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OK.

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Let me read you a
couple of things.

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Since I was real,
real young I was

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interested in how words came
around and what they meant.

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And one day, I got out of
school and across the road,

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there was a barracks.

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They called it Parish Home,
and they were giving away

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frijoles with ham hocks,
cause [INAUDIBLE] eat beans,

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you know.

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And I didn't know what
the hell was going on.

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And so when I got home,
my grandfather, I guess,

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was leaving, and
my grandmother said

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that he was going to go
vote, iba a ir a votar.

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And I thought, what
the hell is votar?

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What does it mean?

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And so I came up with this
one, and yeah how things--

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politicians are
very nice when it

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comes to election day,
when it comes to crossing

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the other side of town.

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"One day, there's all
the frijoles and ham hock

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you can eat across from school
at the salvaged barracks called

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the Parish Home.

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When you get home, you
tell your grandparents,

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but only grandpa is interested.

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Grandma explains
this is election day.

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When grandpa returns a few hours
later, smelling of whiskey,

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they argue.

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Democracy has come
to our side of town."

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I guess I was about a
sophomore, and, yeah,

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there was one word I
could never understand.

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I just couldn't put
anything of it together,

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and the word was mariguilos,
which is used in New Mexico--

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probably not anymore
because nobody uses them.

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We'll see why.

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"I'm a sophomore, and
if asking a girl out

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is difficult, then buying a
packet of mariguilos is worse.

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A thousand times more
difficult than the theorems

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in plane geometry
problems I solved

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by reading poetry from the
back of the classroom."

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Hey, I used that
in another poem.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I'm prolific.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"I daydream a lot and though
I'm not fully aware of it,

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I'm am enthralled by language.

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One day, I'm walking
home with F-F-F-Freddie,

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who later gets his girlfriend
pregnant and drops out

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of school, and we're talking
about girls and getting them

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into the backseat,
and naturally,

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mariguilos entered
the conversation.

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Such an odd word, I think to
myself, so I ask F-F-Freddie,

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maybe he knows.

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He's much more
worldly than I am.

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He buys beer with a fake
ID, he's got a girlfriend,

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and gets to drive
his dad's jeep.

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F-F-Freddie says it's
f-f-from the old days,

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when the p-p-pachucos
used to buy r-r-rubbers

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with a playful brand label,
M-Merry Widows, which

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came to be called meddy
weedows, and then mariguilos."

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[LAUGHTER]

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