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Thanks.

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OK, well, it's
time to sing again.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So this is my tribute
to Tina Turner.

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So I don't know if you remember
the video for "What's Love Got

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to Do With It?" from the
'80s, but there's a moment

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in the video where she just
kind of flicks her hair aside.

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And I've always thought, god,
why didn't they just take that

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out in the cutting room floor.

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I mean, there's
nothing wrong with it.

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It just kind of like,
just didn't really

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kind of fit the video.

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But they left it in.

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And I always thought
about that video.

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And probably on one of
these writing challenges,

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when I was just sort of
open to whatever I said,

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well, I'm going to
write about this.

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It's so random.

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I love thinking
about how the mind--

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we're always creating memories.

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We can write about anything.

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And this is what I
chose to write about,

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this particular moment.

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So "What's Love
Got to Do With It?"

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And when Tina sings

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(SINGING) I've been
taking on a new direction

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Directly to camera, defiant,

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Her lips glazed
a tumultuous red,

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She takes her hand and adjusts
her honey brown bangs out

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of her eyes,

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Then continues singing
about her own protection.

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That MTV moment:

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Tina in a denim jacket
and leather skirt,

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Her million dollar legs
in black-seamed hose,

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Wearing "fuck Ike, this
is my video" heels.

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A long way from
Nutbush city limits.

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Indelible on my
15-year-old psyche

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When I had no idea what love
had to do with anything.

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But I understood it
was work, even painful,

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Watching my parents
argue and stay together;

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Years later, arguing with my
ex and not staying together.

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It's only now, in my half life,

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I can speak of that
sweeping gesture:

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How the imperfectness
of this moment

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stayed with me all those years,

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Not a gaffe or a faux pas
for the cutting room floor,

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But a woman in full command
of her power, flaws and all.

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Tina's hand gliding like
the phases of the moon.

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That love could be second hand

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Given to pleasure,

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The rough music that
remains after the light

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passes through us.

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Because (SINGING) who needs a
heart when a heart can be broken

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[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE] Thank you.

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OK, so now I expect Tyler to
lead us in karaoke after this.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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There you go.