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[Assistant] So do you care about being in the studio with these guys a lot? Is that like the objective is to like really work with them like that?


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[Assistant] You don't think that like, the emailing of the files doesn't hurt anything? You're not trying to like, vibe with them in the studio? Is that really matter?


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[Assistant] Is that a big appeal to you though? Like, oh, I'm gonna be able to take these different dudes and put them in the studio together and therefore, like, cause that's kind of like appealing to me even just the idea of like, oh, I'm gonna put this dude and this dude on the same show and that's dope as fuck because then they're together and that's kind of like the same thing when you're talking about, you know,


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[Assistant] Drunk and drugs and weed and stuff. You do all this? Okay. Because a lot of these guys are talking about being in the studio, like, like, Hood, Rich, Pablo, Juan, you wanna know something? His is the only interview ever in the history of No Jumper to get demonetized because he smoked so much weed is the only reason why I'm guessing. He's a prolific drug user.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying he's an addict. He might just be choosing to do it. I'm just saying when he was in the studio, he was telling me, he was like on all kinds of shit and he smoked so much weed. I was like, man, I can't believe this guy's holding it together. This is...


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[Assistant] How does she feel about you being in the studio late at night with a bunch of fucking scandalous women and stuff like that? Is she asking any questions?


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[Assistant] That's good that you don't feel, like, you don't have that whole thing where you feel like, oh, I can just be comfortable, I can just be complacent because...


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[Assistant] What's like the big goal though for somebody like you, cause I feel like the big goal is to, like if you look at like Metro and 21 when they did that tape last year, it's like that, that's gotta be like the ultimate goal for producers to


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[Assistant] Link up with the new number one dude or one of the hottest dudes and do the whole project and he's a part of it from beginning to end. Everybody knows. It's like, is that kind of like in your mind, like the ideal scenario to do a whole project with somebody or do you like just giving out beats here and there and shit?


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[Assistant] That could be your Savage Mode moment right there though, because don't you feel like Pablo has been dope as fuck for a while now? But he still hasn't had like the project that everybody was like, okay, that's it. In the same way that like Savage Mode was.


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[Assistant] It's kinda crazy though because I feel like if you're on tour DJing, you are not gonna be productive as like a producer making beats because there's just so much time like just doing a million different fucking things. It would be tough to do both.


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[Assistant] He's a rapper who ain't rapping, he's running back and forth, he's like a hype man who's making the crowd go crazy, so of course he needs his own DJ, but that is such a specific thing to want to go into, is to be the hype man, because Esco will go out there and turn that shit up.


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[Assistant] And him doing that is like why he's like a valuable fucking person in terms of like going and playing clubs and doing big ass shows and stuff is because he has that fucking energy raising level. But there's a million dope producers that number one probably couldn't do that, number two probably don't want to do that, you know?


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[Assistant] No, cause right now we're non-rappers, but as soon as I spit one whack verse, I'm a whack rapper for the rest of my life. Cause you're a trash ass rapper. It's like, no, no, no, I never rapped and I'm holding onto that for dear life.


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[Assistant] Cause it's just so much better to be good at what you do than to do a bunch of shit and be like, alright, you know, it's like, you just gotta pick one thing and hone in on it, I think. Unless you hap- I mean, there's plenty of producers who are good rappers, you know? Sonny Digital's fucking dope, man. If you don't give him enough credit, I wanna say that.


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[Assistant] I've heard that. I've heard a bunch of stuff. He has a song called Zandman that he hasn't put out.


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[Assistant] Carnage has some shit, man. But at the same time, when I'm listening to it, I don't know if it's just, like, as I'm in his studio, I'm like, this is the best studio I've ever been in. I don't know if I like this music just because the studio's so nice. Or if it's actually good. Nah, it's gotta be good. I'll give him the benefit of the day.


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[Assistant] Oh, we're having a car for sure. For sure. Yeah. I mean, everybody needs those moments.


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[Assistant] That's what's fucked up. Okay, like, in the duration of being on that tour with Smokepurpp and Lil Pump, there were multiple different moments where I just gave them a bar, like, I thought of something funny in my head and said like, yo, you should say this, and like, after a couple of them, Pump started to be like,


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[Assistant] Yo Adam man, like for real, your shit is kind of funny bro. Are you really correct? I'm like no, this is for you. I'm giving this to you. Trust me, it's better that you say it than that I say it. I ain't saying it.


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[Assistant] This is basically, this podcast for like the past 10 minutes has been about not rapping.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's about four or five songs that I'm like, I love those songs, and then the rest of the songs I'm like,


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[Assistant] He sends me, he's got like a country album coming out that he's telling me about shit. I'm about to go on tour with him, bro.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, I would love to see that. He makes hella beats too though. He does all the beats for all the Dark World dudes that he raps with. I don't know if he's really like with them that tough anymore, but he, he, he DJs as well, so.


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[Assistant] Dude, there's a whole fader video about DJ Lucas and his Dark World Collective.


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[Assistant] Well, you've been to Western Massachusetts, it is kind of a dark fucking existence out there. There ain't a lot going on out there.


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[Assistant] He's tight. My parents are still together, so I'm very proud of it. I just want to throw that out there.


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[Assistant] It's nice if you got it, you know, don't be ashamed if your parents are together. I mean, obviously we all know that most people, like by the time they're in their 20s or 30s, their parents aren't together anymore, but if you, if you got it, like...


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[Assistant] Celine Dion though, that would be fire. That white cat over there man, that white cat's about to hop on that Cardi mixtape too and put out all his own versions of each song. We'll see how that goes.


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[Assistant] Wiz is doing some underground looks right now too, cause he got a song with Peep and Juicy J together too.


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[Assistant] Who do you want to thank? Like, who do you got a show left to in the game before you wrap this up? Thank God first. Border Patrol. Yeah. Yeah, fuck, I see.


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[Assistant] Well yea, if you're a Spanish speaker out here, feel free to subtitle this podcast, cause that's something that, I mean, just google like, how to subtitle a YouTube video, but you can do that, and people have done it, not for my podcast, but for other ones, and that would be amazing, because,


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[Assistant] Really, like, our views are almost always only from English-speaking countries, like, barely from other countries, and if it was subtitled, that'd be pretty fuckin' sick.


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[Assistant] Because the Mexican kids, if you go to a rap show in LA, it is fucking like 80% Mexican kids. So if you fucking are in the culture and you're a Mexican kid, dude, they fuck with you hard because that's like, they're like, you know, they, they know that's their shit.


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[Assistant] Hey, Danny Wolfe, man, it was dope as fuck having you on the podcast, and uh, we really appreciate it. You're our first guy back. It's a big deal, man, I'm happy.


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[Assistant] And if you don't know, get your ass on Soundcloud, get your ass on YouTube, type in Danny Wolfe and figure some shit out. Get your act together, basically. Uh, huge thanks to my man, Rosen, right here to my left. Thanks to Ronnie J and everybody else for coming through.


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[Assistant] Hey, shoutouts to all the, uh, all the DJs out there. Everybody wants to make some beats. Hopefully you're a little bit inspired by this podcast. You can check us out on YouTube, SoundCloud, and iTunes. Hit us with the like button. Hit us with a follow. And make sure you check out Danny Wolfe on all logical social media platforms. We're back, baby!


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[Assistant] I thought we'd lost the spider until Tyson heard a faint pinging sound.


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[Assistant] We made a few turns, backtracked a few times, and eventually found the spider banging its tiny head on a metal door.


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[Assistant] The door looked like one of those old fashioned submarine hatches. Oval with metal rivets around the edges and a wheel for a doorknob.


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[Assistant] Tyson said gleefully, and he turned the wheel.


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[Assistant] As soon as the door opened, the spider scuttled inside with Tyson right behind it. The rest of us followed, not quite as anxious.


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[Assistant] The room was enormous. It looked like a mechanic's garage with several hydraulic lifts.


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[Assistant] Some had cars on them, but others had stranger things. A bronze hypolectrion with its horse head off and a bunch of wires hanging out of its rooster tail. A metal lion that seemed to be hooked up to a battery charger and a Greek war chariot made entirely of flames.


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[Assistant] Smaller projects cluttered a dozen work tables. Tools hung along the walls. Each had its own outline and a pegboard, but nothing seemed to be in the right place. The hammer was over the screwdriver place. The staple gun was where the hacksaw was supposed to go.


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[Assistant] Under the nearest hydraulic lift, which was holding a 98 Toyota Corolla, a pair of legs stuck out.


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[Assistant] The lower half of a huge man in grubby gray pants and shoes even bigger than Tyson's. One leg was in a metal brace.


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[Assistant] The spider scuttled straight under the car and the sounds of banging stopped. Well well.


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[Assistant] A deep voice boomed from under the corolla. What if we hear?


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[Assistant] The mechanic pushed out on a back trolley and sat up.


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[Assistant] I'd seen Hephaestus once before, briefly on Olympus, so I thought I was prepared, but his appearance made me gulp.


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[Assistant] I guess he'd cleaned up when I saw him on Olympus, or used magic to make his form seem a little less hideous. Here, in his own workshop, he apparently didn't care how he looked. He wore a jumpsuit smeared with oil and grime. Hephaestus was embroidered over the chest pocket.


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[Assistant] His leg creaked and clicked in its metal brace as he stood, and his left shoulder was lower than his right. So he seemed to be leaning, even when he was standing up straight. His head was misshapen and bulging. He wore a permanent scowl. His black beard smoked and hissed.


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[Assistant] Every once in a while, a small wildfire would erupt in his whiskers and die out.


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[Assistant] The boy can stay here and gather his thoughts as long as he wants. He'll be safe, I promise.


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[Assistant] Things are gonna be run a little different on this ranch from now on. No more sacred cattle meat. I'm thinking about soybean patties. And I'm gonna be friendin' those flesh-eatin' horses. Might just sign up for the next rodeo.


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[Assistant] Don't know where it is, but Hephaestus probably would.


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[Assistant] The Festus comes here from time to time, Eridian said, studies the animals and such so he can make bronze automaton copies. Last time, I, uh, did him a favor. A little trick he wanted to play on my dad Ares and Aphrodite.


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[Assistant] He gave me that chain in gratitude. Said if I ever needed to find him, the disc would lead me to his forges. But only once. And you're giving it to me?


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[Assistant] I don't need to see the forages miss. Got enough to do here.


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[Assistant] Just press the button, and you'll be on your way.


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[Assistant] It was weak of him to let her get her way on this, just to keep her happy now. It wouldn't turn out well.


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[Assistant] And he turned his face down and away so that I couldn't even read his reflection. I won't cause her pain now. Four days, I asked. He didn't look up. Approximately. Then what? What do you mean exactly? I thought about what Bella had said.


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[Assistant] It would appear the creatures used their own teeth to escape the womb, he whispered. I had to pause to swallow back the bile. Research, I asked weakly. That's why you haven't seen Jasper and Emmet around. That's what Carlyle is doing now, trying to decipher ancient stories and myths as much as we can with what we have to work with here.


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[Assistant] Looking for anything that might help us predict the creature's behavior. Stories? If there were myths, then. Then is this thing not the first of its kind? Edward asked, anticipating my question. Maybe. It's all very sketchy. The myths could easily be the products of fear and imagination, though he hesitated. Your myths are true, are they not? Perhaps these are too. They do seem to be localized, linked.


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[Assistant] How did you find? There was a woman we encountered in South America. She'd been raised in the traditions of her people. She'd heard warnings about such creatures, old stories that had been passed down. What were the warnings? I whispered. That the creature must be killed immediately before it could gain too much strength. Just like Sam thought, was he right? Of course, their legends say the same of us, that we must be destroyed.


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[Assistant] Who'd been so still and quiet since Bella had fallen asleep that I'd nearly forgotten her who answered. She made a scornful noise in the back of her throat. Of course there were no survivors, she said. No survivors, blunt and uncaring.


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[Assistant] Giving birth in the middle of a disease infested swamp with a medicine man smearing sloth spit across your face to drive out the evil spirits was never the safest method. Even the normal births went badly half the time. None of them had what this baby has. Caregivers with an idea of what the baby needs, who try to meet those needs.


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[Assistant] A doctor with a totally unique knowledge of vampire nature.


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[Assistant] A plan in place to deliver the baby as safely as possible. Venom that will repair anything that goes wrong. The baby will be fine.


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[Assistant] And those other mothers would probably have survived if they'd had that. If they even existed in the first place. Something I am not convinced of. She sniffed disdainfully. The baby. The baby. Like that was all that mattered.


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[Assistant] Bella's life was a minor detail to her, easy to blow off. Edward's face went white as snow. His hands curved into claws. Totally egotistical and indifferent, Rosalie twisted in her chair so that her back was to him. He leaned forward, shifting into a crouch. Allow me, I suggested. He paused, raising one eyebrow. Silently, I lifted my doggy ball off the floor.


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[Assistant] I threw it into the back of blondie's head so hard that, with an ear splitting bang, it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room.


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[Assistant] And snapped the round top piece off the thick null post at the foot of the stairs.


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[Assistant] For me, a raw food diet is the way that I can get closest to a natural diet. So in an ideal world, I'd like to eat the foods which grew around me from trees and plants in my local environment.


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[Assistant] This time of year, people have a lot of excess in their gardens. There's a lot of apples this time of year, so they can be juiced, you can even make your own cider. Cider is a raw food, so that goes down quite well.


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[Assistant] Vitamin B12 is one of the things which I've always sort of thought maybe I could be lacking in. I wonder whether a raw food diet really does give me everything I need.


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[Assistant] But some people say a long term use of just raw foods can lead to deficiencies in nutrients such as vitamin B12.


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[Assistant] How do you feel if you don't stick to your rules, like if you break your rules? Sometimes I feel a bit guilty, but then I just have to remind myself that, you know, the whole purpose of doing it is to be sort of happy and healthy.


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[Assistant] Worry about how antisocial it is to have a, be on a raw food diet. And uhm, hearing from Lucy about the risk of orthorexia will make me, certainly make me think more about not being too, uhm, feeling too guilty or getting too stressed about what I eat.


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[Assistant] I have been hospitalised twice through my symptoms from my IBS. I was on morphine at one point for like stomach cramps and things. Don't want to end up having to be hospitalised again.


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[Assistant] When I'm out and about, sometimes you will, like, trump, and obviously, you just kind of like, you either do like, a sneaky like, trump and dash for it, or you're like, that wasn't me, and run away.


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[Assistant] At the moment, she's not really running around, so I don't have to run around as much after it, but she's just gonna grow up. I don't want to be stuck.


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[Assistant] Feeling really unwell and not being able to play with her and be like, Mummy come and do this. And I'm like, no, I don't feel very well today.


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[Assistant] I think it's time we ask the age-old question.


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[Assistant] Very nice. Okay, uh, guys, what is up first? Alright, for this first s'more, we thought we'd start with an Italian classic, the pizza.


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[Assistant] I experienced pizza and dessert pizza at the same time.


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[Assistant] Environmental experts claim if global average temperatures warm more than that, it could lead to climate catastrophe.


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[Assistant] So uhm, uh, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] So yesterday, my brother didn't meet my family. Because my father was against it.


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[Assistant] How did you know?


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[Assistant] So uhm, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] When I came here, didn't you know that I was coming?


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, uh.


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[Assistant] Interesting. I can't believe I'm seeing the same thing for the first time.


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[Assistant] I mean, I thought you'd come here, too.


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[Assistant] So, So, Soyoung.


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[Assistant] But please don't do anything that I can't do or that has something to do with Mi-kyung.


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[Assistant] Do you need me to break up with Mikyung?


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[Assistant] Oppa, Lee Sang-woo oppa here.


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[Assistant] What curious feathers. Are they all from the birds that you've shot?


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[Assistant] So you've got them too? What have I got? Spots. I've got them. Every one of us has got them.


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[Assistant] Monster Hunter Rise is in a tough position, having to live up to the high expectations set by the explosive success of 2018's Monster Hunter World. It will also be the first Monster Hunter experience for quite a few people, so the game has to appeal to a broad base.


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[Assistant] Considering the situation, it would make sense if Rise played everything in the safest way possible. However, while it is familiar, Rise strongly establishes its own identity with unique mechanics that add a lot to the core of what the series is all about. Some of the additions are so instrumental that it's now hard to imagine playing Monster Hunter without them.


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[Assistant] The Wirebug is absolutely the star of the game. Think of it as a grappling hook that you can throw out to zip toward any direction. The tool not only changes the flow of combat, but also completely transforms how maps feel in comparison to typical Monster Hunter fare.


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[Assistant] Apart from the natural joy of movement the Wirebug offers, the game provides an abundance of incentive for you to get out there and explore. Spearbirds are small, brightly glowing creatures that you can pick up to buff either your health, attack, defense, or stamina for the remainder of the quest.


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[Assistant] Permanent buffs are enticing, and the obvious glow of the spearbirds makes them easy to spot, so it's natural to wander off your intended course just to snag them.


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[Assistant] Players automatically pick up spearbirds by running over them, keeping the flow of the game intact and convenient to the point that there's not really a strong reason to avoid the buffs.


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[Assistant] In addition to spearbirds, there are also hunting helpers that can either hinder the monsters you fight or aid you through things like healing. These aspects keep battles dynamic, and there are plenty of moments when you'll be in the middle of a hunt and something that can give you a slight edge will catch your eye, providing a spark of relief or excitement. There are even bits of lore tucked away in the maps if you feel compelled to search for them.


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[Assistant] In previous Monster Hunter games, gathering quests where you run around the map in search of a specific resource could feel like a chore that you either slog through begrudgingly or put off as long as you can. But in Rise, these quests become delightful simply because navigating areas is so enjoyable.


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[Assistant] Hunts are more of a true adventure where the environment is just as interesting as what you're fighting instead of simply being an arena that houses your prey.


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[Assistant] The wirebug isn't the only tool that facilitates this feeling. Palamutes are another major addition that greatly changes traversal. The adorable canine pals assist in combat, but even more crucially serve as mounts that can blast across the map, even running up certain walls. Palamutes are so agile that it's fun just riding to whatever you're hunting.


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[Assistant] They also help take the sting of frustration out of fainting during a hunt since you can get back into the fray so quickly.


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[Assistant] Of course, the Wirebug transforms combat just as much as it does exploration. In a general sense, the Wirebug enables you to more easily remain in the thick of a fight and allows you to be very aggressive. Even traditionally slow weapons such as the Greatsword can feel extremely mobile.


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[Assistant] Rise also adds silkbind attacks, which vary wildly depending on the weapon being used. The gunlance, which chews through weapon sharpness, has a guard silkbind that actually restores sharpness if used successfully.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, using the silkbind attack for the sword and shield whips the blade around in a giant whirlwind. Players use the same resource for either quick wirebug movements or silkbind attacks, and managing that resource appropriately is critical, again helping to differentiate Rise from other Monster Hunter games.


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[Assistant] Combat in Monster Hunter is already quite complex, and thankfully, the new mechanics in Rise blend beautifully into the already established rhythm. Silkbind attacks complement what many weapons already excel at, adding to the strategy without being overly complicated.


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[Assistant] Wirefall is a mechanic that is too powerful, however. Upon being knocked over by an enemy, you can use Wirefall to get back on your feet and escape danger. It's ridiculously useful, but it also feels too much like a get-out-of-jail-free card.


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[Assistant] Part of the joy of Monster Hunter is learning how a monster attacks, innovating appropriately. Wirefall doesn't entirely erode the need for that learning, but it does flatten the curve more than it should. Fights feel a little too safe once you get the hang of the mechanic, sometimes making them less exciting than they should be. It uses the same resource as other wirebug moves, but is still remarkably strong.


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[Assistant] Wyvern Riding is another significant new combat mechanic in Rise, one that's both creative and well implemented. By performing certain attacks, using specific endemic life, or by having monsters fight each other, a weakened monster can be put into a mountable state. Once in that state, players can climb on top of that monster and control them.


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[Assistant] You can either use the monster's moves to damage another creature or ram the one that you're controlling into a wall. Being able to use a mighty beast as a weapon is thrilling, fulfilling whatever kaiju fantasies you may have. Part of what makes it so special is that each monster has its own individual attacks, so it's exciting just to get a sense of what each one feels like to control.


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[Assistant] Successfully attacking another monster while wyvern riding builds up a meter, and when it's full, you can unleash a devastating special move. Get hit by an enemy enough times, though, and you'll be thrown off a mount entirely, creating a tense balancing act between offense and defense.


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[Assistant] Smartly, Wyvern Riding isn't a constant occurrence. You feel appropriate pressure to capitalize on the opportunity when it happens, making each occasion a genuine event.


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[Assistant] There's a sizable number of brand new monsters featured in Rise, and they blend well with the classic roster. What's most notable is the strong identity these creatures have and how well they show off their individual personalities during a fight.


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[Assistant] Besheten, for example, is such a mischievous little devil. It balances on its tail and throws persimmons at the player. Hit it at the right time, and its collection of fruit scatters all around. The elegant Somnacanth will swim around on its back puffing out clouds of gas that put you to sleep if you're unfortunate enough to wind up in their path.


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[Assistant] By and large, the new monsters in Rise don't just feel like more of the same, becoming notable entries in the Monster Hunter canon.


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[Assistant] Online play is an essential part of Monster Hunter, and thankfully, it works well in Rise. It's easy to get together with others with little to no connectivity issues. What is a disappointment is that Rise limits the number of players that can appear in the gathering hub to four, as opposed to world's limit of 16, slightly diminishing the sense of liveliness and community.


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[Assistant] Also, unlike World, Rise goes back to the old Monster Hunter way of separating single-player and multiplayer quests.


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[Assistant] There are village quests, which you can only do alone, and hub quests, where you're encouraged to play with others, though you can do them alone if you wish. The system ends up working well in Rise for a couple of reasons. Village quests end up being a perfect tutorial of sorts, getting you comfortable with the mechanics and appropriately preparing you for the harder high-rank hub quests.


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[Assistant] Plus as players progress through village quests, they can take special license tests, which allow them to bypass some of the more trivial hub quests. Rise also mercifully doesn't have the awkward moments present in World when you would have to watch a cutscene before other players could join up for a hunt.


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[Assistant] For as solid of a foundation as Rise presents, it does fall short in a couple of ways. First, the storytelling is pretty disappointing and relatively non-existent. It's not that Monster Hunter is known for great stories, but Rise disappoints even with the bar set so low.


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[Assistant] If you're new to Monster Hunter or have casually dabbled in the past, Rise will likely feel appropriately challenging or maybe even quite difficult depending on what you're up against.


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[Assistant] These quests are essentially tower defense where you have to set up automated and mountable weapons throughout the map to fend off waves of monsters. Choosing the appropriate weapons at the appropriate places is vital, as is prioritizing the right targets. Some monsters will harass you from the sky, while others will rush key locations that you want to defend.


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[Assistant] It's a great way to break up the standard Monster Hunter grind and is much, much more interesting than something like the sluggish and boring Zora Magdaros encounters in World.


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[Assistant] Veterans of Monster Hunter, the players that have spent hundreds or even thousands of hours with the series, will likely find Rise a bit too easy, including the rampage quests. If you know what you're doing, there really isn't any steep challenge in the main campaign that truly pushes you to optimize your equipment. Even doing hub quests alone isn't all that difficult.


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[Assistant] Experienced hunters should be able to capably handle what comes their way and will probably wish that there was some higher mountain to climb, especially after years of updates to Monster Hunter World.


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[Assistant] With that being said, Rise already has a free update coming soon, and if the roadmap of World is anything to go by, the game should be supported for some time, potentially alleviating this problem in the future.


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[Assistant] Even with a few complaints, Monster Hunter Rise is an excellent addition to a series that carries high expectations. Rather than just follow what's been successful in the past, Rise goes out of its way to experiment with bold new ideas that make it a more captivating game, whether it's your first Monster Hunter or you've cooked thousands of well-done steaks before.


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[Assistant] Hey, I want to ask you about a patient of yours, Gene Dexter. Dexter, he wrote a prescription for about two weeks ago. Sleeping pill.


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[Assistant] Someone murdered her. What? When? Last night sometime. What do you want to know?


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[Assistant] Can you tell me anything about the way she lived? Her friends?


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[Assistant] Dad, Jimmy. Got a girl here. Ruth Morrison. Friend of Dexter's. Models of Grace Hewitt's.


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[Assistant] We're looking for your brother, Willie. Me and my brother Willie ain't getting nothing to do with each other. He's no good. When did you see him last? Oh, three months ago or bar. Tried to sell me a diamond ring for my wife. I told him to go blow. Any idea where he lives? He had a room somewhere around the Williams Boy Bridge, all I know.


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[Assistant] Either way, it's definitely been 8,000 episodes of you burping for the last 12 years. And like, why not? Oh! No, that's good. You can use the bricks to your advantage. What? You jump into the brick wall and it'll drop you right down onto the other beetle.


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[Assistant] Oh, it says toss. I didn't even realize that. In the wall.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, Ross man. Doing the Ross toss. Oh, fuck. Doing the Ross toss?


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[Assistant] You know, funny you mention that, I was just thinking I would really love a pack of Mentos right now, the other day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, both fruit flavored and, uh, minty.


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[Assistant] Well then. Shit! Fuck! You can't get in that door, right? The one that's resting on the spikes?


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[Assistant] Okay, here we go. This is the one. I can feel it. And down, and yes. And hubbity up.


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[Assistant] Why not just take that door? Or will that take you back? Fuck that.


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[Assistant] Oh, Smithers, you know just how to turn me on.


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[Assistant] I don't know, maybe I can. Yeah, but then what?


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[Assistant] When you've been hit by the chain chomp and you're all flashy flash, it doesn't- it lets you- it doesn't pick you- you don't- everything goes to shit.


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[Assistant] My favorite is, well actually there are many, but, one of my favorites is, I must have told this a thousand times on Grumps, but, where, uh, Homer's talking to Bart, and telling him his stories, like, you know, he's trying to give him life advice. Yeah.


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[Assistant] He's like, you know Bart, when I was your age, I fell off my bicycle and hit my head on the ground. The doctors thought I had brain damage. Bart's like,


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[Assistant] Also, I also like where they- Mon- Montgomery Burns has been frozen. Like in a cryogenic chamber. And so he's just like, we uh, we plan to unfreeze him as soon as scientists figure out a cure for 27 stab wounds in the back.


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[Assistant] Do you remember when you were telling me that story about how you were at your house one day like folding laundry and just going


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[Assistant] It's a beautiful thing. Well... Is there a way you can toss it upwards?


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[Assistant] And after he's collapsed in a heap of broken bones at the bottom of the stairs, he's just like...


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[Assistant] I know, uh, I mean he did take suggestions sometimes from people, uh, so I thought that was cool of him too, to include his audience, so we gotta give them a little credit as well.


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[Assistant] I mean, it must have been a long time ago, because we were definitely together. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.


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[Assistant] I fucking love it. I remember looking that up and being very disappointed.


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[Assistant] I know. There's so much going on there. Nice, well.


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[Assistant] I mean that's- that's where it's just like slowed down to 25%. There's ones that are slowed down like 800%.


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[Assistant] I don't think that was four hundred percent. No. Yeah, cause it would be impossible to even tell what it is.


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[Assistant] I don't think anyone can. That guy was a once in a-


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[Assistant] So why hasn't anyone done it?


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[Assistant] The line is everybody stutters one way or the other, cause he had a very serious stutter. In real life.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Check his wiki, baby!


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[Assistant] Okay, last try, last try this episode.


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[Assistant] Do you? It's like an Atari game.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't know, yea. Yea, no, nobody knows. Alright, take it out, Guillermo. It's time for our game. Here are some cards. Now, that's, those are for you, and these are for, uh, Nick. Alright, there you go. What I, we're gonna do here is play the, uh, newly engaged game. And the idea of this game...


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[Assistant] Very similar to the newlywed game. And by very similar, I mean it's exactly like the newlywed game, alright? You'll be playing for prizes. Our first prize is what, Guillermo? Oh, this is, you put the nuts right here and then you go like... No.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Okay, alright, well this will help you pit them. And this should be an easy one. Write your ques- your answers down. Don't let each other see. What is your fiance's middle name?


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[Assistant] Alright, alright. Vanessa, go ahead. You have your answer. And the answer is Joseph.


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[Assistant] The question is, what is your fiance's astrological sign?


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[Assistant] Alright, who is your fiance's celebrity crush?


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[Assistant] Yes, well don't look at each other's cards. Who's your fiancé's? Celebrity crush. I guess Nick really can't have crushes at this point, can he?


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[Assistant] She's like, you know, we talked about like, you know, like, joked about hall passes. Yeah. And she said Rick Fox. I'm like, well, I've met him, so like, that'd be awkward. Yeah, that would be awkward. Well, either way, it would be awkward. You didn't have a hall pass.


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[Assistant] I didn't have one. I said only you. Let's skip to the big prize right now. That is beautiful. Guillermo, put that stupid gravy boat away because the big prize is over here. Let's go over to the big prize and this is the full set.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things that I do, just who the hell is it? That's what I try to show a lot of my teammates. It doesn't matter what you do during the week, what you do on game day.


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[Assistant] They gave me a $5,000 fine for wearing my Adidas headband, which I had worn all year long.


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[Assistant] And they never said a word to me all year long. And it made no sense to me.


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[Assistant] So the following week they said, you know, you can't wear the headband, you're going to get a bigger fine.


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[Assistant] I got hit in the bone in the NFC Championship game and literally my ass spilled up to...


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[Assistant] One side was huge and it was all black. I didn't know if I was going to be able to play.


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[Assistant] I knew what the hell I was doing. Like I always have, so. And I can live with that. You know, I'm not gonna lose sleep over somebody thinking I'm an idiot.


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[Assistant] I remember the first day of kindergarten, I was in the principal's office day one as I was sticking thumbtacks on this kid's chair that was, uh, new to the neighborhood and I spent a lot of time there.


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[Assistant] When two prongs went back into my head and severed piece of the retina.


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[Assistant] I said, yeah, that's fine. So I said, what's going to happen in two weeks when we get back to San Diego? And he said,


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[Assistant] He says, well, you got us there, you're gonna start. And the night before the game, he said,


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[Assistant] I got in the huddle and just said, look, you know, you guys give me a little time and you guys get your ass down the end zone and somebody catches ball.


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[Assistant] I had called into the Sanders office and the guy was sitting there saying, I've got a list of people here that have all these allegations against you. And I'd done some of them, sure, but, uh, there was a bunch of things I had no idea what they were talking about.


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[Assistant] He told me, for one, you're too short, you got a bad knee, you don't see very good.


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[Assistant] He says, maybe I oughta just go to Canada. And I said, why the hell'd you draft me?


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[Assistant] After playing in the offense I played in and then having to come to Chicago and deal with this offense because...


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[Assistant] I'm looking at our guys' faces coming off the field. You know, they're, they're beat. I mean, they, they were done. I'm saying, look, Mike, we're going to, we're going to lose this game, man. You know, you better put me in. We're going to lose.


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[Assistant] I think Mike just needed somebody else for his circus, you know. He had me, the nut, he had Fritz, the fat guy, and he needed a midget. So we went and got Flutie.


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[Assistant] It wasn't like we, you know, were mortal enemies. I was more backing my friends, Steve Fuller and Mike Tomczak, because I figured they deserved a shot before the new kit that comes in.


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[Assistant] Now I just want to have a good time. You know, just play golf, uh, enjoy life and, and, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, watch my kids grow up. Hopefully they'll, uh, they'll do better than I did.


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[Assistant] The doc that was there looked at it and he looked at me and he shook his head. He says, we're going to operate right now.


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[Assistant] And I said, no, you're not gonna leave. You're gonna stick it out because this is the program for you. You're gonna be a big star here.


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[Assistant] Is stand on that fourth down play. Let everybody know, hey, I'm not quitting. Don't, don't anybody else give up on me.


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[Assistant] Made sure that they talk to MacMahon. They wanted to be there in case he said something really crazy.


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[Assistant] Well, it's difficult to show you the symptoms at the moment because it comes and it goes.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's so unfortunate. It's always the same whenever I see a doctor. When...


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[Assistant] When I come, it goes. And when I go, it comes.


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[Assistant] Yes. Whenever I get nervous or irritated, I get the hiccups. It's rather unpleasant and sometimes very uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] Doctor, please believe me, there's nothing wrong with my marriage. You could go through all Park Avenue and you wouldn't find a happier couple.


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[Assistant] I've always heard that the ideal marriage should be something of a mystery. Your husband should remain a kind of stranger to you. Someone whose acquaintance you'd like to renew every day. You know what I mean.


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[Assistant] The Evans are still in Bermuda. The hiccups are back.


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[Assistant] Like scratching your head or patting your dog. Would you do it to some other woman?


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[Assistant] Number fifteen. Child with trumpet.


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[Assistant] Yes, I slept 10 hours last night. And Larry, the hiccups have completely disappeared. Isn't that good news?


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[Assistant] I was nervous about the dinner party, and I said whatever came into my mind. I'm sorry, darling.


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[Assistant] That's, that's the shepherd playing his pipe. Shepherds play pipes, don't they?


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[Assistant] He had to get drunk to do it. Goodbye, Mr. Jones.


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[Assistant] Was it a large party? No, I'd say she was about your size.


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[Assistant] But what do you care? That's right. What do I care? Larry's entitled to have a little fun. That's the kind of life he likes.


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[Assistant] I'm on my way to Cynthia Knox's tea and I had to pass by so I picked up a few things.


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[Assistant] I like your apartment, Larry. It's lovely. Charming. Yes, very, very charming.


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[Assistant] No, Larry, never again. I swear. There's no use pretending. I'm defeated.


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[Assistant] And I too. It's understandable. You're very wonderful.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, yes you are. How about dinner?


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[Assistant] Uh, not so well, sir. I came to ask if in your future plans you'd have any use for me.


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[Assistant] I don't see why, really. It's all a question of adjusting yourself.


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[Assistant] I doubt it, Charles. She's got a hard mouth. It's her mouth that gives her away.


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[Assistant] My poor darling child, as far as taste is concerned, your second marriage was a disaster.


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[Assistant] I can't stand another of those dreary evenings at home, Charles. It'll drive me dotty. Besides, I haven't seen a movie for seven years.


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[Assistant] She's absolutely ruined. I hadn't been in the house for a day before I realized that.


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[Assistant] Oh, all right, not that I approve of these masculine and deviant carryings on.


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[Assistant] Merlin does this sort of thing at parties and bores us all stiff with it. It's a waste of time.


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[Assistant] Scientists say we'll likely see longer droughts and more intense heat waves, which could cause big disruptions to the world's food supply. If we don't start with rapid emissions reductions and substantial emissions reductions, that will pass a danger point.


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[Assistant] Beyond which the consequences for many people and countries on earth will simply become unacceptable and eventually disastrous.


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[Assistant] I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.


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[Assistant] At what point do they start laughing at us as a country?


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[Assistant] I've lived too long and the fascists might trust no one. What a business bargain I make. If you help me, I'll help you. Until then, don't think I'm a fool.


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[Assistant] I think you'd better drive. Oh, it's nothing serious. Just little too much excitement at my age.


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[Assistant] Tell her she shall be put in the stocks if she does not take herself off, replied the magistrate. No, stop, interrupted Colonel Dent.


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[Assistant] Don't send her away, Eshton. We might turn the thing to a count. Better consult the ladies.


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[Assistant] And speaking aloud, he continued, Ladies, you talked of going to Hay Common to visit the gypsy camp.


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[Assistant] Sam here says that one of the old mother bunches is in the servant's hall at this moment, and insists upon being brought in before the quality, to tell them their fortunes. Would you like to see her? Surely a Colonel, cried Lady Ingram.


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[Assistant] You would not encourage such a low impostor. Dismiss her, by all means, at once.


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[Assistant] But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady, said the footman, nor can any of the servants.


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[Assistant] Mrs Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone, but she's taken a chair in the chimney corner, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here. What does she want? asked Mrs Eshton.


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[Assistant] To tell the gentry their fortunes, she says ma'am, and she swears she must and will do it. What is she like? inquired the missus Eshton, in a breath.


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[Assistant] A shockingly ugly old creature, Miss, almost as black as a croc.


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[Assistant] Why, she's a real sorceress, cried Frederick Lynn. Let us have her in, of course. To be sure, rejoined his brother.


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[Assistant] It would be a thousand pities to throw away such a chance of fun.


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[Assistant] I cannot possibly countenance any such inconsistent proceeding, chimed in the Dowager Ingram. Indeed, Mamar, but you can and will, pronounced the haughty voice of Blanche, as she turned round on the piano-stool.


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[Assistant] Where till now she had sat silent, apparently examining sundry sheets of music.


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[Assistant] I have a curiosity to hear my fortune told. Therefore, Sam, order the bell-dame forward.


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[Assistant] My darling Blanche, recollect. I do. I recollect all you can suggest, and I must have my will. Quick, Sam.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, yes, cried all the juveniles, both ladies and gentlemen. Let her come. It'll be an excellent sport. The footman still lingered. She looks a rough one, said he.


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[Assistant] Go! ejaculated Miss Ingram, and the man went.


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[Assistant] Excitement instantly seized the whole party. A running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned. She won't come now, said he.


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[Assistant] She says it's not her mission to appear before the vulgar herd. Them's her words.


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[Assistant] Show her into the library, of course. Cut in the angel girl.


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[Assistant] It is not my mission to listen to her before the vulgar herd, either. I mean to have her all to myself. Is there a fire in the library? Yes, ma'am, but she looks such a tinkler. Cease that chatter, blockhead, and do my bidding.


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[Assistant] Again Sam vanished, and mystery, animation, expectation rose to full flow once more. She's ready now, said the footman as he reappeared. She wishes to know who will be her first visitor.


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[Assistant] I think I had better just look in upon her before any of the ladies go," said Colonel Dent. Tell her, Sam, a gentleman is coming. Sam went and returned.


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[Assistant] She says so, that she'll have no gentleman. They need not trouble themselves to come near her. No, he added, with difficulty suppressing a titter.


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[Assistant] Any ladies either, except the young and single.


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[Assistant] By Joe, she has taste! exclaimed Henry Lynn. Miss Ingram rose solemnly.


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[Assistant] I go first, she said, in a tone which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a breach in the van of his men. Oh, my best!


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[Assistant] With her mamma's cry, but she swept past her in stately silence, passed through the door which Colonel Dent held open, and we heard her enter the library. A comparative silence ensued.


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[Assistant] Lady Ingram thought it le car to wring her hands, which she did accordingly.


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[Assistant] Miss Mary declared she felt for her part she never dared venture. Amy and Louisa Ashton tittered under their breath and looked a little frightened. The minutes passed very slowly. Fifteen were counted before the library door again opened. Miss Ingram returned to us through the arch.


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[Assistant] Would she laugh? Would she take it as a joke? All eyes met her with a glance of eager curiosity.


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[Assistant] And she met all eyes with one of rebuff and coldness.


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[Assistant] She looked neither flurried nor merry. She walked stiffly to her seat and took it in silence.


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[Assistant] A low snarl from the riverside contradicted him, but he ignored it. We're even surprised, really. Well, I suppose we are surprised. Surprised that you were able to snap out of it so quickly. You did well, better than anyone expects of you. While he was speaking, the room became very calm. Seth's breathing slipped into a low snore. I felt more peaceful, but I didn't forget my anxieties.


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[Assistant] I could feel Edward's gaze locked on my face, but I looked at Jasper. He was the one who answered me in a grave tone. Yes, it's the only way to protect your father. I brooded for a moment. I'm going to miss him so much. I'll miss everyone here. Jacob, I thought, despite myself. Though that yearning was both vanished and defined, and I was vastly relieved that it was, he was still my friend.


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[Assistant] Someone who knew the real me and accepted her, even as a monster. I thought about what Jacob had said, pleading with me before I'd attacked him. You said we belonged in each other's lives, right? That we were a family. You said that was how you and I were supposed to be. So, now we are. It's what you wanted. But it didn't feel like how I'd wanted it, not exactly. I remembered further back,


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[Assistant] I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain, family. But I'd never factored a daughter into the equation. I remembered a little later, one of the many times that I told Jacob goodbye, wondering aloud who he would end up with. Who would make his life right after what I'd done to it? I had said something about how whoever she was, she wouldn't be good enough for him. I snorted.


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[Assistant] Ever gone a whole day without seeing the objects of their fixations? Emily, Kim, and Claire? Could they? What would the separation from Renesmee do to Jacob? Would it cause him pain?


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[Assistant] There was still enough petty ire in my system to make me glad. Not for his pain, but for the idea of having Renesmee away from him.


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[Assistant] Carlisle came down the stairs with his hands full of odd things, a measuring tape, a scale. Jasper darted to my side, as if there were some signal I'd missed. Even Leah sat down outside and stared through the window with an expression like she was expecting something that was both familiar and also totally uninteresting. Must be six, Edward said. So, I asked, my eyes locked on Rosalie, Jacob, and Renesmee.


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[Assistant] They stood in the doorway, Renesmee in Rosalie's arms. Rose looked wary. Jacob looked troubled. Renesmee looked beautiful and impatient.


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[Assistant] Time to measure Nessarinesme, Carlisle explained. Oh, you do this every day? Four times a day.


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[Assistant] Carlisle corrected absently as he motioned the others toward the couch. I thought I saw Renesmee sigh. Four times? Every day? Why? She's still growing quickly, Edward murmured to me, his voice quiet and strained. He squeezed my hand and his other arm wrapped securely around my waist, almost as if he needed the support. I couldn't take my eyes off Renesmee to check his expression. She looked perfect.


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[Assistant] Absolutely healthy. Her skin glowed like backlit alabaster. The color in her cheeks was rose petals against it. There couldn't be anything wrong with such radiant beauty. Surely there could be nothing more dangerous in her life than her mother. Could there?


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[Assistant] This is the part of my job I like best, bringing the baby to its father for the first time.


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[Assistant] That's old enough to vote and to sign papers and everything. He was talking to me this afternoon and...


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[Assistant] Train in the morning. We used to have two trains a day. Since they stopped making shoes up north.


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[Assistant] Highway 44. If it was open, of course there's Route 32, but the mud's awful annoying.


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[Assistant] Let me switch into my interviewee mode. I'm usually an interviewer mode, Steven. You got me off guard here a little bit. So uhm,


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[Assistant] I think what I'd like to do is tell you about a few of these products and then maybe tell you what I think in general makes


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[Assistant] Make something a good product, like sort of my framework for thinking about it.


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[Assistant] Totally, totally. So, uh, yeah, if you want to stick with software, uhm, a few products that I am a fan of and I think are well designed.


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[Assistant] I was going to say Webull and Acorns. We could talk about Acorns specifically. There's a whole suite of financial apps.


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[Assistant] First of all it has to be, it has to be a useful product or service. It has to be something that actually solves a need. It has to be a product that


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[Assistant] The aesthetics, really. Like how well does it look? Uh, how does it make you feel as the user? Does it make, is it pleasing to interact with, to look at and to engage with? That's going to be the second one. And the third one I think is


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[Assistant] The need, Acorns, what Acorns actually does is it allows anyone to become an investor.


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[Assistant] Everyone ultimately wants to be better financially, wants to have more money. And so, but not everybody knows about investing, not everybody knows how to work with finances, how to make your money work for you, all of this stuff.


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[Assistant] So the need is to allow everyone to become an investor and Acorns does that. Now we'll talk about how it does that and how there's maybe even potential areas for improvement.


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[Assistant] It makes me excited about the product, want to share it with others, and uh, I think in fact we'll probably get quite a lot of people to sign up for Acorns just from this video if they've never heard of it. And it's not an affiliate link or anything like that.


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[Assistant] Diving in a little bit, if our goal here is to figure out, okay, how can we improve this product?


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[Assistant] What we'll do is, and maybe just give me a minute, I'll think through how I want to approach it. I'll just kind of have a rough framework. Maybe I can actually, if you don't mind, I will talk through this, but I reserve the right to make edits as we go. It's sort of going to be a live brainstorming session. So I think.


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[Assistant] I want to create a structure for myself about how I want to answer a question like Improve Acorns, which is a phenomenal app that I've been using for a long time. Tons of users. I think a lot of revenue. I don't know about their profitability, but I think it's just a great, great product.


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[Assistant] And that will lead us into kind of understanding the business side of things, but primarily we do want to obviously focus on the users, the customers. And so the next stage is for us to think about who are the actual users of Acorns specifically.


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[Assistant] What type of segments of users or what type of meaningful way can we describe a user base or maybe multiple user bases? The next point is we're going to talk about


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[Assistant] And next we're going to talk about what the actual use cases are. Use cases, I mean the actual sort of journeys of those users or those user segments and the groups that we talked about. How do they actually interact with the product in order to solve their problem? So we'll talk about some use cases. Uh, and then we will talk about


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[Assistant] And that will lead us into thinking about, okay, so we understand the mission.


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[Assistant] We understand the problem that it solves for these users. Here's their experiences, their use cases. Now, why do they actually use


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[Assistant] Since it's an app, we'll think about maybe the sort of the user life cycle just from awareness of the app through acquisition and retention, engagement, monetization, referral.


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[Assistant] We'll use that framework to think about is there anything along any of those paths?


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[Assistant] That we might either leverage into a quick win or that are just obvious deficiencies or something that we want to pursue. So we'll just call that the, you know, the app user lifecycle.


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[Assistant] I'm talking you through this ordinarily. I'd maybe write it down and then just give it to you straight, but I like this. And if you, by the way, if you think that you'd like to zoom in on a particular area, just let me know either now or as we're talking about it. Uh, because obviously we only have a limited amount of time.


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[Assistant] You know, the Acorns product folks work all year round on this stuff. We're only going to do this for 30 minutes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, makes sense, makes sense. This is, uh, uh, totally agree with you, Stephen, by the way, this could be depending, uh, you know, use this technique at your discretion, but be aware of the time constraints. So I'm kind of assuming Stephen's going to hang with me regardless, but in an actual interview.


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[Assistant] You're only going to have 10, 15, 20 minutes. So be careful how you, whether you want to do this big, uh, discussion or you right away sort of skip the middleman and just say, nope, we're not going to, like, we're not going to do this. We're going to focus on this stuff. Um, so yeah, good, good call out students.


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[Assistant] Alright, so uhm, so after we go through that, we're going to identify those vectors of improvement. We'll talk about the pros and cons, right? Like, okay, can we actually, can we, can we deliver some feature here? Why is it bad? Why is it good? What are the repercussions? We'll talk about the trade-offs of those. And then finally, we will probably


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[Assistant] And that will probably have its own framework in terms of like, okay, here's the stuff that we're going to do early on. Here's some foundational stuff that we want to build. So, and then we'll review, recap.


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[Assistant] Everything that we talked about. Okay, so I'm done with the structure. Don, thank you very much. Steven, pleasure meeting you. I think that was a job well done.


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[Assistant] Let's try to stick with the plan, but if stuff, yeah, it feels like, uh, we're spending too much time. Stephen, feel free to just nudge me along and simultaneously, if you want to dive in on something a little bit more and just say, Hey, let's, let's, let's, let's dive in here. Totally.


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[Assistant] Alright, so first, acorns. Alright, so we talked about what it is, uh, we obviously think it's an awesome product. I think the mission is to, we can start out from allow anyone to invest. That's like very, very specific because that is literally what it is, right? Remove the,


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[Assistant] But then if you look a little bit deeper, like is that really a good mission? Maybe the mission is for everyone to be financially prosper. Like all, help all people prosper financially.


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[Assistant] I think that it depends a little bit on the position of Acorns, like if we are, if we're still a startup and I don't know exactly what they're, they've got a ton of paying users, so I think they're okay in terms of funding, but depending on where they are, they may want to frame the mission of something specific, like allow anyone to invest.


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[Assistant] Uh, towards, I mean we could just allow anyone to invest.


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[Assistant] A little bit rough. I'm not, I'm not a huge fan of this for now, but the other one, if we expand all the way out, it is help everyone on the path to financial well-being, right? Enable financial well-being. So if we take that one,


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[Assistant] If Acorns a little bit further along, then that's actually a great spot because now you can go into a variety of financial products. And now that I think about it, I think they have savings accounts and I think they have retirement and educational plans. So enable financial


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[Assistant] So enable financial well-being. I really like that, uh, for now. We might, we might change it to get a little bit more accessible. What I like about that is that.


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[Assistant] Certainly getting people to start investing is a key component of enabling financial wellbeing.


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[Assistant] Certainly educating about finances, helping you plan for your family, uh, insurance, uh, you know, checkings and all kinds of financial instruments, um, educational products, all that stuff.


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[Assistant] Enables financial well-being. I'm good with that for now. Let's pick that and keep going. Now let's think about the users. The great thing about Acorns is that theoretically, if our goal is to enable financial well-being, basically almost everybody is our user.


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[Assistant] But I know that's a gross oversimplification. Obviously we want to eventually enable financial well-being for everybody. But it brings an entirely different suite of problems. For now we're just going to narrow our focus. We're going to go with U.S. So we want to, we're focusing on the U.S. We've got about 315, 320 million people.


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[Assistant] And the difference why I want to kind of call out the difference there is because the first group of people, they've not invested, so they might not even, uh, have an interest in investing. They might not know of the different ways that you can invest, the different apps that are available, different products. And the beginner investors, they might. And so there you get into discussion of competitors.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about the problem that those folks have. So they have a, the first problem that they have is that they don't know they need to invest. So it's just an educational, we're going to call this an educational gap.


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[Assistant] And then after that, it's, we're gonna call all, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, so there's one that's, I don't know how to fundamentally have enough money left over. I don't know how to save enough money to invest. Can't save enough to invest.


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[Assistant] That problem, because that seems critical. So where do we invest? We could probably figure it out if we had the money. How to start? Again, if we had the money, we can investigate it. Educational is a, is a foundational one. I'll start that one. For me, educational is foundational because the why.


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[Assistant] Why should I invest? I don't believe it, et cetera, et cetera. It's not for me. It's for someone else. So that one. And then the bigger one is I can't save. I can't save enough money. I'm constantly in debt or maybe I'm in debt already. So let's talk about, let's talk about that problem.


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[Assistant] They, they just automate that entire process.


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[Assistant] Now let's think about the alternatives. Okay, so when you're buying a coffee, uh, the only alternative is you'd have, you need some process of being able to actually take that 20 cents and putting it aside and then investing in its account. It's just unreasonable for you to do that yourself. So basically no alternative.


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[Assistant] We need unique aspects to the experience. So we need something


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[Assistant] That's going to help us capture the users.


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[Assistant] I can't save enough. Uhm, there are probably automatic budget apps out there that will


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[Assistant] So that's, technically that is, uh, that is an alternative, but compared to actually unlocking, taking your funds and actually unlocking future investment opportunities, automatic to transfer savings just doesn't, doesn't really match up.


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[Assistant] But we want to turn it into a unique proposition, which is not that easy to copy. So I think that's going to be our stretch goal, honestly, because a lot of the times, uhm,


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[Assistant] Having that feature is just one piece of the puzzle. We've got to actually solve the acquisition. The user acquisition funnel is equally or more important.


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[Assistant] Then the actual product design, and that's actually now that I think about our overall structure, when we think of product design,


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[Assistant] Instinctively, we think about, okay, let's change the product. Let's add this feature here. Let's move the UI components around. Let's try these for the new user segments. That's true. But when you think of designing the product in its entirety, you've got to think about your GTM and your actual user acquisition before you do your product design.


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[Assistant] As we dove deeper, we actually uncovered it. So we have to go back a little bit and just say that


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[Assistant] In the, in the situation with acorns actually, people are


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[Assistant] Financial sort of net worth and to help our the folks that are in our network increase their financial net worth as well.


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[Assistant] So, uh, let's take a moment here. Let's zoom out here for a moment and, uh, and recap.


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[Assistant] We wanted to focus on the users that actually can't save enough and they have not invested.


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[Assistant] And so we want to, and also partially on the education, the folks that don't actually know about these investment opportunities.


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[Assistant] Those are the features that Acorns has right now that keeps them there. So one of the things we're talking about is coming up with a unique perspective to actually hold them there. So now let's think about what are the different ways that we can actually hold them in there once we've got them.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is the keep aspect of it. So we can offer them, uh, additional, ultimately the purposes to enable financial well-being. So we can offer them additional ways to increase their financial well-being. That means we can help them. Uh, we can help them save money as they do.


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[Assistant] Uh, prospects because those are going to influence their earning capacity. So when we break down, uh, finances, it's what you make, it's what you spend and it's what you invest. Those are the three levers, right? I think. So how can we make them help them make more money, uh, save more money and invest meaningfully? If we break those down, the make more money, we could.


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[Assistant] We want to do, uh, I think long-term big bets and we also want to do quick wins. So career trajectory and maybe education, investing in education, investing in a, in a potential career shift would be a long-term.


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[Assistant] That's a long-term play and we'll think about what that could be. Now, how can we help them save money? Well, we need to understand.


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[Assistant] We need to understand more about their life and we need to understand the ways that they inefficiently


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[Assistant] We have access to their accounts, so we technically know everything that they


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[Assistant] If we help them save money, uh, we need to understand their purchasing habits.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to offer them things that they already use, but at better rates. And that could actually be a potential, uh, business play as well. If we understand, we can sort of understand and predict the demand


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[Assistant] Let's see, with three minutes, I probably wouldn't have time to come up with any more really big, big, uh, sort of specific features. And maybe I would identify some vectors for improvement and talk about why it's important and also double down on the choices that we've talked about so far.


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[Assistant] We've attacked the keep opportunity. The capture opportunity is we can similarly break that down into.


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[Assistant] Uh, how do we make the barrier to entry smaller? So that means we make, how can we make the onboarding? We improve the onboarding so we can make it seamless, less steps, less verification required. We can use, we have to figure out how to leverage other signals in order to


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[Assistant] Then the third piece that I want to focus on since we have very little time is this referral piece, which I think is really not leveraged enough with this company because part of the problem eventually when people start copying our products is going to be, sure, we're going to help you


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[Assistant] Get into investing if you've never done it before. Sure. We'll figure out new ways to make you safe, but also we're going to give you a new ways of earning money. We talked about this. Like how do you make money by referring, by helping your friends, family, and whatever. If you have any kind of a platform, use it to actually spread the word.


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[Assistant] We will give you money because there's certain intrinsic value to every new user. We will give you some money and we want to make it easy to talk about this platform. We want to make it fun.


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[Assistant] And we want to visualize it, uh, and help other users visualize it in such a way that they can see the future and the opportunity they have in front of them. And so to help folks refer better.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, with a tree because the whole point of it is acorns, right? You're planting a tree. So now you're planting maybe a forest and we could just go really, really focused on that. And we didn't get a chance to talk about it a lot, but I, that's actually probably one of my biggest pet peeves with acorns is I've told a bunch of my friends about it.


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[Assistant] Uh, I didn't really have to. There's no big emphasis on that inside the app.


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[Assistant] And so I think if we really focus in on our mission of enabling financial wellbeing,


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[Assistant] We've got to leverage this, getting everybody into it. For instance, Webull does this beautifully. You know, you get a stock, I get a stock, we all start investing together. Acorns is better than Webull because there's less volatility and we don't invest in individual stocks and we don't gamble, right? Well, we still gamble, but not as much.


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[Assistant] Awesome, awesome. Well, thank you very much. First of all, I appreciate it. It's a pleasure talking to you. I think, uh,


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[Assistant] Here's the stuff that I think went well. You and I have, I think, great rapport together. Like, it's just easy to talk. I really respect you as a person. I like exponent and it's very easy to talk to you. Uhm, but I like to keep things conversational as much as possible. And I understand that, by the way, not everybody's


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[Assistant] Not everybody's going to be super comfortable with that. And I totally tell a lot of folks that if you, if you're more comfortable, take the time to write down the notes and then speak. But I really like this conversational approach. I know later on I hogged the time because I felt like we were running out of time, but I like the conversational.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and brainstorming together and ordinarily I would ask you to talk, you know, to give me more, more ideas as we go.


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[Assistant] But also, uh, that's the good, but then the bad is the time. Time management can just destroy an excellent interview.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I even felt it like I've done hundreds of these interviews, right? So it should be pretty comfortable for me to talk about it. But then the moment you said, hey, Alex, we're running out of time. I actually, I was like, oh wait, we're running out of time. I'm not going to get the job. I've got to get serious about this, right? So I looked at my structure and I started to think, okay, what can I cut? Um, you know, it's, it's even tough for me to say, um,


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[Assistant] Since the question was improve the product, right? I should have gone through that preamble faster. I should have prioritized it in my mind.


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[Assistant] Uh, and uh, given myself more time, especially since I have no ideas coming into it, I should have given myself more cushion to talk about, okay, what am I going to improve?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, Steven, that's spot on, spot on. I think great takeaways for the folks watching. Uhm, you're gonna be in this situation. I think structure is...


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[Assistant] I'm so glad you caught on to that because, you know, I had so much more to say on all these topics and you said, hey buddy, we got two minutes left. And so uhm,


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[Assistant] That's the time to really like, it's all about prioritization, right? And one of the things you want to show is.


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[Assistant] I can prioritize anything, right? Even when I'm talking about this stuff and I've gone down this path that is gigantic. Well, I got two minutes left, so I've got to prioritize. So I thought to myself, okay.


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[Assistant] What do I prioritize out of all the stuff that we talked about? I'm so excited about all these things, but actually the question was improve the product. So I have to finish with


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[Assistant] Some vectors for improving the product that are in exactly like you said, because of our journey.


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[Assistant] You see, you think, yeah, actually referrals makes a lot of sense because we need that competitive advantage. We don't have it. So let's let's build a competitive advantage and then let's use the actual referral system to be the competitive advantage. So I think I would love to think about this. And like I said, uh, hopefully Acorns gets a lot of referrals from this very video. I think it's an awesome app.


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[Assistant] Oh, Miss Cameron, were you married at Greenwich?


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[Assistant] Strange, I've just been talking to the license bureau up there and there's no record of it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. No, I can see that. I mean, I'm not mad or anything. I mean, it makes sense.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, like, I know that you didn't mean me any, like, harm, you know, or anything, and like, it was just that, I mean, I could just sort of see it, you know, like, you guys are really good friends, and I guess, you know, it just sort of happened or whatever, you know what I mean? Like, I don't, I, I, I mean, I don't think you ever would have told me to go for it if you had been- No!


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[Assistant] This is the video. This is the video I gotta play the sport I've been least looking forward to to going pro in. A sport I've never gone pro in at all, but I imagine it is incredibly tedious. Archery. How about you figure it out?


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[Assistant] That was already a waste of my time. Well, Beatbox is already level 155.


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[Assistant] Nah, we're gonna use it, we gotta use a me at skill level zero. It makes it unauthentic, unauthentic. If we start with a head start.


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[Assistant] Ah shit, I just picked beefboss again. Archery. This time I gotta change me.


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[Assistant] Change me. Change me. I poop my pants. Doody dude.


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[Assistant] Dude dude dude, you're the winner. You get to do something. Okay, I'm holding this the wrong way. But this doesn't feel right. Is this right?


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[Assistant] I don't know. Doody Dude has zero skill level, so. Aw, fuck me. And it shows. What am I doing wrong?


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[Assistant] To doing archery. It's so tedious and then I hit the wrong buttons and I end up with nine points in the first stage.


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[Assistant] I wanna let go of A to shoot, but it is not the right button. It is letting go of Z, L, whatever the frick is on my nunchuck that I need to do. That was actually not bad. Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine.


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[Assistant] Ten! He said something other than nine for once. I don't know how good that was. 77 seems great. Beatbox got a 98 though.


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[Assistant] Honestly, if we didn't shit ourselves so hard on the first stage, we would've done a lot better.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we need to not shit ourselves here, Beef Boss. Uh, Doody Dude. Eh, whatever.


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[Assistant] 999. 9! Whatever, I'm already to 83. Already better than I was last time, so that's gotta be good, but now it's giving me more wind.


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[Assistant] What does that put me at? It puts me at 105, the record. 166 for that, not bad. I wonder if it's better to go after the random secret targets. Cause where is it? It's like a bun over here or something. I see it. It's like right, right there is the bun. I wonder if I can hit it.


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[Assistant] Well that was a waste of a shot, might as well restart real quick. Damn, that was terrible.


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[Assistant] That's not an eight. I hear sucking my balls on that one.


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[Assistant] Final stage, a target out in the ocean, 40 yards away. Where the fuck are we aiming? Where are we aiming?


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[Assistant] W-w-w-where are you trying to go B? Er, uh, doody dude? God, I suck.


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[Assistant] That's a high score because no one else has ever played it, it looks like. 124, I actually got a lot of experience for that. With the plank of wood. I think it's better to go after the frickin' secret.


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[Assistant] What does a melon even give you? Doesn't it give you like 30 or some stupid shit?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're better off going for the center of the frickin' target, that's for sure.


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[Assistant] Wow, that was dog shit. I, I, I, this one I think is better to go after the fruit because I, I figured that shit out.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I'm, I'm better off going for that melon. I have that melon's number. That was putrid as some may say, 12. 25, 20, 12, I'm keepin' going down.


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[Assistant] The wind is directly up at nine miles an hour and doody dude wants to shoot directly up, you dipshit.


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[Assistant] I mean, where is it? It's like, yeah, I'm not, I just should go after the fricking target. That's awful.


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[Assistant] Who's gonna be in a volcano trying to shoot bows at a frickin' target? Still got 100 points out of that, but archery cannot end soon enough.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm shaking my ass off trying to hold the Wii Remote steady.


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[Assistant] Can I just say it already? I know exactly why I'm- I was dreading archery. It's fucking boring!


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[Assistant] I ended up getting a 7, but I could care less really to restart. I could care less. This has gotta be the sport. I'm going to give the least shits about getting pro because it is so incredibly boring.


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[Assistant] Like, maybe if you were shooting other me's with bows and arrows, that'd be somewhat entertaining, but nah, nah, nah. You're just gonna shoot at a fucking moving target that's sometimes stationary.


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[Assistant] I hit the frickin' flange! The absolute flange of that board!


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[Assistant] This is a chore. Going pro in archery is a chore. Archery is good to play through like once, maybe twice, but to grind it to go pro? I'd rather stub my toe. Nah, whatever.


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[Assistant] And it's so tedious. Like I, my, my hand has a little bit of a, it hits a breeze and you know, shakes a little bit. And then my, my shot is not right.


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[Assistant] Because, alright, well, I guess it doesn't matter. I'm going for this. Stupid plank of wood. No. Where, where is the right height on this? That could be it. Yea, that's it.


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[Assistant] I love it when I decide to move a little lower at the end and then it completely backfires. We need to get like 20 points here to get a new record. So we need to do good at this one for once.


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[Assistant] My 68, I tied. I cannot get the forbidden 69. 122 still. Okay, we're actually making good progress. Going for those Easter egg shots is better on some of these. This one it is not. The second one with the melon


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm so impatient. Archery is 90% of your time is spent.


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[Assistant] How fun is this? How fun is this? How fun is this? How fun is this?


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[Assistant] I can't talk while I'm trying to aim either because when I talk I move my hands or like my diaphragm moving moves my hands.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, no, no, no! I'm getting really pissed off. I'm getting really pissed off.


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[Assistant] I'm getting really pissed off, but the annoyed, the super annoyed pissed off.


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[Assistant] He released A again, instead of stinking Z.


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[Assistant] Yup, buy, buy an ass hair, it's too high. And ass hairs are frickin', they're a unit of measurement in Wii Sports, cause it's that accurate of a game.


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[Assistant] That's too high again. Nope. I don't know. I don't know how that one worked, but the previous one didn't. Too right.


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[Assistant] Somehow that three mile per hour wind on this cantaloupe is... is that of hurricane force apparently.


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[Assistant] And then suddenly, oh that was actually gonna be right, but it was too low. So I got zero points out of that. So guess what?


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[Assistant] We might as well restart, because we're probably not gonna get anything out of that. Uh oh.


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[Assistant] Come on, you stupid arrow. Deflect off the rock and then still hit the stupid thing. 65, getting worse.


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[Assistant] 86, we actually still get a lot of experience for that, so I probably should stop restarting so many times.


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[Assistant] Cause it'll probably still be net positive, which is all we need. God damn I suck.


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[Assistant] This, this target is stupid. It's so far, I got a 7 mile an hour win, there's three pieces of wood. Little low? No, we got it all three times in that last one.


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[Assistant] Just give me 300 skill points here and call me done. It almost did. We're only 50 skill points away now. Thank God.


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[Assistant] No, balls in my jaws. Balls, balls, balls, balls, balls, balls. Freaking, ah, man, I hate, you gotta wait forever for it to go eeeeh, and then it's only eeeeh, for three seconds.


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[Assistant] Okay, that should pretty much guarantee that we're gonna get enough points for, uh, pro here. A little low again. Well, good thing, good thing I figured 69 is enough to get us there. Hopefully. If I gotta do this again, I'm gonna shit. Thank god. I'm done. Pro class.


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[Assistant] Archery is really not that fun. It might be fun to play through once, twice. Playing it over and over to get pro.


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[Assistant] Nails on chalkboard board. Bye. I'm done.


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[Assistant] The month of courtship had wasted. Its very last hours were being numbered. There was no putting off the day that advanced, the bridal day, and all preparations for its arrival were complete. I, at least, had nothing more to do. There were my trunks, packed, locked, corded, ranged in a row along the wall of my little chamber. Tomorrow, at this time, they would be far on their road to London, and so should I, D. V., or rather not I, but one Jane Rochester.


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[Assistant] A person whom as yet I knew not. The cards of address alone remain to nail on. They lay four little squares in the drawer.


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[Assistant] Mr. Rochester had himself written the direction Mrs. Rochester and the hotel in London on each.


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[Assistant] I could not persuade myself to affix them, or to have them affixed. Mrs. Rochester? She did not exist.


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[Assistant] She would not be born till tomorrow, sometime after eight o'clock a.m., and I would wait to be assured she had come into the world alive before I assigned to her all that property. It was enough that in yonder closet,


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[Assistant] Opposite my dressing-table, garment said to be hers, had already displaced my black, stout, low-wood frock, and straw bonnet. For not to me appertained that suit of wedding raiment, the pearl-coloured robe, the vapoury veil, pendant from the usurped portmanteau,


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[Assistant] I shut the closet to conceal the strange wraith-like apparel it contained, which at this evening hour, nine o'clock,


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[Assistant] Gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment. I will leave you by yourself, white dream, I said. I'm feverish. I hear the wind blowing. I will go outdoors and feel it.


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[Assistant] Not only the anticipation of the great change, the new life which was to commence tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Both these circumstances had their share doubtless in producing that restless, excited mood which hurried me forth at this late hour into the darkening grounds, but a third cause influenced my mind more than they.


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[Assistant] I had at heart a strange and anxious thought. Something had happened which I could not comprehend. No one knew of or had seen the event but myself. It had taken place the preceding night. Mr. Rochester that night was absent from home, nor was he yet returned.


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[Assistant] Business had called him to a small estate of two or three farms he possessed thirty miles off. Business it was requisite he should settle in person, previous to this meditated departure from England. I waited now his return.


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[Assistant] Eager to disburden my mind, and to seek even the solution of the enigma that perplexed me. Stay till he comes, reader.