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[Assistant] That they had several opportunities to win that game. He was coaching too conservatively and we had, uh, what was the other coach name? Uh, McVeigh. McVeigh was going forward on fourth downs.


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[Assistant] And coach Peyton said he coached too conservatively in that matchup.


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[Assistant] Remember there was a touchdown dropped in the game. There was a touchdown dropped by Dan Arnold in the end zone in that playoff game. Let's see when you.


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[Assistant] Start talking about that and say, well, the rep, the guy rent. Yeah, it was a bad, no call. We know that, but the saints.


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[Assistant] They had several opportunities to win that game and always talk about had a shirt. Y'all put one in the chat. If y'all remember the shirt that I had brung out.


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[Assistant] It was called, uh, damn, I forgot it was a, it was, uh, uh, uh, what was it? I forgot what it was that we didn't.


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[Assistant] That their call didn't blow the game or something like that. Y'all remember the shirt that I had and I had, it was a cartoon version of Dan Arnold dropping the ball.


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[Assistant] Cause he, they threw, he, he threw it and he dropped the ball in the end zone.


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[Assistant] If he had caught that ball, the Saints would have held on to the lead and won that game and would have advanced. The Saints and Sean Payton said it. He said the Saints is the reason why they lost that game because he coached too conservatively and they blew several opportunities in the game, including that botched drop touchdown by Dan Arnold, the tight end at the time. So that was a good one. Thank you for that.


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[Assistant] It says 612, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness, of the age, and against spiritual hosts of wickedness.


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[Assistant] We wrestle not against flesh and blood. So you ain't fighting the man across the street.


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[Assistant] Looking at him saying that dude is like that because such and such, he's just a jerk. Nah, man.


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[Assistant] A lot like I've been saying, I'm going to cover it. I don't want to talk about it more on this show because it's a football show and people kind of, you know, I know we talking life and all, but man, it's something.


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[Assistant] And Black Preacher, man, maybe you could touch on that too in your sermon, my brother, about that, man. Spirit having that, uh, my mother called it, uh, spiritual armor. You know?


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[Assistant] Spirit armor. Remember Solomon, man? I was reading the story of Solomon. And Solomon was, man, let me tell you, man. I just been, I just get these. Solomon was like,


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[Assistant] The wisest king ever. Remember, Solomon was the one that chose knowledge over the money. He was given a choice which you want the treasury or you want the knowledge. He chose the knowledge. Well,


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[Assistant] By doing that, he ultimately got everything anyway because he got the knowledge of how to, you know, get the treasure or whatnot.


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[Assistant] Very wise man. Solomon man had the ability.


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[Assistant] I remember reading stories about Solomon, man, like a lot of the, the Latin story came from him because he was the one that captured, they had, they call these demons, they call them gens, the most powerful demons.


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[Assistant] Or call gents, he would capture them and put them in bottles.


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[Assistant] These genies, these genies is another word for jinn, powerful demonic spirit. And Solomon, they feared Solomon.


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[Assistant] I was seeing all the things Solomon would make these demons do. He would make them build structures and all this kind of stuff. But I remember, uh,


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[Assistant] Solomon breastplate and all the stuff he used to wear with the, uh, the, uh, the jewels and the crystals that he used to, uh, that he would wear. And he had this, this armor that they spoke about with the, you know, the breastplate. Y'all, y'all, y'all, my brothers and sisters know what I'm talking about. And he knew, and man, listen, man, it's just so much.


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[Assistant] But right now, a lot of our young people, man, they just think it's a buncha.


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[Assistant] Uh, the old people stuff. I don't know what they thinking, but y'all telling y'all.


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[Assistant] It's not mental illness out here like they pushing it, man. That's, that's, that's demons running, man. Ain't nobody gonna go shoot no dollar general up. Uh, there are some people that they don't know and he crazy. Nah, no, no, bro.


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[Assistant] No, it's more than that. More than that fam. But anyway, thank y'all, man. Appreciate y'all.


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[Assistant] All right, uh, big ups to the fam, man. Listen, man, I appreciate that. Derek, thank you for that, man.


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[Assistant] Appreciate y'all. Go back, yeah Trent, go back and go look up the Sean Payton. Sean Payton said that. That's not Big Q saying that. Sean Payton said that.


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[Assistant] The post game press conference for that NFC championship game. Go back and listen to it. If you can stand it. Sean Payton blamed.


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[Assistant] The Saints because they blew several opportunities during the game, including the drop touchdown play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was a bad no call, but you shouldn't have been in that position. That is the idea of what we saying. What Sean Payton is saying. We shouldn't have been coming down waiting for the referees. And then truth be told, from a historical standpoint, the referees always burn you. So what you count on them to help you.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, Coach Payton was saying, and I agree with what he said after the game. It's like, listen, this is on us. You know, I was too conservative in my coaching.


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[Assistant] And then he said, we blew, it was opportunities. We were just out there, not execute.


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[Assistant] Like I, and I'll throw it to you to touch, if they, if the, if Dan Arnold catches that touchdown pass in that championship game, the Saints go on to win. They go on.


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[Assistant] He dropped it and people just forget all about the drop touchdown pass in the NFC championship game because the no call was so dominating that they just went with that.


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[Assistant] That's why I was like, hold on, pump your bricks on that, man. We that, don't you remember that guy dropped that touchdown pass if you'd have called it, you were the one.


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[Assistant] But you know, we shouldn't have been in that position is what I'm saying. Black, uh, black future man says just a little something in the Kalei.


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[Assistant] Thank you brother, uh, black preacher man. Uh, rich rules. Thank you sir says cute. Will, will shadow coach Chucky be on the sidelines? I don't think in this one, bro, I don't think, uh, I'm not certain to be honest with you bro on whether or not he'll be there in, uh, for.


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[Assistant] Uh, this, he might not be in the, the, uh, coaching, you know, on the sideline. He might be in the Saints press box. You never know.


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[Assistant] You know, he can come in and watch the game like a spectator. He's not a member of the team.


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[Assistant] So he wants, he loves to be around the team. So I wouldn't be surprised if coach Chucky was somewhere in the building. The Saints are not afraid of Chucky.


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[Assistant] They're not, they're really not afraid of him. So they got him roaming around there. And like we said in October.


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[Assistant] Is coach Chucky's court date with the NFL. So once all that gets settled out, he can go wherever the hell he want to go. You know, we're going to see.


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[Assistant] All right. So anyway, with that being said, man, yeah, there you go. He says gave up a fake punt to the Rams too. Thank you, Slim. I appreciate all the family members that remember this stuff. So I don't just be sitting up here. People's be saying to me, Oh man, cute man, you trippin'. Man, you trippin'. Everybody knows.


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[Assistant] Usually when you drop touchdown passes in NFC championship games, you must don't want to win the damn game.


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[Assistant] Did he drop it or not? True or false? Oh well, he... Yeah, he did. He dropped it.


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[Assistant] Aight, what's up Kelvin, shout out to you man. Much love, bro. Aight, so anyway, with that being said, man.


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[Assistant] And they can't dispute it and they be like, they begrudgingly give you the point.


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[Assistant] Be like, he say something, they kind of bite on their lip. Now.


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[Assistant] Oh, I guess. You know, that type of, you know what bro, keep.


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[Assistant] It was that damn hard to get it out, man. You might as well keep it. Keep it then. Keep it. Keep it. Keep it.


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[Assistant] Alright Josh, what's up Josh? Shout out to you bro, appreciate you. Big Sean, how you doing sir?


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[Assistant] They said, I remember that down on a play like it was five minutes ago. Key play, you drop a touchdown pass and an NFC south, I mean, NFC championship game, NFC championship game. The saints win that game. They go to the Superbowl.


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[Assistant] You go to the Super Bowl, Dan Arnold dropped the touchdown pass. He dropped it in the game. He did. So when that happened.


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[Assistant] Where it's just, it, it sits in my mind, man, about how to play. And I, I just remember, I'm like, hold on, that's not how it goes. Because they'll push it. Like, they were.


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[Assistant] Push in that narrative, they didn't say, okay, Sean Payton, you was, you did this, that I would usually do that. And then I would be seen as contrary to.


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[Assistant] The overall thought process of the people going because they went with it.


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[Assistant] It just went, oh man, that's a shame. And they just totally forgot about Dan Alder dropping the touchdown pass.


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[Assistant] But I was the one saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that guy dropped that touchdown pass in the NFC championship game. That guy over there, he dropped the pass.


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[Assistant] I guess. Nah, ain't no guess about it, man. The man dropped the damn touchdown pass in the FC Chopper Championship game, and you telling me about this no-call? What a referee cue. He was the one responsible.


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[Assistant] But not making the call. It's all on him. No, no, no, no. Sean Payton said it was the saints fault and he was too conservative.


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[Assistant] And McVeigh was going for it on fourth down, he was going for it on third downs and all that. Even it was fourth and one, Sean McVeigh was going for it.


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[Assistant] And he played not to lose the game and coach Peyton played to lose the game. McVay was more aggressive. You know what that old saying about fortune favors the bowl and boy did it do it. But we should not have been in the situation where we needed that to happen for the referees to bail you out.


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[Assistant] The only time you're in a situation where the referee's gotta bail you out is you not handling your business.


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[Assistant] That's the only time when that happens with you're in a situation where you're not handling your business. I a ref, ref, I'm going to need you to help me out over here. Uh, you see, uh, I overslept and, uh,


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[Assistant] I spilled some oil in my, you know, in my dinner and imma need you to help me out with that.


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[Assistant] Nah, no bro, no. Take care of your business, brother. Handle your business, brother.


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[Assistant] But anyway, with that being said, listen, man, I appreciate y'all kindly, man. Thank y'all for letting me talk at y'all. Shout out to Mr. Titan, man. He popped up here for the Tennessee, from the Tennessee Titan. He's a super cool dude. Hope y'all subscribe to his channel. I'll be popping up on his stream. Uh, I will let you guys know it probably be, uh, I don't know, probably, uh,


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[Assistant] Sunday night, if not Sunday, it'll probably be Monday or something. I'll let you guys know what's going on with that.


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[Assistant] No Molly mall, none of that going on. That'll be going on tomorrow, brother. Let me tell you something.


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[Assistant] We ain't gonna be doing that. We ain't gonna have no clam chowder and orange juice over here, Mickey. We ain't gonna be doing that.


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[Assistant] Get that clam chowder and orange juice. Uh, keep you regular. I bet it does. Big Sean says Payton should have called plays like he did. Yeah. And coach Payton that he regretted that. Cause I remember when he was talking about that later on.


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[Assistant] He talked about it right after the game and he spoke about it. He said that, uh, the Rams deserved to win because of they were playing to win.


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[Assistant] And then the, cause the emotional aspect of it calmed down and then he gave you the game.


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[Assistant] But I was watching the game at the same time and that's why I said I didn't let, even though I was mad about the play happening in the no call, because it was so viciously wrong.


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[Assistant] That we just got blown away with the emotion of it and then we not going back into the game.


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[Assistant] And saying, hold on, look at this play here, look at this play there. Drop touchdown pass by Dan Arnold. He catches the ball, you win the game. That's how close the game was.


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[Assistant] But anyway, with that being said, new season, new things, right? All right. Ram says Q, uh, which home games? I don't know, bro. I'm at the, we're going to figure it out, bro. We got a few things going on. Like I said, I got some live pot and to do with you guys, man, that we're going to be.


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[Assistant] Working on, I'm working on some particulars right now, man, on some live pods, man, to let y'all guys know. That would be.


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[Assistant] Real soon, been working on a lot of stuff, man. I've been just so busy, man, with the websites and everything else that I've been doing on the side, man. Y'all gonna be proud of your boy, man. I'm putting in a lot of work, bro. Like I said, thorough, man, but it's all because of you guys.


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[Assistant] My youtube membership family members, my patreon champions, all of you guys and your financial, uh, uh, uh, you know, support and everything to the platform. And y'all just, y'all like, y'all put the, y'all put a battery in my back to drive me to keep on doing.


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[Assistant] In doing great things and great things and just try to make y'all, uh, be proud of me. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Try to make my, the who that nation, my black, my great Saint Tain family members proud of your boy. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm trying to do. But anyway, with that being said, I'm gonna get out on that, man. I'm gonna pop up again. Listen.


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[Assistant] We're going to have a pop-a-que popping up on the.


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[Assistant] You know, he'll be on the, we'll get him for the preview, but definitely for the recap of the games too. So y'all be checking that out too, man. Really cool.


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[Assistant] Having my pops join me on that, uh, on the show. He really enjoyed it. I know you guys loved him being in there. I've seen a lot of the comments. Everybody was really happy about that, man. So y'all be looking at that down the line.


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[Assistant] And listen fam, we'll see you at another day, family tomorrow. I'm going to be doing the ring Kings box. I know I said that.


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[Assistant] But Friday fam, I got a lot going on. My schedule's a little bit better on Saturday.


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[Assistant] We'll be doing a Reign Kings Boxing. I know Kay been asking about it. My dog Slim been asking about it. I got y'all tomorrow. We're going to do a Reign Kings Boxing. Y'all hit y'all notifications for that as well. Tough Tiger Talk will be in the building as well. Mozzie will be recapping the LSU matchup against Grambling that's going on. We'll talk a little bit about Tulane. They got Ole Miss.


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[Assistant] Uh, down here as well. So a lot of good college football coming into this thing as well. And then of course, Sunday will be all day with the Saints. So I'm gonna holler at y'all on the flip side. Much love to the fam. Hoot that and I'm out.


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[Assistant] That's right, the Pro Shop is the platform store where you can go and buy all the latest merch to support the platform.


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[Assistant] Ooh, what? Oh, let's see, that's a good thing. I think I have a button.


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[Assistant] Nope. Don't see that one. I'll look if I can find it for you.


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[Assistant] You know what's funny? Is that if you leave that there, you can see how dirty


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[Assistant] And then I have to go back over here and I'm gonna-


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[Assistant] This is so you know if you're coming back in time where the color wheel is.


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[Assistant] I imagine around the time the Cholosaurus was coming around, there was another purple dinosaur that kinda had the corner on purple and dinosaurs.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm just trying to go through and catch some of them. Like, what does Siri's number mean?


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[Assistant] Now when you're talking about mixing these paints, you're not always talking about mixing in equal parts to get them. It's, it's, there's a gradient to get to some of like, if you, if, like right now, if you mix just a little bit of blue into the orange, that yellow orange, you're gonna get that kind of weird green, depending on how much you mix.


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[Assistant] And if, if you were looking on our website for primary lessons, that wouldn't necessarily be a concern because you've got a bunch coming up, right?


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[Assistant] When you're starting out here mixing, it's really hard to know what proportions of paint to start with. So Starling was just, uh, just asking, should you start mixing colors half and half and then adjust? Do you dip your toe in? How do you do it?


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[Assistant] Put that down here, actually I'll put that back up here for right now.


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[Assistant] I maybe, so we're going to go after this. We're going to, you're going to demo some of this.


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[Assistant] And you may need to watch this a couple of times because you're going to be introduced to new concepts that you're immediately thrown in to use. So you may have to watch it a couple of times to understand those inter workings.


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[Assistant] When would, when can we talk about how do you know when, how do you discover the bias of a color?


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[Assistant] Again, that's where you get that army green vs seed green.


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[Assistant] So you can, you can like go check it out. You don't have to discover.


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[Assistant] This is, this is intense, and it does divide the girls from the women. It's like, you know when you got this.


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[Assistant] You need more than this. You need. Let me see if I can.


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[Assistant] I wanna, look, there's triadic and square.


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[Assistant] Now if you've got specific color mixing questions, we can try to get those in the after show.


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[Assistant] Looking for your first color wheel? I think that ColorSaurus is a good place to start.


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[Assistant] Now this seems like really kind of advanced concepts, but it's kind of important to know these, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Now learning, and learning these biases in this weird kind of, uh, color talk will help you understand the


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[Assistant] Paint making it harder for you, not your skills making it harder for you.


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[Assistant] And that's one of those things where you can discover, hey, I was trying to get this one color this one way, but I found out there's this totally other way to get it better.


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[Assistant] You wanna make some, some tertiary colors. Look at that, that's what you're looking for. Some tertiary.


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[Assistant] Oh, Kelly was like, I was just looking through your playlist and what does BAQ mean? Hmm?


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[Assistant] On your playlists, you have a bunch of stuff that say BAQ.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there'll be, there'll be new shirts, for sure.


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[Assistant] I just thought I'd give them the, this is the part where you can start here. Are we gonna, are we gonna. Oh, I have all the stuff.


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[Assistant] Do you want to let them see that while you're here or do you, they get that on the way out?


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[Assistant] Now for the after show, we're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna go over to Facebook, right?


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[Assistant] That's a pretty good guess. Yeah, I'm gonna go...


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[Assistant] Especially, this one's two locations, right? So that would be worth ten points. This one's also adjacent to some stuff.


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[Assistant] Length, 2 feet 7 inches to 3 feet 7 inches.


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[Assistant] Yes. On the off chance that this guy's like, a foot long, I'm like, yech.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Dodo is a wonderful place to find animal videos. I work specifically for Dodo Kids, so I tell real stories about real people and real animals for kids.


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[Assistant] He is the leader of a band of escaped slaves, every one of them as desperate as he is.


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[Assistant] They roam the deserts attacking caravans and slave markets. That's why your father went to meet him. To offer tribute and protect his subjects.


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[Assistant] As well direct the army to attack Moonlight. Harua strikes and is gone.


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[Assistant] You see, Your Majesty, they are not your guards, but my soldiers. It isn't you who gives the orders. The masquerade is over.


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[Assistant] This, I promise you, we will learn the location of the slave's stronghold. You want protection for your caravans against the raids of Herua? You'll have it once and for all. If you want slaves, when we smash his stronghold, you shall have your fill. It's agreed. We'll support your rule. We have searched the entire city.


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[Assistant] We have nothing to fear from him. Order him freed. You will ride with us?


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[Assistant] No way, that was the one I was done? I was done! Whether I made it or not, I was done! And I fucking made it!


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[Assistant] Healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model.


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[Assistant] Written by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. Read by son, Naomi Kier Schultz. We are on Chapter 7, The Self in Action.


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[Assistant] Sorry that this one took a little bit longer to get out there. I was trying to find a third person to record the three-part interview, but I couldn't, so I figured I'd just go for it. Anyways, enjoy.


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[Assistant] By now, you hopefully have a clear idea what the self is and what it means to be self-led.


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[Assistant] In this chapter I want to take a closer look at how achieving self-leadership affects your life both inside and outside.


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[Assistant] Developmental psychology and attachment theory have helped us understand what children need from their caretakers as they develop.


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[Assistant] IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside.


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[Assistant] In the sense that the client's self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts.


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[Assistant] I was initially amazed to discover that when I was able to help clients access their self, they would spontaneously begin to relate to their parts in the loving way that the textbooks on attachment theory prescribed.


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[Assistant] This was true even for people who had never had good parenting in the first place.


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[Assistant] Not only would they listen to their young exiles with loving attention and hold them patiently while they cried,


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[Assistant] They would firmly but lovingly discipline the parts in the roles of inner critics or distractors.


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[Assistant] Self just knows how to be a good inner leader. So why is this important?


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[Assistant] For one thing, if you can become what I call the primary caretaker of your own parts, then you free intimate partners or therapists, children, parents, etc.


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[Assistant] From the responsibility of taking care of raw and needy exiles.


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[Assistant] Those people then can act as the secondary caretakers of your parts, which is a much more enjoyable and feasible role. Most of us have that reversed.


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[Assistant] Our exiles don't trust ourself and consequently they and the protectors who try to get them to calm down are looking outside of us to get what they need.


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[Assistant] When we encounter a person who resembles the profile exiles have of their ideal protector, redeemer, or lover, they feel elated, infatuated, and relieved.


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[Assistant] Through what's called positive transference, our parts put distorted images on such people who can't help but disappoint those extreme expectations.


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[Assistant] There are actually a number of people leading workshops on self-led parenting. When parents are self-led, they relate.


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[Assistant] To their external children in the same way they do to their internal ones. With patience, calm, clarity, love, firmness, and reassurance.


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[Assistant] I want to briefly revisit the particle wave view of the self I touched on in the previous chapter.


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[Assistant] When it comes to self-inaction, the main takeaway is applying some of those wave-state experiences. Spaciousness, equanimity, well-being, and interconnectedness to our day-to-day lives.


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[Assistant] With that expanded sense of awareness, we are far more likely to have compassion for others because at some level we remember that they are us.


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[Assistant] When we view other people as utterly separate, mono-mind beings, it's hard not to totalize them.


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[Assistant] We objectify them as a narcissist, psychopath, or racist and miss the opportunity to connect with other parts of them.


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[Assistant] When we solidify somebody in a particular way without paying attention to their inner system of exiles and protectors.


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[Assistant] It's much, MUCH harder to keep our heart open and act toward them in an effective way.


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[Assistant] At the time of this writing, our president, Donald Trump, is an example of that for me. Some of my protectors can totalize him and see him


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[Assistant] As one of those diagnostic categories. And if I had the opportunity to meet him, my goal would likely be to shame him into changing, which, because of the way he reacts to attempts to shame him, would totally backfire. But I could do something different entirely.


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[Assistant] If instead I adopted the perspective of multiplicity inherent in IFS, then I could see behind his protectors and know that they're just trying to keep him safe and make him feel better.


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[Assistant] I can have compassion for the man while still feeling upset.


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[Assistant] At the damage his protectors are doing and working to stop them.


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[Assistant] For a few years now, I've been training social activists to lead from self. In my experience, many people are called to become activists because they were badly hurt in the past, carry lots of exiles, and consequently have protectors who don't want anyone else to suffer the way they did.


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[Assistant] We see again and again within environmental organizations, within leftist political groups, the same bullying of underlings, the same power grabs, the same egoic rivalries as we see everywhere else.


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[Assistant] Although we aspire to be self-led at the IFS Institute, we certainly have our own blind spots, and since I'm the leader, many of them reflect my own burdened parts.


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[Assistant] My growing awareness of this dynamic has inspired me to commit to steadily working on myself, as do the members of my training and administrative staff.


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[Assistant] I include this next transcript because it illustrates work with social activists. It also clearly demonstrates many aspects of IFS related to spirituality and the self, which we have only talked about so far.


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[Assistant] Ethan and Sarah Hughes, their real names, are leaders in the living off the grid movement. They embrace a very simple life on a small homestead, living without electricity, using candles at night. They cook and heat their home with a wood stove, keep food cool in a root cellar, and travel via bicycle, and public transportation instead of by car.


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[Assistant] They deliberately live below the poverty line so as to not have to pay income tax. Or, as Ethan puts it, war tax.


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[Assistant] They welcome over 1,500 visitors per year who come to get inspired and learn how they do it.


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[Assistant] In this way, Ethan and Sarah are modeling how it's possible to step away from the frantic, driven pace of our lives and access other parts of ourselves. When people stay with the Hughes family, they are often amazed at how quickly they come to enjoy the sustainable lifestyle that respects and keeps them connected to the Earth.


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[Assistant] Ethan and Sarah had been learning about IFS, but hadn't tried it yet. This was my first encounter with them.


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[Assistant] I was unable to find a third person, so I will be reading two parts, both Richard as well as Sarah, Ethan's wife, and the part of Ethan will be read by Julia Kirst. This interview begins with Ethan speaking.


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[Assistant] Yes, we've both pulled back, and when it happens, we don't talk about it, but the IFS framework is super helpful for us to understand what is happening. We didn't have that tool before.


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[Assistant] So, Sarah, when you sniff the presence of that part of Ethan, what happens inside of you?


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[Assistant] I have some anger that comes up, but that hasn't been safe for me, so I have to silence it.


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[Assistant] There's a silencer part. So I have this silent anger


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[Assistant] And I've also had a dissociative part that can pull me away.


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[Assistant] Or can help me forget about our conflict so that I can open up to him again. Because I have a really tender heart and I like to be open.


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[Assistant] So when his destroyer part comes out, I then go like that. I clamp up in my throat.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, you guys are well ahead of the game in that you already know who the inner players are. So, Ethan, you've got this destroyer of injustice. When Sarah reacts to it like that, what happens inside of you?


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[Assistant] You feel like you shouldn't be with Sarah because you see the damage it does and you don't want to keep inflicting that.


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[Assistant] That's good, stay with that sadness, that's great.


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[Assistant] That's great. Let me pause you for a little bit. Sarah, how was it to hear that?


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[Assistant] I felt especially touched when you said that you want to protect me because you know I love everything so much. So you get it? That that's the intention of that part? Yeah, I know that part.


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[Assistant] It has sometimes been damaging, but it's also one of the reasons I love him.


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[Assistant] So, my inclination is to do a piece of work with that destroyer part. Are you up for that, Ethan?


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[Assistant] So, find that guy in or around your body. The destroyer of injustice. Where do you feel him?


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[Assistant] Let's get the one who's afraid to give us the space to get to know him. That part can go into a separate room. Doesn't need to be a part of this. It can trust you and me to help the destroyer part.


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[Assistant] Yes, totally. Now, how do you feel towards this guy?


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[Assistant] That's right. Let him know that that's your intention.


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[Assistant] And that you do value him and feel gratitude toward him. And just see how he reacts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so let him know that you can understand that it's hard for him to trust what you're saying.


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[Assistant] Because you did shut him down. That makes sense, doesn't it? That he would have trouble trusting you.


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[Assistant] So, we're just going to work on repairing your relationship with him in a similar way to which you just did with Sarah.


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[Assistant] See what he needs to start to trust you again.


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[Assistant] Okay, so what do you say to him about all that?


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[Assistant] Alright, so let it know that there are those parts that aren't thrilled that he can do that to people, so you can understand why it's hard for him to trust you.


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[Assistant] So just let him know that we get how much he cares and how much he really, really wants things to change and improve. How committed he is to that. How we really admire that. How is he doing? How is he reacting?


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[Assistant] Good. That's exactly what we're trying to do, to make it so that he doesn't have to take over all the time, and instead can work with you, and maybe have you speak for him, and see if that sounds okay to him.


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[Assistant] It's hard for him to even indulge in this. Ask him, Ethan, if he protects other parts of you, if he's willing to disclose that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so ask him, if we could go to that part and heal it, so it wasn't feeling that anymore and it felt good, would he be able to relax a little more?


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[Assistant] We're not asking him to change his role at all, we're asking if he'd be willing to relax a little more, and trust you more to speak for him.


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[Assistant] So, tell him if he gives us permission, that's not going to be the outcome.


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[Assistant] Instead, we're going to go to that guy without being overwhelmed by him.


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[Assistant] And we're going to get him out of where he's stuck back there. We're going to unload a lot of the sadness that he carries. See how that appeals to this destroyer guy.


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[Assistant] We really appreciate that, and before we go there, see if there are any other parts that are afraid to let us go to that guy.


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[Assistant] So, focus on that guy curled in a ball, find him in your body or around your body, and how do you feel toward him as you notice him there?


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[Assistant] That's right. So let him know that, that the world is so bad, that he had no choice about it, and see how he reacts to your compassion.


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[Assistant] Good, and how close are you to him in terms of feet away?


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[Assistant] Okay, good. So right now, we're just going to extend this compassion to him until he starts to trust that he's not alone anymore. That you are there.


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[Assistant] Without his dad. So, let him know we get how much he needs his dad. Just let him know you get that.


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[Assistant] So we're just going to keep going this way until he trusts you as someone who can take care of him like a dad.


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[Assistant] Let him know it's fine to cry while you hold him. Is it okay to feel some of his feelings right now?


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[Assistant] That's really great. Let him know you get that, that he carries an enormous amount of sadness.


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[Assistant] That's great. Are you ready to ask him what he needs you to know about what happened to him?


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[Assistant] So, ask him to really let you feel and see and sense so that you can feel all this sadness and how bad it was.


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[Assistant] It feels so misunderstood. By you or by other people?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, tell him to show that to you. What happened to make him feel so misunderstood?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that is fucked up. Let him know that it's a really good question.


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[Assistant] He says his mom and brother didn't understand. Didn't understand him or what?


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[Assistant] This is Sarah speaking. His father was hit by a drunk driver.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. Alright. So tell him to go on. This is really good, that he can let you see and sense and feel all of it.


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[Assistant] Just tell him to keep going, whatever he needs you to get.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so tell him you're really sorry you haven't been able to be with him in this way all these years. Let him know you're sorry. That he kind of had to be locked up in there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, ask him if you get it now how bad it was for him. If there's more.


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[Assistant] So, if he had gone with his dad, the accident wouldn't have happened, or what? What's the logic there?


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[Assistant] Got it. Okay. Does this make sense that he would believe that?


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[Assistant] Let him know you get that. So he's been anti-superficiality ever since. That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. So, Ethan, what do you say to him about whether it was his fault?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so let him know you get that. Let him know you get why he feels so guilty about that.


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[Assistant] Good, just see if he feels like you get everything he wants you to get.


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[Assistant] Okay, good. So, Ethan, I want you to go back into that time period and be with him the way he needed somebody and tell me when you are there with him.


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[Assistant] So, ask that part that's trying to do it for you to let you do it.


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[Assistant] Such that you don't see yourself, you're just there with him. Just tell me when you're in there with him.


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[Assistant] Okay, good, now ask if there's anything he wants you to do with him or for him before we take him to a good, safe place.


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[Assistant] So that guy, just be firm with him. We get he's trying to help, just let him know you don't need that, that you can handle this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, does he want you to get her, or does he just want you to explain it?


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[Assistant] Let him know that he should have had somebody. That he deserved to.


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[Assistant] Great. Okay, just see if he's ready now and we'll go someplace he'll like.


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[Assistant] Good, let's take him to the ocean. And before he swims though, tell him he never has to go back there and that you're going to be taking care of him.


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[Assistant] And ask him if he's ready to unload the feelings and beliefs he got back then.


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[Assistant] That's great. And then ask him again if he's ready to unload this stuff.


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[Assistant] Where does he carry it in his body? In or around his body? Back of his head.


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[Assistant] What would he like to give it up to? Light, water, fire, wind, earth, or anything else?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so tell him to let that all out of the back of his head and let the ocean take it.


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[Assistant] So, he'll put them in a canoe. Let's do that. Let's put it out of the back of his head and into the canoe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's get that out too. No need to carry any of this stuff anymore.


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[Assistant] And is that sadness something he wants to unload or something he wants to express to you?


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[Assistant] Ethan, there's one thing that we could do with that. You can invite your dad's spirit to come, and he may or may not come, but you can see if he wants to invite your dad's spirit to come. He does. Okay, so tell him to do it, and we'll see if your dad's spirit shows up. He's here.


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[Assistant] And let's just see if there's something he wants this boy to know. If the boy wants to ask him anything.


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[Assistant] Good. So does the boy want to give him that sadness, or what does the boy want to do with that sadness?


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[Assistant] Good, Ethan. Let's invite the original guy, the destroyer of injustice, to come in and see this boy. Just see how he reacts.


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[Assistant] You can ask him if he'd like to unload anything that he carries that doesn't belong to him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. What would he like to give it up to?


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[Assistant] Tell him to give up what is in his neck and back to this mountain woman.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let him know you guys can figure that out. That you may not need to do it now. How does he feel without the sword?


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[Assistant] In the absence of a sword, Ethan tell him he can invite whatever he wants inside his body, including purpose, and just see if something comes in.


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[Assistant] Good, that's great. How is he like holding that ball of light? It's glowing. Good, that's great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so tell him it doesn't have to stop, he can just hold it. Does that feel complete for now?


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[Assistant] And Sarah sits on his lap, stroking his head. This concludes interview three.


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[Assistant] This session illustrates many of the ideas and processes we've been talking about so far, as well as some phenomena we haven't explored yet. Let me start by issuing two caveats. First, not all sessions go so well.


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[Assistant] Ethan and Sarah had a head start in that they'd been playing with IFS for some time, had gotten to know key parts, and were both taking responsibility for their own role in the conflict. Also, Ethan's parts already trusted his self enough to step back when we asked them to, and that's often not the case initially.


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[Assistant] Second, I encouraged Ethan to go to his exile. The crying boy curled in a ball and, as I've stressed before, I encourage you to not do that without help. I include this session here just to let you know what's possible, not to model what you should be doing. Here's a reflection Ethan shared with me later on.


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[Assistant] I see injustice and you don't see it. Now I will show you to power with. I see injustice and you do not see it. Now I will be gentle and curious with you to help you see it or discern together if injustice is actually occurring.


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[Assistant] I have become more effective in navigating these situations because of the openness.


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[Assistant] It feels like before the unburdening, my fire for justice was in a small room and people got dragged into the room and were very uncomfortable, hot, burned, or suffocated. And now, after unburdening, the fire is outside, in expansiveness and vastness around it. People are invited to sit by the fire.


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[Assistant] It becomes a life-giving campfire, and people can freely choose a distance from the fire they need to be comfortable. I can see clearly this is what myself wants.


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[Assistant] Upon returning home, the energetic field around my body was shifted due to the unburdening.


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[Assistant] New people and opportunities were drawn into my life such as working with indigenous women to form a community.


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[Assistant] And being invited to more deeply support the queer and trans community in Maine.


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[Assistant] My energy around justice work is now more grounded and clean, which I believe the people from oppressed positions and communities could sense." Unquote.


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[Assistant] The beginning illustrates how IFS couple therapy often goes. We ask about the parts of each partner that get into it with the other, and when it's clear that transforming one partner's part will produce a big change, we ask to start with that one.


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[Assistant] If it were ongoing couples therapy, we would likely work with Sarah's parts in the next session.


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[Assistant] Our transition to working with Ethan's destroyer of injustice illustrates many things I covered in the previous pages, namely that this is the kind of protector I find dominating many social activists.


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[Assistant] It's crucial to ask protectors permission to heal what they protect.


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[Assistant] That is, by honoring their work and without expecting or asking them to change.


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[Assistant] We reassure parts that it's safe to let us go to those places.


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[Assistant] There are certain steps to healing in exile. In this case, having Ethan's self form a trusting relationship with a 13 year old boy.


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[Assistant] Witness what happened to him in that past time and the burdens he accrued.


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[Assistant] For example, his beliefs about his responsibility and hatred of superficiality.


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[Assistant] Retrieve the boy from the past, and help him unburden, and then bring in the protectors so they don't have to do their jobs anymore. And then there's the more spiritual aspects I hinted at, here involving the spirit of Ethan's dad.


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[Assistant] In my work, I've had many experiences with clients in which the image of a dead relative comes spontaneously at a moment like the one Ethan experienced, and that presence has a salubrious effect. I've learned to ask clients if they are interested in inviting such a visit if they've accessed a lot of self and it feels like it might be helpful.


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[Assistant] Most of the time, the figure's image does arrive like this and...


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[Assistant] Unlike when they were alive, they seemed to be quite unburdened and in self, as was the case with Ethan's father.


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[Assistant] Is it the client's imagination or another part playing the role of the dead father? Or is it actually the father's spirit? I don't pretend to know the answer. I'm an empiricist in the sense that I endeavor to study these phenomena without presumption.


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[Assistant] My father was a good scientist and one of his most important messages to me was to follow the data, even if it takes you far outside your paradigm.


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[Assistant] This IFS adventure has done that over and over, and these experiences in which dead relatives show up illustrates that.


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[Assistant] I'm also a pragmatist, so if these visits seem to help, I go with it.


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[Assistant] In my experience, this phenomenon seems to help clients a great deal.


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[Assistant] Later in the session, as Ethan goes to unburden his protector, he spontaneously sees an image of a being that's half mountain and half woman.


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[Assistant] A figure he calls a mountain goddess. She gives the protector a ball of light when he asks for purpose.


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[Assistant] What is this? This is another phenomenon that occurs spontaneously in many clients. At crucial points, what people refer to as guides will come and help them.


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[Assistant] I don't pretend to know what this is all about either.


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[Assistant] That is some of the adventure of this work. You never know what you and your client will encounter in their inner world.


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[Assistant] The key is to stay curious and to see if whatever comes seems to be helping or not.


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[Assistant] I want to add that these seemingly mystical experiences don't only happen in people who already believe in such things. I've worked with total atheists and clients whose religious beliefs preclude such things, and many of them at first react with anger or fear.


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[Assistant] I sometimes think about the people referred to as shamans, people who regularly work with ancestral spirits as entities comparable to Ethan's mountain goddess.


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[Assistant] Some believe that an alternative universe or realm exists that we can access with various practices. Drumming, chanting, dance, prayer, ingesting hallucinogenic plants, hyperventilation, sleep deprivation, dreaming, fasting, rituals, and so on.


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[Assistant] Could it be that by simply focusing on our parts, we can enter that same realm?


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[Assistant] Ideally, Ethan's destroyer of injustice will feel less compelled to take over in the angry and judgmental way that it had before. Instead, it will trust Ethan's self to speak and act for it, and take on more of an advisor role.


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[Assistant] It will retain its passion for justice and love for people and the earth, but will rely on Ethan's courage.


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[Assistant] Clarity, confidence, compassion, and so on to effectively express its beliefs and pursue its goals.


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[Assistant] In addition to those eight C words describing the self, I've also identified five that begin with a P. Patience, persistence, presence, perspective, and playfulness.


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[Assistant] Self-led social activists are able to draw upon these qualities as well. Because the self can maintain... Can maintain...


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[Assistant] A long-range perspective, you can be patiently persistent in your efforts without the highly attached urgency that tends to polarize.


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[Assistant] With the IFS perspective, you also avoid the mono-mind thinking that makes people pigeonhole each other and instead you can see past your opponent's protectors to the exiles that drive their extremes and have compassion for them.


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[Assistant] When you are present in self, you can be highly forceful without escalating conflicts, because the other doesn't feel denigrated.


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[Assistant] Leading from self amid conflict becomes a goal unto itself.


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[Assistant] For example, when I have a fight with my wife, I ask my parts to step back and let me stay to relate to her. And not simply to get her to calm down and be nicer, although it often has that impact.


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[Assistant] Instead, I do this to further convince my parts that I can lead my system. So the goal becomes trying to maintain the presence of self, regardless of how the other is behaving.


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[Assistant] To do this, it helps when your parts come to realize that you are not a child anymore and that, as yourself, you possess powerful qualities and can be forcefully assertive when necessary.


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[Assistant] Often, protectors look down on some of these qualities. For example, they think you're a mushy bundle of passive compassion with porous boundaries who will give away the farm. Or that you are too innocent, trusting or scared to take care of them.


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[Assistant] They only know you as you are when you blend with those other parts. It's often shocking to your protectors to discover that you are able to separate from those parts and they learn that you have agency and can protect your system. So they don't have to.


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[Assistant] This is quite a challenge in some circumstances. When you face threatening people or events, for example, and yet amid the terror or the rage, the self in each of us is always there. The eye in the storm. The calm depth beneath the roiling waves.


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[Assistant] There is always self. No matter how triggered and extreme our parts, if we can get them to separate enough, we'll have access to at least some of the qualities of the self, and we'll be able to be with our fear or anger rather than blend with it.


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[Assistant] I'm reminded of an episode in my life several years ago when my wife, Jean, and I were visiting my brother and sister-in-law at their place in Hawaii.


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[Assistant] It was a day of very high surf and despite Gene's warnings, I decided to wade into the shallows, assuming I was safe if the water didn't get past my thighs.


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[Assistant] I unknowingly took a step off a drop-off and was suddenly in the middle of a riptide pulling me quickly out to sea.


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[Assistant] Not knowing any better I tried to swim directly back to shore and got nowhere. I tried to rest by rolling on my back, but the waves washed into my mouth and I started choking.


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[Assistant] As I became increasingly fatigued, it began to dawn on me that I might not make it. Parts of me began screaming repeatedly in my head, We're going to die!


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[Assistant] I was able to separate from them enough to let them feel me saying


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[Assistant] We might die, but I'll be with you as we do. And I sensed them calm down. Just when I was ready to give up, my sister-in-law arrived at the beach, saw me struggling, and pointed frantically for me to swim horizontally toward the huge waves.


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[Assistant] It was counterintuitive, but exactly what I needed to do to get back to shore.


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[Assistant] With no energy to spare, I gave it one last go, and I was eventually carried in by the waves. I learned later that a man had drowned in that same spot days earlier, so I felt extremely lucky.


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[Assistant] The point of sharing this story is that even in the face of real danger, it's possible to hold your parts.


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[Assistant] Sure, it's difficult. I've had years of experience showing my parts that things go better when they separate and let me handle things. So they trusted me enough to do that.


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[Assistant] But any measure of self-leadership is helpful in dire circumstances. It may not lead to the kind of life-saving luck I had, but it's always better to face your challenges from a place of calm, courage, clarity, and confidence rather than from scared, dissociating, or impulsive parts. The more self we bring to the crises we encounter, for example, the current pandemic, the more likely its lessons will be learned, at all levels.


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[Assistant] Kathy? What are you doing? Nothing.


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[Assistant] I told you I'd wait until he was grown. Well, now he's grown and he gets his legacy. Homemates made out of him. He earned it just as his father earned the lead he got when he stole my brother's wife.


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[Assistant] People always return to the earth. People always return to the grass.


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[Assistant] His gaze lingered on the circles under my eyes. You look tired. I couldn't sleep, I confessed.


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[Assistant] Automatically swinging my hair around my shoulder to provide some measure of cover.


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[Assistant] Neither could I, he teased as he started the engine. I was becoming used to the quiet purr.


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[Assistant] I was sure the roar of my truck would scare me whenever I got to drive it again. I laughed.


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[Assistant] I guess that's right. I suppose I slept just a little bit more than you did. I'd wager you did. So what did you do last night, I asked. He chuckled. Not a chance. It's my day to ask questions. That's right. What do you wanna know? My forehead creased.


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[Assistant] What's your favorite color? He asked, his face grave. I rolled my eyes. It changes from day to day. What's your favorite color today? He was still solemn. Probably brown. I tended to dress according to my mood. He snorted, dropping his serious expression. Brown? He asked skeptically. Sure, brown is warm. I miss brown.


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[Assistant] Everything that's supposed to be brown, tree trunks, rocks, dirt, is all covered up with squashy green stuff here, I complained. He seemed fascinated by my little rant. He considered for a moment, staring into my eyes. You're right, he decided, serious again. Brown is warm. He reached over swiftly, but somehow still hesitantly, to sweep my hair back behind my shoulder. We were at the school by now.


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[Assistant] What music is in your CD player right now, he asked, his face as somber as if he'd asked for a murder confession. I realized I'd never removed the CD Phil had given me. When I said the name of the band, he smiled crookedly, a peculiar expression in his eyes. He flipped open a compartment under his car's CD player.


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[Assistant] He pulled out one of thirty or so CDs that were jammed into the small space and handed it to me. Deb, you see to this? He raised an eyebrow. It was the same CD.


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[Assistant] I examined the familiar cover art, keeping my eyes down. He continued like that for the rest of the day. While he walked me to English, when he met me after Spanish, all through the lunch hour, he questioned me relentlessly about every insignificant detail of my existence. Movies I'd liked and hated, the few places I'd been, and the many places I wanted to go, and books, endlessly books. I couldn't remember the last time I'd talked so much.


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[Assistant] More often than not, I felt self-conscious, certain I must be boring him. But the absolute absorption of his face and his never-ending stream of questions compelled me to continue. Mostly his questions were easy, only a very few triggering my easy blushes. But when I did flush, it brought on a whole new round of questions. Such is the time he asked my favorite gemstone, and I blurted out Topaz before thinking.


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[Assistant] That I felt like I was taking one of those psychiatric tests where you answer with the first word that comes to mind.


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[Assistant] I was sure he would have continued down whatever mental list he was following, except for the blush. My face reddened because until very recently my favorite gemstone was garnet.


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[Assistant] I suppose if you asked me in two weeks, I'd say onyx.


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[Assistant] And I worried it would provoke the strange anger that flared whenever I slipped and revealed too clearly how obsessed I was. But his pause was very short. What kind of flowers do you prefer, he fired off. I sighed in relief and continued with the psychoanalysis.


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[Assistant] Is as a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time. Look like the time.


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[Assistant] Who must hang them? Why, the honest men. Then the liars and sweaters are fools.


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[Assistant] Coming into the day, this is already what we knew. In the first days of Trump's presidency, he invited then-FBI Director James Comey to the White House for a one-on-one dinner, and then demanded that Comey, who is supposed to be politically independent, give him a pledge of loyalty. Then...


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[Assistant] Later, in a private Oval Office meeting, he asked Comey to drop the Michael Flynn Russia investigation. And then, when Comey didn't drop it, Trump fired him.


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[Assistant] And so, with all of that, today the stage was set for possibly one of the most serious hours in recent American history. The Senate's testimony of James Comey.


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[Assistant] Wow, that did not match the feeling of the day at all. Uh, today, James Comey took his place in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee to give his testimony on the Trump-Flynn Russia saga. And, uh, since he's 11 feet tall, it took place in a room the size of Nebraska.


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[Assistant] Whoa, whoa, whoa, James Comey calling the president a liar?


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[Assistant] Today, Comey gave some really impressive testimony with details on every meeting, every phone call he had with Trump. Who, what, where, what facial expressions they had when they spoke, what they smelled like, everything. And the reason Comey was able to go into such meticulous detail is that immediately after every single interaction he had with Trump,


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[Assistant] I gotta say, this is the first time I've ever felt bad for Ted Cruz. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Because you know that he was watching this thinking, wait, you guys just now figured out that Trump was a liar? He said, my dad killed JFK! He said, my daddy!


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[Assistant] But you know, after today, I gained a new level of respect for James Comey. Because throughout the time he served under President Trump,


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[Assistant] From the very start of today's hearing, it was clear that Republicans and Democrats wanted completely different things from Comey's testimony. Right? For the Democrats, it was, James Comey, please do what you did to Hillary and knock Trump out of the presidency. And he did not give them that.


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[Assistant] They were saying that mistake was not obstruction of justice.


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[Assistant] According to Republicans, Trump did not tell Comey to stop the investigations. It was just something he hoped would happen.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no, because, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We are adults here. Senator Rish.


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[Assistant] That's not what happened. Trump ordered. This is what happened. Trump ordered everyone to leave the room.


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[Assistant] Everyone was in the Oval Office. Trump ordered everyone to leave the room. Kushner, Mike Pence, even Jeff Sessions, who is Comey's boss, by the way. He kicked them all out of the room. Then turned to Comey, when they were alone, looked him in the eye and said, I hope Mike... Come on, man. That's not hope.


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[Assistant] So, Republicans basically wanted Comey to exonerate Trump. And he didn't.


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[Assistant] Democrats wanted Comey to personally impeach and convict and jail Trump. He didn't do that either. Or at least, we think he didn't.


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[Assistant] Clearly the senators kept all the juicy details for themselves.


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[Assistant] Before you go, there'll be so much to do. You'll want so many things.


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[Assistant] You know, we plan all those things these days. We don't regard them anymore as just a visitation from heaven. Shocking. On the contrary, I think it's rather nice.


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[Assistant] If you give me a prayer book in the morning again, I've got a cigarette case to give you in return.


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[Assistant] She's been giving me a prayer book every Christmas since I was nine. It's no go. I'd rather read Have a Look, Alice and Do.


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[Assistant] It's the excitement, I suppose. Prey's bringing a present over. He wants me to wear it tonight. Now I wonder what can be.


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[Assistant] Mother was married at my age. One really doesn't know much then, oh dear. One doesn't know the same things, if that's what you mean. One doesn't know anything at all.


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[Assistant] But I did so want to go to services. The choir's so beautiful on Christmas Eve. John won't mind.


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[Assistant] Well, hasn't she? What's prevented you from marrying Grey ages ago? Father's been out of his mind long enough, poor man. For years you've been making yourself and Grey miserable just because you happen to have a husband who's hopelessly shell-shocked and you call it scruples. Well, I call it Aunt Hester and you know it too.


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[Assistant] I-I-I'd test her needs our position. She thrives on it. You mustn't be impatient with her, darling. Your father is alive. She can't get used to the idea of the divorce and all. I do hope I'm doing right. I do hope you're doing right. With your John. My John.


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[Assistant] How was I to know there was more to it than keeping house and looking after Hillary and you? Is there so much more to it? Oh, so much more, Sidney.


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[Assistant] It's a compliment for him. You sit down while I get him something to eat.


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[Assistant] What nonsense we're talking. And all I want to hear you say is I love you. And that's all I want to say too.


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[Assistant] Matthew, Mark, Luke and John for the boys. Ruth, Sarah, Rebecca and Mary for the girls. That's what reconcile Aunt Hester for the whole thing.


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[Assistant] No, Mrs. Fairfield's out. Can I take a message? This is Miss Fairfield speaking. All right, I'll hold on. It's from Bay Point, auntie. It's about father. What? This is Miss Fairfield. What? But you should have let Mrs. Fairfield know. Only this morning. Oh, I see. No, we've heard nothing. What is it? Of course we'll let you know if we hear. And you'll let us know too? Thank you. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] Suddenly, Nightingale's view was no longer obscured.


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[Assistant] Seeing the shocking event unfold, the demonic beasts slowed down and instead of crazily trying to surround her, they refused to move forward as if they were scared of her. These demonic hybrids were scared.


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[Assistant] The monster hanging on top of the cave waved its tentacles and roared furiously, but it didn't achieve the desired effect.


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[Assistant] The only ones who still followed its orders were three sickle monsters.


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[Assistant] They were now powerless and could no longer threaten Nightingale The tight line of defense had now been broken No enemy could now stop her


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[Assistant] Nightingale gathered what was left of her magic power and rushed towards the dome center.


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[Assistant] As she was closing in, she finally understood what Fran meant by abnormal.


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[Assistant] The opponent was not so much a creature as it was a pile of exposed organs.


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[Assistant] It had neither epidermis nor muscular tissue while vascular intestines, tentacles, and organs that couldn't even be named were all stacked up, looking both unstable and horrible.


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[Assistant] Obviously, throwing explosives into the monster's mouth was not possible.


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[Assistant] Nightingale turned her gaze to a pack of vibrating meatballs.


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[Assistant] Although she was not certain whether it was a vital organ of the monster or not, it was at least placed much deeper and had flowing magic light inside.


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[Assistant] She guessed that the explosion of the explosives would inevitably cause more damage there. It was a risky plan, but she only had one chance. This fight required one fatal blow.


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[Assistant] The more she was closing in, the more she could feel its size.


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[Assistant] Those complex intestines were as thick as a house while the rest of the stacked up organs looked like a castle. The only difference was that this castle was alive.


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[Assistant] Seeing that the sickle monsters could not stop her, the monsters started moving.


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[Assistant] It shot several slender tentacles from within its body, trying to stop Nightingale.


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[Assistant] Some of the tentacles were like steel whips, which could easily break the rocks in the mountain but were not very difficult to deal with.


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[Assistant] As long as she observed the silhouette of these tentacles in advance she could use the empty spaces between them to avoid them. It was similar to penetrating a wall.


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[Assistant] A few tentacles that contain magic power and could use different abilities were a different problem altogether.


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[Assistant] Those colorful magical beams were particularly striking in the black and white world and Nightingale definitely did not want to experience what was like to get hit by them, so she used flash to avoid them.


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[Assistant] This, in turn, would greatly increase the consumption of her magic power.


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[Assistant] Thankfully, the distance between the monster and her was not huge.


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[Assistant] Only a few moments had passed before she stepped on the monster's huge body, who roared furiously but in fear of hurting itself, stopped attacking recklessly with its tentacles. Nightingale instantly felt very relieved.


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[Assistant] She didn't hesitate to open her backpack, took out a pack of explosives, and rushed straight towards the meatballs. She pulled off her next moves instantaneously.


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[Assistant] She pulled the fuse, stuffed the green-smoked explosive and the backpack into the meatballs, and then returned to the misty world, hanging upside down.


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[Assistant] Then, she pushed with both of her feet and lunged towards the underground lake like an arrow.


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[Assistant] The monster also noticed her movements, but it did not seem to understand why the enemy would try so hard to get near just to leave a moment later without doing anything.


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[Assistant] As for the bag, in the monster's eyes, there was no threat at all.


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[Assistant] For a moment, it even forgot to move its tentacles to chase after the witch who was quickly falling. The most dangerous place in the Misty World was in Medir.


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[Assistant] She would break into pieces if she hit some airflow silhouettes when she was falling and so she stopped exerting her ability and waved goodbye to the monster.


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[Assistant] Curiously, at that moment, she thought of Roland.


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[Assistant] Whenever they were testing gunpowder, he would always turn his back to the testing ground and say that real warriors never looked at an explosion.


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[Assistant] Even though both Agatha and Ur would roll their eyes at him, he didn't mind as if he had just completed a ritual that only he knew about.


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[Assistant] Thinking about that, Nightingale count help but smile. But right now, she didn't want to imitate him. It was not about being a real warrior or not.


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[Assistant] She simply wanted to watch the monster explode into pieces.


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[Assistant] Just as soon as the sound between the lake and the underground river meeting each other could be heard, a red light suddenly lit up the ceiling of the dark cave.


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[Assistant] In a place where there was never daylight, a ray of light seemed as bright as the dawn.


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[Assistant] The darkness quickly faded, leaving behind the long shadows and for the first time, bright waves appeared on the lake surface.


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[Assistant] What followed was a thunderous roar. Suddenly, the whole cave shook.


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[Assistant] Nightingale clearly saw, among the dazzling fireworks, the body of the monster convulsing fiercely as if it was suffering greatly.


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[Assistant] Half of the bloody moon covering the dome suddenly disappeared and some of the organs were shot out like volcanic eruptions.


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[Assistant] The world momentarily became quiet, leaving only the sound of her beating heart.


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[Assistant] The fast spinning of the water formed a bottomless black hole under her body, and it seemed like it wanted to drag her into the abyss.


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[Assistant] In the face of such force, any struggle would be meaningless. But thankfully, Nightingale was prepared.


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[Assistant] She released what little of her magic power that was left to summon the mist and used the spiraling white lines to climb to the surface as if climbing the stairs.


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[Assistant] At this point, the magic power in her body had been completely depleted and the after effects of overuse began to appear.


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[Assistant] Her brain was attacked by intense pain and dizziness, her limbs could not stop trembling, and she could hardly control her body anymore.


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[Assistant] As she struggled to get to the lakeshore, Nightingale knew she was running out of strength.


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[Assistant] It's nothing serious. She just exhausted her magic power. Agatha briefly examined Nightingale and then handed her to the God's punishment witch. You carry her. We must leave this place at once.


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[Assistant] When Nightingale left, everyone decided that no matter what, they would go to meet her after the explosion and decided to let Fran eat all their remaining food.


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[Assistant] Even though it was not certain she could find a way out, she could still crawl with them to the campsite.


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[Assistant] But they did not expect the explosion to be so effective.


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[Assistant] It not only stopped the worm carrier inside the walls, but it also made the rest of the demonic beasts flee the area. Leave her to me, Elena personally took Nightingale.


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[Assistant] After witnessing the battle, the tequila survivors became more respectful toward the blonde witch. Don't we need to finish it off?


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[Assistant] Lightning looked at the struggling monster as if not satisfied. It doesn't seem to be dead.


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[Assistant] Dying beasts are the most dangerous and you can only bring one pack of explosives at most. So it's better not take this risk, Agatha said with a deep voice. By the time the First Army has been assembled, it'll be dead sooner or later.


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[Assistant] I'm fine. The little girl hesitated before nodding.


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[Assistant] Just when everyone was ready to leave, the monster suddenly issued a cry.


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[Assistant] Following the dull and muddy sound, the lake suddenly changed.


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[Assistant] Under the sparkling flames, a huge skeleton came out of the water and opened a row of rib claws towards the top of the cave.


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[Assistant] Even in such a fast current of water, it remains steady.


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[Assistant] The monster loosened its tentacles that were climbing to the top of the cave and fell into the skeleton.


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[Assistant] The sinking skeleton suddenly stirred up layers of waves, making the lake water push toward the shore.


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[Assistant] Even the surging underground river flowed backwards for a time.


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[Assistant] The ribs began to close, as if wrapping up the monster into a package and then slowly sunk back into the lake.


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[Assistant] The instant it came into contact with the water, the burning flames on the monster turned into white smoke and emitted a pungent odor.


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[Assistant] Right before the monster vanished, everyone saw its densely packed eyes.


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[Assistant] Although half of them were gone, the rest of the eyes expressed a strong sense of hatred toward them.


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[Assistant] Moments later, the swirling lake engulfed the monster as if it had never appeared.


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[Assistant] Because there was no time to change the gun barrel, it had turned red which, according to the shooting regulations, meant that it was scrapped.


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[Assistant] Their numbers were intimidating, but once we start fighting them, they didn't look so scary.


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[Assistant] Three years ago, these things were terrorizing the western region.


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[Assistant] Everything changed because of his majesty, do you understand? Yeah, yes, captain. Instead of celebrating, change the gun barrel. Edith was standing in the back of the battlefield.


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[Assistant] She had a thoughtful look while watching the busy yet orderly First Army.


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[Assistant] After following Roland's army to participate in the tooth extraction campaign and the church's destruction, she always tried to imagine how would she command the army in order to achieve the maximum effectiveness of the firearms.


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[Assistant] Without a doubt, this was a completely new kind of army, and so the combat strategy was different from that of the Nightage's and the Mercenaries from before.


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[Assistant] It was not easy to forget her previous successful experience of fighting through charging, relying on excellent weapons and personal bravery.


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[Assistant] But when she realized that Knights could no longer compete against the new army, she promptly discarded all of her previous experience and started watching all of His Majesty's actions closely.


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[Assistant] Through today's battle, she was able to verify that her thinking was basically correct.


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[Assistant] The most notable feature of the firearms was their ability to kill opponents with extreme efficiency before they could get closer without regard to the spacing between soldiers and their physical condition.


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[Assistant] Therefore, the narrower the shooting area, the more intense the firepower would be.


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[Assistant] As long as the ammunition supply did not stop, they could fire from morning to night.


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[Assistant] They could only arrange three machine guns, not because more could not fit, but due to limited ammunition.


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[Assistant] But even so, their fierce firepower still made it hard for the demonic hybrids to advance. They did not even get tired or need to aim. They just had to pull the trigger.


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[Assistant] Whenever the opponents were too close together, she would even see a thick blood red mist arising in the entrance.


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[Assistant] If his majesty was in command, he wouldn't have done anything different.


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[Assistant] The only thing she did not understand was the behavior of the demonic beasts. Obviously, some of them had basic intelligence.


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[Assistant] When it got difficult to attack the cave entrance, many of the demonic hybrids began to wander outside the cave, occasionally howling but still not advancing as if they were encouraging the other demonic beasts to sacrifice themselves.


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[Assistant] But since they had the ability to think, why did they still obey the weird commanding voices?


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[Assistant] The demonic beasts apparently did not need a relationship between lords and subjects, which was about mutual support and protection.


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[Assistant] As long as they escaped into the barbarian land, they could totally survive alone, unlike humans who had to be part of a group in order to survive.


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[Assistant] Could it be that there was an inexplicable connection between the demonic beasts and the owner of that voice whose importance was above the beast's own survival? It was hard for her to imagine that.


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[Assistant] She thought she should ask His Majesty Roland after the search was completed.


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[Assistant] Currently, the only thing in Neverwinter that she found surprising and hard to figure out was His Majesty's thoughts.


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[Assistant] Whenever they were talking, she would always ponder over the same question. How vast could the human mind be? Miss Edith, you were very helpful this battle. Brian's voice interrupted her thoughts.


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[Assistant] She turned around and saw the young officer's face full of gratitude.


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[Assistant] I'll definitely mention your contribution to His Majesty in the battle report.


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[Assistant] I only did my job. Edith smiled. I wasn't sure it would be successful at that time, so you don't need to mention my suggestion in the report. Unacceptable. Brian shook his head again and again.


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[Assistant] His majesty said that in the army, the result and not the process is the only thing that matters. A victory is a victory.


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[Assistant] Furthermore, I now understand more what you said before about trust. The First Army thanks you for your advice. I'll leave now as I also have many things to attend to.


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[Assistant] Looking at the captain leaving, Edith suddenly understood why his majesty chose a patrol captain of the border to serve as an important military officer.


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[Assistant] Battle achievements were the basis for the Knights when requesting a reward from the Lord and the last thing they would want was to share with others.


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[Assistant] There were countless cases that involved faking and lying, and not even her trustees could resolve them.


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[Assistant] In general, though the First Army was different in many aspects, promotions and rewards were still linked to battle achievements.


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[Assistant] She was not a member of the army, so even if the other party had completely concealed this matter, she wouldn't have personally argued her case to His Majesty.


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[Assistant] To be able to calmly share with others whatever benefits he had gained just to be fair, in fact, compared to other knights, this former patrol captain was actually much more of a knight.


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[Assistant] Loyal to his king and honest, this was probably why Roland entrusted him with such an important task.


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[Assistant] Commanding and knowledge could both be learned, but a person's character was hard to change.


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[Assistant] Edith had noticed very early on that the spirit and manner of his majesty's first army were completely different from those of the knights. It was something new completely.


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[Assistant] Probably the key to creating such an army was abandoning the noble's power and selecting only civilians to enlist, coupled with the ideological education in the primary textbooks. And now, she had also left her name in the army.


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[Assistant] Half a day later, Roland received intelligence that the situation had been resolved.


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[Assistant] At this point the 100 emergency reinforcements had already embarked on the boat while the rest of the reinforcements were also preparing their belongings, waiting for the dispatching order.


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[Assistant] Even the newcomers of the Witch Union, Annie, Broken Sword, and the rest were prepared to go support them.


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[Assistant] From the city hall to the first army, the whole of Neverwinter was nervous as if the city had been attacked by demonic beasts. But in the end, it all proved to be just a false alarm. The messenger was, once again, Maggie.


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[Assistant] Looking at her tilted head and slightly open mouth, Roland did not know whether to laugh or cry. He took out some beef from the drawer and threw it on the table. She immediately picked it up happily.


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[Assistant] However, taking morale into account, he eventually did not order the first platoon to return but instead replaced Annie's team with Saria and Summer in order to conduct a more comprehensive exploration of the ruins.


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[Assistant] In the next three days, the reports and messages about the exploration in the Great Snow Mountain had been sent back to Neverwinter one after another.


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[Assistant] Roland had felt his heart skipping a beat the moment. He had heard that Nightingale had exhausted her magic power and passed out during a fight.


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[Assistant] Fortunately, she had been alright when this news had arrived.


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[Assistant] In order to reassure his majesty, she had also asked Maggie to let Roland know that she was alright.


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[Assistant] The exploration results showed that inside the Great Snow Mountain there was indeed a city in ruins, which was left by the underground civilization.


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[Assistant] However, as compared to the maze inside the impassable mountain range, this city was not that well preserved.


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[Assistant] Most caves in the newly discovered ruins had collapsed long before, and several intact compartments were just filled with spoiled food, bug eggs, and corpses.


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[Assistant] Near the underground lake, a broken magic core was found by the Tequila Witches.


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[Assistant] According to the scouting team's reports, they found no documented records there, and the best part of their journey was the discovery of an original carrier and two devouring worms inside the mountain. He was surprised by the results.


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[Assistant] If this monster with many eyes was just a dumb beast who happened to settle down in the ruins, he would never find its destructive behavior strange.


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[Assistant] However, it was obviously not just a stupid animal.


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[Assistant] He still remembered that something in this great snow mountain had sent devouring worms to swallow Agatha's laboratory in the Blackstone Pagoda in the Devil's Town. These actions were clearly not just for food.


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[Assistant] In this exploration inside the mountain, the team had also spotted both human beings and demons trapped in the strange bug eggs.


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[Assistant] These facts made him believe that the unknown enemy must have been trying to collect information about the other two species it was going to fight against in the Battle of Divine Will.


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[Assistant] When he received the first batch of bug egg corpses, he noticed that their decomposed skin was apparently not caused by corrosion but corpse wax formed by long-term storage.


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[Assistant] That meant these corpses had been kept in the egg for a very long time and were apparently not stored as food.


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[Assistant] Only an intelligent individual would make other creatures into specimens.


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[Assistant] In that case, he really did not understand why the monster had destroyed this underground city.


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[Assistant] He wondered whether it was because that the monster did not care about the things treasured by tequila witches.


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[Assistant] He scanned through Soraya's pictures of the scenes inside the mountain and became lost in thought.


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[Assistant] He found that the moment before the monster sank into the water, its remaining hundreds of eyes seemed to be filled with resentment. He did not know whether this was a false impression or not. He felt its eyes became different when it was severely wounded.


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[Assistant] In the beginning, those eyes appearing on the cave roof were simply gazing at the witches. But after they heard it badly, its eyes showed an obvious emotional expression.


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[Assistant] When he put those two pictures together to compare, he felt as if the monsters in those two pictures were not the same one.


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[Assistant] As for the underground lake in the bottom of the ruins, where the monster sank in, Sylvie confirmed that it was connected to a water vein leading to the swirling sea.


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[Assistant] On his current technical level, he was not able to track the enemy once it entered the swirling sea and let this monster successfully get away.


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[Assistant] What he could do next was to block the water vein by collapsing the Dome of the Ruins with powerful explosives.