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[Assistant] People like, I see it Cuban, I'm like this, I'mma just wait, man. And I'm saying, hey man, listen.


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[Assistant] I keep saying this thing, this, this, I keep using this comparison. I keep using this comparison.


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[Assistant] About Matt Stafford, what we see Matt Stafford go through when he's with Detroit and how he left Detroit to go to the Rams and


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[Assistant] His first, what, couple of years there, they have a playoff run and then they win the Super Bowl, I think his second year. Y'all remind me if I'm, if I'm


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[Assistant] If it's a little more than that, I think it was in the second year. But what's interesting about the whole dynamic is,


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[Assistant] We knew Stafford was a decent quarterback, right? A little bit more than decent. Let's say more than decent because he was incredibly productive with Detroit. You had Carr with the Raiders who was productive. Now the comparisons is you had


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[Assistant] Two relatively decent starting level quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Both of the teams that they came from were teams that were...


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[Assistant] Half of teams, you know, you know, even though you've seen Stafford go to the playoffs to cut what? He went to the playoffs with the Lions, but failed to take them where they thought he was supposed to go. When you drafted Stafford as high as he was supposed, they took him in the draft.


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[Assistant] They thought this guy would take them to the promised land. They didn't. They got them out of there and he took the Rams to the promised land. Why? Because the Raiders, I mean the Rams were a better team.


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[Assistant] They had to, they had the offense in play, the offensive philosophy, the offensive weapons.


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[Assistant] They had, they were a very good team. They had the defense and the special teams.


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[Assistant] Fast forward to what Carr is. Carr, similar thing. You had a half a team with the Raiders all those years. Had offense, didn't have no defense, and all this kind of stuff for years. Decent numbers there.


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[Assistant] And then you move him out of there and put him with the saints. Why would not I expect? I'm not saying it will be.


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[Assistant] But why can't that happen again? This time the person in the seat is not Stafford. It's Derek Carr.


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[Assistant] All of the stuff that we talking about. You give him Jimmy Graham, you give him Taysom Hill, you give him Foster, you give him, he had Foster before, you give him Jawan Johnson, give him a healthy Mike Thomas, give him Chris Olavi, give him Rashid Shahid, Elvin Kamara, Jamal Williams, Kendre Miller.


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[Assistant] Give them all a help on the offensive line. They didn't sign veterans that still could go somewhere and take up a couple of games to start.


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[Assistant] The trade turn is still very good enough to push Andrews Pete if he don't handle his business. Man. So all I'm saying is...


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[Assistant] Dude, why can't we expect to see something like that here? Now granted, Dennis Allen, they had McVeigh.


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[Assistant] The Rams had McVay as a head coach. Big difference between McVay and Dennis Allen. Big difference.


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[Assistant] But you still have Sean Paton's offense along with Carr and all of those to all that talent.


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[Assistant] And with Dennis Allen, his approach is Dennis Allen didn't learn anything from a


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[Assistant] Leadership standpoint, anything different than what he been doing?


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[Assistant] I mean, if he did, he would have been, he'd been yelling that all up in your face, man. I went over here. I did this. I went to leadership school, whatever. None of that. His, his thing is, his thing is, hey man.


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[Assistant] Dennis, I gave all of the money to the offense. That's theirs. And I got a defensive coordinator over here that da da da.


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[Assistant] Which he should, and you see him smiling a little bit more cause it's his, it's his guys. So it's all his team.


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[Assistant] It's all his team. It's like all these defensive, a lot of these, that's his majority of them is his people. It's his quarterback who he picked when he was with the Reds. It's all on Dennis Allen, man.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be fun to see it, man, but that's what I look at when I see the Saints this year. I look at them and I say to myself, man, this team here, man.


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[Assistant] This team here is very interesting. But the who that nation, let me ask the grace. What's up Lowe? Shout out to my brother Lowe man.


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[Assistant] They got Jimmy Graham. I don't know. Hello over there, man. He, he, he, he, he wiping his, his, his brow, man, like.


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[Assistant] Like an old Christian deacon in the church, man, with no air condition. That's what that low over there. He's that boy loading them nerves over there, boy. Let me tell you something over there, nervous. All right. I see. That's the point.


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[Assistant] They say, hey man, they say Q, I just can't trust Dennis Allen. Now are we, are you wrong for feeling like that? No, you're not. You're not wrong for that 504 code, my friend.


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[Assistant] You're not wrong for that at all to want some receipts to go along with your shopping.


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[Assistant] So yea, bro, you, listen, all, listen, and this is the, this is the majority, this is the mindset of the majority of the Who Dat Nation. Fam. All those people are just called out.


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[Assistant] All those people, all the talent, Jamal Williams, Jimmy Graham, Taysom Hill, Chris Olavi, a healthy Mike Thomas, this guy, that guy, all these guys. And then all of that is.


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[Assistant] Is literally covered, clouded over by one person.


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[Assistant] Man, that's, it's a weird feeling because you have all this excitement.


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[Assistant] You gotta hold it down so you sitting up here straight jacking in yourself. You gotta, you shaking like you're seasoning this up.


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[Assistant] He's bubbling, and she's bubbling with excitement, but they can't show it because they're nervous about Dennis Allen. And I'm sorry fam, that's, that's, that's the, the thing, so.


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[Assistant] We gonna see, but I got, I do really think and hope you don't have nothing to do with it.


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[Assistant] The quarterback is the biggest part. He has all of these people, all of these people. Man, let me tell you something. This is going to be an interesting year.


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[Assistant] It's going to be interesting. Brother Randolph says, families, a new season didn't show the nation. I refuse to give into negativity. 23, I believe you. Okay, good. Thank you, brother Randolph. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. Be jizzle. Shout out to you, my brother. Good to see you. Shout out to you.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, that's, that's how it go man. A lot of people, they enter that Glen, they enter Glen Jones. They all in their Glen Jones mindset. You gotta show me. But anyway, let's move on. Now listen, that's the Who That Nation. Now let's talk about some of these other cats out here.


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[Assistant] From, uh, from the national perspective of what they think about your team, right? So here is one dude, hold on, let me get him kinda geared up here.


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[Assistant] This is the guy, I don't know the man name, but he hangs out with, with Kyle and Kyle heard, you know, and he's his cohost or whatever the man name is, but.


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[Assistant] Listen to what this man had to say about your black and gold and where they rank them at.


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[Assistant] Or C rather, which is really cool. We got Carolina in tier four, which is the lowest tier. He has Atlanta in tier three and the Saints in tier two.


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[Assistant] Tampa Bay is also in tier four along with Carolina. So.


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[Assistant] You heard what he said and, and that's the standing on it is the standing is a lot of what we hear.


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[Assistant] From the national media is there on with the saints. You slowly seeing that happen.


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[Assistant] And I'm not saying we listen to that, but it's very interesting. I get you, you know, both sides of the spectrum here, what they're saying, what we're saying, what we're hearing, you know, in the saints world. But it's very interesting man to hear.


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[Assistant] But the New Orleans Saints family members, and I'm not going to say not all of them, but a great deal of the family members contact me and say, Q, listen, I hear you what you're saying about car, yada, yada, yada, but hey,


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[Assistant] I'm not up on that like that. I gotta say, I'm on my Glen Jones right now. And I got to respect their mind. You know what I'm saying? How you feel is how you feel. You know, although I do like the quarterback


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[Assistant] You know, getting car and what he brings. I do like that. I like that in connection with the saints, with, with the saints have a much improved running back. I mean,


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[Assistant] The Jamal Williams, and I keep saying this, but the Jamal Williams signing was unbelievable. It was unreal.


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[Assistant] To get Jamal Williams and pair him with Elvin Kamara and soon as Kamara comes off suspension, whether it's full between four to eight games, whatever the case may be, this is going to be phenomenal. You know, so Dennis is doing this. Hey man, my name is Dennis.


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[Assistant] But listen to all fancy like, Hey man, I, this is all for y'all. Y'all handle it. Let me handle the defense. That could work.


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[Assistant] If he's, if you know, but if he has to step in as a head coach and do head coachy stuff, that's right. I say head coachy.


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[Assistant] We, we might have a problem at Houston. We might have a problem. Alright, shout out to my brother, little man. He says this is the first donation for the GoFundMe.


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[Assistant] For the Kleenex, for all the entire, okay, for the Who Dat Nation, alright. Thank you, Lo, appreciate you, brother.


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[Assistant] For the super chat, man. Let's, let's hit the number on that.


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[Assistant] You might, and listen little, I know you bought the Saints score tee and thank you for that.


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[Assistant] You know, because you lost the bet with the Saints the last time around and they sent you an extra shirt and he said, I don't know why they sent me that extra shirt. You remember what I told you?


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[Assistant] I said, he said, I think they made a mistake. I said, no, they ain't make a mistake. They sent you that extra shirt. So when you get, when we play you the next time you add that shirt to wear, cause you're going to lose that bet too.


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[Assistant] Shout out to my brother Lowell, man. Appreciate you. Aight, so anyway.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's move on to the next one fam. We got another one here. And listen, like I said, Low hates this. You know, he's an Atlanta man and he hates to hear.


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[Assistant] When the national media put his team in tier number three, put the Saints in tier two and only two other squads are in tier one. You're talking about, uh, he has the Philadelphia Eagles and the


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[Assistant] Uh, who else he has up? The only thing, you only got two teams in tier, in top of the top tiers, which is the Niners and the Eagles.


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[Assistant] I'm not sold on the Niners. I'm sorry. I think the Niners are, they're a good team. Don't get me wrong. I think they're a little higher than they're supposed to be.


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[Assistant] You know, I really do think the Eagles, the Eagles are right where they supposed to be. The Eagles are a solid team. They've done a wonderful job.


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[Assistant] Anything else he wants to talk about, this is what he volunteered. Listen closely.


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[Assistant] Alright, so yeaah, there you go. This, you know, that's Mike Ruffalo.


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[Assistant] A lot of them saying saints about to make that move and, and of course they have to always throw in a disclaimer, right? You got to throw in that disclaimer.


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[Assistant] Got to throw in a disclaimer. Hey man, you know, despite what other people are saying, you know, we feeling like this because they saying it, listen,


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[Assistant] I get it too. A lot of family members, they comment to me and I'm telling you that a lot of who that nation is kind of, you know, they,


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[Assistant] In wait and see mode, they feel pretty good about what they witnessing. They feel pretty good about it, but they have a like, Hmm.


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[Assistant] I like what you're doing, but let's just see how it all looks. They tamping down that excitement. They tamping it down. And why? Because they don't want to be disappointed. It's a hell of a thing to be disappointed. Isn't it? It's a hell of a thing to be disappointed. Just ask that Atlanta felons. It's a, it's a terrible thing, man.


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[Assistant] It's a terrible thing to be disappointed. Disappointed. My dog Lou is in here, man. Ask Big Lou, man. Big Lou, is he still in here, brother?


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[Assistant] I need you to step to the front of the, uh, congregation, Lo.


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[Assistant] Lo, I need you to step to the front of the congregation, my brother. Uhm, I need you to testify, brother. Lo, are you still here, sir? Lo? Lo, are you still here, sir? Uh, my goodness. It's a terrible thing to be, to be let down.


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[Assistant] Isn't it low? Low testify, brother. Listen, I know we a bunch of diehard black and gold people up in here.


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[Assistant] But Lowe, could you step to the front of the congregation brother and talk to us about the disappointment that you've been feeling?


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[Assistant] You know, cause we need you brother, we, we, we, we, we, we need you right now, Lord.


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[Assistant] We need you to come on forward brother and share the pain load.


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[Assistant] Share the pain with the Who That Nation, brother. We, we, we with you on here, brother. We support you.


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[Assistant] You know, we don't want you to run away, you know, just, just, just, you know, talk to us, brother.


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[Assistant] It's like nails on a chart board when you heard me play those two, uh, these analysts.


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[Assistant] Talk about the Saints, where are they ranking them high in the NFL?


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[Assistant] It's only four, the man had four tears. And low team was on the fourth tear.


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[Assistant] Lowstein, the Carolina Panthers and the Falcons was on the man for a tear. They don't like that man. They don't like that man.


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[Assistant] So I'm just saying, and Low probably got up out of here, the second interview was enough to drive them all, with the man saying, you better watch out for the Saints, man.


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[Assistant] And like I said, both of them said, eh, despite what the people are saying, like all the people talking about is either one or two things.


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[Assistant] Is either they hatin', is, is, I ain't gonna say it's hate, but it's criticism. That's a more, that's a more balanced word. It's either criticism for Derek Carr as a quarterback.


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[Assistant] Right? And I think we got our diehard raider man in here. Uh, represent bro, uh, shout yourself out my brother. I think I've seen you in the chat, bro. A diehard raider man in here. If you, if the brother still listen to the show.


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[Assistant] All of the re- the passing records, like several of your top passing records in al- in all time Raider history. So, if you still in here, my brother, share some real good game.


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[Assistant] You know, positive or negative on what we could expect out of Derek Hart this year. You know? Drop some game in the chat and I'll spotlight.


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[Assistant] But that, that's a big component to this. It's like, is he the criticism of Derek Carr as the same guy? And listen, I have, I have absolute.


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[Assistant] This, the Matt Stafford thing, like I say, how Stafford left the Lions, like Matt Stafford left the Lions and went to the Rams and started winning games and he won a Super Bowl. Could that be something that Derek Carr does? Both of their games are similar. He did, but they both left teams. You know, Stafford left a team of his, his worst team to a better team and they knew how to use them and they took it to another level.


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[Assistant] They're leaving the Raiders. Now the Raiders are, and I agree, I think the Raiders team, the Saints are more talented than the Raiders.


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[Assistant] He most definitely has more weapons than what he had. He had Darren Waller and a couple of Josh Jacobs and the rest of them, but my goodness.


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[Assistant] You got a he- a healthy Mike Thomason, Rashid Shahid, or Chris Olavi, and da-da-da-da-da-da. Man, who no- I mean...


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[Assistant] Look around the NFL, who has, uh, who has something like that? Seriously?


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[Assistant] Who else has this, this kind of barrage of talent? These people went and pulled Jimmy Graham off a plane somewhere and he's, he looked like he didn't miss a beat. He's in great shape. He gets out there running around and you saying, Jimmy, you're not the starter. You're going to be in the room with the rest of these guys. What? You know, he's not the starter. You know, he ain't the starter. You just mixing them in there.


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[Assistant] There is no other team in the NFL that's slam-packed, jam-packed like the Saints offense. Come on. Tell, tell me if there is, please let me know.


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[Assistant] Now, on paper, let me just give that disclaimer, on paper, on paper, and still with the same, uh, Sean Payton style offense minus


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[Assistant] The, you know, the Sean Payton guts, I guess you could say the guts of.


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[Assistant] Sean Payton, Carmichael's conservative, more of a conservative guy. But it really depends on like can, cause...


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[Assistant] You look at Car, Carmichael, I'm sorry, Carmichael's more of a conservative guy. But Carmichael and Car, and Curry. The three C's. Car, Carmichael, and Curry.


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[Assistant] They'll be tasked to get the very much out of this expanse of offense. I mean, and then Derek Carr's biggest.


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[Assistant] Attribute his, in terms of the best thing that I've seen him do on film is throw that D ball, man.


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[Assistant] Throw that damn deep ball out there and you got several Saints players that can run up under that deep ball. I mean, listen.


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[Assistant] You know, Mike Grafalo and the other fellow from the Colin Cowhert show, they all saying the same thing. Man, listen here. The Saints, the Saints, the Saints. They're my sleeper team. All this kind of rhetoric, but time will tell, right?


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[Assistant] They cannot, you cannot deny, now you might not like Dennis Allen.


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[Assistant] You know, if the Saints have injuries on the old line, Andrews Pete, Caesar Ruiz, they have problems, they got two veterans.


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[Assistant] They kicked off two undrafted guys to bring the veterans. That was big. I'm looking at them going get a defensive player or a linebacker.


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[Assistant] You can see where their resources are gathered that they put a lot, they put a lot of money into the saints offense because that is, that's the key. The key is the saints have to move the football and what car who gets the ball downfield, dude.


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[Assistant] There is no, I'm thinking about, there is no offense that I can think about on paper and right now in the NFL with camp starting.


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[Assistant] Only time will tell man, only time will tell, but it's most certainly interesting.


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[Assistant] And, and uh, the other fellow from the Kyle and Kyle Herd Show didn't convince you, I see. And that's what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] That's the mindset, not of the entire who that nation, but a lot of people. I won't say the most of them, but a lot of people are feeling that way.


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[Assistant] It's like, I gotta, I, I, I, I, I don't wanna deal with the disappointment. I'ma diss that in the third. But listen.


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[Assistant] This offense is going to be better than what it was last year. I'm just going to be honest with you. I know injuries are a part of the game.


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[Assistant] But it's Carr, man. Carr and Michael Thomas and you looking at him, he got the energy in his eyes.


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[Assistant] He realizes he, he came here with a chip on his shoulder.


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[Assistant] Derrick Carr has multiple interviews. He understands his position in terms of what he's been given an opportunity to steer a very talented team to a deep playoff run. Could we be watching?


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[Assistant] The Matt Stafford Plan Part 2. Wakar as the man.


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[Assistant] Could we be watching that? This is going to be an interesting season, man. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it, man. All right.


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[Assistant] Bobbin says, since he don't have to, indeed. Yep, man, listen.


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[Assistant] Man, the Saints are dangerous man, offensively speaking. Of course you can look at the defense and say, Q, what about the defense?


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[Assistant] But even if the defense was top 15 fam, the offense, I'm looking at the offense. We looking at this on paper right now and they just started working this thing out.


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[Assistant] But if you add car to what they're doing, the saints man and top and bottom, even if car is not, you know, the saints go with the running attack and run Jamal, I mean,


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[Assistant] And it's just so much, cause if you think about the Saints running game, right?


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[Assistant] With Jamal Williams, 17 Russian touchdowns last year for the Detroit Lions. The Saints offensive line is pretty damn good. A lot of that happened in the red zone for Jamal Williams.


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[Assistant] Think about that. Like a lot of the minuses we had, the personnel, the saints bring in kind of cleans up a lot of that.


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[Assistant] The question that a lot of the, a lot of the, a large segment of the, who that nation has and


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[Assistant] Feeling the way they feel to the opposite of thinking about the success of the team is the fact that it is time that Dennis Allen no doubt about it, but.


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[Assistant] You gotta look at, man, that offense, man, that offense is going to be, it's going to be out of work. It's going to be ridiculous. It's going to be top 10.


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[Assistant] It's going to be top. This man, listen, he got everything.


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[Assistant] Do you understand what I'm saying? The man got everything. They done gave him every damn thing. There is no room for excuses. They done gave in and gave car to money.


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[Assistant] Elvin Kamara still a top five running back in this NFL. You got Jamal Williams who can start for at least half the teams in the NFL right now. He ain't coming off of 17 rushing touchdowns.


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[Assistant] The tight end room is ridiculous. The wide receivers are awesome. They done girth it up and depth it up the line. The brace, he got everything. So you got, and then you got a willing,


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[Assistant] He didn't like how they treated him and when he was with the Raiders last year, he came here with a chip on his shoulder. That's what he said.


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[Assistant] There is no more excuses. Derek Carr, they done gave you everything. And now it's time for you to give it back. It's time for you to give it back, baby. And of course,


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[Assistant] Mike Ruffalo makes a great point. He reminds us of the fact that the saints have what? They say the saints have a somewhat of a week schedule. Hmm. A week schedule. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I'll be hesitant to talk about weak ass schedules. You know what I'm saying, family? I'll be very hesitant to talk about.


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[Assistant] Week schedules are this, that, and the third or whatever, however you want to term it. I'll be very hesitant to talk about week schedules. I don't like talk about week schedules. But man, listen.


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[Assistant] My goodness. Hold on, let me put some of this on screen here. This schedule. And Tennessee picked up, uh, DHOP, so that'll be interesting.


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[Assistant] Man, all this is going to be interesting man. All this is going to be interesting. This is going to be interesting.


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[Assistant] But I'm telling you off top to my NFC South family members out there, Carolina, Tampa Bay, Atlanta.


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[Assistant] I'mma just keep it a buck fifteen with you guys. I'mma be, I'mma keep it real with you and I'mma tell you, off the T-O-P, that the saints, the saints are, are, are gonna,


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[Assistant] Be tough to beat. Let's just say that. I'm not trying to disrespect your clubs.


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[Assistant] Cause I know y'all got high expectations for y'all teams coming into it. And you're right. You have the right to do that. But at the end of the day, the saints man.


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[Assistant] Alright, so yeah, yeah, Tedros says, the car is comfortable to play book. I'm happy. Yeah, indeed. And the big part of that is like when we said, when Carmichael went to car and says, he said, what, asked him what plays he want to run? What plays do we, that's a recipe for success. I remember the same thing was said with LSU in that magical year when Joy B.


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[Assistant] Took the LSU Tigers and ran through the entire college football world and went undefeated.


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[Assistant] Later went on to become the first overall draft. We blew through all of them damn teams.


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[Assistant] And he said, I remember when they talked about what was the difference from what Joy B was the year before. So then when he became Joy B, what changed? And he talked about how the offensive brass at LSU came to him and said, asked him what plays did he like? And he said, when they did that, it's the offense became his. And I just think that's a tremendous strategy, strategy because


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[Assistant] And he knows which place he's running this play. I like this play. I like, you see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Dude, I hear what a lot of family members saying, but I'ma just keep it real.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know. I don't know. Shout out to my dog, Law. Law Nation, man. Shout out to him. He had some personal tragedy. Much love to that brother. Aight, brother. Quavis says, uh, Quavator says, Saints caught.


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[Assistant] Get the big head wants to hit the hot streak. You know, I hope not, bro. We got to stay grounded. We got to stay grounded in, in, in humble man.


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[Assistant] Except for when we, when we beat the Falcons, then we can kind of cut loose and kick them. Only when we beat the Falcons, okay? Only when we can cut up. You know, we don't got the Cowboys on the schedule this year.


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[Assistant] Gotta carry the momentum through the season, even in the playoffs, indeed. Indeed. All right, Young City says 14-3, I call it. You look at that schedule, man, a lot of people say, Hey Q, Tennessee, remember Tennessee added DeHop to the mixture. That's going to be interesting. Gotta stop the run.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no. I didn't set out. Well, I don't know where you went at, brother, but I wanted your expertise. And I'm glad you're back in the building, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I wanted to ask you a favor, sir. I know you're a diehard Atlanta Falcon man. Just hold on. Let me get J Rock's super chat out the way. Then I'm going to come back to you. I need you, I need, I need your help on something, brother. I need to ask you something. I need you, I need a really true, uh, opinion from you on something, brother. So, you know, just, just stay right where you are.


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[Assistant] All right, Jay Rock says, uh, thank you, Jay Rock. He says, the last time the Saints had a new coach and a new free agent QB in their first season together, the Saints were in the NFC championship game. How about that? Last time Saints had a new coach and a new free agent QB. Okay. That was Peyton and Breeze, right? Together is it. Well,


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[Assistant] One before the other, but I get what you're saying. Thank you Jay Rock for that. Shout out to you. That's who you are.


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[Assistant] To ourselves, you know, that we don't want to, you know, we see our team with all of the talent, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] We got, you know, the quarterback over here, the guy, he could throw the deep ball. He brings an exciting brand of football to the, to the, to the black and gold nation, right? We got Jamal Williams.


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[Assistant] That DNFL last year was 17 touchdowns, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Got Michael Thomas, you know what he did to y'all in the, in, in, when you.


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[Assistant] You know, y'all, we don't have to talk about the score team. Y'all know that was Michael Thompson. He helped.


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[Assistant] Chris Olavi, Rashid Shahid, right? All these fantastic guys. Jimmy Graham.


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[Assistant] Comes back to the fold. Jawaun Johnson and all these other fantastic, Platesom Hill. No.


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[Assistant] With all of that going on, you know, we trying to temper our expect, you know, expectations to a degree because, you know, we don't want to get too high up, right?


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[Assistant] And then, you know, you, we don't want rise up on it to crash down, right? So I want to ask you, low, you know, drops.


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[Assistant] I want you to drop some game on us, my brother, you know, in a check. Let us know how you and the entire Atlanta Falcon Nation have done with all that terrible disappointment for all those years. Share with us, brother. Share with us and tell us, you know, how, you know, you dealt with it, you know? How did you deal with all of the disappointment?


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[Assistant] That the Atlanta Falcon people keep saying that they're rising up onto the crash back down earth. I want you to share with us. Give us some of your great insight on what we need to do to kind of stay humble, brother, in times of great tragedy and disappointment.


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[Assistant] How did you and the entire Atlanta Falcon Nation deal with the massive disappointment


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[Assistant] Of just getting destroyed by the Saints over the last several years and, you know, not making it to the playoffs and, you know, then just the unbridled shame of having to go to the New Orleans Saints building.


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[Assistant] And keep hiring all the coaches and executives and players and just have to just go into the, the just shameful behavior of if you can't beat them, join them mentality.


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[Assistant] So tell us how you dealt with the disappointment load. Let us know brother in the chat. Brother, tell us how you. Give us some, some jewels.


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[Assistant] Give us some, some stuff on how you deal with all of the rise up to fall down. Brother, talk to me, brother. Brother, tell us. We're here for you, brother, Lord.


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[Assistant] Because it's a great family. We can't ask for too much. It's a great pain. To just get destroyed by the saints year after year. And then have to go head on and wear the school tee.


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[Assistant] And then turn around and then say, if we can't beat them, we gotta join them. All the shame and the humiliation. The shame and humiliation.


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[Assistant] We gotta sign all of they players soon as they, uh, we can overpay for them.


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[Assistant] Cause we got it. How do you deal with it? Low talk to me, brother. Sprinkle game on us. Let us know.


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[Assistant] Why did you have to sign Caden Ellis? Why'd you have to sign him? Why'd you have to sign Ryan Nilsen? Why'd you have to sign David Onyamada? Why'd you have to sign Brother Fontenot?


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[Assistant] Why'd you have to sign all them Saints players? Why'd you have to stoop so low, brother?


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[Assistant] Let us know brother low. We here for you brother. We love you. We love you brother low. We love you brother. Talk to us about it low.


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[Assistant] Brother, uh, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it hurts. It hurts, brother. It's a tough cross to bear. They say every year we gonna beat the saints only to be beaten by the saints. Brother, rise up.


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[Assistant] To fall down to the saints, brother. That's, it's like going up to the top of the Sears tower, brother.


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[Assistant] And didn't hit in the concrete, brother. This is equally fast, brother. No. Talk to us about that low sprinkle game on us. Sprinkle some game on us, brother. Let us know how you feel about that. Let us know.


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[Assistant] As I'm looking right now, I'm looking for y'all know what I'm looking for, man. Y'all know what I'm looking for.


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[Assistant] I'm talking and I'm looking because I got to show y'all this pitch.


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[Assistant] Because this, this is a lot of pain, my friend, to go through. And why do they do that to themselves? Why do they do it, family? Don't you understand?


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[Assistant] Against the black and gold nation family. Only disappointment and wearing of score tees is the only way. Why? Why do they do it fam? Why?


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[Assistant] Yes, brother. Oh, that's what it is, Lord. Talk to us, brother. Tell us, Lord, how you rise up, brother.


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[Assistant] Your eyes up only to come crashing back down in reality, brother. Brother, talk to me. Share your pain, fam. Even though he's smiling in this, in this picture, I don't think he that.


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[Assistant] Share, lol, share. Sharing is caring, my brother. Sharing is caring. Thank you, lol. Appreciate you, brother.


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[Assistant] Alright, so anyway, that's gon' do it for the show, man.


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[Assistant] Low say, man, wait till the next round table. There you go, Low. We gotta get the round table together, brother.


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[Assistant] But Low look good in that shirt, don't he fam? I'm telling you man, Low look good in that shirt fam. Low, shout out to you brother.


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[Assistant] See and I told law, I said, low bro, so you gotta look at the positive, bro.


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[Assistant] You gotta look at the positive. The positive is that you're winning on the shirt. Atlanta 26 Saints 10.


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[Assistant] You still got four, you still the fourth quarter. You got 11 minutes and 12, 12, I mean, 11 minutes, 12 seconds left, but you know.


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[Assistant] The shirt is showing Atlanta positive. It's showing that Atlanta's winning. 26 to 10. Of course it didn't end up that way, but you know.


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[Assistant] Alright, so yeaah, I know, that look good, man. My dog glow, it look good in that shirt. Shout out to my dog glow, man. Share, brother.


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[Assistant] Share, let us know how all the Falcon family members that's listening. How, how do y'all deal with it, brothers? How do you rise up to fall down? My Atlanta Falcon brethren, my Falcon brethren, how do you rise up to fall down against the New Orleans Saints?


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[Assistant] You know, how do you rise up to fall down fam? Share with us. Tell us.


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[Assistant] Tell us how you deal with the disappointment. How did you brothers


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[Assistant] Insist to deal with the disappointment of being disappointed by the Falcons organization. How? Talk to me. Share your pain. Share your pain. Share your pain. Share it with us. Give us some, you know, give us some game. Tell us what you did. Did you do, go outside and just meditate under the sun?


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[Assistant] Did you do that? Did you, like, after the game was over with, did you just go out in the backyard barefooted and sit in the dirt?


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[Assistant] And then look up at the sky and go, did you do one of them? You know, did you do one of them?


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[Assistant] Tell me how you deal with it, man. I'm wanting to know, man. I want to know. Tell us. Mark says Q, did you speak on that fight giving down on, oh, uh, uh, what, uh, the fight giving down on Saturday? Uh,


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[Assistant] Hold on, you're not talking about, uh, oh you're talking about, uh, you're talking about Cambosis, are you?


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[Assistant] Or are you talking about, uh, I seen what your boy NoA did to, uh, Nate, to Fulton, uh, Tuesday. My goodness. But yeah, cause Sean Davis, I don't know, put it in the chat, bro. Rise up Falcon family. They say a cute.


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[Assistant] Much love. You know, I gotta mess with my dog, though, man. I gotta pick at him. I gotta pick at him. Yeah, and shout out to my brother, though. I'm just messing with you.


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[Assistant] But the, uh, NFC South round table, that's another one of them on. Oh, oh, uh, oh, uh.


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[Assistant] Well that don't, that happened this uh, this upcoming weekend bro. I'm really excited about that one man. We've been talking about that fight.


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[Assistant] Four years, man, and I'm a, I might be sitting up there, I might, yeah, I might actually.


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[Assistant] I think I will do a, uh, live fight, uh, play-by-play for that Crawford and Spence. So, for my Reign Kings boxing family members, man.


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[Assistant] Man, I ain't gonna lie, man, the last several months have been really good boxing, that I've seen some really


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[Assistant] Really good boxing. They have some duds in there. The Campbell's fight was a dud. They stole that one. The Rolie Romero fight was a dud.


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[Assistant] But man, let me tell you, they've had some really good fights, man, a lot of good ones. And this one here, are we supposed to get two of these this year, by the way?


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[Assistant] Crawford and Spence, man, and I was watching the fight on those guys. Both of those guys look really zowed in. They both look in excellent shape.


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[Assistant] Man, it's gonna be a splendid fight and they're supposed to have a second fight before the year, the year ends.


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[Assistant] So man, I cannot wait. It's going to be really cool. All right.


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[Assistant] All right. Oh, did you, did you J Black? I mean, uh, J Rock, I ain't see it, bro. Hold on here. I'm sorry, bro. You sent another one. All right. There you go. I was too busy. I was talking alone. All right. He says, uh, yeah, thank you, brother.


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[Assistant] Yeah, boy. Yeah, boy. Yeah. Shout out to you, Jay Black. Sorry. I missed that one, man. Much love. Yeah, this is going to be, yeah, I'm a, for the family members, I'm going to do a live fight when I've been trying to do that, man. But yeah, that one there, man, I'm going to do, I'm going to be in the building live for that one, man.


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[Assistant] Me and rest in power to my co-host Eddie Tuming Johnson, who started the Reign Kings boxing.


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[Assistant] And Spence getting in the ring and he finally did it this year, man. Um, and it happens this weekend and I will be in the building. Ah, man, listen, it's going to be awesome. That's right, Pam, but it's a good one. Not rise up, wise up.


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[Assistant] Alright, Coach Ronan in the building, man. She up, she cracking up. She said, y'all cracking me up.


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[Assistant] That's it. Yeah, shout out to my brother, Lloyd Coach Ronny. Much, much, much love to you guys. Y'all know I'm just messing with y'all, man. You know, y'all got love for y'all guys, man. But you know what, Coach Ronny, this will never get old right there.


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[Assistant] Oh, that one there, that one never gets old. That always, that never gets old, oh. That never gets old, brother. Brother!


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[Assistant] Brother, you stuck with this one, bro, until y'all show better, brother. Y'all show. And then the crazy part about it, it was Lowe's idea.


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[Assistant] Hey, it was Lowell's idea. I wasn't betting Lowell, man. Lowell said, hey man, we gonna do this. If I do this, I wear the Skotee. If we win, you wear the Falcons jersey. I was like, okay, cool.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, you know Coach Ron, you know I'ma keep that pitching. Oh yeaah, you know that, that was, that was a dud deal right there.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright, I'm outta here, man. I'm having too much fun, man. Listen. Tomorrow, family, please tune in.


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[Assistant] Tomorrow is Who That Nation United. That's our Thursday show, man. We got some of the best young podcasters in the game, man. I think they, if we look at some of them, some of the best. So tomorrow line up, Thursday line up, it starts with my boy Hoodie Jubes.


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[Assistant] He'll be in a building. I think he, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I think it's, uh, I think it's low. I mean, I'm not low.


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[Assistant] And to keep it real who that podcast tomorrow, they'll be covering all the black and gold. It's just straight saints smashing who that nation, who that united on our Thursday show. It's a, it's a great lineup. Shout out to those brothers. I'm so happy. And we announced it a couple of days ago. I said some on the broadcast, but I'm extremely, uh, excited and honored.


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[Assistant] People, they're hard workers, they work hard to perfect their craft and they, them guys putting in a lot of work and it's not easy.


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[Assistant] But they are thorough and they are consistent. So shout out to the Nola bros, shout out the hoodie, shout out to Randolph and to keep it real who that podcast.


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[Assistant] And brothers putting in that work. So much love to them, brothers, man. They'll be here on our Thursday stream tomorrow, full Thursday. Who dat? We call it Who Dat Nation United. So them Atlanta Falcons family members, they,


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[Assistant] I so with that being said, what's up Ramsey? Shout out to you, man. Oh yeah, Pam. I love the third, the Thursday line up to who that United man is. It is top notch, man. Let me just say, man, just removing this thing, family.


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[Assistant] We moving along. And also, family, don't forget to also...


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[Assistant] Uh, go with the, uh, go to the Who Dat Nation, I mean, not Who Dat Nation, to the whodatdaily.com. You know, that's our headquarter website. Well, all of our articles, despite the fact that we added


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[Assistant] Our family members, like we just talked about, Brother Randolph, Teal, and Enola Bros, and Brother Jub, Hoodie Jub there.


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[Assistant] And they are writing away several articles a day on pelicans, saints, uh, boxing.


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[Assistant] Uh, college football is going down, so please make sure you lock in the whodatdaily.com for all our headquartered sites.


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[Assistant] Start releasing and having other stuff out there. Eventually I'll be doing comedy skits and you'll see, uh, me do Reverend Saint and I'll have the whole Reverend Saint outfit on.


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[Assistant] In different characters, you'll see your boy doing characters.


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[Assistant] Go ahead on and sign up on email links because we're going to be announcing a lot of our stuff that mean fantasy league.


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[Assistant] If something happened with that, you know what, then you have a way you can directly connect. So always have more than one thing that you be connected to.


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[Assistant] So it's a lot of great stuff going on, man. We continue to turn it out, go to that, go there.


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[Assistant] Share all of the articles, you know, on your social media feed and remember we doing this thing, man.


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[Assistant] We doin' this thing. We doin' it. We got the family members droppin' great content. The writers are writin'. Man, we doin' it fam. So support your boy.


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[Assistant] For suppro-supporting the stream tonight. And listen fam, I'ma holla at y'all on another time. But like I said, be in the house tomorrow for-


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[Assistant] That's right, the ProShop is the platform store where you can go and buy all the latest


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[Assistant] Ravna came to the cargo deck as Blue Shell and Green Stock were preparing the trellises for delivery. She moved hesitantly, pushing awkwardly from point to point.


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[Assistant] There were dark rings, almost bruises beneath her eyes.


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[Assistant] She returned Fam's hog almost tentatively, but didn't let go.


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[Assistant] The Scrooge Riders left their trellises and rolled over. Blue Shell ran a frond gently across Ravna's arm.


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[Assistant] But they let her check their cameras and the cargo strap downs. Fam drifted close by her as she inspected the trellises.


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[Assistant] The twisted carbon blocks looked stranger than the one alone had. Properly stacked, they fit perfectly. More than a meter across, the stack looked like a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle carved from coal.


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[Assistant] Counting a separate bag of loose spares, they totaled less than half a kilogram. Huh. Damn things should be flammable as hell.


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[Assistant] Fam resolved to play with the remaining hundred odd trellises after they were safely back in deep space. Then the Skrulled Riders were through the cargo lock with their delivery and they could only follow along on their cameras.


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[Assistant] This secondary harbor was not really part of the Tuskleg races terrain.


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[Assistant] The inside of the Ark was far different from what they had seen on the stroad riders first trip. There were no exterior views.


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[Assistant] Cramped passages wound between irregular walls, pocked with dark holes.


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[Assistant] Insects flew everywhere, often covering parts of the camera balls. To fam, the place looked filthy.


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[Assistant] There was no evidence of the terrain's owners, unless they were the pallid worms that sometimes stuck a featureless head up from a burrow hole.


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[Assistant] Over his voice link, Blue Shell opined that these were very ancient tenants of the R.I.P. system.


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[Assistant] After a million years and a hundred transcendent emigrations, the residue might still be sentient, but stranger than anything evolved in the slow zone.


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[Assistant] Such a people would be protected from physical extinction by ancient automation, but they would also be inward turning.


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[Assistant] Totally cautious, absorbed in concerns that were inane by any outside standard.


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[Assistant] It was the type that most often lusted after trellis work.


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[Assistant] Fam tried to keep an eye on everything. The riders had to travel almost four kilometers from the harbor lock to reach the place where the trellises would be validated.


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[Assistant] Fam counted two exterior locks along the way, and nothing that looked especially threatening.


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[Assistant] But then, how would he know what threatening looked like here?


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[Assistant] He had the OOB Mountain exterior watch, a large Shepard satellite floated on the outer side of the ring. But there were no other ships in this harbor. The EM and Ultra environment seemed placid.


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[Assistant] And what could be seen on the local net did not make the ship's traffic analysis suspicious.


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[Assistant] Fam looked up from the reports. Ravna had drifted across the deck to the outside view. The repair work was visible, though not spectacular.


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[Assistant] It was scarcely brighter than the glow you often see on ship holes in low planetary orbit. She turned and said softly, Is it really getting fixed? As far as we can, I mean, yes.


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[Assistant] Ship's automation was monitoring the regrowth, but they wouldn't know for sure, so they tried to fly with it.


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[Assistant] Pham was never sure why Rendell had the Scrooge Riders pass through the Wormhead's terrain.


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[Assistant] Maybe if the creatures were the ultimate trellis users, they wanted to look at the cellars.


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[Assistant] Or maybe it had some connection with the treachery that ultimately followed.


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[Assistant] In any case, the writers were soon out of it and into a poly-specific concourse as crowded as any low-tech bazaar.


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[Assistant] Pham's jaw sagged. Everywhere he looked, there was a different class of sophante. Intelligent life is a rare development in the universe. In all his life in the slow zone, he had known three non-human races.


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[Assistant] For a moment he lost track of his surveillance programs and his general suspicions, drowned in the wonder of it. Ten species? Twelve?


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[Assistant] Individuals brushed familiarly by one another. Even Relay had not been like this. But that harmonious repose was a civilization lost in stagnation.


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[Assistant] These races had been part of the R.I.P. complex for thousands of years.


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[Assistant] The ones that could interact had long since learned to do so.


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[Assistant] And nowhere did he see butterfly wings on creatures with large compassionate eyes.


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[Assistant] Through the passing chaos, he had a glimpse of hull forms and graceful fronds. Except for cosmetic stripes and tassels, they looked very familiar indeed. Yeah, there's a small colony of them hereabouts.


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[Assistant] He opened the channel to Greenstock and told her about the sighting.


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[Assistant] She helped Blue shell push the trellises around a balloon aquarium.


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[Assistant] They could see Rendell's people just ahead. Six tusk legs sat on the wall around what might be test equipment.


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[Assistant] Blue shell and green stock pushed their ball of frothy carbon into the group.


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[Assistant] The scrimshawed one leaned close to the pile and reached out to fondle the pieces with its tiny arms. One after another, the trellises were placed in the tester.


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[Assistant] Blue shell moved in close to watch and fam set the main windows to look through his cameras. 20 seconds passed.


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[Assistant] Only then did Fam realize he had been holding his breath. The next three septets passed, too. Another sixty seconds. He glanced at the ship's repair status.


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[Assistant] OOB considered the job done, but for sign-off commit from the local net. Another few minutes and we can kiss this place goodbye.


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[Assistant] But there are always problems. Saint Rendell bitched about the 12th and 15th sets.


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[Assistant] Blue shell argued at length, grudgingly produced replacement pieces from his bag of spares. Fam couldn't tell if the scroll writer was debating for the fun of it, or if he really was short on good replacements. Twenty-five sets okayed. Where is green stock going? said Ravna. What?


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[Assistant] It's Fron's touch turrs in apparently amiable conversation. Green stalk. There was no reply. Blue shell, what's happening?


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[Assistant] But that writer was in gesticulating argument with the tusk legs. Still another set of trellises had failed their examination. Blue shell!


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[Assistant] The cameras had lost sight of each other. Greenstock and her companions emerged from a dense crowd and floated across the middle of the concourse. They were using gas jets instead of wheels. Someone was in a hurry.


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[Assistant] The seriousness of events finally got through to Blue Shell. The view from his scrote turned wildly as he rolled back and forth around St. Rendell's people.


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[Assistant] I thought Saint Rindel might lose his halo when the crunch came, and I made plans.


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[Assistant] He went through the hatch head first, missing the rest of her objection. She didn't follow, but a second later her voice was back in his headset.


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[Assistant] Some of the tremor was gone from her voice. The old Ravna was there, fighting out from under her other problems. Okay, I'll back you, but what can we do?


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[Assistant] Pham pulled himself hand over hand down the passageway, accelerating to a speed that would have left a lubber caroming off the walls. Ahead loomed the uncompromising wall of a cargo lock.


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[Assistant] He swatted a hand gently at the wall and flipped head over heels.


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[Assistant] He dragged his hands precisely against the wall flanges, slowing just enough so the impact with the hatch did not break his ankles.


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[Assistant] Inside the lock, the ship had his suit already powered up. Fam, you can't go out!


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[Assistant] Evidently she was watching through the locks cameras. They'll know we're a human expedition!


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[Assistant] His head and shoulders were already in the suit's top shell. He felt the bottom pushing up around him, the seals fastening. Not necessarily. By now it probably doesn't matter. There were plenty of two-armed, two-legged critters around, and I've glued some camouflage to this outfit.


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[Assistant] He cupped his chin in the helmet controls and reset the displays.


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[Assistant] The armored pressure suit was a very primitive thing compared to the field suits of Relay, yet the Chang Ho would have given a starship for this gear. He'd originally put the thing together to impress the tines, but it's going to get some early testing.


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[Assistant] He chinned up the outside view, what Ravana was seeing. His figure was unrelieved black, more than two meters tall. The hands were backed with carapace claws.


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[Assistant] And every edge of his figure was razor sharp and spined.


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[Assistant] These most recent editions should break the lines of the strictly human form, and hopefully be intimidating as hell.


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[Assistant] Pham cycled the lock and pushed off into the worm head's terrain.


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[Assistant] Walls of mud stood all around, misty and humid air and swarms of insects. Ravna's voice was in his ear.


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[Assistant] I've got a low level query, probably automatic. Why you send third negotiator? Ignore it.


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[Assistant] All this high bandwidth com was courtesy of the local net. Strange that Rendell was still providing the service.


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[Assistant] I've lost the video from Greenstock just as she went into some kind of tunnel. Her location beacon is still clear.


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[Assistant] The Concourse Gate made an opening for him, and then Fam was in the crowded market volume. He heard the raucous hubbub even through his armor.


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[Assistant] He moved slowly, sticking to the most uncrowded paths, following the guide ropes that threaded the space. The mob was no problem. Everyone made way, some with almost panicky haste. Fam didn't know whether it was his razor spines or the trace of chlorine his suit leaked. Maybe that last touch was a bit much. But the whole point was to look non-human.


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[Assistant] He slowed even more, doing his best not to nick anyone.


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[Assistant] Something awfully like a target designation laser flickered in his rear window.


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[Assistant] He ducked quickly around an aquarium as Ravna said. The terrain just complained to your suit. You are in violation of dress code is how the translation comes out.


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[Assistant] Is it my Clory BO or have they detected the guns?


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[Assistant] What about outside? Any butterflies in sight? No! Ship activity hasn't changed much during the last five hours. No uprohanty movement or change in comm status.


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[Assistant] Long pause. Indirectly from the OOB bridge, he could hear Blue Shell talking with Ravna, the words indistinct but excited.


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[Assistant] So they were ready to fly, except the three of them were still ashore and one of them was missing.


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[Assistant] Pham floated over the top of the aquarium and finally caught direct sight of Blue Shell. He tweaked the suit's gas jets very carefully and settled down beside the rider.


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[Assistant] His arrival was about as welcome as finger mites at a picnic.


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[Assistant] The scrimshawed one had been shattering away, tapping his articulated artwork on the wall, as his helper translated into Trisk.


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[Assistant] Now the creature drew in his tusks, and the neck arms folded themselves.


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[Assistant] The others followed suit. All of them sidled up the wall away from Blue Shell and Fam.


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[Assistant] Our business is now complete. We don't know where your friend has gone, said the Trisk interpreter.


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[Assistant] Blue shells fronds extended after them, wavering. B-but just a little guidance is all we need. Who


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[Assistant] It was no use. Saint Rendell and his merry crew kept going. Blue Shell rattled in abrupt frustration. His fronds angled slightly, turning all attention on Fam Nguyen. Sir Fam, I am doubting now your expertise as a trader. Saint Rendell might have helped. Maybe.


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[Assistant] Fam, watch the tusk legs disappear into the crowd, pulling the trellises behind them like a big black balloon. Ugh. Maybe Rendell was simply an honest traitor.


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[Assistant] No! Blue shell was definite. The scroll would never permit such a failure, not in the middle of a hard trade.


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[Assistant] Whether I'd come out or not, I suggest we take a little walk. See if we can find where Greenstalk went. Rattle.


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[Assistant] We have little choice now. My Lady Ravna, do please try to reach the Tusklegs interpreter. Perhaps he can link us to the local scrote riders. He came off the wall, rotated on gas jets.


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[Assistant] The scrote rider responded when Fam complained about the pace. The rider never insisted on passage through clots of critters. If they did not respond to the gentle waving of his fronds, he'd detoured all around them.


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[Assistant] And he kept Fam directly behind him, so the intimidation factor of the razored armor was of no use. These people may look very peaceable to you, Sir Fam. Easy to push around.


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[Assistant] But note, this is among themselves. These races have had thousands of years to accommodate to one another, to achieve local commensality. To outsiders, they will necessarily be less tolerant. Else, they would have been overrun long ago.


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[Assistant] Fam remembered the dress code warning and decided not to argue.


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[Assistant] The next twenty minutes would have been the experience of a lifetime for a Cheng Ho trader to be within arm's reach of a dozen different intelligent species. But when they finally reached the far wall, Pham was grinding his teeth. Twice more, he received a dress code warning.


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[Assistant] The only bright spot. Saint Rendell was still extending the courtesy of local net support, and Ravna had more information.


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[Assistant] The local Scrooge Rider colony is about a hundred kilometers from the concourse. There's some kind of transport station beyond the wall you're at.


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[Assistant] And the tunnel Greenstalk had entered was just ahead of them. From this angle they could see the dark of space beyond it.


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[Assistant] For the first time there was no problem with crowds. Scarcely anyone was entering or leaving the hall.


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[Assistant] Laser light twinkled in his rear windows. Dress code violation. Fourth warning. It says to please leave the volume at once. We're going. We're going.


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[Assistant] Darkness, and FAM boosted the gain on his helmet windows. At first he thought the transport station was open to space, that the logos had restraint fields as in the high beyond.


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[Assistant] Then he noticed the pillars merged into transparent walls. They were still indoors in the old fashioned way, but the view...


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[Assistant] They were on the starward side of the ark. The ring particles were like dark fish, floating silently a few tens of meters out from him.


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[Assistant] In the further distance, structures stuck out of the ring plane far enough to get sun-dazzled. But the brightest object was almost overhead, the blue of ocean, the white of cloud. Its soft light flooded the ground around him.


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[Assistant] However far the Chang Ho fared, such a sight had been welcome.


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[Assistant] And this was not quite the real thing. This was only approximately spherical, and its face was bisected by the shadow of the ring.


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[Assistant] It was a small object, not more than a few hundred clicks above him, one of the Shepard satellites they had seen on the way in.


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[Assistant] The shepherd's haze of atmosphere was crisply bounded by the sides of some vast canopy. He dragged his attention down from sight. Ten to one, that's the scrote rider's terrain.


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[Assistant] Of course, Blue Shell replied, it's typical. The surf in such mini-gravity can never be what I prefer, but


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[Assistant] Dear Blue Shell, Sir Fam, over here. It was Greenstalk's voice. According to Fam's suit, it was a local connection, not relayed through the O.O.B. Blue Shell's fronds angled in all directions. Are you all right, Greenstalk?


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[Assistant] And then, these local riders stopped by. They are wonderful people, Sir Pham. They have invited us across to their terrain, just for a day or so. It will be a wonderful rest before we go on our way, and I think they may be able to help us.


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[Assistant] Like the quest romances he'd found in Ravna's bedtime library, the weary travellers, part way to their goal, find a friendly haven and some special gift. Fam switched to a private line to Blue Shell. Is that really Greenstock? Is she under duress?


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[Assistant] It's her, and free, Sir Fam. You heard us speaking. I've been with her two hundred years. No one's twisting her fronds. Then why the hell did she skip out on us?


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[Assistant] Fan noticed the red light blinking on his comm status panel, and his irritation chilled. How long had the link to Ravna been down?


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[Assistant] Fab followed Blue Shell, floating low behind the other, using his gas jets to pace the Scroedrider. This entire area was covered with the stickum that riders liked for zero-G rolling. Yet right now the place seemed deserted. Nobody in sight. We're just a hundred meters away. There were bustling crowds.


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[Assistant] The whole thing screamed to ambush, yet it didn't make sense.


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[Assistant] If Death to Vermin or their Stooges had spotted them, a simple alarm would have served. Some Rindel game?


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[Assistant] Fam powered up the suit's beam weapons and enabled countermeasures. Midge cameras flitted off in all directions. So much for dress codes.


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[Assistant] The bluish moonlight washed the plane, showing soft mounds and angular arrays of unknown equipment.


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[Assistant] The surface was pocked with holes. Tunnel entrances?


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[Assistant] Blue shells had something muddled about the beautiful night. How much fun it would be to sit on the seashore a hundred kilometers above them.


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[Assistant] FAMS scanned in all directions trying to identify fields of fire and killing zones.


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[Assistant] The view from one of his midges showed a forest of leafless fronds. Scrooge riders standing silent in the moonlight. They were two hillocks away.


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[Assistant] Silent, motionless, without any lights. Perhaps just enjoying the moonlight.


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[Assistant] In the midges' amplified view, Fam had no trouble identifying Greenstalk. She was standing at one end of a line of five riders, her whole stripes clearly visible.


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[Assistant] There was a hump on the front of her scrote and a rod-like projection. Some kind of restraint? He floated a couple of midges near. A weapon. All those riders were armed.


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[Assistant] We're already aboard the transport, Blue Shell, came Greenstalk's voice. You'll see it in a few more meters just on the other side of a ventilator pile.


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[Assistant] Apparently referring to the mound that he and the scrote rider were approaching. But Fam knew there was no flyer there. Greenstalk and her guns were to the side of their progress.


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[Assistant] Treachery, very workman-like, but also very low-tech. Fam almost shouted out to Blue Shell.


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[Assistant] Then he noticed the flat ceramic rectangle mounted in the hill just a few meters behind the rider.


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[Assistant] The nearest midge reported it was some kind of explosive, probably a directional mine. A low resolution camera, barely more than a motion sensor was mounted beside it.


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[Assistant] Blue shell had rolled nonchalantly past the thing, all the while chattering with green stock. They let him past.


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[Assistant] Even five meters to the side, the shockwave pushed him back.


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[Assistant] He had a glimpse of blue shell, thrown frond over wheels on the far side of the mine. Edged metal whizzed about but mindlessly. Nothing came back to attack again. Several midges were destroyed by the blast.


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[Assistant] Fam took advantage of the racket to accelerate hard, scooting up a nearby hill and into a shallow valley. Alley?


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[Assistant] Pham held his fire, curious. After a moment, Blue Shell floated into the air a hundred meters away.


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[Assistant] The ambushers ignored Blue Shell. Three of them disappeared around the hill. Pham's measures saw them stop in consternation, fronds, erect. They had realized he'd gotten away.


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[Assistant] The five spread out searching the area hunting him down.


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[Assistant] There was no persuasive talk from Greenstalk anymore. There was a sharp cracking sound.


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[Assistant] And blaster fire glowed from behind a hill. Somebody was a little nervous on the trigger.


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[Assistant] The paranoid Infamnuan was not deceived. I don't want you up there looking down.


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[Assistant] He sighted his main beam gun on the rider, then shifted his aim and fired. The blast was not invisible wavelengths, but there were gigajoules in the pulse.


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[Assistant] Plasma Chorus skated along the beam, missing blue shell by less than 5 meters.


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[Assistant] Well above the scroll rider, the beam struck hull crystal.


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[Assistant] The explosion was spectacular. An actinic glare that sent glowing fragments in a thousand rays.


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[Assistant] Pham flew sideways even as the ceiling flared. He saw Blue Shell spin off, regain control, and move precipitously for cover.


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[Assistant] Where Fam's beam had hit, a corona of light was dimming from blue through orange and red, its light still brighter than the shepherd moon overhead.


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[Assistant] His warning shot had been like a great finger pointing back toward his location. In the next fifteen seconds, four of the ambushers fired on the place Fab had been. There was silence, then faint rustling.


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[Assistant] In a game of stealth, the five might think themselves easy winners.


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[Assistant] It might take a while before the leak affected the scrote riders, but it was an emergency, nevertheless. It would attract notice. He stared at the hole.


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[Assistant] Down here it was stirring a breeze, but in the few meters right below the hole there was a miniature tornado of dust and loose junk hurtling up and out.


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[Assistant] And beyond the transparent hull, in space, a gap of dark, and then a glittering plume where the debris emerged from the arc's shadow into the sunlight, a neat idea struggled for his attention.


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[Assistant] Pham changed position again, moving in the direction he knew was farthest from his enemy's positions.


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[Assistant] This time his beam was putting out less than 10,000 joules per second, not enough to glow the air.


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[Assistant] But reflecting off the plume beyond the hull, the modulation should be visible for thousands of clicks, in particular to the OOB on the other side of the habitat. The scrote riders were closing in again. Damn.


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[Assistant] He had superior firepower and information, but one piece of bad luck and he was dead. He floated up on his next target, quietly, carefully.


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[Assistant] A seer of light brushed his arm, flaring the armor incandescent.


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[Assistant] Whiteheart drops of metal sprayed as he twisted out of the way.


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[Assistant] He boosted straight across the space between three hillocks, firing down on the rider there.


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[Assistant] Lights crisscrossed around him and then he was undercover again.


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[Assistant] They were fast. Almost as if they had automatic aiming gear. Maybe they did. They're scrodes. Then the pain hit.


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[Assistant] Fam folded on himself, gasping. If this were like wounds he remembered, there would be char to the bone.


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[Assistant] Tears floated in his eyes and consciousness disappeared in a nauseated faint. He came too.


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[Assistant] It can only be a second or two later, else he'd never have wakened.


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[Assistant] The others were a lot closer now, but the one he'd fired on was just a glowing crater and random scrowed fragments.


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[Assistant] His suit's automation brought the damaged armor in close to his side.


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[Assistant] He felt the chill of local anesthetic and the pain dim.


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[Assistant] Pham eased around the hill trying to keep all three of his antagonists simultaneously out of sight. They had caught on to his midges. Every few seconds, a glow erupted, or a hilltop turned to glowing slag.


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[Assistant] It was overkill, but the midges were dying and he was losing his greatest advantage. Where is blue shell?


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[Assistant] Pham cycled through the views from his remaining midges than his own.


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[Assistant] The bastard was back in the air, high above the combat, untouched by his fellow riders, reporting everything I do.


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[Assistant] Fab rolled over awkwardly bringing his gun to bear on the tiny figure. He hesitated. You're getting soft, new one.


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[Assistant] Blue shell abruptly accelerated downwards, his cargo scarf billing out behind him. Evidently, he was using his gas jet's full power.


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[Assistant] Against the background noise of bubbling metal and blast beam thunder, his fall was totally silent. He was driving straight for the nearest of the attackers.


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[Assistant] Thirty meters up, the rider released something large and angular.


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[Assistant] The two separated, blue shell breaking and diving to the side. He disappeared behind the hills.


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[Assistant] At the same time, much nearer came a solid thud crunch.


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[Assistant] Pham spent his next to last midge for a peek around the hillside.


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[Assistant] He had a glimpse of a scroed and fronds splayed all about a squashed stalk. There was a flash of light and the midge was gone. Only two ambushers left. One was greenstalk.


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[Assistant] For ten seconds there was no more firing, yet things were not completely silent. The slumped, glowing metal of his arm popped and sputtered as it cooled.


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[Assistant] High above was the caesuras of air escaping the hall.


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[Assistant] Fitful breezes whispered around ground level making it impossible to keep position without constant tweaking at his jets. He paused.


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[Assistant] Letting the current carry him silently out of his little valley. There. A ghostly hiss that was not his own. Another.


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[Assistant] The two were closing in on him from different directions. They might not know his exact position, but they could obviously coordinate their own. The pain faded in and out along with consciousness. Short pulses of agony and darkness. He dared not fool with any more anesthetic. Fam saw frond tips peeping over a nearby hill. He halted, watched the fronds.


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[Assistant] Most likely there was just enough vision area in the tips to sense motion. Two seconds passed.


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[Assistant] Pham's last mid showed the other attacker floating silently in from the side. Any second now, the two would pop up.


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[Assistant] At that instant, Fab would have given anything for an armed midge. In all his stupid hacking, he'd never gotten around to that. No help for it.


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[Assistant] He waited for a moment of clear consciousness long enough to boost over the enemy and shoot.


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[Assistant] There was a rattle of fronds, loud self-announcement.


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[Assistant] Pham's midge caught sight of blue shell rolling behind slatted walls a hundred meters away.


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[Assistant] Even after five months with the writers, Femme had only the vaguest sense of their rattle talk.


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[Assistant] Greenstalk, the greenstalk who had always been the shy one, the compulsively honest one, rattled nothing back.


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[Assistant] She swung her beamer around, raking the slats with fire. The third rider popped up just far enough to shoot at the slats. His angle would have been just right to fry Blue Shell where he stood, except that the movement took him directly in front of Fabnuin's gun.


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[Assistant] Even as Fab fired, he was boosting out of his hull.


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[Assistant] Now was his only chance. If he could turn, fire back on Greenstalk before she was done with Blue Shell.


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[Assistant] The maneuver was an easy head over heels that should have left him upside down and facing back upon green stock. But nothing was easy for him now.


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[Assistant] And Fab came around spinning too fast, the landscape dwindling beneath him.


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[Assistant] But there was green stock alright, swinging her weapon back toward him. And there was blue shell.


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[Assistant] RACING FROM BETWEEN PILLARS THAT GLOWED WHITE IN THE HEAT OF GREENSTOCK'S FIRE HIS VOICE WAS LOUD IN FAB'S EAR


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[Assistant] Fab triggered his gun, letting his spin drag the beam across the ground. Consciousness ebbed. Aim. Aim right.


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[Assistant] He furrowed the land below with a glowing molten arrow that ended at something dark and slumped.


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[Assistant] Blue shell's tiny figure is still rolling across the wreckage trying to reach her.


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[Assistant] Then Fam had turned too far, and could not remember how to change the view.


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[Assistant] The sky swung slowly past his eyes. A bluish moon with a sharp shadow across its middle. A ship, floating close, with feathery spines like some giant bug. What in the ching ho? Where am I? And consciousness fled.


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[Assistant] Numerous marigolds were scattered throughout the garden, bursting into golden flower.


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[Assistant] Just then the small lad she had sent in search of Jamie came up, out of breath from the run. He reported that the patient refused to leave his work. He says, panted the boy,


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[Assistant] Mrs. Fitz shrugged at this not altogether reassuring message. Well, if he won't come, he won't.


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[Assistant] You might go out to the paddock near Noontide though, lass, if you ever mind to.


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[Assistant] He may not stop to be doctored, but he'll stop for food if I can, young men.


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[Assistant] Young Alec here will come back for you at noontide and guide you to the paddock. Leaving me to plant the rest of the garlic.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Fitz sailed away like a galleon, young Alec bobbing in her wake. I worked contentedly through the morning


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[Assistant] Digging out weeds and carrying on the gardener's never-ending battle against snails, slugs and similar pests.


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[Assistant] Here though, the battle was waged bare-handed, with no assistance from chemical anti-pest compounds.


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[Assistant] I was so absorbed in my work that I didn't notice the reappearance of young Alec until he coughed politely to attract my attention. Not one to waste words.


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[Assistant] He waited barely long enough for me to rise and dust my skirt before vanishing through the courtyard gate.


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[Assistant] The paddock to which he led me was some way from the stables, in a grassy meadow.


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[Assistant] Three young horses frolicked gaily in the meadow nearby.


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[Assistant] Another, a clean looking young Bay Mayor was tethered to the paddock fence with a light blanket thrown across her back.


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[Assistant] Jamie was sidling cautiously up along one side of the mare, who was watching his approach with considerable suspicion. He placed his one free arm lightly on her back.


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[Assistant] Talking softly, ready to pull back if the mayor objected. She rolled her eyes and snorted, but didn't move.


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[Assistant] Moving slowly, he leaned across the blanket, still muttering to the Mayor, and very gradually rested his weight on her back. She reared slightly, and shuffled.


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[Assistant] But he persisted, raising his voice just a trifle.


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[Assistant] Just then the mare turned her head and saw me and the boy approaching.


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[Assistant] Sending some threat, she reared, winnieing, and swung to face us, crushing Jamie against the paddock fence.


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[Assistant] Snorting and bucking, she leapt and kicked against the restraining tether.


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[Assistant] Jamie rolled under the fence out of the way of the flailing hooves. He rose painfully to his feet swearing in Gaelic.


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[Assistant] And turned to see what had caused this setback to his work. When he saw who it was.


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[Assistant] His thunderous expression changed at once to one of courteous welcome.


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[Assistant] Though I gathered our appearance was still not as opportune as might have been wished.


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[Assistant] The basket of lunch, thoughtfully provided by Mrs. Fitz, who did in fact know young men, did a good deal to restore his temper.


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[Assistant] Ah, settle in, you blasted beastie, he remarked to the mayor, still snorting and dancing on her tether.


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[Assistant] Dismissing young Alec with a friendly cuff, he retrieved the Mayor's fallen blanket.


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[Assistant] And shaking off the dust of the paddock, he gallantly spread it for me to sit on.


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[Assistant] I tactfully avoided any reference to the recent content with the mayor, instead pouring ale and offering chunks of bread and cheese.


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[Assistant] He ate with a single-minded concentration that reminded me of his absence from the dining hall the two nights before. Slept through it, he said, when I asked him where he had been.


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[Assistant] I worked a bit yesterday after hall, then sat down on a bill of hay to rest a bit before dinner. He laughed.


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[Assistant] Woke up this morning still sitting there with your horse nibbling at my ear.


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[Assistant] Last one for you, I'll ask the question to you that I asked, uh, Pelicero, uh, when I spoke to him last day. The people that you talk to, your ear to the ground, your phone burning up, the team that nobody's talking about, that the rest of the league is talking about having a good 2023, is filling that blank if you don't mind. You got one?


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[Assistant] Then that week three, uh, Saints at Packers game was huge. In your mind. Yes.


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[Assistant] This is about you, Mike. This is about you. We heard about before about the Giants and the Jets, and I'm just throwing that out there, that week three game.


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[Assistant] Oh no, I... I've always admired your wit, Lord Horfield.


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[Assistant] There aren't 50 men who can save her. There's only one Anthony Keene.


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[Assistant] But gay darling, I don't see how you can possibly stay away. Oh no, Tony won't be able to see you. We'll be in the gallery. Just two more dim faces.


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[Assistant] If you're left to your own devices, I'll bet you one thing. Mrs. Paradine will be done for, and your career along with it. And if it weren't for Gay, I... I wouldn't be so sure that that would be a very bad thing either. Good night.


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[Assistant] It's the gameiest grumps that you'll ever see, and I have to go pee. Let me tell you something about your Ryrie skills. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Wait. No. Okay. He's just a normal type. Okay. That is a safe place though.


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[Assistant] Nice! Nice! Dead! Straight up fucking dead! You massacred that fucker. Now eat his fucking body.


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[Assistant] Pray to it. Sup. You gotta like, put away your weapon and do- Oh, oh.


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[Assistant] I think, and then you gotta like, sit in a specific spot, and it's very strange. I think you just have to hit like, A or some shit. Sorry. Yeah, no, I've got that too. You gotta f- Oh god, f- Ah, that's gross.


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[Assistant] And then I don't stop. You eat because you're sad and you're sad because you eat? No. No. It's not that at all. I just love to eat.


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[Assistant] So like when I eat a pizza and then I'm like, oh this is good enough for me.


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[Assistant] It just tastes good, so I'm like, mmm, I'm gonna eat more.


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[Assistant] Well there's like, there's like a, there's like an extra side of the thing that you can go up to. Oh, I see. But you want to go inside the...


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[Assistant] It's gonna be awesome! Oh, woah, you can't climb up it. Yes! Oh man, what a surprise. Alright.


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[Assistant] I forgot about that. Each little platform has like a bell. A bell? Yeaah. So you want it to like attract them.


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[Assistant] We don't serve cauliflower. Yeah, but could you go get some for me?


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[Assistant] There's, there's fuckin' pagodas over there, there's gazebos. He's gonna shoot you, dude.


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[Assistant] He can hear you step or do all over this little, this little circular machine.


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[Assistant] I am not a seafaring creature. Am I? Oh, oh nice, he can't hit me. Yea, because he uses real physics.


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[Assistant] Yes, I agree. This guy gave me a run for my money.


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[Assistant] What the fuck do I do here now? Uhm, maybe you wanna get up top.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I always thought about that, like, if like, a game like this came out way back in the day, if people would be like, waaaaaaah, and like, their heads would explode.


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[Assistant] Did it really? Of course. That wasn't on the news. There would have been mass hysteria if people's heads exploded.


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[Assistant] He's all like fucking upset and shit. Aren't these notches climbable? Look, he's gonna try to find you.


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[Assistant] Why don't you look around and see if there's something you can like hit with your bow to make a sound.


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[Assistant] What is that up there? Should you hit that maybe? Uh, nothing happened.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can't aim for its vitals as thou art now. Okay, okay.


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[Assistant] So what do you, you gotta do, you gotta art something else thou.


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[Assistant] The leeches were fully engorged by now, swollen to four times their original size.


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[Assistant] The dark wrinkled skins were now stretched and shiny. They looked like rounded, polished stones.


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[Assistant] One leech dropped suddenly off, bouncing to the ground at my feet.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Fitz scooped it up deftly, bending easily despite her bulk, and dropped it back in the ball.


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[Assistant] Grasping the other leech delicately just behind the jaws, she pulled gently, making the head stretch. You don't want to pull too hard, lass, she said. Sometimes they bust. I shuddered involuntarily at the idea.


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[Assistant] But if they're nearly full, sometimes they'll come off easy.


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[Assistant] If they don't, just leave them be and they'll fall off by themselves.


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[Assistant] The leech did, in fact, let go easily, leaving a trickle of blood where it had been attached.


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[Assistant] I blotted the tiny wound with the corner of a towel dipped in the vinegar solution.


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[Assistant] The swelling was substantially reduced and the eye was at least partially open, though the lid was still puffy.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Fitz examined it critically and decided against the use of another leech.


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[Assistant] You'll be a sight tomorrow lad, and no mistake, she said, shaking her head. But at least she'll be able to see you to that eye.


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[Assistant] What you want now is a wee bit of raw meat on it, and a drop of broth we ale in it for strengthening purposes.


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[Assistant] Leah is my granddaughter you can. I'll thank you for her.


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[Assistant] The archaic medical treatment had been surprisingly effective.


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[Assistant] The eye was still somewhat swollen, but only slightly discoloured.