Jeff: I could go to New York if I wanted to, but what's the point? So I can learn how to order a capuccino? So I can get mugged by some crackhead? So I can see homeless people up close and personal?

Sooze: So what do you want to do?

Jeff: Nothing.

Sooze: No one does nothing, Jeff!

Jeff: Okay, well, then I'm going to break new ground.

Sooze: New ground?!

Jeff: Mm-hmm.

Sooze: Taking one community college course on the history of Nicaragua while barely holding a job packing boxes?

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