Another speech quirk alert

Transcribing again, I've come across a new overused breather: "sort of." The speaker uses it the way a prototypical young adult uses "like." For a while, I transcribed it instead of omitting it for the same reason as "you know." But some phrases are just too inane that way, like "to sort of sort" and especially "sort of exactly."

I think nobody will mind my omissions.