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WGTO-FM New York.

At 10 AM, it's 93 degrees, and it's only gonna go up.

Be warned, New York,

the hottest day of the year it is gonna be.

So stay cool and think hard of that ocean breeze,

'cause you're not gonna get any of that breeze.

What you're gonna get is hot, humid, and stormy.

Take heed, New Yorkers,

from a man who knows the condition,

the tempted condition of man and woman

under the tropical latitudes:

Mr. C.C. Adcock of Lafayette, Louisiana,

and his newly recorded song.

- Hi. - Hey.

Sorry, I should've called.

Equations, equations, equations.

I thought you did anthropology?

I do,huh?

I haven't seen you in a while, I guess.

21 months.

- My sister's graduation. - Right.

How are your parents?

Freaking out.

It's my SATs.

Heard you had a lot of girlfriends.

Who told you that?

My sister.

Can I tell you something?

Yeah.

I'm still a virgin.

That's...interesting.

No, it's not.

It's not at all.

I want to do it.

With you.

Well...

do you agree?

What do you think?

I think that you should be thinking about it a lot more.

I have. For years.

For years?

Do you know what they used to say in Babylon?

That it wasn't done for a man to reject a woman

who freely gave herself.

In Babylon?

Wasn't honorable.

And it was bad luck.

Okay, then, let's see.

Are you...

free on Saturday?

What about today?

Oh, uh, no.

Today's the perfect day.

What?

You think I don't mean it?

You think I couldn't find somebody else today?

I would.

I'm not scared, you know.

Wait a second.

Take one.

Tie it.

You're into Kabbalah, Julie?

- I'm not. - You're not?

No. I just--I thought it'd be nice.

Your turn.

The left. It's the receiving hand.

You don't have to keep it, you know.

But you shouldn't cut it.

Oh, one last thing. Can I ask?

We put on a piece a music,

and we don't kiss until it's over.

And then what?

And then we do it.

All right.

Try again.

I'm not gonna do that.

I don't believe in it.

No, I think it's ridiculous.

That's her official title, psychic?

Does she have a degree in that?

Okay. So you've--yes--

you've gone to this woman yourself?

Cut, with your left hand.

Does it have to be my left?

It's a tradition.

It's a sacred tradition, for lack of a better word.

Up to you if you want to fuck with that.

Listen, I don't think that I'm a good candidate for this.

I'm sort of skeptical.

When you're involved with scientific research,

whether it's hard sciences

or social sciences or both--

You're free to leave if you want.

You have to understand,

we're not here to deal with personalities.

Ego is the first thing that goes out the window

as far as I'm concerned.

So, do you want to stay, or do you want to leave?

Yeah, I'll stay.

Okay. Good.

Tell me when they're not making sense.

You said you were writing a book.

What's it about?

It's pretty technical and theoretic.

What kind of theory?

It's a new equation.

It's a systemic equation.

Can we do without the cards?

You like to fight, don't you?

And conquer, whatever that means.

Power, diplomas, publicity, women.

You like to conquer with your sword?

You saw that in the cards?

Let me tell you something about the cards, okay?

The cards are here to help you.

They're here to stage something in your imagination.

What I see, I see without the cards.

Do you understand?

Do you know why you came here today?

Curiosity.

Something else, more specific?

Something struck your sword?

Your power?

Is that what happened?

Are you into Kabbalah, Adam?

No, that's just a gift.

And curses?

- Do you believe in curses? - I don't.

I can't.

Actually, I don't know, I don't know.

Do you?

It depends.

You think you might, um...

know a way to deal with that problem?

I might,

but it would involve you engaging

with a part of yourself that you don't really know.

Are you willing to try?

Use this on your entire body.

I think your soul is feeling

trapped right now in your book.

You need to know what your book really is about.

I do.

Anyway, that doesn't have anything to do

with my private life.

Oh, God, maybe I should see a priest.

Calm down. You're Jewish.

It doesn't work that way.

All right, that's enough.

Rinse.

Careful with these.

Only on your penis, your testicles,

your scrotum, and your anus.

Hold it.

If you believe in the existence of the soul,

it's not so difficult to believe in previous lives

and in the possibility

that two souls have met before.

Hold it.

Same souls, different bodies, different incarnations.

And...

rinse.

God.

Everything is connected.

Your sexual predicament is the connection

that led you to finding me.

Finding me again.

Now...close your eyes.

Now picture me doing something sexual.

Not something mild, something really sexual.

Good.

Was what you just thought about

what I think you thought about?

Because that was really creative.

Good morning.

You're early.

What's wrong with you guys?

Can't you ever get your timing right?

I'm sorry.

Please, don't even start getting polite on me, Diego.

I can't take it, not today.

Maybe you've changed your mind.

It's okay. It's okay to change your mind.

I'm fine with that.

What, you want to run away on me?

Already?

All right, okay.

We don't have to do this.

You know, I don't think it would ever work anyway,

not with the BC rules.

What's that?

Don't tell me you haven't heard of booty call, Diego.

That's what this is, isn't it?

No strings attached,

no dating, no relationship?

Fuck buddies, okay?

Yes.

Yes to what it means,

or yes to the rules?

Both.