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Feb 2011
21m 18s

The Tahitian Take-Out

John Hodgman and Maximum Fun
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A friends' night out at a Polynesian restaurant, several Scorpion bowls and an abandoned bag of takeout are involved in this accusation of impropriety and substandard hygiene. 
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