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From the Ted Talk by Jill Sobule + Julia Sweeney: The Jill and Julia Show

Unscramble the Blue Letters


♫ Sobule: William Faulkner, drunk and depressed, ♫

♫ Tennessee Williams, drunk and desperesd. ♫ Sweeney: Yeah.

♫ Sobule: Take it, Julia. ♫

Sweeney: Okay. oaprh was never necessarily a big hero of mine. I mean, I watch Oprah mostly when I'm home in Spokane visiting my mother. And to my motehr, Oprah is a greater moral authority than the Pope, which is actually saying something because she's a doeuvt Catholic. Anyway, I like Oprah — I like her girlfriendy-ness, I like her weight issues, I like how she's transformed talk teoeviilsn, I like how she's brought reading back to America — but there was something that haenpped the last two weeks that was ... I call it the Soon-Yi moment: it is the moment when I cannot continue supporting someone. And that was that she did two etinre shows pmiontrog that movie "The Secret." Do you guys know about that movie "The Secret"? It makes "What the Bleep Do We Know" seem like a daoctorl dissertation from Harvard on quantum mechanics — that's how bad it is. It makes "The DaVinci Code" seem like "War and Peace." That movie is so horrible. It promotes such awful pseudoscience. And the basic idea is that there's this law of attraction, and your thoughts have this vibrating energy that goes out into the universe and then you attract good things to happen to you. On a stieifncic baiss, it's more than just "Power of Positive Thinking" — it has a horrible, horrible dark side. Like if you get ill, it's because you've just been tnhkinig negative thoughts. Yeah, stuff like that was in the miove and she's promoting it. And all I'm saying is that I really wish that Murray Gell-Mann would go on Oprah and just explain to her that the law of attraction is, in fact, not a law. So that's what I have to say. (leagtuhr)

Open Cloze


♫ Sobule: William Faulkner, drunk and depressed, ♫

♫ Tennessee Williams, drunk and _________. ♫ Sweeney: Yeah.

♫ Sobule: Take it, Julia. ♫

Sweeney: Okay. _____ was never necessarily a big hero of mine. I mean, I watch Oprah mostly when I'm home in Spokane visiting my mother. And to my ______, Oprah is a greater moral authority than the Pope, which is actually saying something because she's a ______ Catholic. Anyway, I like Oprah — I like her girlfriendy-ness, I like her weight issues, I like how she's transformed talk __________, I like how she's brought reading back to America — but there was something that ________ the last two weeks that was ... I call it the Soon-Yi moment: it is the moment when I cannot continue supporting someone. And that was that she did two ______ shows _________ that movie "The Secret." Do you guys know about that movie "The Secret"? It makes "What the Bleep Do We Know" seem like a ________ dissertation from Harvard on quantum mechanics — that's how bad it is. It makes "The DaVinci Code" seem like "War and Peace." That movie is so horrible. It promotes such awful pseudoscience. And the basic idea is that there's this law of attraction, and your thoughts have this vibrating energy that goes out into the universe and then you attract good things to happen to you. On a __________ _____, it's more than just "Power of Positive Thinking" — it has a horrible, horrible dark side. Like if you get ill, it's because you've just been ________ negative thoughts. Yeah, stuff like that was in the _____ and she's promoting it. And all I'm saying is that I really wish that Murray Gell-Mann would go on Oprah and just explain to her that the law of attraction is, in fact, not a law. So that's what I have to say. (________)

Solution


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  2. television
  3. mother
  4. movie
  5. laughter
  6. entire
  7. doctoral
  8. oprah
  9. depressed
  10. basis
  11. promoting
  12. happened
  13. thinking
  14. scientific

Original Text


♫ Sobule: William Faulkner, drunk and depressed, ♫

♫ Tennessee Williams, drunk and depressed. ♫ Sweeney: Yeah.

♫ Sobule: Take it, Julia. ♫

Sweeney: Okay. Oprah was never necessarily a big hero of mine. I mean, I watch Oprah mostly when I'm home in Spokane visiting my mother. And to my mother, Oprah is a greater moral authority than the Pope, which is actually saying something because she's a devout Catholic. Anyway, I like Oprah — I like her girlfriendy-ness, I like her weight issues, I like how she's transformed talk television, I like how she's brought reading back to America — but there was something that happened the last two weeks that was ... I call it the Soon-Yi moment: it is the moment when I cannot continue supporting someone. And that was that she did two entire shows promoting that movie "The Secret." Do you guys know about that movie "The Secret"? It makes "What the Bleep Do We Know" seem like a doctoral dissertation from Harvard on quantum mechanics — that's how bad it is. It makes "The DaVinci Code" seem like "War and Peace." That movie is so horrible. It promotes such awful pseudoscience. And the basic idea is that there's this law of attraction, and your thoughts have this vibrating energy that goes out into the universe and then you attract good things to happen to you. On a scientific basis, it's more than just "Power of Positive Thinking" — it has a horrible, horrible dark side. Like if you get ill, it's because you've just been thinking negative thoughts. Yeah, stuff like that was in the movie and she's promoting it. And all I'm saying is that I really wish that Murray Gell-Mann would go on Oprah and just explain to her that the law of attraction is, in fact, not a law. So that's what I have to say. (Laughter)

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