[He shifts a little uncomfortably, but yeah that's definitely a thing, huh?]
I don't - they're out there singing songs about it, it's awful. [Or...well, it's not, really. Michael doesn't want everyone else to feel as bad about the squid thing as he does. But he feels this horrible...secondhand embarrassment or something, like god, don't they know? If he weren't keeping the whole thing quiet, he might be trying to get them to be quiet, just so no hammers could come down on them.]
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[He shifts a little uncomfortably, but yeah that's definitely a thing, huh?]
I don't - they're out there singing songs about it, it's awful. [Or...well, it's not, really. Michael doesn't want everyone else to feel as bad about the squid thing as he does. But he feels this horrible...secondhand embarrassment or something, like god, don't they know? If he weren't keeping the whole thing quiet, he might be trying to get them to be quiet, just so no hammers could come down on them.]