Dan Soder: Son of a Gary (2019) – Full Transcript
I'm a dumb person. I've learned you're not allowed to call yourself dumb on the Internet without a stranger arguing with you. That's how fucking broken the Internet is. If you go online, you're like, "I'm an idiot!" Someone you've never met will be like, "Don't say that."
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