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[Assistant] You can hear more about that in my review of Darren, and I'll put that link in the description as well along with the card suggestion in the top right hand corner.


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[Assistant] So the main theme that has sticked is the circular shiny wax logo. The essence of that, like here you got the rings, and the rings can now transform more into the star, but you still do have that circle.


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[Assistant] Although they did kind of take a break from the circle for the Cars 3 stock car, so it's kind of nice to see them come full circle around, back to the circle. No pun intended there. He's always had black wheels, which is kind of a nice consistency there.


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[Assistant] Which I think is, you know, necessary and makes sense for the next gens. A lot of them are darker than their counterparts that came before them.


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[Assistant] I do have to say I love Cars 3 Darren. I love his design and everything. He's actually one of my favorite Pisting Hot Racers from Cars 3 that is a stock car.


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[Assistant] But you guys may have a different opinion, that's perfectly cool.


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[Assistant] So yea, that's pretty much it. You can't really compare too many other aspects just because, I mean, so insanely different. And that really is the case with a lot of these sponsors. I feel like the one that changed the least is like Moodsprings here, or like N20 Cola.


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[Assistant] That is completely random. Now let's bring in the team of Shiny Wax here. We have Senior Trax, who is the crew chief. At least he was for Darren in Cars 1. And Nebuchadnezzar Schmidt is the pity. Quite a name there.


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[Assistant] Don't know why they chose that, don't know how it really relates to cars, but still nonetheless a cool pity. I have a custom toolbox cause the pity and crew chief


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[Assistant] We're released together in three packs, which means that they never included a tool card. Same thing went for sparements, pivy, and no stalls, so.


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[Assistant] Make some customs or buy some from somebody else. And here we have the pit stop barrier which was released like, almost two years ago now. I love that. Goes along with Darren. This is all Darren's stuff.


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[Assistant] Darren even has a pretty sweet launcher here that was released almost ten years ago. I think we're coming up on it here. It's like nine, so.


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[Assistant] I'll just buy them on eBay. So yeaah, that worked out pretty well. And I'll see you guys then. Bye now!


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[Assistant] People are gregarious by necessity. Since the days of the first cave dwellers, humans


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[Assistant] Let alone to stand against it, was for uncounted thousands of years death to the creature who dared it.


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[Assistant] To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage. Something that went beyond human instinct. And I feared I did not have it. And fearing was ashamed.


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[Assistant] It seemed forever before the door opened and Geely stepped in, looking cool and unperturbed as usual. A small stick of charcoal in her hand.


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[Assistant] We'll need to filter it after it's boiled, she remarked, as though going on with our previous conversation.


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[Assistant] She lifted her shoulder dismissively, but a mischievous smile lurked about the corners of her lips. She dropped the facade, then, and laughed. You should have seen me, she said, giggling. I was awfully good, and I say it myself.


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[Assistant] All wifely solicitude and womanly kindness with a small dab of maternal pity mixed in. Oh Arthur, she dramatised, had our own union been blessed. Not much chance if I've ought to say about it, she said.


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[Assistant] Dropping the soulful mask for a moment with the tilt of her head toward the herb shelves. Why?


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[Assistant] Me doubt it was but hunger made the lad take to thievery. Oh, Arthur, can you now find it in your heart to be merciful, and you the soul of justice?


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[Assistant] She dropped onto a stool laughing and pounding her fist lightly against her leg. What a pity there's no place for acting here.


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[Assistant] The sound of the crowd outside had changed, and I moved to the window to see what was happening, ignoring Gilly's self-congratulations.


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[Assistant] The throng parted, and the tanner's lad came out, walking slowly between priest and judge.


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[Assistant] Arthur Duncan was swollen with benevolence, bowing and nodding to the more eminent members of the Assembly.


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[Assistant] Father Bane, on the other hand, resembled a sullen potato more than anything else. Brown-faced, lumpy with resentment.


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[Assistant] The little procession proceeded to the centre of the square, where the village locksman, one John McCrae, stepped out of the crowd to meet them.


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[Assistant] This personage was dressed, as befitted his office, in the sober elegance of dark breeches, and a coat and grey velvet hat, removed for the nonce, and tenderly sheltered from the rain beneath the tail of his coat.


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[Assistant] He was not, as I had at first assumed, the village jailer, though in a pinch he did perform such office.


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[Assistant] His duties were primarily those of Constable, Customs Inspector, and when needed, Executioner.


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[Assistant] His title came from the wooden lock or scoop that hung from his belt, with which he was entitled to take a percentage of each bag of grain sold in the Thursday market. The remuneration of his office.


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[Assistant] Fine, okay, I understand, I understand. Uhm, also, can I do one more bit of housekeeping? Oh, please do. This episode of the Aurora Review is brought to you by the movie Renfield.


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[Assistant] It's the biggest match you're gonna wanna see, Cage vs. Holt, but also at the same time, Dracula vs. Renfield, like it's a whole thing. And the movie, just for full clarity, comes out this Friday.


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[Assistant] Yes, but we won't even be in the corner because the BT Sport feed just showed us the match without any of the visuals of, I just got the sound of the movie while Bronzen Reed was having a bash. Um, hilariously, I am going to a press screening of Renfield this evening. Um, I was looking forward to it until this amount of integration.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yes, which was more definite, although also kinda teased a little bit, like he was bailing out of the ring doing, you know, with the almost segments, doing little bits of heel work there.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, so the segment began, the idea of this began with Leta being attacked backstage.


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[Assistant] Um, and I had read the, um, the reports of the travel issues and all those things, which we'll get into, I'm sure. One of them said that there was going to be a change to who was wrestling in the women's match. And I thought that was a travel issue. So then to have a backstage segment with Lita injured, I was like, oh, it's a, it's a bit, they're doing a bit. And I was like, why are Liv and Raquel there?


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[Assistant] But, and this crowd were like, yeah, whatever. What's interesting though is the Seattle crowd were pretty fire for most of the show. And I actually like, spoiler alert, I thought the show was quite decent. Same here. This match, unfortunately, was


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[Assistant] I like all of the competitors. There were moments that I really liked, but for the most part,


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[Assistant] The, the, the bridges between the sequences, sloppy. There was, Trish missed most of the things that she did, uh, which was unfortunate. Yep. Uhm. You know, you, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. That's true, but you are, as a wrestler, supposed to hit at least 50% of the shots that you hit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I really, I tell you what, I really did appreciate, and this is, this is very genuine, I really appreciated that Liv and Raquel, who are, as you say, emblematic of the whole who's Raquel's partner this week thing, they're having, you know, the same gear, they're working on moves that they can do together, uhm, they're looking like a cohesive tag team, and if you're gonna put the belt on them, spoiler alert, they put the belt on them, you're


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[Assistant] Gonna want that from your tag team. So I appreciated that. I think Becky, I just got this whole vibe that Becky was kind of.


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[Assistant] Uninterested, like wasted in the role, I felt like, I'm just not, I'm not connecting with this match. And it's a lot of people that I really like, so I kind of don't blame the crowd.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's the key issue with the tag team titles, right? It's not that...


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[Assistant] Uh, the women's division isn't made up of an incredible roster, like it is demonstrably. There's a lot of incredible talent on that roster. It's just that it's not, there are no tag teams. Like there are no people who feel like they've, like I say, worked on stuff together, have the same gear, have the same music. The only tag team.


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[Assistant] Well, no, no, I think they did have tag teams. I think of like the Iconics. I think of the Kabuki Warriors. I think of Boss and Hog.


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[Assistant] And then the other ones I think of like Blizzcross, not, they were just kind of put together. But they were!


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[Assistant] What we have had over the past year or so is just, even back to Sasha and Naomi, that's a team made up of two women. Like it's not a team made up of people with.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but no, like point being, you can have, you, you have teams that you can use and that's how you build a tag division. And I want Raquel and Liv to have a decent run with these belts. Take this away from the storyline that we get to, and then you can have a nice...


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[Assistant] Great segment, but your tag team's gone. You could have brought them into the main roster together. Uhm, and who were the tag team? And they did briefly. Well this, and then they were like, ah, nevermind that.


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[Assistant] Is that, is that a little bit out of the fire Scottish? Is Isla Dawn Scottish? I think so. She's got energy, she's got Scottish energy. Is that cause she's ginger?


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[Assistant] Well done. Thank you. I take it back. I thought it was...


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[Assistant] There was a few, uh, uh, turnbuckle spots that just fell to pieces. And this is what I was talking about when it was baggy. It's hard to re- you're, oh, oh, and then it's not happened and it's on, now they're repositioning and you're already here. Oh, I'm losing it. I'm like losing my momentum. And then, so I thought the crowd were quite kind to this match in a weird way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. I think, I don't know, I like the heel turn. I'm really, I don't think we've had like a Hall of Famer heel run. Uh, Edge was heel for a bit. I don't really count Edge because he came back as like a proper...


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[Assistant] I think it was pretty much implied. I think it was- That's what it was implied. Christian at Royal Rumble situation, kind of, um, uh, Triple H and Sean Michaels was the one that was going around on Twitter, um, thrown through the window.


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[Assistant] I don't mean anything that I was just saying, I'm concerned about my friend. Oh, no, don't worry, I did it. Like what was that little inter- you're right, that was a very strange inter- So at least we didn't have like a week's, you know, question who's done it, it was Trish. Yeah, Trish wasn't leading the investigation.


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[Assistant] There's a chance she can get booed. I genuinely do.


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[Assistant] Beccy's, first of all, Beccy's good enough. Second, and she got booed. She got hit as big time Becs. By the way, big time Bec greater than the man will die on that hill. Always will. Uhm, but Trish,


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[Assistant] I, I had been, with these reports that the heel tone was coming, I had been paying attention to what Trisha was wearing, and a lot of the time she was wearing outfits at WrestleMania, she came out in the 21 gear, um, she was wearing stuff last night that reminded me of what she was wearing at WrestleMania 20. I was like, I think she's...


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[Assistant] Let's not forget that Trish Stratus was one of the best heels ever. She was so, so good. conniving, uh, smug, arrogant. She was great and I reckon she's still got that and she still can.


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[Assistant] I think it's a great way of taking, cause we talked about this, it's like, oh, it's always Trish and Lita coming back. Now I stan Lita, so I'm always happy to see Lita come back, especially to get a little title run. Sad she didn't get to lose the belt, but whatever, we got to see her win it.


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[Assistant] I do feel like there is something in the idea of we've seen Trish come back a lot, right? So now we're seeing Trish come back, but with something new. So it gives us as the fans the opportunity to get involved in that. I think she's got potential to get some heat.


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[Assistant] You could put Trish in that and that's a way to stretch it out until say money in the bank or whatever. It depends on what the dates they've got and what they're going to do. I wouldn't be inclined to give them a full month program. I don't, I don't think it's got that much legs. I think it has legs. I don't think it's got that much.


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[Assistant] And we'll get to it. So that's what's really interesting with that concept. I know what I like about that is I've already figured out, I've already felt like you can stretch that then. So you have the Trish and Becky match.


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[Assistant] Uh, backlash, then Trish can go away again and then you can have a little bit more and then, then you build that tag match at Amon in the Mankora SummerSlam.


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[Assistant] It would have felt like, let's say, uhm, you have Becky and Alundra Blaze. That I would be like, woah, okay, let's see what you're gonna do with that. Or, or, you know, it's unfortunate because of the way women's wrestling was treated, that we don't have that level of Hogan stardom. It's a very small pool to pick from.


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[Assistant] I think it is because we have had several Trish matches where they felt like the last one. We did have Becky and Lee, which was a good match that I really enjoyed by the way.


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[Assistant] But I think the thing that makes this different, the thing that gives us as fans something fresh is the role reversal, is the idea of the legend, the hall of fame of being the bad guy, is more interesting to me than just doing another intergenerational clash. Yeah, I get that.


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[Assistant] Let's see what happens. Let it play out. Stretch my suspensions a little bit.


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[Assistant] Well this is it. So I was- Did you have a fun game? I did have a fun game. I was playing through it. I was playing-


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[Assistant] Tripp's or Vince? And every time I saw something or heard something that felt like, okay, that's a hallmark of one of them, I'll chalk it up, and we'll go through them throughout the show. Uhm, one of them was Local Medical Facility, that was a massive Vince ding, he got one in there. This one did feel like a Triple H show, uhm,


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[Assistant] And so did SmackDown by the way. You can tell he wasn't there. But I guess we'll get to that when we finish this segment. But I guess to wrap it up in a bow, my final point on the Trish turn in this era is, uhm, there's a let it play out element.


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[Assistant] But I'm willing to give it time to figure out what's going on. That kind of, why did you defend the title then? Maybe it was a final straw. Like I'm willing to give it that. I'm willing to hear what she's got to say.


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[Assistant] No, sure, because the legends, they don't show up every week, but there's also the idea of like, people talking about, um,


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[Assistant] These things have to happen every single, every single show. Like you need to have everything wrapped up in one moment. I do think you need to have a little breathing room. You do need to let things play out. For instance, Cody, when Cody lost at WrestleMania, spoiler, I was, um,


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[Assistant] I was, I was very much on the, okay, well I'm gonna see what happens on Raw. And then with the Brock moment, I was like, unsure. And then in this show,


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, that was the guy and that was your moment. You should have put the belt on him. But that, that's, that is, uh, two weeks hence, right? So you can't make your judgment snap when you, when you want to, when we crave this kind of long-term storytelling LDST, you want to,


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[Assistant] You want that, we want it, we can't then complain when we don't have all the answers straight away.


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[Assistant] I think it would be a shame to not have Bad Bunny wrestle at background.


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[Assistant] I think what I would do is have, uhm, the tag match already, I mean, it's happening, I think we can all agree, it's gonna happen, it's gonna be great, I'm really looking forward to it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I would have Bad Bunny open the show with a performance, like...


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[Assistant] Uh, and then, and then yeaah, you could have him finish and then Dom attacks him to get the one up for later on in the show to build during the show. But I think you want to make sure that that match is already set in stone before it starts. I do like the idea of a performance though. I think that probably is great.


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[Assistant] I definitely, I mean, I went back and I watched the, ehm, promo from last week with all three, Tresh Leiter and Becky, because there were people saying, oh, Becky looks.


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[Assistant] I was like, oh no, I don't want those words to come out of Becky's mouth. That felt bad. I didn't like that.


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[Assistant] It's like I can understand the, I can, I can understand a commentator, an announcer saying


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[Assistant] It's full of words that sound natural and give us that sense of realism, and he's saying, no thank you, I wanna just do all of these stupid words that people don't talk like that!


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[Assistant] Because it's that episode of Friends where Joey's found a thesaurus, and he's like, signs off the letter baby kangaroo triviani, like he's just used a thesaurus for every single- they are warm-


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[Assistant] With full-sized aortic pumps instead of like big hearts. Uhm, and that's what Vince is doing. It's just don't, and you don't speak like it, and then you can see the yellow highlighter. That's what's infuriating about it. It's not that you're necessarily scripting the promo and people have to be on script. It's that you're scripting the promo and making them say mad, mad phrases.


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[Assistant] Which felt like a Vince match was taken away. So I thought that was more like Triple H going, nah, cross that one off the list.


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[Assistant] But put Riddle out in, it seems to me more that Riddle is in the, um, the correct program now.


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[Assistant] The course created that pretty swiftly on Smackdown and then doubled down on that on this episode of Raw. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I felt, I didn't feel like that was a Vince changing plans thing, if anything that was way more travel based than anything, but I don't-


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[Assistant] Well that was one of the dings I put down because that was one of the things that was on last week. Which for me felt another like, I'm going to take your match off Riddle vs Miz.


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[Assistant] I'm going to put Riddle in the correct program. I'm going to put on the match I was going to do last week. It's this petty little game of, of sort of like, you know, when you're a flatmate and you like, I, I put the kitchen roll in this part of the kitchen, but my flatmate puts the kitchen roll in the other part of the kitchen. And then you don't ever say anything about it. You just silently move them bit by bit. That felt like what was going on with this Vincent Tripp situation here.


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[Assistant] Let's not forget WrestleMania Backlash. It's not on any of the promotional material. It's just something that Cody and Cathy Kelly said last week.


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[Assistant] They have, and that's what the point of doing it, it's a dumb title, I don't like it.


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[Assistant] Dom has been getting great. I mean, what you got last week on Smackdown was just tasty. Superb. Wonderful.


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[Assistant] I mean, he pushed, he pulled a microphone away from his wife's hand, that's why. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. But also, um, I thought, while John did get great heat from the crowd and the, um,


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[Assistant] Uh, the, the segment, I do cut them some slack because of the travel plan and things like that. Uhm, I felt like he was a little bit exposed by having the lack of his Judgment Day people around him. I felt like he, he looked a little bit like a lost baby.


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[Assistant] And then, and then he couldn't quite get the stick your nose out of the Judgement Day's business thing, right? There were a few stumbles. It felt like, it just felt very rehearsed. He didn't feel like he had that swagger, because I think he's done some brilliant work over the past six months. I felt like he was, I just felt like he was a little bit,


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[Assistant] Little boy lost at sea. So I would have preferred then to do it a slightly different way around and have like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know how- Ray- Ray- Ray's not the most dynamic promo anyway. No. Let's be honest. Although, in Spanish...


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[Assistant] How excited are you for Puerto Rico? Which sounded like...


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[Assistant] The small talk you make with someone when you're sat next to them on a plane. Do you know what I mean? Like he was like, you're the commentator of the show. And there was a moment of silence. He just went, ah.


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[Assistant] And I think that, um, I saw a tweet beforehand about Ray Mysterio's stem cell treatment, um, and about how like he wrestled a lot before he left his exit in like 2015 or was it?


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[Assistant] Basically knee breaks up the wazoo, wearing baggy pants to hide it, the whole thing, very much. I mean, you can notice he's doing a lot of stiff moves. So now to see the stuff that he's pulling off now.


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[Assistant] Man travels back in time. And recognising that he's said in as many words, I'm in the twilight of my career, I've not got that long left, I'm not ready to hang it up just yet, but I will soon. It is like really nice that we're experiencing this, you know what I mean? Like as a fan.


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[Assistant] No, this is it. He could go for a while. And it's really nice that he's experiencing this bit with his brother. No, son. Son. Yea, it's nice on a family level. It's cause he's taller than him though. This is it.


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[Assistant] I'm really excited about that because I love a draft, even if it doesn't change anything, I always like the fun of it. I always like the, the pageantry. I'd scrap it.


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[Assistant] And then come sort of Royal Rumble time, we're less serious about the trash. I do want, I do believe that having separate brands is a far better system, uhm, to keep things fresh. And then it is exciting when someone pops up. I always think about that first draft, 2002, right the way 2004, when they really did keep everything very separate. Separate titles.


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[Assistant] Get some clarity on the tag titles, all of it. Do, do, you know, give yourself a six, each show like alternates the month where they have their premium live event.


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[Assistant] I hate it. I don't if the shows are different, especially now that we have a two-night mania. But they are the same. I know, but...


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[Assistant] This is why I'm saying that I don't, I don't mind the concept of it. I don't think they've executed it well at all.


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[Assistant] So okay, so let's have the one world title and then, but, but let's get rid of the two straps, you know, I want clarity, I want to know what was happening.


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[Assistant] What's happening with the belt? The tag pelts? Are there going to be two sets of tag team champs? Are there going to be one set? Like, I want to know what's happening. You know, get some clarity on it. That's what I'm looking forward to the draft. I think they're probably going to do around then. And because they haven't announced a date for it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And it came just after the All In Wembley announcement. It was like, we've got to say something. Chuck Triple H out there.


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[Assistant] On my, on my ding, uh, ding list, we had a couple, so we missed one right at the beginning, which was that they announced a whole bunch of segments right at the top of the show. If you announced a segment,


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[Assistant] It's kind of difficult, especially that many in a row, it's difficult to change it. That's a very Triple H thing. That was Triple H ding. Damage control being there at all. Triple H ding. And then, yeah, like I said, the last week match, they announced the match was going to happen this week that he was going to do last week. Triple H ding.


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[Assistant] Thought Dakota was great in this moment. Cause she was really on edge. I loved that Io got to do a little bit in Japanese. Again, authenticity. Like I'm not asking for those of it, just little bits where I believe that that's something that Io would say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which, because, and it would make sense, because they were the tag champs together. They, they, they, exactly, you know, they mean a lot, but like, they were the tag team, and


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[Assistant] Bailey was the leader of the group and that kind of boss-employee distinction is kind of hard to broach sometimes as friends. So I liked that. I liked, as you say, Bailey's sort of like, I'll go and do it. I like that she did do it. And I like that it bleeds into that whole idea of she brought this group together.


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[Assistant] Legitimately, she was like, I want, she was like, I'd, I'd have had these people too, I'd have had these people to damage control. She had this idea for what she wanted the group to be. The group is now falling out of her grasp. There's that nice little blur between reality and fiction there that I really like. I thought it was a really nice segment.


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[Assistant] Um, the fact that it did start kind of slow and it was a little bit like, what's going on here? And then it really sort of picked up its pace to the point where Corey Graves


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[Assistant] Come out, have a match, and batter, and go to the back of the net, or even not even a match, just batter each other through the backstage, I want-


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[Assistant] He did. He owned up to what he said. I didn't, I didn't, and what I liked, I didn't, I wasn't clever enough to see what, I went, cause he had two crossroads he could have won, but he went too far.


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[Assistant] I, we were talking about copium before, I was guilty as charged of that, especially on the first night of being like, okay, well let's see how it goes.


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[Assistant] Now, when I look at this promo, and I thought the genius stroke of it was, I think it was Mr. Heyman who said this, it was all of you as well at home, and it was probably Vince, like it's all of these things, and being very on the nose about it, just confronting it head on, and just being like,


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[Assistant] No. Yeah, but he basically buried that family. It's so clever. But then, are you about to say the line? Oh, which one? The line where he basically went, earn it, looked down lens, which they don't do. They don't do it. He looked down lens and he went, I am it. And I, at two in the morning,


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[Assistant] This is, this is it. Like, it was an unbelievable promo. It is an example of how you don't have to be, uhm,


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[Assistant] Flashy or whatever, cause he kinda comes in, the lighting is dim, he talks, this is always his style, he sort of talks to himself for a bit, he sort of does his thing.


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[Assistant] And, and it could get boring, but he never lets it, because he does light and shade, and he comes in with a big, a big line, and he pulls back a little bit, and he never lets us get boring. He also took his L's in this, and didn't let us, like, he didn't let us see them as that, in a weird way. That,


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[Assistant] All the stuff that came out about his Make-A-Wish, the level of performance that was there, the look that he's got, the media that he's done. This is your top guy. WrestleMania was the moment to put the bell on him.


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[Assistant] He didn't need any more losses. He could have been undefeated as champion for a really long time. You take the strongest champion you have had in decades in Roman and you take it off him and you put it on the next strongest guy and you keep that strength because he's never lost.


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[Assistant] And the first challenge is Brock Lesnar, who's seen his first opportunity to take the belt because he was happy, go lucky, whatever, when he wasn't allowed to challenge for the belt anymore. But now he can. I'm back to being ruthless. I want my prize. I want to be at the top of the card and I'm going to try and take it off you. And then that's your first program. This was your opportunity. I think you did fumble it. And that's a real shame.


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[Assistant] I hate it, I hate it, I know, you're probably right, but I hate it.


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[Assistant] It's a good question. I mean, it's copy and paste that question to all, to be honest.


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[Assistant] I thought this was hella fun. This was lit. It was so good. You know me. I love the Alpha Academy. I think they're incredible. And at the beginning of it, uh, they were taught, I think they'd done a, there was a, uh,


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[Assistant] Arrivals or documentaries, something that was on, and then they were- Kevin Patrick went, Speaking of bona fide stars, and it was because they were on a shot of the USOs, but then Alpha Academy's music here, and I was like, you're damn right, bona fide stars, Alpha Academy, everything about them, it is simply impossible for me to not stan.


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[Assistant] Also, it was like, don't call them out in the moment. Because it doesn't feel like being a heel in support of the baby face. That just means, that just feels like exposing them for no reason.


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[Assistant] I actually, I am in a hundred percent agreement here. I think it's a real shame because Piper Niven is brilliant. I've had the look to see her live. She's great. Uh, lovely. I interviewed her. Yeah. Many, many years for WOS, right?


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[Assistant] And she's so nice. She's awesome. Uh, Meechin is brilliant. I think all we've seen. Meechin, Mia, Yem, she's both.


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[Assistant] It's meeting on the big screens and the bar, but the announcer says no, yeaah. So it's both. Uhm, but like also great and we know this because we've seen NXT, we've seen Impact work.


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[Assistant] Like, she's great, they're both great, they both, like you say, deserve the opportunity. The audience doesn't care because they haven't been given a reason to care. It's not a question of quality, it's not a question of whether or not they can do it, they can go, it's a question of


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[Assistant] Have they been presented? Why are they in a title match? Why are they being given a title opportunity? Because they don't wrestle week to week.


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[Assistant] On the, the basis of this match, they gave us a ton of reasons why we should be seeing them wrestle more often. Like, I think of that, uh, code red from, uh, Mia was particularly incredible. Um, I mean, Piper Nimaj is just so light on her feet for, for such a big character, big person.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I wrote down Io's Hurricane Rana. Woof. That was delicious. Like there was so much really brilliant work in this match that showed me why on a three hour show,


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[Assistant] And I was thrilled to see, I did, I was a nerd about it and I counted how much wrestling was on the show compared to last week and it was over double. Uhm, but like,


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[Assistant] I would have, I'd much rather going forward, we have shorter matches, but where they can get more stuff in, they don't have to pad things out for time, they don't have to have rest breaks, where we can just see what quality they've got. So then when it does come time to pick a number one contender, will we know, oh this is going to be great, that's going to be, because we know these people, it gives us a reason to care.


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[Assistant] Can I be controversial yet brave? Put a bell on it. And make that part of the damage control story, I think, personally.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't disagree. She's a big time player, she's EFT. She can get it back and she won't, she won't suffer for the loss. Just someone like EOS guy in a match that they can deliver together. Oh, they'll have such a good match together.


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[Assistant] I'm in complete agreement and also every week that question gets asked, the less I care about the answer. It's really unfortunate. And I think for me what this did was it exposed even more how incorrect the choice to not crown Cody was because


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[Assistant] Roman's gone now. For a while. We're not gonna see Roman for a while.


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[Assistant] Putting the belt on Cody and having him in this program with Brock, going straight from Roman to Brock is a star enforcing promo. If you, if there was ever a question that Cody was the guy putting him with Brock and having him go over,


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[Assistant] But he feels so third wheel. It makes sense on this level. It makes sense for, oh, we were looking for someone who could neutralize, uh, solo, there. This should have happened in, after Elimination Chamber.


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[Assistant] And finally, the pieces, the chess pieces are all up. We have this equal number of people. The Usos are there to take out. So the Sammy and Keio are there to take out the Usos. Riddle's there to take out Solo. All that's left is Cody Roman. And then you can do the bloodline falling apart storyline.


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[Assistant] And I was also a big fan of the closing run-in element, like the like, you know, they're all just sort of having a beat up on KO and then suddenly we cut to backstage and these people who we were told weren't here are storming the ring, like I liked that part, that was fun.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, can we, can I just say as well briefly, I'm sorry we're going long, but like the, um, the, the idea that there are some people being like, oh, just because Triple H is involved, people will give it like five stars or whatever. And it's like, copium.


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[Assistant] No. It's, it's grading on a curve. When, we, we both do film reviews and things like that as well. When, when, when I'm reviewing Super Mario Brothers, I'm not reviewing it in the same way that I'm reviewing


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[Assistant] When we're comparing, here's a chart. Imagine if you will. Use your little mind palace to imagine a chart. Good is at the top.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying it's an exact science, but it's pretty basic. Here is a bad Triple H show. Here is a good Vince show.


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[Assistant] Right? So when we're talking about one of the worst vintage shows ever, which is way down here, and a middling Triple H show, the gulf is massive. It's recognising that like,


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[Assistant] I mean, we criticized a lot, and I was actually, for someone who's a bit of a Mark and a bit of an internal optimist for WWE, I criticized a lot of Triple H's shows last year, like, especially the Go Home shows. I thought he had a 100% record of sucking at Go Home shows.


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[Assistant] The quality is there, and I think it's because we hold it to a higher standard, because we had that incredible NXT run, we had some really good, really fresh, really- I was going to say, good NXT pay-per-view run. Yeah, okay, fair, fair, fair, fair. Weekly TV was a development. And he, and I will say, extreme rules maybe not, but


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[Assistant] The majority of Triple H's pay-per-views were great. I think so, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Translated that to the paint roster. But I think some of the weekly TV has been really good, some of it has been bang average, some of it has actually been a little bit bad.


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[Assistant] Fair, fair play. You know, like, you know, we've got 70, 75 minutes of wrestling compared to 30 minutes last week. Triple H, signs of a Triple H show, four. Signs of a Vince show, two. So, that's my match of the day report for you. More on that next week. Gary Lineker will be here in this chair.


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[Assistant] The mayor of Painesville, Dan! Daniel's Sweet Mexican Chocolatey Barra! Doctor Hook!


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[Assistant] And also, do you know what else works with that? Was that, was that the re-Lita tagged with Becky now because the reason she fought against her was, I know you're better than this big time Bex person you're pretending to be. I helped reveal the real person that you are. Becky can do the same for Bailey.


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[Assistant] L-T-S-T, L-T-S-T. L-T-S-T. Um, further, I think I might have said this last week, I've also never seen Rocky. Me and punk.


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[Assistant] One, you know, and maybe, maybe that's where we get Ryo and Bianca, if we don't have, if you know, if Ryo doesn't win, they can do it now rather than, cause I guess my worry is E. King out till Survivor Series, I don't wanna watch that.


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[Assistant] Very funny. Uhm, another missing username, uh, do let us know in the chat if this is you. Uh, my downside of the Bloodline storyline, granted there have only been three matches, is that the Bloodline have won all of their matches since WrestleMania, so it feels like Sami and Kevin lost even with the belts.


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[Assistant] But we'll have to see what happens. I do get where you're coming from with that. It's a very tricky one because you still want the bloodline to have their aura. If you're carrying on the storyline, they need to have their aura, but it's hard to do that.


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[Assistant] While you're also maintaining the aura of your new champions. This is why the Bloodline storyline should have had its wheels fall off at WrestleMania.


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[Assistant] Shall I have a Google? What do you read the next one? Just two.


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[Assistant] I saw a tweet being like, oh, here's this beautiful shot of Carmela and Zelina walking off into the sunset together. And I'm like,


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[Assistant] I like all of the women on the roster. All of them. I think they've all got something different to bring. You just gotta book em, right Triple H? I beg you.


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[Assistant] I think it's a really interesting period while, I mean there was this story that came out that Vince has now not got the majority vote on the board, things like that. Uhm, I think while the merger is taking place,


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[Assistant] Over the next few months, it should be done by autumn, I believe, is the economic, the Wrestlenomics were the ones who said this. Uhm, it's, uh,


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[Assistant] It's gonna be just something to keep your eye on. Uh, I- I was-


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[Assistant] You swore. I did a naughty swear. I did a full succession Logan Royce swear. It was a bit of a top level, top shelf. If you're going to have one, drop it, you know, if it's going to make it count. I mean, it wasn't C Bob, but it was the next level down.


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[Assistant] I mean, the C-bomb you gotta save on very special occasions, or when you look really good at a party. Uhm, but, I...


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[Assistant] After Smackdown, I was like, once again, letting it play out, holding it to Smackdown. The fact that they announced, uhm, matches for Smackdown on Thursday, gave me pause. That feels like a Triple H thing. The length of the matches, all of that on Smackdown felt like a Triple H show.


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[Assistant] This now has felt like a Triple H show, even though the final cat tally was 4-2. Little, little hints here and there of Vinny Mac getting his teeth in.


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[Assistant] This is why I love the BBFC, because they take all of this nonsense into account and they go like, well,


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[Assistant] There was a lot of blood there, but you didn't stab anyone, so it's kinda fine. Uhm, also that's really funny because it's like when Paige got fined a load for saying the twat. Can we say it? Like we say twat all the time. And say it correctly as well, the Americans say it wrong. I mean, it doesn't rhyme with...


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[Assistant] I love this movie nonsense. It's like how American Beauty is an 18 here, but was a U in France. Like we're all, you know, all over the shop.


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[Assistant] I was the RH when I was 15. We're on a very different podcast now.


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[Assistant] I would say grading on a curve compared to last week, given the fact that they had all of that nightmare travel to what was a transportation, um, complication. They had all that going on.


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[Assistant] Fair play for putting a show like this together. I thought it was decent. I would say three and a half stars.


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[Assistant] And you know the PEGI ratings for games? Technically not impossible.


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[Assistant] We were told to stop them. So it was this whole thing of like, but Game Station will let us and say, yeah, well we're not Game Station. And that's why we're truly rivals.


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[Assistant] It's very, very good. I was, I was, I was thrilled to watch the whole thing. Fascinating. They, uh, mushroom base, they're terrifying. Um, if, if you, if you're a fan of the Super Mario Brothers film, uh, the original or the new one or just Super Mario Brothers in general, Lucas put together a brilliant video essay. Can't recommend it enough.


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[Assistant] Wait, I had a question for you. Do you think, have I, have you noticed, have I been better about talking to, communicating? Cause I feel like I've been trying to be. Uh huh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I wanted to be, but also, you know, it comes up a lot. I, we have very different communicating styles. So I wanted to, I've been trying to be better. And it feels like I've been like,


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[Assistant] Did something happen during, like, you just did too many during COVID or something? No, you know, it's so funny, it's not even me doing them, it's me like,


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[Assistant] Eyes wide shut. Don't you think that I feel like that would, I could at least take myself out of it a little bit.


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[Assistant] It doesn't feel like, it feels like there's like seven or eight kind of architects that, that everyone copies or something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, the guy that made the house is Frank Lloyd Wright, right? Frank Lloyd Wright? Yeah, exactly. Make one. Jersey boys. No. No, he makes the houses.


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[Assistant] Gut thoughts, uhm, I would pay a lot of money.


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[Assistant] To keep everything the same. Audience, that. And then at the end of that...


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[Assistant] You have to judge him and give him feedback. You. You personally. Joe Marco.


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[Assistant] So I'm sitting back there with Bruce, you know, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Listen, it's, I think 90% his parents fault. That kid is just trying to do something.


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[Assistant] You know, he, he, he didn't, if the jokes were better, he might have, he might have delivered. I don't know. I think, you know.


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[Assistant] I don't remember having thoughts at that age, like. Really? I mean, I remember having thoughts, but I don't remember like, what would have, I don't know, what I was into, I was into like Chris Farley at that age, so I'm sure it would have been self-deprecating, I'm sure it would have been like.


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[Assistant] Fake to heart attack, you know, yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. So, it would have been a rip off of that, probably.


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[Assistant] Can you just come back from vacation? What? No, I didn't. Uhm, uh, what'd you ask me? Uhm, I read, wait, hold on, when was I on vacation? I'm trying to think, I read something in Hawaii. I read something in April.


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[Assistant] I don't remember what that was. Hey, you know?


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[Assistant] I, but I listen, I listen to music, like if I'm traveling, I can't read on the subway. I listen to music and then outside of that, like I'm like, I, you know, I have two full-time jobs right now and then this podcast and then a sketch group.


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[Assistant] Listen, I'm open to it. Uhm. No, you're not. I, no, but I don't mind. I got you a thing. Where is it? Where'd you, why'd you hang it up? I got you a blanket. I'm not.


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[Assistant] Be so comfortable with this person to tell them no at the very last minute, you know.


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[Assistant] No, like, no, yeah, like a, like a famous, like, well regarded, just for the, the clout of it. Do you know what I mean? Like, I'd wanna be like, I made out with Ian McKellen. Do you know what I mean? Like that. Incredible. Yeah. Okay, now add in a third of female. Triple kiss. You're like, eliminate?


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[Assistant] I just think like I respect them, I think like, it wouldn't be like a sexual thing for me, it would be like a-


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[Assistant] This lap, I can't, we can't, we can't, that, the fact that, that, that whole thing, that whole dynamic is still being every other week, where you're in half.


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[Assistant] You really gotta not want to be around that person that much because you're like, sometimes when you're like, with someone that long, they're just here, you know what I mean? Like, uh, but yea.


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[Assistant] I think I'm thinking of a funny scene. Like I think it's just funny to me to imagine me like making out with like two hundred year olds. You know? I'm less like thinking of it like from your perspective.


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[Assistant] This is a very good thing. Also I just feel like I would be more comfortable with them. I would just be like, it would be like, okay. You know? Okay.


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[Assistant] I, I mean I see it now too with uhm, doing this show I'm doing where there's a, like, celebrity, a person.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, I'm saying like, I'm saying the celebrity people that come in to do the guest role. I'm saying like you get a brief, very brief glimpses of them.


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[Assistant] But it is sometimes you, you walk away with a, a severe impression either way, where you're like, God, that person was great. Or you're like,


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[Assistant] Whoa, what, uh, you know, so it's just very interesting because it's so right, cause you'll see other people too, like Nicole talks about it, like working in, in, as a, as in PR, where she'll see people be like, Oh my God, they were so nice. And you're like,


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[Assistant] I'll talk nice about it. No, I think, you know, you're, you're, you're trying to self-preserve so you can, you can have these outbursts and, you know, but it's fine. Uhm, uh, no, no, you're, you're, you're a nice boy even when you're frustrated.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Oh, I wish you kept going down that road. I wish you were...


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[Assistant] I, I, I, I'm like, when you're making reservations, I usually put something special. Yeah. Nothing's ever happened. Really?


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[Assistant] Makes me laugh every time I see it because of the cover. Yeaah. It looks so sad. Well, do you know what's so funny? What's the cover? The cover is like a guy, it's a black and white photo of a guy crying. Like crying, and it's supposed to be a depressing book, and I'm like, that is so funny to me. That it like, that they just, they really just like, we're like, look at like this, it's like this.


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[Assistant] Or do you want one that was surprising to you too? Like, you know, like you're like, oh, I didn't know that that would get that much pushed back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's why we've had this, I've told you a million times. That's why I want to wear a uniform. I want to have a uniform that I wear every day. That's just like a black.


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[Assistant] No, but that's what I'm saying, like, even like that, like even though I wear like the same eight to ten things, I want to just even make it smaller. Even like, just one thing I wear every day.


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[Assistant] And it's like, it's like really, it's like a black t-shirt with pants that maybe look like jeans, but they're really sweatpants. And then slip-on shoes.


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[Assistant] That was a good deal on the suit, actually it was a good, it was a, it was a, it was a on sale suit. And they didn't need that much tailoring, so it was good.


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[Assistant] Cause there's some people in comedy where all of a sudden you're like, oh, you're...


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[Assistant] Mainly a fashion person, not you, but I'm saying like, sometimes there's a switch that happens where you're like, they were people doing comedy shows, like at, you would see them at comedy shows, and now they're mainly getting photographed as like fashion people.


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[Assistant] I'm sure cocaine still happens, but not, not, not as like, oh.


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[Assistant] We've all had a fat waitress at Applebee's and you're like, I can't believe how fat that waitress was.


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[Assistant] Clip it. I can say it. I can say it. Cause I'm fat.


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[Assistant] It's interesting because you're like, some people, they weather that storm and then other people, it feels like.


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[Assistant] That's funny. I'm sorry. I think it was hilarious. Like I, I don't think you should have been slapped, but I also say that I can't imagine caring about the Oscars. And so to be, to be like finally something, it was the most exciting. Something crazy is happening. Thank God.


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[Assistant] Oh god, you know, I think it all... Oh my god, what did happen? I saw it in Peter's. I remember there was three different chapters.


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[Assistant] I remember liking, I remember liking, I remember liking the first part a lot more than the other two parts. But maybe that's just, I saw once.


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[Assistant] Russell reams out movies. We do very delayed too, so it's like, you know, from whatever year that was 2016.


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[Assistant] This guy stopped. I have an old neighbor, or he's not in my building, he's in another building. Did you fuck him? No, but he, uhm, every, he's too young, he's only like 78. Ah, yuck! Every, every nice day, this man sits, uhm, like kind of the corner,


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[Assistant] I live on the sixth floor and every nice day you want to open your windows. But he talks so loud, loud enough that if you're on a Zoom, you have to shut the windows. You have to close everything because this man is screaming on the phone and it's like,


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[Assistant] And it's usually like him talking to someone kind of recapping, like he hasn't talked to this person, whoever it is, but he does it regularly. So it must be a new person each time, but he's like giving them the full update of his life. And it's a lot about doctor's appointments and it's a lot about so and so is dead.


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[Assistant] And you know, like that kind of thing. And so you, you can hear a few times a week, the same recap to multiple people. And I'm like, just go and do that in your house or go to the park.


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[Assistant] You can talk like this and it'll be fine, you know? But I can hear him on the sixth floor, so I hear the whole conversation.


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[Assistant] The other day it was great though that traffic got backed up and people were honking and he had to move because he was like, he was interrupting his conversation. He was like, he was annoyed. I was like, thank God I'll take these horns over this man.


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[Assistant] Anyways, we're about to go into a reprieve. It's going to be cold weather. I'm going to have some months off from him. But spring comes and that man, it will be sad one day when he's not there anymore.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, cause, cause you're also like the people that do post about almost everything. It's amongst insta stories of


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[Assistant] Some show that doesn't matter that much to them. Some thing that doesn't matter. So it's hard to be like, if you are posting all the time or, you know, I'm not saying that that's bad either. I'm just saying that it doesn't feel any more real than, than people's, everyone has a different relationship with it. And you don't know what people are doing like offline.


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[Assistant] And that's, that's, I'm not even saying that that's wrong to do, I'm just saying like, I'm saying that if you are then criticizing other people, I'm like, I, I gotta tell you, like it's all kinda like, it, it, it's, it's like this thing that social media has become, you're like, it is everything, it just kinda bleeds into like-


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[Assistant] Well also being like, I, cause I have a relationship to the government that is funding.


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[Assistant] And we solved it. And we actually solved it right now. We had the best opinion about it. We really put it all in a thing.


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[Assistant] And you, you worked out your things with Amy Schumer, you guys talked.


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[Assistant] I agree, I think people think it gives, I think,


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're like, I think they're trying to cut corners and they're like, this will just make it cooler if it's darker. And there is a fine line, cause I also don't like it when it's too bright either, but it is to some places so dark. What are you looking for?


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[Assistant] That guy, that guy's like, I'm, I'm all about business. I'm all about business. Uhm. Do you have a blessing? Me? Oh, uhm, you know what, go first. Do you have a blessing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would do anything to my hair if someone told me to for a part. I would, you know. Uhm, I was bald once for a part.


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[Assistant] My blessing. Did you do yours? Oh, my blessing actually is, uh, I'm so proud of you. Your thing was announced today. Your Netflix, uh, uh, thing. And, um, I'm just- Oh wait, what Netflix thing? I didn't see.


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[Assistant] You're conditioned for an orgy. Like you're basically, yeaah.


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[Assistant] So, oh yeaah, I'm so proud of you. That's very exciting, I can't wait to see it. Uhm, and, uh, great job. Good list of people there too.


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[Assistant] However, I'm on Broadway. We're taking different paths. His is Netflix, 10 Minutes, mine's The Great White Way,


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[Assistant] Netflix like, we got the numbers. A billion people watched. They're saved. All ten comics.


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[Assistant] So what do you want to plug? Uh, I have nothing to plug right now. Well, I mean, you know, come, I won't be in the show most likely, but Gutenberg


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry, go ahead. You can re-say that. Okay, uh, uh, Instagram at Russell J. Daniels. And actually, you know, if you do listen, you should follow me. Uhm, and then, uhm, Gutenberg musical, it's a, it's a, it's a two-person musical, Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells. I'm Josh Gad's understudy. Uhm, and then, uhm, basically it's two guys pitching a show.


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[Assistant] No, no, it's very funny. It's very funny. It's fun. Uhm, but you know, I'm not, most nights I'm not in there, but if you are a deputy outsider, some of them have come and sent me messages and come to the stage door after, which has been really nice. So if you do listen and you do go, I will say hi to you.


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[Assistant] Gives me a fist bump and then that's it. You should hire some paparazzi. I know I should. Well, a couple of times people have been like,


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[Assistant] He was so sweet. He's like Jackson now too. Is he? Yea. I didn't notice. He had his clothes on.


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[Assistant] We are leaving for the island tonight. We can talk more when I get back.


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[Assistant] She also stole my original prototype. She was planning on opening her own flying shoe company before me.


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[Assistant] I just saw Lenny leave. He had an emergency. I've come to take you to dinner, Sarah. Oh, Dr. Dick!


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[Assistant] Well come on then, let's find them!


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[Assistant] Got to send for some foreign pill dispenser with an MD PDQ winnow back of his name.


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[Assistant] My little girl at a piano, sit down and play drums like a kiss.


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[Assistant] The whole town planned to turn out to give you a welcome, but the influenza kept him home.


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[Assistant] The old Jesus willing to give it a go, but the Empress of Roshah said, don't die.


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[Assistant] They ain't listening for no church bells, son. They're getting ready for the choo-choo.


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[Assistant] Now where would a kid pick up a foreign disease like that?


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[Assistant] Tell the Department of Agriculture not to send us any more bulletin or no more bulls. Get in! Them panthers are raining on us, ain't got no moisture.


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[Assistant] All right, you asked for it, brother. Well, the wind was howling like a s-


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[Assistant] You didn't talk that way the night you come over to the house, cause your kid's appendix bursted. No, sir. It was, please then, won't you come, Doc? And he did come, in the middle of the night, Lee.


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[Assistant] It ain't no secret, nonk. We all know he's joining up with a big clinic back east. He isn't a pig's eye. Before that storm hit us, he was gonna take that job. But now he says no, so he's willing to go with us folks to Wadigan. That don't sound like any foreigner to me.


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[Assistant] This is the name number one exodus, brother, that Moses himself could have done no better.


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[Assistant] Said he couldn't make the grade without the help of the woman he loved. Sure hope John don't advocate. Leave this outfit in the heck of a shape.


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[Assistant] I can take a head, sister. Drop me off the next stop. I'll ride in one of the other cars.


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[Assistant] Well sir, I started in a sub-time-like way. I gave her the wing. And I said, let me drive the bus, Lenny. Why don't you go forward and ride with John for a while? She never batted an eyelash. Then I started to warm up.


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[Assistant] And I gave her a great sales talk about you. A Lollapalooza! But still no dice.


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[Assistant] Same old thing. California. The land of the golden sunshine. He's telling them all we oughta head west instead of north.


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[Assistant] I said you'll have to reckon with my nephew John first. He's kicked the prune juice out of bigger weasels than you. That held him.


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[Assistant] Keep your hands off of that. It ain't all yours. You're not gonna give this to him, son.


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[Assistant] Turn that car back, you yellow leather coat! Hey, you said turn the camp wide open!


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[Assistant] Don't look back, son. She's just... There's plenty to look ahead for. Beyond them hills lies Oregon.


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[Assistant] Mary, we're all digging ditches like he said. But I'd feel better if we'd cloud up some.


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[Assistant] That is not the decoration. The molas is to protect the kunai spirit, okay? The kunai life. Because when we put in the wall, and also the molas is working, okay? The color is the black one. We use the black color, is to hide in the light, to hide in the spirit, okay?


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[Assistant] We're not doing so good. We better figure something out.


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[Assistant] My father has a uniform with stripes and all. Captain Parker has a uniform too, Tommy, with gold braids. Do you know my papa?


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[Assistant] Sure is. I think more of that than anything in the world. Except you, Pop.


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[Assistant] I always thought you had salt pork and hard biscuits.


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[Assistant] Uh, with mom. You mean that young lady who was here yesterday? Is she Malone's wife? No, Pop isn't married.


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[Assistant] Kid stuff. Training things. Well, I bet he's even got something for you.


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[Assistant] Well, wait a minute, I've been thinking, uh, I better go with you myself.


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[Assistant] Yes, I know, this girl. I knew that the first time I saw you. So long.


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[Assistant] You were terrific. So now I'm Bobo Hutch, enemy number one, two, three from Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] Not exactly. For about two hours I was listening to the band concert. And then when it was over I strolled down by the lake and sat listening to the singing over the water. Then I got chilly so I went on home.


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[Assistant] Yes, the park policeman down by the lake. We talked for quite a while.


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[Assistant] Excuse me. I was going to when the time came. Everybody knows it, so there wouldn't have been much use to try to hide it.


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[Assistant] One of us spent the evening in Jefferson Park. The other stayed home and went to bed early. But how can that one prove that? And that's all we're going to say.


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[Assistant] One of us spent the evening in Jefferson Park and the other-


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[Assistant] Neither one of us intends to say anything until we've talked to a lawyer. Well how do you like that?


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[Assistant] Not so good. You saw the papers, those pictures? We're celebrities now.


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[Assistant] Wanna look at our faces? They don't forget, not in this town.


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[Assistant] You saw what the district attorney said. I wish you wouldn't say things like that.


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[Assistant] We have nothing to be afraid of, Doctor. Nothing but snoopers.


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[Assistant] Terry, if they knew which one of us was in his apartment that night, you know what that would mean. He proposed to me there and I said yes. Why should I kill him?


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[Assistant] Well then, is there anything about yourself that you're afraid for Elliot to learn? Of course not. Well then, stop worrying. There's no need for it. And besides, he's very attractive. Very good looking. I like him.


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[Assistant] The black slanting holes for eyes, heavy eyebrows and pursed lips give it a fixed expression.


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[Assistant] This looks like the face of a white lamb with a black nose. It's got a mark on its forehead.


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[Assistant] Beneath its front paws are two men, face down.


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[Assistant] With their arms outstretched. It all seems symbolic of something. The lamb looks so innocent. But it has two men under its paws.


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[Assistant] Now it's changing into the full face of a man with grouping mustache and slanting eyes. And this is a dancer, a woman, dancing with a puppet.


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[Assistant] Now you see the puppet reaching to pat a cruel rival that pretends not to see her. But all the time he's trying to reach near enough to do her some harm. May I have a cigarette, please?


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[Assistant] These are two skaters, like in the ice show.


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[Assistant] And they're leaning backward with one foot high in the air and their arms extended.


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[Assistant] Oh, the farmer, I think. He never liked it from the beginning for some reason. Is he cranky? No, I got along fine with him, but Terry, for some reason... What do you see in this one?


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[Assistant] Oh, these are two old ladies sitting back to back in a, in an open street car like the old cable cars in San Francisco. And they seem frightened. They've got...


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[Assistant] And this is a drum majorette with a high bearskin shako. And she's very straight, graceful, light-footed. And she's got her knee high in the air.


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[Assistant] He was really awfully funny about when he went to school. He must have been. He was, really. Once he drops that office act, he's really an awful lot of fun.


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[Assistant] My goodness, Terry, sometimes it seems as if that were all you ever thought about, falling for somebody. Of course not. Just don't want to see you do anything foolish, that's all. Yes, mama.


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[Assistant] Look, if all this is to find out which of us is smarter, I can save you a lot of time. It's Terry.


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[Assistant] It was something else. I was a little worried about something else.


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[Assistant] But I don't understand all this fuss. What possible harm can it do? None. None whatever. I don't give two cents for that fellow and his kindergarten games.


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[Assistant] I can do that stuff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and beat him at it every time. He doesn't frighten me with that stuff. But it's you I'm worried about. But why?


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[Assistant] Because my nerves are still bad. I haven't gotten over everything yet. Neither of us has. Is that all? What other reason could there be? Not your conscience, perhaps. My conscience about what? Perhaps you're sorry you didn't tell the police all you know. Maybe that's what's troubling you. Maybe you're thinking you should do it even now.


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[Assistant] But that's utterly ridiculous. Such a thought never ended my head. Because if you are, there's the phone right there. Oh, Terry, stop it. You're talking nonsense. Am I? Of course you are. I hope so. Because if you ever suspected me, I don't know what I'd do. I really don't.


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[Assistant] I was really crazy about that boy, but Terry simply couldn't stand him. She insisted he wasn't on the level, and that's the way it turned out. He wasn't.


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[Assistant] He dated her one night and she told me. Terry's turned in, I guess.


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[Assistant] Oh, that was just kid stuff. We're about 16 then, I think. All this autobiography I'm giving you. Is this for science, too?


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[Assistant] And apparently you will. Good night.


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[Assistant] You taking a sleeping pill tonight? I don't think so. I slept all right last night. I think you better take two. Two? What on earth for? But if you take two, maybe you won't be so troubled in your sleep. You mean I talk? Talk? Cry? You scare me half to death sometimes. Good heavens. Dreaming, I suppose. No. You don't remember what you dreamed.


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[Assistant] One night you were rather gay for a change. Quite gay, in fact. Seems to have been something about Scott.


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[Assistant] Don't you want to know what seemed to be frightening you? I don't know whether I do or not. You've talked about it before in your sleep. You were worried about one of us being crazy. You're saying, you know, that one of twins is likely to be abnormal, but that's not true. That's a superstition. You heard Scott tell the district attorney that I know.


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[Assistant] How much more of this stuff have we got? Winding up this week.


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[Assistant] Been Saturday nights the night. Night? If you tell me you've forgotten.


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[Assistant] What a man. And me thinking that you were simply living for that night.


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[Assistant] Well it's all over the whole thing. Ask me anything you wish.


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[Assistant] You're just imagining things. Your nerves are playing little tricks on you, that's all. I'm so scared.


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[Assistant] Could I make it rather late? Around 11? She'll be asleep by then.


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[Assistant] No matter what happens, they can't do a thing without my consent. And I'll never in the world give that, believe me. I'm no dear. So don't be too scared. We'll never be separated. You and I are going to be together. As long as we live. Remember that, darling. Always.


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[Assistant] Good night, dear. I won't stay out too late.


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[Assistant] Why me and not her? That's something I'm very curious about. Why did you choose me instead of her? We're so much alike. What was it you thought you saw in me that you didn't see in her? How can I answer that?


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[Assistant] Now do you really believe you could tell that from one of Terry's? Or my lips from hers?


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[Assistant] I think so. Have you ever kissed Terry? No. Well then how could you possibly know? How could you even say such a thing?


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[Assistant] Of course it's true. Terry's a smart one. I've told you that before.


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[Assistant] Terry and I have never been rivals. Never. Not in the slightest.


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[Assistant] I see no particular necessity for that. It's just as I told you. There's nothing whatever you can do about it, no matter how strongly you feel.


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[Assistant] But I doubt if anybody would take seriously the word of a girl who suffers from hallucinations. Or hasn't she told you?


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[Assistant] Look, are you so sure you know which one you've kissed?


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[Assistant] She said she didn't. But I know she did. I believed her at first. I kept on believing her for a long time. But now I know she did it.


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[Assistant] No, I'm talking about Terry. I'm Rose.


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[Assistant] Right, the pro shop is the platform store where you can go and buy all the latest merch to support the platform.


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[Assistant] On the MCAT, some cars' passages are about history. Some are about philosophy and


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[Assistant] Some are about politics. If you're like me, the philosophical ones that are chock full of metaphors are the ones that really give you trouble.


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[Assistant] And I got one for you today. It's passage seven in the double AMC sample test car section. So sometimes I like to scroll down to the bottom and see what the title is. And it looks like this one's called metaphors we live by. So again, it's going to be one of those really philosophical ones.


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[Assistant] If you don't know how I go about this at this point, I kinda just read through the passage and I will stop at the end of every idea and I will kind of summarize what I'm thinking thus far.


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[Assistant] Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish, a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. First sentence is always just going to be introducing your idea. We're talking here about metaphors and how, I guess, how they relate to our life or our language.


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[Assistant] Moreover, a metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action.


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[Assistant] For those reasons, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found on the contrary, always pay attention to any


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[Assistant] But, on the contrary, however, is anything that the author is going to lay out this idea and then take a different stance, that's an important transition word.


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[Assistant] We have found on the contrary that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language, but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.


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[Assistant] So some people would stop here and they would prefer to kind of write out a paragraph summary. I tend not to do that. I find that if I do that myself, I pay more attention to individual arguments rather than the whole main idea as a whole.


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[Assistant] So therefore, I like to just stop and mentally take note of what the main idea is up to this point. So far, it seems like the author is taking the stance that metaphors are pervasive, not just in our language, but in our thought and action as well.


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[Assistant] The concepts that govern our thought are not just matters of the intellect, they also govern our everyday functioning down to the most mundane details. Our concepts structure what we perceive and how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people.


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[Assistant] Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities. If we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical than the way we think, what we experience and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor.


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[Assistant] So again, I think the author's sticking with their original statement that metaphors are pervasive in life, but uhm, they are just kind of reaching out and saying even in our


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[Assistant] Uhm, social relationships, and even in our everyday realities, metaphor is very pervasive. So, kinda just the same thing.


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[Assistant] But, again, we want to pay attention to words like that.


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[Assistant] Our conceptual system is not something we are normally aware of. In most of the little things we do every day, we simply think and act more or less automatically along certain lines.


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[Assistant] That was an argument. Now we have another argument. That argument being that we are normally not aware of our conceptual system, but maybe that language


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[Assistant] Is kind of a lens that we can look into this conceptual system since it is kind of a source of evidence as they call it.


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[Assistant] Primarily on the basis of linguistic evidence, we have found that most of our ordinary conceptual system is metaphorical in nature, and we have found a way to begin to identify in detail just what the metaphors


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[Assistant] R, that structure how we perceive, how we think, and what we do.


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[Assistant] So if I were taking this in my test, I would stop right here and I would summarize the whole paragraph that I


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[Assistant] It's not a fully fleshed out main idea yet, but I'm just summarizing what I've thought of so far. It keeps me active reading. When I mention active reading, that's what I mean.


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[Assistant] Thinking about what came before the paragraph that you're currently reading and thinking about what might come after. To give some idea of what it could mean for a concept to be metaphorical and for such a concept to structure an everyday activity, let us start with the concept argument and the conceptual metaphor argument is war.


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[Assistant] Framing how our lives are metaphors. And I'm starting to understand it. So they're saying that this concept of argument is expressed in language through metaphors and we think of it in the same way as a metaphor. That argument is more like a war than it is really whatever the reality of an argument is.


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[Assistant] It is important to see that we don't just talk about arguments in terms of war. We can actually win or lose arguments.


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[Assistant] We see the person we are arguing with as an opponent.


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[Assistant] We attack his positions and we defend our own. We gain and lose ground. We plan and use strategies. That's more evidence to what I was talking about earlier about how uhm, it's not just language that's a metaphor for us, it's our whole life, which is just evidence that the author's talking about.


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[Assistant] Any of the things we do in arguing are partially structured by the concept of war.


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[Assistant] Though there is no physical battle, there is a verbal battle, and the structure of an argument, attack, defense, counterattack, etc. reflects this. It is in this sense that the argument is war metaphor, is one that we live by in this culture. It structures the actions we perform in arguing.


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[Assistant] Imagine a culture where an argument is viewed as a dance, the participants are seen as performers, and the goal is to perform in a balanced and aesthetically pleasing way.


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[Assistant] In such a culture, people would view arguments differently, experience them differently, carry them out differently, and talk about them differently. But we would probably not view them as arguing at all. They would simply be doing something different.


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[Assistant] It would seem strange even to call what they were doing arguing. Perhaps the most neutral way of describing this difference between their culture and ours would be to say that we have a discourse form


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[Assistant] So this is a completely new argument that they've introduced in the last paragraph, saying that this idea, these metaphors can be cultural, that they can be different, and to me it adds into as the third argument in the whole passage, the first being that we live, uh, by the metaphor.


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[Assistant] If I was going to do a main idea for this passage, I would say something along the lines of this. The concepts which we live by are linguistically, mentally, and physically metaphorical and can vary among groups. So you see how I got my three, uh, big arguments in there. They are the big pillars of my main idea and they kind of form the main idea.


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[Assistant] So let's go straight into the questions. The first question, number 37 says the central thesis of the passage is that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if you're not aware, when they say central thesis, they are meaning main idea. So what is the main idea of the passage? Let's just find one.


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[Assistant] That kind of fits in line with our main idea. The main thing here is that we don't pick arguments, that we pick something that represents the entire passage rather than just one paragraph or another.


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[Assistant] A, we are basically unaware of our conceptual system. If anything, that's an argument, but I also don't know that the author said that we are basically unaware. He said that we are normally unaware, that we are typically unaware. I don't know if basically means the same thing, uhm, but,


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[Assistant] So if you were kind of relying on your recency effect here, you might remember that last paragraph a little bit too much and kind of overemphasize it in your main idea.


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[Assistant] But that was just a small argument. See, metaphors control our perceptions, thoughts, and actions. That's very good, that's a good main idea, a good central thesis, and I'm liking it as the correct answer.


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[Assistant] But let's look at D. Metaphor is a poetic as well as a rhetorical device. So I initially want to throw out that that's just an argument, but I actually don't even think that's really an argument. Uhm, the author talked about metaphors in a linguistic way, but uhm,


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[Assistant] He was mainly talking about it as linguistic versus as something that controls our thoughts and perceptions. Not so much as poetic versus rhetorical. I think those are both kind of in the umbrella of linguistic and he didn't really, um, tease apart anything specific about the linguistics. So he's the best answer here.


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[Assistant] 38, given the claims made in the passage, the expressions, she's brimming with vim and vigor, she's overflowing with vitality, he's devoid of energy, and I don't have any energy left at the end of the day, would suggest that.


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[Assistant] So skimming over the answer choices here, I can see that they are basically saying, hey, these are all metaphors and what is, uhm, the meaning of the words within these metaphors if we think about them in a literal way. A, some people have more energy than other people.


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[Assistant] Of course that's true, but I don't think that that's what these metaphors are saying, so I'll just put a maybe beside it for now. Being most people wish they had more energy, I don't see anything in these metaphors that would point to that being the correct answer.


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[Assistant] See, many people think of vitality as a substance. So I can see what they're saying here. Look at this second one. She's overflowing with vitality. You normally, you know, you, you can overflow a mug with coffee. You can overflow a sink with water. Uhm, and so we're thinking of a substance or even a fluid and so,


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[Assistant] It would make sense that many people thinking of vitality as a substance would come across linguistically by saying things like, she's overflowing with vitality, or she's brimming with vim and vigor, which would probably be like


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[Assistant] Synonyms for vitality. So I like that one, and I even like it better than A. B, some people think that vitality affects our ability to argue. Uh, these don't have anything to do with arguing. That is a trap to try to get you to pick that because it talked about argument so much in the passage. C answers the question the best here.


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[Assistant] How does that speak to how that person views arguments, is what this question's asking. Says, A, arguments are violent. So, maybe, uhm, because it does say kind of that you can win and lose arguments and perhaps there's some violence involved. I don't love it, but I'll put a maybe.


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[Assistant] B, arguments are like contests, so I like that one. And I like it because you can win and lose contests. And here the speaker is saying that arguments are something that they are winning or that they are losing. Just like a contest. So I like B. C, conceptual systems are metaphorical.


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[Assistant] So that was a big thing that the author was saying, uh, you know, a big chunk of the main idea perhaps, but that's not what this...


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[Assistant] Question is referencing or that this, uh, saying I've never won an argument with him is referencing. I think that's just trying to get you to pick something that's along the line of the main idea, but here that's not exactly what we wanted.


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[Assistant] So the speaker isn't saying anything about competition being unpleasant by this saying right here. If anything, I think this question is basically giving you another metaphor, kind of like the last one, and saying, what does this metaphor really mean? And it means that this person is viewing arguments like contests.


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[Assistant] So I can kind of see how an ambassador might benefit from knowing, one, that the culture that they are in could be viewing a concept that he's referencing in a different way.


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[Assistant] Those differences are communicating the concept that they are trying to get across. So maybe I want a better answer though.


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[Assistant] Be a senator engaged in a serious debate. So now I'm thinking about how much it talked about arguments in the passage. But to me, if a senator is engaged in a serious debate right then and there, what does it matter that he knows that, you know, conceptually that this argument that he is engaged in or this debate


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[Assistant] I don't see how that's beneficial to the senator at all. So I don't like that one. It wants you to pick it because uhm, it's kind of, a debate is kind of like an argument, and it talked about arguments so much in the passage, it just, it's bait. It wants you to just latch onto that bait.


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[Assistant] Again, I just don't understand how it would be helpful to know


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[Assistant] Anything about metaphors or our conceptual system.


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[Assistant] I can make more connections with A, and that's why I'm crossing C out. D, a general preparing for battle. So this is the same reason why B is attractive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in the passage and so it wants you to pick this, but I cannot think of anything special about knowing that this battle that the general is about to go into is, is like an argument. I don't know. I'm trying to make like the opposite association. So I don't think that that's helpful. I think A is the best one.


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[Assistant] So in my experience, this question has always given students a really hard time, so I want to take some time with it. And my best advice for this is to think about a real example. This is driving me around the bend. If you've ever heard this metaphor,


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[Assistant] You know, it's talking about something stressful, some stressor in your life. So think about a stressor, stressful thing in your life. How about MCAT studying? So in this metaphor, what is this? This would be the stressor. So let's put MCAT studying. MCAT studying is driving me around the bend.


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[Assistant] So if MCAT studying or whatever stressor you have in your life is successful in driving you all the way around the bend, then what would you be after you got around the bend? You'd be insane, correct?


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[Assistant] So around the bend, whatever is around there is gonna be insanity. Now we have, MCAT studying is driving me insane.


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[Assistant] So we're looking for something that's comparing sanity. In this metaphor, is sanity a location? Well, let's think about where sanity would fit into this metaphor here.


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[Assistant] If MCAT studying is driving you insane, aren't you currently starting out at a sane place? Otherwise, you would already be insane. Nothing would be driving you insane, you'd already be insane. So currently, you are sane. So I thought a picture might help too.


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[Assistant] I honestly don't really know what the road would be in this metaphor. Maybe the few months that you're studying for MCAT, I don't really know what the road would be. But I don't think it's sanity would be the road. And D, a force, uhm, it is more likely a location than it is a force.


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[Assistant] So we were given a little bit of insight to this in the passage and it said, the participants are seen as performers. The goal is to perform in a balanced and aesthetically pleasing way.


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[Assistant] So let's find an answer choice that kind of is in line with that. A. By methodically attacking a person's weaker claims.


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[Assistant] American values. So that's not the right answer. B, by calmly responding to a person's points. So that makes more sense because I think that a calm discussion where the conversation's very balanced and things, that would be more aesthetically pleasing and more like a dance is.


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[Assistant] Dancers respond to each others on the stage and that is kind of how I'm imagining that arguments work in this made up culture. So I like B.


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[Assistant] C, by explaining that arguments are like dances. Well, do we, as a culture that views argument as war, do we explain in the middle of an argument that it's like war? Not really. That's kinda weird. D, by irrationally defending their position. Again, defending is language that insinuates that argument is like war. So B is gonna be the best one.


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[Assistant] Pretty well answered by the main idea and pretty well answered by your knowledge of how metaphors kind of work and how we were taught how they worked in the passage. So if you liked that video, hit like and subscribe or leave a comment down below telling us what you want to see next. But I will see you in the next one.


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