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[Assistant] To them all the Saviour's warning words apply. He that loveth his life shall lose it.


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[Assistant] He that rejecteth me said Jesus, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him the word that I have spoken. The same shall judge him in the last day.


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[Assistant] Alas, for those who knew not the time of their visitation, slowly and regretfully, Christ left forever the presence of the temple.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, honestly, a lot of the stuff that was said was kind of the stuff that I read about, but it's, it's like the human nature. When you see somebody on video and you see the emotions and you see the tears, it's like,


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[Assistant] Man, that dude like- It makes it real. Yeah, it makes you like, aw, I really feel sorry for them. Like, it probably could have happened. Uhm, but I think, unlike the bull here-


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[Assistant] I thought that the lawyer did a great job, Deshaun Watson's lawyer did a great job of clearing it up, you know, stating the fact that nobody, no other lawyers wanted to touch these cases because nothing was there.


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[Assistant] You know, she brought in a lot of information that I was like, yeah, that, that, that does make a little bit sense. I think that was a strong point. And, and, and it was just, uh, you know, the second victim, you know, it was the part that I was hearing the whole story. And then when she got to the part about.


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[Assistant] I think what I, what I think G is that when you talk to somebody as, as a person, when you sit down and you talk to somebody and you hear them talk, you can, you can feel it. You can feel their emotions or you can feel this BS. If you don't talk to them.


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[Assistant] Like you don't know. Like you don't truly know. Like you, we are people of feelings, right? Like when you tell me a story, when you tell it to me, I'ma feel some type of way just from hearing your story. And you can't say that you fully did your investigation if you didn't sit down and get no type of feeling, no emotions or anything from them.


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[Assistant] For the rest of his life, you ever bring up Deshaun Watson? He has to deal with that. And if he truly is innocent like he says he is, I would fight it to the grave because I would not want to hear typhus pow and then sexual assault right after that.


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[Assistant] Okay, man. Championship. Let's go, man. Focus. We wouldn't even mention last night. Don't even bring it up. Let's focus. Let's focus. Today is the day to get better. We gotta get 1% better. We trying to do something. We trying to build something in Cleveland and get to the Super Bowl and do something that's never been done.


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[Assistant] When you come in this brown facility, bruh, we family in here. We got you. As y'all know, family, whether, however you feel, right or wrong, you got his back no matter what. That's the guy that you gotta go to war with. And you gotta be ready to do it. You gotta be able to stand up with him good, bad, or indifferent.


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[Assistant] What a good thing is they, they can learn together. They'll build their chemistry up during OTA's preseason. I'm sure that takes some snaps and it's good that they both in there together so they can learn it and see it together. Good point. It is such a vital position though, man.


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[Assistant] Well, they didn't have to do this. The way them contracts was coming out, yeaah, they kinda did.


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[Assistant] For somebody, we do play the hands more. I guess when you, when you the type of corner that Denzel is, like pure man to man.


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[Assistant] Is that true? But the way he handles his business, like he, he does, he does everything the right way. He's a lead by example. Yes. He's not very, he's not very vocal.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's Kerry Combs, the DB coach at that time. That's one of the things that he focused on the most was definitely you pick one thing every day. You know, today I'ma just watch his hips and whatever he do, I'ma do.


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[Assistant] Like it'll get better because your mind is on that. And now when you get to the game, you focused on it so much it becomes second nature. If you're trying to figure out a whole bunch of things, it's too much in practice and something's gonna get away from you. Cause it's like, the mind gets cluttered. Right.


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[Assistant] I mean, when you look at this, when you look at that duos right there, I mean, obviously my, my first attention goes to Peters and Humphrey because of...


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[Assistant] It's his partner. It's the partner.


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[Assistant] But the thing is, it's, it's, okay, like I was explaining to you, it's like Super Bowl, one of the most important games.


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[Assistant] Jamar Chase was really all over the field. Jamar Chase. So that's, so you would say, okay, that's Jamar Chase. Yes. He's a special talent. I get that. And that's a girl having no time to work. Alright, so alright, give me another example. Tampa Bay, when they played the Rams in Tampa Bay in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] You good. I'ma tell you, the most underrated person on that whole list is Darrius Slay. He don't get the credit that he deserves, but I mean, he been in the league for about 10, 11 years. He's been a top dog, make picks, sixes, and nobody ever puts him in the top five. And it really, it really makes me upset that nobody give Darrius Slay his credit. That man is definitely one of the top corners in his league.


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[Assistant] The youth of it and the fact that they just gritty, man, they are very strappy. We're doing good, bad, bad, bad, Mikey. Good, bad, bad, bad.


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[Assistant] I cannot believe. Listen, y'all, see y'all ain't paying attention. It's, the Heat got so many injuries right now. Tyler Hero's out, Jimmy Butler, we don't know what he's gonna be. Uh, Kyle Lowry's down. You know the guys that are injured also play defense. Listen, there's no way. What I'm saying. It ain't like the Celtics is the healthiest team.


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[Assistant] It's rumored that the Big Ten is getting rid of divisions. You know, they want it to be, they want to get rid of the Big Ten with West and the East. What's your thoughts on that?


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[Assistant] Coach, I ain't gonna call them traders, but you got some former Buckeyes that you going against in that first week, you know, with uh, you got James, you got Marcus and then you got, you know, I think Al Washington went over there. What are we expected to see out of this Buckeyes? I mean, I know.


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[Assistant] Coach Mick, after that team up north game and all that, I know this off season had to be tough because I know Coach Mick personally and I've been through it. So, what can we expect to see this game against Notre Dame? Night game in the chute.


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[Assistant] That's because it's a tendency thing. Third and long, you think it's draw a screen every time.


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[Assistant] They are integrated. Faith is part of competency. Faith is part of dharma. No need to separate the two.


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[Assistant] Educated parents, if you work with the parents, if the child wants to come for two subjects


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[Assistant] If the child is agreed upon by the school and the family which is benefiting the child then why not the school do that?


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[Assistant] If that sanskara would be carried forward by the child, it would turn into sadhana.


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[Assistant] Jess drove faster than the chief, so we made it to Port Angeles by four.


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[Assistant] It had been a while since I'd had a girl's night out, and the estrogen rush was invigorating.


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[Assistant] We listened to whiny rock songs while Jessica jabbered on about the boys we hung out with. Jessica's dinner with Mike had gone very well.


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[Assistant] But I interrupted with a question about dresses after a bit to spare her. Angela threw a grateful glance my way. Port Angeles was a beautiful little tourist trap. Much more polished and quaint than forks. But Jessica and Angela knew it well.


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[Assistant] So they didn't plan to waste time on the picturesque boardwalk by the bay. Jess drove straight to the one big department store in town


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[Assistant] Which was a few streets in from the Bay Area's visitor friendly face.


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[Assistant] The dance was billed as semi-formal, and we weren't exactly sure what that meant.


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[Assistant] Both Jessica and Angela seemed surprised and almost disbelieving when I told them I'd never been to a dance in Phoenix. Didn't you ever go with a boyfriend or something?


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[Assistant] Jess asked dubiously as we walked through the front doors of the store. Really? I tried to convince her, not wanting to confess my dancing problems. I've never had a boyfriend or anything close. I didn't go out much. Why not? Jessica demanded. No one asked me, I answered honestly. She looked skeptical.


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[Assistant] We were in the juniors section now, scanning the racks for dress-up clothes. Well, except for Tyler, Angela amended quietly. Excuse me? I gasped. What did you say?


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[Assistant] Tyler told everyone he's taking you to prom, Jessica informed me with suspicious eyes. He said what? I sounded like I was choking. I told you it wasn't true, Angela murmured to Jessica. I was silent, still lost in shock that was quickly turning to irritation. But we had found the dress racks, and now we had work to do.


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[Assistant] That's why Lauren doesn't like you. Jessica giggled while we pawed through the clothes. I ground my teeth.


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[Assistant] Do you think that if I ran him over with my truck, he would stop feeling guilty about the accident? That he might give up on making amends and call it even?


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[Assistant] Maybe, just snickered, if that's why he's doing this.


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[Assistant] The dress selection wasn't large, but both of them found a few things to try on.


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[Assistant] I sat on a low chair just inside the dressing room by the three-way mirror, trying to control my fuming.


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[Assistant] Jess was torn between two, one a long strapless basic black number, the other a knee-length electric blue with spaghetti straps.


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[Assistant] I encouraged her to go with the blue. Why not play up the eyes?


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[Assistant] Angela chose a pale pink dress that draped around her tall frame nicely and brought out honey tints in her light brown hair.


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[Assistant] I complimented them both generously and helped by returning the rejects to their racks.


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[Assistant] The whole process was much shorter and easier than similar trips I'd taken with Renee at home. I guess there was something to be said for limited choices. We headed over to shoes and accessories.


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[Assistant] While they tried things on, I merely watched and critiqued. Not in the mood to shop for myself. Though I did need new shoes.


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[Assistant] The girl's night high was wearing off in the wake of my annoyance at Tyler, leaving room for the gloom to move back in. Angela? I began.


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[Assistant] Hesitant while she was trying on a pair of pink strappy heels.


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[Assistant] She was overjoyed to have a date tall enough that she could wear high heels at all. Jessica had drifted to the jewelry counter and we were alone. Yes? She held her leg out, twisting her ankle to get a better view of the shoe. I chickened out. I like those. I think I'll get them, though they'll never match anything but the one dress, she mused. Go ahead, they're on sale, I encouraged. She smiled.


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[Assistant] Putting the lid back on a box that contained more practical looking off white shoes. I tried again. Um, Angela? She looked up curiously. Is it normal for the Collins? I kept my eyes on the shoes. To be out of school a lot? I failed miserably in my attempt to sound nonchalant.


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[Assistant] Yes, when the weather is good they go backpacking all the time, even the doctor. They're all real outdoorsy, she told me quietly examining her shoes too. She didn't ask one question, let alone the hundreds that Jessica would have unleashed. I was beginning to really like Angela.


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[Assistant] I let the subject drop as Jessica returned to show us the rhinestone jewelry she'd found to match her silver shoes.


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[Assistant] You have very funny, your style forever now. And it's good, that's just for you. There it won't be all it takes to explain it all. It's an infinity.


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[Assistant] We're going to break down G Bush here again. We're going to break down the difference between Putn Bay and Kelly's Island. You're going to want to watch.


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[Assistant] You're on the tall side. I'll tell you what, the best part about this is the only part about talking to old people, sometimes old people kind of be in another generation and grow up in the 1920s. So, you know, often, he was the


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[Assistant] And they, and they, and they call us different things. So this, I go up and I'm, I'm just handing stuff off the top. You're tall, can you get that off the top? Oh yea. And I get it, give it to this nice old lady and she says, uh, thank you.


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[Assistant] I think it's, I think this has been the blueprint. This is the game plan right here. If, when I heard that they were going to move from 2022 to 2023, and do the cases then, I said oh, well this is the strategy.


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[Assistant] We'll slow play this, drip our information, do some TV stuff.


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[Assistant] Drip a little more, maybe we got some more people on the horizon. Then football season happens. The goal is Deshaun Watson has to now start playing football.


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[Assistant] There's pressures that come along with football. Don't get off to a two and two and four start and people saying what's going wrong with you. And now all of a sudden, hey, we might got three or four more people that we're vetting to bring along.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. I mean, he's not playing for money. He's not worried about his contract being voided.


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[Assistant] He obviously wants to play, right? He hasn't played in a whole year. He's with a new team. He's in a city where there's half the city is, is, is saying, listen, we don't want you here. He wants to get off to a good start.


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[Assistant] He wants to be playing get football games to get this kind of in the back burner and fans mind. Change the narrative. Change the narrative. But the goal for the for the plaintiff is to say,


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[Assistant] Well no, we're going to put pressure. We're not going to stop in the public. We're going to turn that up a little bit. Hey, you got to go to film rooms. You got to deal with YouTube. You got to deal with Twitter and you might deal with angry fans. Plus we're going to still say,


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[Assistant] I don't know. I will say this. The public is a little more less.


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[Assistant] aggressive than the media. From my perspective, when you take a look at this case in the media, the first thing you come out with is 22.


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[Assistant] You say it's 22, I don't know, I don't know how I don't believe 22 people. And for me as adults, I'm like, well, you can, you can take it case by case. You're gonna be 60 people. You have to take it case by case.


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[Assistant] There's about, oh, 8 to 14 of them, he names, where there is issues with them. There is issues where they've told people, hey, we're in this for money. Hey, we, now, that don't mean 22. The reality is, all it takes is one. Well, to your point- All it takes is one to get your life screwed up.


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[Assistant] So my question is, how could you, how could any sane, rational person say, I'm going to preemptively suspend you?


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[Assistant] I get it, but, but we can't say we get it and push it to the side. It's, it's, you are, you can't, the people like me say, stop with the, with all the moral clauses, the shield, we gotta protect it. No, when one of your own was caught on tape, you,


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[Assistant] But see that's the problem people have in this country. This country is built on a bunch of inconsistencies. We know it's unfair. How many groups of people we got to keep telling that to? We know it's unfair, but it's just yeah, and that's not a good enough answer. We don't have


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[Assistant] I don't have the answer. I can't change it. You don't have the answer, we don't have the answer. But that's not a good enough answer. But by the way, and I can always say this too, Deshaun Watson could be totally, if somebody come out, there's two or three people that is listed here, there could be two or three people that come out and they got concrete, air clad. Yea, but I would think


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[Assistant] And if I'm the lawyer, I'll say this. If I'm the plaintiff's lawyer, he's on a clock, right? Tick, tick, tick.


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[Assistant] Because as soon as Deshaun Watson, if he's not suspended this year, touches that field.


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[Assistant] The narrative's gone because now he can play the narrative through whether or not Deshaun Watson is good and the Browns winning. If the Browns are winning and Deshaun Watson is throwing touchdown passes, it's just going to be that much more difficult.


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[Assistant] Because once he starts, I don't- Once he starts the season, and starts playing actual games, it's gonna be a problem for them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I wasn't surprised he wasn't gonna be there. The only way that would happen that he's even remotely back in the building would be to go talk to Andrew Bear. See, what we forget about is Kevin Stefanski


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[Assistant] It feels a certain type of way about Baker Mayfield. You gotta remember at the end of the season.


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[Assistant] Since that, since that happened, Stefanski is the next up on that hot seat. He is there. It ain't Andrew Berry, it's him. He now has to perform and kick. This would have never been a thing if, if it was like, hey, Baker didn't say those comments, now I gotta perform with either Deshaun Watson or this other guy or Jacobi Brissette.


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[Assistant] And now that's on him. Stefanski is hot about it. And Barry, he's not, he's not going to bring him in there and give him an opportunity to control the narrative. That's the last thing you want.


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[Assistant] I was going to ask, I was going to ask Dee Dee, do you believe that if Baker Mayfield went to the general manager and say, Hey, look,


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[Assistant] I know I had some missteps. I need to rehabilitate my career. I need to rehabilitate my image. Can I come back? I won't be an issue. I'll come do my thing. I'll rehab and do my thing. Do you think with your relationship with Kevin Stefanski or Andrew Barry that you've talked to them? Do you believe that they will let him back?


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[Assistant] If Aaron Rodgers was on the market today.


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[Assistant] And anybody can pay 18 million dollars for them. Everybody would pay 18. As a matter of fact, they would go over 18. Of course you would. But here's the thing. That's the thing about it. If you're, and I don't argue whether or not Baker is good or not. Baker is a solid quarterback, right? But the principle is,


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[Assistant] Nobody is willing to pay for it. Because Baker's not taking a team over the table.


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[Assistant] My favorite Cleveland sports moment would have to be the Kyrie Irving 2016 shot. It's the only time that I've ever cried over any sport event.


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[Assistant] He's writing a big check right now. You know, that's that motivation. I needed to send that out to my man. I'm gonna tell you what, the only thing, it's like singing competitions. You can't control how well somebody else sings. Right. Like if they keep, they say it's true. You can't just dig deep and just kill it. No, you can't. So I was looking last week and I will get foreshadowing to this.


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[Assistant] I gave foreshadowing. I looked over at Adam the Bull. I said, man, that's a blue. He got that blue. He didn't even had his plaid on.


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[Assistant] I told you before, you get tempted. Weights, do not touch no weights. See now, I did a little couple of weights last week. Cardio, I can't see, I bulk up too much. No weights, no lifting, none of that. I'm cardio king now. Now I got your sweat, sweatpants on, I got my joints ready to go.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing. I've now moved back my last meal. From 9 o'clock to 7. It just happened just now.


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[Assistant] Wow. I saw it happen. I saw it happen. It just now happened. Look, now here's the great thing about being, uh, the great thing about this is...


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[Assistant] I'm actually happy for him, right? You know, cause at the end of the day, the goal is for us to both beat our goal. That's right. Yes. Competition doesn't happen. Get there together. And we're going for lunch I think tomorrow. Yes. So, so here's what we're going to do. Last week we went to Sliming's and we were saying, yo, this is what we eat. This is how we usually eat bad. We're going to look back at that.


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[Assistant] When we get small and be like, remember we was doing this. That's right. So now what we're going to do is we're going to give y'all some videos. We're going to go to, I think we're going to go to blue point grill and we're going to, we're going to show you guys what we eat now, much healthier and give you guys something out there to do. And by the way,


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[Assistant] Don't just watch us. You can be part of the weight loss challenge too. You can send your tapes and what you're doing, whether it's working, whether it's cardio, whether you're preparing a meal with less fat and stuff. It's hard G.


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[Assistant] Why would you hang your hat on this?


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[Assistant] You know, Jay, let me ask you this. You know, we talk about the defense, right? You start off with Notre Dame, right? Uhm, but for me,


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[Assistant] It hasn't just been a defense last year, it's been a defense the last four years.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't think the defense plays aggressive enough. I know they like to, you know, get pressure before. And I watched them play Oregon, and I just sat there and watched them bring forward and get torched. And I'm like, why, what are we doing? Ohio State recruits, year in, year out, some of the best guys in the country.


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[Assistant] They gotta help those edge rushers out a little bit by bringing some people. I understand you want to play at four yards and play zone and do some things like that, but.


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[Assistant] I think up front, unless they, they maximize and do something on defense, they're going to have trouble with the teams that are going to run the football. Uh, if you get to play Alabama, they're going to run the football. You play Michigan and Michigan ran the heck out of the football last year.


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[Assistant] What are they going to do with that mix and are they going to play more aggressive this year on the defensive end of the football?


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[Assistant] And you can wreck a game plan like that. A guy at middle linebacker will destroy you. You can't block him. He's running over your tackles. He's running through guards. He's too fast. Ohio State's got a lot of play hard linebackers these days.


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[Assistant] And then they get you, they hit you with the spray. Okay. So they black spray it in, so it's, it's more, it's still, and then they get them. LeBron tried that for us.


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[Assistant] That was real bad. No, wait a minute. What keeps it from running, though? Oh, no, no, no, don't get it twisted. Like, you, you, don't be moving around. They'll put, they'll get, they'll put you, it's some setting stuff. It's like a waterproof mascara. You know, I'm gonna tell you, I used to


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[Assistant] Like if, say for instance, right, if you go to the barber, right, if you go to the barber every three days.


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[Assistant] That's how you stay fresh. That's how you stay look like you don't ever. Now I'm not going nowhere for three days. As you can see, I gotta get my joints lined up right now. But if you do it every three days like them brothers doing it and you get your Beijing and you get your, it's crisp.


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[Assistant] Now here's the thing. Is there ever a chance you would do that live on the show? I would like to see it done. I'll get my hair cut alive on the show. See, see. We can make that happen, G. It's like an art. I mean, you're the barber. Yeah, you get it. Listen, a black man with a fresh fade. Put it in the comment section. A black man with a fresh fade.


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[Assistant] You gain three points. You get three extra credits. No kidding. Just like a tan white guy.


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[Assistant] Cleveland sports to me is bigger than anything. It's bigger than some people's marriages. They say the Dallas Cowboys are America's team. No, no, no, no.


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[Assistant] Dallas is not America's team. Cleveland is America's team. And sports in Cleveland is a religion. Uh, it's a way of life. Uh, it doesn't matter where you're from. It doesn't matter how much money you make. It doesn't matter. Sports is a way for people in Cleveland to get together. And it's something that can't be replicated. In Cleveland, sports is a thing.


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[Assistant] By the way, by the way, I want to say this. Shout out to the Hawaii's Brownsbackers. Tomorrow I will be wearing a Brownsbacker Hawaii shirt tomorrow. Wow. Shout out to them.


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[Assistant] My favorite Cleveland sports moment would have to be the Kyrie Irving 2016 shot. It's the only time that I've ever cried over any sport event.


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[Assistant] We do it. Do you watch a lot of television? No, I don't watch. I've already watched any TV. All of my, all of my, all of my viewing habits, but I do watch a ton of like YouTube documentaries and shows at the moment. I'm watching we own the


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[Assistant] No, it's not. You know what I've done? No, I hope not. I've changed it. I've changed my, I've changed my, my ending final comments. Okay, great. Yeah, look, forget Kelly Island in the morning. Go ahead. Oh, he's calling an audible. Listen, red 22. Um, that always works well.


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[Assistant] I'm going to tell you why people be mad at some of these shows, man. You know, I used to be just like Boo. I used to be one of the guys that watched so many of these shows, man. I was, I was a huge fan of Lost. I was just, I mean, Lost to me was one of the greatest of all time, right? I was, I was huge into the Game of Thrones.


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[Assistant] I was, I mean, listen, they even had me read books.


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[Assistant] I was reading the books, I was going, now this is crazy. Here's the problem.


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[Assistant] When you have these shows that are great, like Jay said, they're great for five and a half seasons. They may be great for six seasons, but come to that season finale, the writers just go back and retcon everything and destroy everything the premise of the show was made on. Don't have Daenerys Targaryen turned into-


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[Assistant] Six seasons, you'd be good. I just watched a little series called The Dome.


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[Assistant] Or underneath the dome? Or one of those? Alright. Oh gosh. The last season turned into CGI. Uh, you know, the last season of Family Matters. People don't remember Urkel had a time machine. Oh, I remember. You gave Urkel a time machine. Come on, bro. They kept doing happy things.


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[Assistant] That's enough. You're going to jail.


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[Assistant] I just saw this man kill three people in front of me, but who am I after all? A vengeance in the night and shit? I guess that doesn't mean anything anymore.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the first time I've actually seen him walk out of a room and not just-


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[Assistant] That's funny, you don't look like a kidnapped princess to me.


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[Assistant] What the fuck is this problem? I still feel a little funny, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I really need to stop drinking. Bruce, last night was crazy. Really? Me and you had sex?


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[Assistant] What do you mean? You know. Oh god, is this about Alfred? Listen, he's my butler, that's why he lives with me. Do you always have to be so jealous? I am not jealous! I'll just turn on the radio.


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[Assistant] My heart is thumping. I don't know if it's from running out here or standing next to Kate Beckinsale, but it is just, uh, let's see, what's going on. Oh, there's big news today. Uh, if you guys haven't heard from Capitol Hill.


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[Assistant] Today, Vice President-elect Mike Pence met with Congressional Republicans to talk about repealing Obamacare.


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[Assistant] According to some Republican congressmen, the repeal meeting felt like a pep rally.


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[Assistant] Hey, guess who else is on Capitol Hill? President Obama stopped by to meet with Democrats to rally them to defend Obamacare. And here's Obama rolling with his crew, including Scarlet McRed Boot, Congressional cowgirl.


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[Assistant] According to sources, Obama urged Democrats not to rescue Republicans by helping them pass replacement measures. Yeah, don't help them fix Obamacare, or change it, or anything like that. I mean, that's right there in the Hippocratic Oath.


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[Assistant] First, do no harm. Second, hope the other doctor kills the patient. They get blamed and in two years you regain control of the hospital.


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[Assistant] Obama also suggested the Democrats start referring to the GOP's new plan as Trumpcare.


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[Assistant] Speaking of whom, uh, we're a little over two weeks out from Trump's inauguration. Now typically, you gotta, uh, typically, I know, I'm excited too. Now...


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[Assistant] Typically, uh, you got a bunch of stars there at the inauguration to perform for any new president. Reagan had Sinatra. Uh, Clinton had Fleetwood Mac. George W. had Ricky Martin. Obama had Beyonce. So obviously, for Trump, everybody, anybody is gonna be there. Except for anybody.


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[Assistant] Because he's having a wee bit of trouble getting famous acts to perform so far. But this week, it was announced that they are proud to have the Quezon Platoon, home of the army's oldest and most famous horse, Blackjack. Okay, old horse, that's a crowd pleaser.


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[Assistant] That is a disaster. I mean, who wants to listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with only 359 members? Obviously. Obviously. Now the choir needs to fill that empty spot with a Mormon who has free time and can sing.


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[Assistant] It's not a place in the cabinet, but it's, it's prominent. Hey, you know who's definitely gonna be at the inaugural? Bill and Hillary Clinton will attend. I think that is very nice, that she's being a gracious loser, and, if you count the popular vote, a gracious winner. Of course, of course it makes... Doesn't change anything, of course.


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[Assistant] It makes sense that Bill Clinton would be there. Former presidents traditionally attend the inauguration. And the very next day, a 200,000 woman march will take place on the Washington Mall. And...


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[Assistant] One little shadow hanging over the inauguration is the whole Russia chose our president thing.


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[Assistant] Yes, I agree, very strange for the future Commander in Chief to use sarcastic quotations about the intelligence agencies he will soon rely on. Mr. Trump, you know you're not an outsider anymore shooting spitballs from the sidelines, right? In two weeks, you'll be President of the United States. You're gonna have to...


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[Assistant] You're gonna have to get facts from your intelligence services to keep enemies from killing us all.


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[Assistant] Still, it is suspicious that there's been this mysterious delay of the intelligence meeting. I mean, why wait till Friday? Possibly because the intelligence meeting was always scheduled for Friday.


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[Assistant] And that's not easy. We know that's not easy. Most 14-year-olds surf the internet with just one hand, so they gotta...


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[Assistant] Speaking of, uh, Trump's Twitter, which we will be speaking about for years now, uh, even though Trump has 18 million followers, he only follows 42 accounts. He doesn't even follow Barack Obama, and he's literally about to follow Barack Obama.


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[Assistant] But this weekend, Trump followed somebody new on Twitter. This is true. Emergency kittens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you put it in the bin! You do! Alright, we've got Oscar the Grouch. It's two red-white for a 4-4 legendary giant artificer with vigilance. You can pay one and sacrifice an artifact. Target creature you control gets plus two plus O until end of turn.


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[Assistant] If you have good artifacts, making two of them is even better.


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[Assistant] And you have a way to bin them on your commander. I think that a lot of people were really excited about this Lorehold commander because it does have a little bit of power boosting, but really it's a value generating commander, not this boros aggressive stuff. It's Lorehold, you know, archeology type stuff.


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[Assistant] I could totally sacrifice a soul ring and get two more of them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but we have lots of other ways to get things into the graveyard. It's not just the sacrifice that can do it because, because you are sacrificing that land drop, but still like just on face value, like a land drop sacrifice and get it back. That's still good value ramping on your commander.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause it doesn't have any mana cost, it's almost like a land, you just pay nothing and you get it back. I mean, that's pretty good.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So you get them out faster and then whenever you have time, cause if you obviously, if you're getting better mana rocks back, whatever, but if you ever have time to tap it and just get two of these lotuses on the battlefield, like that might even be an insurance policy. People won't want to kill Oscar because they're like, look, I'm looking at a free cast again on the battlefield. It's awesome.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So the Urza's Bobble and Mishra's Bobble, those cost zero. You can sacrifice them. They have sort of a delayed card drawn there. Minor effect, but you get to draw cards. Yeah. And it's zero. Tap draw two cards. So it's this card.


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[Assistant] Because you can play it for zero, sacrifice it, then bring it back and do that. Wow. That is an ancestral recall. That's pretty crazy.


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[Assistant] Wafers, Wafers bubble is pretty good too because it can get a basic land onto the battlefield. It is a very, um, it's a ramp way to do things in non-green decks. It is expensive. It ends up being three mana to get a basic land onto the battlefield, but you want ramp in this deck.


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[Assistant] And that's an artifact that sacrifices itself, gets it in the graveyard, easy to get back and then cashing those lands later on.


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[Assistant] This is like a black lotus. You play it for zero, sacrifice it, get a mana, tap this, get two back, sacrifice both of them.


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[Assistant] That's so, that's so crazy. So we're talking about like ancestral recalls and black lotuses and nine mana. It feels like we're having this over the top card draw and mana that leads to explosive and powerful turns.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Bobbles, KCI, Mindstone, all that crazy stuff. You just sacrifice it all, do all that stuff and then roop, it all sort of comes back. But honestly, you're probably going to tick down Dready to do this swapy thing with your artifacts before you have a chance to ultimate it.


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[Assistant] Do you know what else dumps a bunch of cards in your graveyard? It's like memory jar. Memory jar is an artifact itself too. So. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. You activate memory jar, you draw a whole grip, you can play whatever you want, but then it just, you just discard whatever you don't use and what you don't use just ends up in your graveyard for Oscar to get back next turn or later on.


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[Assistant] Sac and get two, three threes, put in your graveyard Oscar gets it back. You get two six sixes that will die. You sacrifice those and get two, three threes just.


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[Assistant] It's good because your big impactful cards that want to swing sideways have this level of protection to it. So like they're good and then they leave something behind and then you bring them back and they're also good and then you leave something behind.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you actually, I can see you being super explosive and then just dropping one of these really relevant big creatures super quickly.


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[Assistant] It's all, you have sacrifice on your commander, you have tons of other sacrifice. Basically they just can't, they just don't use it anymore. They just don't use any artifacts. It just shuts them all down.


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[Assistant] There's nothing small enough. But if you always have those bobbles and stuff churning through in those artifact lands, you're always basically saying, well, I'm always getting a card and this is always going back to the graveyard.


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[Assistant] So, and then there's also Wake the Past, a way to sort of bring back all of your artifacts and, uh, especially if you have big things like Wormclaw Engine or that Triplicate Titan, giving it haste is particularly relevant.


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[Assistant] So you've brought up a really interesting point, which is that Osgier and these other cards, they kind of work against each other, because Osgier does exile.


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[Assistant] And all of these cards, the welders, the wake, the past, it does bring everything back. So when you exile something with Oscar, it's, it's gone. You can't do ready it back or welder it back and stuff like that. But I, I think a lot of people are scared of that non-bow, but I think that, yeah, I think that you're pushing through this. No, no, you will have plenty of stuff to do. These effects are still good.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, Oscar, whatever you want and there will be plenty of stuff to recur with.


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[Assistant] That's right. So walking Ballista will be really good because if you have a bunch of mana, walking Ballista is a great mana sink because you can just keep stacking plus one plus one counters on it. Always using your mana every single time. And I found that it's really good to take those counters off and do a little ping damage there, ping damage there. Oh, those are blocks over there. Ping ping, you know, take out those relevant creatures.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, I think people are a little bit afraid because you can't activate your Oscar and get two walking ballistas back, so they're like, oh it doesn't work, but it's still quite good.


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[Assistant] I think that this could be, I'm wondering how powerful it is, it's definitely fun and interesting. I'm wondering if like you could just win with like an enlightened tutor.


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[Assistant] But also it does have an ability to pump and we're pumping out a bunch of artifacts. You could theoretically come through with that triplicate Titan or something like that and just be like,


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[Assistant] Sack, sack, sack, sack, sack. There's an extra 10 damage.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so the critical part about Alibu is that you don't, it's not directly related to what's attacking, it's just tapped artifacts. And so all of your mana rocks, all of your artifact lands, everything that's tapped there just suddenly becomes this big fireball to your face if you attack with just one Thopter or one Mirror or Alibu itself.


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[Assistant] Easy. I think, and I could see there's tons of different ways that you can play like a bunch of, a couple of thopters and like some artifact lands and then you're just like, okay, there's an extra five, there's an extra ten. And I think that the scry.


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[Assistant] Is also a big deal stacking the top of your deck. It really smooths out your draws. And so even though this is like a little bit of an attacking commander, there's a lot more nuance to it where you don't have to really swing all out to get that value.


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[Assistant] Oh, very cool. I like a gear per ether grid where you tap two artifacts and you just deal a damage. Uh, that just means you just, okay, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, deal damage, deal damage, deal damage. Oh look, all my artifacts are tapped swinging with one little guy and it's just a ton of damage to your opponent.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you just tap them all and then suddenly everything's tapped. You get a good value out of them and then you can attack and get that trigger. Um, there's a few other improvises. I think that one of the more relevant ones is that inspiring sanctuary or statuary.


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[Assistant] Yes, yeaah, that's right. This card could just be brutal in general, like really good for your deck because you have a bunch of mana rocks, and mana rocks get around this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we talked about all of those little guys that create mana. We talked about all the mana rocks because you want them because you're going to tap them to deal damage with Alibu. And so instead they'll all untap. Yeah, I guess I'll untap one land, but guess what? You're going to leave the lands that are the artifact lands tapped and that's going to be extra damage for Alibu.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like it's baseline is just a four mana four four, which is great. You can ramp that out super easily and then make four little dudes. Like that is just very good value.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just have them on the battlefield and then suddenly you gear up your aether grid, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, and...


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[Assistant] Equipment are really good too because you are going to be putting a bunch of dinky little Fopters on the battlefield and little mirrors and going wide. And so when you have an equipment that can be like, oh, okay, I just need to get stuff. The equipment suddenly makes those things relevant.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I don't think so because I think that if it, if you make it attack focused, it's not going to work as well than if you make it, uh, tap your stuff, have mana rocks, uh, focus in that way.


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[Assistant] That's a lot, but when you tack on draw card to that, I'm all in.


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[Assistant] It might actually happen. The... Unlikely, but maybe. The mirrors that you're getting are not like super over the top. Like every cool artifact you're thinking of, it's not a mirror. Right.


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[Assistant] You just like move it back and forth and you're like draw card, draw card, draw card, draw card.


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[Assistant] Do you know what would drive me crazy in this deck is that we have servos, mirrors, pentavites, thopters, all of these different tokens. And there are, there are different things in here that gets only pumpers or only pump servos or something like that. It's, it is a little bit crazy when it comes to the tokens.


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[Assistant] I like Eldrazi Displacer 2 because sometimes there's like a big, uh, Eldrazi coming at you and you're like, okay, I'm going to flicker that out and it's going to come back tapped.


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[Assistant] You know, I can attack all out and, you know, get some damage through. But that doesn't feel like a really great... It feels fine.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hopefully you're making a token, like, on your turn, on your turn, on your turn, on your turn, and a lot of times these tokens that you make are so small they're irrelevant. And so if you can make them relevant, then suddenly your attacks become a lot better. Because attacking with impunity, if you have 1-1, great, your 1-1 doesn't die, but like, it's still a 1-1.


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[Assistant] I think so. I think that it's going to feel like an artifact deck and you can have some cool white cards in it. And actually that's totally fine. Artifact decks are fun. You get to play way more weird utility lands, but also you get to have a little bit of that, you know, white flavor or different kind of commander in there. I like it.


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[Assistant] That's a, that's aggressive. I honestly, I like this card and I might like it more because I, I'm, I like cube and this is an amazing attacking creature, honestly.


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[Assistant] What are you gonna do? It's a 4-4 and then a 5-5 and it's actually drawing the cards and it says play. So you hit a land, you're like, okay, play.


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[Assistant] I think that like my initial thing was like, oh, it's not really commander blah blah blah, it's too small, it's too relevant, but then I realized how many different effects in Red Exile.


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[Assistant] And how big this can get and how much you can almost always just draw a card. I mean, what would you do with your command zone if you have this aggressive creature, you always draw a card and it just gets huge and starts threatening people. It starts becoming more and more enticing with every exile effect I examined.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I like about this a lot is that like, we're building a deck.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm building this deck. Uh, exile, exile, exile, exile. She gets big and like, Ooh, look, I kind of drew three. I'm building this cool engine where I get to do a lot of stuff, but the whole time my commander is getting bigger and bigger and bigger.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Modern Horizons was like, let's give Delve to Red. One of them.


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[Assistant] You know, so a lot of times you might be holding onto extra lands and so retrace could be good, but red is the color of looting and rummaging too. So it's like, you might not need, you might not need to do that anyways.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that she's definitely gonna have, I mean, you're gonna play it a couple times, you're definitely gonna kill someone, and then you're gonna have a target on your back, because they're gonna realize how explosive your deck is, and that's why you might wanna pivot with things like Deflecting Swat, or other ways to protect your commander, or...


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[Assistant] Just like, have other good cards, cause you're drawing so many cards. They're focused on Alila, and you're just playing a normal red game plan.


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[Assistant] And I was like, okay, great, you know, red has a little bit of card draw, but in commander it's, it's not as good. It's much better to have your cards like in hand.


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[Assistant] Especially when you have any sort of reactive deck, you know, and those are sometimes the best commander decks is where you can hold on the stuff and interact with your opponents on their turn and stuff like that. An impulsive draw doesn't give you that option. So you're like, Oh, I don't know. I have to commit stuff to the board.


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[Assistant] Then suddenly you're like, oh well, it doesn't matter if I leave this card in exile. You know, my Chandra Torch of Defiance will just deal 2 damage.


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[Assistant] A little bit bigger, you know, um, Bell Borca will, you know, can leave it in exile and it can get bigger. And so like you have all of these things that kind of reward, uh, uh, little bits of advantage for leaving things in exile or, or not using that card impulsively. And I like that a lot.


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[Assistant] Dryadruid, I didn't, I don't think I read this properly before I was like, dryadruid, okay, sorry, dryadruid. One in tap, choose another target creature. Put a number of plus one plus one counters on it equal to the amount of life you gain this turn.


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[Assistant] Or the amount of life you lost this turn. Whichever is greater. Activate only as a sorcery.


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[Assistant] At sorcery speed and it's a tap ability, so it's definitely, definitely pretty limited. You can't have this cool combat phase where you're like, aha, you didn't block this, take all of it, you know.


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[Assistant] I actually like the, to compare this to hatred because it's kinda like you're building your own hatred on this card. So hatred is 3 black black for an instant, pay x life target creature gets plus x plus 0 until end of turn. I've killed a lot of people with hatred.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, unspeakable symbol. This may pay three life to put a plus one plus one counter on target creature. We can see that Willowdust has a little bit of a higher rate than that, but still paying a bunch of life, put a plus one plus one counter on thing, tap it, put even more plus one plus one counters on something. You can make your creatures really relevant out of nowhere.


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[Assistant] Well now we're moving into one that actually costs mana to, to pay. Uh, it's, let's see if you like this one. It's villas. I still like it. Broker of blood. Spoiler alert. Five black black black for an eight eight flying demon. Black, pay two life. Target creature gets minus one minus one until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards.


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[Assistant] I think that this next card fits perfectly. It's Krik, son of Yawgmoth. Yawgmoth. For Phyrexian Black, Phyrexian Black, Phyrexian Black. For a 2-2 legendary Horror Minion.


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[Assistant] It has lifelink, and for each black in a cost, you may pay two life rather than pay that mana. One of you cast a black spell, put a plus one plus one counter on, kriiiiik. Kirik.


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[Assistant] I like Kirk. Okay. It's Kirik though. Sure it is. It's Menacek. I've been told it's Kirik.


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[Assistant] We can't get into this, but here's the thing. Uh, just imagine you play stuff for free, really cheap. Like you cheat on mana, uh, but at the cost of life, but then you stack the plus one plus one counters on this. It gets bigger too. And it has lifelink as well.


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[Assistant] That makes some people scared. We've lost a lot of life, yea. Because remember, you can also trigger this by gaining life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so classic great merchant of Aspidel, you know, you can drain the table for your devotion and oftentimes because you're draining each opponent, you're gaining a ton of life.


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[Assistant] We have little things like Essence Warden can give you some reliable life gain, uh, Erebos's Intervention that's removal or some life gain going on there. It's a pretty flexible removal spell. You have Weather the Storm.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I really like is Disciple of Bolas and Momentous Fall. Both of these will have you sacrifice a creature and draw cards and gain life.


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[Assistant] And so, that's really big because you're also making your creatures huge. So you're making a creature huge, and once it's huge, what are you gonna do with it? Yes, you can attack with it, but I would rather sacrifice it for cards and more life to make the next creature huge.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's great. And then of course, lifelink, you know, you can have lifelink and you have big creatures. So if you can give your big creatures lifelink, that's really important. We mentioned a lot of things that give lifelink. I think one of the best ones is a veto. Thorn of the black rose of the desk rose.


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[Assistant] I have a feeling that you're going to be gaining life or losing life and you're going to be stacking up these counters on a ton of different random creatures and just activating this ability to give everyone lifelink is going to be just gigantic. You know, it's going to be this huge swinging effect.


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[Assistant] Marwin, the nurturer, like taps for its power and it's a 1-1 already. You just need to put 3 plus 1 plus 1 counters on there for it to suddenly start activating all of this combo potential. And you're gonna be able to get tons more counters on it. So if you do it fairly, where you're just untapping something a couple of times, you're gonna generate a ton of mana.


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[Assistant] If you're doing it unfairly, like you need such a little amount of life gain or life loss to have this actually start opening up combo potential.


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[Assistant] Same thing with like, uh, the Ather Flux Reservoir, something like that. Just like, you can, you can use these as ways to get there along with finishers, which is really good for a finisher.


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[Assistant] So I actually like this a lot because I like the ability to play creatures and not have them die, to give them indestructible, you know. So just on face value of this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we got like, uh, inspired creatures like King Makar or Painsier. I like King Makar. It's 2 black black for a 2-3 legendary human. With inspired, whenever King Makar the gold curse becomes untapped, you may exile target creature.


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[Assistant] If you do, put a colorless artifact token named gold onto the battlefield. It has Sacrifices artifact. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. So you are killing and ramping stuff.


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[Assistant] Pretty easily, like normally you'd be like, how am I going to tap this creature? Do I attack with it? It's only a two, three, and it's so valuable. But now you're just like, here, eat some food King. And then, and then when you attack.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a lot of times when we were playing this in limited, you would have to pay two and then pay an extra one to hopefully draw a card. And sometimes it ended up being a land and you're like, but I have a feeling that- Permanent, right?


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[Assistant] Exactly. So now it's just one to get that thing. But I actually think one of the bigger, bigger ones that you're excited about would be Savvy Hunter. One, a black and a green for a three, three human warrior. Whenever Savvy Hunter attacks or blocks, create a food token, but it also has sacrifice two foods, draw a card.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they really are. So I think that we have to pivot into just like, well, these are artifacts. Because there are a bunch of cards that deal really strongly with artifacts and so.


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[Assistant] I love it. It's four black black for a one three human artificer. It has fabricate three, which means you can put three plus one plus one counters on it to make it a four six, or you can have three little servos on the battlefield.


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[Assistant] That's really great, especially cause it's gonna create food and Guillaume's gonna have a lot of food on the battlefield too and you just, and you don't have to pay two a lot of times, you can just use this ability to keep draining your opponents out. And Marinette's Master's power can grow bigger with a lot of different things, it can be augmented.


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[Assistant] If you want to throw in some recursion, like similar effects Bantu, you know, can sacrifice stuff and have you drawing cards.


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[Assistant] We gotta feed all these grave crawlers, but we tricked him. It was the same one the whole time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what locks this out of being like in instant combo potential in many cases is that it triggers at your end step so you do all the stuff and then you have to like wait to get all these artifacts. If it immediately gave you the artifact then it would open up some more options for you. Which is, I actually like that it's a little bit fair, it's not like


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[Assistant] These names are driving- Gloom Summoner. Tivash. Gloom Summoner. 4 and a black for a 4-4 legendary creature human warlock with lifelink. At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an XX black demon creature token with flying.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So like when we looked at Willow dusk and we were super excited about the ways to lose life, cause we could lose so much more life and leverage that more. Like our life gain section was like, yeah, I guess there's some life gain in there and a lot of it's in green.


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[Assistant] There honestly isn't a lot of it, but actually I'm wondering like you just having a tiny demon every turn. Like if you just extort someone and you gain three life, you know, one from each opponent and you just make a three, three flying demon. That's good.


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[Assistant] You just attack with this creature and it has lifelink itself and you just gain four life and you make a four four demon. That's, that's good. So a lot of cards that just can gain you tiny bits of life, even if it's like this weird little bitter blossom on your commander, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Dread presence. This is a mono black deck. This is your commander. So dread presence means that triggers off of swamps and you're going to have a ton of swamps you can deal to and gain to. Uh, you have demon's horn is a two man artifact. Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain one life. Yeah. You're going to be playing some black spells in this mono black deck.


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[Assistant] But draining everyone is really important, but also one thing that's good about, um, this one is that it gives you a way to use those creatures too, because it has a tap ability and you can sacrifice a creature to draw a card. And so smaller creatures that you can skull clamp that you can use, you can get rid of, uh, ends up being pretty good.


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[Assistant] Kakusho, when it dies, it drains each of your opponents for five and you gain that much life. You know, all of these cards that we affected, it drains our opponents and we gain that much life rather than a set amount of life. And so that's why the life gain on those cards are just much bigger than in others and much bigger in multiplayer too.


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[Assistant] Kukusho dies on your opponent's turn, you drain for 15, it's like, oh man, my 1515 demon is gone.


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[Assistant] I think veto is particularly good because you can activate it and it gives all your demons lifelink and those are evasive creatures so you can really just get that damage through.


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[Assistant] I love this. You know, I talk about cards when you have to commit to the board and a lot of times if you're playing mana dorks you're like, oh my mana dorks can all die, my ramp can die to a board wipe that just gets swept up in it. No! They get turned into forests.


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[Assistant] Josh, can I convince you to, uh, play a secure Tribel during this deck?


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[Assistant] There are other ones too. I mean, Secure Tribelder is the headliner of this, but Burnished Heart, Dawn Treader Elk are really great. But you know, there's a ton of different green creatures that can sacrifice to give us value.


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[Assistant] Can I convince you to sacrifice two creatures? Magus of the Order, two green green for a 3-3 human wizard, green tap, sacrifice Magus of the Order and another green creature to search your library for a green creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.


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[Assistant] That's true. For sure. Anything that sacrifices. Uh, there's also Emrakul's Evangile, Two and a Green for a 3-2, Human Horror. You can sacrifice Emrakul's Evangile and any number of other non-Eldrazi creatures to put a 3-2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token onto the battlefield for each creature sacrificed this way.


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[Assistant] It's a 4-4 that manifests a card from the top of your library at the end of turn, but you can sacrifice it to give your creatures this sort of protection where if they die, you can then manifest more cards. Um, so the whisper word can always be sacrificed for itself, turn into a land, whatever, but it's this manifesting effect that's really interesting.


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[Assistant] Well we got some little guys that interact with it, and this I think is an interesting point because no one's arguing about all these more relevant creatures, but now you have to wonder, do I play a 1-1 that can turn into a forest?


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[Assistant] Let's talk about some of them because they, you wouldn't have heard of them. Uh, Child of Thorns is one green mana for a 1-1 spirit. Sacrifice it, target creature gets plus one plus one until end of turn.


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[Assistant] The reason why I think that I like these a lot is because creatures can sometimes be useful when they're just creatures. You know, we talked about artifacts just being useful when they're artifacts.


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[Assistant] Or you can sort of sacrifice them for more, for more relevant things, you know?


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[Assistant] There's a ton of them, you know? So I'm going to read just life and limb so you get a good idea of it. Three and a green for an enchantment. All forests and all saplings are one one green sapling creature tokens and forest lands in addition to their other types. So that means that your forests are creatures and creatures when they die, come back turning into forests.


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[Assistant] Some of the, there are also some really good things too that like it might not be infinite, but that evolutionary leap that we talked about, you know, there can be a lot of sacrifice cards in here. Um, and trust me, there's a lot of ways to go infinite, but there's also a lot of ways to just move lands in and out of the battlefield.


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[Assistant] You know, you don't have to go infinite to just, yeah, you don't have to go infinite just to be able to have a bunch of your mana dorks die and become lands.


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[Assistant] Is awesome. And more landfall than ever before. Because we can just constantly be getting forests over and over again. Uh, do you know what likes landfall? Scoot, ScootSquirm.


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[Assistant] You know, off of lands entering the battlefield. So really there's a ton of cool landfall things in here. This could be a landfall deck, but one of the best things is that when someone kills your Avenger of Zendikar, it comes back as a land.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. Uh, Karoo lands are waste a bunch of back. I mean, and then I know that it's in, it's in, it's in red, but just throwing it out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then of course there's like Kyrian Ranger and Scrib Ranger and these other ones that untap creatures and have you bouncing lands back to your hand. So really, there's a ton of ways to bounce things back to your hand and rebuy all of these relevant creatures and a lot of them are on creatures. So if they die, they become lands. It's a big cycle. It's like green. The circle of lands.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we tweeted, we found some Twitter from real people and morphworks because you're kind of like,


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[Assistant] It doesn't care that it's a forest, it's still face down so you can show a green card, morph it up, and then suddenly it's a creature again for you to sacrifice again, turn into a forest, and guess what? You can tap it for a green in between all of that.


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[Assistant] The ones that can go infinite is, uh, just in case you care is Proteus machine, which morphs for zero and branch snap Lorian, which morphs for a single green. Cause remember like even one green works because you can tap the forest. So you could keep getting that sacrifice value, even though you don't get infinite mana straight off of that.


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[Assistant] You mentioned Den Protector, I like Thelonite Hermit because like Morph creatures are just good and this one's just fun because it basically is a 4 mana 1-1 that gives all Saperlings plus 1 plus 1.


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[Assistant] And when it's turned face up, create 4, 1, 1 green sapperling creature tokens. So you can literally like just keep looping this and I know it costs, you know, three green green, but looping this can create a ton of tokens and really fill the battlefield. And you, as you go through it, you are going to gain one green mana as you tap it and then, you know, get it back again.


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[Assistant] I also think that like, you can just put big dumb things in here. You know what I mean? And you can get it out with the, uhm, with like your natural order kind of stuff. And you can just get this big dumb thing or you just cast it. And that can be fun magic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like the Witherboom stuff. It's a known archetype, so it's not like people were like, oh my gosh, it's breaking ground because we've seen black white do life gain a lot. We've seen, you know, green white do life gain. So it's kind of nice to see.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's kind of nice to see like, oh, like we're playing with that a little bit. I like some of the food stuff, but it's not like this, you know, impactful thing where it's like, oh, a new thing, but like the artifacts, man.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like artifacts that aren't just like equipment or vehicles. You know what I mean? Like this is, this just suddenly plays with a huge portion of powerful cards that we have access to. And we've seen by describing these, like we just went


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[Assistant] Super deep into them because there's so much artifacts to like mess around with and to interact with. It's been, it's been really cool. I've enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I, I really like the way it attacks on two axis, the way that you can just do your normal game plan and suddenly everything gets bigger and then like, oh, my commander is gigantic, I can just kill someone with it. It's, it seems to be...


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[Assistant] Just doing what you want to do, which is playing efficiently, tight magic, and then you just win.


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[Assistant] Yeah, especially because you wanna, you wanna kinda put a bunch of stuff together. You need to have that relevant creature on the battlefield. You need to have Rionya out. Yes, you can create one immediately, but you kinda wanna cast a few spells.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's Raonia Fire Dancer. I just talked about how maybe she was a little bit cute, but she makes copies! She storms off creatures! It's so much fun. I've just did searches on all the cool red creatures and like literally said, oh my gosh, I can just red storm creatures out. It's, it's awesome.


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[Assistant] Yes, Stormkill Narcanist or Gutter Snipes or all this other stuff. And I like that it balances spells and creatures too. You're not just like, oh, I'm a spells deck and you fill it all with spells. You're like, you have to play this nice balance.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, go out there and get some cool looking cards, get some of these and put them in decks.


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[Assistant] Do not, don't get me wrong, Strixhaven overload a little bit, but honestly,


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[Assistant] They're just a lot of really good cards and there's a lot of different things. And when you, we get the commander product, we always want to do stuff. So even though I'm like really deep into Strixhaven, like I'm still like buying singles and like putting them in decks and brewing around them. So really is a fun set. And so we just now get to look forward to even more commander releases.


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[Assistant] With all the information, um, two grand juries that there was no information, not enough information to indict them. So I feel good about it. So I think it's the right thing to do. We just have to wait and see what they, uh, what they decide.


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[Assistant] Football, I like the fact that we went and got somebody who could, uh, who can take us to the next level.


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[Assistant] I don't know if there's a real version. I know I like guys who do similar things and


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[Assistant] And I would say like Christian McCaffrey, uh, Dalvin Cooks, Alvin Kamara's, uh, those guys who rushed the ball, received the ball, they probably could return kicks and punts if they needed to, but they don't just the way the game is played today. Uhm, but it's guys who can do everything that I see that are players like me.


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[Assistant] And you know, I mean, and he can even throw like a Tyree Hill in there because although his primary position is receiver, he could run the ball if he needed to, and he could also, uh, return kicks. And so those guys, that's who I like to see. I don't compare anyone to myself because we all do it differently. I just like the fact that guys are able to play multi-positions and go out there and be successful at it.


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[Assistant] Well, to be honest, I never, ever wanted to get a hit. So I would say that would be everyone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so he's just transferring to Prairie View this year. So he'll start at Prairie View. He plays receiver. He's, he's 6'4", over 200 pounds. And so, and I told him and his friends like a month ago that I would beat them in a race now.


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[Assistant] If I'm healthy, I think I can go out there and run 4-7.


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[Assistant] Well, like you said first, I didn't think I was going to be able to play that week because I had a knee sprain from the week before against Cincinnati and somebody fell on me. And so.


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[Assistant] Most of the week I didn't practice, but Belichick had a rule, if you don't practice on Fridays, then you can't play in the game.


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[Assistant] And so I finally get out there Friday, which I didn't, I didn't really do much, but I went through the motions and got out there and walked through Saturday, come Sunday. I'm like, I'm ready to go.


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[Assistant] And you know, it's just one of those, one of those days, uh, my, my dad always told me is sometimes that when you get injured,


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[Assistant] And, and so that, that particular day, it seemed like


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[Assistant] Just because I think it'd be funny. Leroy.


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[Assistant] I think he's a great coach and I think, I think that, you know,


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[Assistant] He was a good coach and I knew he would be a good coach when he first got to Cleveland. However, you know, he'd just come from the Giants and he was trying to do it like Parcells way. We had stubborn veterans who didn't want to do it our way because we had won games in previous years.


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[Assistant] And so it's just a matter of us, us button heads and, and him not getting his system, him not trusting a lot of the players that he had.


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[Assistant] These cultures have run their system, their organization, and they've won. And so when they've been in that for so long, it's like, this is how I'm gonna do it instead of being, uh, like you said, true to themselves.


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[Assistant] These new coaches who are getting new jobs, they do it differently because they're playing football different. They're not expecting to, they're not.


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[Assistant] What, what he, what he did in his numbers suggests that he should be in the Hall of Fame as a returner. I mean, returners are game changers.


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[Assistant] And they make it easier in the office by shortening the field. They make plays that change the momentum of the game. And he did enough of that where I think he wanted the Hall of Fame. Quite frankly, I think you did too. I think you did too. Me too. And so going back to that.


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[Assistant] He had 14, which was impressive. I did not, I returned 8 points in my first three years. And they were all in my third year.


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[Assistant] Before I got hurt. A lot of people don't know that. I didn't just come here to turn it, because we had Gerald McNeil.


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[Assistant] Really and truly, you don't have to catch the ball. And your team still gets it.


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[Assistant] Well, if you have Belatec, then you're expected to. You can always fair catch it, and then you hope they line drive it to you, then you run it right back down their throat. Yeah, that's true. That's true.


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[Assistant] I'm very large. I wish I wasn't though because when I give hugs they hurt.


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[Assistant] Helping us when we need it the most. A true hero.


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[Assistant] Think they bought it, or did I lay it on too thick down there?


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[Assistant] As I sat in my room trying to concentrate on the third act of Macbeth, I was really listening for my truck.


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[Assistant] I would have thought, even over the pounding rain, I could have heard the engines roar. But when I went to peek out the curtain, again, it was suddenly there. I wasn't looking forward to Friday, and it more than lived up to my non-expectations. Of course, there were the fainting comments. Jessica especially seemed to get a kick out of that story. Luckily, Mike had kept his mouth shut, and no one seemed to know about Edward's involvement. She did have a lot of questions about lunch though.


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[Assistant] The worst part about Friday was that even though I knew he wasn't going to be there, I still hoped. When I walked into the cafeteria with Jessica and Mike, I couldn't keep from looking at his table.


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[Assistant] Where Rosalie, Alice, and Jasper sat talking, heads close together. And I couldn't stop the gloom that engulfed me.


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[Assistant] At my usual table, everyone was full of our plans for the next day. Mike was animated again.


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[Assistant] Putting a great deal of trust in the local weatherman who promised sun tomorrow. I'd have to see that before I believed it. But it was warmer today, almost 60. Maybe the outing wouldn't be completely miserable.


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[Assistant] I intercepted a few unfriendly glances from Lauren during lunch.


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[Assistant] I really didn't know her well at all. Certainly not well enough for her to dislike me, or so I thought. She's my friend. She sits with us. Mike whispered back loyally, but also a bit territorially. I paused to let Jess and Angela pass me. I didn't wanna hear anymore.


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[Assistant] They say they match my hair and all microscopic characteristics.


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[Assistant] And that's the way they presented it to the jury and the jury took it for granted that that was my head.


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[Assistant] My personal conclusion was the dog committed the crime.


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[Assistant] Miss Woodhouse. I have the honor to complete my commission on your behalf.


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[Assistant] In my opinion, it would be an adornment to any room.


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, I won't entertain you ladies now, I'm sure you must be busy. Besides, I have some parish visits to make.


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[Assistant] Oh no, Miss Smith. I said that I was no maker of elegant verses.


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[Assistant] No, I did not forget. As a matter of fact, I have here a little verse written by a friend that, uh, might amuse you.


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[Assistant] I quite forgot to pay my respects to your father when I called. And I would happily call this evening.


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[Assistant] Thank you. My friend will be honored, I'm sure.


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[Assistant] A sore throat. Not infectious, I hope. Not of a putrid kind. Has Perry seen her?


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[Assistant] Always so concerned for others, yet so careless of her own safety. Please do give me your support in forbidding her to do so.


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[Assistant] I cannot allow you to run the risk of a putrid infection that might have serious consequences upon your health. I, I cannot.


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[Assistant] Oh, charming Miss Woodhouse. You know quite well my feelings for you. Else why have you encouraged me so?


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[Assistant] Oh, charming Miss Woodhouse. Confess this coquettish attitude permits me to believe that you do feel something.


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[Assistant] Sometimes it's not intentional fraud, but rather something, um, much more, uh, inadvertent, uh, which is the kind of bias that can come from feeling like you're part of a side, part of a team, that you, you're part of, you're attached to the prosecution, and you want to get, uh, get the bad guy.


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[Assistant] Why would the DA have your ass? We don't work for the DA.


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[Assistant] Personally, I'm just as glad. I don't care to see medicine invaded by dental practice.


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[Assistant] Obligated to. Nor are we obligated to use their secrets. This man wants our endorsement for the purpose of making money.


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[Assistant] Already he's received columns of free advertisement on the front page of every newspaper, where no dentist has ever been before. Now he wants more limelight.


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[Assistant] From the loftiness of your own viewpoint, you're apt to overlook the meanness and avariciousness of these little people.


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[Assistant] I wanted very much to talk to him, and the day after the accident I tried.


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[Assistant] The last time I'd seen him, outside the ER, we'd both been so furious. I still was angry that he wouldn't trust me with the truth, even though I was keeping my part of the bargain flawlessly. But he had in fact saved my life, no matter how he'd done it. And overnight, the heat of my anger faded into odd gratitude.


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[Assistant] He was already seated when I got to biology, looking straight ahead. I sat down, expecting him to turn toward me. He showed no sign that he realized I was there. Hello Edward, I said pleasantly to show him I was going to behave myself.


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[Assistant] I watched as his golden eyes grew perceptibly darker day by day.


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[Assistant] But in class I gave no more notice that he existed than he showed toward me. I was miserable, and the dreams continued. Despite my outright lies, the tenor of my emails alerted Renee to my depression, and she called a few times, worried. I tried to convince her it was just the weather that had me down.


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[Assistant] Mike at least was pleased by the obvious coolness between me and my lab partner.


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[Assistant] I could see he'd been worried that Edward's daring rescue might have impressed me and he was relieved that it seemed to have the opposite effect. He grew more confident.


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[Assistant] Sitting on the edge of my table to talk before biology class started, ignoring Edward as completely as he ignored us.


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[Assistant] Mike was disappointed he'd never gotten to stage his snowball fight, but pleased that the beach trip would soon be possible. The rain continued heavily though, and the weeks passed.


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[Assistant] Jessica made me aware of another event looming on the horizon. She called the first Tuesday of March to ask my permission to invite Mike to the Girls' Choice Spring Dance in two weeks. Are you sure you don't mind?


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[Assistant] You weren't planning to ask him? She persisted when I told her I didn't mind in the least. No Jess, I'm not going, I assured her. Dancing was glaringly outside my range of abilities.


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[Assistant] It will be really fun. Her attempt to convince me was half-hearted.


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[Assistant] I was surprised that Jessica wasn't her usual gushing self and trig in Spanish. She was silent as she walked by my side between classes. And I was afraid to ask her why. If Mike had turned her down, I was the last person she would want to tell.


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[Assistant] My fears were strengthened during lunch when Jessica sat as far from Mike as possible, chatting animatedly with Eric. Mike was unusually quiet.


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[Assistant] Mike was still quiet as he walked me to class, the uncomfortable look on his face a bad sign.


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[Assistant] But he didn't broach the subject until I was in my seat and he was perched on my desk.


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[Assistant] As always, I was electrically aware of Edward, sitting close enough to touch.


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[Assistant] I should just leave the kid for playing such a dirty trick on me. Unless I be forever stuck in this form.


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[Assistant] Well, if he can't finish it during his next turn, then it's lights out for him.


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[Assistant] Yes, way to pay attention, but don't rule him out yet.


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[Assistant] The no damage fighter. A most worthy opponent.


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[Assistant] There are people in England that know that men of my character don't do this sort of thing.


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[Assistant] All right, enough of the silliness. Jay Crawford, G Bush, Tivus Paul, Adam the Bull, and we're here for your Thursday Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Wednesday, Wednesday. What did I say, Thursday? It's hump day, hump day.


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[Assistant] July 11th was the day that the debris had to be filed, which of course was a couple days ago, so everybody started thinking, okay, maybe a few days after that.


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[Assistant] But a lot of people in the legal community know what that entails. They know how thorough a judge Sue Robinson was during her 25 year career as a district judge. She's going to take her time going over these briefs. So basically,


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[Assistant] The clock that's ticking now is will it be before training camp? I think that's, that's the next big deadline that everybody's looking for.


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[Assistant] Mike Florio has an educated guess. And Mike writes that in all likelihood it's going to be the week of the 25th, which fits the training camp, the pre-training camp timeline. Do you buy that? Do you think that we're going to have a decision by the 25th?


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[Assistant] Tyvis, was that the whole idea was to insulate the commissioner? Because I think people have forgotten.


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[Assistant] He nearly lost his job over the way he handled Ray Rice. He did. I mean, he literally, I had folks telling me he had a finger on the door handle.


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[Assistant] And that's how close it was. There were many owners that were so...


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[Assistant] Song and dance between the union and the NFL to mutually agree upon a person that would be the league's disciplinary officer. I think it insulates him perfectly. And both to your point.


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[Assistant] That's kind of what we have in play here. The commissioner, there isn't a hard fact. And I think, there are sentencing guidelines in real life.


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[Assistant] If you commit, if you're convicted of manslaughter in the first degree or murder one, each state has sentencing guidelines.


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[Assistant] And then the judge has a wide swath of discretion that the judge can say, I'm going to go on the low end because I listened to the personal circumstances or I'm going to go on the high end because this person is a repeat offender and showed no malice or whatever the case may be.


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[Assistant] And I think Sue Robinson is the perfect person for this. And Bull, I hope you're right. I think the last thing this story needs is more oxygen.


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[Assistant] They need to put the lid on this, snuff it out and move forward. And an appeal breathes more life into this story.


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[Assistant] I think everybody is ready for finality. Whatever that is. And I think barring anything over eight games, I don't, I'm not sure the NFLPA is going to appeal. I'm not.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Here's the deal. And by the way, we did not see her decision on the Robert Kraft investigation, or I'm sorry, on the Washington football team investigation. Which we should have. We should have. And the NFLPA can say in the wings, we'll all get to see it if we appeal this thing.


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[Assistant] And that had been reduced to five, which was later reduced to four.


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[Assistant] Here's what that means. As a prosecutor,


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[Assistant] You're going to put on the stand or put forth as evidence.


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[Assistant] The most believable allegations, accusations, and alleged victims. They left eight on the sidelines. So that means two thirds of what they brought


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[Assistant] That's the telephone game. Yes! And that's how this is playing. Because remember guys, there were...


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[Assistant] Rape is a very serious, perhaps one of the most serious crimes someone can commit against someone other than murder. And when I heard that, I immediately threw my hands up and I said, wait a minute, nobody's alleging this guy raped anybody.


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[Assistant] But there was, there was fundraising efforts going on around the Deshaun Watson case and rape crisis.


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[Assistant] And so, yeaah, it was at one point 66 different masseuses. I was, I was a bystander there watching this outrage over the New York Times article. I just kept saying to anybody that would listen,


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[Assistant] Is it abnormal and maybe raise an eyebrow? Yeah. But is it to the, is it noteworthy to the point of a New York Times, this was called a bombshell report, remember? Bombshell, bombshell, bombshell. Because he had 66 different masseuses, okay, we still know that the number was 24 that alleged any kind of grievance. Yes.


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[Assistant] That raised to 26, even though those 25th and 26 cases still have not been filed.


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[Assistant] Since the 24 number, that's been boiled down to 4. 20 settled.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what we're left with. That's right. Four. Now, if he agreed, if he was, if, if he


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[Assistant] If he went over the social line, because we know that there was no legal line crossed, if he went over the socially and ethically, uh, drawn line, wherever that is, and who knows where that is, if he went over it, Sue is gonna dig into that, and she's going to punish him accordingly.


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[Assistant] That, that, that, to me that is worth this. So she's gonna make that ultimate decision. But this nonsense of 66 and all of that, I think we're down to four. And when Florio said that in the interview yesterday, I immediately thought to myself,


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[Assistant] The assumption is there has to be an overlap. You'd think. I would think.


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[Assistant] The very first woman that appeared in the Real Sports piece. She hasn't settled. She has not settled. Yea. I found her to be emotionally disturbed by what happened in that room. No doubt. No doubt. I found her to be credible. Yes. Uhm, I think the NFL found her to be credible. I would imagine that she is one of the four that the NFL is sort of hinging their case on.


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[Assistant] Guys, all Sue has to do is figure out that there was a line crossed that was unbecoming of the conduct of an NFL player, and there's going to be a suspension.


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[Assistant] I'm guessing she'll be that specific in her decision. She should. I'm not sure she'll use names, but I'm sure she'll.


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[Assistant] It's almost like trying to predict. It is. It's the same thing. How long is the jury going to deliberate?


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[Assistant] When it's protracted, it can be more troublesome to get the conviction.


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[Assistant] How many games, when do we know? And by the way, this is strictly a guess, nobody knows.


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[Assistant] Wow, okay, I'm going 6th, then July 25th.


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[Assistant] And, and that's why if it's six, anything less than six, I think the Browns are doing cartwheels in Berea.


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[Assistant] Baker Talks as a Carolina Panther. It was interesting. I thought it was interesting that he did the interview via Zoom from presumably his home.


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[Assistant] I would have thought that they would have flown him into Carolina. That's first round pigs though.


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[Assistant] There is a level to Baker Mayfield of charisma. You would agree? I would agree. No one's ever gonna say the guy's boring. No, certainly not. He is on a PR campaign to save his career.


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[Assistant] And if, if during the discussions, the Panthers said we want to interview, we want to, reporters are dying, we're getting overwhelmed, and I know, I heard from two reporters in Carolina that reached out to me and said, hey, can you give me Baker's number? I'd love to get an interview. I'm like, are you guys drunk?


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[Assistant] But, but, uh, literally, the one thing that I thought of was how they were gonna roll out Baker Mayfield. This is their shiny new toy, guys.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna do it from my house. I want face to face interaction. I want to win these people over at jump.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's gonna be handed nothing, for sure. And we're gonna, we're gonna talk about some clips. Mike?