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Transcript:

This made a few people upset.

I can’t say that that reaction caught me off-guard this time, but I at least attempted to soften its impact with those same people (and my editor) by making the baby’s status indefinite. He’s not supposed to look dead, stuffed, alive, fake, or anything. It’s just your standard baby-in-a-bottle (with stand). I’m just now looking at him here, and, man―that’s a big baby!