Interviewer: But back to the Norah Jones incident. What happened to you?

Ted: I got off easy that time. I told my supervisor I had confiscated the Norah Jones album from a family member, and just hadn’t got around to burning it yet. So it didn’t even get written up on my permanent record. But I should have learned my lesson.

And I did, for a while. But a few years later, I made a bigger mistake…

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