconquer.
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If I know one thing about myself,
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Montgomery Burns always bounces back.
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♪ This is my fight song ♪
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♪ Take back my life song ♪
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[Mr. Burns sobbing]
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♪ Prove I'm all right song ♪
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♪ My power's turned on ♪
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- ♪ Starting right now I'll be strong ♪
- ♪ I'll be strong ♪
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♪ I'll play my fight song ♪
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{\an8}We also have over 90 hours
of them talking about umbrellas.
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{\an8}Maybe that could be a documentary too.
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{\an8}I once brought an umbrella
into the shower.
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{\an8}- How did you get clean?
- I didn't.
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{\an8}But at least I didn't have
to take off me clothes.
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{\an8}As soon as I open my umbrella,
it stops raining.
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{\an8}You need a sunroof on it.
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{\an8}What about a giant umbrella you keep
in the trunk?
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{\an8}Sounds like you're talking
about an umbrellaphant.
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{\an8}[groans] Can we get back to work?
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{\an8}Wait, I like the sound of that.
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{\an8}"Get Back."
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{\an8}I saw an umbrellaphant at the circus.
He was working for peanuts.
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Shh!