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[Assistant] But the whole New York blue collar worker thing? Yeah, it's been a Mario series mainstay since the very beginning. It's just evolved and refocused itself a few times over the years. So, like I said at the top of the episode, it's amazing what details we can glean for the story just from the cast list. And we're just getting started. See, I'm confident that the very first conflict of the movie, probably the opening scene of the movie, is gonna be an adaptation of the original Donkey Kong arcade game. This is because Fred Armisen has been cast as Cranky Kong, while Seth Rogen is playing a separate Donkey Kong.


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[Assistant] Which, fun fact, has been a pet theory of mine for years that I've never found the evidence to do. See, even I have some evidentiary standards. I mean...


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[Assistant] Anyway, after that opening rescue, I suspect that we're gonna see some sort of a time skip. Probably about 10 years or so to account for Cranky Kong's age. Again, if we're following Mario lore, Pauline will either be mayor of New York or New Donk or be campaigning for it after the time skip. Just like the role that she plays in Super Mario Odyssey. At this point, traditional storytelling technique demands that Mario WANT something during this phase in the movie. Maybe he's dissatisfied with his construction job or with his life in general after seeing people he knows like Pauline,


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[Assistant] So we can finally hop on over to the Mushroom Kingdom and meet the rest of the cast starting in Act 2. Here in Act 2, I expect the movie is gonna draw a lot from the early Mario franchise games. Specifically, it's gonna be more or less an adaptation of the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES. You know, the classic stuff. Bowser invading the Mushroom Kingdom, kidnapping Princess Peach after Mario and Luigi arrive, sending the brothers on their journey to stop King Koopa. This will set up two important points for our narrative here. First, seeing Peach get kidnapped like Pauline is gonna remind Mario of the heroic man that he used to be.


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[Assistant] I say this primarily because of Seth Rogen's casting. In these sorts of family-friendly animated films, Rogen tends to be the comedic ally for the main good guy. Think of his parts as


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[Assistant] Now, this is a pretty wild shot in the dark, but if I had to guess, I'd say that seeing how the kidnapping of Princess Peach devastates the Kingdom of Toads will make Donkey Kong realize that Cranky was wrong all those years ago about kidnapping people. Or heck, maybe Bowser just stole a big ol' hoard of DK's bananas and that just made him hangry. Either way, DK is probably gonna join the good guy side here.


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[Assistant] So Princess Peach will not be the helpless damsel in distress that she is in the classic Mario platformers. Mostly because that would be tone-deaf. This is 2022 after all. That sort of stuff doesn't fly anymore. Plus Anya Taylor-Joy is a girl boss. She has a ton of serious projects playing powerful women under her belt. I doubt she'd want her only lines here to be, So I expect Peach to take an active role in her own rescue. From here, expect the story to play out like a classic Super Mario game. Mario, Luigi, and Donkey Kong adventure through the Mushroom Kingdom's various biomes.


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[Assistant] Han out for the big teaser reveal of the Koopalings. I mean, it-


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[Assistant] This movie is gonna be a musical, but I also ask you to once again look at the cast list. Literally all of them have histories with music in some way or another. Let's just do a quick roll call here. Chris Pratt has a surprisingly decent singing voice, and he's already starred in animated movie musicals like the aforementioned Lego movie. Likewise, Charlie Day basically takes every opportunity he has to add singing into It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Keegan-Michael Key's biggest secret weapon might be his singing voice.


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[Assistant] Even actors with smaller announced roles here like Kevin Michael Richardson and Fred Armisen have pipes. The weakest singing voice of everyone who's been cast so far would be Seth Rogen, and even he's still sung in movies like the Lion King remake. But the biggest casting coup for Illumination here has to be Anya Taylor-Joy and Jack Black. Because they're Bowser and Peach, they are guaranteed to share a lot of scenes, and therefore at least one musical number. Anya Taylor-Joy has a history as a studio recording artist and has an amazing voice.


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[Assistant] And hey, since I saved you the time, please go back to working on Mario Odyssey 2. It's been too long without a main series Mario title.


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[Assistant] Right now, link is on screen. Not gonna say it again. You're smart. Go watch it.


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[Assistant] Sports has always been a part of me and I love to play cricket and badminton.


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[Assistant] I would suddenly come across ruins among the trees, massive concrete walls.


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[Assistant] When I asked my parents, they told me they were the remains of bunkers from the Second World War.


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[Assistant] And once you know what to look for in this wartime landscape, you can also see bomb craters, trenches and foxholes.


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[Assistant] I knew I could die, of course, and I was terrified.


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[Assistant] So the closer they got to the actual territory of the Third Reich, the more insecure they became, because they thought they would still face strongly fortified and heavily manned defensive positions.


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[Assistant] This went so far that the American military's films used excerpts from German propaganda films showing the Siegfried Line as an insurmountable object to explain to its troops what they were up against.


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[Assistant] But you have no idea how deep and steep the valleys in between are.


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[Assistant] If you look at Fossenack and Schmidt with the valley in between, the only link between them is a footpath that winds down into the valley and then up again on the other side.


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[Assistant] Even during the Battle of the Bulge there was fighting here. But both the Wehrmacht and the Allies were very busy with the offensive further south.


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[Assistant] That meant there was a period of two or three weeks without any major combat.


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[Assistant] A very central aspect of the post-war experiences of people living in the Eifel was that they actually had to rebuild their lives on a former battlefield. Children died because they played with munitions. It was dangerous to plow and cultivate the fields.


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[Assistant] It took decades to clear the most severely affected parts of the forest of ordinance, debris, and the dead who'd been left there.


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[Assistant] We looked at each other and I said, Martin, is this really Dürren?


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[Assistant] And then we looked across the old town. It was one big pile of rubble.


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[Assistant] And the really depressing thing was this eerie silence.


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[Assistant] So temporarily, they helped us to get more or less enough to eat.


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[Assistant] You have to take a deep breath, mentally too, when you do something like that.


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[Assistant] Sometimes these things don't look like munitions at all. For example, there's a German grenade that looks like a cigar. It's about the same size.


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[Assistant] You have to imagine that here, by noon in a single day, in a single attack, the Americans fired about 12,000 grenades.


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[Assistant] Given the typical assumption that 15% of these are duds, then we have to assume that there are about 1,500 duds in an area of 3.5 to 4 hectares.


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[Assistant] When you walk through the woods here, you encounter signs of the battle at every turn.


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[Assistant] In other words, we always see half of the battlefield, and we can see that here.


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[Assistant] We're standing in what appears to be a completely level green field, with nothing to indicate that we're on a former battlefield.


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[Assistant] I take a critical view because there were so many fatalities here. Whether it's fun or not is beside the point.


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[Assistant] During many, many hours of rather emotional conversations that we had on the phone, uh, I began to hear this argument, uh, from them, and I pushed back against it, uh, and I gave them evidence that there were efforts being made, uh, not just efforts by me and other civilians, but people in the government.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I also made the point to them that something


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[Assistant] Was different about the way that Otto's case was being handled. And it made the normal diplomatic intervention.


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[Assistant] Uh, that you would expect to work with the North Koreans. It made that ineffective.


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[Assistant] I merely cited the New York Times story and the fact that a U.S. government official apparently had confirmed that there had been torture. Uh, this made the senior official who called me rather upset.


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[Assistant] That he didn't have any bed sores or the things that you would normally expect, uh, of a, uh, uh, a torture victim to have. I said, I'm not confirming it, I'm not denying it, I'm just repeating what, what he had said. Uh, and he said, well I just wanted to let you know for the record that, uh, there was no torture.


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[Assistant] Who sent her these? Why don't you grab yourself a look and treat yourself to a surprise.


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[Assistant] In this box, it could be a skeleton. He could have sent them south. He grew some heel there.


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[Assistant] Look, he's got 100 million dollars. Don't be expecting also Mickey Mouse.


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[Assistant] Remember, you have lot of other jerks waiting for you in front room after you get through in here. I'll take the razor down to the barbershop.


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[Assistant] I don't want a number. What makes you think I want a number?


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[Assistant] Would you be able to read this section and tell us what your understanding of it is?


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[Assistant] Did you ever read this section of the lease on the security deposit guarantee letter of credit?


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[Assistant] I thought you were too good to be true.


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[Assistant] Hunter, I wonder if Valerie knows that record. We'd better have a brief pause for station identification.


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[Assistant] From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobauro. This is The Daily.


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[Assistant] Peter, when the special counsel report was released a few days ago and ignited...


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[Assistant] Into a national conversation about President Biden's age and memory.


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[Assistant] All of us here at The Daily Thought of You because you've covered Biden for decades now. You've seen him up close as a Senator, as Vice President, now President. You've watched him age. And in your role as Chief White House Correspondent, you've been examining what it means for Biden to be the oldest.


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[Assistant] President in American history. So I just want to start there with your own observations.


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[Assistant] Well, just explain what you mean when you talk about this aging. Like you said, everyone ages, but let's talk about the specifics of Biden aging here.


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[Assistant] Peter, I'm curious in your reporting how you're separating what might be kind of superficial about what, for example, these former aides are telling you or what we all see, you know, the president forgetting a foreign leader's name, mistaking it.


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[Assistant] How you separate potentially a common variety of someone getting old and having a lapse from what's truly worrisome about this as a journalist.


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[Assistant] Right. The conclusion you and our colleagues seem to have drawn and correct me if I'm wrong is that even if Biden's memory and his verbal agility is in any kind of decline, in the moments that matter,


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[Assistant] The president functions highly and in those moments of functioning highly, most of them are off camera.


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[Assistant] Right, so even those around him who are quick to tell you, there's no problem with President Biden's ability to function of his job, period, say, but if you're asking us what will it look like in


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[Assistant] Four years and a second term, there's some pause there.


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[Assistant] Right, so fairly or unfairly, and I'm sure to those in Biden world, it's unfair,


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[Assistant] The reality is that the age issue cuts both ways, but it seems to bruise Biden more. Right.


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[Assistant] So I think it's fair to say that is the complicated backdrop against which the special counsel report is released.


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[Assistant] Which is an extraordinary claim. I mean, to some, it was inflammatory. How does the special counsel, how does her justify coming to that conclusion that the reason or a big reason he can't charge Biden is because the president's memory is so faulty.


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[Assistant] Right. I think a lot of people who saw that language, Peter, thought, does this special council...


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[Assistant] Have it in for Joe Biden. I mean, you described him as nonpartisan, but.


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[Assistant] This is a very official legal document and the conclusions and the language that he arrives at are pointed and seemingly embarrassing and in the context of a campaign, pretty damaging. And so the thinking becomes, is there a backstory here we need to understand?


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[Assistant] Right, because whatever this issue was before this report was released, Biden, his age, his memory, all those questions,


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[Assistant] It was suddenly on steroids. It was suddenly something really hard to not look at and talk about and think about.


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[Assistant] So Peter, how does President Biden end up fighting back against this special counsel report that turns out to be so embarrassing for him?


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[Assistant] Right, he's angry, but he's not denying any of her's clams about memory lapses.


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[Assistant] And then there's a feisty question and answer session with the White House press corps on all these issues.


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[Assistant] Right. And so this is almost a very effective moment of political performance until it's snot.


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[Assistant] Once this news conference is over, it did feel pretty clear that something had changed, right? And that when it comes to this question of his memory, his acuity, this was something of a turning point. And the question becomes, how much of a turning point? Does it matter? Will it go away?


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[Assistant] And I'm curious, does this moment change anything about how the Democratic Party


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[Assistant] Treats Biden at this very important moment when he's the presumed nominee coasting towards becoming the party's candidate for reelection. And does it change how Biden conducts himself as president and as candidate?


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[Assistant] Yes, but at a stage in the democratic nomination process where it does feel


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[Assistant] More or less impossible to do anything about it.


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[Assistant] Or, and it seems important to mention this, is there anything approaching a meaningful public call to even have that conversation at this point?


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[Assistant] Right. And suddenly, the question of Biden's age is no longer the central story of the moment, and it's put in a very different perspective.


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[Assistant] But I think what's ultimately so fascinating about this moment is the reality that


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[Assistant] Biden, those around him, the democratic party, arguably have made...


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[Assistant] The choice in this election perhaps more complicated than it ever really needed to be.


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[Assistant] If you think that Trump is a unique threat, and so many Democrats argue that, so many Democratic leaders argue that.


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[Assistant] Then you have the hard but necessary debate about whether the 81 year old president, Joe Biden,


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[Assistant] Should be the nominee, whether it makes sense, whether it creates the strongest possible chances for


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[Assistant] Victory. And Democrats didn't do that. They didn't. They just.


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[Assistant] Pretty much went through the motions to re-nominate Biden.


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[Assistant] The party made a risky bet when their argument is that the risk on the other side is intolerable and to that point.


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[Assistant] Peter, how does the president, those around him, the party,


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[Assistant] Plan for a ten month long campaign now, where...


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[Assistant] Eyes are trained on the question of Biden, his age, his acuity, and what do we understand to be their strategy for making the most of a pretty tricky situation?


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[Assistant] On Tuesday, after months of tense bipartisan negotiations, the US Senate passed a long-awaited foreign aid package for Ukraine and Israel that now appears doomed in the US House.


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[Assistant] The $95 billion aid package was originally linked to tougher security measures at the U.S.-Mexico border, as congressional Republicans had demanded.


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[Assistant] But once former President Trump denounced that bill, the Senate proceeded with legislation that funded Israel and Ukraine without border security.


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[Assistant] Despite overwhelming support for the legislation in the Senate, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would refuse to bring the bill up for a vote in his chamber because it lacks border security.


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[Assistant] Tuesday, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pleaded with Johnson to change his mind.


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[Assistant] House Republicans have impeached the Secretary of Homeland Security after trying and failing to do so last week.


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[Assistant] Republicans have shown no evidence that the secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, has committed any constitutional crimes, but instead


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[Assistant] Based their impeachment on objections to his policies, which they say have failed to secure the order.


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[Assistant] There is no chance that Mayorkas will be convicted in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats. Finally.


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[Assistant] In the closely watched special election, to fill the seat of Republican Representative George Santos of New York, who was expelled over his lies and financial schemes,


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[Assistant] The Democratic candidate, Tom Swasey, has defeated his Republican opponent. Because Democrats have flipped the seat, Republicans can now lose only two votes on any partisan bill.


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[Assistant] Contains original music by Chelsea Daniel and was engineered by Chris Wood.


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[Assistant] From day one of many jobs, that prioritization and silencing of those who come forward begins. New employee onboarding materials as you heard often include these mandatory arbitration clauses that employees don't even know are there. Mandatory arbitration silences victims.


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[Assistant] It limits opportunity. It protects powerful men and it breaks the leadership ladders that we are all working so hard to put in place to help women succeed.


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[Assistant] We started with 27 teams and their journey took us through the preliminary phase. And now we've got the final three who've managed to reach this peak. Now only one round separates these three finalists from being crowned the national champion. What an honor that is.


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[Assistant] Now, Sunbeam Lehartara from Varanasi. They reserved their place in the national final in a contest that went right down to the wire.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's go across to our third team today. You guys seem cool. Is that how you always are or does it hide something else?


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[Assistant] Anybody tells me he's not nervous, I can see your nose growing longer because you're lying.


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[Assistant] Everybody is nervous. I'm nervous when I host a big game. All the great athletes of the world, they're all nervous. They all know it's a big stage, but they pretend.


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[Assistant] It's not. That is something very few can achieve. Let's see which of these three teams does that. The winner of this round of the Ultimate Sports Quiz 2022 gets this spectacular trophy and a cheque of 35 lakhs of rupees. The first round is up.


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[Assistant] They get 20 lakhs and the team that's placed third would be rewarded with rupees 10 lakhs, but they can only use that to develop sports infrastructure in their schools. Not just this. All three finalists, they're big dreamers, aren't they? Big dreamers of this contest. They're in for a hearty reward.


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[Assistant] A reward that'll make their dream of watching their favorite sport live come true.


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[Assistant] It's tailored into this unforgettable experience. This is the big final. This is the first round. Let's play Cityus.


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[Assistant] The names are arranged, sometimes left to right, sometimes top to bottom, sometimes first name, sometimes last name, sometimes sports person, sometimes sports related terms, all bound together by a theme. Now you get all five correct, you get five points as a bonus.


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[Assistant] Then you can earn another 10 points if you answer the connection question right.


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[Assistant] Remember this connection question, this bonus question, this will pass to the other team if the assigned team fails to answer it.


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[Assistant] There are no negative points in this round. So wish all three of you all the very best. Let's get our first grid on CITIUS. We're going to start with the Nirja Modi School from Jaipur. These are Formula One constructors. Find five teams.


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[Assistant] So Dhirubhai Ambani due to Sunbeam. What Sunbeam does to Neerja Modi. And I'll tell you what, I wonder if the circle gets completed. We'll see. Let's get Dhirubhai Ambani International School on the grid. Cricketers to have played for two international teams. Five names hidden there.


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[Assistant] Right, so there you are. We've gone through one round and it's not short of action already. Let's take a look at the scores.


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[Assistant] Right, Nirja Modi, Jaipur on 30 points, they got all 30 right up front but couldn't get the bonus question. Sunbeam got the bonus question, didn't finish their own round and then Dhirubhai Ambani poached their bonus question and did a clean sweep on their own. So they're sitting pretty with a lead of 20 points but the one thing each of these three teams knows


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[Assistant] Now let's see what happens as we go into our next round. That's right after the break. We're going to play Altius.


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[Assistant] Simple rules, really. Six subjects on display on our grids. They choose one of those. Each subject has three questions underneath. Questions are worth five, ten or twenty points. The teams that are trailing at the end of round one, they get to pick the subject first.


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[Assistant] Is in case there is an incorrect answer in which case the question will pass to the other two teams on the buzzer.


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[Assistant] The teams that go with 10 or 20 also have the option of passing so that they don't get a negative. But if you hit the buzzer, you have to go for the answer.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's time to start with our grid. We're going to go first today with Nirja Modi School from Jaipur. Here are the topics for you.


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[Assistant] Football managers for 10. It's a photograph for you. So take a look at the photograph. There'll be a question that follows.


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[Assistant] Ten pointer on the basketball MVPs. If you get this right, you maintain your lead. Otherwise, you allow Sunbeam to catch up with you. Here's your ten pointer.


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[Assistant] To Nirja Modi Jaipur. Let's get that grid up for you once again.


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[Assistant] Sunbeam Varanasi, the tactical move. Here's your question. Which former World Cup winner managed Real Madrid?


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[Assistant] Neerja Modi always there, calm, collected on 50 points. Sunbeam Varanasi always eager to have a go, getting into their last round with 55 points. And Girubhai Ambani just sitting back and saying, right, let the points come.


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[Assistant] They are leading on 6-2 but there's absolutely nothing between these teams because our last round is so full of points and so full of tactical acumen and calmness that anything can happen. And if you are a little breathless like I am,


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[Assistant] There's 10 points to be earned and 5 to be lost. This is the World Cup final of 2019 within our milieu. Here is question number 10.


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[Assistant] Welcome back. This is the finale of the Ultimate Sports Quiz 2022. We've got three wonderful teams. They all love sport like you and me and all of us do. And that is why we call it a celebration of sport. But did you get this one? Playing it my way is the autobiography of which all-time cricketing legend? The answer of course is the one and only Sachin Tendulkar.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's time now to get into our last round. One final time. Teams absolutely locked together. Who wins, who doesn't, we'll discover as we head into 40th.


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[Assistant] Rules are very simple. One team member steps aside, sits on the bench, while the other continues playing. It's the team captain that determines which of the two will play. Remember, 10 points for a correct answer, minus 5 for a wrong one. After 5 questions, we can swap. One thing I tell all these teams, stay calm, stay relaxed.


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[Assistant] Right. Ten questions to determine the winner. Here is the first.


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[Assistant] No, I'm afraid, but the good thing about that from your point of view is everybody lost points, so the difference is the same for everybody.


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[Assistant] The full question was, the court number one at the Australian Open is named after which Australian legend who has won the most Grand Slam singles title. The big arena is the Rod Laver arena. Court number one is named, as it turns out, after Margaret Court.


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[Assistant] Is the only cricketer to have scored a hundred in an IPL final.


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[Assistant] And why not? They've been so good, why would they want to swap? Question number six.


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[Assistant] Carlos Moya kept coming to the Indian Open when it was still a small tournament. He kept winning. We all love Carlos Moya. There's hardly anything between the teams. Three to play. Any of these teams can win it from here. Question number eight.


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[Assistant] Let's see what happens as we go into the last round. This is the World Cup final of 2019 within our milieu. Here is question number 10.


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[Assistant] This has been a baptism by fire, so you must congratulate your teammates. This was really well done. Let's look at the final scoreboard.


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[Assistant] There's uh, lines that have that gesture, that word, gesture.


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[Assistant] Now, depending on your position, that can be a good or bad thing.


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[Assistant] But you know what, sometimes your right is other people's left.


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[Assistant] Don't talk to me about left or right. I can't tell as you can clearly tell by last, uh, yesterday's reference photo. I do not even know how that happened.


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[Assistant] Now I can't on Thursday, that's my milford day. What about Friday?


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[Assistant] I'm curious whether you think the, uh, the performance improvement for the graph former is related to


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[Assistant] Centrality or other, other encodings, uh, do especially well on chemistry problems.


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[Assistant] The odds would be exactly in the water. Pretty high probably, right?


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[Assistant] Full service history based on mileage, having seven services, with the last service being done by us for the car leaves. And a new 2025 MOT, with any advisers that need to be done, being done. It's got loads of extras. Check the advert for the optional extra upgrades.


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[Assistant] So we've got a piano back inlay, Harman Kardon sound system, electric folding mirrors, electric windows front and back, panoramic roof which opens, full black leather interior, auto running lights, multi-function steering wheel as well as cruise control. There's the mileage, 62,210. As you can see we've got aircon and heating.


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[Assistant] Phone operation as well. Heated seats for the driver and the passenger. A little storage pot at the top here. A key insert with a start stop button. It's a 6 speed manual.


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[Assistant] Parking sensors, when you put it into reverse parking sensors engage, you've got auto stop start, little key holder here, cup holder and a manual handbrake with another cup holder in the glove box. And the roof operates by sliding under the other panel, but all working absolutely fine. And when closed and pushed forward as well, you can see that we've got a blind. All right, while that's closing, I'll go to the rear.


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[Assistant] A slight tint on the rear windows for the people in the back. We've got electric windows in the back with ice fixed basing on the two outer seats and the seats do fold in a 60-40 fashion to give a bit more room to the back. As you can see now that blind is shut. A 12 volt socket there for the chargers, for the nippers, for the kits.


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[Assistant] The next thing I remember is waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare.


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[Assistant] And seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars,


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[Assistant] I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water.


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[Assistant] Agitation, uncertainty, and an all-predominating sense of terror confused my faculties. Ere long, I became aware that someone was handling me, lifting me up and supporting me in a sitting posture.


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[Assistant] And that more tenderly than I had ever been raised or upheld before. I rested my head against a pillow or an arm, and felt easy. In five minutes more, the cloud of bewilderment dissolved. I knew quite well that I was in my own bed, and that the red glare was the nursery fire. It was night. A candle burnt on the table. Bessie stood at the bed-foot with a basin in her hand, and a gentleman sat in a chair near my pillow, leaning over me.


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[Assistant] A soothing conviction of protection and security when I knew that there was a stranger in the room.


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[Assistant] An apothecary sometimes called in by Mrs. Reed when the servants were ailing. For herself and the children, she employed a physician.


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[Assistant] I pronounced his name, offering him at the same time my hand. He took it, smiling and saying, We shall do very well by and by. Then he laid me down, and addressing Bessie


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[Assistant] Charged her to be very careful that I was not disturbed during the night.


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[Assistant] Having given some further directions, and intimated that he should call again the next day, he departed to my grief.


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[Assistant] I felt so sheltered and befriended while he sat in the chair near my pillow, and as he closed the door after him,


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[Assistant] All the room darkened and my heart again sank, inexpressible sadness weighed it down.


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[Assistant] Do you feel as if you should sleep, Miss?" asked Bessie, rather softly. Scarcely dared I answered her, for I fear the next sentence might be rough.


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[Assistant] Would you like to drink, or could you eat anything? No. Thank you, Bessie.


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[Assistant] Then I think I shall go to bed, for it's past twelve o'clock, but you may call me if you want anything in the night." Wonderful civility this! It emboldened me to ask a question. Bessie, what's the matter with me? Am I ill? You fell sick, I suppose, in the Red Room, with crying. You'll be better soon, no doubt. Bessie went into the housemaid's apartment, which was near. I heard her say,


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[Assistant] For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness.


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[Assistant] Ear, eye, and mind were alike strained by dread. Such dread as children only can feel.


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[Assistant] No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the Red Room. It only gave my nerves a shock, on which I feel the reverberation to this day. Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering. But I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did. While rending my heartstrings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.


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[Assistant] Well hello there, Miss Hemlock. It's quite a view from here. Perhaps we should slip into something a little more comfortable.


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[Assistant] My father had to start from scratch.


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[Assistant] What if Draupadi had married Karna? What if this would have happened? What if that would have happened?


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[Assistant] Come out of those shackles. So a myth expresses and confirms religious values.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I feel that, uh, this was used, uh, this is not a product of just open-minded scholarship that among so many thinkers like


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[Assistant] Now of course there can be some Sanskrit words which exactly portrays this particular sentiment, but this, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can see that now.


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[Assistant] We stood there for a minute remembering. Though the memories were human and clouded, they took over my mind completely. He smiled a wide gleaming smile and then laughed. The closet is through those double doors. I should warn you, it's bigger than this room. I didn't even glance at the doors. There was nothing else in the world but him again. His arms curled under me, a sweet breath on my face, his lips just inches from mine.


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[Assistant] And there was nothing that could distract me now, newborn vampire or not. We're going to tell Alice that I ran right to the clothes, I whispered, twisting my fingers into his hair and pulling my face closer to his. We're going to tell her I spent hours in there playing dress up. We're going to lie. He caught up to my mood in an instant, or maybe he'd already been there.


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[Assistant] And he was just trying to let me fully appreciate my birthday present like a gentleman. He pulled my face to his with a sudden fierceness, a low moan in his throat. The sound sent the electric current running through my body into a near frenzy, like I couldn't get close enough to him fast enough. I heard the fabric tearing under our hands and I was glad my clothes at least were already destroyed. It was too late for his.


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[Assistant] Our time on the island had been the epitome of my human life, the very best of it. I'd been so ready to string along my human time just to hold on to what I had with him for a little while longer because the physical part wasn't going to be the same ever again. I should have guessed after a day like today that it would be better. I could really appreciate him now.


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[Assistant] I could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face. Of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes. Every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue.


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[Assistant] And feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips. My skin was so sensitive under his hands too. He was all new.


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[Assistant] Like our kisses before, every touch was more than I was used to. So much of himself he'd been holding back, necessary at the time, but I couldn't believe how much I'd been missing. I tried to keep in mind that I was stronger than he was.


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[Assistant] Pulling my attention to a million different places in my body every second. If I hurt him, he didn't complain.


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[Assistant] Chapter 16 The Race to the Convent


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[Assistant] De Artagnan, the musketeers and their four servants, prepared all night and left Paris at five the next morning.


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[Assistant] Their horses were from the Duke of Buckingham and were fast and strong.


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[Assistant] By early evening, they had traveled as far as Arras, where they stopped to eat and rest the horses. Just as they came close to the inn, a carriage rode away.


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[Assistant] D'Artagnan thought that he had seen the carriage before. Just then a man came out of the inn and rode off on his horse.


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[Assistant] When de Artignan saw the man, he jumped back on his horse and yelled,


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[Assistant] Before he could ride away, Athos grasped his arm and asked,


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[Assistant] Just then, the inn owner came running outside.


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[Assistant] Friend, said de Artignan, turning quickly to the owner.


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[Assistant] The host looked at him with large happy eyes and then said with a smile,


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[Assistant] Read the words on it and suddenly gave a shocked yell.


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[Assistant] And then, written at the bottom of the paper, just one word, armentiere.


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[Assistant] Said Athos, putting a hand onto Artignan's shoulder.


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[Assistant] Athos then walked into the inn, followed by Aramis and Porthos.


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[Assistant] De Artigan waited outside for a moment, looking down the road. He then made a decision, one that he would regret for the rest of his life.


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[Assistant] He turned around and followed his friend into the inn and let the man of Mung ride on. In the middle of the night


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[Assistant] Constance Bonassio was awakened in her small room at the convent. Wake up my child, you must dress at once, said the head of the convent. Someone has come from Paris to see you.


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[Assistant] Constance's eyes filled with excitement and she sat up quickly. Is it a young man? she asked. The woman shook her head slowly. No, a young lady, she answered. A very lovely lady, the Countess de la Faire. The excitement left Constance's face. I do not know her.


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[Assistant] Constance dressed and was then led into a room where a young woman sat at a table covered with food and wine.


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[Assistant] My lady stood up and raised her hands to Constance. My dear lady, do you not know why I am here? She asked softly. How can I know? I know nothing. Perhaps you know my husband, the musketeer called Athos, said my lady. Yes, said Constance. I have heard his name from de Artignan. I have heard all your news.


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[Assistant] About how you were captured in the pavilion at the church, said my lady, and about how the Queen rescued you from prison.


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[Assistant] I have also been told, by the handsome de Artignan, who truly loves you with all his heart,


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[Assistant] Did he send you here to say that he will soon come? Constance asked hopefully. My lady shook her head sadly. No, he cannot, she said.


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[Assistant] Both de Artagnan and my husband are watched day and night by the Cardinals' men.


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[Assistant] They did not dare to come here and lead the Cardinal to you.


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[Assistant] Because of this, they have sent me here to take you to a safe place. You are here alone? asked Constance, looking shocked. Yes, my dear lady, and we leave here quickly. Many times while traveling here, I thought that someone was following my carriage.


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[Assistant] My lady sat down again and looked at Constance's face to see if she believed her. It seemed that Constance believed her.


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[Assistant] She did not think that a woman could be one of the cardinal's spies. What must I do? Constance asked. You must come with me, replied my lady.


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[Assistant] My husband has a secret place where we can hide and wait for de Artagnan. I understand, you are right, cried Constance. I will go and prepare.


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[Assistant] Suddenly, they heard the sound of horses running on the road outside.


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[Assistant] The horses came closer and stopped outside the convent.


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[Assistant] My lady looked out and saw eight men on horses. She recognized one of them as de Artagnan. It's the Cardinal's guards, she cried, turning to Constance. Quickly, we must run. Yes, we must go, said Constance, but she was too afraid to move. They then heard the horses stop under the window.


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[Assistant] Then came the sound of my lady's carriage, which rode off quickly. Then four gunshots were fired. Your carriage has gone, cried Constance. We can still escape safely, cried my lady. We can run across the garden. Hurry! We must go before they come inside. Constance was filled with fear.


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[Assistant] She walked a few steps and then fell down on her knees.


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[Assistant] My lady tried to carry her, but was not strong enough.


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[Assistant] Stand up, woman, we must run, she cried in anger. I can't, Constance said, crying loudly. I am too afraid. I cannot move. Leave me and escape yourself. I will not leave you here, cried my lady.


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[Assistant] She ran over to the table and poured a glass of wine.


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[Assistant] She then mixed some poison into the glass that she had hidden in her dress.


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[Assistant] My lady then gave the glass to Constance and said, Drink this wine quickly. It will give you strength.


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[Assistant] She put the glass up to Constance's lips and made her drink. This is not how I wish to take revenge, thought my lady. But I now have no other way.


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[Assistant] D'Artagnan and the three musketeers rushed into the room.


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[Assistant] De Artagnan threw down his sword and pistol and ran over to Constance.


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[Assistant] Athos, Porthos, and Aramis put their swords and pistols back into their belts and stood watching to Artagnan.


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[Assistant] Constance's face was pale, and she looked at DeArtingen like she was dreaming. You've come to save me, she said. She said you wouldn't.


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[Assistant] She said you wouldn't come, repeated Constance weakly. She? Who do you mean? Asked Artignan.


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[Assistant] Aethos wife, she heard your horses and thought you were the Cardinal's guards. She just ran away.


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[Assistant] Aramis ran over to the table to get some water. He stopped when he saw Athos, who was standing near the table and looking sadly at the glass of wine.


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[Assistant] Athos walked over to Constance. She took a deep breath and opened her eyes.


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[Assistant] He said softly, holding up the glass of poisoned wine,


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[Assistant] It is mine, mister, replied the young woman.


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[Assistant] Athos stared at the wine glass and made a terrible cry.


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[Assistant] Then he threw it down to the floor and said just one word.


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[Assistant] D'Artagnan, I cannot see. Where are you? cried Constance. Do not leave me, D'Artagnan. I am dying. D'Artagnan quickly moved over to her side. Her face was pale and sweat came down her head. Her breath was weak and she could not speak. Suddenly,


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[Assistant] Constance lifted her arms and held de Artignan's head in her hands.


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[Assistant] Her eyes opened and she looked at him for a moment as if her whole soul had passed into his eyes and gave one last breath.


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[Assistant] Like I've been saying for some time now, welcome, welcome, welcome. You're now rocking with Sports Como with Big Q and the guys where we have intense, entertaining, educating.


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[Assistant] And enlightenment sports talk from your favorite sports fam. What's poppin fam? It's hump day. We in this thing.


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[Assistant] And we got a couple of days left, Thursday, Friday, and then we into the weekend, baby. So shout out to the Who That Nation. Appreciate you guys for being in this latest stream.


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[Assistant] New Orleans 504 was popping. My brother, brother Tory, shout out to you. Hey, what's happening? Hey, shout out to you, queen. Appreciate you.


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[Assistant] Brother Yen is in this thing as well. Good to see your role was popping fam, Jeremy.


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[Assistant] You know, I got to break it down like that. That deserve a little extra on it. Devon, what's happening, brother? Appreciate you. Gundam is in this thing. Big Ant and the rest of the fam.


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[Assistant] All right, and all the family members, man, thank y'all for being in the stream.


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[Assistant] 504 code much love tuck graph was popping baby, was popping what's going on. So shout out to the entire fam across the world, man. When this stream fam,


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[Assistant] Uh, we're gonna talk about a few things, not too much. What's going on Dudley? Shout out to you, my brother. Oh yeah, it's been a while, my brother. Good to see you, man. Hope everything well with you and the fam. Much love, bro. Thank you for being here.


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[Assistant] Zachary was popping fam, let's go what's happening my brother. All right fam, so.


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[Assistant] Much love to the entire Who Dat Nation. Brother Wallace, what's poppin'? Brother, good to see you in this.


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[Assistant] We're gonna talk a few things and I want to get you guys thoughts on a few things as well in the chat. We're gonna go over the news notes concerning the Saints. Of course, we know our black and gold boys are traveling and going up there to scrimmage a couple of


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[Assistant] Uh, days against the San, uh, about to say the San Diego charges, you could say, uh, you know.


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[Assistant] And they know Washington, whatevers and the Chargers, they had not moved up to Los Angeles to share a stadium with the Rams. So.


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[Assistant] You know, they ain't have no teams in Los Angeles. Now they got two teams up there, you know, so.


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[Assistant] Getting each other hurt. So let's give some of that extra aggression and physicality to the other team. You know, we can don't have to worry about, you know, pulling back on them. We can kind of.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, unleash the beast sort of speak against the San Diego or the Los Angeles chargers rather, uh, in this thing. So we'll cover this as well. We'll go over that. We'll take a look at their.


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[Assistant] A depth charts, both depth charts, the saints and charters depth charts as shown by their websites. And of course we'll go into and look and talk about the latest additions to the saints team. Many, uh, brother Darrell Williams running back from LSU.


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[Assistant] By way of it, you know, he played in a couple of teams with the chiefs and, and, and, um, the Cardinals, he's here.


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[Assistant] They help out the black and gold wearing number 34. That's a positive. And of course, Jalen Smith, the linebacker.


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[Assistant] Who had some, some, uh, time with the Cowboys and the Giants. He's here. We'll talk about those guys potential.


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[Assistant] Uh, impacts, let's just say that potential impacts.


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[Assistant] On the team, how, you know, what, what, what we looking at here. So we'll cover that as well. And I get you guys thoughts on that. So anyway, shout out to the fam. Appreciate y'all much love to everybody, man. Thank y'all for being in the stream. Corvadia, shout out to you. Elite once again, shout out to you fam. And we're in this thing. All right. Gundam says Q off topic. If you can answer my question, what's up with


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[Assistant] He gon' be fine, bro. Foskey's gonna be okay, man, you know.


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[Assistant] It is, it, it takes a little bit, bro. You know what I'm saying? So like, like, you know, he has a gift. He's a past Russia lanky guy.


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[Assistant] Uh, he gots to get acclimated to the system, bro. Foskey's gonna get it together, man.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's gonna work out bro. It's gonna work out. We just have to be a little, little patient with Foskey. We was big time patient with Davenport. We was super patient.


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[Assistant] Uh, with Davenport, really super patient with Davenport. Didn't pan out too much. He showed some flashes and kind of stole money, if you will, from the saints and then got his tail up out of here.


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[Assistant] And then we look at Peyton Turner, who's really the real deal. Peyton Turner is the really real deal. If he can stay healthy, he's something man. When he's in there, he's getting pressure.


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[Assistant] I mean, Peyton Turner could really flip this thing and make us forget that we made the Davenport pick and we were looking for, you know, like, and I won't show my kind of sci-fi nerd, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Growing up, I was a comic book guy, anime. I used to, you know, draw did music and all this kind of stuff, just the artist stuff, right?


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[Assistant] And then, you know, everybody loved the star wars thing. So, you know, everybody was thinking that dark.


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[Assistant] That Darth Vader was actually the person that was supposed to come and save the universe and bring balance to the force. That was the big thing. And it really wasn't him.


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[Assistant] It was through his lineage that the force would be balanced, right?


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[Assistant] And obviously I'm kind of making a Star Wars comparison here as Darth Vader being Davenport.


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[Assistant] In the Saints universe, being that he was supposed to bring balance to the Saints defensive line with Cam taking all of the work. Davenport was supposed to come in and kind of balance it out, so to speak.


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[Assistant] Perhaps it wasn't Davenport, perhaps it was, we were looking at Davenport all the while, it was the guy behind him and Peyton Turner, baby. Could he be a young Luke Skywalker on the scene, man? Could he be that person? Could we be, could we be looking at that?


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[Assistant] So we have to keep it, you know, kind of looking at it from a sci-fi perspective, baby. But yeah, you know, just, just try out there, man. But it's, hey, Peyton Turner looks good, man. And we'll see what he can do moving forward, man. So shout out. No problem, brother Gundam. Shout out to you, sir. Thank you for being here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's bro. I promise you, Ozzy Afoski, man.


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[Assistant] Be a little patient with him. I'm telling you, he's gonna, he's gonna be fine. I'm telling you, the Saints are gonna get him right and get him all together. Like I said, he got the talent.


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[Assistant] The guy is just the natural with it, but sometimes it takes a little bit of.


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[Assistant] You know, a little hard work to figure out. We got Cam now. We got other guys that are kind of help him refine his technique, get his stuff together, but.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing him down the line, man. So it's all good to my, to my sci-fi people out there. All right. Tuck says Darth Vader did.


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[Assistant] See y'all with me. Y'all feeling it. Y'all feeling the vibe. Tuck grab. That's great. She says Darth Vader didn't lose a finger. He chopped Luke's head off. Oh man, y'all. What's up Bells, man. Y'all, but y'all feeling me on the vibe. Y'all feeling me on that analogy. So I'm good that y'all feeling me on that. So yeah, we're going to be all right, man. Shout out.


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[Assistant] That was pretty damn good though. I see y'all feeling me on that. I like that. I like that. Ro says like, like D.A. said, I'd rather have a dog that have to go, I have to hold back than a dog I have to kill.


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[Assistant] That's right. That's right, man. We gotta keep it going, man.


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[Assistant] Gundam says, uh, Cam needs help. Yeah, I know. Listen fam.


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[Assistant] I think Peyton Turner is, is man, he just needs to stay healthy, man. And don't we find ourselves saying that about several of the defensive alignment there, like we talking.


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[Assistant] And some guys on the offensive line as well. So we saying guys like, uh, Payne Turner has to stay healthy. Uh, Brian, uh, Reecey has to stay healthy. And you know, if we can rotate these guys and not overuse them. And I think that was the idea of the Saints loading the depth.


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[Assistant] On both, you know, on the defensive line, it had to create the rotations because


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[Assistant] Guys start getting injured when they get worn down and we don't want to.


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[Assistant] Where are these guys down? Like the rotation last year was pathetic.


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[Assistant] You know, our rotation stunk last year. We had, Kent Street couldn't do a damn thing. Uh, he stunk. He couldn't push Chi Tuttle out of here. Chi Tuttle.


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[Assistant] Wasn't a true nose tackle. I want to say they had him as the nose tackle, like, you know, but that was the thing they had going on when they had two defensive tackles and they were trying to say, well, we don't need no nose tackle. Remember we were saying that?


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[Assistant] I was like, man, how many years was it fam, when you see, you've seen the default fall in the Saints interior defensive line due to the fact that


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[Assistant] You know, we didn't, we had, uh, uh, a guy like David on Yamada there, but you seen the best out of David on Yamada when he was next to Malcolm Brown and Malcolm Brown was that guy.


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[Assistant] We'll command a double team made like life easier for everybody. So when that happened, man, you know, we got them out of here when Malcolm Brown named, bring them back on the, why they traded them.


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[Assistant] And then he got released by, I think the Jaguars who they traded him to for what, whatever the damn pick was.


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[Assistant] Then eventually when he was a free agent, the, the saints didn't even look in this direction. So I'm like, why aren't we looking at Malcolm Brown to bring him in so he can help out? It just didn't work out. But anyway.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, you see them kind of switching the philosophy and going back to the nose tackle position with Saunders and have him there. You need that kind of guy that can push the pocket. That makes life, life easier.


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[Assistant] On guys like Cam Jordan and all those guys. So, I mean, it's good to see they eventually were that they're shifting that mentality around. Shout out to my brother, Kai. It's Poppy504Kman. Shout out to you brother. Good to see y'all in the chat.


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[Assistant] So this is of course, we know the game is Sunday, 6 0 5 p.m. Central time. I didn't do a...


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[Assistant] Uh, live stream or play by play for the Kansas City game. I had a lot of stuff I was doing the previous day and I was really tired.


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[Assistant] You know, I had to be pretty tired if I didn't do it, but I did do the recap, but I'm going to be doing the.


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[Assistant] Play by play for the San Diego Chargers, I mean San Diego Chargers, yea I'll go again. The Saints versus the Chargers matchup will, I'll be doing my regular play by play, but I've been doing, that I've been doing for years.


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[Assistant] Doing that for that game and the rest of the preseason games. This one, another one, and the regular season as well. And then also, you know, that's the extra caveat I've had.


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[Assistant] My pops, my father to come in on the recap show and he'll be recapping the Chargers and Saints match up with me. So I'm kind of.


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[Assistant] Stoked about that as well. So anyway, let's get into this one, man, uh, for this and this preview is provided by, uh, the new on the saints.com page.


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[Assistant] And they're letting you know that looking to build on the momentum of last week's win 26-24 Sinks come from behind is still a win. And I, you know, I love it when


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[Assistant] We get the, the regular, I mean the preseason wins and learn, learn and win, learn and win, learn and win. You know, we struggle, but learn and win.


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[Assistant] And you get both the effect, you get a happy family base and you get happy players because you know, they were able to do enough to win the game. So shout out to them there. So.


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[Assistant] We'll travel to Los Angeles for two days, joint practices, good weather up there.


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[Assistant] With the Saints holding a 6-4 edge and 13 times in the regular season with Los Angeles leading the series 7-6 very close. Chargers are coming off a 34-17 preseason victory against the Rams in week one, so they ain't have far to travel.


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[Assistant] Chargers played 13 times with Chargers with 76, winning the last four, so the Saints won the last four matchups. Recently, the Saints defeated the Chargers 30 to 27.


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[Assistant] Then Drew Brees successfully executed a 9 play 48.


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[Assistant] Yard drive that ended over the 36 yard field goal by Will Lutz on the fourth.


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[Assistant] For the black and gold, shall we? Let's keep all this stuff popping and going and moving all at the same time. So yeah, we're going to have actually do a Chargers and Saints, uh, preview, uh, coming up later on this week. I'm lining up, uh, uh, a Charger person to come here.


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[Assistant] Uh, and talk and break down their squad. So we'll be looking out for that fam. Uh, we working on that right now. So anyway.


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[Assistant] Let's move on and we're going to take a look at with the Chargers. This is from their website, their depth chart here for the Chargers. I like the colors, man. Too bad we got to dirty them up a little bit.


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[Assistant] And of course you see, I don't know if any of their starters are going to be playing in this game.


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[Assistant] You know, you know how he goes. We don't know. Dennis Allen says we gotta wait and see.


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[Assistant] Stuff like that for the saints with Derek Caron all in, but I'm like, wait and see is not a no. You know what I'm saying? So is he kind of leaving that out there? So.


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[Assistant] Could we see another situation where the Saints have a, you know, a series, one series when we see our offensive starters?


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[Assistant] And defensive starters in the game showing up, showing off that will give a lot of good energy to get another solid.


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[Assistant] Uh, drive out of the team and usually I guess they don't play the third preseason matchup, like they just give it all over to.


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[Assistant] The rest of the guys, we'll see how they handle it this year, you know, with Dennis Allen running it. But anyway, this is what the Chargers got looking on the first team, Justin.


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[Assistant] Uh, Herbert's the quarterback running back is Austin Eckler, who's a good, good young, a good running back there. Uh, they wide receivers is Keane and Allen, who's a steady wide receiver been, you know, banged up with a lot of injuries there. Mike Williams, the big target.


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[Assistant] It's there. They also added Quinton Johnston. That's another interesting dude. Darius Davis is on the squad with a few other wide receivers they have that's trying to make the team offensive line. It's Slater, Johnson, Lindsay.


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[Assistant] I'll sell your Tempkins and the Titan is Gerald Everett, the former Ram Titan, Gerald Everett, who didn't go very far there. And of course they have an interesting.


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[Assistant] Uh, offense, man, and they gonna, eh, Herbert, they'll go as far as Herbert take them. They, they got Khalil Mack there on the.


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[Assistant] Defensive side with Joy Bosa, so that's an interesting tandem right there. We have those guys, uh, together. Interior speaking of the defensive line, you know, it,


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[Assistant] You know, not no big names there, but pretty, they're pretty solid. You have Eddie Kendricks there. Kenneth Murray Jr. is another really good young linebacker there.


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[Assistant] Then J.C. Jackson, who's a former patriot, he's at the cornerback with Ashanti Samuel Jr., y'all remember Ashanti Samuel Sr.


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[Assistant] The Patriots cornerback was pretty sized, undersized, but a pretty decent cornerback. His son ain't bad either, so.


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[Assistant] So they have approved some interesting pieces on defense.


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[Assistant] That can have, so we'll probably see some of these guys, I don't think for a long series or two before we start looking at some of these other people, the depth behind their team.


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[Assistant] So, you know, and they'll see quarterbacks come in there to like East Eastern stick. Who's not a bad quarterback. Max Dugan, who was the former TCU quarterback that, uh, played with our guy, Kendre Miller.


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[Assistant] Who got it? That guy's tough as nails and a big old heart and he's on their squad. They picked him up and then there's several other players that are interesting for the San Diego Chargers.


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[Assistant] You know, as well. So let's take a move and go to our team. You know, the only team that matter in this whole mixture, you know, there's no disrespect to our Georgia family members, but we love that black and gold. What can I tell you? Derrick Carr, like we talked about, just mentioned Carr.


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[Assistant] I had a fantastic out and it's just not just him, but the entire first team for the saints in terms of the offense, the defense had a good performance too. And we want to see if they, them guys can kind of repeat the feet, so to speak. You know what I'm saying? I'm throwing that ramen in there, you know, that's Reverend Saint better, but, but.


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[Assistant] They did a real good job. Michael Thomas was blocking and he had a catch and stuff like that. We've seen Chris, you know, Chris Olavi will be there. Rashid Shahid is not going to be there because he's shut down for the preseason. Trey Quine Smith still dealing with a groin issue. They cut James Washington. So other guys of all, that's three wide receivers that's unavailable right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's James Washington's off the team, Trey Kwan Smith dealing with a growing issue. I don't know if he plays this upcoming game and then Rashid Shahid shut down. So that's three wide receivers off the depth chart right away. So guys like Brian Edwards, A.T. Perry, Shaq Davis, uhm,


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[Assistant] Quan Baker, Lynn Bowden jr and John Trey Kirkland really have a chance to get seen.


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[Assistant] They really have a chance to really get seen. Of course, James Washington got released. He got cut, uh, so that scene the team could add.


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[Assistant] Running back, uh, Darryl Williams to the team. So that was.


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[Assistant] You know, the move they had to make. So the Saints offensive line pinning Pete or Pete's not ready to go more than likely. It'll be Hearst, McCoy, Ruiz and Ramchick there. Tight end, Jawan Johnson.


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[Assistant] Boss of my role, Jimmy Graham, Taysom Hill, those guys in the first team, well not first team, but you see Juwan Johnson roll out. Taysom was later on in the game there. Elvin Kamara gets his reps in there, then later on you see Jamal Williams roll in there, Adam Print is doing his thing as well.


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[Assistant] So it's gonna be a very interesting, if Dennis Allen so decides to say, hey man, let's get him on out there. Defense, we've seen Carl Grandison, uh, Kaelin Sanders, Nate Shepard, Pam do his thing.


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[Assistant] We've seen Peyton Turner provide some pressure. We've seen Brian Breesey out there doing some stuff, trying to do some stuff. Tanu Passenyo has really stepped up and people saying, what's up with FoskeyQ? Well fam, you know, he's learning and then somebody else is really pressing pass him and it's Tanu Passenyo. You know, did you get that?


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[Assistant] But passing y'all is passing up Isaiah Foskey. Now we talked about passing y'all being the fifth guy. Passing y'all said, I heard what y'all was saying and listen, let me tell you something. Didn't you catch that pass in my name passing y'all? I'm passing these guys.


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[Assistant] Bye. And he talked about that because he's not playing in the interior defense. I see. I was like, man, passing you should be a guy that we have interiorly speaking because he's massive. He's six, seven. He's a big guy that can really play when he's healthy.


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[Assistant] Why don't we use him inside? And I'm pretty sure as the regular season gets going, you'll probably see him shift and do that because the Saints will move these guys around. So they see fifth, but currently passing y'all has been just strictly an in and he has been very good.


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[Assistant] And people like you, you know, like Gundam just asked me about Foskey. Foskey is going to get it eventually. But PassingYo is really handling this business fam.


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[Assistant] Like in these practices, he's constantly providing pressure. He's held to block.


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[Assistant] And he's going to continue to kind of keep the pressure on man, so to speak. Cause people like thought Bassineau was an afterthought. Saints gave him a multi-year deal.


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[Assistant] And he's healthy and he's ready to step up and show what he can do.


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[Assistant] Man, let me tell you something, man. Passing yo's making it hard on a few guys, but Isaiah Fosky, he still makes the team.


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[Assistant] But passing your really is having a solid camp, man, to be honest with you. And I, I've been talking about like, man, he's been doing his thing. So passing your fam, we can't forget about him.


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[Assistant] And of course we see the other guys there. Pete Werner, DiMario Davis. We won't expect to see DiMario Davis in this game. I don't, I think probably you won't see DiMario Davis for the priest, for the rest of the preseason.


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[Assistant] And that's a precaution that I think is a good thing as long as he's re-ready when the games count is fine with me.


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[Assistant] Zach Bowen was another thing, and of course, last few practices this past week found we seen the Saints add Jill and Smith, the former cowboy and giant.


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[Assistant] To the club and he's been listed right behind Zach Bowen, a couple of the practices the Saints actually put him ahead on the first team to see what he can do and Zach Bowen then rotated in. So I was like, I found that interesting, but at the same time, the Saints do realize that Jalen Smith is very athletic. He's not perfect.


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[Assistant] He can cover a lot of field. He is, he was a pro bowler at some times. He was very productive with the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] He had some good production with the Giants when he was there as well. And Zach Bowen, he's going to push Zach Bowen. So you got a young veteran.


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[Assistant] Linebacker here with a chip on his shoulder got something to prove that still has something left to give.


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[Assistant] Still, still a solid, what, he's been in the league for like eight years now, I want to say eight years, eight going on nine years for a Jalen Smith.


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[Assistant] So yeah, and he, him and DiMairo and he's the second most experienced linebacker of all our linebacker corps. So we'll get into that a little later on and I'm gonna get you guys thoughts on that, but.


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[Assistant] And then of course, Paulson and Debo, Lattie Daddy, and we talk about Marcus May, Tyron Matthew, whoever the slot man going to be more than likely it's Alante Taylor and a few other guys that we want to see as we have two games left. And of course we're going to start getting down real soon to the cut time when we start looking at guys kind of get peeled off out of this thing.


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[Assistant] And what did it start really looking like? But the injuries to the wide receiver room has really gave given opportunities for guys that probably we wouldn't have seen very much of. So.


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[Assistant] Rashid Shaheed and Tre'Quan Smith and James Washington get cut. That's three slots of people that's not going to be seen, so we'll get an opportunity to see the others.


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[Assistant] Make an impact to the team. So that's something about depth chart stuff right there that we're going over here. And of course, let me share with you guys the unofficial depth chart that's provided by.


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[Assistant] OurLads.com and this is giving everybody on here as you can see.


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[Assistant] Um, the first team right there, Michael Thomas, Chris Olavi, Rashid Shahid and EDC behind those guys and the backups, Keith Kirkwood, A.T. Perry.


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[Assistant] Uh, you see Trey Kwan there, Ryan Edwards, Kwan Baker, Lynn Bowden Jr., Shaq Davis, and John Trey Kirkland.


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[Assistant] We've seen, uh, Kirkland doing his kick return, punt return thing as they trying to figure out who the punt return, kick return are between Jontre Kirkland and Len Bowden Jr. So that's going to be interesting to see who finally gets it as Jontre was a late, uh, comer to the party.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, he had, uh, two kick returns that were very impressive in the Kansas City Chief game. Can he kinda keep making?


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[Assistant] Uh, an impression there, uh, with the team. So that'll be cool. The John tree makes the team as a.


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[Assistant] A kick return. We've seen with Shaq Davis made a really good catch in the game and stuff like that. So a lot of positive stuff from my wide receivers. Like I said, Trey Quine growing issue, Rashid Shaheed growing issue, and they released James Washington. That gives these younger, these other guys, aforementioned guys, I mentioned an opportunity to step up and make a name for themselves or be seen to possible land the spot. Cause we, a couple of them guys are going to end up on the practice squad.


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[Assistant] And that's something, uh, that we pay attention to here is you can follow along right here. Uh, Jamal Williams is there. We know Elvin Kamara is healthy, looked really good in the game. He's football ready any day. You can be.


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[Assistant] The middle of the summertime or you can be whatever. Elvin Kamar is ready to play football. It's just, he stays in shape.


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[Assistant] All the time. So, uh, he looked good in the matchup. Jamal Williams looks smooth in the master of Kendre Miller who was dinged up.


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[Assistant] Just narrowly, he avoided having some surgery or something like that. So he'll be regular, ready for the regular season according to what some of the people are saying.


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[Assistant] And the insiders are saying, so that's a positive, but the saints are not taking any.


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[Assistant] Uh, and he shorts here, so I don't know if Kendre Miller, if I'm, if I'm the Saint, I don't play Kendre Miller for the rest of the.


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[Assistant] Uh, the regular season, I'ma try to, you know what I'm saying? I'ma just, he could be at practice stretching and doing all this stuff.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I feel kind of in my feelings about that. I might not let them participate. You guys tell me how you feel about that. But Ellis Merriweather got a lot of reps. We'll see Darryl Williams, the former LSU guy step in there and make a difference. So this is a solid move for the Saints to pick up. Darryl Williams to the team.


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[Assistant] 511, 220 plus pounds. You know, you can see a statistics right there as Russian stats from 2018 to 2022.


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[Assistant] His best year was 2021. The last year with the Kansas City Chiefs, he played 17 games, carried the ball 144 times for 558 yards. He averaged four yards to carry. He had six rushing touchdowns.


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[Assistant] And that year, and he's a quality running back and he's just the type of running back the saints could use in this style of system. He's a North South thumper.


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[Assistant] Got some wiggle with him and he also can, he has the ability.


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[Assistant] To a degree to catch the ball out the backfield he had 47.


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[Assistant] He catches in that 21 season, uh, off of 57 targets for 452 yards. He averaged almost 10 yards of catching that 21 year with two receiving touchdowns. So he does show you the propensity to be able to thump you and then turn around and catch the ball out the backfield, both things that Sanks like. He's also a pretty good blocker as well, picking up the block as well, sturdy running back.


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[Assistant] So very smart move for the black and gold. It's not a name graham. Like you looking at, uh, uh, uh, uh, Lenny, Lenny for net. That didn't happen.


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[Assistant] But they got an LSU running back from a railroad Mr. Williams saw. It's still a very good positive.


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[Assistant] Looking forward to see what he has and he's wearing number 34.


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[Assistant] You know, he's wearing that 34 number, so we'll see what he brings in a matchup. His impact to the Saints running back room.


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[Assistant] I think we'll be very positive because it gives you the ability to kind of sit kindred if you really, if you don't want to use them. I heard Kirk Merritt has a slight injury, but Kirk Merritt's not a Northside runner. He's more of a scatback, uh,


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[Assistant] A satellite style back. He's a receiver converted running back type dude. It gives him the versatility to be able to use and stuff like that. And he's very, you know, uh, very versatile.


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[Assistant] But the rest of these guys, when you talk about Ellis Merriwether and Darrell Williams, these are North South Thumperbacks that are hard to bring down. Like we showed Williams averages, well I think his career average is four yards per carry.


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[Assistant] For his career, I want to say. Yeah, four yards. There it is. For his career in the last several years he played, he averaged four yards per carry.


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[Assistant] Last year with the Cardinals, he really did. He played in six games, had 21 carries. He averaged almost five yards a carry at one Russian touchdown. So it's showing you that the guy.


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[Assistant] Does have some power to his game and adding him there with the syncs helps us out.


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[Assistant] Uh, as well, so interesting to see where he is. Ellis Merriweather is going to get a lot of reps too, but Darrell Williams is another guy we're going to keep an eye out. That was a very good sign for the Sinks to kind of help out moving ahead, so.


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[Assistant] How does that look? Now let's kind of move on down to the linebacker room here. We talk about the linebackers. We've been talking about the linebackers for a while. Uh, these things did fantastic stuff.


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[Assistant] With the draft bringing in guys, we talked about Brian Bressi and then we talked about Isaiah Foskey first and second round picks.


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[Assistant] Collin Sanders here, the big nose tackle to help out. Nate Shepard was a guy that could sit next to him until Bryan Bressi was ready to take over the reins as a first round draft pick. Then you re-signed Malcolm Roach and then you add guys.


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[Assistant] That are, uh, like Jack Heflin who were, these guys are actually doing pretty good. Jack Heflin has been, having been doing pretty solidly in camp. Constant giving pressure.


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[Assistant] Jack Heflin might turn into something. Prince Emile had a few things. I heard, uh, uh, uh, Colin Sanders talking about Emile. He talked about all those guys and Big Jaren Cage. So.


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[Assistant] Jack Heflin has been doing some stuff here, so we'll see what's going on here.


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[Assistant] But any one of these guys or any, any one of them, are they a threat to Malcolm Roach? I don't see anybody threatening him at this point.


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[Assistant] But Jack Heflin is a guy that's tough to block and has been given some pressure there, so.


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[Assistant] Jaren Cage has been doing a few things. He hadn't been flashing like I thought, but maybe he'll be a late bloomer. He better start getting on it as we getting close to the cut time. So he better get, get it shaking and moving.


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[Assistant] But real positive stuff. Now we talk about the line. I don't know why I started talking about that defensive line because it's so important.


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[Assistant] The linebacker position is where I wanted to kind of focalize, baby. There you go. Word of the day. Word of the week. Focalize. We got to focalize on the linebacker core. The Mario Davis, I doubt we'll see him for the rest of the preseason. We'll see Pete Werner as a guy. We've seen a few reps there.


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[Assistant] But we've been looking at the linebacker core to see which one of these young guys to step up and make their presence felt. Zach Bourne in the final year of his contract, third round draft pick, the Saints moved up to go and get, really has been, uh,


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[Assistant] The Tre'Quan Smith of the defense, so to speak. He's not really done, uh, what he, we thought he should do. And now with the Mario Davis having a calf issue.


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[Assistant] The Saints brung in a linebacker the first they looked at you, boy.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, uh, a bar, Anthony bar, and then he got the move in.


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[Assistant] And then the saints looked at Jalen Smith says, look, Jalen Smith will work. And really Jalen Smith fits better than Anthony Barr to be honest with you. I think he, cause he has a little bit more athleticism than Barr.


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[Assistant] But Jalen Smith could help us by pushing Zach Bowen, not off the team, but creating a competition with Zach Bowen.


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[Assistant] We'll have to get his stuff right. So he's Zach Bourne. We played the interview several weeks ago where Zach Bourne says that he knows this offense.


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[Assistant] That he knows the defense and now it's time for him to step up and show what he can do.


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[Assistant] So we'll see if it's truly a right competition or a righteous competition, uh, that made a best person win the job.


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[Assistant] That didn't happen last year under Dennis Allen. So I questioned his picking ability when it come down to picking 53 people. Uh, remember last year like, well, you don't get all of them right. Cause some of them was gimmies, but there were a few tough ones that you had to nail.


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[Assistant] That he failed on, like the Eric Wilson linebacker move. We wouldn't be talking about needing to go get a linebacker if they'd have kept Eric Wilson here. He's somewhere making things pop for the Packers and doing a good job.


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[Assistant] So we still deciding to figure out who's going to be the guy.


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[Assistant] To be there in a linebacker room. With Jalen Smith, one year deal, he'll, could he push Zach Bond into playing better or could he just push Zach Bond out of the way and take his position as the third linebacker in case something happens with DiMario or Pete Werner?


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, you see what I'm saying? So you guys let me know. And there are a few other guys. Demarco Jackson was making plays on the field in the Kansas City game. Nephi Sewell was flashing.


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[Assistant] Anthony Orgy was out there. Ty Summers did some positive stuff. Ryan Connelly did some things as well. So.


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[Assistant] They had a couple of these special teams linebackers and I think some of those guys will make the, you know, maybe one or two of those guys will make the.


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[Assistant] The team has a special teams linebacker because that's what they're looking at doing.


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[Assistant] But seriously speaking, I don't know if we have a guy, well, Nephi Suella, DeMarco Jackson, those guys.


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[Assistant] So there's still some time, I guess, where we have to be able to go through the next two weeks or so of camp to figure out who's starting to separate themselves from the rest of the pack.


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[Assistant] So yes, we talk about the contributions of Jalen Smith, the linebacker we brought in, and Darrell Williams, the running back we brought in here to go along with the room.


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[Assistant] So Darryl Williams, if he can just do what he do is possibly that he can make the team. Cause obviously the Saints will be marching into the regular season with three running backs, right?


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[Assistant] They're gonna put, Kamaru will be on the suspension list. It'll be Jamal Williams, Kendre Miller, and Darryl Williams. That's Darryl Williams, uh, Eclipse.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ellis Merriweather, Ellis Merriweather ends up on the practice squad. Darrell Williams end up on the starting, uh, roster at least for the first three weeks of the season.


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[Assistant] You know, he's an experienced back that's been there, that's seen some stuff and he's not beat down or run down and he can still give you.


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[Assistant] Uh, good production. So we were starting there and from the lineback position of Jalen Smith, still there.


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[Assistant] I don't see why he not, he doesn't make the team being that he's the second most experienced linebacker there with a lot to give. So you guys chime in and let me know.


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[Assistant] How you feel about that as well? So let me share that. And there goes Jalen Smith.


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[Assistant] Uh, profile page right here in this last year, 46 solo tackles in a sack.


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[Assistant] For the Giants, and actually, that's solo stats.


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[Assistant] His total tackles, he had 88 total tackles last year with the Giants.


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[Assistant] The Giants out of Notre Dame. His head coach was Brian Kelly, our current coach at LSU. That's cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, second round pick, pick 34. Remember he was, they drafted him. He was hurt with the micro fracture stuff. He had to wait a couple of years to play.


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[Assistant] And finally he got an opportunity to, to play and did he play? So you look at his numbers from 2017 to 2020, uh, 2020, they were pretty popping. 81 tackles his, uh, you know, total tackles that year.


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[Assistant] He had a sack in that year, then he just took off in a second in 2018.


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[Assistant] Then of 2020, his biggest year, 154 tackles.


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[Assistant] You know, and this, that was just astounding what he was doing. And then 21, I think he got hurt in 21. He played four games at 18 tackles. Then they didn't resign him.


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[Assistant] And then he ended up to go into the giants in 13 games and he got 88 tackles, 46 of them, which, which solo and he got a sack and, uh, did his thing. So from what you see from Jalen Smith, he's not perfect, but he's a guy that can cover some field here.


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[Assistant] You have some experience, and he was saying we played his press conference, uh, his, uh, interview.


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[Assistant] Uh, on, uh, TSC Unle- I mean, uh, TSC, uh, Patreon, our, uh, Patreon, uh, member stream, screen, stream the yesterday, matter of fact, on Tuesday. And we were reacting to him.


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[Assistant] Talk about his fit in his defense. He said, Oh yeah, I played in his defense before. I have some free. He says, I don't think it'll take me long. That's what he said that he actually said that he was like, Hey man, you know, he said, yeah, you, what do you think about the defense? Y'all put one in the chat. If y'all heard him say that fam, put one in the chat. If y'all heard that y'all put one in the chat.


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[Assistant] Because he was, I loved that confidence that he had. He was saying, uh, he, you, he said it was asking him about.


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[Assistant] His exposure to the defense, he's like, oh yeaah, I know, I'm familiar with this defense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm familiar. I'm familiar with the defensive scheme, yada yada. He said it won't take long.


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[Assistant] All right. So yeah, man, this is, this is going to be an interesting, uh, deal because listen, and listen, I'm not going to say.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, Quine, you know, I was like, Quine, you shouldn't have left nowhere, brother. But anyway. But the Jalen Smith thing, it works out because...


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[Assistant] We ain't paying them a lot of money, him or Darryl Williams, a lot of money to be here, but they are young veterans that are very productive, especially Jalen Smith.


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[Assistant] Jalen Smith's numbers are really, these are pretty good numbers in the one year, the 21 year he was hurting. And of course.


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[Assistant] Remember when they drafted him, he, I think it was two years that he was not playing because he had to, they drafted him hurt. Remember?


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[Assistant] And he had to get healthy. Jerry went and drafted. It was a fantastic move for Jerry to do that because he knew the kid was going to be good.


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[Assistant] And he had to micro fracture surgery and all that kind of stuff. So he took a year or so.


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[Assistant] To get healthy, but boy, when he got healthy to type, look what the numbers that this kid put up.


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[Assistant] Like I said, young veteran, young productive veterans and not worn out people. So it's like, this is a better, if you think about it.