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[Assistant] Meanwhile, behind the scenes, hundreds of surveillance cameras watch over every centimeter of the station.


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[Assistant] And strictly trained staff prevent accidents and catastrophes with the utmost discipline. They share a common goal.


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[Assistant] Perfectly timed trains arriving on a second by second basis in Shinjuku Station.


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[Assistant] Hey, you know, Jack, that fella was right. That prophesied pick the date that Bunk was gonna die. Prophecy? He hit it right on the nose. Yes, prophecy.


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[Assistant] You're sitting right over here in booth number 12 with that gal Jean.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't look so skeptical, Mr. Packard, if you knew that accidents like this are constantly happening to me. Why don't you go to the police for protection? That's what makes it all so tragically absurd. I don't know the names of the people who want to kill me. I've never even seen their faces. All I know is, I won't be alive three days from now. I've been condemned to death.


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[Assistant] If you need any help in the future while me and Jackie's staying at the Baycrest Hotel, room 1202.


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[Assistant] Hey Jack, is he hurt? No, just has the wits scared out of me. Well, no wonder. Did you get a look at that freak? No, not a close one. Well, I did. Too close. Are you all right? You see, I was telling the truth. Yeah, I guess you were.


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[Assistant] Well from now on, Doc, and I'll do you worrying for you. Yeah, I can't wait to get my hands on that fella with that satchel again.


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[Assistant] Well, how about you having just three more days to live? Did you tell her about that? Oh, yes. Ellen knows all about the prophecy. It's connected with her paralysis.


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[Assistant] Yes. Shall we go in? I'll explain the entire matter to you inside.


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[Assistant] Yes ma'am. Besides, we already know quite a little bit. Mr. Packard and Mr. Long befriended me this evening. I've told them a little of what we've been through the past few weeks.


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[Assistant] That's alright, we understand. Dear, if you don't mind, I'd like to tell them the whole story from the very beginning.


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[Assistant] When I see how brave she takes all this, it makes me thoroughly ashamed of myself. I think we'd be more comfortable in the drawing room.


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[Assistant] I need something after tonight's little experience. You were saying something about a second honeymoon. Yes. You see, Ellen and I were great travelers, and this trip was deliberately haphazard.


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[Assistant] We took coast-wise boats and tramp steamers from one seaport to the next, stopping off at wonderful out of the way places. This all started in Bakya, supposed to be one of the wickedest places in the world. Certainly one of the most mysterious. It was Ellen's idea that we go there. I hadn't wanted to, but she insisted.


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[Assistant] She had heard of a thieves market in backyard with a marvelous specimens of jade, and she wanted to visit it. Ellen loves jade and is always collecting it. In those days, she was well and walking.


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[Assistant] But somehow I couldn't shake off the eerie feeling that music had given me. Then one night I heard it again. Here. Right here in San Francisco. It was evening. I was meeting Ellen for dinner in a strange part of town. She was very late and at a grown dark. I was beginning to be nervous when I heard that same music. Their coming toward me was a blind beggar.


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[Assistant] Been in situations where familiar things suddenly become strange. Was that way with me? I have lived here all my life.


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[Assistant] If you are a skeptic, you say only those things that you can see and feel and taste are real. Believe me, there is more to life than that. There is even more to death. I didn't come here to discuss philosophy. Oh, forgive me. I was indulging myself. Allow me to reassure you that your wife is safe and that she is here. Thank you. Now, if you'll take me to her, I'll... Everything in due time, Mr. Monk. I have first to make you a proposition. A business proposition. Your business methods are a trifle unique, Mr. G.


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[Assistant] You see, philosophers and scientists have for centuries maintained that nature never repeats herself, that her variety is limitless. And yet at this moment and in this very room, there are two mortal forms so much alike as to defy explanation. What do you mean? Who are you? I am G.


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[Assistant] The high priest of the sacred society of the Barokan. Barokan? The oldest secret society in the world.


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[Assistant] We were old when Marco Polo was young over 700 years ago. He was the only other white man ever to become a member. What are you driving at? Will you please step up here to the altar?


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[Assistant] Each member of our order makes at least one pilgrimage during his lifetime to the secret tomb, high in the ice-locked mountains beyond Tibet.


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[Assistant] Where did you get this? It is of our beloved founder, made during his lifetime. That's impossible. It's a portrait of me. Precisely, Mr. Monk. That is why we have brought you here. On behalf of the Society of the Barokan, I am prepared to offer you $10,000 for your head. Are you out of your mind? Quite the contrary.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, our founder's head is deteriorating in spite of the most marvelous skill of our embalmers. Mr. Monk, the very existence of the Barokan depends upon your accepting our offer. It's crazy. Absolutely insane. You expect me to sell you my head? When you no longer have any need for it, Mr. Monk. When you are dead.


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[Assistant] I suppose you know when that will be. It is written in the mountain snows, in the bleaching sands of the desert. You will be dead one year from today.


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[Assistant] You could kill me for my head. We never kill, Mr. Monk. We merely prophesy. Yours will be a great honor. I can promise you glory for eternity. The temple bells of Fa Shan Si tolling each day at dawn and dusk.


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[Assistant] The whole thing seems so preposterous. The presence of that mummy. The portrait with my incredible likeness.


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[Assistant] The mysticism of it all. Well, that is the doggonest thing I ever heard about. He insisted I take the $10,000. You mean you agreed to sell your head? Yes. Oh, it was all so weird. It seemed the easiest way out of a mess. In fact, it was the only way. Mr. G made it quite plain that unless I accepted his offer, neither Ellen nor I would leave there alive. Well.


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[Assistant] If you ask me, I think you was darn smart. A month ago I received a letter from Mr. G reminding me that my time was almost up and prophesying that my wife would become an invalid. Three days later, my wife was unable to get out of her bed. Her legs were paralyzed. Well, I'll be damned.


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[Assistant] Why spend ten thousand bucks? Why do they let you live any longer? The Barrow can't prefer not to use violence. You see, according to Mr. G...


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[Assistant] It was the possibility that I might be the reincarnation of their revered founder. That's very interesting. Oh, believe me, there was much, much more. Mr. G seemed to know everything about me. When and where I was born and evidently when and where I'm going to die.


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[Assistant] Are you sure you didn't hear anyone just outside? Or that no one has entered the room through this window?


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[Assistant] Doggone shame must bustin' in on you this way. We get to workin' on a case we kinda forget about other folks' feelings. Come on, Jack. Good night.


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[Assistant] Don't apologize. You wouldn't have called if it hadn't been urgent.


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[Assistant] Tomorrow I'm going to see what's behind Mrs. Muck's supposed illness. Supposed? You mean you think maybe she...


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[Assistant] All I know is that Ellen Monk wouldn't be the first woman who hated her husband, pretended to be sick or paralyzed to keep him away from her. Oh, man. I ain't never seen a woman act more in love with her husband. Maybe that's the word for it, Doc. Act. Now go to sleep.


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[Assistant] Your sacred music of Nervasa, which is supposed to be a thousand years old, was written by Tchaikovsky. I don't get it.


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[Assistant] A few notes of music appear in a Russian symphony, but what does it prove? Well, maybe nothing, maybe a lot. Let's look at it this way. I'm a detective.


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[Assistant] I know a lot of fantastic happenings are supposed to come out of the so-called mysterious East. Things that have never been explained. But you refuse to accept them as facts until they can be proved. Is that it? Exactly. Can you explain my wife receiving a letter prophesying that she'll become paralyzed? No, I can't. But I'd like to see that letter. I have it right here.


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[Assistant] It won't be necessary to show you the other letter, Mr. Packard. Here is a later one, just like it. Aren't you going to read it? I know what it will say. You open it. The temple bells of Farshansi. Told twice daily for the souls of the Barokhan. At dawn and at dusk. When they have rung four more times, you will come home. Temple bells of Farshansi. How did you know the exact wording of this? I have a very good memory.


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[Assistant] The letter prophesying Ellen's illness. Again, exactly the same way. May I come in? I hope I'm not interrupting. Not at all. Please come in, Doctor. This is Dr. Hahn, attending Mrs. Monk. Mr. Packard, Mr. Long. Mrs. Monk has told me of your exploit, gentlemen. I am glad to meet you both. How do you do, Doctor? Hi. I hear we haven't been sleeping well lately. Oh, that's all changed now, Doctor.


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[Assistant] Mr. Packard has promised me an amazing cure for all my troubles.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm most impressed. Mr. Packard, are you by chance a medical man as well as a detective? I'm only a medical amateur. What field of medicine do you prefer, Mr. Packard? The human mind, Doctor. Oh, psychiatry.


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[Assistant] My branch, fascinating. If you'll excuse me for a moment, I'll look in on Alan. Oh, certainly.


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[Assistant] Tell me more about your and Mr. Long's experiences. Well, I started out to be a musician. Are you a musical doctor? Now it's my turn to plead amateur. I understand, doctor, that you're Russian.


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[Assistant] This is a very shrewd guess, Mr. Packard. Am I correct? Yes. Do you mind if I make another shrewd guess? I don't believe there's anything the matter with Mrs. Monk. I believe she could get up and walk tomorrow if she wanted to. It's hardly proper for me to discuss my patients, if you'll excuse me. Gede Verodilis, doctor. What?


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[Assistant] What did you say? I asked where you were born, doctor, in your native tongue. I'm also an amateur linguist. I was born in the province of Uzbek. Have you ever heard of or had any dealings with the Baruchans?


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[Assistant] But if there's ever anything you wish to tell me, Doctor, I receive all messages at Silver Samovar.


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[Assistant] What makes you say he's your boyfriend? Or that you're a friend of his family?


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[Assistant] I gave Monk a whistle and told him to use it if peg leg shows up.


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[Assistant] What's that banked the corners around this block? I think we've fallen for a very old but very effective trick. Somebody wanted to get us off Mr. Pegleg's trail. Yeah, that wasn't Monk and Hunter, that was a woman. We'd better get on back to where we're supposed to meet Mr. Monk.


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[Assistant] Let's grab that cab. Monk must be somewhere about. Taxi.


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[Assistant] Don't never say we didn't warn you. Cruise around the block, driver. We're looking for someone.


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[Assistant] Yes, he's here. Come in, gentlemen. They insisted on seeing you, Mr. Monk. We've been looking for you all night. You hadn't been home all night and we were worried.


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[Assistant] We were just about to go to the police, then decided to come by here and have a chat with Dr. Hahn. And here you are. Something went wrong last night. I lost you fellas. Don't you think we'd better discuss this in private?


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[Assistant] I started out to lead the man with the black bag to where you were waiting, but he fooled me. He came from the opposite direction. Then I heard a woman scream.


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[Assistant] And my peg-leg pursuer took to his heels. Did you follow him? No, he was gone before I could think. I walked the streets. For the first time in weeks, I walked alone. Unafraid.


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[Assistant] When it was daylight, I came here. But then you ain't seen the morning paper yet. No. Your friend Peg, like he had his throat cut last night.


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[Assistant] Jason Anderson, known in police circles as Pop or Pegleg or The Face, due to the numerous weird disguises he affected, was found dead at 4.20 this morning in his rooming house.


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[Assistant] Doc, you better get on over to the police station and see what other information you can pick up.


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[Assistant] Your wife is probably worried you better get on home. Yes, I had. I don't understand this sudden switch. A murder or a murder. What do you think it means? I don't know.


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[Assistant] But according to my calculations, the wrong people are getting killed. Well, gentlemen. Thank you for the use of the hall, Doc.


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[Assistant] For a medical amateur, you possess the most professional curiosity, Mr. Packard. Thank you, doctor. I didn't really need to ask you that. I could have told you. A man told over and over again that he's going to die finally becomes hypnotized by the idea.


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[Assistant] I could also have told you that playing with a barrel can is dangerous business. Man got his throat cut last night. There's no telling who'll be next.


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[Assistant] Yes, I'd like to see Mr. Justin Reeves. Is he in? Have you an appointment? No, just say it's Jack Packard, friend of Mrs. Jefferson Monk. Tell him it's important. I'll see if Mr. Reeves is free.


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[Assistant] Now what can I do for you? You can help me if you will. Mrs. Monk said you're the finest authority on the Orient in the city. Mrs. Monk is very kind. Yes, isn't she? You know, I've been to a dozen shops like this before I came here.


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[Assistant] But yours is the first where anyone knew Mrs. Jefferson Monk's name right off. That's odd. Mrs. Monk is quite a collector of oriental art. I know, but they don't seem to know her at any of the other stores.


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[Assistant] She said you might be able to give me some information about a secret religious organization known as the Barokan. Oh, the Orient is full of secret religious societies. There may be a Barokan, although I've never heard of it. But then why should I, if it's a secret society? Just what I told Mrs. Monk. Oh, do you play, Mr. Reeves? A little.


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[Assistant] What do you want? Why, I told you, Mrs. Monk. Mrs. Monk didn't tell you anything. That's a rather positive statement, Mr. Reeves. One doesn't make positive statements without foundation. I take it you've had occasion to talk to Mrs. Monk recently. Well, you see, I... I happen to know Mrs. Monk very well. She would have told me... Don't bother. It's out of my hands now, anyway. What do you mean? The thieves have fallen out. The one called the Face got his throat cut last night. There may be others.


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[Assistant] In tune. Downright cozy. All the comforts are home. How'd you fix it? Place belongs to Monk. I had to tell him your plan to get the ball of the joint.


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[Assistant] Listen, I want you to send identical telegrams to Ellen Monk, Reeves, Dr. Hahn, and Osgood, the nurse. Tell them I'm hiding here and that I'm ready to talk business after 12 o'clock tonight.


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[Assistant] Yes, but it also proves that Packard suspects one of us. He must have a reason.


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[Assistant] You must be insane to talk about going ahead with this. Those two detectors have seen through everything.


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[Assistant] I was thinking of that wonderful story by Balzac of the man who suspected his wife's lover was hiding in her room. When she denied the man was there, he asked us where on the Bible and she did. Then he sent for a stonemason and had the closet where the lover was hiding sealed up with bricks.


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[Assistant] Well, he doesn't know he's guest and that's enough for me. Besides, there's, there's Pop Anderson and Gene. I don't know who killed them.


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[Assistant] Why? You don't need it anymore. In fact, you never did need it, did you?


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[Assistant] When I found out what you were trying to do to me, my fear became courage. The courage to kill all of you.


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[Assistant] You startled me. I was looking for you. But what's the matter? It's been a change of plan. The police have surrounded the killer out on Cloverdale Road.


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[Assistant] I like to hold all the trunks. So you're the gentleman who's so handy with a knife. I should have known. Don't apologize, Mr. Packard. When your friend asked to borrow the warehouse, I gathered there was an elaborate ruse to smoke out the killer. If you knew I didn't suspect you, why did you come here and expose yourself? Because I knew that if you didn't suspect me now, it was only a matter of time until you did. You see how I respect your detecting ability. So I said to myself, why wait?


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[Assistant] The light's better, and I'd feel a little more comfortable with a piano between us.


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[Assistant] Your deduction's about the music. But how did you come to suspect my wife? Your portrait on the miniature.


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[Assistant] I have your partner, Mr. Packard. Are you coming out? Or shall I kill him with your gun?


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[Assistant] Don't do it, Jack. He's got to shoot me anyhow. I'll count three. One.


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[Assistant] Money. All the world is made for money. Except Mrs. Monk and her friends. As guests of the state, they won't need any.


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[Assistant] Dog gone. What started out to be a real honest to goodness mystery just boils itself down to being as simple as ABC. Maybe. But there's one note of mystery that's not been explained. What happened to Jefferson Monk's head?


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[Assistant] Today's video is about a major tokusatsu crossover.


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[Assistant] First I wanna talk about another one real quick. Over in Japan there's been a lot of releases of Godzilla, Neon Genesis, Evangelion merchandise.


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[Assistant] You'll see things like this on eBay over here in the states, but often way too much. But the goodies I'm gonna show you right now I bought through buyyee.jp.


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[Assistant] Like these Rey and Asuka statues holding their little godzillas. Rey likes grey, but Asuka likes a little more colour in her life.


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[Assistant] She got these Kiryu slash Eva units.


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[Assistant] This is cool. This is a Mechagodzilla with Evangelion paint schemes. Eva Unit 01 and 02.


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[Assistant] What will your treasure be? Sign up for a Bayi account using the link below.


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[Assistant] I've always loved the idea of a universe where all fiction exists together. The idea that somewhere my favorite characters can interact even if they're from different major companies. I will admit,


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[Assistant] Hollywood is making me tired of this idea really fast. But in the early 1990s, Bon Presto kicked off a shared tokusatsu multiverse that lives still as of this video. This mega franchise consists of the biggest pop culture icons from Japan, teaming up regularly.


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[Assistant] Usually in super deformed character sprites, and this giant series of video games is known as the Compati Hero series.


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[Assistant] We've already talked about the Touhou Monsters appearing in Battle Soccer and Battle Baseball.


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[Assistant] Bon Presto would even introduce their own original characters, the most notable of this series being Fighter Roar.


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[Assistant] Today, I'm gonna show you a nice chunk of Compati Hero games we haven't gone over yet. Focusing on the Super Famicom and Game Boy.


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[Assistant] And along the way, I'll tell you which ones are worth checking out, and which ones you can't play without a translation patch or knowing Japanese. Since all of these games are Japanese exclusives. But I think you'll find no matter what kind of game you like, there's a Compati Hero version of that game for you.


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[Assistant] Hero Chronicle Project Olympus. A 1992 Compati Hero Role Playing Game.


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[Assistant] If you don't know Japanese, the good news is there is an English patch available for this game.


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[Assistant] Look at this intro! It's like Super Nintendo Game of Thrones!


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[Assistant] The story in this game is gonna blow your mind because it's basically Kingdom Hearts!


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[Assistant] Each toku property lives in a separate world that more or less revolves around that hero.


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[Assistant] I can't wait for Ultra 7 to give a speech about the power of friendship.


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[Assistant] Wow, I'm playing as Amuro! This is one of the earliest Compati games to bring the human characters into the story.


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[Assistant] So you know how there are critically acclaimed RPGs like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy IV?


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[Assistant] Well in order for those games to be considered great, they must be measured against games that are just good. And here we are.


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[Assistant] This game feels like a fan-made 16-bit RPG, but it was made like this year. Via some pre-made RPG building software.


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[Assistant] It's so basic. No extra touches, no going the extra mile. Look, it's not a big deal, but I could just run over people's pets. And hop into any bed I want.


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[Assistant] I like that everyone you talk to only says one statement, so that saves me some time on double tapping every conversation.


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[Assistant] This is one of those RPGs where you get the whole party at once. So bright Noah, he's putting together a tea.


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[Assistant] He calls them Zeus and- And it has one hero from each of the worlds. So that's Gundam, Kamen Rider, and Ultra. And this is interesting, the fourth character is a Bon Presto original. Gilliam Jaeger.


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[Assistant] A mecha pilot you'll see way more often in the Super Robot Wars spin-off.


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[Assistant] You even have a secret base where Haro 9000 is a supercomputer who gives you your missions. I want it! I want it! I want this cartoon series! Give it to me!


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[Assistant] The Compati Heroes change forms for their first fight. It's everything you expect in a basic RPG fight, no more, no less.


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[Assistant] But this isn't all to deter you from checking this game out. It's totally worth it if you like RPGs and these characters.


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[Assistant] What about a 2D fighting game? We're in the 1990s, so there's gotta be a Compati Hero 2D fighting game, right? Sure! On Game Boy!


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[Assistant] It's Versus Hero, Road to King Fight. No understanding of any language necessary here.


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[Assistant] Geez, I didn't need to fill in every single pixel. Where the hell am I? Yeah, a lot of tossing.


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[Assistant] Talk to the hand business, I said talk to the hand!


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[Assistant] This background is much better on the eyes. With all the moves available to you, I found that I can win just by kicking and punching the air and letting the opponent walk into me. If they get hurt it's their own damn fault.


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[Assistant] Where'd he get that motorcycle? Kamen Rider kicked my ass.


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[Assistant] Put it on a t-shirt. Gameboy's also got a pretty decent side-scroller, Tecufight, the great battle guidance.


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[Assistant] This one absolutely feels like a great battle game, and a decent one too. In this game you can switch between the Compati Heroes and...


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[Assistant] You each have sort of a magic bag of various supplies you can use to figure out how to proceed.


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[Assistant] Honest to god, this feels like it was another property first and they just changed the sprites to add the Compati heroes.


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[Assistant] But it's good, it's very intuitive and this one is absolutely worth checking out. I guess its sequel went to Super Famicom.


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[Assistant] First you pick your hero. Look at these poses my Ultraman does.


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[Assistant] Put up your dukes! I said put up your dukes! Big slap attack is also back.


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[Assistant] Minigames of all different types and genres with no true connection to these characters. At least that I saw, I only played a few levels.


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[Assistant] The closest thing I can think of to compare the Great Battle Guide in 2-2 is fucking Bart's Nightmare. Yeah, it's that kind of game. Hey, don't go anywhere. YouTube's gonna play a little commercial now.


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[Assistant] Another Compati Hero RPG came to the Super Famicom in 1994, Gaia Save!


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[Assistant] I haven't found a translation patch for this one during my quick search.


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[Assistant] But like the first one, this game is quite easy and intuitive.


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[Assistant] Woah, white base! I remember it being a bit bigger though, yaggity-shmaggity.


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[Assistant] Battles take on a slightly different perspective as the previous RPG, and offer some cool sprite art.


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[Assistant] What are these guys doing? What are they gonna shoot me with their pointer finger guns?


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[Assistant] It's so basic, I guessed it. I can probably guess through this entire game, but where's the fun in that? Guy you saver, you basic!


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[Assistant] Battlesucker 2. Look, I did a whole video on Battlesucker 1. This feels the same, but without Godzilla and the Toho Monsters. If there are two versions of a thing that sucks, but one version has Godzilla and King Ghidorah, do you even want to hear about the second version?


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[Assistant] I'm sure this has some new features somewhere, but virtually everything I said about the first game, I feel again playing this one.


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[Assistant] I guess this one's a little less sluggish, runs a little faster and smoother. I don't know. Listen. Pachinko!


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[Assistant] Is big in Japan. So like pinball games or slot machines, pachinko video games are made pretty regularly.


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[Assistant] So let's throw some Capati Heroes into the mix. This is a cool two-player pachinko game, but man, the rounds are long. Long rounds means this music plays, and plays, and plays.


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[Assistant] And after half a round I've fallen into a deep haze, my brain half asleep and half awake on autopilot searching for something- IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS?! Oh, it's just a turning wheel. Ugh, close call. It looks like Jar Jar Binks is trying to swallow a television. I like these sprites here, I always like the sprites in these games.


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[Assistant] I like how these sprites here represent your wins against your opponent.


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[Assistant] This game is absolutely playable, but I hope you enjoy Pachinko. Me, not so much. But I'll be glad to move on to...


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[Assistant] This time instead of a constant screen presence, the game cuts to animations when the characters take a hit. That's probably for the best.


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[Assistant] Super Iron Ball fight on the Super Famicom. Now we're back to playing with balls, chains, and maces.


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[Assistant] I don't enjoy it much. The fact that my enemies don't go backward when I hit them with my mace is really amping up my anxiety.


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[Assistant] Another 2D fighting game at last! Sure, it's for Game Boy, but it's 1995 now, you know? The trend is really full swing by now, and they know what to do. Like, take these amazing Toku heroes and stick them in these Dr. Robotnik type machines. What now? And that's how you get Battle Crusher.


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[Assistant] One thing I like about this game is how their pods are tailored to their characters. And you get to see some weird stuff like Gamora piloting a King Joe. And it's a two-player game, which is nice.


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[Assistant] Yeah, alright, this one's worth checking out. But it's not gonna scratch any fighting game itches for ya.


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[Assistant] 1995 also gave us Battle Pinball. Now we're talking. I love pinball, and I dig pinball video games too. Except the ones that include Sonic the Hedgehog.


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[Assistant] There are four pinball games here. You get the Ultraman themed one, which I think is my favorite.


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[Assistant] Check out this underwater effect for the Fight Aurora level, that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] It's the first Mario Kart! Except it's these compaddy clowns again.


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[Assistant] If you like 16-bit games that look like this, you might want to check out Battle Racers.


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[Assistant] And then it stopped. Until 1999 with Great Battle Pocket on Game Boy Color.


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[Assistant] Whatever it is, if you don't know Japanese, you can't play this one without a translation.


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[Assistant] Look man, I don't know how many times I could say this, these games are entry level. They're harmless, they're basic.


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[Assistant] They're games you've played already, but now with new skins riding on the combined popularity of all these properties. And fuck me, I love it. I can't get enough of it.


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[Assistant] I wish it would come back! I wish they'd put a Master Collection out on a Nintendo Switch or... If it's a Toku Smash type game with these guys.


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[Assistant] Between a few videos, I've now covered all of the early Nintendo-related Compati Hero games, except for one more sub-series. And that is Battle Dodgeball, but that one's gonna get its own video one day.


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[Assistant] Capati games would later show up on other Nintendo systems like 3DS and GameCube.


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[Assistant] Thank you all for indulging me on covering one of my favorite corners of Toku culture, lol. Did I really just fuckin' script lol?


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[Assistant] It was so good, but do you know why this episode was a 5 out of 5? Realistically, the reason this was a 5 out of 5 was because the bloodline was on it a lot.


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[Assistant] That they just did that so they can have John Cena wrestle every year since, you know, to ruin that factoid.


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[Assistant] During a tag match, which I believe was OC versus, um, uh, Alpha Academy. Alpha Academy. Or was it Judgment Day versus, um, Street Profits? One of the two. They literally cut like mid-match, they're like, uh, we're just gonna show you something real quick, and it just cuts to the bloodline, beating people up backstage.


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[Assistant] Shorted, the champ is here. I've gotta think it's Himsina at Mania. You know, I'd love it. Honestly, great idea.


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[Assistant] Love it. So, so good. But then of course the USOs come out and Kevin Owens makes the save of all people. Comes out and...


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[Assistant] I'd forgotten all of the Rollins Owens stuff. I thought you were about to say, I forgot all of this was about Kevin Owens. I forgot all of the Rollins Owens stuff earlier this year. So then they said, oh, they got a lot of history. I was like, oh yeah,


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[Assistant] Yeah, and what I loved about this is you have so many people involved. Owens, Rollins, the Usos, Solos Okoha, the OC, Theory, each of those, because Theory also decked Rollins with the US title on the outside. Yeah, sorry I forgot about that, yeah. During all this, Theory decks Rollins on the outside with the US title just to keep that plate spinning as well, because they're having their time match in two weeks. And, on top of all that, there's no Sami Zayn. Brilliant. Do not have him involved with the Kevin Owens thing. And then, the match ends. KO wins.


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[Assistant] Sammy then comes out afterwards and has a stare down with Kevin Owens.


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[Assistant] You have Sami Zayn get the tag in against Kevin Owens, but then he stops and Roman's just like, no, you have to tag me in. And Sami's like, ordered to like, go back out or something like that. Those two start. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah! Oh, there's a lot of potential here. I love it. And this, I think this is a fantastic way to build that match on SmackDown.


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[Assistant] Occasionally on Raw, they can run into the problem of it being like, what if we watch SmackDown because that's the important show? And they were not going to put that much effort into Raw. This was a fantastic way to further that feud and build hype for that show without making Raw feel unimportant. That's it. It still felt important.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, yeaah. And, uh, this is a very, very small thing. I don't know if this was intentional or not, but this is something that I'm gonna say is intentional, and I'm gonna love him for it. Spoilers, earlier in the night, when it's Sami Zayn vs AJ Styles, Sami Zayn wins a match with the blue thunderbomb.


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[Assistant] He used the pop-up powerbomb, which these days is a signature move.


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[Assistant] Both Sammy and KO, one with their signature moves, not their finishes. Did they intend for that to happen? I don't know, but it's a nice parallel, and I love it.


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[Assistant] You know, you could definitely make an argument that they got scared and were like, cool, we need to stack this show.


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[Assistant] I think it's going to be interesting to watch Smackdown this week, because I think that will let us know a little bit more, because that's the pre-taped episode, right? Yea, they taped it last week. It's Smackdown. So if they...


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[Assistant] Reference stuff in like live promos in the ring where they're talking about what happened on Raw this week.


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[Assistant] They, I think there's a good chance that this was planned. This was something that they thought about before that taping. If it's just like the commentary with like VO dubs being like, and if you miss it on Monday, this thing happened. It's like, eh, maybe not.


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[Assistant] They've lost 11 non-title tag matches, the USO, since winning, uh, the SmackDown tag belts. So the original belts that they won, not since they joined and became undisputed. They've lost 11 non-title tag matches, not including singles matches, not including six-mans. And they do lose a lot of singles matches. They do lose a lot of singles matches. Which...


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[Assistant] I think it was the right call to have them lose on this show. Mhm. I'm never a fan of tag team champions being pinned. I do think it was the right call to have them be pinned on this show. You can make it work. But I agree with Sean's point on Twitter that I would like for this to play into the story somewhat of Roman being pissed that they didn't win.


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[Assistant] Yep, and we had the backstage segment on this show where he was very annoyed at Paul, uh,


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[Assistant] Interesting. But he was very annoyed. He's like, please call me back. For god's sake, man. Yeah. Uhm, so I- I think either of those work? Depending on what story they wanna go with here.


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[Assistant] I agree. I wouldn't be opposed to a Ripley-Bellair match, though I think that if you do that match, I think Ripley should probably win. Uh, or I think you do Ripley-Lynch as the mania match. Not for the title.


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[Assistant] I, they, they've done it before where they've called him Paul, in like,


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[Assistant] I seem to remember in NXT things, when they want to add like a layer of realism, there will be like, hey Paul, and it's just like, mm, okay.


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[Assistant] Ooh, sorry, very quickly, because we've already spoken a lot about the bloodline story, just one last bit of it, is I'd really like for this to bite Roman in the ass.


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[Assistant] I'd really like for the locker room that he's beaten up to stand together and to cost Roman and Sammy the match against John Cena and Kevin Owens. And you can have other bloodline interference, but the locker room that they beat up on this show, come in and wipe out the bloodline and distract Sammy so he can get pinned by Cena or whatever.


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[Assistant] Uh, I, I, I like that. I think that would be cool.


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[Assistant] I said this before, when did the judgement day become the coolest thing?


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[Assistant] I don't get the change that they've gone under because their change...


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[Assistant] Really isn't that drastic. They still have the same presentation that they did before. They're just so much cooler now. It's less spooky nonsense. Less spooky nonsense.


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[Assistant] Some great spots in this one as well, like, uh, Priest hitting this huge, like, uh, this huge sit-out choke slam that he does. South of Heaven. Great Slayer album. And then, uh, Montez-Ford doing the Frog-Splash-Crossbody combo because Priest was half sitting up, sitting on the floor. Wonderful spot. Yea, it was like a high-fly float. It was so, so good.


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[Assistant] You, you, you understand that she's beaten a man. You don't have to have a good, good...


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[Assistant] An MVP specifically said about Bobby Lashley.


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[Assistant] If they can find some way to just kind of brush the whole MVP and Omos turning on Lashley weird thing that happened, if they just brush that under the rug and just be like, MVP and Lashley, I'd be like, alright cool. I mean, that's fine.


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[Assistant] It'd be the best for the her business. It would be great. And immediately after that, Cedric Alexander's beating up backstage.


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[Assistant] I thought I was like, uh, yeaah, so I was like, uh, we're done here anyway. Then they start walking out, I was like, oh no, not the end of the bird line, that's the cool thing. Yeaah. And then just as they're walking up, AJ Styles-Brossman was like, okay cool, that's setting up a Sami Zayn vs AJ Styles match down the line.


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[Assistant] Blisp originally mentioned Bray Wyatt and was talking about how he broke her essentially and left her broken and shell of a person therapy etc etc.


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[Assistant] I agree. I don't hate The Miz, and I definitely don't hate The Miz the way that you hate The Miz. I don't hate them, hate's a strong word. I don't hate anyone. I dislike Miz's character and his booking.


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[Assistant] I think that he is fine. As a wrestler, as a promo, I think he is fine. Uh, I don't like this storyline, I don't like the character that he has currently, and I don't like his booking. Uh, and I think...


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[Assistant] Because apparently people really like this stuff, and apparently people really like Dexter Lumis and this story and all that stuff.


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[Assistant] I would say that the crowd didn't particularly care about this match either.


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[Assistant] There was a spot that I thought the crowd would have been really into, where Dexter Loomis is in the middle of the ring, Mizz is cowering in the corner.


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[Assistant] Dexter Lumis pushes over a ladder, looks like he's gonna push it onto Miz in the corner. And Miz is like, oh no don't do that! And he pushes the ladder over and it stops short of Miz and Miz is like,


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[Assistant] Thank god it didn't hit me, but he has his legs open, and Dexter Lumis is looking around like,


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[Assistant] I should kick it in his balls. You can see where the spot's going and the crowd would just say


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[Assistant] Cheer and get excited for the ball kick to Miz. Yeaah. And they didn't really care.


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[Assistant] Bronson- Bronson Reed beat Okada clean in the G1, and now he is Mrs. Lackey. I love Bronson Reed. And for that reason, I do not want to see him in this story.


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[Assistant] It's the same treatment as Tommaso Ciampa. That's what I was gonna say. I don't wanna see either of these guys in this story, especially when it means that this story must continue. I wonder if


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[Assistant] If Reid comes in, gets paid by the Miz, and he says you won the money, you pay me.


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[Assistant] And then Reed has never seen my Mizz again. He's like, cool, I'm here, I got paid, I'm off to do my next thing. Why are you trying to just back on the Mizz immediately? He's like, cool, you're giving me money? Sweet, I'm out.


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[Assistant] I don't care about anything else. I love both of these wrestlers so much. Sami Zayn, my wrestler of the year. AJ Styles, one of my favorite wrestlers of all time. Not Oli's wrestler of the year.


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[Assistant] I love the way that both of these guys wrestle, and I've missed, like, main event caliber Sami Zayn for so long, that when he busts out this Spike Brainbuster, I'm like, yes! Sami Zayn! I've missed this man!


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[Assistant] And I think they're playing this so well because they're not undermining the kind of cowardly, strategic Sammy Zane, the strategist Sammy Zane character of him kind of like


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[Assistant] Almost forgetting that he's one of the best wrestlers in the world, but they're doing the rehabilitation and showcasing that here's a little bit more of Sami Zayn being an amazing wrestler. Here's a little bit more of Sami Zayn being an amazing wrestler. So when we finally


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[Assistant] Put Sami Zayn into that spot and have it not feel forced. You can have Sami Zayn legitimately challenge Roman Reigns like toe to toe as a great wrestler and it won't feel forced because you're giving him performances like this.


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[Assistant] You can surround yourself with these people if you want, but we all know that the best Bailey is when you're by yourself. Yeah. So bring it and we'll do it one on one. If you want to bring your Lakers to do it three on one, that's fine, I'll still win. But you should really think about being like a solo act again, because you're great and you know it. It's great.


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[Assistant] I liked that they referenced their own continuity of them being a tag team and Rollins trying to steal a spot and Owens reminding Rollins, like, you tried to steal my mania spot. And he's like, what? No, me? I didn't do that.


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[Assistant] And they said, look, all of that's in the past. It's not about that right now. It's not about me and you. It's about making the bloodline pay. And it's about beating up the bloodline. And I think me and you, we can do that well together. Right? And Rollins goes, cool, we're on the same page. And he goes, hehehehe. Walks off and Kevin Owens is like, as it's fading out to go to the next step, Kevin Owens just goes, still got that laughter.


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[Assistant] That Kevin Owens burrowing with Elias was so funny. Just him just being completely speechless, walking off and coming back and just...


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[Assistant] Genuinely, the only thing that I didn't really like was the Dexter Lumis Miz match, and that even had the debut, uh, the return of Bronson Reed, and I love Bronson Reed, so... Not really anything that bad on the show!


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[Assistant] And finally for this Hall of Fame class of the 20th of December 2022, keep rolling!


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[Assistant] 170 bucks. I want to DM to me on Twitter as well to be like, that's outrageous. The prices that they're at now are stupid. Like, yeah.


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[Assistant] That I think it would have been amazing if everyone that got attacked came out at the end of the show and then roaming came out, big brawl, whatever, that's the way you win the show. I agree with you that would have been amazing. I also think you can save that if they are gonna do that kind of


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I think it would have been fun if we did a move or two, but whatever! Hot tag!


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[Assistant] Uh, jhohansolo said, uh, the last time I chatted in, I'd just finished my college applications, and guess what? I went into my top choice school alongside another one where I won a scholarship. Thank you for the 11,000 hours I've spent listening to you guys, which have really kept me sane. Well, congratulations to you.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyone with a CFO song is on the chopping block IMO after Gargano and Ripley's Owen Styles Nakamura.


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[Assistant] Judgement day. Yep. Great. Charles Berg's been a member for 19 months in a row. Happy holidays to all I get everyone. Uh, I hope everyone gets the thing they wanted and we will have some delicious meals in the coming weeks. I know I will. Down that jam.


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[Assistant] Carlos Mendoza said, Luke, did you listen to the new Proto Men song? The serendipity of the Monday Night War episode dropping two days after the new Proto Men song.


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[Assistant] I don't think it does either. It told me- I- I- I- It's kinda spoilers. Go and get into it. So.


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[Assistant] Go to patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk if you want the early access for the finale of Monday Night War Season 2. And thank you to everyone who has as well.


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[Assistant] Loads more backers, uh, joining us for the, uh, for the final episode. Thank you so much everyone. Really do appreciate it.


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[Assistant] Where do we get to? Also, happy birthday for Sunday, Pete. I know it's tough having a birthday on Christmas Day. Also, happy birthday.


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[Assistant] It's because we've had another meme come up of Pete leaving wrestlesaw.


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[Assistant] This was a great raw, LIW4Life, and jam that cranberry jam!


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[Assistant] That's festive. Festive? Like it. Uh, Jay Zerofell has been a member for nine months in a row. Uh, just wanna say I had an amazing three to four months being a moderator for this channel and you lads, and thank you for the wonderful memories this year.


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[Assistant] Thank you! Thank you very much. German Trevor said good morning boys! Always happy to see you two on a Tuesday. Hope you both had an amazing weekend and sleep!


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[Assistant] Question, at this moment, who else do you see coming back slash debuting for the Rumble? Happy to say, I'll be going! Have a great rest of your day. I hope you have a great Rumble. I, I mean, you'll probably have a great time. I hope so.


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[Assistant] Not that bothered, but I'd love to go to a rumble. 100%.


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[Assistant] You know who I would love, who I don't think they'll do, and if they do, I don't think they'd do it right? Josh Alexander.


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[Assistant] Oh, that'd be fun. I'd really like to see him in WWE. I think he'd smash it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, 2023 is gonna be mad. It's gonna be weird, innit?


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[Assistant] Uh, Mr. Higglesby. Yay! My boy. It's lovely time with the boys, hope you're all doing great. Is there a P.O. box where we can send you all gifts? Uh, love you all and hope you have a wonderful Christmas and great New Year.


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[Assistant] Send an email to support at WrestleTalk.com. We do not have a PO box, but we maybe can give you our address, potentially. And missed Ultra Chat from Saturday. Jack Nichols, unfortunately.


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[Assistant] It's my birthday! Which is unfortunate, we missed it on Saturday. Uh, 33 years old. One of the year's highlights has been watching Tempest grow as a performer and podcaster. You're knocking it out of the park whenever you're on screen, so kudos. I'll be sure to let him know that you said that. Uh, also love Sat too. You guys are great. Have a great day lads. I'll also let Sat know that you said that too.


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[Assistant] Selfish. Spread it around for you. Leave some fun for other people. Yea, I mean like, everyone else will be


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[Assistant] The mask. It's Miz vs Mizdow. I think. I think that's the fuse.


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[Assistant] Which to be fair, they dropped. It should have been way better than it was.


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[Assistant] And also, just a quick plug for the main WrestleTalk channel as well, we're gonna have, uh, some fun videos going out on Boxing Day and New Year's Day. Uh, it's a bit of an experiment, but it should be, I hope, very fun. Uh, it's, um,


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[Assistant] They have to predict all of their, how their 2023 will be in three words or less. Every single restaurant, WWE slash AEW.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of them, and it's a bit nuts. Genuinely. So hopefully, should be pretty fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, uh, hopefully a bit of fun. So stay tuned for the main, uh, BreastTalk channel unboxing day and New Year's Day for that. And speaking of, uh, what, New Year's Eve?


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[Assistant] And we're interested in finding out why this leads to the above condition not being equal to zero.


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[Assistant] variable which is a dummy variable which takes in the value 1 if the country experiences a war and 0 otherwise.


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[Assistant] This reverse causal relationship. So that's the same as the covariance of u with delta plus gamma times the hdI in the x plus v.


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[Assistant] I'm assuming that the covariance of u with the constant is going to be zero, so that's always going to be the case. And I'm also assuming that the errors in these two models are orthogonal. In other words, the errors, the covariance between the errors is also zero. Which is a reasonable assumption.


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[Assistant] And note that this term here is definitely going to contain


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[Assistant] Then we're going to have a problem whereby the zero conditional mean assumptions of errors is likely going to be violated. So OLS is likely to be biased in this circumstance. What direction is it likely to be biased? Well,


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[Assistant] It is likely going to overstate the effect of these, uh, the prevalence of civil war on a country's HDI index because gamma in this relationship is likely to be less than zero as well.


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[Assistant] At this time Pink Floyd's music was starting to pick up drastically.


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[Assistant] Interviews were being demanded 24x7. Shows were being demanded 24x7.


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[Assistant] When Pink Floyd played Belgium on October 25th, 1969.


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[Assistant] Frank Zappa showed up and surprised Pink Floyd.


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[Assistant] What Frank Zappa had to say about this encounter with Pink Floyd was, that was after the mothers of invention had broken up. And you know, I had, I had time on my hands. Zappa said several years later, these people contacted me.


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[Assistant] They offered me $10,000 to be an emcee at a festival. All expenses paid. And I go over there and you know whatever I wanted to do.


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[Assistant] And in the end I just went to the bar and placed my order.


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[Assistant] This son hit him in the face. I was going to say, Rachael's like, they took my baby boy and Mavril's like, whacka whacka.


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[Assistant] There was a chat on the review that said if Oli was reviewing the show it would be 5 out of 5. I said that to Oli and he was like, it really wouldn't have.


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[Assistant] Chapter 9 Secrets


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[Assistant] One October afternoon, Jo caught a bus into the town and stopped outside a building in one of the busy streets. She went in, looked up the stairs, and, after a minute, ran out again.


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[Assistant] She did this several times to the great amusement of a young man who was watching from the opposite side of the road.


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[Assistant] But the fourth time, Joe gave herself a shake and walked up the stairs. The young man crossed the road and waited. It was Laurie. Ten minutes later, Joe came running out, but did not look pleased to see him. What are you doing here? She said. I'm waiting to walk home with you. He said. I have a secret to tell you.


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[Assistant] Two of my stories with a newspaper man, said Joe.


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[Assistant] But I'll have to wait until next week before I know if they will be printed.


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[Assistant] Okay, where's your clutch? I pointed to the lever on my left handlebar, letting go of the grip was a mistake. The heavy bike wobbled underneath me, threatening to knock me sideways. I grabbed the handle again, trying to hold it straight.


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[Assistant] Jacob, it won't stay up, I complained. It will when you're moving, he promised. Now, where's your break? Behind my right foot. Wrong. He grabbed my right hand and curled my fingers around the lever over the throttle. But you said,


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[Assistant] This is the break you want. Don't use the back break now, that's for later. When you know what you're doing.


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[Assistant] That doesn't sound right, I said suspiciously. Aren't both breaks kind of important? Forget the back break, okay? Here. He wrapped his hand around mine, and made me squeeze the lever down.


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[Assistant] That is how you break, don't forget. He squeezed my hand another time. Fine, I agreed. Throttle? I twisted the right grip. Gear shift? I nudged it with my left calf. Very good. I think you've got all the parts down. Now, you just have to get it moving.


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[Assistant] Uh huh, I muttered, afraid to say more. My stomach was contorting strangely, and I thought my voice might crack. I was terrified.


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[Assistant] I tried to tell myself that the fear was pointless. I'd already lived through the worst thing possible. In comparison with that, why should anything frighten me now? I should be able to look death in the face and laugh. My stomach wasn't buying it. I stared down the long stretch of dirt road, bordered by thick, misty green on every side. The road was sandy and damp, better than mud.


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[Assistant] I want you to hold down the clutch, Jacob instructed. I wrapped my fingers around the clutch. Now, this is crucial, Bella, Jacob stressed. Don't let go of that, okay?


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[Assistant] I want you to pretend that I've handed you a live grenade. The pin is out and you are holding down the spoon. I squeeze tighter.


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[Assistant] Good. Do you think, do you think you can kickstart it?


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[Assistant] If I move my foot, I will fall over, I told him through gritted teeth, my fingers tight around my live grenade. Okay, I'll do it. Don't let go of the clutch.


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[Assistant] He took a step back and then suddenly slammed his foot down on the pedal. There was a short ripping noise and the force of his thrust rocked the bike. I started to fall sideways, but Jake caught the bike before it knocked me to the ground.


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[Assistant] But he put his hand on the back of the seat, too, just to be safe. It took four more kicks before the ignition caught. I could feel the bike rumbling beneath me like an angry animal. I gripped the clutch until my fingers ached. Try out the throttle, he suggested, very lightly, and don't let go of the clutch. Hesitantly, I twisted the right handle.


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[Assistant] Though the movement was tiny, the bike strolled beneath me. It sounded angry and hungry now. Jacob smiled in deep satisfaction.


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[Assistant] Do you remember how to put it into first gear? He asked. Yes? Well, go ahead and do it. Okay. He waited for a few seconds. Left foot, he prompted. I know, I said, taking a deep breath. Are you sure you want to do this? Jacob asked. You look scared. I'm fine. I snapped. I kicked the gear shift down one notch.


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[Assistant] Very good, he praised me. Now, very gently, ease up on the clutch. He took a step away from the bike. You want me to let go of the grenade? I asked in disbelief. No wonder he was moving back. That's how you move, Bella. Just do it little by little.


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[Assistant] As I began to loosen my grip, I was shocked to be interrupted by a voice that did not belong to the boy standing next to me.


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[Assistant] This is reckless and childish and idiotic Bella. The velvet voice fumed. Oh, I gasped and my hand fell off the clutch. The bike bucked under me, yanking me forward and then collapsing to the ground half on top of me. The growling engine choked to a stop.


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[Assistant] Bella, Jacob jerked the heavy bike off me with eaves. Are you hurt? But I wasn't listening.


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[Assistant] I told you so. The perfect voice murmured crystal clear. Bella? Jacob shook my shoulder. I'm fine. I mumbled, dazed.


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[Assistant] More than fine. The voice in my head was back. It still rang in my ears. Soft, velvety echoes. My mind ran swiftly through the possibilities. There was no familiarity here. On a road I'd never seen. Doing something I'd never done before.


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[Assistant] No deja vu, so the hallucinations must be triggered by something else.


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[Assistant] I felt the adrenaline coursing through my veins again, and I thought I had the answer. Some combination of adrenaline and danger, or maybe just stupidity.


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[Assistant] This thought worried me. I was anxious to try again, right away. Being reckless was paying off better than I thought.


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[Assistant] Forget cheating. Maybe I'd found a way to generate hallucinations. That was much more important.


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[Assistant] No, you just stalled the engine, Jacob said, interrupting my quick speculations. You let go of the clutch too fast. I nodded. Let's try again. Are you sure? Jacob asked. Positive.


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[Assistant] This time, I tried to get the kickstart myself. It was complicated. I had to jump a little to slam down on the pedal with enough force, and every time I did that, the bike tried to knock me over.


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[Assistant] Jacob's hand hovered over the handlebars, ready to catch me if I needed him.


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[Assistant] It took several good tries and even more poor tries before the engine caught and roared to life under me. Remembering to hold onto the grenade, I revved the throttle experimentally. It snarled at the slightest touch.


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[Assistant] My smile mirrored Jacob's now. Easy on the clutch, he reminded me.


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[Assistant] Do you want to kill yourself then? Is that what this is about? The other boy spoke again, his tone severe. I smiled tightly, it was still working, and ignored the questions. Jacob wasn't going to let anything serious happen to me.


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[Assistant] Go home to Charlie, the voice ordered. The sheer beauty of it amazed me. I couldn't allow my memory to lose it, no matter the price.


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[Assistant] Ease off slowly, Jacob encouraged me. I will, I said. It bothered me a bit when I realized I was answering both of them.


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[Assistant] The voice in my head growled against the roar of the motorcycle, trying to focus this time to not let the voice startle me again. I relaxed my hand by tiny degrees. Suddenly the gear caught and wrenched me forward and I was flying.


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[Assistant] There was wind that wasn't there before, blowing my skin against my skull and flinging my hair back behind me with enough force that it felt like someone was tugging on it.


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[Assistant] Left my stomach back at the starting point, the adrenaline coursed through my body, tingling in my veins.


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[Assistant] The trees raced past me, blurring into a wall of green. But this was only first gear. My foot itched toward the gear shift as I twisted for more gas. No, Bella, the angry, honey-sweet voice ordered in my ear. Watch what you are doing.


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[Assistant] Breaks, breaks, I muttered to myself, and I instinctively slammed down with my right foot, like I would in my truck.


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[Assistant] The bike was suddenly unstable underneath me, shivering first to one side and then the other. It was dragging me toward the green wall and I was going too fast. I tried to turn the handlebar the other direction and the sudden shift of my weight pushed the bike toward the ground, still spinning toward the trees.


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[Assistant] The motorcycle landed on top of me again, roaring loudly, pulling me across the wet sand until it hit something stationary.


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[Assistant] I couldn't see. My face was smashed into the moss. I tried to lift my head, but there was something in the way. I was dizzy and confused. It sounded like there were three things snarling, the bike over me, the voice in my head, and something else. Bella! Jacob yelled, and I heard the roar of the other bike cut off.


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[Assistant] The motorcycle no longer pinned me to the ground and I rolled over to breathe.


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[Assistant] All the growling went silent. Wow, I murmured. I was thrilled. This had to be it. The recipe for a hallucination. Adrenaline plus clangor plus stupidity. Something close to that anyway.


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[Assistant] Bella! Jacob was crouching over me anxiously. Bella, are you alive?


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[Assistant] I'm great, I enthuse. I flexed my arms and legs. Everything seemed to be working correctly. Let's do it again. I don't think so. Jacob still sounded worried. I think I'd better drive you to the hospital first. I'm fine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Bella, you've got a huge cut on your forehead, and it's gushing blood, he informed me. I clapped my hand over my head. Sure enough, it was wet and sticky. I could smell nothing but the damp moss on my face, and that held off the nausea.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm so sorry, Jacob. I pushed hard against the gash, as if I could force the blood back inside my head.


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[Assistant] Why are you apologizing for bleeding? He wondered as he wrapped a long arm around my waist and pulled me to my feet. Let's go, I'll drive. He held out his hands for the keys.


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[Assistant] What about the bikes? I asked, handing them over. He thought for a second. Wait here and take this. He pulled off his t-shirt, already spotted with blood and threw it to me. I watered it up and held it tightly over to my forehead.


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[Assistant] I was starting to smell the blood. I breathed deeply through my mouth and tried to concentrate on something else.


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[Assistant] Jacob jumped on the black motorcycle, kicked it to a start in one try, and raced back down the road, spraying sand and pebbles behind him. He looked athletic and professional as he leaned over the handlebars, head low, face forward, his shiny hair whipping against the russet skin of his back.


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[Assistant] My eyes narrowed enviously. I was sure I hadn't looked like that on my motorcycle.


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[Assistant] I was surprised at how far I had gone. I could barely see Jacob in the distance when he finally got to the truck. He threw the bike into the bed and sprinted to the drivers side.


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[Assistant] I really didn't feel bad at all as he coaxed my truck to a deafening roar in his hurry to get back to me.


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[Assistant] My head stung a little, and my stomach wasn't easy, but the cut wasn't serious. Head wounds just bled more than most. His urgency wasn't necessary. Jacob left the truck running as he raced back to me, wrapping his arm around my waist again. Okay, let's get you in the truck. I'm honestly fine, I assured him as he helped me in. Don't get worked up, it's just a little blood.


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[Assistant] Just a lot of blood. I heard him mutter as he went back for my bike.


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[Assistant] I won't, I promised. Let's just take the bikes back first, and then we'll make a stop at my house so I can dispose of the evidence before we go to the hospital. What about Charlie? He said he had to work today. Are you really sure? Trust me.


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[Assistant] I'm an easy bleeder. It's not nearly as dire as it looks. Jacob wasn't happy. His full mouth turned down in an uncharacteristic frown. But he didn't want to get me in trouble. I stared out the window, holding his ruined shirt in my head.


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[Assistant] And then to discover the key to the hallucinations, at least I hoped I had. I was going to test the theory as soon as possible. Maybe they'd get through with me quickly in the ER and we could try again tonight. Racing down the road like that had been amazing.


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[Assistant] The feel of the wind in my face, the speed and the freedom, it reminded me of a past life. Flying through the thick forest without a road, piggyback while he ran. I stopped thinking right there, letting the memory break off in the sudden agony. I flinched. You still okay? Jacob checked.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I tried to sound as convincing as before. By the way, he added, I'm going to disconnect your foot break tonight.


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[Assistant] At home I went to look at myself in the mirror first thing. It was pretty gruesome.


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[Assistant] Then I hid my dirty bloody clothes in the bottom of my laundry basket.


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[Assistant] Putting on new jeans and a button-up shirt that I didn't have to pull over my head as carefully as I could.


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[Assistant] I managed to do this one-handed and keep both garments blood free. Hurry up, Jacob called. Okay, okay, I shouted back, making sure I left nothing incriminating behind me. I headed downstairs.


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[Assistant] How do I look? I asked him. Better, he admitted.


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[Assistant] Do I look like I tripped in your garage and hit my head on a hammer? Sure, I guess so. Let's go then. Jacob hurried me out the door and insisted on driving again. We were halfway to the hospital when I realized he was still shirtless. I frowned guiltily. We should have grabbed you a jacket.


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[Assistant] That would have given us away, he teased. Besides, it's not cold. Are you kidding? I shivered and reached out to turn the heat on. I watched Jacob to see if he was just playing tough so I wouldn't worry. But he looked comfortable enough.


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[Assistant] He had one arm over the back of my seat, though I was huddled up to keep warm.


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[Assistant] Jacob really did look older than 16. Not quite 40, but maybe older than me. Quill didn't have too much on him in the muscle department for all that Jacob claimed to be a skeleton.


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[Assistant] The muscles were the long, wiry kind, but they were definitely there under the smooth skin. His skin was such a pretty color, it made me jealous.


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[Assistant] Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What? He asked, suddenly self-conscious.


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[Assistant] I had to have seven stitches to close the cut on my forehead. After the sting of the local anesthetic, there was no pain in the procedure. Jacob held my hand while Dr. Snow was sewing and I tried not to think about why that was ironic.


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[Assistant] We were at the hospital forever. By the time I was done, I had to drop Jacob off at his home and hurry back to cook dinner for Charlie.


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[Assistant] Charlie seemed to buy my story about falling in Jacob's garage. After all, it wasn't like I hadn't been able to land myself in the ER before, with no help- with no more help than my own feet.


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[Assistant] This night was not as bad as the first night after I had heard the perfect voice in Port Angeles.


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[Assistant] The hole came back, the way it always did when I was away from Jacob, but it didn't throb so badly around the edges. I was already planning ahead, looking forward to more delusions, and that was a distraction.


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[Assistant] Also, I knew I would feel better tomorrow when I was with Jacob again.


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[Assistant] That made the empty hole and the familiar pain easier to bear. Relief was in sight.


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[Assistant] The nightmare, too, had lost a little of its potency. I was horrified by the nothingness as always, but I was also strangely impatient as I waited for the moment that would send me screaming into consciousness. I knew the nightmare had to end.


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[Assistant] The next Wednesday, before I could get home from the ER, Dr. Durandy called to warn my father that I might possibly have a concussion and advised him to wake me up every two hours through the night to make sure it wasn't serious. Charlie's eyes narrowed suspiciously at my weak explanation about tripping again.


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[Assistant] Maybe you should just stay out of the garage altogether, Bella," he suggested that night during dinner. I panicked, worried that Charlie was about to lay down some kind of etiquette that would prohibit la push, and consequently my motorcycle, and I wasn't giving it up.


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[Assistant] I'd had the most amazing hallucination today. My velvet-voiced delusional- delusion had yelled at me for almost five minutes before I'd hit the brake too abruptly and launched myself into the tree. I'd take whatever pain that would cause me tonight without complaints.


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[Assistant] This didn't happen in the garage, I protested quickly. We were hiking, and I tripped over a rock.


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[Assistant] Since when do you hike? Charlie asked skeptically.


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[Assistant] Working at Newton's was bound to rub off sometime, I pointed out. Spend every day selling all the virtues of the outdoors. Eventually you get curious. Charlie glared at me, unconvinced. I'll be more careful, I promised, surreptitiously crossing my fingers under the table. I don't mind you hiking right there around the push.


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[Assistant] Keep close to town, okay? Why? Well, we've been getting a lot of wildlife complaints lately. The forestry department is going to check into it, but for the time being... Oh, the big bear? I said with sudden comprehension.


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[Assistant] Yeah, some of the hikers coming through Newtons have seen it. Do you think there's really some giant mutilated, mutated grizzly out there? His forehead creased. There's something. Keep it close to town, okay? Sure, sure, I said quickly. He didn't look completely appeased.


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[Assistant] Charlie's getting nosy, I complained to Jacob when I picked him up after school Friday.


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[Assistant] Objecting expression and added. At least for a week or so. You could stay out of the hospital for a week, right?


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[Assistant] What are we going to do? I griped. He smiled cheerfully. Whatever you want. I thought about that for a minute. About what I wanted.


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[Assistant] I hated the idea of losing even my brief seconds of closeness with the memories that didn't hurt.


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[Assistant] The ones that came on their own without me thinking of them consciously. If I couldn't have the bikes, I was going to have to find some other avenue to the danger and the adrenaline, and that was going to take serious thought and creativity. Doing nothing in the meantime was not appealing.


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[Assistant] Suppose I got depressed again, even with Jake. I had to keep occupied.


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[Assistant] Maybe there was some other way, some other recipe, some other place. The house had been a mistake, certainly, but his presence must be stamped out.


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[Assistant] But his presence must be stamped somewhere, somewhere other than inside me. There had to be a place where he seemed more real than among all the familiar landmarks that was crowded with other human memories.


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[Assistant] I could think of one place where that might hold true. One place that would always belong to him and no one else. A magic place full of light. The beautiful meadow I'd seen only once in my life, lit by sunshine and the sparkle of his skin.


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[Assistant] This idea had a huge potential for backfiring. It might be dangerously painful. My chest aches with emptiness even to think of it.


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[Assistant] It was hard to hold myself upright, to not give myself away. But surely, there, of all places, I could hear his voice. And I'd already told Charlie I was hiking.


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[Assistant] I came across it when I was, uhm, hiking. A little meadow. The most beautiful place. I don't know if I could track it down again on my own. It would definitely take a few tries.


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[Assistant] Cool, we'll find it. As always, Jacob was game for anything I wanted, no matter how strange it was. So, Saturday afternoon, I tried on my new hiking boots, purchased that morning using my 20% off employee discount for the first time.


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[Assistant] Grabbed my new topographical map of the Olympic Peninsula and drove to La Push.


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[Assistant] Billy didn't seem at all concerned about our proposed hiking trip. I was surprised that Jacob had told him where we were going, given the fuss people were making about the bear sightings.


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[Assistant] I wanted to ask, Billy, not to say anything about this to Charlie, but I was afraid that making the request would cause the opposite result.


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[Assistant] Maybe we'll see the super bear, Jacob joked, eyes on his design.


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[Assistant] I glanced at Billy swiftly, fearing a Charlie-style reaction, but Billy just laughed at his son. Maybe you should take a jar of honey, just in case. Jake chuckled. Hope your new boots are fast, Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long. I only have to be faster than you.


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[Assistant] Good luck with that, Jacob said, rolling his eyes as he refolded the map. Let's go. Have fun, Billy rumbled, wheeling himself toward the refrigerator.


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[Assistant] Charlie was not a hard person to live with, but it looked to me like Jacob had it easier than I did. I drove to the very end of the dirt road, stopping near the sign that marked the beginning of the trailhead.


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[Assistant] It had been a long time since I'd been here. My stomach reacted nervously. This might be very bad thing.


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[Assistant] I would have figured you for a trail kind of girl. Not me, I smiled bleakly. I'm a rebel. He laughed, and then pulled out our map. Give me a second. He held the compass in a skilled way, twisting the map around till it angled the way he wanted.


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[Assistant] If I let myself slip up, I'd end up with my arms clutching my chest to hold it together, gasping for air. And how would I explain that to Jacob?


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[Assistant] It wasn't as hard as I would have thought to keep focus on the present. The forest looked a lot like any other part of the peninsula, and Jacob set a vastly different mood. He whistled cheerfully, an unfamiliar tune, swinging his arms and moving easily through the rough undergrowth.


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[Assistant] The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual, not with my personal sun along.


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[Assistant] Jacob checked the compass every few minutes, keeping us in a straight line, with one of the radiating spokes of his grid. He really looked like he knew what he was doing. I was going to compliment him, but I caught myself. No doubt he'd add another few years to his inflated age. My mind wandered as I walked, and I grew curious. I hadn't forgotten the conversation we'd had by the sea cliffs. I'd been waiting for him to bring it up again.


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[Assistant] Jacob was silent for a minute, still moving forward with long paces. When he was about 10 feet ahead, he stopped to wait for me.


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[Assistant] No, he's not back to normal. Jacob said when I reached him, his mouth pulling down at the corners. He didn't start walking again. I immediately regretted bringing it up. Still with Sam?


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[Assistant] He put his arm around my shoulder and he looked so troubled that I didn't playfully shake it off as I might have otherwise.


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[Assistant] Are they still looking at you funny? I half whispered. Jacob stared through the trees. Sometimes. And Billy? As helpful as ever, he said in a sour, angry voice that disturbed me.


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[Assistant] Our couch is always open, I offered. He laughed, breaking out of an unnatural gloom. But think of the position that would put Charlie in when Billy calls the police to report my kidnapping.


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[Assistant] I laughed too, glad to have Jacob back to normal. We stopped when Jacob said we'd gone six miles, cut west for a short time, and headed back along another line of his grid.


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[Assistant] Everything looked exactly the same as the way in, and I had a feeling that my silly quest was pretty much doomed.


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[Assistant] I admitted as much when it started to get darker, the sunless day fading toward a starless night, but Jacob was more confident. As long as you are sure we are starting from the right place, he glanced down at me.


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[Assistant] Yes, I'm sure. Then we'll find it, he promised, grabbing my hand and pulling me through a mass of ferns. On the other side of the truck. He gestured toward it proudly. Trust me. You are good, I admitted. Next time we bring flashlights, though.


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[Assistant] We'll save hiking for Sundays from now on. I didn't know you were that slow. I yanked my hand back and stomped around to the driver's side when he chuckled at my reaction.


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[Assistant] So, you up for another try tomorrow? He asked, sliding into the passenger seat.


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[Assistant] Sure, unless you want to go without me so I don't tie you down to my gimpy pace.


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[Assistant] I'll survive, he assured me. If we are hiking again though, you might want to pick up some moleskin. I bet you feel those new boots right now. A little, I confessed. It felt like I had more blisters than I had space to fit them.


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[Assistant] I hope we see the bear tomorrow. I'm sort of disappointed about that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, me too. I agreed sarcastically. Maybe we'll get lucky tomorrow and something will eat us.


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[Assistant] Bears don't want to eat people. We don't taste that good. He grinned at me in the dark cab. Of course, you might be an exception. I bet you'd taste good. Thanks so much, I said, looking away. He wasn't the first person to tell me that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and also how gorgeous he is. Is he not the most handsome thing you've ever seen?


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[Assistant] How long you could keep something going without it's, you know, pooping out.


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[Assistant] Well, I suppose you mean about her still being married. I don't mind saying I have the same thought myself.


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[Assistant] I suppose you're too busy to listen to a bit of news about your sister. She, uh, she's gonna have a baby.


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[Assistant] These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 6.


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[Assistant] I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares. The one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.


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[Assistant] My legs seemed to move slower and slower as I fought my way through the callous crowd. But the hands on the huge clock tower didn't slow. With relentless, uncaring force, they turned inexorably toward the end. The end of everything.


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[Assistant] But this was no dream, and unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life. I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.


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[Assistant] Alice had said that there was a good chance we would both die here. Perhaps the outcome would be different if she weren't trapped by the brilliant sunlight.


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[Assistant] Only I was free to run across the bright crowded square, and I couldn't run fast enough.


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[Assistant] So it didn't matter to me that we were surrounded by our extraordinarily dangerous enemies. As the clock began to toll out the hour, vibrating under the soles of my sluggish feet.


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[Assistant] I knew it was too late, and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings, for in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.


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[Assistant] I suppose it's because I'm so little and it's because I play all well. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Anything hot today, Nick? I got a fin riding on Dreamy Joe.


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[Assistant] Well, if you could let me place my bet now, I'd... I'll leave Martha Jane here with you till I get back. You see, Dreamy Joe's my only chance to get even. Oh, you wanna bet on Dreamy Joe?


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[Assistant] Why? I called a friend of mine. I had him call me right back.


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[Assistant] This November, we have an opportunity to do one of the most important things we can do as Americans. Vote.


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[Assistant] So we've teamed up to make sure that students across L.A. can easily register to vote. The City of L.A. is making it possible for every L.A. USD high school to organize voter registration drives on campus. And you can visit lamayor.org slash lavotes for a toolkit that will help you make a drive happen at your school.


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[Assistant] And as if making yourself heard the polls wasn't big enough, get this. Every participating LAUSD high school will have the opportunity to win a live performance from Billy.


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[Assistant] We may not all be able to hit those notes like Billy does, but the right to vote gives us all a voice. So join us by hosting a drive, signing up to vote, and helping your friends and classmates get registered. Visit lamayor.org slash lavotes for more information.


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[Assistant] Aren't you the lady that sent me up here with this? Came sailing out the window and hit the doorman right on the head.


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[Assistant] Oh, how do you do? Miss Nelson, Miss Bradford. Why, you're just a baby. Oh, we have three children upstairs.


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[Assistant] It looked like he was going about 50 miles an hour down the first baseline.


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[Assistant] It's nine one and two facing Jose Quintana, who's not giving up a hit yet. Here is Wynton Bernard.


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[Assistant] Bernard is going to try for three. Here comes a throw by Newt Barr and it is cut off. A base hit to right field didn't hit it hard, but it's a base hit and the Rockies have first and third and nobody out. Here's Charlie Blackman. Charlie's old for two. He has struck out and flight out to left.


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[Assistant] First pitch Charlie Blackman sees back up the middle and the Rockies are on the board.


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[Assistant] Working women hostel.


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[Assistant] So uhm, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] So uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] Saika, ke meri muhabbat to kisi ke fareb mein aa gayi thi, par Danish ki muhabbat ko kya hua?


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[Assistant] A highly trained soldier who'll do almost anything for personal gain.


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[Assistant] Was she very young? About as young as you. She must have been very proud.


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[Assistant] So then gang, right now we're defining all of our polls data, the array inside this root app component.


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[Assistant] Then we pass down the polls as a prop into the poll list component and that passes down a single poll as a prop into poll details. So we're passing data down this tree.


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[Assistant] Now, if we want to add a poll to this data, then we do that from create poll form and we emit a custom event and we pass that data back up. We edit the polls data directly inside app. Then we pass down the updated data as a prop into poll list and poll details like before.


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[Assistant] Now, if we wanted to vote on a poll, if we wanted to change the poll details, then we would do that from poll details, we'd vote on it.


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[Assistant] That would emit a custom event with the data up to poll list and that would then forward the event onto app, would change it. It would come back down to poll list and then come back down to poll details.


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[Assistant] So there's a lot of up and down in all of this and it would be nicer if we could store our data in a more central location so we don't have to go up and down the tree every time we're passing data around. Now we can do that as well by using what's known as a store.


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[Assistant] So we can create a central store of data and register all of our data there and then if we wanted to.


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[Assistant] Subscribe to that store and get that data. We could do so directly. For example, in the poll list.


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[Assistant] And if we wanted to update that data, we could do it directly, for example, from poll details or from create poll form. And every time this data updates, whatever component is subscribed to it is going to get the updated data like this.


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[Assistant] And this makes it much easier to manage our data, especially when our application becomes bigger. Now in our case for polls, maybe we could get away with defining all of our data inside that because it's not a huge application, but I wanted to show you this way for if you do create slightly larger applications in the future.


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[Assistant] So the first thing I want to do is create a new store file to create our store inside of. Now you could create that anywhere inside the source folder. I'm going to create a new folder called stores just to keep our files organized, but you can place elsewhere if you wish. And then in here, I'm going to create a new file and this is going to be called poll.


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[Assistant] Now this is .js, not .svelte. We're not creating a svelte component here, we're just creating a store. Somewhere to store our data.


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[Assistant] So inside this store what we need to do first of all is import something from Svelte and the thing we want to import is writable. Now writable means we can write and read from this store so we can update it if we want as well as reading from it. It's probably the most common type of store. So that is from Svelte forward slash store.


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[Assistant] Okay, so now we have this, we need to actually create the poll store and I'm going to do that by saying const poll store is equal to writable.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to paste it inside this thing right here. So I'm pasting in the array and just adding one.


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[Assistant] So now I'm going to save that and we need to import this into any file.


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[Assistant] So inside poll list, what do we need to do? Well, first of all, we need to import the poll store. So let me do that at the top. Import poll store.


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[Assistant] Well, pretty simply. All we need to do is down here, say poll store dot subscribe.


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[Assistant] Like so. And then this fires a callback function once we subscribe to the store.


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[Assistant] And this callback function takes in as a parameter the data we get from the store. Now, because there's only one parameter inside this arrow function, I can delete the parentheses.


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[Assistant] So this data is whatever is in the store right here. And whenever this data changes, then it's going to refire this callback function and pass the updated data to us.


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[Assistant] So what do we want to do at this point? Well, all we want to do is say, well, okay, every time we get the data, we want to set polls equal to whatever that data is. So if I say polls.


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[Assistant] Is equal to the data. We're updating this value and therefore it's going to re-render and it's going to cycle through those polls again and output them to the DOM. It's going to output a single poll at a time using the poll details component. So that's what we need to do now. We subscribed to this store.