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Taylor? Taylor?

Taylor? Taylor?

Taylor? Taylor?

I can keep going on and on.

They don't hear us. Seriously.

So tell me about the dyke.

The greyhounds have reached the

starting box for this afternoon's first race.

They are ready to go

over the 550-yard course.

What's your line again, Burt?

Insurance.

Like life insurance?

Sometimes.

But it's mostly

insurance futures.

It's pretty cool, actually.

Similar to how an individual or

a family might get insurance,

insurance companies

need insurance themselves.

It's sort of this hedge against...

Goddamn.

Of course it would come to this.

Yeah. What?

They made us afraid

of everything.

Insurance for insurance,

for insurance.

This country is just such a...

Ladies and gentlemen,

it is now race time.

Well, anyway,

if this country is sh*t,

everyone else is just

the flies on our sh*t.

Am I right?

And away they go and to the inside.

157 powers out to the front,

followed by the...

Go! Go!

...now on the inside turn...

Pick it up, pal!

Pick it up!

Hey, Lowell!

I used to have nice tits, right?

Verona doesn't seem to remember,

I don't think.

I had nice jugs, right?

They sucked me dry.

I don't even need a bra.

Now I just tuck them into my socks.

You ready for that, Burt?

They'll look like

an old man's nut sack.

They even grow hair on them.

A hairy old man's nut sack.

In Some Time and Queen Anne...

In Some Time!

Queen Anne is second.

Look at them go!

Pathetic.

So, Burt, you excited about all this?

Yeah.

This might be the best

one I've ever seen.

No, the baby, dummy.

Does this mean you guys

will finally get married?

They're not married?

I told you that.

Burt wants to, Verona doesn't

see the point.

Insurance, for one. If anyone,

you should understand that, Bart.

Anyone ever call you Bart?

It'd be kind of funny.

We didn't have insurance

when Ashley was born.

Well, we thought we did, and then

we didn't. And then I couldn't get it.

Pre-existing condition.

I'm crazy!

Look, whatever.

I don't know. I...

I guess I just never gave that much

thought to "marriage" marriage.

Well, at the very least, it'll keep you from

taking off in the middle of the night

when there's trouble.

I almost left Lowell about a dozen times.

Kids don't know that.

And then you start thinking about

the wedding and all that money...

$46,000 for ours.

It was worth maybe

$31,000, $31,500.

I hope you guys move here.

We're having a hell of a time breaking

into the social world here.

Really?

It seems very cliquish.

I don't know what it is.

We didn't get into the good golf club.

There's no water left, anyway.

The drought's coming.

Like the biblical flood, but in reverse.

The golf course will be the first to go.

Then the fountains.

All the water fountains.

The restaurants.

Basic services.

Large mammals.

Then regular-size mammals.

Reptiles. Birds.

Then people.

You done?

Thanks for treating.

This was wonderful.

I so hope you move down here.

This is the place for you guys.

It's so obvious.

Don't listen

to anyone else.

And I'm sorry I said anything

about the marriage stuff.

No!

No, you guys do

what you need to do.

Your baby won't care.

Kids are resilient.

And they're genetically

predetermined anyway.

They're screwed up

out of the womb. So what?

They'll have cell phones,

they'll be fine. Okay.

It was so great

to see you.

Bye, honey.

Bye.

Bye.

Okay.

Lowell!

You don't agree

with them, do you?

No.

About what?

That thing they said earlier, about

how you can't make a good family.

Everything's destined for failure.

No, I don't.

You know that I don't

agree, Burt. I just...

I really hate that attitude, you know?

"Everything's already broken,

"so why don't we just keep on

breaking it again and again?"

Hey, did you... Did you hear

what Lily said about her b*obs?

Did you know Lily

when she had her b*obs?

Man, she was huge.

Really?

Enormous.

But as long as the baby's

healthy, right?

You awake?

You're my light, Verona.

My sky.

I can't wait

to see you as a mom.

Her little hand in yours.

And your smile on her face.

What?

What are we gonna do?

What?

What are we gonna do?

How do you mean?

No one's in love

like us, right?

It's so weird.

What are we gonna do?

I think we just

gotta ride it out.

Hey, listen, I need you to

concentrate for a second, okay?

Okay.

My sister's been dating

this guy named Rob, who seems nice,

but she thinks he's boring.

He likes going to steakhouses,

that kind of thing.

Good afternoon, madam.

Hi.

Wait, is that a good thing or

a bad thing, steakhouses?

Bad. Anyway...

Like an Outback Steakhouse?

I'm not sure.

Ruth's Chris Steakhouse?

I honestly don't know.

But we need to make

him seem cool.

She loves you, Burt. She'll value

your endorsement of this guy.

I got it.

And don't look at her b*obs.

No, I'm over it.

I was better last time.

Yeah, but she's bigger now.

She went on the pill

and she's been complaining about

getting new bras and everything.

Wait a minute.

Why don't you go on the pill?

Huh! Let me think.

Beckett, what is that?

That's a fern.

That's right, this is a fern.

What's that?

That's a cactus.

That's a cactus, that's right.

And what is the plural

of cactus, huh?

Cacti.

That's right!

What is that?

Baby.

That's right, that's a baby.

This lady is about to have a baby?

Any day now.

Or in 3 months.

Thank you.

Beckett. Hey, tell the nice lady

what you know about babies.

No. Go on, tell the

nice people what...

Beckett, you're being rude.

Babies like to breathe,

and they're good at hiding it.

I put a pillow over a baby.

I thought she wasn't

breathing, but she was.

She was sneaky,

but I'll try again.

Okay.

Holy sh*t, you're actually showing!

I know!

I love that dress!

Look what you did to my sister, Burt.

So, you want to get a drink here

or go out? Do you need to eat?

We don't want to go out there.

Not right now.

No, it's like an oven.

Yeah, it's pretty hot.

No, no, I mean,

literally, like an oven.

Like if you were in an oven,

that's what it would be like.

It's almost like

God's trying to melt us

all down and make

something better.

Wow, Burt.

That is so stoney.

Well, it's just the Bible.

QED.

if I liked music.

Like music is something

people don't like?

You know, he posed the question like

it was some great conversation-starter.

"Grace, do you like music?"

It was painful.

I don't know, I wish somebody would

ask me that sometime, you know?

'Cause that's a probing sort

of intelligence, I think.

Really?

Yeah.

I mean, he doesn't assume the obvious.

He's a lawyer, right?

A tax attorney.

Tax attorney, that's what I mean.

So he's gotta be smart,

he's gotta be wily.

He drives a cabriolet.

A cabriolet, that's good design.

Good mileage.

He uses the word "robust."

That's because a lot

of things are robust.

He took me

to Long John Silver's.

I thought you said

it was a steakhouse.

When I told him I didn't want

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