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[Assistant] I arched one eyebrow and snuggled back under the quilts. Not to worry. Nothing above the knee, I promise.


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[Assistant] He patted one of my rounder bulges and left for the stables, singing rather loudly the air from up among the heather. The refrain floated back from the stairwell.


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[Assistant] Sitting we a wee girl holding on my knee When a bumblebee stung me wheel above the knee Up among the heather at the head of Benicky


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[Assistant] I got in the ring. Vander was calm. You could see he was PO'd, but he was calm.


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[Assistant] So General Kelly had had enough and he'd finally gotten the president to sign off. And last night it did not end well.


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[Assistant] You know, that stage, it's sinking through all the logistics, so.


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[Assistant] I had to lean into the idea of we're not professionals here. We're just trying to show who we really are, you know, that authenticity core value and it,


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[Assistant] Hello there, I'm John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight on HBO. Although here, I'm on YouTube, like I'm about to give the least anticipated makeup tutorial of all time. I'm sorry, but now is not the time that I share my patented contouring technique.


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[Assistant] Now, we're off for a few weeks, and in the meantime, I thought I would do one of our periodic reviews of this show's fan mail. Now, of course, no one sent me actual mail because I'm not currently fighting in the Revolutionary War.


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[Assistant] But of all the comments I read, one stood out above all the others, and really made me feel good about my career choices. And that comment laid out a challenge, a challenge I'm prepared to take on, because this comment read, John Oliver, I bet you won zillion dollars that you won't feature this comment in a video. Well,


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[Assistant] Well, uhm, I suppose the reason I loved him is because in his own life he had the same enormous attention to what is important.


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[Assistant] And not peo- many people do that, so he was very interesting.


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[Assistant] He made Path of Glory and he wanted, in the end, a lyrical note. And so he wrote a scene about a girl being dragged on a stage to a lot of rowdy soldiers singing a song. So he's looking for an actress.


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[Assistant] And, uh, he, uh, sought me out at a masked ball. Yeah. Uh, there's a big carnival in, in Munich, uhm, Fasnacht and all the people that work in theaters, they are hired for great red cross balls. So he got somebody to take him there and, uh, he looked for me.


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[Assistant] And that's how I met him. So we were already living together, and I shot the scene.


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[Assistant] Hopefully it stays a secret, you know, it's interesting that one cannot know.


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[Assistant] Just having seen AI, I realized that's what's interesting about people, if anything.


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[Assistant] Oh, it pushes many buttons. I mean, very, very clearly. It's got many layers. It's a wonderful film. Wonderful, wonderful.


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[Assistant] And I was sort of in an emotional mangle sitting there.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so what makes an artist? Thank God, you know, you can't explain it.


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[Assistant] I've lived with the story for a long time because he read it in


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[Assistant] Oh, ages ago, and in 68, when 2001 came out, he was going to do that next.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he, he, he thought I, I've got, and, and I was, we, we were very young still, and I...


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[Assistant] So that is a very moisture-seeking story, uh, very uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] Yes, because, because he would have these stories at home and write at home. And he, he would, I don't know, it was just, oh, we had fights.


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[Assistant] It was very strange and, and you know, it's the sort of thing where I don't like the story. Why don't you like the story?


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, he read Klocker, Gonsignor, and did that first.


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[Assistant] And, uh, but I knew it wasn't going to go away, it was always there. You knew it was something you could come back to eventually. And luckily, I think, being so much older, uhm, it was then a much wiser film. Not so furious anymore.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I always am. You are. Yeah, I, I, I always imagine what will people criticize and what will they like and I'm always wrong and always very indignant as I suppose anybody who's honest is.


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[Assistant] And, uh, at some point I think you made a living with it.


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[Assistant] And unfortunately, I, I, no, I can't do it at all.


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[Assistant] Yes, uh, during Strangelove and, uh, various other films he played on the set. Yeah, and, and also with, uh, uh, in The Shining and, uh, whenever he could, he found somebody.


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[Assistant] Exasperating, uh, I think he was, he was, because of the aforementioned intensity, he tended perhaps to be


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[Assistant] Domineering and, but having all women in his family didn't always succeed. So we fought back. But he,


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[Assistant] Without him we're also like, without an umbrella it's very horrible. And uhm,


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[Assistant] Yes, we, we, I was really nervous that because we were so sad we tended to be.


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[Assistant] Sentimental and, and, and cute and indiscreet and we had all the material to be so. And then we quickly took it away.


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[Assistant] Because the sort of gushing stuff that families do is, is, is vomit inducing for others. And also Stanley looked over our shoulder, he would have been very upset. So we were then very disciplined and very conscious of this.


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[Assistant] Because of the Edie Plan, which is a tax thing, and then we were in England, and...


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[Assistant] Our children grew up there and went to school and it became harder and harder to leave. And uhm, we also love living there. It's sort of,


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[Assistant] Happened. Wasn't a plan we're now going to see.


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[Assistant] People ask me that, and I've really thought about it. And, no, I also have a weakness for Bailey, and I love 2001.


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[Assistant] I was sort of nervous going into the Vatican and sitting there with 2001, and I thought,


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[Assistant] And the film looked sort of small up on a big church wall. I thought, oh god, it's really a little agnostic prayer.


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[Assistant] You know, we, we're also thinking about these things and it was very moving to see it.


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[Assistant] I would put the point that Tom and Nicole were chosen even stronger and that he wanted two people who are so perfect.


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[Assistant] Great looking, very sexy, no trouble, in any field. As only of their own making. They do it themselves.


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[Assistant] Other people might have psychological problems, or be very ugly, or unsuccessful, and there would be side issues that would destroy the impact. There's nothing wrong for them, except what they're doing.


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[Assistant] He saw single scenes over and over. He saw whole films. He saw some really dumb films.


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[Assistant] He would reserve a little, I'm, you know, not as, you know, he didn't like to hear being


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[Assistant] So talk. He was interested in everything. He talked all the time. He liked talking and, and it was very interesting. I had the greatest floor show any woman's ever had.


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[Assistant] Interesting life, interesting. It was interesting.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yes, yes, it was interesting. And, uh, a horrible gossip.


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[Assistant] I think he was just like a huge radar dish, everything.


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[Assistant] And it was, and sound, this was all new in those days, it was never working properly, and we were so horrible to him, we didn't do it well. We were impatient, and how much longer do we have to be here?


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[Assistant] He was. I mean, he was. It was very boring to do. It's very funny and we're very glad we have the films now, but he, uh,


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[Assistant] He didn't think so. He, he thought if he could find a reason why he can't knock out films faster, he would have liked to have known the reason.


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[Assistant] He, he thought he wants to really find a good story.


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[Assistant] And until he found the story, he wasn't going to do it. And, uh, it made him very unhappy when it wasn't happening, when he couldn't find it. And he, he, he thought, Oh God, is it that I just can't tell anymore? What's the matter with me?


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[Assistant] And it made him miserable when he had to give up the, the, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] And Napoleon. Napoleon was furious that he couldn't get it. He still had his sneaking hope. Maybe he could still do it. He did. He did.


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[Assistant] Well, if it makes you feel any better, my son's sending me to Jamaica for my birthday.


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[Assistant] I felt suddenly quite cold with panic, and clasped my hands about my elbows.


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[Assistant] And what if I had succeeded in escaping and finding my way back to the circle of stone, I thought. What then?


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[Assistant] Jamie Wood, I hoped, soon find solace. With Leah, perhaps.


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[Assistant] I had worried before about his reaction to finding me gone.


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[Assistant] It hadn't before occurred to me to wonder how I would feel to part with him.


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[Assistant] I fiddled idly with the ribbon drawstring that gathered the neck of my shift, tying and untying it. If I meant to leave, as I did,


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[Assistant] I was doing neither of us a favor by allowing the bond between us to strengthen any further. I should not allow him to fall in love with me.


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[Assistant] If he meant to do any such thing, I thought. Remembering once more Leah and the conversation with Colum.


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[Assistant] If he had married me so cold-bloodedly as it seemed, perhaps his emotions were safer than mine.


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[Assistant] Between fatigue, hunger, disappointment and uncertainty.


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[Assistant] I had by this time succeeded in reducing myself to such a state of confused misery that I could neither sleep or sit still. Instead, I roamed unhappily about the room, picking up objects and putting them down at random.


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[Assistant] The draft from the opening door upset the delicate equilibrium of the comb I had been balancing on its end, heralding Jamie's return. He looked faintly flushed and oddly excited. Oh, you're awake, he said.


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[Assistant] His brows drew together for a moment, then raised in inquiry.


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[Assistant] I picked up the looking glass and found that my hair was standing out in a bushy mane round my head, and there were dark circles under my eyes. I put it down again with a thump


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[Assistant] The slow death for love of a woman.


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[Assistant] Then suppose I swear to repay you. Swear by the beer of the caliph. Would that suffice? Of course it would. I know I shall regret this. But you...


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[Assistant] Not my slave, Ali, my friend. Who from this hour forth can ask anything in my power to grant? It is his.


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[Assistant] You would really trouble yourself for no man, except perhaps Kamau. Everyone knows you promised to marry him if he became Khalifa.


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[Assistant] There's one trouble. What if your friend Kamar never gains the throne?


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[Assistant] The blind one spoke the truth, did he not?


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[Assistant] Alright, you, outside. Not you, step back.


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[Assistant] Salam, oh Commander of the Faithful. You see, Nadan, my search has been rewarded. You are indeed the chosen of Allah. Shahrazad, this is Nadan, my grand vizier and friend, as loyal as my right hand. Peace and happiness be with you.


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[Assistant] Then you do love Scheherazade. My lord, I did not say it. I say it.


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[Assistant] Forbidden? No man but the Caliph and the Lord Vizier can enter the harem.


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[Assistant] Boys grow fast. I'll be off with you. You cannot alight here.


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[Assistant] Can't you understand? She is Scheherazade, the dancing girl, whose dream it was to marry a king. Now why should she choose a humble player?


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[Assistant] My rightful place that belongs to the strongest.


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[Assistant] I've been a servant long enough. Now I will be king.


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[Assistant] You will see him leave the encampment yourself. Will that satisfy you? Very well. I will make the arrangements. When the time comes, I will let you know.


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[Assistant] Do you not recognize me my brother? Harun.


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[Assistant] The rightful monarch thus regained his throne, and there was great rejoicing throughout the land.


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[Assistant] Yes, looks like it's just me and you. Wanna watch some TV or something?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, officer, help me, please. Spider-Man did this to me. Didn't wanna watch TV. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


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[Assistant] Never fear, my little one. We were more than a match for those cutthroats.


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[Assistant] Chinese, they are very clever and also they are very active. They are very fast.


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[Assistant] When you say you're asexual, you mean you've never had sex, you don't want to, you have no desire, and you feel like that's like the rest of your life will be like that?


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[Assistant] Do you think asexual might be also like trying to avoid getting too close to somebody?


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[Assistant] Do you regret the Instagram where you said you're gonna tat loser when he loses or whatever?


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[Assistant] Every 15 year old's trolling, every 15 year old has a lot of free time, and then they have internet access.


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[Assistant] When you lost 30 pounds, were you like, oh I feel better, I feel nothing, I wanna keep going, I don't give a shit about this, like was it?


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[Assistant] You're not putting on any sexual vibes because it was all over Cam too. Lena, deliver the cat. Lena's whole vibe is sexual.


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[Assistant] No, no, Brandon and I both knew about him when we met. We knew about him at the same time.


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[Assistant] And uh, but Brandon has a bigger reach and talks about sex j a lot. But uh, I just, I don't know, I just love sexual swatches.


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[Assistant] But yea, if you want to get an official ticket before you land in Spain, StubHub is probably the way. It's El Stub, El StubHub.


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[Assistant] I think every group had their own personal terms though, like, we, I mean, this kind of spread a little bit, but we, like, if it was bad, it was cheeks. Like I said, it's like being ass or ass cheeks, it was cheeks. We used to say cheeks like, if,


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[Assistant] Hey, this is what I like to do at this point. Hey, if you made it this far.


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[Assistant] In this interview, you gotta tweet at all of us with this hashtag.


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[Assistant] That's beautiful. I'm about to uber eat a burrito to my house so that when I get home it's there. Yeaah. Right when I get home. Oh that's so advanced.


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[Assistant] All right. Shout out to the mighty Hootad Nation, man. We in this thing for a late stream. I won't be holding you guys for very long. Shout out to the fam. Please feel free to hit the like button.


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[Assistant] Hit the subscribe button and by all means feel free to share the show on your social media feed. I wanted to kind of cover this thing, uh, it happened several hours ago.


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[Assistant] Uh, of course, Mike was going off on social media. I wanted to kind of cover with the family members.


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[Assistant] I seen it was happening, shout out to DC and several others that kinda, uh, kinda.


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[Assistant] Let me know what put me in the kind of made me aware of some things here. So big ups to them guys. We'll go right into it.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's Mike Thomas. Shout out to Brother Kyle. He did an article on this and about Mike Thomas social media.


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[Assistant] You know, I know he went off, uh, you know, he made some, uh, tweets or whatever you want to call it on X and he talked about several things, which to me, we talked about this during the entire year where we talked about Derek Carr. He did well toward the back end of the year, uh, in terms of finally figuring out to go through his progressions. The main criticism that I had for.


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[Assistant] Uh, Derek Carr for this entire summation of the season is that he's lazy in terms of him not fulfilling his progression plate. He doesn't cycle through the plate consistently.


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[Assistant] When he doesn't do that, he cuts off half the field and he misses opportunities. Then he checks it down lazily.


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[Assistant] Struggles a lot of times, not just big breakdowns because the offensive line was not as good as it was supposed to be this year. And a lot of pressure was put on it because the running game wasn't there.


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[Assistant] But when it comes down to individual players and what they could do to be better, cycling through the progressions was a weak thing. And he got a lot of criticism, not just from myself, but for players on the team and the coaches would not do anything about it. They would not check his patterns, his behaviors.


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[Assistant] And this festered and boiled underneath and when the season was over with, and I told you and I warned you guys, I said, things will come out about what was going on with the team. It happens every year when you see stuff like that. But anyway.


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[Assistant] Let's jump right into it. Y'all hit the like button for me. Shout out to the fam in the building.


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[Assistant] Mike Thomas is at a point of no return after Sunday's social media rant slamming the Saints offensive strategy. This is from brother Kyle Moseley. Shout out to you.


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[Assistant] Saints News Network, Saints All Pro Wide Receiver goes on social media rant, leaving his future with the team in doubt.


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[Assistant] To say that Michael Thomas relationship is beyond repair may be an understatement.


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[Assistant] And this latest social media rants, Michael Thomas indirectly had quarterback Derek Carr.


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[Assistant] In this crosshairs and this is some of the tweets Thomas said you can see what they said about how my homes uses eyes there so a lot of times. Talking about seeing the field you know and of course.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, we've alluded to this and like I said, he's not making it up, the tape verifies it.


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[Assistant] Michael Thomas, uh, here's another one. He says on top of that, they wasn't even trying to give me the ball, but it's no denying my style of play. It don't age player. You will see another tweet says, well, if I didn't get set up by a bad ball, I probably would have had a light little thousand yards this year, but


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[Assistant] So, you know, and you know, we've said this before, I actually use similar verbiage when you watch the throw that got him hurt.


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[Assistant] And we knew that at the time, like, where Carl was throwing his ball, his passes were erratic. We talked about it off of, like, disguised passes all over the place. You know, he got, and like I said, uhm, I think Dennis Allen, you, you just,


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[Assistant] When the guy got slammed down in the green bay matchup, you could see his pair, his passes wasn't all that prior to that, but it was better. After that, when his, his shoulder got, uhm, whatever happened to his shoulder, you know, issue.


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[Assistant] Is the fact that he was supposedly dealing with all these issues, injury wise, and his passes were erratic. To say the least, they were up high or...


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[Assistant] Down low or to the side, it was really crazy.


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[Assistant] How erratic his past is and Mike Thomas is talking about the past that was thrown to him, which, you know, the guy kind of get at him and he got hurt in that game and he never was the same. He never came back ever, but in the rest of the thing, you know, so.


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[Assistant] Very terrible, but let's see what some of these, let's go over it. He says you'll see what, uh, they said about Mahomes using his eyes there. Exactly. Next is a shot at the offensive strategy, posting well. If I didn't get set up by a bad ball, I probably would have had a little light thousand yards this year.


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[Assistant] Or coulda, woulda, shoulda. And finally on top of that, there wasn't even trying to give me the ball.


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[Assistant] But it's no denying my style of play, it on age player you will see. Thomas landed on the injury reserve after sustaining that knee issue or injury in week 10 versus the Vikings. New Orleans had one year remaining on this contract with a base of 1.2.


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[Assistant] million dollars and then he has the almost nine million dollar prorated bonus, 2.2 million dollar roster bonus for 2024.


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[Assistant] Now the question is, will the Saints be willing to keep their number one wide out or seek a trade partner this off season? We shall see. A lot of things are going to change. You know, unfortunately, here I think Michael Thomas is tired of the Saints. I think, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I, I did, I think I, I sent them a question. I said, you advocated for Derek Carr to be here. So what changed, you know, in terms of,


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[Assistant] Between you and Derek Carr, what did you see? You know, what changed? Because he advocated to get Carr here.


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[Assistant] He wanted their car here. He went, you know, he talked about bringing car here and it didn't work.


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[Assistant] Now of course I wanted him, I know the answer to that, but I wanted him to comment on that. Say what you, say what you mean, say what you gonna say. You know, cause we obviously know that uhm, we're looking at it, I think.


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[Assistant] We knew that off top, that Michael Thomas, this is his last year, uh, being here, I think ultimately.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's lost faith and a lot of the Saints players have lost faith in this team and we've said that. You can't have a listen.


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[Assistant] This is not just what happened toward the back end of the season with Dennis Allen. Uhm, his offensive team denied his, his command to go out there and kneel on the ball. Those guys ran a play, you know, for Jamal Williams against him and then


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[Assistant] We like, I'm going to say, how do we learn about that? We learned about that and we shouldn't even had nothing, shouldn't even known about that.


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[Assistant] Atlanta, what you never supposed to do, I don't care if we 100% wrong, I'm not offering no apology at all. Call me whatever, I'm not doing it.


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[Assistant] And then continues and then goes a step further or two steps further by stabbing his team in the back and throwing them under the bus for the sake of apologizing to the Falcons. We shouldn't have not known about what happened there.


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[Assistant] That could have been a little secret here that could have been taken in there. He the one put that out there on Front Street. They did it on their own.


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[Assistant] So what I'm saying is when you got, when you have a guy like that as your head coach, don't expect.


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[Assistant] People that you, that play for real head coaches that have leadership ability, motivational ability, communication ability, that have the intangibles.


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[Assistant] The thing about Michael Thomas and his rant through social media, we knew this was a matter of time this was going to happen. They had stuff going on during the season where it was frustrating. And this is another one of the things where you have nowhere to go.


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[Assistant] And then they start tweeting out. Of course they got guys that'll be on social media. That's going to go at Michael Thomas about this, that and the third and come and talk about him being on social media. But at the same time, let me tell you something, bro.


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[Assistant] These people are humans and I'm not making excuses for Mike.


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[Assistant] Mike knows what he's doing. He has the ability to express himself. He can do it.


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[Assistant] The issue is, if you go inside the Saints building, it's supposed to be somewhere that you can go to to express yourself in terms of the management.


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[Assistant] Talk to the management iron it out. These guys don't have that. So if Dennis Allen out there, and I'm like, I've been saying Dennis Allen is hat, you know, there's a split in a locker room.


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[Assistant] With the team, despite the fact that Mickey's trying to downplay it, Dennis Allen's trying to downplay it. And I think it's a huge mistake for them to consider. And I think Mike Thomas has lost faith with this team and there are several other players.


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[Assistant] That have lost faith that we'll hear from in weeks to come, days to weeks.


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[Assistant] To come with straight circulating around the team. I'm going to put this and say this is a B.


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[Assistant] Really stupid, which would be on par for a general miss manager like Loomis to carry this team forward.


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[Assistant] And attempt to trade people that are not happy with the current head coach. And then you're going to end up having to fire him in any way when he fails in the third year. Not being negative. I'm just saying you're going, you can't win with somebody like that, bro. You can't do it.


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[Assistant] You know, it's just not gonna happen. And then it's uh, it's operating all from the wrong energies, arrogance operating. Loomis is operating off arrogance in a way of stupidity. So it's not even logical what's going on here. But anyway, about Mike's tweets, you know,


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[Assistant] I'm saying, tell me something new, Mike. I mean, we've been saying this, man. We see what you see, we understand the game.


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[Assistant] We see what's going on. We see that Derek Carr struggled mightily during the season. We've seen that and I agree with you.


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[Assistant] You know, he doesn't see, didn't see the field well early on. He played better toward the back end of the season. I would love for him to beat the Rams, but in the end.


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[Assistant] This is what we have here now, and now with them clearing out a lot of offensive head coaches, guess what?


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[Assistant] You got a new coach or whoever they're going to bring here from an offensive mindset.


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[Assistant] That will install a whole new offense. So Michael Thomas seems to be on the outside looking in. We will see as time moves forward on what happens, but is this a shocker? Hell no. It's not a shocker. We said this.


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[Assistant] We said after the season was over with, you're going to see guys come out and voice their frustrations about the current state of the Saints or what's going on with them. You're going to see guys voice, you know, voice their frustrations. It's nothing new. This is nothing new. And he's right. He's right. You can't say that he's wrong.


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[Assistant] Because the ball that card throughout there was a sucker ass ball.


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[Assistant] You know, he drew some, he did the same thing to Jawan Johnson before and Elvin Kamara before.


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[Assistant] You know, he throws the ball, he throws these erratic passes during the season when it just wasn't popping. You know, he was thinking.


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[Assistant] He was stanking up the joint with erratic passes. They were too high or too low. We, we did the play by play. We covered it all. It's like, damn, this guy boss is sailing even high or they so sailing low or the guy got a stretch wheel over here to get it. You know, he wasn't very accurate during the season that you could blame it on injuries or whatever, but.


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[Assistant] Regardless or not, if his ball was sailing like that and he wasn't accurate, he shouldn't have been a plant, man. But anyway, it is what it is. Shout out to the family on, uh,


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[Assistant] On Instagram and Twitter, a big up to you guys.


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[Assistant] As well, uh, Iber Justice, I'd hate to lose empty, but his talent deserves a better coach team that's serious. Yeah, indeed.


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[Assistant] Alright, Katia says, uh, fire dinner salad. Shout out to my Instagram family, man. T-Mama, I see you, baby. Okay, I see you. Shout out to T-Mama, man. Much love to the queen. But yea, fam, uh, y'all put in the description section below and let me know how you guys feel about this.


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[Assistant] About, uh, Michael Thomas' tweets, it's really, it's a surprise to you guys about what's really going on with Michael Thomas. Uhm, and we're gonna hear more.


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[Assistant] As the season progresses, as the season moves on, you're going to hear more frustrations. You're going to see a few things happen in terms of the Saints roster, in terms of the trades. You're going to see quite a few things go on.


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[Assistant] Because the word on the street is a lot of people are not believers in Dennis Allen and what he's doing.


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[Assistant] A lot of people outside of the building to support family members, the fateful black and gold diehards are not happy about.


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[Assistant] How this team has ran from the top. And I, like I said, I coined the term the general mismanager, which is Mickey Lomas, who's not really a general manager. He's just a VP masquerading as a general manager. But in the end, a lot of people are not happy about what they see.


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[Assistant] So like I said, I'm going to tell you guys this, everybody this.


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[Assistant] Is that I don't think you should have a approach going into the season like, you know.


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[Assistant] You know, being down or whatnot. No, just enjoy this and watch the truth come out because that's all it is. We've been right by year one. We've been right about year two and they haven't. So year three.


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[Assistant] Uh, we will see everything cause he's, he's run, he's run it. He ran out of time this upcoming year. There's no way Loomis can protect him. He has to win.


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[Assistant] And you got all this other stuff going on. We shall see. Cause this will be a incredibly difficult season out here. I seen the schedule.


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[Assistant] But I'm not buying any of that with everybody looking to tune up and get better.


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[Assistant] Would do the saints do, it's gonna be interesting. But nothing surprising on Mike Thomas's tweets and what not.


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[Assistant] Uh, nothing surprising there at all. He's voicing his opinion about what's going on. He's lost faith and confidence in the New Orleans Saints organization. They hit their brass. And uhm, so there's several other players that we'll hear down the line as well.


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[Assistant] Alright, so big ups to the fam. I'll see you Shantel. Shout out to you, brother Clarence, Dana, Angelique. Good to see you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he, that's right. I seen that. He always, he called him out name. He doesn't like Jeff Duncan. You know, he called out Duncan before.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, and we've, we've talked about that. He told him what was, what he told him that time. We played that interview where he said, oh yeaah, you the one that'd be riding that bull.


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[Assistant] Then treated him quite nastily as he proceeded to try to ask Mike Thomas questions and it just didn't fly right, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I would, it wouldn't be safe to say that yes, I don't think he likes Jeff Duncan very much. That's to be honest with you. But yeah, Mike Thomas is not wrong here in terms of what he's saying or what he tweeting rather.


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[Assistant] Uh, to social media, he's right on the money about Derek Carr. We've said that, I don't know how many times I've said that about Derek Carr. About his past of sailing and him, and like I said.


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[Assistant] The numbers and all this kind of stuff from my Derek Carr, uh, promoters.


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[Assistant] You gotta admit, it took him way too long to catch this offense. This is supposed to be a QB friendly offense.


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[Assistant] And it took him all the way to like the last month of games before you actually start seeing him pick that up.


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[Assistant] And just when you start picking it up, you get Carmichael out and you gotta put somebody else in.


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[Assistant] So my goodness, if it took them that damn long to learn it last year, cause you imagine what it's going to look like next year on the whole new offensive coordinator. And it very well might be giant group. We don't know who it's going to be.


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[Assistant] You know, a word on the street is, is Groot and they waiting for Groot in the pop, pop loops, but with his court stuff, but.


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[Assistant] In the end man, we shall see, we shall see, we shall see. No, no hiring, no hirings yet on that.


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[Assistant] All right, so anyway, with that being said, man, listen, I'm gonna get ready to get out of here. I didn't want to talk to you, you know, be on here and hold y'all guys too long. I'll be back on the Monday stream as well. And like I said, I got a, uh,


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[Assistant] A mock, uh, new, uh, mock video, the first mock that I'm releasing to the TSC and the Patreon family members.


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[Assistant] I'm finishing up the editing on it. Uh, so that'll be good to go for tomorrow and also do a live stream tomorrow. We'll talk more about it as well. So much love to the fam. I appreciate y'all chiming in. Y'all do me a service. Please feel free to hit the like button, hit the subscribe button by all means. Feel free to share the show on your social media feed. Much love and I'ma holla at y'all later. Peace.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, where's the pizza? So hungry I'm beginning to digest myself.


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[Assistant] What? I'm so hungry I'm starting to hallucinate. I'm so hungry I can't even hallucinate, right?


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[Assistant] This is the official companion podcast for HBO's The Last of Us, hosted by Troy Baker. Our producers are Elliot Adler, Bria Mariette, and Noah Camuso. Darby Maloney is our editor.


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[Assistant] The show is mixed by Hannes Brown. Our executive producers are Gabrielle Lewis and Barry Finkel. Production music is courtesy of HBO, and you can watch episodes of The Last of Us on HBO Max.


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[Assistant] I waited a moment before answering. I understood alright. But that wasn't quite all there was to it. I understand, I said. And so far as that goes, I forgive you. What I can't forgive?


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[Assistant] I said, my voice rising slightly in spite of myself, is that you enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] He bent forward in the saddle clasping the pommel and laughed for a long time.


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[Assistant] He reveled in the release of tension before finally tossing his head back and turning to me.


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[Assistant] The sky was noticeably lighter now, and I could see his face, lined with exhaustion, strain, and mirth. The scratches down his cheek were black in the dim light.


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[Assistant] He said, gasping, you don't know just how much I enjoyed it. You were so god you look lovely. I was so angry and you thought me so fierce.


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[Assistant] I hated to hurt you, but I wanted to do it at the same time. Jesus, he said, breaking off and wiping his nose. Yes, yes, I did enjoy it. Look, come to that, he said.


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[Assistant] You might give me some credit for exercising restraint. I was getting rather angry again.


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[Assistant] I could feel my cheeks flushing hotly against the cool dawn air. Restraint was it?


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[Assistant] Did I want to cripple you, Sassenach, you'd know it, he answered dryly. I meant afterward. I slept on the floor, if you recall.


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[Assistant] I eyed him narrowly, breathing through my nose. Ooh, so that was restraint, was it?


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't think it right to roger you in that state, however fierce I wanted to. And I did want to, he added, laughing again. Terrible strain of my natural instincts. Roger me? I said, diverted by the expression.


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[Assistant] I would hardly call it lovemaking under the circumstances, would you?


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[Assistant] Whatever you might call it, I said evenly, it's a good thing you didn't try it, or you'd now be missing a few valued bits of your anatomy. That thought occurred to me.


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[Assistant] And if you think you deserve applause for nobly refraining from committing rape on top of assault, I choked on my collar.


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[Assistant] We rode a half mile or so in silence. Then he heaved a sigh. I can see I shouldn't have started this conversation.


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[Assistant] What I was trying to do was to work up to asking you, would you allow me to share your bed again? Once we get to Bagrinen. He paused shyly. It's a bit cold on the floor.


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[Assistant] That episode was that I picked up a hooker in the car pool lane and took her to Dodger Stadium.


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[Assistant] Oh, he made himself a home. What is, what is that? Did he?


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[Assistant] Jar must be tired after so long a journey. Sit here beside your aunt. Edmund, give your cousin a slice of gooseberry tart.


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[Assistant] I had hoped when he would find his sister at 18, much changed from his sister at 10. But I fear he will not.


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[Assistant] Do you find, Mr. and Ms. Crawford, agreeable acquaintances?


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[Assistant] I think my dear, we may very well do without slavery. But without order, we are lost.


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[Assistant] A period of reflection may be all that's required to bring Fanny to a more sober appreciation of Mr. Crawford's offer. I propose we leave Fanny behind when we visit your mother.


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[Assistant] Only don't expect to govern everyone else.


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[Assistant] Do you know who that is, Adam? No. This guy, explain, explain about that.


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[Assistant] Guess what? You lock into Equifax Terms of Service when you sign up for it, which means that you can't sue the company. You've got to resolve any disputes in forced arbitration.


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[Assistant] You know, it was reflected in the dialogue between James and David, which is faith. And faith can, just like love, can be wonderful or sometimes terrible.


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[Assistant] But he's also extremely confident at adversity. Like that's why I think he makes the hard calls, just like Kathleen, just like Marlene. Just like a lot of the people we've seen in this story, he can make the hard calls that no one else can make.


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[Assistant] What I love about the sequence is that you just, there's these long moments where you just see her staring. And like the idea of like, you wouldn't know. You're like, I stitched him. Is this working? It's kind of turning infectious. I'm not sure. Is he going to survive? He died? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Confidence, like you think about, he has broken all the people around him, right? It's like sheep, and here he sees a wolf, like him.


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[Assistant] Well, he's a master manipulator, right? He's like, he's making Ellie feel like she's in control, but he's in control the entire time.


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[Assistant] That ends with a big bloater. Yeah, it's a really hard encounter.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of payoffs that would not work if the rest of the season didn't work as well as it did. And one of these moments that


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[Assistant] One of my favorite moments from the game is Ellie is, she got this penicillin, shot of penicillin and she doesn't know, she just injects it where she thinks it might go. She's not sure if it's gonna work or not. And then she lies down next to Joel and leans into him.


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[Assistant] And I just, again, I'm watching this and I'm seeing Ellie and Joel, not like Bella and Pedro.


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[Assistant] But I love again that we wake up the next day and she does another injection. She's like, she doesn't know how much to give, where to do it, whether it's going to work or not. And again, there's a little bit of this blind faith that this is all going to work out.


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[Assistant] By the way, the what's your name thing is, it goes back to the conversation we just had of like, again, you're in this room where everybody's eating human meat.


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[Assistant] It's like, I was just watching it last night with Halle Gross, uh, co-wrote the second game and she starts laughing and I'm like, what are you laughing at? She's like, just Joel at 10% is better than the two of these guys at 100%.


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[Assistant] And it is dark and it is possessive. They both have these violent tendencies, but where David's a narcissist, Ellie's overflowing with empathy. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Do you think that he would have stayed in Silverlake or do you think he would have left?


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[Assistant] Which by the way, if you think about that scene, they could have gone in there and shot her.


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[Assistant] But it was important when the sequence was constructed in the game, and I think it's the same for the show, which is like, we want the audience or the player to think.


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[Assistant] Before she loses her sanity, he's there to bring her back.


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[Assistant] Now, she will never be the same after this and we'll see the consequences of that like in the next episode. We, the whole scene was constructed when we made the game and this is one of those sequences that made me want to make this game.


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[Assistant] That the whole thing was kind of a study of a more stereotypical hero you would have in a person like Joel. And then there is one moment in time towards the end of the story where he would get so incapacitated, this is how it was pitched, that the roles would flip and then you would play as this girl protecting this man.


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[Assistant] To me, like, almost the entire story hinges on this sequence.


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[Assistant] And I remember when we were making the game, I was so nervous about whether this was going to work or not because I'm like, if this doesn't work, then that means the whole story is not working. And then when I finally kind of played that sequence, I'm like,


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[Assistant] You know, it's one of the most emotional parts of the story where like he, Joel comes and embraces her and calls her baby girl and you're like, oh my god, like look how much these two characters have been through. And I was so nervous.


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[Assistant] Whether this would hit as hard on the show. And I want it to be hit as hard on the show as it did in the game. When I watched this finally, like, uh, I watched like two episodes before so I could go into this with full context. I'm watching it and it's different. She stumbled on into the snow and just the contrast of like the blood on her skin against the white snow. And Bella does such an incredible job of like this.


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[Assistant] And I'm bawling, I'm crying, not just like tears in my eyes, I'm like, it's waterworks. And I was like, I pick up my phone and I just text Craig this one sentence, we did it. And it could only work again if all everything that proceeded was working.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was designed to make Cody feel isolated. It was designed to make Cody be like, well, no one's gonna. And I actually, uh, what I probably liked about that was the fact that, you know, we had this,


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[Assistant] What happened was, uh, Cody is being introduced by Mike Rome, who gets his full, uh, American nightmare that he didn't get to say the night before, and then within seconds,


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[Assistant] From out of nowhere, an F5, an F5 from Brock Lesnar to Cody Rhodes, and then what can only be described as a beat down for the ages. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Unbelievably by Cody Rose, who by the way, I-


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[Assistant] If there were any doubt that this is a sort of walking icon of the business in so many ways.


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[Assistant] Has been selling the effects of the night before the whole show.


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[Assistant] Full suit for the opening segment, selling his ribs, trying to smile at the crowd, grimacing here and there. Really wonderful performance in the promo segment. Really, really was quite something. Do seek it out because there were intricacies and little nuances in his facial expressions that were sold.


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[Assistant] He almost hated the fact that he was asking for a rematch, like he was almost going to demand very much because he's so correct, I actually had you beat there, but if I couldn't get it done on the night, there was almost a flicker of like, I shouldn't be asking for a rematch, but I want one kind of thing.


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[Assistant] So then when we get hit with this f5, which then is followed up by very quickly by a second f5,


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[Assistant] The second F5 happens because Brock takes Cody by the head and just sort of pulls him up to his feet.


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[Assistant] The lack of expectation from Cody, who to that point had been giving it a cool, oh my god, I'm so ready for this moment, almost like full on white meat baby face smiling to the hard cam.


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[Assistant] It blindsided him. It blindsided him. Brock picks him up by the, by the, the, the, by the rib, uh, tapes that he's got on to sell the rib injury.


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[Assistant] Um, and, and ragdolls him into two German suplexes and throws him out of the ring. We get an F5 onto the table, which broke like a, what's your favorite phrase? A biscuit. It was a biscuity break. Biscuity break. Um, a bunch of chair shots on the outside, uh, an F5 onto the steel stairs in the ring. And we think that's it. Brock starts to leave the ring.


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[Assistant] Uh, everyone is down, every member of the backstage area comes down and tries to take over, looking at, tries to stop Brock, Brock's having none of it. The second Brock leaves the ring and starts walking up the ramp, everyone's in the ring to look after Cody, but Cody starts stirring and Brock can't have that. So Brock, Brock turns right back around, heads right to the ring.


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[Assistant] Yet more beat down. Two things were very brutal in what he did. First of all, he walked over Cody's neck.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like proper foot on the throat. The kind of classic, I'm a big wrestler and you're a small wrestler, so I'm gonna walk over your back, except it was his throat.


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[Assistant] Then he takes that chair, a couple more chair shots to the back, and then literally just drives it into Cody's throat, really going for it, really trying to cause him real pain here.


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[Assistant] And then he decides that's enough, leaves, heads to the back, everyone's checking on Cody, I'm watching the clock, we are setting down to, uh, 3.59, heading to the close of the hour, Brock comes back onto the stage, everyone is nervous, he rips off his, his wrist straps.


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[Assistant] And we get this kind of incredible opening of raw shot, which they can never use in the opening segment because it ain't PG pal. Brock.


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[Assistant] Double middle finger, Austin style, directly down lens, the camera goes through them, to Brock's face, which is there to say, eat it.


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[Assistant] The reason I'm, the thing was, that opening segment I was really high on. I was really high on it. And, uhm, if any of you had joined us last night for the, for the WrestleMania finale, uhm, I was, and am,


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[Assistant] You know, I drank the Kool-Aid years ago, I'm Mark, you know, guilty as charged, but I kind of was giving it, giving it room to, to, you know, in the cliche, let it play out, see what happens.


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[Assistant] And I felt vindicated at the start of the show. I really did. I was like, well, here you go. See, we're getting the, the bloodline. Uh, first of all, the Usos didn't come out with Roman. Uh, it was just Roman, Heyman and Solo. I thought that was a nice misdirect actually. Really was good. Uh, we also had, um, Cody,


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[Assistant] And the segment was really good. So I think the reason that I'm a little bit, cause I, cause I do think that the beat down was also good. I think it was sold well by Cody. I think, I think the surprise element of it is why it, it, there was no fight back. The injury element of it was why there was no fight back. I think that was very effective.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think the reason I'm feeling a bit wonky is because this show was hot garbage. Was not a good show. From start to finish and, and unfortunately it had


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[Assistant] I don't think that you are. I think I'm interested to see it play out. I think I'm interested to see a Cody Brock thing. I think you make of a compelling argument for it. Uh, I just don't want to see Vince McMahon's WWE anymore. Me neither. I really don't. And that's soured me on the whole show. As much as it did pop for the end, what I'm left with is


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[Assistant] I don't think that Cody would be off though, I don't know, there's something, Cody, why would you write, why would you write him off TV? I don't get it. But then again, are we trying to apply, I think this is ultimately where I come back to being really frustrated, we're trying to apply logic to what appears to be Vince


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[Assistant] We've had six, seven months of Triple H in charge, right? We know what a Triple H show looks like. It's not always perfect. Sometimes it's like the segment was wonky, this segment, this program has been booked bad, but the show has an element of cohesion. This show was a mess. From


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[Assistant] The end of that segment to the beginning of the main event. This show was a complete mess. This Roar After Mania...


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[Assistant] Was Raw After Mania, only by virtue of it being the Raw After WrestleMania. It was, it, the way I described it during the stream is that it could have been an email. There was a lot of nonsense and nothing happening.


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[Assistant] They've nailed it over the past 6 streams, as much as you've been on every single one


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know that I buy that Vince doesn't like Cody because let's not forget


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[Assistant] How incredible his booking was from that return at WrestleMania 38. Like, you know, he...


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[Assistant] I still don't see this as a burial. My frustration and my confusion and my lack of knowing how I feel about this has more to do with the show as a whole than it does this angle specifically. I do still believe that Cody is the guy, I still believe the higher ups believe that Cody could be the guy.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't think Vince hates Cody. I don't think this idea that he's this outside, and I've seen this a lot on Twitter, not just in these chats, not just in the chat there, all over Twitter over the past 24 hours, people being like, oh, you thought we were going to let Stardust win the belt?


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[Assistant] They spent a lot of money to get him back, and they presented him for a long time as a star.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, my, my thought has always been, my thought from last night was very much, you know, Cody's gonna, uhm, have to find some way to feel better about himself. And, and, and I wasn't able to get the job done. I could, I was so close to getting the job done, but I didn't get the job done. And what...


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[Assistant] How much damage does that do to him? How does he perceive himself as a result of that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think chill out on that one. However, also when you, when you say that, uh, because of their own ego, I do agree.


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[Assistant] The reports were that he felt wronged, he was given bad advice and if he just stuck around,


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[Assistant] Uh, Triple H, not the vi- the villain here, because Triple H ran NXT by hiring, I mean sure, kill the indies, whatever, but he hired-


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[Assistant] These stars that were made elsewhere often let them keep their same name. Adam Cole, Samoa, Joe, Shinsuke Nakamura, um, Drew McIntyre was only Drew McIntyre because he was already Drew McIntyre kind of thing. And he pushed them to the moon. He pushed them to the moon and we were so excited to see them. He, he, we made an, he made it to see a very exciting prospect by letting these people do their thing. And then they got to the main roster and to a man.


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[Assistant] That's true. I mean, uh, you're not the only one, there's another chat coming up, but I've also seen, I was looking at Twitter before we hopped onto this stream, uh, where, uh, a lot of people are making that scene at 28 comparison.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's that, uh, that, that shot of Cody that I love so much of him sat there being like, how in the hell did this slip through my fingers? Uh, in comparison to that scene of sat on the ramp situation, it is a very similar moment. And, and if the, the story is the rocky rebuild situation that we've been talking about, Philadelphia, all the rest.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't personally wait until about a year to put the belt on him if we're trying to build some Islam up. However, giving him Brock Lesnar as his first act of


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[Assistant] I'll deal with you later, I've got some redemption to do.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, but we didn't do it. So we missed and that was unfortunate. I'm going to wait here until you. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Scott Hawks says Brock can earn the chance to get a shot at the title by helping Rhodes get at Roman, Brock's most hated enemy. So he destroys Cody, ensuring Roman stays champ because Healton? Huh?


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[Assistant] Uhm, it did look like they were completely surprised by this. Uhm, they were... We need a story for this. Yeaah, I mean next week.


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[Assistant] Unless they, unless they're taking Brock to Puerto Rico.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's the first Puerto Rico show in a long time, you know, there's, there's, you know, put your big names.


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[Assistant] Star Leo, this is so saddening. I was in defense of the Roman win because of how good Roman, uh, Roman's reigns and the stories surrounding him have been. I was genuinely willing to let it play out. But after seeing this 100% Vince show, my fate is low and was fun, but still, that


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[Assistant] I wasn't. I wasn't. I wouldn't want too many. I think so. Like that was, that's the angle. If Brock was already a heel and this was a repeated, this was like, if, if there was a rain's beat down, maybe. Yeah. But this was, this was something completely new. That was the story.


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[Assistant] Adwin, if this is a Vince thing, can we as an audience get an FU Vince one time please to make him go away? Cause at this point,


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[Assistant] Brev should just stick to being a businessman or retire. F.


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[Assistant] Brock 2, we've seen Brock be Brock for decades now. I love Brock as a baby face. I really was into the Brock as a baby face. And Damien, Damien Gilliam, Cody's bread and butter is the chase. If he's not fighting back from something or hangman paging, it ain't true Cody. Roman Cody 2 at some other time, I can dig it. I agree with that.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're saying as well that it was announced before the show and I know this was going to be the first hour was going to be commercial free and we started to notice pretty quickly that this was a really weird choice for a commercial free hour, uh, and comes through with the explanation.


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[Assistant] Do apologize. Can you fill a bit more time? Uuuh, what a...


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[Assistant] Time to be alive. Uhm, yeaah. And it was, it was, it was pretty, pretty quick. The other thing was, the start of the show was, and maybe this is when it happened, Triple H came out and cut a Kool-Aid promo saying, you know, there's a lot of big news stories. Everyone's talking about WWE. WWE isn't going anywhere. The entertainment you love isn't going anywhere.


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[Assistant] Lol, in hindsight. Uhm, and maybe that's when Vince was running around changing all the scripts, because Triple H wasn't paying attention, he was too busy outside telling us everything was gonna be fine.


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[Assistant] Also, Triple H loves a long match. First hour, commercial free, we get a long women's triple threat match, instead it's replaced by a bunch of promos and a squash match with Omos.


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[Assistant] You can't have a more clear delineation between who put that on television. One of them is Triple H, one of them is Vince. I have tried so hard for the past however many weeks, since January, since Vince came back, uh, forced his way back onto the board in a


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[Assistant] A season of succession that I would say jumped the shark.


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[Assistant] And I've been, I've been trying really hard to deny that it's possible and like, you know, maybe he's really not involved, maybe he's just, whatever, but it's so, it's so evident, it's so evident I could vomit.


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm not here to say that Triple H booked perfectly every single time. I think the, the evidence of, we've talked about it loads, like, you know, it doesn't get it right a lot of the time. The Bianca and Asuka feud was, was a whole pile of nothing as was the Charlotte-Ria feud. He's had trouble booking the women's division really since Damage Control came back, uhm, came back, debuted as a unit.


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[Assistant] And by the time the Mysterio Austin Theory match started, literally, the bell rang and we went to commercial break almost immediately.


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[Assistant] And, and you, you pointed out on the stream something Kevin Patrick said, which was that Omos is hungry and you went for what? And that's a very good point.


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[Assistant] And I, and I really appreciated it as a segment. I thought it was a really cool little segment. I thought it was a really interesting, um, and effective.


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[Assistant] Choice, uh, there was a moment where I was just out there going, was this maybe a segment that was filmed last night at WrestleMania that didn't get used and they've used Aurora instead, but then no, it didn't make any sense. So no, I thought it was a good segment. I really liked this and this was still at the point where I was like, okay, the show could pick up.


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[Assistant] And they cut a promo on each other in full Spanish. And it was really effective. Great.


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[Assistant] No, so, so, I mean, Priest was there, and then, then, uh, Dominic, and I can't remember exactly how it went down, but I'm pretty sure Dominic went for a right hand bunny, stopped it, and pushed him away, so then Priest steps in, and again, in Spanish, he's sort of like, what are you doing, bro?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a really, I mean, it's, it's, they were, they were pushing a lot last night, Puerto Rico on, on WrestleMania. There were a few, um, of those kind of like, uh, it was almost like, what was the, uh, the name of the, the colognes, the, the, the three, were they just called the colognes? Yeah, the colognes. They did. They're like, they're welcome. Beautiful paradise. Like whatever they did. Oh, the shining stars. Um,


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[Assistant] It was one of those, they did a lot of those over the weekend, so they're really hyping this show as well as they should. Uh, and it was really fun then to see, uh, Priest and Bad Bunny get into it and set this match up. It was a great table spot. Uh, great choke slam. Really, really, really effective. Again, a nice little...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it felt like the promo that was cut beforehand from, uh, the Street Profits was a little bit sarky. There was almost a, Tez was giving a sort of sarky like, oh well done, you do deserve, uh, kind of energy. And then in the course of the match, it felt like, uh, Tez was getting frustrated with not being able to get one over on, on KO.


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[Assistant] To the point where he like bailed out of the ring for a second, which is generally a heel thing to do. Uhm, so I was intrigued by that. It didn't really come that way, but uhm, yeaah, I thought I might have spotted a couple of heelish moments there.


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[Assistant] Listed on the rundown as a title match, but wasn't a title match. And I think Kevin, Patrick, or Corey Graves are one of them said during the course of the match that if they were to win, it would put themselves in the picture. And I guess it's, I thought it was an open challenge. Odd. Odd, odd, odd, odd, odd.


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[Assistant] Comeback, they did a little promo for something else, Seth is still in the ring, and then Seth leaves. There wasn't even a, there wasn't even a suck it Logan, there wasn't even a, he just left. It was, it was so...


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[Assistant] Odd. Yeah. It was so weird. Do something for the live crowd.


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[Assistant] But don't give us- Don't give- Don't- Like, it was the dictionary definition of, yes, King, give us nothing, except it literally gave us nothing.


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[Assistant] It was the first female presence on the show in two hours.


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[Assistant] It was a promo about potentially setting up something in the future.


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[Assistant] This show, if there was ever an advert for why there shouldn't be any WWE programming between WrestleMania and June, this show was it. Because what happened of note, really, that couldn't wait till June?


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[Assistant] Yep. We did tune in back in time to see Liv Morgan get thrown over the top rope before we cut to an ad break. Yep.


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[Assistant] He won one of them. He won by ref stoppage. I suppose, I suppose. Also, uh, first person to wrestle on both nights of Wrestlemania. Um, ever. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] It was the first thing of note on the entire bloody show.


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[Assistant] And that's generous, I'll be honest. What happened was Byron went for a fist bump and Trish sort of half thought about it and then was like, nah, not so much. Which felt more like a dunk on Byron than a tease of a heel turn. But again, scraps. Hoping for the best.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and again, it was this thing of, we thought perhaps the tag match was gonna go down at, uhm,


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[Assistant] This was, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst wrestling show I have seen in 25 years. I'm angry. I think it's because Vince is back. I think it's because there's no doubting it this time. We had hope, and the hope was taken away. Oh man. I don't know if I would go as far as this.


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[Assistant] I'm in my feels because it's like egg on my face for giving it leniency last night. I don't like being shown up. Alright?


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[Assistant] There's a, there's a, there's a boring show, right? There's a show where it's like, ah, that didn't hit, and that didn't hit, and there you go, and that's another one, that's three hours done. And then there's a show that just feels empty.


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[Assistant] And contemptuous. And I feel contempt for this production.


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[Assistant] I feel fury, and that's why I can't fully like the finale. The opening was good, the ending was good, everything else in between. From, from the ripping up of the running order, to potentially people, that Bailey tweet has upset me, like to, uh, to, to just,


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[Assistant] Women being given crumbs, and they've had no wonder there was no women for the first two hours because they were supposed to have triple threatmats and they've had to organize an entirely new match and figure out what they're gonna do with it. I'm angry about that. Yeah. Vince. Can I just swear? Just the one? I'll give you the one. Fuck off!


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[Assistant] I don't think so. They circulated that internal memo that said Triple H was still in charge of creative, but then they did that show, so who bloody knows? Yeah, but they also said that, you know, Vince ain't back, guys. He doesn't get into the weeds, does he?


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[Assistant] Anyone who is a WWE talent is watching this broadcast.


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[Assistant] Go on strike. You have my backing. Strike action. Walk out on him. Walk out on him. Make him go away. Tell those new people who are in charge that you will not stand for this because we don't wanna and you don't deserve it.


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[Assistant] That's what makes me think Brock might be there. Because it's a brand new market, or at least a market they haven't served in a while.


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[Assistant] Bad Bunny and Ray vs Priest and Dominik is a great match, but it's not the main event.


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[Assistant] Our closing ceremony of what we thought was a halcyon summer, we had the night one that we wanted and the rest of it was not.


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[Assistant] If this, if this, if this is their idea of a commercial to make people wanna come back. Oh dear. Oh yea, that's fine.


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[Assistant] Unless your argument is because he's been, he's been stuff suffering and the happy-go-lucky cowboy almost had him lose to a master at WrestleMania and he's pissed about it.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, Mr. Eli Max says, hey guys, this has been a bit of a let down, but you have really held the show fly by. I just want to let you know about a dream of mine. Do a fantasy booking video with Adam and you guys. Thanks for the great content, gents. Jam that jam. Adam and I can't be in the same place for too long or the world will implode. It's the twin syndrome.


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[Assistant] Besides the ending segment being kinda bad, this show was effing terrible. Thank you for helping me get through this nonsense, uh, show. You made it enjoyable. I mean, yeah.


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[Assistant] It was bad. It just was bad. There's no good. Uh, Jake WCW, if there is one good thing that came out of this terrible show is that we will be getting more Dan reviews. Hashtag DanThatDan. That is true. Thank you very kindly. And Carter Steel with the sorkin' ending here. What kind of a roar?


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[Assistant] It had been, it had been mid for a while and then for me went to a big giant thumbs down. I'd go so far as to give it two thumbs down. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, praise the mods. Like honestly, this has been a marathon weekend, which has had ups.


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[Assistant] Massive ups, incredible moments, some crushing downs, but, uh, you have had, you've played a blinder, really genuinely, I think it's been, I've had a lot of fun with you, the, all the extra ones that you've been doing while I was asleep. You've really nailed it. Thank you all for joining us as well. And the mods have absolutely nailed it. They've done such an incredible job.


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[Assistant] Thank you for having me and I'm so excited to be back. I can't wait for, uhm, this new Vince era.


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[Assistant] Yeah man, I can relate to that just because I came from a small town. How big was your town that you grew up in?


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[Assistant] That you got, obviously there was a lot along the way, but one that really stands out to you that you took advantage of that kind of sprung you in this direction and kind of set the path for you.


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[Assistant] Where centuries of agriculture and fishing have reshaped the land.


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[Assistant] At 83, he's a guardian of one of Japan's secret water gardens.


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[Assistant] Over a thousand years, towns and villages have developed a unique system to make springs and water part of their homes.


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[Assistant] This is a habitat so precious, the Japanese have a special word for it. Satoyama.


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[Assistant] They are exceptional environments essential to both the people who maintain them and to the wildlife that now share them.


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[Assistant] Late February at Lake Biwa, an area five times the size of Paris.


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[Assistant] Its year has four distinct seasons.


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[Assistant] Reeds, desiccated by winter winds, feel the heat of spring.


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[Assistant] They are all that remain. The rest have gone to make roofs or screens.


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[Assistant] The fire and smoke have provoked new growth.


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[Assistant] Parched earth soaks into wetland.


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[Assistant] Some are longer than a man's arm, but she's bigger still, heavy with eggs.


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[Assistant] For the rest of the year, these carp inhabit the chill depths of the lake. To spawn, they must seek warm shallows.


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[Assistant] There are only a few days a year when so many fish have thrown here.


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[Assistant] Sangoro the Fisherman won't miss his chance.


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[Assistant] The river courses with fresh mountain torrents. But here and there, natural springs well up from the bottom.


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[Assistant] Intuition springs from long experience.


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[Assistant] His haul includes other fish as well as carp, as they all flock to spawn in the shallows.


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[Assistant] It smells sour and takes a long time to make.


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[Assistant] Stand for three months. Mix with boiled rice to ferment. Leave another six months.


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[Assistant] The ingredients, rice and fish, are the key items of the Japanese diet.


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[Assistant] Sangola's home lies about two kilometres inland from the lake shore.


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[Assistant] Water from boreholes under the village is piped into the houses.


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[Assistant] As spring gives way to early summer, aquatic plants reach for the sun.


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[Assistant] This one takes its name from the tree flower it resembles. The plum flower underwater buttercup.


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[Assistant] It normally prefers cold northern currents. This is the furthest south it's found.


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[Assistant] Brook Nampres, primitive jawless fish that resemble eels.


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[Assistant] The channel through the village is home to creatures large and small.


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[Assistant] The water sustains people too, and in turn they use it sustainably.


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[Assistant] Each home has a built-in pool or water tank that lies partly inside, partly outside its walls.


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[Assistant] In the pool, lounge, friendly, ornamental carp.


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[Assistant] A continuous stream of spring water is piped right into a basin, so fresh water is always available.


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[Assistant] People rinse out pots in the tanks and clean their freshly picked vegetables.


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[Assistant] If they simply pour the food scraps back in the water, they risk polluting the whole village supply.


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[Assistant] Can scour out even the greasy or burnt pans.


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[Assistant] This traditional arrangement is called the Riverside Method. It's used all over Japan.


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[Assistant] Cleaned up by the carp, the tank water eventually rejoins the channel.


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[Assistant] Opening their mouths and erecting their dorsal fins to look bigger.


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[Assistant] The victory over the den gave her a place to spawn in safety.


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[Assistant] Four months after the hungry flames licked the air, Reeds that rose from the ashes now reach overhead.


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[Assistant] The marshy landscape takes on its summer look.


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[Assistant] A world filled with tiny lives.


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[Assistant] Tiny organisms called pseudoplankton live on their surface.


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[Assistant] Earlier, in spring, young carp hatched in the flooded fields. They stay there for about three months.


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[Assistant] It's correct name is the Golden-Ringed Dragonfly. But to the Japanese, and to Sangoro,


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[Assistant] For safety, grebes make floating fortresses anchored to firmly rooted plants.


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[Assistant] Each grebe has its own territory, and each nests at the same place every year.


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[Assistant] Here comes Sangoro. The birds know him already. This is his regular route.


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[Assistant] He spends two hours checking all the traps he set yesterday.


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[Assistant] This Grey Heron knows what will happen next.


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[Assistant] Each fishing season, this kite pays Sangoro a visit.


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[Assistant] When Sangoro leaves, the Grey Heron doesn't wait any longer.


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[Assistant] Sangoro left the tiddlers for the birds. It's his way of sharing nature's riches with those around him.


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[Assistant] And they are only too pleased to take part.


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[Assistant] Is a token of the village's close ties with wildlife.


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[Assistant] The traps capture relatively small numbers of fish but this means stocks aren't depleted.


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[Assistant] Local materials find a use locally.


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[Assistant] It's five days since the gobies first laid eggs in the village channel.


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[Assistant] Keeping predators away and taking great care of his offspring.


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[Assistant] Golden eyes peer out of the egg capsules. They're ready to break out.


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[Assistant] At the same time, another new life is about to undergo a striking change.


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[Assistant] In the sticky heat of mid-July, villagers gather.


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[Assistant] Overgrown banks block the stream. Time to clear the water plants.


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[Assistant] For the fish in the creek, it's a huge nuisance. Flashed out of the shady vegetation, they seek refuge elsewhere.


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[Assistant] Sangoro's wife, Chicano, washes the fish, salted in spring.


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[Assistant] Sangoro's job is the backbreaking bit.


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[Assistant] First, they lay out the fish evenly. Then they cover them. They build up several nairs.


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[Assistant] The rice starch feeds microorganisms that cause fermentation.


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[Assistant] With nature's blessing, the Funazushi will be good again this year.


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[Assistant] After the cleanup, the channel runs smooth and clear. Small fry are encouraged to return.


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[Assistant] It feeds on fish, which is unusual for terrestrial snakes.


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[Assistant] They must avoid herons and carnivorous fish too.


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[Assistant] The villagers endure the humid days of late summer with their natural neighbours.


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[Assistant] It's time to gather rice, the staple food of the Japanese.


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[Assistant] As the rice dries in the autumn sun, the smell of hay spreads across the fields.


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[Assistant] With the harvest in, the time has come to give thanks.


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[Assistant] He won't depart without being given offerings. Rice cakes, sake, white radishes, and the fresh fish.


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[Assistant] Sangoro believes that the god of his rice paddy will eat before leaving.


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[Assistant] Each element in nature has its own god. Every tree, rock and stream. Eight million gods of nature in all.


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[Assistant] Prayer and ritual express Sangoro's gratitude. He's almost totally self-sufficient, thanks to the gifts of nature.


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[Assistant] It's December. Winter's harshness looms.


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[Assistant] Bitter winds start to gust from the lake. Sturdy green gives way to brittle gold.


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[Assistant] Nine months have passed since the scorched earth sent out shoots.


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[Assistant] The stands will be left to dry all through the winter.


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[Assistant] The stands are visible reminders of the close connection between the farmers and the environment they have created.


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[Assistant] The reed beds show no sign of life.


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[Assistant] In Sangoro's house, the local delicacy is finally ready.


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[Assistant] Inside is more evidence of nature's bounty.


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[Assistant] After half a year of maturing, the fish has the sour taste of cheese.


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[Assistant] Right next to their dining room, there is the basin full to the brim. It's cool in summer, warm in winter.


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[Assistant] The Japanese describe tight-knit relationships as being as close as water and fish, intimate and inseparable.


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[Assistant] The reed beds have slept throughout the winter. Now the first rays of sun coax warmth into them.


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[Assistant] As the rhythm of the year picks up, so do lives, human and animal.


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[Assistant] The Japanese have another saying, water comes, the fish live. They mean that when the right time comes, everything will be fine.


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[Assistant] What are you going to do? Call the police?


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[Assistant] What's going to happen when someone unties a knot that holds you together?


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[Assistant] Mademoiselle, Anne-Sanne, let the vigno. No, no, sir, Suzanne Raynaud.


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[Assistant] Finally, I got Conrad Camber. I've been looking for this guy for ages, could not find him in a store, and the eBay prices were a little high for me, so fortunately last week a friend of mine found one at a store and sold it to me for a great price, so thank you.


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[Assistant] You know who you are, so let's waste no time. This is definitely one of my new favorite


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[Assistant] Next Gen Piston Cut Racers. I just love that gold star on him. And of course we'll get into the details a little bit later. But he is the shiny wax number 82 next generation racer. And there's a nice little picture of him looking very happy with the desert highway in the background.


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[Assistant] Of course, like I already pointed out, the Next Gen Pissing Cut Racers series with the cool yellow gold-ish stripe, and there's a picture of a conceptual Next Gen.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's because they didn't know what else they'd be releasing or they just didn't have them ready yet. I don't know exactly why, but we only have a look at Conrad. The description reads, will the impressive next-gen racers break Lightning McQueen's winning streak? Yes, they definitely did.


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[Assistant] Pretty much ended it forever, sorry to say. And then we have a picture of McQueen looking at one of the main next-gens, Danny Suarez. And then we have on the right, the next-gen combustor, and on the left, the next-gen triple dent named cam spinner.


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[Assistant] So, that is all for the package. This is a perfect card, and I do buy usually one to open, one to keep in the package. So it is a little foolish of me to open such a perfect


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[Assistant] Packaged card, but you know what? I just can't wait. I have no idea when I'll get a second one of these. I may never, so let's just open it up.


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[Assistant] So, here we have Conrad out of the package. Looking stunning, even better than he did in the package. But man, that tape on the card there around the blister really eats up the nice card there. I mean, look at that. This is all I was able to salvage because the tape's on there so strong that when you


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[Assistant] Anyway, let's get on with the review here of our buddy Konrad. So, I'll put some pictures on the screen of where he appeared in the movie.


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[Assistant] He didn't talk, as for most of the Piston Cup racers, but he was seen in the background a couple times, and he does look very movie accurate, so that's always a plus, cause sometimes, you know,


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[Assistant] His diecast actually has a different spoiler than in the movie. But anyway, getting back on track here, Conrad did replace Darren Ledfoot, who was the shiny wax racer in Cars 1 and at the beginning of Cars 3.


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[Assistant] From Cars 1 to Cars 3 along with like Todd Marcus, you have Ernie Gerson, some others in there as well. So we'll do a comparison of these three in a little bit, but I do have to say that Shiny Wax as a brand has evolved


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[Assistant] Probably one of the most out of all of the companies or sponsors, I should say, in Cars 3. I mean, just look at how different the next gen is from


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[Assistant] Or maybe, you know, he'll be releasing 2019, 2020 something along those lines. But anyway, now let's get on to the review of him. So he is the same model as quite a few other next-gens. I selected five to bring out for comparison.


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[Assistant] We have flip dough brush, let's back these guys up a little bit so we can get more in the shot.


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[Assistant] And lastly, uh, the ones that I chose is Danny Swerves, who is the main model of all these, cause he was the first and he did speak in the movie.


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[Assistant] I really do like it and I like that he has a different eye expression at least from the rest of them. And mouth as well, you can see that Flip and Danny have their mouths open, whereas these three have closed mouths. So, you know, definitely some more effort being put in to differentiate.


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[Assistant] I just love this metallic green paint. It starts really kind of bright, like an emerald green toward the front here. You can see with the vents there. But then as it goes to the back, it gets darker and darker and fades into the gray, which I love that design. It definitely emphasizes the next-gen motif, the modernness of it.


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[Assistant] He has that grill there, very slim, that connects the headlights.


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[Assistant] He's got that frown on, of course, cause that's what they do to all the next gens, no matter what the card heart says. Even if he's smiling on here, he's probably not smiling on the actual diecast, but that's all for like a marketing thing. Kids wanna buy stuff that looks happy, not stuff that looks like that.


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[Assistant] Because, first thing they see is the picture on the car right there. It's just kinda how it is. But anyway!


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[Assistant] I don't know, it contradicts shiny wax in my opinion a little bit, but it still looks really nice and contemporary. I love it. And then my favorite thing is this gold foil and it surrounds the very small shiny wax logo here. It's just in white text there with a green rim.


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[Assistant] Where the gold stripes actually meet from the sides here. And this is kind of like a sun here. It's this amazing paint.


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[Assistant] Or like gold foil, whatever they use. It looks fantastic. They have used it on some other next-gen racers. My example for today is Danny Swerves, cause he also has gold foil. Some of the other ones have like green or like grey with Aaron Klokker.


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[Assistant] Of course, he is still number 82, and that is that metallic paint there again, which looks fantastic. There are his exhaust pipes. That arrow indicates the picker where to lift him up at to exchange the tires, which are Lightyear, the modern version.


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[Assistant] That has the texel rim very, very thin along the outer edge with some silver rims in there or trim and just black wheels.


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[Assistant] Nice and simple. His contingency sponsors are the Pissing Cup, Combuster, Carbon Cyber, and Synergy.


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[Assistant] Those three are all new sponsors, ironically. New companies for Cars 3.


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[Assistant] On the roof here, number 82 with the roof flaps. Nice and simple, just green with some yellow backing there. His spoiler is also really nice. It has that sparkle on the end, like he did on the hood there. Shiny wax in the center, and then yellow flares on the outside. Very, very small shiny wax logo right there. And his gas cap is right there.


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[Assistant] They just didn't do it last year. I feel like most of the next-gens that are new, newly released here on out will have those window bars. Like for example, Conrad, or Paul, my bad, was released this year and he has the window bars.


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[Assistant] And on the back here, woah woah, let's darken up a little bit, it gets so bright. We have that shiny waxed logo there again, the nice yellow rookie stripes, and some cool taillights. I love it, just love it. And here is the base if you're interested in looking at the codes and what not.


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[Assistant] Awesome. A lot of people have been complaining about this gold foil or the foil in general, that like material use on these racers, cause


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[Assistant] Danny Swerves, Chase Resa, and even a little bit, I think, on Steve Slick-LaPage, who was the trunk-fresh next-gen in that next-gen racer's 4-pack, and I'll put a link to him in the description if you want to check that out. But now let's compare the lineage of these shiny wax racers here.


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[Assistant] Let me know after I show them all. Which one is your favorite? Mine, you guys guessed it. Definitely Conrad.


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[Assistant] Definitely seems that every time he's gotten a little bit bigger, but that is just coincidental.


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[Assistant] I still don't fully understand how this is the same character as this. It's been like 11 years of them racing and he was even a rookie in Cars 1 and he's a completely new model, it doesn't make sense to me, but anyway, you can