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[Assistant] You can use a couple of, I mean, what priority are we looking at? If we'll get the first thing I want to do, you know, everybody's looking at everybody. Let me go and get Avanti Maddox and look at him and bring him in here. You know, could this be something tied to laddy daddy is what I'm saying. You know, so we won't know until.


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[Assistant] The time comes, y'all feel it in the chat. Let me know how y'all feel about that. Is this something to do?


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[Assistant] With Marshawn Latimore that Avanti Maddox is here or just perhaps he's going to be a veteran dying back for the saints. What do you guys think about that? Y'all put it in the chat and let me know as well. But like we've been saying, we have a lot of different things going on with the saints with Dennis Salomon and it's very odd, but at the end of the day,


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[Assistant] Uhm, like I said, I'm not surprised from anything that I'll be hearing coming out of the building.


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[Assistant] Uh, in, in New Orleans for around this time. Anyway, let's move on to the next situation. Just a brief look at the salary cap and let me reload it, refresh that. That currently according to over the cap, the saints are roughly just under $11 million in cap right now.


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[Assistant] Now this could change because we did have a restructuring family as y'all know.


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[Assistant] Uh, early today, the saints, uh, lying back at the Mario Davis agreed to a two year contract extension that will keep him here through 2025. So basically what the saints are doing.


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[Assistant] Is they're just keeping their core, extending out their core. We got Tyron Matthew that just signed a two year deal. We got Demario Davis that just now restructured for a two year deal.


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[Assistant] And then you have Cam did his thing. What was it last year? So you got some of your veterans, your


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[Assistant] Probably your most productive veterans on the defensive side of the ball have now been all given extensions.


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[Assistant] Or contract restructures or have it. But if you look at what's going on with the saints.


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[Assistant] The saints agreed to terms with linebacker DiMario Davis on the two year contract that pushes it through 2025. It was announced by general Mickey Loomis.


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[Assistant] Uh, general mismanager Mickey Loomis replaced the final year of the three-year extension that was set to end after the season. The move reportedly is worth 17 and a half million.


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[Assistant] Of course we know that he played 12 seasons in the league. In New Orleans he drafted by the Jets at Arkansas State and played one season for Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Yes, 1,335 tackles, 43 and a half sacks, three picks, 55 pass defense. He got a bunch of stuff going on. And of course, you know, he was one of three active players with at least 1,300 stops and was selected to the past two Pro Bowls.


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[Assistant] And an all pro in 2019 last season, Davis started 17 games and made a team lead in 121 tackles, including six and a half sacks, 12 tackles for loss. He also broke up four passes and forced to fumble.


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[Assistant] And recover the fumble. So the Mario Davis gets a contract extension.


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[Assistant] Uh, from the black and gold man that kind of resets things and like I said, uhm,


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[Assistant] We haven't, they haven't upgraded with the, the cap right now is at $10.9 million. I want to say it is currently.


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[Assistant] So we have to wait and see what's going on with that. So anyway, uh, let's keep it moving. We'll go from that to this to St. Trois-Lis. Uh, we talked about that already covered that. Let's go into the.


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[Assistant] This one right here, the Eagles have signed Zach Bowen. So we lost Zach Bowen.


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[Assistant] Lying back, a lot of people was talking about, should we rear up with Zach Bourne? Don't have to worry about that no more. Guess what? The Philadelphia Eagles are taking them all for hands. The Saints are. Ever lost Zach Bourne to the Philadelphia Eagles. He signed a one year contract.


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[Assistant] So born 27 was a Saints third round pick in 2020 appeared in 62 games over the last four years, starting 14 most productive season came last year, 30 tackles, four for loss, two sacks, four QB hits, two pass defense, one INT.


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[Assistant] As a sub package player, he was a core teamer for the saints and, uh, he, you know, he was doing his thing and it's finally the saints found a usage form.


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[Assistant] And they had used him at most at the edge rusher where he had a lot of versatility. Off ball linebacker, not so much, but when he allow him to be an edge rusher.


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[Assistant] You've seen, he kind of found his mission. His things took a long time before they really got to find out. They really knew that all the time, but it just didn't do it. So Zach Bowen is gone.


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[Assistant] East Iowa Philadelphia Eagle, the same Philadelphia Eagles that can't just always seem the pill for players from the saints. They pill for people off your special teams.


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[Assistant] They pilfer your dumb hit general manager for picks. They just, they just pilfer. They just come to the same say, let's go over there and get talent and that and use that talent.


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[Assistant] To get us into the, into the, into the playoffs and beyond. So they got Zach Bowen there and this thing's going to have to find somewhere else to do.


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[Assistant] Also, this is another guy that the Saints had that played pretty decently from Lonnie Johnson Jr. is a Saint no more.


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[Assistant] Did not reach a deal with the Saints and he heads to back to the Texans. The first of the defensive backs shared his love for New Orleans, announcing his own departure after not being able to come to terms with the Saints. So that's another thing. Shout out to the Saints News Network covered it.


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[Assistant] Lonnie Johnson tried with the saints, saints wouldn't give him what he wanted. And he ultimately says, bye bye. I'm heading up out of here. So.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's gone, uh, he posted on social media, showed the family base much love. The defensive back played one season in New Orleans, which was unfortunately disrupted by injury, but his impact in the locker room and play on the field made him a player many believed and earned another year with the Saints. He played well enough, he should have got another year, but I guess it just wasn't in the plans.


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[Assistant] It is unclear, but based on Johnson's social media posts, it seems like there may have been mutual interest in resigning. I tried. I promise. I tried. We just couldn't get it done. He said it in a post.


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[Assistant] On X, he will, he will instead unite, reunite with the Texans who drafted him back in 2017. He appeared in 12 games where most involved rotations being at the domed defensive back and on special teams, but spent some time as a deep safety for the team in certain games as well. He defended three passes, had a pick and a fumble recovery and also be looking for help at the DB.


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[Assistant] Behind there, starting secondary to the departure of Johnson.


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[Assistant] And the to be seen destination of safety, Jonathan Abram and Hugo Omari leave a lot of questions unanswered of what the Saint secondary could look like in the end coming up. So the Saint's got some work to do here.


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[Assistant] Isn't that something family? Isn't that something indeed? So.


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[Assistant] Anyway, very interesting, very interesting, very interesting. Let's, let's talk about some of the other stuff, family, that have been happening.


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[Assistant] Because outside of the, we see a couple of our guys leaving. We've seen the two year contract.


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[Assistant] We've seen them hosting Avanti Maddox. We've seen that kind of stuff happen with our team, but there was a lot of stuff that was going on in the NFL landscape today and you heard stuff like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what's his name, uh, Russell Wilson agreeing to go to the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's really interesting.


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[Assistant] And I would be very more excited about the Russell Wilson situation if Arthur Smith wasn't the offensive coordinator. I would probably be a lot more.


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[Assistant] Excited about that, but when I found out Arthur Smith was the OC up there, I was like, uh, uh, uh, I don't know about that one, but.


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[Assistant] Congratulations to Russ. I do like the Russ and Tomlin parent or I do like that. Anyway, uh, one of the top things to talk about is the fact that Kurt Cousins agreed to a four year, $180 million contract. Boy, that's a lot of money that the Falcons gave him. I thought a lot of people thought that.


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[Assistant] Justin Fields would be the guy that they lean to, but ultimately they went.


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[Assistant] Sadly, man, we need a veteran, a guy that can do it cause.


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[Assistant] They're in a win now situation. You know, Raheem Morris is going in there. He's trying to get him a veteran to kind of lead the deal. So Kirk Cousins, time with Minnesota is over with.


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[Assistant] The deal includes a $50 million signing bonus.


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[Assistant] And $90 million guaranteed over the next two years.


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[Assistant] With an additional 10 million guaranteed in 26 and a whopping hundred million total in guarantees. That is unbelievable.


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[Assistant] I do like Kirk Cousins. I do think Kirk Cousins is a good quarterback. I just don't think he's $180 million worth of good quarterback. I'm sorry. The guy just came off an injury last year. He was playing well, but he's an older quarterback that's coming off injury.


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[Assistant] But they, this was, this was a lot of money that they spent on Kirk Cousins, man. And like I said, I do like Kirk Cousins. I think he brain him there.


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[Assistant] Is an upgrade, like he upgrades their quarterback position. No doubt about it. He upgrades the quarterback position greatly.


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[Assistant] But I don't know $180 million in for a four year deal. And I'm thinking it and Kirk and cousins like 36, 35, 36. This contract will take them into when he's 40 years old. We want some Drew Brees type mess.


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[Assistant] So I don't know, man, that'll be interesting, but yeah, he's 35. Most had expected cousins.


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[Assistant] Who's 35 to return to the Vikings because the Vikings had just received firsthand lesson to how difficult life in NFL would be.


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[Assistant] And cousins coming off a season ending Achilles injury instead of.


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[Assistant] Running in back with him, they allowed him to test free agency and he ultimately ended up leaving. So there you go on that.


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[Assistant] So with that being said, Kirk Cousins agrees to a four year, $180 million contract. And what that does is that puts him in the position where.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's a good move in so far as it upgrades the QB position. But my goodness, $180 million. We gave, what's his face, Derek Carr, what we gave him? $150 million?


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[Assistant] Man, my goodness bro, we giving these guys man in car.


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[Assistant] That was a lot of money that he trucked over to Carr. I really don't know what to say about any of that, man. But anyway, let's move into some of this other stuff. I'm going to try not to keep you all for very long. There's a few other things to go over in terms of the free agency.


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[Assistant] Uh, stuff that has been happening for the family members, not a lot of stuff to talk about with the black and gold, but a lot of other teams that are in better shape.


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[Assistant] And thus Capwise are making moves. Let me share my screen with you guys and show you.


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[Assistant] This is a live tracker, a free agency tracker update going on right now. As you can see, it's showing this live. The Texans re-signed wide receiver.


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[Assistant] Chief Simone team interested in Darnell Moomini to phone a former Tulane wide receiver.


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[Assistant] Ravens re-signing Malik Harrison, the linebacker. You see Chiefs punter, uh, Texan sign and former Chiefs punter Tommy Townsend to a deal. And of course you see.


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[Assistant] A few other things, Jordan Hicks signs with the Browns, the linebacker, Blake Gillick and our guy is with the, with the Cardinals.


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[Assistant] Blake signed a two year deal, man. I was hoping the saints come to the census.


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[Assistant] And marched his other dude out of here and bring, bring Blake Gilligan back, but Blake Gilligan found a home with the Cardinals, man. He's a good punter.


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[Assistant] Seahawks returned, uh, or retained defensive, uh, Lyman Leonard Williams and Titan Noah Fant. That's something that they broke. Dolphins agree to terms with Senator Aaron Brewer.


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[Assistant] Is returning to the Bengals Jags ad free agent hole with Rommel Darby, the cornerback. He goes there.


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[Assistant] And they signed a bunch of people. The Jags added Senator Mitch Morse, wide receiver Gabe Davis, safety Darnell Savage, wide receiver Devin Duvenay and Ronald Darby the DB.


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[Assistant] The saints looking at getting a veteran guys or perhaps veteran guys there.


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[Assistant] They helped him out. Jordan Brooks, the linebacker signs with the Dolphins and you see several other really interesting.


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[Assistant] Things that have happened in, oh yeah, Austin Eckler, the running back, the former charger running back signed a deal, a two year deal with the Washington commanders. That's interesting.


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[Assistant] Before this team and also you, another big move is the Patriots trading Brian Burns to the Giants. Remember this was a big move that they, that happened earlier today. They, the Carolina Panthers.


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[Assistant] Traded with the giants, they traded mind burns, a fantastic pass rusher.


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[Assistant] And the burns will be guaranteed over $87 million, man. The Giants are getting the second round pick in 2024 and the fifth round pick in 25. So that's some of the stuff. Few things, man.


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[Assistant] A few things that's going on in the league, man. A lot of stuff popping just, unfortunately, it's not the Saints that's going on. So not nothing from us now, as you can see a lot of stuff going on here, man. So.


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[Assistant] Man, look at that. Gardner mentioned also signs with the Raiders. They gave him back. So there's a lot of stuff going on, man. But at the end of the day, it is what it is. Ain't none of it.


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[Assistant] I will black and gold, right? Oh yeah. Look at Louvoo, the linebacker from Carolina ends up with the Washington commander. So a lot of crap going on. So let's keep it pushing, man. So anyway.


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[Assistant] That's a few things that have happened right now in the NFL with the.


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[Assistant] Uh, going on and of course we still got a lot of time before stuff start really popping for the squad. So man, listen.


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[Assistant] Very interesting news today fam. Like I said, I'm not going to try to try to keep y'all today, keep y'all along on this thing, man.


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[Assistant] But it is what it is. Yeah. A lot of fantastic, a lot of fantastic moves, man. But like the Carolina, uh, Carolina Panthers treating burns.


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[Assistant] That's interesting within itself, the Carolina, I mean, the, uh, Atlanta Falcons signing.


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[Assistant] Uh, Kirk Cousins to a deal, and I know a lot of people are celebrating that. I think that's a lot of money. Hell, I think it's a lot of money. What we did with Derek Carr, giving him all that stupid ass money for nothing. But uh, alright, listen, Cousins.


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[Assistant] Who's a better quarterback? Is it cousins or car? Man, you know, cousins beats the saints. That's what he does, you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's keep it moving, man. So shout out to the fam, man. Y'all throw some questions in the chat, we'll go from there.


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[Assistant] All right. What's up, Chosen King? King Chosen One. Much love to you. Good to see you. What's up, KB? Shout out to your brother, Trey. DJ D Smooth. What's happening, man? He said, do they have, do they have money?


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[Assistant] Gap increased throughout the NFL. According to a restructured.


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[Assistant] Uh, DiMario's deal, the Saints was at the time about what, $11 million over the cap. So it hadn't fit in just yet.


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[Assistant] So there's still time, the saints still have several other contracts that they got to fulfill. There's several other things that they got to do.


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[Assistant] All right, Louisiana man, uh, much love to you. Good to see you out there. Big ups to the fam.


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[Assistant] Yeah. He says, uh, cousins will be 36 years old with an Achilles. Yeah. I know this is a lot of money. They spent on Derek. I mean, on Kirk cousins, bro.


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[Assistant] What's up Tasha, shout out to Tasha and the rest of the queens out there.


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[Assistant] All right, Scout. What's up? Scout says, I'm hoping we retain Yidam and re-sign a Deebo long-term. Be smart to retain Roach too, but it sounded like the media thinks he will walk. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, we've seen Zach Bourne, we've seen Lonnie Johnson Jr. Lonnie Johnson Jr. said that he really tried to make a deal work where he wanted to stay with the team.


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[Assistant] So I don't know what the vision of the team is. We're going to have to just wait and see what they are trying to do from a defensive standpoint.


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[Assistant] In terms of some of our role players and guys behind, some guys are going to have to kind of step up. Isaac Uderman to me is a guy that deserved the contract extension. How he played well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what's his name, uh, Mr. Man name, uh, uh, Hugo Amati is another guy that played well. If we get these guys back, I have no idea, man. Some of them we probably will, but I don't know exactly what the Saints are doing. James says, Q, we draft certain players and they play them out of position when they.


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[Assistant] They actually do good or if they good from the start, we don't pay them and then losing the good teams, the money tied up on their car. Yep. They rework cars contract bro, but I see what you're saying. And I agree. Uh, I don't know, man. It's just, it's, uh, they gotta improve. They gotta do better than that.


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[Assistant] Uh, scout says Bryce Einstein got the upside, but he don't got the talent around him. Is this the year that they build offense around them, man? We'll see. A lot of pressures on them. What's up, brother Wallace? How you doing, man?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, Derek says cam, but productive queue. Yeah. Yeah. We got a lot of cam was his production was off because he had that ankle issue.


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[Assistant] Last year, but he should be a hundred percent full. We know the Mario Davis is acting like he never stopped playing at all. So we'll see, man. We'll see how all this works out. Bullet, uh, family travel velocity. How much of this is players just walking away?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. I got you. I got you. All right. Okay. The mic is going in and out. Okay. I'm having internet problems. All right. So anyway, fam.


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[Assistant] Players that are good players are not going to want to play for the guy. And I don't care how they dress it up, but they'll try to do everything they can.


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[Assistant] Blame the players, but don't put the pressure or the credit for why the team is underachieving where it belongs on the general manager and on the head coach and in many respects on the damn owner. That's what we need to take it.


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[Assistant] That's where the focus needs to be. Dennis Allen shouldn't be a head coach with this team. He shouldn't have a job. He's, he's not that good. And if he wins it, well, he won nine games.


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[Assistant] This team last year was a good team. It shouldn't have lost that many games. It should have been a playoff team. But anyway.


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[Assistant] This is my husband, Mr. Swanson of San Francisco. And, uh, my sister-in-law, Miss Swanson.


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[Assistant] If you knew on my other side, like, uh, from playing video games and stuff like that, I love...


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[Assistant] Messing with like character creators. I may not be, I'm, I don't do it in the way though that I try to look my best.


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[Assistant] Not like how Phyra and Ryze were kind of working at it. You know, like, find the best crown that works for you. Let's retailer your outfit and make you look like this nice high lady.


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[Assistant] You know, I understand where they're going through and I love the drive to find the right


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[Assistant] Uh, pick out of all that. But I do mine more in a, uh, self-trolling way, so I kinda like...


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[Assistant] Turn my stuff into silly things, you know, I mess with the sliders and all that as they say. So.


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[Assistant] We're, I think we're finally getting ready to go? To?


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[Assistant] The grand meeting, all that fun stuff. So let's see what happens in chapter 42.


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[Assistant] No one said anything. Nesta only lifted her chin. I never but seen her stumble for words. I do not want to be remembered as a coward.


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[Assistant] No one would say that, I offered quietly. I would.


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[Assistant] This just surveyed us all. Her gaze jumping past Cassian. Not to slide him, but avoid answering the look he was giving her. Approval. More. It was some distant thing.


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[Assistant] I said, my dress rustling as I braved a solitary step-torter.


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[Assistant] Aaron claimed you were close to mastering whatever skill you need. You should stay focused on that.


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[Assistant] No. The word was steady and clear. A day or two delay with my training won't make any difference. Perhaps by the time we return everyone will have decoded that spell in the book. She shrugged with a shoulder.


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[Assistant] You went off to battle for a court you barely knew, who barely see you as friends. Cameron showed me the blood ruby. When I asked you why, you said because it was the right thing. People needed help. Her throat bobbed.


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[Assistant] As High Lady, I was no longer my emissary to the human world. Gave Nesta a tentative smile. Want the job? Nesta's face yielded nothing, but it could have sworn some spark flared. Consider this meeting a trial basis.


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[Assistant] And I'll make you pay through the teeth for my services.


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[Assistant] I sketched a bow. I would expect nothing less of an Arcaron's sister. I poked him in the ribs and he huffed a laugh. Welcome to the court.


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[Assistant] He said to her, you're about to have one hell of a first date. And to my eternal shock, a smile tugged at Nesta's mouth.


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[Assistant] No going back now, as he said to Ryze, gesturing to his wings. Ryze slid his hands into his pockets.


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[Assistant] 20 Goldmark says there's a fight in the first hour. Cassian said, still not really looking at Nesta.


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[Assistant] 30 and I say within 45 minutes more said crossing her arms.


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[Assistant] You do remember there are vows, and wards of neutrality, Raya said mildly.


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[Assistant] You lot don't need fists or magic to fight. More chirped. Ezreal said from the dorm. 50.


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[Assistant] I say within 30 minutes, started by autumn.


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[Assistant] Rise rolled his eyes. Try not to look like you're all gambling on them, and no cheating by provoking fights. Their answering grins were anything but reassuring. Rise sighed.


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[Assistant] A hundred marks on a fight within fifteen minutes. Nesta let out a soft snort, but they all looked to me, waiting. I shrugged. Ryze and I are a team. He can gamble away our money on this bullshit. They all looked deeply offended. Ryze looped his elbow through mine. A queen in appearance. Don't even finish that, I said. He laughed. Shall we?


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[Assistant] He'd win-o-me-in, Moor would take Cassian and Nesta, and Azrael would carry himself.


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[Assistant] Ryze glanced toward the sitting room clock and gave the shadow singer a nod. Azrael instantly vanished. First to arrive. First to see if any trap awaited. In silence, he waited. One minute. Two. Then Ryze blew out of breath and said, clear. He threaded his fingers through mine, gripping tightly. Moore sagged a bit. Jewelry glinting with the movement. Went to take Cassian's arm.


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[Assistant] And as the world began to turn to shadows and wind, I saw Cassian tower over my sister.


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[Assistant] Saw her chin lift defiantly and heard him growl. Hello, Nesta.


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[Assistant] Rise seemed to hold his windowing as my sister said, So, you're alive.


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[Assistant] Cassian bared his teeth in a feral grin, wings flaring slightly. Were you hoping otherwise? More was watching.


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[Assistant] Watching so closely, every muscle tense. She again reached for his arm, but Cassian angled out of reach.


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[Assistant] The world seemed to go utterly still. That interrupted sentence. Nothing. And no one more so than Cassian.


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[Assistant] He scanned her face as if furiously reading some battle report.


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[Assistant] More just watched as Cassian took Nesta's slim hand in his own, interlacing their fingers.


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[Assistant] As he folded in his wings and blindly reached his other hand back toward Morr in a silent order to transport them. Cassian's eyes did not leave Nesta's, nor did hers leave his. There was no warmth, no tenderness on either of their faces, only that raging intensity, that blend of contempt and understanding and fire. Rise began to winnow us again.


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[Assistant] Just as the dark wind swept in, I heard Cassian say to Nesta, his low voice, his voice low and rough. The next time, Emissary. I'll come say hello.


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[Assistant] I'd learned enough from Rise about what to expect of the dawn court, but even the vistas he's painted for me didn't do the sight justice. It was the clouds I saw first.


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[Assistant] Enormous clouds drifting in the cobalt sky, soft and magnanimous, still tinged by the rose remnants of sunrise. The round edges gilded with the golden light.


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[Assistant] The dewy freshness of morning lingered in the balmy air as we peered up at the mountain palace spiraling into the heavens above.


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[Assistant] If the palace above the court of nightmares had been crafted of moonstone, this was made from sunstone.


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[Assistant] I didn't have a word for the near opalescent golden stone that seemed to hold the gleaming of a thousand sunrises in it.


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[Assistant] Steps and balconies and archways and verandas and bridges link the towers and gilded domes of the palace periwinkle morning glories climbing the pillars and neatly cut blocks of stone to drink in the gilded mists wafting by. Wafting by because the mountain on which the palace stood. There was a reason I beheld the clouds first.


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[Assistant] The veranda that we'd appeared on was empty, save for Azrael in a slim-hipped attendant in the golden ruby livery of dawn.


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[Assistant] Light, loose robes, layered and yet flattering. The male bowed, his brown skin smooth with youth and beauty. This way, High Lord.


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[Assistant] Even his voice was as lovely as the first glimmer of gold on the horizon.


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[Assistant] Rise returned his bow with a shallow nod and offered his arm to me.


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[Assistant] More muttered behind us, falling into rank with nest at her side.


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[Assistant] If you ever feel like building a new house, Rise, let's use this one for inspiration.


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[Assistant] Rise through an incredulous look over his shoulder. Cassian and Ezreal snorted softly.


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[Assistant] I glanced to nest as the attendant led us not to the archway beyond the veranda, but the spiral stairs climbing upward, along the bare face of a tower.


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[Assistant] Nesta seemed as out of place as all of us. Save more, but that was awe on my sister's face.


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[Assistant] Utter awe at the castle in the clouds, at the verdant countryside rippling away far below, speckled with red-roofed little villages and broad sparkling rivers.


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[Assistant] A lush, eternal countryside rich with the weight of summer upon it.


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[Assistant] And I wondered if my face had appeared like that, the day I'd first seen Volaris.


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[Assistant] The mix of awe and anger and the realization that the world was large and beautiful and sometimes so overwhelming in its wonder that it was impossible to drink it down all at once. There were other places within Dawn's territory.


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[Assistant] Set in small cities that specialized in tinkering and clockwork and clever things. Here, beyond those little villages nestled in the country hills, there was no industry.


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[Assistant] Nothing beyond the palace and the sky and the clouds.


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[Assistant] We ascended the spiral stairs that drop off the too near edge, falling away into warm colored rock.


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[Assistant] Peppered with clusters of pale roses and fluffy magenta peonies. A beautiful, colorful death.


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[Assistant] Every step had me bracing myself as we wound up and up the tower, Ryza's grip on my hand unwavering. The wings remained out. He did not falter a single step. As I slid to mine, amused and questioning, he set down the bond. Do you think I need to redecorate our home?


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[Assistant] We passed open air chambers full of fat, silk pillows, and plush carpets.


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[Assistant] Past windows whose panes were arranged in colorful medleys, past urns overflowing with lavender and fountains, gurgling clearest water under the mild rays of the sun. It's not a competition, I trilled to him, his hand tightened on mine. Well.


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[Assistant] I smiled, and he leaned in smoothly to brush a kiss to my cheek.


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[Assistant] More mutter to plea mercy from mates.


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[Assistant] Muted voices reached us from the open air chamber atop the Sunstone Tower. Some deep. Some sharp. Some lilting.


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[Assistant] Before we finish the last rotation around it, the arched, glassless windows, offering no barrier to start the conversation within. Three others are already here. Rise warned me.


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[Assistant] And I had the feeling that was what Asriel was now murmuring to Moran Cassian. Uelian, Callius, and Thiessen. The high lords of day, winter, and our host, dawn. Meaning autumn, and summer, Veyron and Tarkin, had not yet arrived. Or spring.


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[Assistant] I still doubted Tamelin would come at all, but Bayron and Tarkin? Perhaps the battle had changed Tarkin's mind.


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[Assistant] And Baran was awful enough to perhaps have sided with Hibern already, regardless of Eris' manipulating.


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[Assistant] I caught the bob of Ryza's throat as we cleared the final steps to the open doorway.


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[Assistant] A long bridge connected the other half of the tower to the palace interior, its rails drooping with dawn-pale wisteria.


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[Assistant] I wondered if the others had been led up these stairs, or if it was somehow meant to be an insult. Shields up, Ryze asked, but I knew he was aware of mine.


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[Assistant] He was aware mine had been raised since Volaris.


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[Assistant] Just as I was aware that he'd put a shield, mental and physical, around all of us, in terms of peace or no.


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[Assistant] And though his face was calm, his shoulders thrown back, I said, I see all of you rise.


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[Assistant] There's not one part that I do not love. Everything that I am.


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[Assistant] His hand squeezed mine in answer before he laid my fingers on his arm.


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[Assistant] Was the end of chapter 42, and we are now well over way, halfway through the book, and if you've made it this entire way so far,


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[Assistant] Feel free to leave a comment and let me give you a little pat on the back for it. Say, you know, free water. I made it to the halfway point and I will make sure that I heart that sucker and I will respond and say,


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe I won't, I'll probably forget to say pat yourself on the back, but I will, you know, thank you and all that stuff. Thanks to anyone for reading any part of this or listening into any part of this.


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[Assistant] Lady Wada tells me about some of the, uh, book.


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[Assistant] Influencers or bookstagram or book talk. I don't, I don't know the lingos yet in this universe of, uh, book reading and audiobooks and all this stuff, but she had told me some people of hers that she follows that read books have been listening into audiobooks. So if you, if you are, if you are working on your own, uh,


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[Assistant] Page or stuff like that. And you're listening to this audiobook, uh?


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[Assistant] I might have been that person that said, I've been listening to this audiobook. Or something like that because, uh,


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[Assistant] That, I mean, that just made, you know, just having anyone listen to this makes me feel really special and I really appreciate.


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[Assistant] Uh, all the time that many of you have given into the channel for this series.


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[Assistant] Uh, as well. So, enough sappy stuff. I'm just feeling, you know, nice and nostalgic and sappy today, so I just wanted to give that little thanks out there.


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[Assistant] Uh, as, as I always appreciate y'all, so make sure to stay beautiful, stay hydrated, and we will see you in the next chapter. Bye.


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[Assistant] Now this here is the dance move generator. We're gonna take turns hitting this button, which will randomly select a never before seen dance move.


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[Assistant] Whoever's turn it is has to make up a dance for that move. And the best dancer wins. Kate, since you're our guest, why don't you go first? Let's start the dance move generator.


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[Assistant] And so in the same way that it takes a village to raise a child, you know it takes a community to build a strong tech company.


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[Assistant] And the brand of Waterloo Region is big enough and strong enough that it attracts, you know, the smartest researchers, the smartest, uhm, talent from around the globe, the smartest students to come here and study.


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[Assistant] You know, they're not satisfied with being the best in Canada. Uhm, you know, to them that's kind of like being the fastest runner in their grade 6 class. Their mother cares, but no one else cares. And so I think people are really dreaming big.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that really starts at the board level. If you look at the founders of Communitech 16 years ago, they were all founders, you know, CEOs themselves. And that culture is important because it trickles down to the organization.


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[Assistant] You know, the difference in this community versus other communities is that in this community, you know, when you ask someone to meet with a startup,


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[Assistant] Uhm, the question is never, you know, if, it's always when.


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[Assistant] Joe Cassie comes in with Starpline Limit Hold. 714 Limit Hold.


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[Assistant] You don't tip in tournaments? Not after winning a pot. Oh, you can tip out of your pocket.


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[Assistant] And so Oliver was left with only the drunken nurse. Without clothes, under his first blanket, he could have been the child of a king or a beggar.


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[Assistant] But when the woman dressed him later in rough cotton clothes, yellow with age, he looked exactly what he was.


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[Assistant] An orphan in a workhouse, ready for a life of misery, hunger, and neglect.


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[Assistant] Oliver cried loudly. If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan, perhaps he would have cried even more loudly.


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[Assistant] And it, that's one of those movies, anyone puts their, you know, best films of all time list together, it's always on. It's always on there. And yet, that film has never been a hit.


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[Assistant] Literally like a big sister, so I get to enjoy that time again.


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[Assistant] Yes and no. A lot of it was more so I didn't think the sport wanted me. That's why I felt like I needed to stop. But knowing that I had the right support and everything and everything that I was doing kind of just led me into knowing that I can keep pushing forward.


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[Assistant] Do my best at qualifications and so for Paris is just going out there.


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[Assistant] You know, all the stuff that you make fun of about yourself was special and funny and...


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[Assistant] Alright, I think we, let me see, did we do the list? You got thrown out of a target is one of the, uh, things, so.


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[Assistant] But from now on I'm sticking to hamburger and lemonade with a square shooting guy that wouldn't even think of playing a dirty trick on a working girl. Goodbye, rat!


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[Assistant] Do you happen to know Ho-tae's or other Sung-jae's friend's number?


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[Assistant] So uhm, uh, uuuh.


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[Assistant] So uhm, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Come here and talk to me. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.


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[Assistant] Different if I give it to someone that I know because I know they're going to appreciate it and they're going to love it as much as I do. So I, you know, I keep borrowing them back. This has traveled back to Indonesia, by the way. Yes.


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[Assistant] Ms. Huberman? Yes. Please forgive me for keeping you waiting. Not at all. You resemble your father very much. I'm Alex Mock. I knew when I saw you.


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[Assistant] You did not testify at your father's trial. We felt that unusual. He didn't want me to.


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[Assistant] Are you quite sure she didn't come down here to see you? To capture the rich Alex Sebastian for her husband?


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[Assistant] Yes. It is easy to see now. I knew but I didn't see. The picture because of her father.


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[Assistant] But his criticism of your talents wouldn't go that far to imagine that you are married to an American agent. You are protected by the enormity of your stupidity.


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[Assistant] If he was like 25 when the first Mario Brothers came out, he would be in his, what, late 50s by now?


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[Assistant] Whoops. Alright. Well, you know. Yeah, maybe I'll get used to it. Oh boy. That's gonna be rough.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if we were to- oh no.


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[Assistant] Fuck, gee whiz. If, if we were to, uh, lay it out as if each Mario game that's not obviously, you know, tennis or some kind of side game, what Mario are we actually on?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. You sort of have to make your own rules. But let's say that's ten and eleven.


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[Assistant] So, the number is somewhere around like 17, yea? Yea. Oh my god. Yea, you can't just brute force that. Dude, this stage sucks. Yea, this is tough. Ross wasn't messing around.


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[Assistant] Boy, this is great that we're on episode, I wanna say, what, seven or eight of-


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[Assistant] I don't know if I've ever loved and hated something so completely with all my heart.


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[Assistant] I mean, it gave us our careers. That's true. It is very true. Yeah. So that's more than a seven.


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[Assistant] Oh, so you have to reach the goal as Balloon Mario.


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[Assistant] Crawl across a floor and it just looks like they're gas-powered. Like, ta!


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[Assistant] You know, I have played like a thousand episodes on this show.


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[Assistant] Yea, with the blue ones, they have such a charge period, you always have more time than you think you do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, LA does not wear rain very well.


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[Assistant] Delish fish. I eat fish like a whale! Eats baleen! Man, have you- have you seen that footage of that whale that just sits there with its mouth open and there's hundreds of fish just- just hopping around inside its mouth and then it just closes it and it's like, brrrm, the holocaust. Meanwhile, it's just like a single munch.


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[Assistant] And then you realize they're eating enough plankton to cover the surface of Rhode Island.


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[Assistant] I don't know what the mix will be like when we, um, put the episode out, but for some reason there's no volume on our TV. Oh fuck. So, Arin is just doing this in complete silence. And that, that seemed more degrading somehow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. There's no little brrroop. Boop boop.


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[Assistant] Alright, here we go. Okay, thanks Ross. Having fun? You enjoying this? Yeah, it's...


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[Assistant] I like to imagine Ross with his feet kicked up and a mint julep in his hand, sunglasses on, just watching us.


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[Assistant] It's nice that that exists though. Maybe that's a halfway point.


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[Assistant] This is the second level in two episodes where getting hit once means you can't possibly finish the level.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, it had a lot of room tone, as they say.


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[Assistant] It's like a, like an echoey gas, uh, gas station bathroom. Yeah. Mina mina na mina na mina.


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[Assistant] That, that center rainbow aisle was definitely the place for a flag.


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[Assistant] Nah, let's make him earn it. Fuck him. That's a lot closer to where it probably was. Eh, fuck him.


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[Assistant] But y-you know what? You're a lot closer to the end than we thought.


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[Assistant] And, you said yourself, we could get in trouble for that.


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[Assistant] Alright, neat. We're having fun. Yes, okay. Wow, it really does work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just so you can take a little breath before the final Logan's run.


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[Assistant] Boy, that end part really wouldn't be hard if it wasn't for that one Mecha Koopa shooting bullets. Yep.


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[Assistant] He like messes up your entire steeze, like, your style and or your ease is deeply affected by that one guy.


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[Assistant] I'll do it when you can devote 1% of your brain power to anything but this.


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[Assistant] You sa- you saying that in that manner made it sound like


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[Assistant] You were, like, frantically on your way to a gay nightclub, and you- and you were late for a di- like, I gotta make it to the rainbow, I gotta make it to the rainbow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I've done that before. Especially in Europe, where like, I don't know anything, and you just walk into a place and...


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[Assistant] And then toddled off on my way. Yeah. It was great, man. Saturday night.


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[Assistant] When I was in- the first time I was in Amsterdam with my sister, uh, we stayed at a hotel that was directly across the street from a place called The Cock Ring. And, uh, you'll never believe this.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna take it up with the management. I'm like, excuse me, sir.


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[Assistant] I too enjoy cock rings. You don't get to claim them.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, that pumpkin cheesecake. Yeah, if you want some, it's in my, uh, lower intestine. Yeah. I thought it was just a delicious Pac-Man. Yeah.


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[Assistant] There's gonna be plenty to go around.


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[Assistant] The only person whose deuces I've ever seen were Ross because he texted them to us one time. Why did he do that? I don't know, he just took a picture of the toilet.


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[Assistant] Don't you remember? And Susie responded, come on Ross.


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[Assistant] Correct! Panda eats bamboo and bamboo.


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[Assistant] Cause I've had a cafe before, and it was... minging.


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[Assistant] But that was dairy-based kefir. This is kefir water. This is Water Kefir by King of Kefir. And they are Ireland and Europe's first dedicated water kefir brewery using traditional water kefir grains.


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[Assistant] You're liking it? I'm really liking this. I could see myself buying a few bottles of this. That's a game changer.


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[Assistant] So you like it? I like it. Do you think it's a trend? I think it's a trend. Asking the question in Ebbers.


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[Assistant] That is a tasty bubble. That is an outrageous success. That's a healthy bubble.


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[Assistant] It's got kind of a roast dinner type of feel with flavours like slightly burnt carrots with turkey stuffing and


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[Assistant] A spiced meatball. It feels like it's trying to be meaty.


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[Assistant] And in front of you have their sausage, pastrami, bacon, and meatball.


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[Assistant] We went through to try and get these products because they sell out like that. Which in itself just says, what a humongous.


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[Assistant] Trend this continues to be and how popular these particular products have been. Question is, how do they hold up when added to dishes? You're gonna have a good day.


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[Assistant] Spaff, in front of you, you have a meatball sub, a breakfast muffin, and a Reuben sandwich. That's incredible! Yeah, now, this looks better. This, uh, uh, much better. I'm with you now. And the diner thing now makes sense. Do they taste amazing? That's the question that we have. Let's start with the meatball sub.


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[Assistant] It's very fibrous, it kind of pulls really nicely and it has like almost those kind of fatty air bubbles you get from pastrami.


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[Assistant] Now, we are obviously not saying, check out veganism, it's a future trend everyone, but what we are doing is looking at the evolution of vegan products and just how incredible they're getting.


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[Assistant] We're going to talk price and we're going to isolate two of these products. You've got the bacon and the pastrami. They're both actually the same price. But how much do you think per packet they cost? Yeah, £4. £3.50 £3.50


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[Assistant] So the question is, is this a meat-free marvel?


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[Assistant] Or is there mushroom for improvement? There are no mushrooms in any of this. That was weak. That was a meat-free marvel. Yeah, it's a meat-free marvel.


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[Assistant] Okay, Pappy. Strange texture to it. Try the other. See if it helps you out. That one's just peanut. That's just peanut butter. Correct. Peanut butter flavoured. There's something with the texture.


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[Assistant] If we were to tell you that this is vegan ice cream, would that surprise you? And if you think that we've had to substitute the dairy out of it for something else, could you take a guess at what that was? I have a lot of butter beans at home. It's almost like mushed up butter beans.


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[Assistant] Now the food team have made the chickpea ice cream in front of you because we aren't able to source chickpea ice cream products in the UK. You can get them globally. So there's no price point to talk about here. But I will ask you the question. Is this the year of the chickpea or not? Your cup of tea. I really like it. The year of the chickpea.


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[Assistant] I love this product, I love chickpeas. Is this the year of the chickpeas? No.


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[Assistant] It goes without saying, these are extraordinary times.


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[Assistant] We, like everyone, we had plans. Good plans. And then everything stopped. But the Sorted Food community did not.


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[Assistant] As we cooked, they cooked more. They led us round our kitchens in live cooking challenges.


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[Assistant] Threw down gauntlets of ravioli, ramen and 100 layer lasagnas. They supported local restaurants. Supported the Wonder Bag charity. They supported each other. They supported us.


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[Assistant] They helped us create the new normal and feel less distanced than ever.


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[Assistant] They helped us interview tomato breeders in the Netherlands, pronounce our Chinese fusion dishes, gave tips for top kebabs. They rated our creative use of store-covered sauces.


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[Assistant] And shared our big nights in. Cheers to you too. This year we've been blown away by the strength of the Sorted Food community and truthfully the future feels more exciting than ever.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, for us, these really are extraordinary times.


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[Assistant] Now, once again, regardless of whether you're opting in a paid or a free Instagram food business, you would need to have these four components. And right now we're at the fulfilling stage, the final stage of setting up your food business online. Now what is order fulfillment? It is basically how your customers receive your product.


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[Assistant] Either they come and pick up their product or you deliver it to your customers. Now, why is it important for us to set this up? Right? It is because your reputation is built on good order fulfillment and your customer experience.


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[Assistant] It builds trust of your customers and I always say this, for you, the only reason why people are ordering from you is trust. If they don't trust you, they're not going to order from you. So trust is the only thing.


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[Assistant] Why people would be ordering from you. So that's the reason why we need to make sure we continually.


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[Assistant] Build trust with your customers so then that way they will continually order from you again and again with confidence and second of all,


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[Assistant] People like to buy from businesses that make the order process fast, convenient, and


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[Assistant] Simple. Whether it's pickup or delivery, make it super easy and set the right expectation for your customers. And lastly,


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[Assistant] When you set this up right and if you have clear expectation, it allows you to manage your time properly. And for some of you guys that have a nine to five that have multiple different things going on at once and consider this as a part-time gig.


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[Assistant] Then you fail to be able to run this business as well. That's the reason why this is a crucial lesson to help you manage your time as well.


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[Assistant] Now, how do you fulfill your orders? There are pickups, which should be completely free for your customers. Make sure that you contact your customers through either direct message or text message or emails. Tell them exactly that when their orders are ready. Also schedule a time to meet at your pickup location.


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[Assistant] A key key key point right here is to be super strict with the time that works for you when you set this time up.


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[Assistant] Let's say four to six PM on Wednesday and Thursday, then make sure those times are, are, are strict and that you are there at all times. You don't want to be too flexible because if you're too flexible, it will end up wasting a lot of your time. And if you don't set a proper time that or proper window,


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[Assistant] That people can pick up from you and you just be like, Hey, you know what? Just come on Wednesday and Thursday.


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[Assistant] Then people would be dropping off, dropping by at 7pm, 8pm expecting you to be there.


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[Assistant] And if you're not there, they're not going to be happy. They're going to be like, yo, what the hell? Why am I, why is my order not ready? Why are you not at home? Why am I not getting this?


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, this is all about setting the right expectation and it is your business. How you run it, it's up to you so you can set the timelines as much and as flexible as you want. But nonetheless, setting up a strict timeline works best. And that's really coming from someone who's done this for a long time. Okay.


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[Assistant] Now, when we're talking about delivery, we talked about the two types of fulfillment process, whether someone is going to your place to pick up or delivery, right? So when it comes to delivery, there are also two ways


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[Assistant] If you're personally delivering it, you need your own staff, whether it's you or you hire someone to deliver for you. You need to ask all your friends or your family to deliver. You need to do that.


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[Assistant] The convenience is not that convenient if you were to deliver a high volumes, because that's a lot of driving that you need to do. But if you're just starting out, I really don't see why you can't personally deliver, but I'm just showing you what are the different options out there. It is much more convenient if you have a lot of high volume to have third party handle the delivery process for you.


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[Assistant] Exposure. If you're, if you're partnering up with third party deliveries, most likely you're going to be able to get exposed on their network and on their platform. So that would increase.


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[Assistant] Let's dive into this a little bit more. Fixed delivery rates can be set on your Google order form. If you're opting in the freeway, you can actually set how much you are charging the people for delivery. And you can also set different delivery prices and options on Shopify as well. If you're opting in the paid way of setting up your Instagram food business, if


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[Assistant] Also the prices of delivery can be charged, uh, via the minimum order of a mix X amount, or it varies on delivery location, whether it's a time and distance things. For example, as you can see here,


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[Assistant] Depending on which location it is, the delivery charges changes from either $5, $7 or $9 during these different locations. You can see it right here because the longer and the further it is just the more time and distance required and more costs is involved for your customer.


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[Assistant] Now a pro tip for you when you're doing the delivery is that we need to really be mindful of contactless delivery. Now ensure that we drop the off the items in a safe zone. So then that way people don't steal your goods because if you leave the product at the door at the front and if someone comes and steals it.


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[Assistant] Then that's a really bad experience for your customers. Your customers think and make judgment whether you have, uh, delivered the goods or not. And that's the reason why I would highly recommend you to take it, take a picture, send it to your customers, put it on the side or whatever the case that is out of sight from people who are walking by that neighborhood.


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[Assistant] Next up, the wow experience. This is something that is super, super crucial that a lot of people have oversights on, um, on, because for example, if you are delivering


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[Assistant] frozen items. You can use a cooler bag to make sure that the products are fresh and also it's gonna be cold.


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[Assistant] Also leaving a simple note, letting your customers know to put it in the freezer.


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[Assistant] If they're not eating it right away, that allows them to feel that wow.


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[Assistant] This business has a lot of attention to detail and it just creates that wow experience. And that's the reason why you, and that's the reason how you as a business can stand and, and be differentiating yourself through this wow experience.


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[Assistant] And the next tip is that you can actually streamline your delivery with apps such as Route Tific. Okay. I'm going to include the link in the resources below. So then that way you can actually plan out the route because a lot of people have been messaging us and asking us about, Hey, you know what? I've 10 deliveries.


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[Assistant] To do so, uhm, and what is the most efficient way to do so? Definitely go download this app and use it. It is completely free for you to use.


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[Assistant] Next up, let's say for example, you don't want to do your own delivery. You're hiring someone else to do the delivery for you.


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[Assistant] Then courier have different, um, different places. So for even for these food delivery apps, they will help you deliver your goods, uh, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Postmates.


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[Assistant] Grubhub, they have a new feature called Uber Connect for sending packages and that's something that you can sign up for as well. Definitely just check out the apps that are relevant in your city and a lot of them already have these courier options to send packages.


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[Assistant] Price for using these third, third party apps can vary different, um, therefore by different platforms. The common fees would include an activation fee, a marketplace fee and a marketing fee delivery fee.


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[Assistant] Processing fee and as you can see, that's a lot of fees that would be included if you're sending out your packages to them. So if you don't have enough margins on your product, then I would highly recommend you to not opt into something like this, but nonetheless, I'm just giving it to you as an option. If you have a lot of margins that you can play around with.


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[Assistant] Then definitely this becomes a great choice because it saves a lot of your headache.


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[Assistant] Now a pro tip is that once again, free delivery is always better from the customer perspective as well. You can also build in the delivery costs into your price to include your product.


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[Assistant] If you're charging $45 for your product and it only costs you $10 to make this,


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[Assistant] There's $35 margins for you to play around with so you can actually include delivery fees


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[Assistant] That is completely free for your customers because you're making so much money off this one sale.


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[Assistant] Now it is your turn. Choose the right fulfillment method for your food business. And if you're interested in third party apps, check out Grubhub's profit calculator. So then that way you can figure out


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[Assistant] How much are you going to be able to make and how much are your costs? And once again, the resources is in the link below, go download it and I'll see you guys in the next lesson.


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[Assistant] The room was furnished with a thick twelve-hour candle, rings of dark wax marking the hours. We talked through three of the rings, only letting go of each other's hands to pour wine.


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[Assistant] Or get up to visit the privy stool behind the curtain in the corner.


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[Assistant] Returning for one of these trips, Jamie yawned and stretched. It is awfully late, I said, getting up to. Maybe we should go to bed. All right, he said, rubbing the back of his neck. To bed? Or to sleep?


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[Assistant] He cocked a quizzical eyebrow and the corner of his mouth twitched.


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[Assistant] In truth, I had been feeling so comfortable with him that I had almost forgotten why we were there. At his words, I suddenly felt a hollow panic. Well, I said faintly, either way you're no intending to sleep in your gown, are you? He asked in his usual practical manner. Well, no, I suppose not.


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[Assistant] In fact, during the rush of events, I hadn't even thought about a sleeping garment, which I didn't possess in any case. I had been sleeping in my chemise, or nothing, depending on the weather. Jamie had nothing but the clothes he wore. He was plainly going to sleep in his shirt, or naked.


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[Assistant] A state of affairs which was likely to bring matters rapidly to a head. Well then, come here, and I'll help you with the laces and such.


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[Assistant] His hands did in fact tremble briefly as he began to undress me. He lost some of his self consciousness though.


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[Assistant] In the struggle with the dozens of tiny hooks that attach the bodice. Ha! he said, in triumph, as the last one came loose, and we laughed together. Now, let me do you, I said, deciding that there was no point in further delay. I reached up and unfastened his shirt, sliding my hands inside and across his shoulders. I brought my palms slowly down across his chest,


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[Assistant] As I knelt down to unbuckle the studded belt around his hips. If it must be sometime, it may as well be now, I thought.


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[Assistant] And deliberately ran my hands up the length of his thighs, hard and lean under his kilt.


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[Assistant] Though by this time I knew perfectly well what most Scotsmen wore beneath the kilt. Nothing. It was still something of a shock to find only Jamie.


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[Assistant] He lifted me to my feet then, and bent his head to kiss me. It went on a long while.


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[Assistant] And his hands roamed downward, finding the fastening of my petticoat.


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[Assistant] It fell to the floor in a billow of starched flounces, leaving me in my chemise. Where did you learn to kiss like that? I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again. I said I was a virgin, not a monk, he said, kissing me again. If I find I need guidance, I'll ask.


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[Assistant] He pressed me firmly to him, and I could feel that he was more than ready to get on with the business at hand.


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[Assistant] With some surprise, I realized that I was ready too.


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[Assistant] In fact, whether it was the result of the late hour, the wine, his own attractiveness, or simple deprivation, I wanted him quite badly.


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[Assistant] I pulled his shirt loose at the waist and ran my hands up over his chest, circling his nipples with my thumbs. They grew hard in a second, and he crushed me suddenly against his chest. Oof, I said, struggling for breath. He let go, apologising. No. Don't worry. Kiss me again. He did.


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[Assistant] This time slipping the straps of the chemise down over my shoulders.


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[Assistant] He drew back slightly, cupping my breasts and rubbing my nipples as I had done his. I fumbled with the buckle that held his kilt.


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[Assistant] His fingers guided mine, and the clasp sprang free.


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[Assistant] I put my hands behind his neck and pulled him down on top of me. I guided him to the slippery cleft between my legs.


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[Assistant] Said James Fraser, who never took the name of his lord in vain. Don't stop now, I said.


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[Assistant] Apparently I had come upon the end of the confrontation between Dougal's men and Randall's dragoons. Spotting the English bearing down on them.


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[Assistant] Dougal had sent half his men around a thicket, driving the cattle before them.


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[Assistant] While the rest of the Scots had hidden among the saplings, ready to ambush the English as they came by.


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[Assistant] Jamie said in approval, we popped out at them and rode straight through them yelling.


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[Assistant] They took after us, of course, and we led them a canty chase uphill and through burns and over rocks and such.


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[Assistant] And all the while the rest of Dougal's men were making off over the border with a kine.


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[Assistant] We lost the lobster-backs then, and then up at the cottage where I first saw ye, waiting for darkness to slip out. I see, I said. Why did you come back to Scotland in the first place, though? I should have thought you'd be much safer in France. He opened his mouth to reply, then reconsidered, sipping wine.


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[Assistant] Apparently I was getting near the edge of his own area of secrecy. Well, that's a long story, Sassenach, he said, avoiding the issue. I'll tell you later. But for now, what about you? Will you tell me about your own family? If you feel you can, of course, he added hastily. I thought for a moment.


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[Assistant] But there really seemed little risk in telling him about my parents and Uncle Lam.


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[Assistant] There was, after all, some advantage to Uncle Lam's choice of profession.


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[Assistant] A scholar of antiquities made as much or as little sense in the 18th century as in the 20th. So I told him.


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[Assistant] Omitting only such minor details as automobiles and airplanes, and of course, the war.


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[Assistant] As I talked, he listened intently, asking questions now and then, expressing sympathy at my parents' death, and interest in Uncle Lamb and his discoveries. And then I met Frank, I finished up.


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[Assistant] I paused, not sure how much more I could say, without getting into dangerous territory. Luckily, Jamie saved me. And ye did soon not talk about him right now, he said, understandingly. I nodded, wordless, my vision blurring a little. Jamie let go of the hand he had been holding, and putting an arm around me, pulled my head gently down on his shoulder.


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[Assistant] He said, softly stroking my hair, are you tired lass? Shall I leave you to your sleep?


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[Assistant] But I felt that that would be both unfair and cowardly. I cleared my throat and sat up, shaking my head. No, I said, taking a deep breath. He smelled faintly of soap and wine. I'm all right. Tell me, tell me what games you used to play, when you were a boy.


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[Assistant] Here's another song from the plotters to all of you.


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[Assistant] Uh, that sounds good.


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[Assistant] Yes, I only need one trophy. Hans-Henrik Kirsner's head on a pole.


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[Assistant] Like, for example.


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[Assistant] I'll sell it to him. Then I'll come back in a week.


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[Assistant] He frowned, choosing his words slowly. Randall's face was...


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[Assistant] Intent, I suppose you'd say, and sort of light it up.


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[Assistant] Like when a man is looking at a lass he's soft on, if you know what I mean.


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[Assistant] It was as though we were doing something much worse to Jimmy than just skinning him alive.


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[Assistant] The blood was running down the lad's legs by the fifteenth stroke.


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[Assistant] But the Corporal and Sergeant Major each caught him by an arm and kinda steadied him till he could keep his feet. He was shaking worse than ever from shock and cold.


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[Assistant] But his head was up, and his eyes blazing. I could see it from twenty feet away.


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[Assistant] He keeps his eyes fixed on Randall while they help him off the platform leaving bloody footprints.


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[Assistant] Watching Randall is the only thing keeping him on his feet. Randall's face was almost as white as Jimmy's.


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[Assistant] And his eyes were locked with the lads as though either of them would fall down if he took his eyes away.


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[Assistant] Dougal's own eyes were fixed, still seeing the eerie scene.


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[Assistant] Except for the faint rush of wind through the leaves of the rowan tree. I closed my eyes and listened to it for some time.


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[Assistant] I dipped a hand in the spring again, and applied the cool water to my temples.


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[Assistant] I thought it might serve as what you may call a character illustration. Of Randall! I uttered a short, mirthless laugh.


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[Assistant] He emphasized the word sarcastically, from the good captain.


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[Assistant] Orders to do what? I ask, agitated feeling increasing.


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[Assistant] To produce the person of an English subject, one Clare Beecham by name, at Fort William on Monday the 18th of June. Requestioning.


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[Assistant] I must have looked truly alarming, for he jumped to his feet and came over to me.


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[Assistant] Put your head between your knees, lass," he instructed, pushing on the back of my neck, till the faintness passes off. I know what to do, I said irritably, doing it nonetheless.


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[Assistant] I closed my eyes, feeling the ebbing blood begin to throb in my temples again.


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[Assistant] The clammy sensation around my face and ears began to disappear, though my hands were still icy. I concentrated on breathing properly.


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[Assistant] Dougal had resumed his seat on the stone coping and was waiting patiently.


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[Assistant] Watching to be sure that I didn't fall backward into the spring. There's a way out of it, he said abruptly. The only one I can see. Lead me to it, I said, with an unconvincing attempt at a smile. Very well then. He sat forward, leaning toward me to explain.


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[Assistant] Randall's the right to take you for questioning because you're a subject of the English Crown. Well then, we must change that.


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[Assistant] Do you celebrate? Do you have a big party for your birthday? Yeaah, I'm turning, I'm turning 26 and, uh,


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, so we're gonna have like a little Hawaiian luau, cause why the hell not? Yeaah, why not? A Hawaiian luau, huh?


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[Assistant] I uhm, actually for my 24th, two years ago, and I'd been planning this since I was 16 years old, because I heard of a friend having a 24 hour party when they turned 24, and I remember just being like, oh my god, I can't wait to be 24, this is going to be the best idea ever. So I had a 24 hour party on my 24th birthday.


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[Assistant] We started at 9 a.m. And you go to what, Denny's?


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[Assistant] And, uh, we broke it up with costume changes so that it was, you know, everyone could keep going.


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[Assistant] We started off with like western themes, so a lot of cowboys running around. Okay. So we had, yeah, champagne, breakfast in the courtyard, then we went to Hyde Park in London and we were running around there playing games and then we needed some sustenance so we went to Five Guys, at which point we hadn't- The burger place? Yeah. Okay, alright. Yeah, burgers. Because it was my birthday and I loved it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then we ended up at, you know, far more progressively filthier and filthier bars until at 9am we, full circle, ended up back in our courtyard, popped another bottle of champagne.


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[Assistant] To be honest, I mix it up. I, you know, know your audience, so, uh, you know, feel the mood of the crowd. I see. Maybe Total Eclipse of the Heart is, you know, appropriate at some time, and Bon Jovi's more appropriate at others. I mean, you don't know, so.


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[Assistant] Not a bad place to have your birthday, for sure, but it just so happened that the day we were shooting, like what we were shooting that day was the scene where I'm like getting dressed into my Harley costume, so I was really worried about like, you know, having to be taking a top on and off in the scene. In your birthday suit.


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[Assistant] At lunchtime they surprised me with like this ginormous cake and I was like,


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[Assistant] I mean I'm holding out to get this scene over and done with, like I'm trying not to like eat badly until this scene's done. And so I waited and they kept pushing the scene until it got to like 6pm at night and I was like...


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[Assistant] Uh, that comes out 5th of August. I hope I'm not getting this wrong. And uh, Tarzan comes out 1st of July. So the day before my birthday.


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[Assistant] I had my birthday on set of Tarzan 2. The 24 hour party was that week.


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[Assistant] It wouldn't amuse me. Don't you care if I starve? Why on earth should I? What's so funny?


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[Assistant] He used to beat me regularly. I'd be black and blue all over for days at a time. He was a man. I cried when he died.


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[Assistant] That's how you feel, and there's something I want to say to you. You've got no money, and you can't keep a job more than a month. What you need is a woman to look after you. A man of your years should settle down. What do you say to marrying Arthur? It's time she settled down too. She's got a bit of property down by Taravao, and with corporate the price that it is, you could live quite comfortably. There's a house, and you could have all the time you wanted for your painting. Now what do you say to that?


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[Assistant] The islanders could hardly wait to get out of their clothes for the wedding feast, which we set out in a grove near Atta's house.


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[Assistant] They live in every ocean, traveling the high seas from their polar feeding grounds to the tropics where they breed.


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[Assistant] A huge public outcry finally led to a ban on commercial whaling in 1986.


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[Assistant] Two thousand dollars? But what on earth for?


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[Assistant] Yes indeed. As a matter of fact, we were more than just friends. I used to be Mrs. Carrington.


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[Assistant] Oh, that foamy. Why, she's no more of a countess than I am. I met her in show business before I met you. She went by the name of Lolly Lorraine.


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[Assistant] You know, it was Claude's. He bought it back from the Orient and when he got home he had it cut down and gave it to me. There's, uh, quite an oriental legend connected with it though.


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[Assistant] If the children are not in bed, the horse is stabled, and my supper ready within the hour, I will have you flogged and turned out.


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[Assistant] Have you been a ladies maid before?


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[Assistant] No. Leave me here. I have no interest in your little intrigues.


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[Assistant] William, can I trust you?


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[Assistant] I know, or I can guess what has been happening here. What I do not know is what I should do.


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[Assistant] The poor thing. But she must be used to child bearing by now.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, I've heard about the Frenchman. So tell me, why is it so difficult for you to catch one man?


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[Assistant] My father lost a Cromwell also. His house was burned.


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[Assistant] They're waiting for you, you know. Godolphin and his friends.


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[Assistant] He said men would swear their loyalty to James at dinner and to William at breakfast. His world turned upside down, but he stayed true.


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[Assistant] I'm bound to the people I betray.


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[Assistant] I do not know. I am not privy to my servant's ailments.


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[Assistant] What? When? Tomorrow. I will shut up the house and then return myself.


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[Assistant] They say you could get out of here by merely telling what you know.


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[Assistant] They're building a scaffold of horses I can watch.


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[Assistant] It's lovely, dear. And only one pound. We can get at least three for it. Easily. I'll go make some tea. I could do with a cup. Right.


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[Assistant] Are you sure this is all you have? I'm sorry. They're rather hard to find, you know. That's our entire allotment. I did have one other, but I sold it earlier this afternoon.


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[Assistant] All to talk to Saints rookie Jake Hayner after he got drafted by the team in the fourth round. Huge fan of yours, wore the number nine in college, uh, and just seems to have that same kind of moxie, that, that attitude and that makeup.


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[Assistant] I should really like to conclude these preliminaries and arrange for the continuation of my journey. I've already been delayed for some time and


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[Assistant] You do not help your case by adopting this frivolous attitude, madam," he interrupted, narrowing his eyes. I had seen Frank do that when displeased about something, and I felt a little weak in the knees. I put my hands on my thighs to brace myself.


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[Assistant] I'm making no claims on you, the garrison, or for that matter, on the Mackenzies.


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[Assistant] All I want is to be allowed to resume my journey in peace.


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[Assistant] And I see no reason why you ought to have any objection to that.


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[Assistant] He glared at me, lips pressed tight together in irritation.


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[Assistant] A month ago, I was, with my men, in hot pursuit of a band of unidentified Scottish bandits who had absconded with a small herd of cattle from an estate near the border when, oh, so that's what they were doing, I exclaimed. I wondered, I added lamely.


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[Assistant] Captain Randall breathed heavily, then decided against whatever he'd been going to say in favour of continuing his story.


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[Assistant] In the midst of this lawful pursuit he went on in measured tones.


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[Assistant] I encounter a half-dressed English woman in a place where no English woman should be, even with a proper escort.


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[Assistant] Who resists my inquiries assaults my person. You assaulted mine first? I said hotly.


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[Assistant] Who's accomplice renders me unconscious by a cowardly attack, and who then flees the area plainly with some assistance.


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[Assistant] My men and I searched that area most thoroughly, and I assure you, madam, there was no trace of your murdered servant, your plundered baggage, your discarded gown.


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[Assistant] Furthermore, there have been no reports of bandits in that area within the last four months. And now, madam,


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[Assistant] You turn up in company with the Warchieftain of Clan Mackenzie.


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[Assistant] Who tells me that his brother Column is convinced you are a spy, presumably working for me.


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[Assistant] Sure. Even if this sounds really weird, will you promise me that you will remember?


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[Assistant] I just wanted you to be a kid. Just for a little while longer.


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[Assistant] So my old life is just coming after me or something, you know, like, like it doesn't want me to be happy. Of course I know what you'd say. Well, not that you've played softball, but... He said, go hunt the gin. They put you here, it can put you back. Your happiness for all those people's lives, no contest. Right?


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[Assistant] But why? Why isn't my job to save these people?


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[Assistant] It's all gonna kill you. And what am I supposed to do?


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[Assistant] People build churches for you. They fight wars in your name. And you did nothing.


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[Assistant] Ravna knew that under his bluster, Blue Shell was at least as much a warrior as she. Worse, he was a nitpicker.


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[Assistant] The next time Ravana asked him about their progress, he retreated into technicalities. Finally, Ravana broke in. Look!


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[Assistant] The kid is sitting on something that just might blow the blight sky high, and all he has are bows and arrows. How long will it be till we get down there, Blue Shell? Blue Shell rolled nervously back and forth across the ceiling.


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[Assistant] The Scrooge Riders had reaction jets. They could maneuver in free fall more adroitly than most humans.


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[Assistant] Instead they used stick patches and rolled around on the walls.


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[Assistant] In a way it was kind of cute. Just now it was irritating. At least they could talk.


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[Assistant] She glanced across the bridge to where Fam Nguyen sat facing the bridge's main display.


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[Assistant] Ship's surgeon had even replaced the muscle mass that Old One's communication equipment had usurped.


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[Assistant] Fam could rest and feed himself now, but he still lived in a private dream world.


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[Assistant] The two riders twittered at each other. It was Greenstock who finally answered her question.


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[Assistant] Truly we're not sure how long. The quality of the beyond changes as we descend. Each jump is taking us a fraction longer than the one before.


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[Assistant] Blue shell extended a tendril from ceiling to floor. He diddled with the matte corrugations for a second, and then his voter made a sound of human embarrassment.


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[Assistant] Ordinarily, you would be correct, my Lady Ravna, but this is a special case. For one thing, it appears that the zones themselves are in flux. What?


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[Assistant] It's not that unheard of. Small shifts are going on all the time. That's a major purpose for bottom lugger ships, to track the changes. We're having the bad luck to run through the middle of the uncertainty.


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[Assistant] Actually, Ravna had known that interface turbulence was high at the bottom below here. She just didn't think of it in grandiose terms like zone shifting. She also hadn't realized it was serious enough to affect them yet.


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[Assistant] Okay, how bad can it get, then? How much can it slow us? Oh my! Blue shell rolled to the far wall. He was standing on starry sky now. It would be nice to be a lesser, Scrooge Rider. So many problems my high calling brings me. I wish I could be deep in surf right now, thinking on olden memories of other days in the surf. Green star carried on for him. It's not the tide. How high can it rise?


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[Assistant] This storm, how bad can it get? Right now, it is worse than anything in this region during the last thousand years. However, we have been following the local news. Most agree that the storm has peaked. If our other problem gets no worse, we should arrive in about 120 days. Our other problem.


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[Assistant] Ravna drifted to the center of the bridge and strapped onto a saddle.


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[Assistant] You're talking about the damage we took getting out of Relay.


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[Assistant] The ultra drive's spines, right? How are they holding up?


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[Assistant] Considering all their other problems, there was no point in contemplating possibilities beyond their control.


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[Assistant] Back on relay, this had looked like a 30 or 40 day trip. Now...


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[Assistant] The boy in the well might have to be brave for a long time yet, no matter how much she wished otherwise. Hmm. Time for plan B, then. Time for what someone like Fam Nguyen might suggest. She pushed off the floor and settled by Greenstalk.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, the best we can plan on is 120 days. If the zone surge gets worse, or if we have to get repairs, get repairs where? That might be only a delay, not an impossibility.


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[Assistant] The rebuilt OOB was supposed to be repairable even in the low beyond. Maybe even 200 days.


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[Assistant] She glanced a blue shell but he didn't interrupt with his usual amendments and qualifications.


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[Assistant] You both read the messages we're getting from the boy. He says the locals are going to be overrun. Probably in less than 100 days.


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[Assistant] Somehow we have to help him before we actually arrive there.


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[Assistant] Greenstalk rattled her fronds in a way Ravna took for puzzlement.


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[Assistant] She looked across the deck at Fam and raised her voice a trifle. Hey you, you should be an expert on this.


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[Assistant] You scrolled writers may not recognize it, but this is a problem that's been seen a million times in the slow zone.


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[Assistant] Civilizations are separated by years, centuries of travel time. They fall into dark ages. They become just as primitive as the pack creatures, these tines.


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[Assistant] Then they get visited from the outside. In a short time they have technology back again.


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[Assistant] Pham's head did not turn. He just looked out across the starscape. The scrolled riders rattled at each other, then...


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[Assistant] And besides, there's nothing to rebuild on the Tines world, according to the child. This is a world without antecedents.


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[Assistant] How long does it take to start a new civilization from scratch? Ravna waved a hand at the objections.


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[Assistant] Don't stop me. I'm on a roll. That's not the point. We are in communication with them. We have a good general library on board. Original inventors don't know where they're going. They're groping in the dark. Even the archaeologist engineers of Nijora had to reinvent much. But we know everything about making airplanes and such. We know hundreds of ways of going at it.


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[Assistant] Now faced with necessity, Ravna was suddenly sure they could do it.


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[Assistant] We can study all the development paths, eliminate the dead ends. Even more, we can find the quickest way to go from medieval to specific inventions. Things that can beat whatever barbarians are attacking Jeffrey's friends.


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[Assistant] Ravna's speech tumbled to a stop. She stared, grinning, first at Greenstalk and then at Blue Shell. But a silent Scrooge Rider is one of the universe's more impassive audiences. It was hard even to tell if they were looking at her.


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[Assistant] After a moment Greenstalk said, yes, I see. And rediscovery being so common in the slow zone, most of this may already be worked out in the ship's library.


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[Assistant] That's when it happened. Fam turned from the window. He looked across the deck at Ravna and the riders. For the first time since relay, he spoke.


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[Assistant] Even more, the words weren't nonsense, though it took her a moment to understand. Guns and radios, he said. Ah, yes, she looked back at him. Think of something to make him say more. Why those in particular? Fam knew and shrugged. It worked on Canberra.