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[Assistant] And then the, the Miz was allowed to be involved in it. We were like, oh yeaah, the Miz! I mean really he didn't do much. Yea, you laid there. But, but he felt better because he was surrounded by...


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[Assistant] These guys who were so excellent. It was great to see Mustafa Ali get a match. I think I knew pretty much from the start that it was going to be AJ Styles winning. I thought that it would be very strange if they picked anyone else, but it was so good to just watch a match and for it.


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[Assistant] And again, it might just be the Triple H effect, but it just felt like everyone in the match was having a good time. And it felt like people watching were having a good time. And there were spots in the match where, well, they may have happened before, but because they were sort of, they felt so, so fluid and so nice and so good to watch that it just was a much more pleasant experience.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like there is a difference between Vince McMahon saying, go out there and give it all you've got for 12 minutes and Triple H saying, go out there and give it all you've got for 12 minutes because I feel like you actually think you can go out there and have your own match rather than, okay, this is what Vince wants. You're not playing to what Vince has on his head. No, exactly.


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[Assistant] We've seen cool styles class finishes in the past.


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[Assistant] But they teased so many different Call of Stars class finishes in this match, where you're like, oh okay, he's actually probably been practicing these for five years, and he's only now, he's like, oh I can actually do them now.


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[Assistant] He did a bit, but at the same time you've just got the, the, the precision there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, I've only seen, uh, there have been a couple of Ajax stars clashes in the past where I've gone, okay, that was cooler, but this was really quite special.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like you say, this is going to be the main title now. But with Roman Reigns not going to be on TV much. I think Roman Reigns will probably see him in the two weeks. He might be on SmackDown a bit, but in the two weeks before Clash the Castle, you'll probably see him. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if he's not on WWE TV for the next two weeks.


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[Assistant] My brother who is not interested in wrestling at all, like he came to, he came with me to a WWE show a few years ago because I didn't really have any friends who liked wrestling.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he texted me saying, I heard Logan Paul is annoyingly good at this wrestling stuff, but why is he the good guy?


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[Assistant] Yes. And that like, he, all he's done there is scrolled Twitter and probably clicked on it and gone, oh the comments are saying why is he not a heel. So for someone who has zero interest in wrestling to immediately go, that's weird.


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[Assistant] Like, okay, if it works, it works. But I think they are, it is, they are kind of standing in front of an open goal.


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[Assistant] And I just, I liked how they were using the ring as well, because they were like...


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[Assistant] There were quite a few times where I was surprised by, like, there were some times where I was like, okay, well he's gonna put his leg on the rope. But they actually used the ring as a prop, because sometimes you just get them having a wrestling match and you're like, okay, whatever. But it actually felt like they were being a lot more creative with just little spots, and you can do that more in a triple threat.


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[Assistant] It was, because there were lots of spots where I thought, ah, this is great. And I was like, oh, but I'm, it's fine. I'm not playing. My partner's still sleeping. I'm probably just not playing it very hard. And then I was like, oh no, the crowd's just not into this.


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[Assistant] In, out of six people, I would say. I mean, not that they can't be main eventers, but right now for this crowd, which like you say, isn't on Twitter going, oh okay, this is all happening. They're just turning up with their kids, and like a bunch of dads who probably don't watch wrestling, but they've got their kids there, and the kid's just going, huh?


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[Assistant] But these aren't my favourites. Where's Roman Reigns? These aren't my toys, and that is something that I think we'll have to look out for in this Triple H era, is that, yeaah, lots of guys who weren't being pushed like Shamba before are gonna get pushed, but you wonder what's gonna happen to the Vince McMahon guys, who...


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[Assistant] I don't know, there aren't that many sort of bodyguys right now, but like kind of Rick Boogs or something like that. Omos. Omos, we haven't seen him for two weeks, and you've got to wonder whether Omos isn't long for WWE.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it was, yeah, it made sense, but I still find him, it'd be like if Bully Ray came on commentary, I was like, oh, he's still a bit of a knob though, aren't you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we got the end of his entrance, we got the end of his music.


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[Assistant] And because it's Triple H Champa, I feel like he's not going to win.


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[Assistant] And AJ might have something to do with it, but I feel like it's at least going to go 10 minutes.


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[Assistant] He's the first title feud for Champa. Champa wins. Microphone. I'm actually a good guy.


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[Assistant] That is, so I'm, I'm, spoiler, I'm doing a voiceover for one of the Parts of Unknown lists next week, uh, whilst Tempest is away, and my intro does literally say that. It feels like someone who is in touch with modern wrestling is actually


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[Assistant] LH understands. There was still enough sports entertainment on this show to make me think he's going to be able to find a kind of happy medium.


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[Assistant] Yeah, make, make Champa your champion until, like, I dunno, what's...


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[Assistant] And so you could absolutely say if he does win next week, him just doing the open challenge and just over and over and over again, him just bringing out Mustafa Raleigh, bringing out all these guys, having 20 minute matches in every week. And you're like, oh wow, wrestling's great when you, when you do it.


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[Assistant] I see, I don't mind, I can't deal with like gore and like, did you remember the Dax, no no no, the cash wheeler when he like, pinched his skin, and the one when Neville or Pac just had his finger sideways, that kind of stuff is more visceral for me.


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[Assistant] This was me's because I'm so used to WWE, but like when she came out with the injury and said I'm injured and then got attacked on that injury afterwards, I was like,


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[Assistant] But why didn't she come out without the sling? Because she wasn't going to get hit, and then that's writing her off.


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[Assistant] I don't- I can't see them turning him heel. I can see that- that Dorkin's being the heel in this.


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[Assistant] Dawkins will get annoyed by it and will then just beat him up. Because let's face it.


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[Assistant] Angelo Dawkins is great, but Montez Ford, as prophesized by the great Luke Owen many years ago, he is a future WWE champion, and I think he really is.


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[Assistant] In this story, I think it would... If you want him to be that, I think it would be weird for his first singles run to be as a heel.


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[Assistant] You like that in AW, so they should do it here, and you'll be like, oh that's rubbish because you're a shield.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well also after, and this is an, this is, this made me think they're going to split up even more. So after all, they posted a video of them doing a really emotional promo on their Twitter, like those www.com exclusives. And it's like, I know you really are going to split up, but when?


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[Assistant] So, like, it's gonna happen, but yeah, like you said, I don't know who it's gonna be. You think it's gonna be forward, I think it's gonna be Dawkins. Just because I don't think they like Dawkins as much, and therefore I want them, that he's gonna lose.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, there are, and there are lots of moves in wrestling where you're like, oh, it's, it's never been the finish, like the Falcon Arrow, Buckle Bomb spot. And everyone's still surprised that it isn't the finish. But yeah, the, like, the old Eddie Guerrero spot was to do the Five Star Fog Splash and then sell it, like, oh god, that hurt. That's Rob Van Damme. No, they would both do it though. Yeah, but you said Five Star.


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[Assistant] I didn't watch wrestling back then. Uhm, the old Frog Splash spot with Eddie Guerrero, you know, where he would sell afterwards.


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[Assistant] A bit bad. I don't know if you mentioned, but Rollins said beforehand that he's now going to go off terrain.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he did say that. I don't think he will. No, well maybe after, maybe after Clash.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then then Goldberg will come back for Saudi. Yes. And then you've got Roman versus Seth at the Rumble. Gorg.


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[Assistant] They were setting up for, before they were interrupted, a moon salt with a chair on her chest.


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[Assistant] That looked like it would suck more for the person landing on the chair.


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[Assistant] That felt like it would be, like, you'd land in your face. Yes. Probably good that she didn't land. Yeah, so, but she was interrupted by, uh, Bianca and, uh, Asuka. And I thought, WWE, oh, it's gonna be a six-woman tag.


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[Assistant] And then Jamie and Priest comes from behind and then Edge has to be surprised by that. I think it's going to take me a long time to trust WWE because throughout this entire program I was like, okay, when they're coming, throughout the entire, uh, the, the previous segment, oh, it's going to be a, it's going to be a,


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[Assistant] It's gonna take a long time to get out of that mindset of it's Vince.


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[Assistant] She is. I noticed Kevin Patrick changed height about four times during this. He, yeah, with, with, with Ray, he was just a bit taller than Ray, and then he was standing next to I can't remember who it was he was interviewing later on, but then he was the same height as them. Uhm, his thighs are gonna be.


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[Assistant] But that's the problem is that the entire time, again, the WWE sort of in my head is, oh, when are Bayley and Dakota coming out?


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[Assistant] Any minute now, any minute now. And they did. I would almost prefer that they'd just come out with her.


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[Assistant] And I get that it was chaotic and the referee called a DQ, but actually, no one did anything wrong.


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[Assistant] Because the illegal people attacked each other, and the legal people were attacking each other.


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[Assistant] It felt, it, but it didn't feel like a classic, oh, DQ. It was like, it was, I was almost relieved that it was a DQ, because I didn't,


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[Assistant] I guess Bianca could have lost via distraction, but I didn't want to see EO's Sky.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or if you really want, if you wanted someone to lose, then I would have, and unfortunately I would have chosen to go to Kai. I don't think she's as over or as...


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[Assistant] She's very good, but she's not Eo, sorry, she's not Eo Sky. So if you want someone to be the, almost the fall guy of the group, then I feel like Dakota Kai is the weakest member.


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[Assistant] That's really, yeah, that's really exciting. Uhm, I was gonna say something else before.


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[Assistant] And Jay, I think, uh, Jimmy Uso manages to break it, so Jay was being pinned, and I...


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[Assistant] Didn't, it was such a last second. I don't know what it is about that Anoa'i family. They are really good at near falls and breaking things up. Roman Reigns is the best near faller in the world.


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[Assistant] And so, it was, yeaah, it was a really fun match, and yeaah, you say, I went, ooh!


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[Assistant] Because they won, and I thought, or maybe because it's a Triple H era, they're gonna do a title change on their third show. So I really thought it was gonna happen.


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[Assistant] Oopsie, and speaking of Rhea Ripley, did you see Beth Phoenix's tweet? No. Eyes emoji. There's been a report recently that she is coming back, so it would make total sense for her to be the lady for Rhea Ripley to face, cause it's WWE, but Edge isn't gonna beat up Rhea Ripley, so.


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[Assistant] That makes total sense for Edge to come back, uh, what Liam, website Liam, he suggested maybe, uh, uh, an Edge, uh, Edge, Rey and, and, and, uh, Beth versus the Usos and, no not the Usos, Judgment Day at somewhere down the line. Yeah, that makes sense. That kind of feud.


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[Assistant] I mean, putting it, it's, have Rhea beat, uh, beat Beth in a, in a kind of blow off feud puts Rhea over massive as well.


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[Assistant] Don't read into this chat, but I've always said that Ria Ripley


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[Assistant] It's just sort of one of those things where you're like, I'm terrified of her, but also very attracted to her. So you can, you can see, you can see why this guy is online.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't, you probably shouldn't air this online because it's a bit weird. Yeah. But you can kind of- But you just said it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] No I didn't, I didn't tweet about it though. No you didn't, video from where it's not anonymous. I just want, I just want to call her mummy. No, I, I just like,


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[Assistant] You can see what's usually, what's in her getup, you can kind of get it, but like, it's a bit, just don't.


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[Assistant] Me and Luke always, uh, were scared of her. Like, she was gonna take our lunch money. Well yea, I've got the same thing with Jade Cargill. Like, she's very attractive, but also, I don't want her to hit me.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people, I think, I saw a lot of people going, oh, that WWE leaked that kind of, that statement line to tease the whole shebang coming back, but like.


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[Assistant] It was an enjoyable show and I wasn't bored at the end of it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] When we were discussing titles earlier, I just said, oh, we're just gonna call the best raw of the year or like Triple H has saved raw. So I think it's pretty clear.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and there's so many ways you can go with Gargano and Ciampa. You can, but I don't want them to be attacking immediately. Yeah, I would say.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, sorry, riot, DR says, Hey yo, uhm, I love the man of three Hs, uh, I love how the man of three Hs is implementing change but trying not to give us whiplash, metaphorically. DQ finishes that further stories instead of dragging them out. Champions that matter and no sign of bad 24-7 shenanigans. Love your voices, by the way.


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[Assistant] And once again from Chris says, on the control, uh, very interesting to see if they become like a female undisputed hero on the main roster, but I think someone has used control as faction name before. Could be tricky as in UK wrestling, NGCW. They had a control faction there, if you can remember.


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[Assistant] I don't remember that. Yeah, I think they'll be okay. They'll be fine. At least it's not the riot squad.


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[Assistant] Michael Dominguez says, Saw Raw for the first time in years. Oli, I felt about AW just like you, like it was missing something. Lately, if you take away the, uh, Jericho Precision Society stipulation matches, Dynamite has been what Raw was last night. A baseline. Good, not great. Now let's see if both get better.


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[Assistant] Roy Zhang says, why not just book Alexa or ask her against one of the buddied?


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[Assistant] That's a dumb name. Like Ollie says, self-inflicted wound of booking.


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[Assistant] I know that this happened before, but I like the Eo, the EoSkies, um, promo backstage was Japanese. Like it just felt, felt, felt genuine. Uh, Aaron Irons has been a member for two months in a row. Thank you, Membergs. Uh, bring back Oli, I wouldn't watch Raw if it wasn't


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[Assistant] It's been a few weeks, a few times in recent weeks, just from morbid fascination I've gone, I'm gonna watch the first five minutes of Smackdown, because Vince is gonna tell you something, or Stephanie's gonna be on there, but this time I was actually like, do you know what, even if I hadn't been reviewing it, I probably would have watched Raw 2.


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[Assistant] Uh, Nathan Portwoman says, uh, Good morning everyone. How's the weather? It's fine. It's muggy and it's not gonna rain anytime soon. Andy, you're a baker, right? What is your favorite thing to make? Mine is cheesecake. PS, bring back the TLC. Sing along, please.


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[Assistant] I don't got a favorite thing to make, but I like making things for people.


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[Assistant] So like, if it's someone's birthday, I like to make them a cake, because then I'm a people pleaser. I don't think you've ever made anyone in this office a cake.


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[Assistant] When Pete first started, I did. That was four years ago. I know, but it's expensive to make a cake. And if I charge it back to the company, I'll do it. Uh, Richard Stevens says- Oh, the TLC sing-a-long. We might. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Around TLC time maybe. Yeah, if there is a TLC. Uh, Richard Stevens says, If you haven't seen, we're doing a Watch Along.


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[Assistant] Very quickly as well, it was a real team effort. Uh, yeaah, I've already had quite a few messages from some of our, our fans saying that they're coming and they're very excited. So yeaah, do come along, it'll be great. Uh, look forward to meeting you guys and watching the pay per view, premium line event. Uh, a long term subscribe to the channel, there's a round of drinks for you guys on me. We, the amount of people who have said that, I'm slightly worried that you're gonna have a hundred points.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna do all out the next day, so. I don't drink alcohol, so you can just keep buying me like fruit shoots, that's absolutely fine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, ljmicky says, Hi guys, Monday night NXT was great, but what is even greater? Well, after a long lengthy period of unemployment, I got a job. Oh, brilliant news. Excellent. So now I'm once again able to support my favourite wrestling lads. Jam that jam.


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[Assistant] All facts. And before we get into things, I just want to say that this podcast is sponsored by Nexus brand Cannabis Co. They're hooking us up fat. We're smoking on Diablo OG tonight. It's one of their Indica flavors. They got a lounge downtown where they do shows. We had a Juicy J show down there. Yeah, they got a studio there and they love you.


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[Assistant] Nexus, Cannabis Pro, as well as my friends over at Ain't Nobody Cool, they actually made you a little something.


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[Assistant] Right here, I got a very, a custom one-of-a-kind gift. What do you think of this? Let's see. Oh man, that's dope.


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[Assistant] You seem like the kind of guy who would like some personalized merch that features a cartoon photo of you with a Gucci bag and a bazooka. Beautiful.


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[Assistant] And they, uh, they hooked up a few other ones too. I figured you might like this one. Watch that.


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[Assistant] Some ignorant shit. I got you some, uh, no jumper on some shit stuff in here too.


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[Assistant] And then this is another one that, uh, Ain't Nobody Coolin' Nexus sent over the activist logo. Okay, cool. That's great. I love this shirt.


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[Assistant] You know, we are here serving bozos. Alright, now let's get into this. So you're, it kind of comes with a bunch of, uh,


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[Assistant] It's a little intimidating interviewing you, because you've had so many legendary interview moments over the years, you've just sort of become known as a dude who, if you put you in front of a camera, that you're gonna entertain the crowd, you're gonna say some prolific shit that is gonna make people think, and that's kinda something you've got a reputation for at this point.


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[Assistant] Alright, so for the record, I feel like I really started to find out about you sort of in the certain Gucci Mane, Pee Wee, Long Way era around that time. But you've been around way longer than that.


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[Assistant] So let's hear about the upbringing though, cause I feel like normally in your interviews, they just jump straight into like, let's talk about lean and fucking.


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[Assistant] Do you ever get annoyed when those, uh, those crazy YouTube titles come out? Jesus Christ, you got a lot of jewelry on, my friend. This is wild. That fucking Rolex or whatever the fuck that thing in is is insane. You got like five chains on. And we just doing, we doing how we do it. You also pulled out like fucking 10 grand or some shit earlier and, uh.


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[Assistant] Threw it all over the ground. It was very exciting. And now you put our shirts all over the Gucci bag, which is nice. That's nice of you to cover it up.


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[Assistant] Jesus Christ, that's crazy, man. You gotta move around a certain way when you got that much jewelry on you? Should I pull it up on you 3D? 3D? What's that mean? Just pull it up looking great?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. You know, I interviewed uh, Hoodrich Pablo like last year, and I spent a lot of time with the, the Million Dollar Plugs mixtape. Yeaah, yeaah. M-M-Million Dollar Plugs, 300 away. Yeaah, I love that. I love that lean song. Lean.


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[Assistant] Okay, was he just documenting the whole thing on Instagram Live? Oh, Insta Snap. I seen an interview with you like a year ago, you were like, nah, I'll do the Instagram story. I'm like, you lying, bro.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like the Instagram stories though, they're sort of threatening to make the Snapchat. What the fuck is up, Snapchat? We love you, you're never going out of style, it's Rope Gang, it's Nojumper, we're here with the million dollar kid. You already know, let's get into it, what you wanna know, bro? Uh, I wanna know, alright, let's, let's, uh,


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[Assistant] So that was my first note that I wrote down. It's just how you're legendary for the interviews. But okay, do you ever feel like, uh, sometimes these motherfuckers come through with like predatory titles and shit in terms of how they're discussing you that they just seem like they try to make you sound like you're a fucking nutcase or whatever when the title is like,


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[Assistant] He spent, you know, a quarter million dollars on lean last week or something.


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[Assistant] Well, you definitely don't look like you're going as hard as you were during this one interview I was watching earlier where your eyes were rolling into the back of your head and shit. You seem pretty chill in comparison to that.


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[Assistant] Did you have to at some point or why did you feel like you wanted to chill out with the drugs?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I heard that you can get 10,000 for a pineapple hack right now. True or false?


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[Assistant] What you mean, like? In the sense of like, you know, doing too much Xanax that can give you like crazy depression and stuff when you try to get off of it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. They get very upset about that. They'll lock you up. Lil Pump told me he got locked up because he fell asleep on an airplane and he couldn't wake up.


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[Assistant] That's crazy, yeah. Little, little EP. You've done like songs with everybody. You're like the king of collaborating.


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[Assistant] How'd you first start out rapping though, like what was it the first thing, like a lot of people hear you talk about this crazy shit, but they don't know where you came from, how you started out in this shit.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's probably a whole bunch of blunts. I've seen all your fucking homies just rolling up insane amounts of weed earlier.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So, you guys got together, you started working on music and stuff, and then that song just completely takes off in the beginning. Did you guys get signed like real early on?


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[Assistant] So you didn't end up taking any of the deals? Damn, but they were all competing for you but it ended up that none of them worked out?


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[Assistant] That was kind of a crazy area, what was it like, 2008?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was like a very different time though. But you feel like you were never meant to be in a group?


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[Assistant] I got stuck watching a bunch of his videos earlier too, after I was watching yours, I seen him in the sidebar.


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[Assistant] Uh, but so then that shit stops working out. When do you feel like you really started to catch popularity as a solo artist?


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[Assistant] So did you have anybody sort of like that you were rapping with or that you were working with? Did you have management back then? Did you have anybody like showing you the ropes?


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[Assistant] So that's like one of these Atlanta sort of like companies that basically tries to help artists out in the early stages of their career and type stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So you ended up getting a Gucci feature. Was that a crazy feeling? Like having him in the studio? Did he one take it? What was the process like?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know you do. You got a bunch. You got something that came out while he was in jail and shit too, right?


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[Assistant] So, like, was that crazy though? Because seeing him go in the booth, like, in front of you, like, with no warning, no time to get prepared for, that must have been a crazy experience, huh?


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[Assistant] He raps over the fucking, the skeletons of beats too, before they even have the shit together, I heard. He does that a lot, like when he was trying to get shit done before he went into jail.


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[Assistant] What's the bracelets about too? You got all kinds of crazy beaded bracelets. Like where do you get those? Do I need to know about those?


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[Assistant] That's what's up. I like that you have the Gucci neck tattoo too, that you got the whole print done on your whole throat.


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[Assistant] What is it about Gucci though that just drives guys like you crazy?


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[Assistant] Damn, that's good. Alright, so this is my main thing though. You're so famous for your interviews and shit. Do you feel like you would ever think about sort of making videos yourself in terms of like having your own YouTube channel or something instead of having other people go ask you questions, just make videos sort of more formally talking about stuff?


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[Assistant] See, that makes sense for why I'm doing it then because like, you could get turned on to the like, I got this interview because you were watching a video of me fucking doing some dumb shit.


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[Assistant] Did any of those vlogs stand out to you though? Like, uh, I feel like the one with the threesomes and stuff, those are the ones that people always walk up to me and talk about.


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[Assistant] Really? Are you really, are you a threesome kind of guy? Is that like your thing? Uhm, yeaah. I guess at this point I can say it's kind of my thing too.


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[Assistant] She gotta be really fucking bad to get a three thousand dollar bag with the dick.


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[Assistant] That's really all about, that's kinda like a feminist thing, you know? It's like, if you're gonna spend time with me, I might as well help you out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you got some pretty good, uh, features on here. You got fuckin' Takeoff, Wife and Lucci, Day-Day, and Lil Yachty all on this bitch, and PB Longway.


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[Assistant] And so, like, you just feel like you had crazy energy with him from the beginning. I've always felt like when you guys came out that you guys were just fucking really wild on the fuck out on tracks.


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[Assistant] I mean, it makes your whole life, like, unstable. Like, it's just hard to, like, hold it together off that shit because you'd just be fucking losing your mind.


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[Assistant] I remember one time me and my girl, we, we went like an hour away to go to this party and we took ecstasy when we got there and then all of a sudden we wanted to fuck so bad that we had to take like a hundred dollar Uber to go back to the crib and fuck what's happening.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you might have to fuck just so you can like kick it and be kinda normal afterwards.


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[Assistant] But fucking on Molly, ain't no normal fucking, it's like a five hour fucking ordeal, you know? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but is it cool coming to LA because you don't have to worry about any street shit? You don't gotta worry about seeing all these weird mother-


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[Assistant] I'll link you with him. Yea, you into like, you feel like there's like a difference between like street rap and like hipster rap these days? I mean, hipster rap, cool. Or Soundcloud rap or mumble rap, whatever it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how you feel about like the EDM scene? You've seen Walker kind of go in that direction after a while?


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[Assistant] Oh, it isn't, okay. I think, I thought, I thought, I swear I heard a verse from you on one of his shits. I don't know, but uhm, yeaah, you, you feel, like,


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[Assistant] Do you, do you like that, that kind of music, like EDM type music, dance music?


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[Assistant] For the culture. For the culture. Yeaah. That's true. But that's a kind of different culture. That's more the other culture.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you never went to rehab, right? What? You never went to rehab, you just named the tape hut?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. So it's like a natural type of healing thing or?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know about all that. Yo, we got this cat walking around. You ain't scared of cats or anything, are you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I had a bunch of rappers come in here and just be kind of freaked out by the cat. Like it just seemed like they don't really know what to think of him.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, we had Pablo in here and a roach popped out and he got so fucking weirded out. He jumped up. He was like, man, get in the fuck away from that thing.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Yeaah. Roaches are pretty fucking gross, let's be honest.


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[Assistant] But do you, do you respect the roach? Like are you the kind of guy who's gonna leave a big fucking inch and a half long roach in the ass tray? I feel like a lot of rappers are just-


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[Assistant] That's kinda like a rapper thing though, is to like not even give a fuck about like a third of the blunt, just sorta leave it there.


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[Assistant] I don't know, what should we stop at? Oh yeaah, I want to talk about sort of being famous and how you deal with your fans. Like, do you like the fact that you get stopped a lot when you're out and about?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Oh no, Alex, the one from Ain't Nobody Cool and Nexus Cannabis Co. Yeah, yeah. He, uh, he's the one who made those shirts, but he had to dip off. He's a lean head. He's probably off there sippin'.


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[Assistant] That's pretty crazy. Yeaah, you think, I think you'll like it more when you move out here to LA.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Someone, uh, those guys, they told me to ask you, uh, who drinks the most lean in Atlanta. If there's anybody who holds, like, a specific title.


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[Assistant] Meek Mill. So that didn't bother you when you had that whole thing with Drake?


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[Assistant] So, is it weird for you when you're out here with all these chains on?


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[Assistant] I think you might have won the contest for who was one of the most changed on this podcast.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't- yeah, that shit crazy. Well, he was jumping around too much. You know what time Taco Bell closed?


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[Assistant] That's really interesting. Yeah, Yachty only eats pizza and candy.


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[Assistant] You gotta be picky about pussy in general. You don't want to be going around in weird pussies. You gotta end up in trouble.


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[Assistant] Let's get it. When you're with a girl you really like though, is eating pussy like part of the agenda? Is that something you enjoy?


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[Assistant] When you watch a fight like that, does it kinda turn into like a racial thing where you just wanna see the black dude beat the white guy's ass?


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[Assistant] That shit was entertaining as fuck, but it's not like anybody ever really thought Conor McGregor was gonna beat Floyd Miller in a boxing match. That's crazy though. He's like the greatest boxer of all time and Conor's like a good boxer, but he's not like him.


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[Assistant] I kind of feel like that too. I don't want a girl getting real mad at me lately because I think I just like work too much.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I better ignore it for too much, you know, I'll just be working for way too long and it's tough.


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[Assistant] You know what I think could be the move that could really help you get into the BET Awards and stuff is like, you got guys like Takeoff, or, or, excuse me, Offset and Quavo, they're dating these famous chicks. You got Travis Scott, he's knocking up a fucking Kylie Jenner. You think I need to give me a famous chick? We got 21 and, uh, Amber Rose.


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[Assistant] I feel like if you, if we had you with... There you go. Ooh, there you go. Coming from Young Dirk.


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[Assistant] I'm just kidding. Nah, Daisy Love is good, but she's like a rap chick. I feel like we should go outside of it. What about like Jennifer Aniston? Get you a grown woman.


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[Assistant] Or maybe like, uhm, one of the other, like, the other chicks in Destiny's Child or something. No way man, no sir, no way will they. Too old?


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[Assistant] Alright, fair enough. Uhm, who do you want to shout out?


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[Assistant] Shout out to Nexus Cannabis Co for keeping us laced. Shout out to my man, uh, Mike over there, Alex, Serb, everybody, ain't nobody cool. Shout out for the, uh, thank you to them for the shirts. Uh, yeaah. Big things coming. Thank you very much, bro. Appreciate you.


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[Assistant] Jamie had kept the small Bible. He rummaged in his saddlebag and handed it across now for me to look at.


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[Assistant] It was a worn leather covered volume, about five inches long.


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[Assistant] Printed on paper so flimsy the print showed through from one side of each page to the other. On the flyleaf was written Alexander William Roderick McGregor 1733. The ink was faded and blurred.


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[Assistant] It must have cost something in effort to keep it by him through the travels and adventures of the last four years. I've never seen you read it. I handed it back. No. That's not why I keep it, he said.


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[Assistant] He tucked it away, stroking the edge of the worn cover with a thumb as he did so. He patted the saddlebag absently. There's a debt owing to Alex, McGregor. I mean to collect it some time. Anyway, he continued, returning to his story. Friday came at last, and I don't know whether I was glad or sorry to see it.


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[Assistant] The waiting and the fear were almost worse than I thought the pain would be. When it came though...


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[Assistant] He made that odd half-shrugging gesture of his, easing the shirt across his back. Well, you've seen the marks. You know what it was like. Only because Dougal told me. He said he was there. Jamie nodded. Aye, he was there. And my father as well, although I didn't know it at the time.


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[Assistant] I'd no mind for anything much beyond my own problems then. Oh, I said slowly. And your father? Mm-hm. That's when it happened.


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[Assistant] Some of the men there told me after that they thought I was dead halfway through, and I reckon my father thought so too. He hesitated, and his voice was thick when he resumed. When I fell, Dougal told me


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[Assistant] My father made a small sound and put his hand up to his head. Then he dropped like a rock and didn't get up again.


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[Assistant] The birds were moving in the heather, trilling and calling from the still dark leaves of the trees. Jamie's head was bowed, face still invisible. I didn't know he was dead.


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[Assistant] He said softly, they did not tell me until a month later when they thought I was strong enough to bear it. So I did not bury him as his son should have done. And I have never seen his grave because I'm afraid to go home. Jamie, I said. Oh, Jamie dear.


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[Assistant] After what seemed a long silence, I said, but you don't, you can't feel responsible.


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[Assistant] Jamie, there was nothing you could have done, or done differently. No, he said. No, maybe not.


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[Assistant] Though I wonder would it still have happened had I chosen the other way.


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[Assistant] And I feel as though I had done him to death with my own hands. Jamie, I said again, and stopped, helpless.


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[Assistant] He rode silently for a bit, then straightened up and squared his shoulders once more. I've not told anyone about it, he said abruptly.


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[Assistant] But I thought that now you should know about Randall, I mean.


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[Assistant] You've a right to know what it is that lies between him and me. What it is that lies between him and me. The life of a good man. The honor of a girl.


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[Assistant] That there was now one more item waiting the scales. Me.


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[Assistant] For the first time I began to realize what Jamie had felt crouched in the window of Randall's room with an empty gun in his hand. And I began to forgive him for what he had done to me. As though reading my mind, he said, not looking at me, Do you know? I mean, can you understand maybe why I thought it needful to beat you?


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[Assistant] I love baseball. I can't say that enough. Every time I'm there, I just like, I soak it all in. But I wasn't supposed to be at that game.


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[Assistant] It was like any other day, but as soon as I opened the door, I was completely surrounded, like SWAT style.


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[Assistant] There's 56,000 people at this game. How could you possibly be on camera? I wasn't supposed to be at that game. And that was playing my head over and over.


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[Assistant] And I'd also like to point out that the whole, like, promotion around this is, is Brock Lesnar gonna show up? He might not! Is Brock Lesnar gonna appear? Find out next! And then he came out and was like, he's here!


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[Assistant] Quite makes sense with the continuity of WWE being like, you know, you add your hands with Bobby Lashley at Elimination Chamber. So you think you can take on a moss and it's like, yeah, because a moss is worse than Lashley.


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[Assistant] But you know how Brock Lesnar has beaten several black wrestlers?


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[Assistant] That's my primary thought, why? This is just a weird match.


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[Assistant] I could say, well, the thing is, I know, Lesnar matches, historically, aren't very long anyway, but...


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[Assistant] This is gonna go minute. Let's just gonna kill him. That's it. That's the whole match. Then what's the point?


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[Assistant] I don't think this is related to this creative decision specifically, I just don't believe that Vince McMahon is in control of creative.


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[Assistant] I would think that Vince probably has input, but I'm pretty confident that Triple H is still very much in control of creativity. His fingerprints all across this episode.


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[Assistant] That's fun to speculate. I don't think it's true. But it's a fun theory. I think it's a really fun theory. Uh, I... I don't...


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[Assistant] They have that stare down at the rumble. Lesnar and Gunther. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It feels like to me the plan was always Gunther vs. Banger Bros. Triple Threat.


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[Assistant] I always thought that was kind of the plan. Like I always thought maybe it was just fantasy booking heads at the time, but that I always thought was kind of the eventual direction of where we were heading and the Lesnaguntha thing was just a fun spot in the rumble. You know, just like a, ah!


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what it is. And I, for me, that's what I took from it. Was not necessarily, this is the mania program, but just like a, hey look!


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[Assistant] Absolutely, and I think this was, see the thing is, we all loved Triple H's NXT.


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[Assistant] But did we really? Because we loved takeovers. There it is! Did we really like weekly NXT shows?


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[Assistant] There was nothing bad about Weekly NXT in the Triple H era.


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[Assistant] But then when you got to the big shows, it was like, ah, amazing! Stakes, big time matches, everybody gets time to shine, five matches on a card, the best performers from the brand are competing, this is what we want to see.


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[Assistant] No, it very much felt like this show as a whole was saying like, hey, next week though.


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[Assistant] Because it very much felt like on this show, they were like, hey, next week we've got John Cena, hey next week we've got Logan Paul, hey next week we've got this other match.


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[Assistant] It was very, uhm, formulaic, is what I'd call it. Cause I think it happened maybe three or four times on this show, where person wins match, person cuts promo after match.


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[Assistant] And that was it. Like you had, like, just a feature match. Like Asuka faced Carmella, and Cody Rhodes beat Chad Gable, and both of them cut a promo afterwards to be like, I'm gonna win at WrestleMania!


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[Assistant] Like it's not a bad idea to feature the people who are going to wrestle at WrestleMania and give them wins on the build to WrestleMania. That's a solid idea. Sure is. It's just not that captivating.


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[Assistant] We're getting sidetracked from this old Brock Lesnar almost thing.


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[Assistant] Exactly, I, I don't, I think you're wasting the potential of a Brock Lesnar match if you just say, eh, could be anything. Cause really, you're putting him up against Omos at Mania.


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[Assistant] It could realistically be most people to get this, a similar sort of reaction. Granted, the casual people are gonna be like, that man's tall. But you have a lot of big lads on the roster. You could do Brock Lesnar vs Otis, you could do Brock Lesnar vs Rick Boogs, you know.


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[Assistant] Braun again. Brock Lesnar vs Mace. Brock Lesnar vs Shanky. Those are tall people, but like, no, it's just not appealing, you know.


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[Assistant] My, another gripe I have with this as well is one, from this segment in particular, Lesnar just wasn't taking it more seriously at all. He's like, okay, we're going to do a bit of business, I'm going to beat him, sure, whatever, don't care. Which, why would I now care about the match? Because Lesnar doesn't care. And also,


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[Assistant] I was thinking you were going to say 90 seconds would have been a stare down. Like a bell rings and they just stand there looking at each other.


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[Assistant] Ooh, can't wait. Can't wait. Riveting. That's what that is.


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[Assistant] Well, some people who also started watching WWE later also turned 30 soon.


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[Assistant] And I will also say, it does make me chuckle when people be like, if you take away the good stuff, is this thing bad? And it's like, well you've taken away the good stuff. So, yes, by default. Cause those are the best builds, really. Ray dollars.


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[Assistant] Wonderful. Yeah, it's great. It's wonderful. And the bloodline is obviously fantastic. And I think...


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[Assistant] Taking, taking the good stuff, like cherry picking the good stuff out of it and then going, well the rest of it is bad, therefore this is bad. It's like, yea, but you've not looked at the good stuff. I'm not saying that two feuds make up for the rest of it, but I do think it's important to take the whole picture into account.


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[Assistant] I don't give a damn what the travel chief wants. Or thinks, or whatever he said it was. Oh, that's good.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I don't think it's the effect of Vince's creative. I think that it is Triple H just kind of spinning his wheels to mania. He's got your plan and now he's just kind of spinning until we get there.


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[Assistant] And granted, this promo doesn't get, you know, the same kind of spotlight that a Roman segment would or a Sammy segment would or whatever, but having segments like this where you can see characters' motivations and you understand why Jimmy Uso is saying what he's saying and Sorosakowa gets to continue to stand there and be awesome, uh,


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[Assistant] For me, that's what makes the whole bloodline interesting, because if you just have the important people every time, the less important people never get a chance to shine. So I think having stuff like this is important in making the rest of the bloodline feel important, especially


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[Assistant] Because it really looks like we're doing Sami and KO vs The Usos at Wrestlemania. So having Jimmy Uso...


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[Assistant] One of the four people in that match have a chance to cut a promo to talk about his motivations and say how, you know, talk about the past of KO and Sammy and Cody and all that stuff.


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[Assistant] I liked Jimmy and Solo tagging because I was like, well there's no Jay. What's Jay doing?


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[Assistant] It's the, it's, you think about the other characters by omission, because they don't mention Jay, like, so what's Jay doing right now? Wonder what Jay thinks of this segment.


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[Assistant] But it's fine. I, I did also think it was weird and they were like, oh we got a tag match. And I was like, oh Jimmy and Solo tagging, that should be fun. And then they come out and cut a promo and then the Street Profits come out and they're like, oh do you wanna fight? And it's like, you have a scheduled tag match. Like, they already announced it was a tag match.


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[Assistant] And then they said, please welcome their opponents, the Street Profits. And it's like, uh, come on, let's fight. And it's like, we want the smoke.


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[Assistant] I definitely don't think they are taking full advantage of the momentum that they had with Montez Ford coming out of the chamber. I agree with you 100%. I don't think he's being given nothing.


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[Assistant] I think there is something. They're making an effort to make Montez Ford the star of the street profits right now. I think that is intentional. They're giving him something.


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[Assistant] He's just there. And like, he said I have a couple of really interesting matches and I was like, oh, this should be fun. Like a couple of these matches, but that's just me going off cause I know NXT Gargano. It's got nothing to do with main event Gargano.


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[Assistant] Sorry, just very quickly. I just want to say on this story in particular, I think they're doing a really good job of telling the KO and Sammy vs. Uso story.


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[Assistant] I just don't know whether people are satisfied with that story. I personally am. I'm well on board with the story. I think it's great. I love the ending of Elimination Chamber. I think it makes total sense. If it's a story they're gonna tell, that's fine. I'm on board with Cody versus Roman as well. I think that's also a good story. I'm on board with all of this.


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[Assistant] I just want to make sure everybody else is okay with this too. I think people are.


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[Assistant] Good! He's so good! There were some great spots in this match as well. Smoothest transition into the figure 4 I've ever seen. That was real good. That was nice. Disaster kick countered into the German suplex. Gable works over Cody's knee in this match.


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[Assistant] Gable did this awesome cliffhanger DDT into a moonsault. It was awesome. That was insane.


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[Assistant] And then after the match, Cody cut a promo to say, uh, cause it was earlier said, uh, that Jimmy said in the opening promo that, uh, Roman's gonna be on SmackDown this week. Cody said, cool, I'm also gonna be on SmackDown this week. And that was it.


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[Assistant] Again, that's where we were last week. And then Kevin Patrick went to hug Corey Graves.


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[Assistant] But I don't think they were tank champs. No, but they definitely were a team.


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[Assistant] Uh, we had a backstage segment next, with maximum male models. Do you mind if I do an impersonation of Marseille?


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[Assistant] I popped so hard for Mace. Cause it was significantly higher. I'm not very flexible.


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[Assistant] Yes. Like significantly higher on the door, and just kind of leant there, like he was all casual. Very funny.


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[Assistant] But if they're a little, like, fun comedy goof act, where they just go around and be knobs backstage, that's- they're funny. Yeah, they're charismatic enough. If Mace just does that, all the time, I'm on board.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't think it looked like it was Carmella Bianca for Wrestlemania, cause as soon as she attacked her I was like, okay it's Carmella Bianca next week. Which it is.


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[Assistant] So this is, uh, I believe this is actually before the match started. I said, uh, Corey, please shut the fuck up. And then my second note was, Corey, please shut the fuck up! My god, he's insufferable!


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[Assistant] See, I think, Cory was insufferable to start with. He then had a bit where I was like,


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[Assistant] You should do that more! Do that bit more! Because he just added a bit more context and stuff. This is what he should be bringing to Carmella matches, saying that like,


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[Assistant] You know, she hasn't just been moonwalking around at home, she's been strategizing, she's been watching Asuka, and she's aware that this might be the most dangerous version of Asuka that we've seen, and I don't think it's the smartest decision she's made, but if you wanna get booked on WrestleMania, you gotta take out the top people in the division, and that's why she's going after Asuka. I'm like,


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[Assistant] Would you say that Michael Cole as a heel commentator is supposed to be an insufferable douchebag? Well he was. Because he is, but it makes me want to change the channel.


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[Assistant] That is quite a, that's quite a charge, some might say. I, I, you know, I think people can be fans of The Miz. And that's great.


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[Assistant] I don't think you can call him one of the greatest of all time, unless you're specifically just talking about WWE accolades. Because I think on paper, technically he probably is. He's got a lot of belts. And he's won pretty much everything. But, unless you're talking about any other parameters,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so they, they will hype up the whole envelope thing for ages for this segment. You know, what, what's in the envelope? What's in the envelope? And Miz didn't have the envelope with him this week, which makes sense. Uhm, and he announced he's going to be the host of WrestleMania. My next thing was, I wonder how Luke reacted to this.


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[Assistant] Miz then says, he's not a B type of person, he's an A type of person. So then, Roland said, so you're an A-hole.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's a thing. Regardless.


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[Assistant] It wasn't fantastic. And the reason that-


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[Assistant] Which is what I assumed it was. Which is what I assumed it was, but like, no one says that. Uhm, it was a convoluted way to get to a punchline that they'd already figured out, basically, is what I'm trying to say. Uhm, well, the reason why this didn't


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[Assistant] Whatever, it's silly and stupid. Uhm, but Rollins said the reason that he interrupted MizTV was because he wants Miz to call Logan Paul for him.


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[Assistant] Miz then says no, Rollins super kicks him, grabs his phone, and then uses Miz's face ID to unlock the phone. That was funny. Which the sound effect plays throughout the studio, because that's how phones work, and then he called Logan on FaceTime, and then said, you should turn up next week, face to face, and Logan was like, alright. And then he gave a stomp to Miz.


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[Assistant] Watch next week, because that's pretty much what this show was.


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[Assistant] There are so many of the words that you just said that I really hate.


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[Assistant] That's crazy that they said that. It's so unique. No one else says that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if they'd, if like, even if nobody in like the community had been talking about Sena, if they'd been talking about Sena on this show for a while, I could understand the story point. But he'd just be like, everyone's talking about John Sena. It's like, but they're not though. That's a lie.


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[Assistant] This feels like a very superficial version of Bray Wyatt. Like, do you remember the thing that you liked? Look at it again!


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[Assistant] Maybe it's because I just don't care about this version of Bray Wyatt at all. But I saw the moss on my net and I was like, yeah. Okay.


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[Assistant] She's very good. On the trot. I think that's like three weeks. I've laughed at her second.


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[Assistant] Then got- Massive upset, by the way, according to commentary. Massive upset Gargano beat Otis. Was it really?


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[Assistant] I really like this bit as well, because they said, uh, Kathy Kelly tried to correct Paul Heyman, because Paul Heyman was like, you know, Cody Rhodes is gonna confront Roman Reigns on SmackDown, and she was like, well technically he didn't say that, he said he's just gonna be there at SmackDown, and Heyman's like,


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[Assistant] Obviously they're gonna confront each other, they're facing each other at the rest of the meeting, what are you talking about Cathy? And I was like, yeah Cathy, what are you on about? You weirdo.


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[Assistant] Yeah, until we can get to the thing that they want to do at WrestleMania.


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[Assistant] They've had their plan for Mania for ages and they've just spun it and just kept the feud going until they want to get to this bit.


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[Assistant] And then it's Jericho Appreciation Society vs Ricky Starks. This feud is over, but here's more of it.


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[Assistant] Mostly nothing. Uh, two very quick bits of commentary that I just want to point out. Uh, Becky Lynch and Lita, uh, they first tagged in, they hit, uh, uh, uh, like a double suplex, they hit suplex together. And Kevin Patrick goes, how's that for chemistry? They hit one move, KP.


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[Assistant] But why stretch it out? Whatever, doesn't matter. And to be fair, their crown jewel match wasn't a screwy finish. It was just bad.


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[Assistant] They did so well that first year. They, they, they occasionally booked Asuka really well, like the chamber match, she looked awesome. Yes, she did, so did. In the rumble match, she looked awesome.


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[Assistant] Occasionally, they're like, this is the ASCII one. You're like, yes, yes it is more of that, and they go...


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[Assistant] Corey Graves never gets his comeuppance for being a knob. And that's, I think, that's my main issue.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's booked poorly. Like, you should have these people putting good performances against people that aren't Asuka.


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[Assistant] The hubbub occasioned by our sudden arrival and the announcement of our marriage was overshadowed almost at once by an event of greater importance.


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[Assistant] We were sitting at supper in the great hall the next day, accepting the toasts and good wishes being offered in our honour.


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[Assistant] Jamie bowed gracefully to the latest toaster.


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[Assistant] And sat down amid the increasingly sporadic applause.


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[Assistant] The wooden bench shook under his weight and he closed his eyes briefly. Getting a bit much for you, I whispered.


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[Assistant] He had borne the brunt of the toasting matching each cup drained on our behalf.


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[Assistant] While I had so far escaped, with no more than token sips, accompanied by bright smiles at the incomprehensible Gaelic toasts.


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[Assistant] Peering at the array of empty wine bottles and stone ale jars lined up on the board in front of us. It's getting rather late.


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[Assistant] The candles on Column's table burned low in their holders, and the guttered wax glowed gold.


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[Assistant] The light marking the Mackenzie brothers with odd patches of shadow and glinting flesh as they lean together talking in low voices.


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[Assistant] They could have joined the company of carved nomic heads that edged the huge fireplace.


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[Assistant] And I wondered how many of those caricatured figures had, in fact, been drawn from the patronising features of earlier Mackenzie Lairds. Perhaps by a carver with a sense of humour. Or a strong family connection.


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[Assistant] Jamie stretched slightly in his seat, grimacing in mild discomfort.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, he said, my bladder is going to burst in another moment or two. I'll be back shortly.


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[Assistant] Where Giles Duncan sat, demurely sipping at a silver cup of ale.


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[Assistant] Her husband, Arthur, sat at the next table with Colm, as befitted the procurator fiscal of the district. But Gilly had insisted on sitting next to me.


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[Assistant] Saying that she had no wish to be wearied by hearing man talk all through supper.


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[Assistant] Arthur's deep-set eyes were half-closed, blue-pouched, and sunk with wine and fatigue. He leaned heavily on his forearms, face slack, ignoring the conversation of the Mackenzies next to him.


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[Assistant] Why the light through the sharp-cut features of the lad and his brother into a high relief.


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[Assistant] Perhaps just chronic gastritis, as Geely insisted.


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[Assistant] She cursed the briefest of glances at her spouse before turning back to me with a shrug.


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[Assistant] The Will to Change. Men, Masculinity and Love. Written by Bell Hooks.


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[Assistant] Read and recorded by Sen Naomi Keir Schultz on May 17th, 2022.


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[Assistant] Every woman wants to love and be loved by the males in her life, whether gay or straight, bisexual or celibate. She wants to feel the love of father, grandfather, uncle, brother, or male friend.


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[Assistant] If she's heterosexual, she wants the love of a male partner. We live in a culture.


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[Assistant] We're emotionally starved, deprived females are desperately seeking male love. Our collective hunger is so intense that it rends us.


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[Assistant] And yet we dare not speak it for fear we will be mocked, pitied, and shamed. To speak our hunger for male love would be


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[Assistant] Demand that we name the intensity of our lack and our loss.


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[Assistant] The male bashing that was so intense when contemporary feminism first surfaced more than 30 years ago was in part the rageful cover-up of the shame that women felt, not because men refused to share their power, but because we could not seduce, cajole, or entice men to share their emotions, to love us.


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[Assistant] By claiming that they wanted the power men had, men hating feminists who were by no means the majority, covertly proclaimed,


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[Assistant] That they too wanted to be rewarded for being out of touch with their feelings, for being unable to love. Men in patriarchal culture responded to feminist demand for greater equity in the work world and in the sexual world by making room by sharing the spheres of power.


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[Assistant] No one hungers for male love more than the little girl or boy who rightfully needs and seeks love from dad. He may be absent, dead,


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[Assistant] Present in body, yet emotionally not there, but the girl or boy hungers to be acknowledged, recognized, respected, cared for.


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[Assistant] All around our nation a billboard carries this message.


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[Assistant] Each night millions of kids go to sleep starving. For attention from their dads.


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[Assistant] Because patriarchal culture has already taught girls and boys that dad's love is more valuable than mother love. It is unlikely that maternal affection will heal the lack of fatherly love.


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[Assistant] No wonder then that these girls and boys grew up angry with men, angry that they've been denied the love they need to feel whole, worthy accepted.


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[Assistant] Heterosexual girls and homosexual boys can and do become the women and men who make romantic bonds the place where they quest to find and know male love. But that quest is rarely satisfied.


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[Assistant] Usually rage, grief, and unrelenting disappointment lead women and men to close off the part of themselves that was hoping to be touched and healed by male love.


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[Assistant] They learn then to settle for whatever positive attention men are able to give. They learn to overvalue it. They learn to pretend that it is love. They learn how not to speak the truth about men and love. They learn to live the lie.


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[Assistant] As a child, I hungered for the love of my dad. I wanted him to notice me, to give me his attention and his affections. When I could not get him to notice me by being good and dutiful, I was willing to risk punishment, to be bad enough to catch his gaze at least, to hold it and to bear the weight of his heavy hand.


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[Assistant] I longed for those hands to hold, to shelter and protect me, touch me with tenderness and care, but I accept that that would never be.


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[Assistant] I knew at age five that those hands would acknowledge me only when they were bringing me pain. That if I could accept that pain and hold it close, I could be daddy's girl. I could make him proud. I'm not alone.


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[Assistant] So many of us have felt that we could win male love by showing we were willing to bear the pain that we were willing to live our lives, affirming that the maleness deemed truly manly because it withholds, withdraws, refuses, is the maleness that we desire.


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[Assistant] We learn to love men more because they will not love us. If they dared to love us, in patriarchal culture they would cease to be real men, quote unquote.


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[Assistant] In her moving memoir, In the Country of Men, Jen Waldron describes a similar longing.


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[Assistant] She confesses that the kind of father I ached for.


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[Assistant] I have never seen except in glimpses I have embellished with wishful think- imaginings.


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[Assistant] Contrasting the loving fathers we long for with the fathers we have, she expresses the hunger. Dad, it is a vow against all odds in the face of countless examples to the contrary.


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[Assistant] Mother love is aplenty and apparent. We complain because we have too much of it. The love of a father is an uncommon gem to be hunted, burnished, and hoarded. Its value goes up because of its scarcity.


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[Assistant] In our culture, we say very little about the longing for father love.


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[Assistant] Rather than bringing us great wisdom about the nature of men and love, reformist feminist focus on male power reinforced the notion that somehow males were powerful and had it all.


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[Assistant] feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men, did not tell us the terrible terror that gnaws at the soul when one cannot love.


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[Assistant] I think the reason that men are so very violent is that they know deep in themselves that they're acting out a lie.


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[Assistant] And so they're furious at being caught up in the lie, but they don't know how to break it. They're in a rage because they're acting out a lie, which means that in some deep part of themselves, they want to be delivered from it and are homesick for the truth.


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[Assistant] The truth we do not tell is that men are longing for love.


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[Assistant] This is a longing feminist thinkers must dare to examine, explore, and talk about. Those rare visionary feminist seers who are now no longer all-female are no longer afraid to openly address issues of men, masculinity, and love.


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[Assistant] Women have been joined by men with open minds and big hearts, men who love, men who know how hard it is for males to practice the art of loving in patriarchal culture.


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[Assistant] In part, I began to write books about love because of the constant fighting between my ex-boyfriend Anthony and myself.


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[Assistant] We were, and at the time of this writing still are, each other's primary bond. We came together hoping to create love and found ourselves instead creating conflict.


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[Assistant] We decided to break up. But even that did not bring an end to the conflict. The issues we fought about most had to do with the practice of love.


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[Assistant] Like so many men who know that the women in their lives want to hear them declare love, Anthony made those declarations.


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[Assistant] When asked to link the I love you words with definition and practice, he found that he did not really have the words, that he was fundamentally uncomfortable being asked to talk about emotions.


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[Assistant] Like many males, he had not been happy in most of the relationships he had chosen.


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[Assistant] The unhappiness of men in relationships, the grief men feel about the failure of love often goes unnoticed in our society precisely because the patriarchal culture really does not care if men are unhappy.


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[Assistant] When females are in emotional pain, the sexist thinking that says that emotions should and can matter to women makes it possible for most of us to at least voice our heart, to speak it to someone, whether a close friend, a therapist, or the stranger sitting next to us on a plane or bus.


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[Assistant] Patriarchal Moors teach a form of emotional stoicism to men that says they are more manly if they do not feel, but if by chance they should feel, and the feelings hurt, the manly response is to stuff them down, to forget about them, to hope they go away.


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[Assistant] I have always been a fan of the Sylvia cartoon where two women sit, one looking into a crystal ball as the other woman says, quote, he never talks about his feelings.


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[Assistant] And the woman who can see the future says at 2pm all over the world men will begin to talk about their feelings and women all over the world will be sorry.


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[Assistant] If we cannot heal what we cannot feel by supporting patriarchal culture that socializes men to deny feelings, we doom them to live in states of emotional numbness. We construct a culture where male pain can have no voice, where male hurt cannot be named or healed.


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[Assistant] It is not just men who do not take their pain seriously. Most women do not want to deal with male pain if it interferes with the satisfaction of female desire. When the feminist movement led to men's liberation, including men exploring their feelings,


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[Assistant] Some women mocked male emotional expression with the same disgust and contempt as sexist men.


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[Assistant] Despite all the expressed feminist longing for men of feeling when men worked to get in touch with feelings, no one really wanted to reward them.


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[Assistant] In feminist circles, men who wanted to change were often labeled narcissistic or needy. Individual men who expressed feelings were often seen as attention seekers, patriarchal manipulators trying to steal the stage with their drama.


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[Assistant] When I was in my twenties, I would go to couples therapy. And my partner of more than ten years would explain how I asked him to talk about his feelings. And when he did, I would freak out.


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[Assistant] Here I was, an enlightened feminist woman who did not want to hear my man speak his pain because it revealed his emotional vulnerability.


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[Assistant] It stands to reason, then, that the masses of women committed to the sexist principle that men who express their feelings are weak really do not want to hear men speak, especially if what they say is that they hurt, that they feel unloved.


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[Assistant] Since sexist norms have taught us that loving is our task, whether in our role as mothers or lovers or friends, if men say they are not loved, then we are at fault. We are to blame.


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[Assistant] There's only one emotion that patriarchy values when expressed by men, and that emotion is anger.


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[Assistant] Real men get mad. And their madness, no matter how violent or violating, is deemed natural. A positive expression of patriarchal masculinity. Anger is the best hiding place for anybody seeking to conceal pain or anguish of spirit.


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[Assistant] My father was an angry man. At times, he still is even though he is past 80 years old. Recently when I called home, he said, speaking of me and my sister, I love you both dearly.


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[Assistant] Amazed to hear Dad speak of love, I wanted us to talk, but I could not find words. Fear silenced me, the old fear of Dad the Patriarch, the silent, angry man in the new fear of breaking this fragile bond of caring connection.


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[Assistant] So I could not ask, What do you mean, Dad? Will you tell me that you love me dearly?


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[Assistant] Fear keeps us away from love, and yet women rarely talk to men about how much we fear them.


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[Assistant] My siblings and I have never talked with dad about the years he held us hostage, imprisoning us behind the walls of his patriarchal terrorism. And even in our adult years, we are still afraid to ask him, Why daddy? Why were you always so angry? Why didn't you love us?


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[Assistant] In those powerful passages where she writes of her father's death, Barbara Deming names that fear as death is swiftly taking him beyond her reach. She sees clearly that fear had kept him away from her all along his fear of her being too close and her fear of seeking to be close to him.


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[Assistant] Fear keeps us from being close to the men in our lives. It keeps us from love.


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[Assistant] Once upon a time, I thought it was a female thing, this fear of men. Yet when I began to talk with men about love, time and time again, I heard stories of male fear of other males.


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[Assistant] Indeed, men who feel, who love, often hide their emotional awareness from other men for fear of being attacked and shamed.


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[Assistant] This is the big secret that we all keep together. The fear of patriarchal maleness that binds everyone in our culture.


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[Assistant] We struggle then, in patriarchal culture, all of us, to love men. We may care about males deeply, we may cherish our connections with the men in our lives, and we may desperately feel that we cannot live without their presence, their company,


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[Assistant] We can feel all these passions in the face of maleness, and yet stand removed, keeping the distance patriarchy has created, maintaining the boundaries we are told not to cross.


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[Assistant] In a class with students who are reading the trilogy of books I've written about love, with 40 men talking about love, we talk of fathers.


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[Assistant] A black male in his late thirties whose father was present in the home, a hard worker, talked about his recent experience of parenthood, his commitment to being a loving father and his fear that he will fail. He fears failure because he has not had a loving role model.


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[Assistant] His father was almost always away from home, working and roaming. When he was home, his favorite way of relating was to tease and taunt his son mercilessly in a biting voice full of sarcasm and contempt, a voice that could humiliate with just a word.


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[Assistant] Reflecting the experience of many of us, the individual telling his story talked about wanting the love of this hard man, but then learning not to want it. Learning to silence his heart. To make it not matter.


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[Assistant] I asked him and the other men present, if you have closed off your heart, shut down your emotional awareness, then do you know how to love your sons?


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[Assistant] Where and when along the way did you learn the practice of love?


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[Assistant] He tells me and the other men who sit in our circle of love, I just think of what my father would do and do the opposite. And everyone laughs.


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[Assistant] I affirm this practice, adding only that it is not enough to stay in the space of reaction, that being simply reactive is always to risk allowing that shadowy past to overtake the present.


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[Assistant] How many sons fleeing the example of their fathers raise boys who emerge as clones of their grandfathers? Boys who may never even have met their grandfathers but behave exactly like them.


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[Assistant] Beyond reaction though, any male, no matter his past or present circumstance, no matter his age or experience, can learn how to love.


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[Assistant] In the past four years, the one clear truth I have learned from individual men I have met while traveling and lecturing is that men want to know love, and they want to know how to love.


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[Assistant] There is simply not enough literature speaking directly intimately to this need. After writing a general book about love, and then one specifically about black people and love, and then another focusing on the female search for love, I wanted to go further and talk about men and love.


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[Assistant] Women and men alike in our culture spend very little time encouraging males to learn to love.


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[Assistant] Even the women who are pissed off at men, women most of whom are not and maybe never will be feminist, use their anger to avoid being truly committed to helping to create a world where males of all ages can know love.


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[Assistant] And there remains a small strain of feminist thinkers who feel strongly that they have given all they want to give to men. They are concerned solely with improving the collective welfare of women. Yet life has shown me that any time a single male dares to transgress patriarchal boundaries in order to love, the lives of women, men, and children are fundamentally changed for the better.


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[Assistant] Every day on our television screens and in our nation's newspapers we are brought news of continued male violence at home and all around the world. When we hear that teenage boys are arming themselves and killing their parents, their peers, or strangers, a sense of alarm permeates our culture. Folks want to have answers.


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[Assistant] They want to know why is this happening? Why is so much killing by boy children now and in this historical moment?


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[Assistant] Yet no one talks about the role patriarchal notions of manhood play in teaching boys that it is their nature to kill, then teaching them that they can do nothing to change this nature. Nothing, that is, that will leave their masculinity intact.


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[Assistant] As our culture prepares males to embrace war, they must be all the more indoctrinated into patriarchal thinking that tells them that it is their nature to kill and to enjoy killing.


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[Assistant] Bombarded by news about male violence. We hear no news about men and love.


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[Assistant] Only a revolution of values in our nation will end male violence, and that revolution will necessarily be based on a love ethic. To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined notions of male identity.


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[Assistant] caring about men because of what they do for us is not the same as loving males for simply being.


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[Assistant] When we love maleness, we extend our love whether males are performing or not. Performance is different from simply being.


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[Assistant] In patriarchal culture, males are not allowed simply to be who they are and to glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do.


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[Assistant] In an anti-patriarchal culture, males do not have to prove their value and their worth. They know from birth that simply being gives them value, the right to be cherished and loved.


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[Assistant] I write about men and love as a declaration of profound gratitude to the males in my life, with whom I do the work of love.


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[Assistant] Much of my thinking about maleness began in childhood, when I witnessed the differences in the ways my brother and I were treated.


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[Assistant] The standards used to judge his behavior were much harsher. No male successfully measures up to the patriarchal standards without engaging in an ongoing practice of self betrayal.


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[Assistant] In his boyhood, my brother like so many boys just longed to express himself. He did not want to conform to a rigid script of appropriate maleness.


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[Assistant] As a consequence he was scorned and ridiculed by our patriarchal dad. In his younger years our brother was a loving presence in our household capable of expressing emotions of wonder and delight.


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[Assistant] But as patriarchal thinking and action claimed him in adolescence, he learned to mask his loving feelings. He entered that space of alienation and antisocial behavior deemed natural for adolescent boys.


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[Assistant] His six sisters witnessed the change in him and mourned the loss of our connection. The damage done to his self-esteem and boyhood has lingered throughout his life, for he continues to grapple with the issue of whether he will define himself or allow himself to be defined by patriarchal standards.


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[Assistant] At the same time that my brother surrendered his emotional awareness and his capacity to make emotional connection in order to be accepted as, quote, one of the boys. Rejecting the company of his sisters for fear that enjoying us made him less male. My mother's father, Daddy Gus, found it easier to be disloyal to patriarchy in his old age.


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[Assistant] He was the man in my childhood who practiced the art of loving. He was emotionally aware and emotionally present and yet he also was trapped by a patriarchal bond.


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[Assistant] Our grandmother, his wife of more than 60 years, was always deeply invested in the dominator model of relationships.


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[Assistant] To Macho Man, Daddy Gus, Mama's father, appeared to be less than masculine.


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[Assistant] He was seen as henpecked. I can remember our patriarchal father expressing contempt for daddy Gus, calling him weak and letting mom know that via domination that he would not be ruled by a woman.


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[Assistant] Dad took mama's admiration for her dad for his capacity to love and made it appear that what was precious to her was really worthless.


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[Assistant] Back then, Mama did not know how lucky she was to have a loving father.


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[Assistant] Like so many females, she'd been seduced by myths of romantic love to dream of a strong, domineering, take-control, dashing and daring man as a suitable mate. She married her ideal only to find herself trapped in a bond with a punishing, cruel, unloving, patriarchal man.


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[Assistant] She spent more than 40 years of marriage believing in the patriarchal gender roles that told her he should be the one in control and that she should be the one to submit and obey. When patriarchal men are not cruel.


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[Assistant] Women in their lives can cling to the seductive myth that they are lucky to have a real man, a benevolent patriarch who provides and protects.


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[Assistant] That real man is repeatedly cruel when he responds to care and kindness with contempt and brutal disregard. The woman in his life begins to see him differently.


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[Assistant] She may begin to interrogate her own allegiance to patriarchal thinking. She may wake up and recognize that she is wedded to abuse, that she is not loved. That moment of awakening is the moment of heartbreak.


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[Assistant] Heartbroken women in long-time marriages or partnerships rarely leave their men.


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[Assistant] They learn to make an identity out of their suffering, their complaint, their bitterness.


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[Assistant] Throughout our childhood, Mama was the great defender of Dad. He was her knight in shining armor, her beloved.


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[Assistant] She still taught us to admire him and be grateful for his presence, his material provision, his discipline.


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[Assistant] A 50s woman, she was willing to cling to the fantasy of the patriarchal ideal, even as she confronted the brutal reality of patriarchal domination daily.


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[Assistant] As her children left home, leaving her alone with her husband, her hope that they might find their way to love was soon dashed. She was left face to face with the emotionally shut down cold patriarch that she had married.


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[Assistant] After 50 years of marriage, she would not be leaving him, but she would no longer believe in love.


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[Assistant] Only her bitterness found a voice. She now speaks the absence of love a lifetime of heartache. She is not alone.


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[Assistant] All over the world, women live with men in states of lovelessness. They live, and they mourn.


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[Assistant] I spent most of the years between 20 and 40 seeking to know love with intellectually brilliant men who were simply emotionally unaware. Men who could not give what they did not have. Men who could not teach what they did not know. Men who did not know how to love.


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[Assistant] In my 40s I began a relationship with a much younger man who had been schooled in the art and practice of feminist thinking. He was able to acknowledge having a broken spirit.


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[Assistant] As a child he had been a victim of patriarchal tyranny. He knew that there was something wrong within, even though he had not yet found a language to articulate what was missing.


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[Assistant] Something missing within was a self-description I heard from many men as I went around our nation talking about love.


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[Assistant] Again and again, a man would tell me about early childhood feelings of emotional exuberance, of unrepressed joy. A feeling connected to life and to other people and then a rupture happened. A disconnect and that feeling of being loved, of being embraced was gone.


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[Assistant] Somehow the test of manhood, men told me, was the willingness to accept this loss. To not speak it even in private grief.


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[Assistant] Sadly, tragically, these men in great numbers were remembering a primal moment of heartbreak and heartache. The moment that they were compelled to give up their right to feel, to love, in order to take their place as patriarchal men.


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[Assistant] Everyone who tries to create love with an emotionally unaware partner suffers.


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[Assistant] Self-help books galore tell us that we cannot change anyone but ourselves.


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[Assistant] Of course, they never answer the question of what will motivate males in a patriarchal culture who have been taught that to love emasculates them. To change, to choose love when the choice means that they must stand against patriarchy, against the tyranny of the familiar.


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[Assistant] We cannot change men, but we can encourage, implore and affirm their will to change.


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[Assistant] We can respect the truth of their inner being, a truth that they may be unable to speak, that they long to connect, to love, to be loved.


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[Assistant] The will to change. Men, masculinity and love answers the questions about love asked by men of all ages in our culture.


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[Assistant] I write in response to questions about love asked me by the men I know most intimately who are still working to find their way back to the open-hearted, emotionally expressive selves they once were before they were told to silence their longings and close their hearts.


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[Assistant] The will to change is the offering I bring to the feast of male reclamation and recovery of self, of their emotional right to love and be loved.


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[Assistant] Women have believed that we could save the men in our lives by giving them love, that this love would serve as the cure for all the wounds inflicted by toxic assaults on their emotional systems, by the emotional heart attacks they undergo every day.


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[Assistant] Women can share in this healing process. We can guide, instruct, observe, share information and skills, but we cannot do for boys and men what they must do for themselves. Our love helps, but it alone does not save boys or men.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, boys and men must save themselves when they learn the art of loving.


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[Assistant] Wow, look at that shine! I have to say I love this metallic paint, and I think that Bobby Swift here may be my new favorite from the Scavenger Hunt series, which is one of my all-time favorite series. The cars they've been releasing in it just have been spectacular.


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[Assistant] I think they've chosen some great characters to Metallicalize, if that's a word, but today we'll be reviewing and unboxing the Metallic Bobby Swift. As you can see right there, it's a special


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[Assistant] Metalic edition. Although it's not a chase, these may end up being rarer in the future than other cars just because they call them scavenger hunt series so people buy them up more.


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[Assistant] Or perhaps they will not include them in future cases, whereas they may throw rich mixing in another case down the road, like let's say an August Case M or something like that.


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[Assistant] But these may be limited to only one case. So we'll see how it plays out, but they are not extremely rare right now. Like for example Conrad Camber and Rich Mixon are definitely more expensive and more desirable.