You could tie me up with _________. (At 1:16 into the video)
What did Jimmy say in the blank?
I think he may just say "You could tie me up with the thing". He hesitates very slightly before "thing" (if indeed that is what he says), as if he is trying to think of the correct word. org/wiki/Lasso_of_Truth .
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I think he may just say "You could tie me up with the thing". He hesitates very slightly before "thing" (if indeed that is what he says), as if he is trying to think of the correct word. I don't know anything about the topic they are talking about, but from a quick search, it seems possible that "the thing" may refer to this:
"Reading his lips," it sounds like he was trying to form his lips for the term he couldn't come up with in the fraction of a second allowed a talk show host - lariat, bolero... - and he discards all of them in an instant, and simply says the generic, "string."