pipe up

Joe’s inner monologue pipes up, excitedly stating, “In the canon of epic romances, bouncing back from a gunpoint confessional is practically a genre staple.”

Already, the leadership at Stanford University has piped up in support, with a similar vow to tell Trump to shove his authoritarian demands.

His great aunt, who sat next to him, piped up that his parents had abandoned him and there was nobody to care for him.

The incidents prompted a week-long discussion about when piping up can be fun, and how it can quickly get out of hand.

His own producers agreed to fund a movie that feels very much his own, which is wonderful even given a few fumbles that could have used an outside voice piping up.