Jeremy Goodwin

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	Season 2 / Episode 22: - Quo Vadimus Dana Whitaker: Isaac doesn't trust that when he tells me something, I can be cool. He thinks it's gonna spread around and the information'll get all twisted and I'm going to show him he's wrong. Isaac Jaffe: Three, two, one... Jeremy Goodwin: Isaac, I don't know if you heard. Six this morning there was a bid from an Italian airline called Platypus. Isaac Jaffe: Yeah. Keep it under your hat, would you?
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - La Forza Del Destino Natalie Hurley: Jeremy, one day you'll see that my love for you isn't the product of liquor-induced mood swings and that I'm yours for the taking at your command. And that the day I broke up with your was the most regrettable day of my life. Jeremy Goodwin: Okay. But I broke up with you. Natalie Hurley: I find you loathsome, and my hatred of you knows no bounds. Jeremy Goodwin: Okay.
	Season 2 / Episode 20: - Bells And A Siren Dan Rydell: The high-water mark was when I was mistaken for a Backstreet Boy. Is there a Backstreet Boy I look like? Jeremy Goodwin: Yeah. Dan Rydell: Which one? Jeremy Goodwin: That... guy.
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Draft Day: Part II - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian Jeremy Goodwin: Fire me. Isaac: What? Jeremy Goodwin: Fire me. Do it now. Isaac: Why? Jeremy Goodwin: I'm a bad worker. Isaac: No you're not. Jeremy Goodwin: I come late. I leave early. Isaac: You come early and you stay late. You come in on your days off. Jeremy Goodwin: And isn't that a little weird? Isaac: Oh, yeah. Jeremy Goodwin: Well then that's enough, Isaac. Fire me!
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Draft Day: Part II - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian Jeremy Goodwin: How can it be raining at Indian Wells? Isaac: Maybe it's the rainy season. Jeremy Goodwin: [patiently] Indian Wells is a desert, Isaac. If deserts had a rainy season they'd be called something else. Isaac: Fair point.
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Draft Day: Part II - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian Isaac: I'm not firing you. Jeremy Goodwin: I say things behind your back. Isaac: No you don't. Jeremy Goodwin: It's behind your back, Isaac. There's no way you'd know. Isaac: It'd get back to me. Jeremy Goodwin: No these things are too terrible and I can't live with the guilt. I'll save you the trouble of firing me and simply offer my resignation. Isaac: I won't except it. Jeremy Goodwin: You have to except it. Isaac: You have a contract. Jeremy Goodwin: Then fire me. Isaac: No! Jeremy Goodwin: I'm a racist. Isaac: Really? Jeremy Goodwin: Yeah! I'm a terrible racist. But I've been in the closet all these years and I've decided I need to live an honest life. And I think all those people with the different skin colors and the funny accents should go back where they came from and leave America to the white people who killed the Indians in the first place, which they deserved. Isaac: Jeremy... Jeremy Goodwin: The whole country's being taken over by the blacks and the Jews. Isaac: You're Jewish! Jeremy Goodwin: Well, I've gotta be stopped, Isaac!
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Draft Day: Part II - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian Jeremy Goodwin: If not now, when? If not me, then who? Casey McCall: Later, and somebody else?
	Season 2 / Episode 17: - Draft Day: Part I - It Can't Rain at Indian Wells Jeremy Goodwin: It cannot, it MUST not rain at Indian Wells.
	Season 2 / Episode 17: - Draft Day: Part I - It Can't Rain at Indian Wells Natalie Hurley: I broke up with you there, Mr. "Obviously has a short-term memory loss with a myriad of other problems which I won't even go into but thinks that he broke up with me because of the short-term memory loss which is so obvious". Jeremy Goodwin: No need to be formal. I've seen you naked. Call me Jeremy.
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - The Local Weather Jenny: You can't stand in the rain without an umbrella? Jeremy Goodwin: Yes, Jenny, I learned when I was young that if I do that I'll get wet. Jenny: And I learned when I was young if I get wet I'll dry off. I learned not to be troubled by water falling from the sky. I learned that when I was young that things that frightened me might not be so frightening after all. That possibly the only reason I was frightened was because I was young. Jeremy Goodwin: It was nice knowng you, Jenny.
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - The Cut Man Cometh Chuck 'The Cut Man' Kimmel: I'm right here at ringside at Bally's, where the breakfast buffet is $3.95, the slots are loose, and the showgirls are Fantastic! Dana Whitaker: Oh, my God. Jeremy Goodwin: No, I've been there. It's true.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - A Girl Named Pixley Isaac Jaffe: Where's Casey? Jeremy Goodwin: Ah, out with a girl named Pixley. Isaac Jaffe: Casey's out with Pixley? Jeremy Goodwin: Yes. Isaac Jaffe: You suppose the two of them could be any more white? Jeremy Goodwin: No, I don't imagine they could.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - A Girl Named Pixley Jeremy Goodwin: I was wondering, as someone who's been nominated for many of these things and lost most of the time, how you felt on the question of preparing a speech in advance? Isaac Jaffe: I won the Pulitzer Prize, Jeremy. Jeremy Goodwin: Oh, it's a real honor, sir. Isaac Jaffe: No, I meant it's one of the many objects in the room that I could grab and shove up - . Jeremy Goodwin: Got it.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - A Girl Named Pixley Isaac Jaffe: Jeremy. Jeremy Goodwin: Yes, sir? Isaac Jaffe: You know what sucks? Jeremy Goodwin: Losing an award? Isaac Jaffe: I was gonna say not being able to dance with your wife. Jeremy Goodwin: Yeah, I was gonna say that too, sir.
	Season 2 / Episode 6: - Shane Jeremy Goodwin: This is too much. Casey, throw him a rope. Dana Whitaker: Don't throw him a rope, Casey. Shane McArnold: And you guys speak, like what, fourteen different languages, or something? Casey McCall: But still, you gotta be excited about playing at the stadium, huh? Dana Whitaker: He threw him a rope. Shane McArnold: Not really. Jeremy Goodwin: And he's wrapping it around his neck.
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - Kafelnikov Dana Whitaker: Jeremy? Jeremy. Jeremy Goodwin: It's gonna be okay. Dana Whitaker: Is ALL the power out? Jeremy Goodwin: What do you mean? Dana Whitaker: Is all the POWER out? Jeremy Goodwin: No, of course not. Dana Whitaker: What'd we lose? Jeremy Goodwin: We lost the control room. Dana Whitaker: Yes. Jeremy Goodwin: And the studio. Dana Whitaker: Okay. Jeremy Goodwin: The newsroom and the offices, editing, graphics, engineering, sound. Dana Whitaker: Is anything working? Jeremy Goodwin: No. Dana Whitaker: I thought you said we didn't lose all power. Jeremy Goodwin: I thought you meant in the whole city.
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - Kafelnikov Dana Whitaker: Jeremy... I'm honestly sorry. Jeremy Goodwin: There's no point in assigning blame. Elliott: What happened? Jeremy Goodwin: It was Dana's fault!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Louise Revisited Natalie Hurley: Hello. Jeremy Goodwin: AHHH! Natalie Hurley: Why'd you scream? Jeremy Goodwin: I meant to say hi. Natalie Hurley: What happened? Jeremy Goodwin: I misspoke.
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Special Powers Natalie: Men always think they can cover up their, you know, with this other thing. But women always know. Jeremy Goodwin: No they don't. And do you know why? Because women don't have special powers. Let's dispense with that theory right now. They don't have intuition, they don't have a sixth sense.
	Season 1 / Episode 23: - What Kind of Day Has it Been Jeremy Goodwin: A writer once wrote, "As if it matters how a man falls down. When the fall is all that's left it matters very much." What did he mean by that? Don't abandon blowouts.
	Season 1 / Episode 23: - What Kind of Day Has it Been Jeremy Goodwin: Whatever happened to the ninth inning rally? Dana Whitaker: Yeah, and why don't we use semi-colons anymore?
	Season 1 / Episode 23: - What Kind of Day Has it Been Dana Whitaker: We have a name for people like you back home in Cedar Rapids. It's called sourpuss. Jeremy Goodwin: Mm, we have a name for people like you back home in Boston it's called... Jeremy Goodwin: Ow. Ow. Pain. Pain. Pain.
	Season 1 / Episode 22: - Napoleon's Battle Plan Dana Whitaker: What do you think about film? Jeremy Goodwin: Oh, I'd definitely use some. I think you'll see a real difference.
	Season 1 / Episode 21: - Ten Wickets Jeremy Goodwin: Halfway around the world, a lone man has accomplished an extraordinary athletic feat. Dan Rydell: What? Jeremy Goodwin: I don't know.
	Season 1 / Episode 21: - Ten Wickets Jeremy Goodwin: Raj Rajhan edged a humble snorter to the slips, where Saurav Ganguly dived to his right to pick up a low snatch.
	Season 1 / Episode 21: - Ten Wickets Natalie Hurley: I didn't wanna tell you before you went on the air. Dan Rydell: Didn't stop Rebecca. Jeremy Goodwin: That was my fault. Dan Rydell: Then you are my sworn enemy!
	Season 1 / Episode 20: - Ordnance Tactics Casey McCall: Do you know what a bomb looks like? Jeremy Goodwin: Actually, I don't. Casey McCall: Does anyone? Chris? Chris: No. Casey McCall: Will? Will: No. Casey McCall: Dave? Dave: No. Casey McCall: But we're bettin' a German Shepherd can pick one out.
	Season 1 / Episode 20: - Ordnance Tactics Jeremy Goodwin: [Announcing to the staff] Natalie and I have broken up. Jeremy Goodwin: We have! Natalie Hurley: In his head. Jeremy Goodwin: I put it in writing. Natalie Hurley: That's sweet. Jeremy Goodwin: Alright, just so you know, if I wanted to, right now, I could ask out other women. Natalie Hurley: No. Jeremy Goodwin: I could. Natalie Hurley: No. Jeremy Goodwin: Dana, would you like to go out with me? Dana Whitaker: I can't. Jeremy Goodwin: Why not? Dana Whitaker: You're seeing Natalie. Jeremy Goodwin: [shouting] That's it! I'm calling the police!
	Season 1 / Episode 19: - Eli's Coming Jeremy Goodwin: Maybe he stopped off. Dana Whitaker: Where? Jeremy Goodwin: For a pretzel. Dana Whitaker: I'm serious. He was supposed to be ... Jeremy Goodwin: Well, he has been in Europe for 2 weeks. He hasn't had a decent pretzel. Maybe he stopped off and that was the cause for the delay. Dana Whitaker: And how long does it take to buy a pretzel? Jeremy Goodwin: Well, you've punctured a hole in my theory. Natalie Hurley: Also, Bobbi isn't here yet. Jeremy Goodwin: She called from the car. Dana Whitaker: And? Jeremy Goodwin: Stopped off for a pretzel.
	Season 1 / Episode 19: - Eli's Coming Dana Whitaker: What's the rule on when do you call the police? Jeremy Goodwin: Well, at my house it was 15 minutes after school let out.

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