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Dave Barry: uncertainty

16 Aug 2017 Conversations with Tyler Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man

“Oh, we eventually do arrest people usually, but sometimes it’s the police officers doing these things. [laughter] No, I don’t know .”

— Dave Barry

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Dave Barry
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uncertainty
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16 Aug 2017
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Conversations with Tyler

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…And the law enforcement is different. But they caught this man biting the dog. They caught the man who kicked the dog through the parking garage, so it’s tough on law enforcement? Oh, we eventually do arrest people usually, but sometimes it’s the police officers doing these things. [laughter] No, I don’t know . . . It’s a state where every day is 1,000 more people than there were the day before. So there’s a lot of people that just showed up ready, looking for something in the heat and the humidity, with the bugs and the lizards and the booze, and it’s just this toxic stew of weird, is what it is. I was thinking, what to me is special about Florida? And one thing that struck me, asking some others as well, is how many wonderful or at least interesting movies are set there. So a simple list would be Body Heat, Spring Breakers . . .…

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