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[Assistant] Completely repackaging. And I think that will do a lot to remove the preconceptions of, look at this goofy dork here. Yeah. Because he comes at me and he's like, here's my eyebrows. And it's like, no, you're a prick. And I think that will go a long way.


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[Assistant] You hear that music and you're like, oh, it's MizTV. Right. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, I do. So, I would like to see something, I would like for this to lead to something. I don't think it will. No, I don't think it will either. I feel like this was just, we need to fill some time, go out there and have a good match. But it was a good match, wasn't it? This is the best that the Miz has been on TV, I'm just gonna remove that.


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[Assistant] You could, I told you he was good in 2016, because I think you have to go back to then to be able to find like, oh, that was the last time the Miz was good. And that was seven years ago. And you can find me back then saying it. So. So I thought this was.


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[Assistant] A really, really great match. Uhm, I became the troll in the office because, uh, I was saying how good this match was. And Tempest looked at me like, well, you would struggle to have a bad match with Seth Rollins and Johnny Gargan. I was like, well, you know, what's the common factor in both of those matches? It is! It is! It is! Maybe!


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[Assistant] Maybe Johnny Gargano got a good match because the miss wasn't there. Mike Mistanins, we've gone even one set higher.


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[Assistant] I don't believe that, really. Uh, but I thought this was very good, it's just, I, I would,


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[Assistant] Let's play out. But I actually agree with you that this, ah man, put the US title on someone else other than Austin.


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[Assistant] Uh, Owens, Sammy and Riddle hung out backstage. Uh, there was some dissension between Owens and Riddle with Sammy playing peacekeeper. Riddle did some com- uh, some comedy. Oh my god. And then Kevin Owens was like, take this seriously.


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[Assistant] Right, I was like, and Matt was like, of course I'm taking this seriously, like I don't really mean this, this is what they did to me and I'm now gonna, we're gonna go and do this.


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[Assistant] Uh, up next was Bobby Lashley vs Austin Theory. So.


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[Assistant] I really liked last week's big beefy men slapping meat match with Lashley and Bronson Reed. Awesome. Absolutely loved it. So I thought this match


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[Assistant] Stunk to high heaven because it was Austin Theory beating up Bobby Lashley for ages and it was Bobby selling and selling and selling and selling and I was like


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[Assistant] Who in their right mind booked this? Honestly. After what you did last week and you were supposed to be presenting Bobby Lashley with this unstoppable force going against this immovable object. He looked pretty stoppable here against Austin Theory. And it was a snooze fest. So boring. And the crowd do not care about


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[Assistant] So yea, Bronsonry jumped in and caused a DQ. They really heavily piped in crowd noise for this because you could see the crowd not reacting to this, but like a constant


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[Assistant] Yes, that's what this was. This was the Smackdown Hoover. And, vacuum please, Hoover's a brand name. And, uh, Austin Theory got involved at one point, which makes me think that maybe the PP will be a triple threat.


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[Assistant] Has done irreparable damage to poor old Austin Theory. The crowd didn't care about him before then. They care about him even less now. I didn't know that was possible. And it was crickets for the poor lads. Can't buy Heat at this point. Put the US title on Dom.


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[Assistant] I thought that was legit. No, no, you can see the crowd sat on their hands. In fact, some people were literally like jumping up and down cheering for her because she's a legend and they were piping in like booze for her.


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[Assistant] But I thought this was a really good promo. I mean, it makes no sense that Trish wrestled a full match last week trying to defend the tag belts if she'd attacked later and then it was going to turn on Becky afterwards, but- It would explain why she missed half her moves though, because she wasn't really trying. But, well, whatever. Maybe.


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[Assistant] But I thought this promo itself was great because she said that, hey, you know, when I came here, women's wrestling was a joke, which is true. Yeah. Literally like the pay-per-view before like Trish really joined or a couple of pay-per-views before she joined. It's like gravy bowl match where the cat takes off the top. And when Trish


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. It was me. It was all me. Like, I did this. And I thought it was really great. But no, Becky comes in here.


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[Assistant] I ain't no sidekick. I am not a nostalgia act. I am not your childhood fantasy. I am not a sidekick. I am the greatest of all time and I'm here to prove that. Absolutely awesome.


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[Assistant] That's all I've written. I've written, I've literally written here, Cathy interviews Cody, and that is all I've written.


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[Assistant] No, someone on the, I was checking through the comments on the news that went live. Someone said, man, your two out of five score for this was really harsh. This was a show that referred to some rivalries. And I don't think it did.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we, Graves, in a curious bit of commentary, said, oh, I don't know how Loray and Yim are gonna work together as a team, they've been a team since February. Uhm, and we literally saw this match three weeks ago. Nicky is still stalking Candice, that storyline is going nowhere, Green wins, I don't care.


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[Assistant] Cause you gave Ronda and Shayna the win, and not been on TV since because now, cause Ronda's her. So what was the point? What was the point of the showcase?


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[Assistant] Well, uh, thank you so much for all of your thoughts. We're going to get to your Ultra Chats in just a moment. There is a poll up now in the live chat. Let us know what you thought of the show. Thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs in the middle.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're gonna shout out some very special people here who've gone over to patreon.com forward slash rest talk to get involved with our content over there. Tomorrow is Wednesday. You know what that means. Wrestle talk after dark is going to be released. Myself, Pete Tempest and Dave Bradshaw have a few drinks and have a good old natter. Then next week it will be Ollie Davis and myself reviewing.


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[Assistant] Funnily enough, WrestleMania 2000. Ooh, dreamy! Uhm, which is...


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[Assistant] Not a good show. Uhm, but go and check that out. We're at, we've recorded about an hour of it so far and we're having a grand time doing so. Uh, and then there'll be more, actually next, that's time to get involved because.


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[Assistant] Wrestle Talk Behind the Scenes, next month's Wrestle Talk Behind the Scenes will have a lot of- Of stats!


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[Assistant] Uhm, and if you are one of our $25 and above Patreon pledgehammers, you get your name read out on the air like these fine folks. This is some kind of Patreon shoutout. Nate dropped surname. The number one villain.


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[Assistant] The Hundred Dollar Man CD, however. Peter Fiber Brontus.


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[Assistant] Probably better than Kyle, Philip O'Reilly. The man who wears the gold, the man recognised by Swafnation International as the 24-7 champion, our legend. Reece Cook, what the rock is smelling. Daylight Robbery, Rob James. And Yo Adrian, Rocky. Thank you all so much for your amazing, wonderful shoutouts. Apologies that my laptop was loud.


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[Assistant] Yes, you bet it wasn't. I was at the show. Luke is right, two out of five.


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[Assistant] Eddie Pat says, uh, do you guys think if Cody would have gotten injured that we might have won at WrestleMania? Do you think if Cody Rhodes hadn't gotten injured he would have won at WrestleMania?


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[Assistant] What's out there? You could just release the LWOT shirt.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ryan Singh said, Hey guys, hope you're both well. I'm quite optimistic, uh, and I'm going to be going to be patient with WWE. I think they're trying to get as many wrestlers switching shows as possible before the draft where it will be a lot more strict. Could be wrong though, it is WWE. Yeah, uhm, like if they're going back to be strict on the draft, strict on the draft,


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[Assistant] Yikes. Uh, which is that one. John Rye says, uh, FYI guys, I don't think there are so many LWO t-shirts in Puerto Rico. It's the Mexican flag color. That's a very good shout. Love you guys, keep me entertained while I'm at work. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's,


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[Assistant] Apparently as well, WB Shop are selling Puerto Rican flag LWO shirts. Oh, there you go. There you go. Uh, Jan Beard says, I feel like we're either going to get a short Trish versus Natalia feud or Natty will help Trish because Canada.


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[Assistant] Kat says, what are your thoughts on inter-gender wrestling? I think it can work if it's taken seriously and respectfully. Lucha Underground is a great example of that. There's a great example of inter-gender wrestling, like, everywhere. You can look for it.


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[Assistant] Brodie Reed says, Hey boys, big fan, uh, just wondering Luke, when the rest talk after dark episode will be uploading scenes that were recorded, it's Thursday, thanks in advance boys. Piers, screw you Dan Leighton, you obnoxiously handsome man, your ludicrous chest and beard. Oh, she says luscious. Oh, luscious, sorry. Well, it's also ludicrous. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] We release on Wednesday, all of our podcasts are released on Wednesday, but we do record them in advance, so that we make sure they go out on Wednesday for you.


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[Assistant] Jambeard says, non-WW question for you fellas with Super Mario Bros. doing well, along with the Sonic movie. What game would you like to see that's got the style of, uh, get that style of movie next between Kirby, Star Fox, Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong or maybe even Crash Bandicoot?


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[Assistant] This Friday, in fact, on cutscene, is my episode about the unmade Metroid movie from the mid-2000s. And it was a, it's really funny because there's a line, I think there's a line there, there's definitely a line in the interview I did with the producer of that movie, Brad Foxhoven, where he was explaining his thought process when he was approaching Nintendo.


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[Assistant] Since like 1993, a lot of studios have approached Nintendo about doing movies. Uh, but Nintendo have always said no, because Mario Brothers, the 93 Mario Brothers, have a black mark on their, uh, their history. Plus, it didn't really mean anything for them in the long run. And, um,


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[Assistant] And I love Metroid, and I think Metroid would make a great movie. Plus, I knew if I said Metroid, they'd probably give me that one, because at the point when he signed it, Metroid had been a dead franchise. It was like, they would start developing it the same year that Metroid Prime came out.


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[Assistant] So, like, Metroid Prime is, like, you re-kickstarted. You know, that's serious. That's really been dumb for almost 10 years at that point before, like, after Super Metroid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would like to see of those though, as it's known here in the UK, Starwing.


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[Assistant] Well here's the thing with Jushin Thunder Liger and why I love that match.


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[Assistant] I went through a period of time when, uh, Liger was here in the UK a lot and he was just doing Indie Circus. And the reason you booked Liger was to go out there and just do the Liger spot. So he went out there and just did the same thing in every match. And every time we did it, I'm like, surfboard stretcher!


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[Assistant] He did all of his sport! Yay! I nearly ran him over with a Segway. But I didn't. I could have ended that man's career earlier than he retired, but I didn't, because I did not run him over.


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[Assistant] Also no, FTR is not good after their big win, but I can't praise the in-ring quality enough. OC vs Buddy Matthews was the best of the night. Derby vs Web was amazing, and I loved giving the big presentation to Keith Lee against Jericho.


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[Assistant] Usually if you've had like a big win, you aren't on the show.


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[Assistant] Like if you have your big debut, you aren't on the show the following week, you just have like a backstage promo or something, cause that's said to give room for other people to be able to get in there.


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[Assistant] Uh, not actually Tesco, it's also a carryover from the Dynamite review. Said, how goes it champs? Uh, thought last night's Dynamite was a step down from last week. I agree. Uh, but you can't win them all. Favorite spot the night for me was outside of Jeff's return was that powerbomb from Keith Lee. The sheer strength. 3.5 out of 5. All the best, CJ!


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[Assistant] Uh, luken21 has been a member for 23 months in a row. Uh, it says, hi guys, love the new studio. Thank you very much. So do we.


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[Assistant] Uh, bubba232 said, just want to share a personal achievement. I submitted my dissertation last night. I am now two weeks away from completing university. Thank you Restalk for being there.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. On that note, actually, you know, last week we had a big conversation about, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yes, that first, yeah, I said it was from Kevin didn't I? That first AEW chat. Carrier from the AEW show. I said it was from Kevin. Well, if not, Kevin.


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[Assistant] Uh, I shared, uh, about the, the BBFC things that I was running from my university dissertation way back in the day. I then got booked on Cameo and it just said...


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[Assistant] So, uh, thank you very much. Uhm, we need to close the poll and find out what you thought of this episode. Uhm, one second, let me just close this. And it says that... Come on, end.


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[Assistant] But that is all we've got time for on this edition of the show. Thank you all so much for joining us. Thank you all so much for your very generous Ultra Chats as well. Uh, we'll be back tomorrow. Uh, no we won't. You will.


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[Assistant] No, we won't. No, we won't. It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. Wrestling will be back tomorrow, but we have to wait a day because we have to see the show. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. We'll be back on Thursday with the Dynamite review. And then on Saturday, it will be the Smackdown podcast. And on Monday, it will be a brand new episode of Worst Match Ever, where we're watching Caitlin versus Maxine from NXT.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much. You can check out all of those videos here on this wonderful channel. We will see you next time. I've been Loco and D.A.D. That has been the Professor Dan Layton. Jam that jam.


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[Assistant] We the people now presents Dr. William Thorpe, head of the International Medical Association. Dr. Thorpe.


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[Assistant] We gotta stay. It's a lot of sick people.


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[Assistant] You're a vet, Nuck, and you're okay with cows and horses and ordinary human eels.


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[Assistant] Things have been pilin' up around here that need real doctrine. Dust pneumonia, fracture cases.


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[Assistant] Now remember, keep your mouth shut and let me handle this. Go right ahead, Bob. It's your picnic. Well aren't you gonna help me? Sure, sure. Well then go on out there and crank up the jalopy.


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, we fixed up the house. Hope you like it.


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[Assistant] On the way is the Stebbins place. He and his missus and two kids are laid up. I thought that


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[Assistant] Not much of a house, I'll admit. We tried to fix it up for you.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, we've moved upstairs. Got our own private entrance and everything. Won't bother you a bit. This is all yours. Here, I'll show you the layout. Why, the beds are made up all nice and fresh. Plenty of clean towels in the bathroom, lady. And the women folk fixed up some food and stuff. It, uh...


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[Assistant] A little dusty. Yeaah. But milk, that's one thing we have. Nothing else out here is good milk. How'd you like a nice glass? Oh. Sour.


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[Assistant] Have to strain it through a towel or something. That's what we do. Be alright in a couple of days. I'll show you how this stove works.


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[Assistant] Before I turn in, there's something I'd like to say. It's been a tough night for you and you're both swell. I'm mighty thankful. You can see what we're up against, Doc. Yes, yes.


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[Assistant] Oh, you're gonna be all right when we get this dust cleared away. It isn't gonna be as hard as you think. I guess we don't notice it so much for kinda used to it. You'll feel better after a night's rest. Sleep works wonders, doesn't it, Doc?


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[Assistant] Oh, but everybody's waiting to meet you. The whole town's turned out to see the new doctor.


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[Assistant] No, just wait till the wind lets up and then dig ourselves out like they're all doing.


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[Assistant] Fine old man, your father. Like to have me drive you around a bit? Startin' to get your banks?


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[Assistant] So what was the younger man on the air just ahead of you? A lot of folks around here figured we oughta send for him. But I said send for the older man with his daughter. Figured you might be some help. Oh, bye. Forget it, I'm not gonna try and sales talk you on staying. I'll even help you pack.


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[Assistant] If you're gonna stick around, I'd teach you the American language. But what's the use? You're gonna scram anyway. You could only take it like the old gent.


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[Assistant] My grandmother. She came out here in 61 by covered wagon. There were Indians to fight then and dangers and famine to me. Little dust couldn't run her out. She could take it. She was a pioneer.


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[Assistant] Boy, I figured you'd stop being a refugee when you came through Ellis Island. There's no reason why you can't start being a pioneer now. Even in a dust bowl. That used to be topsoil. Good, rich earth. Find stuff to have your roots in, if you had any roots.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know how you must feel. I don't altogether blame you for wanting to pull out.


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[Assistant] Irrigation ditches, wind breaks, contour plowing. Others have done it and saved their land, and so can we. And there's no guesswork about it. It's all right here in black and white from the Department of Agriculture. Listen, John, I ain't got nothing against all them pamphlets. But what I want to know is this. Can the Department of Agriculture bring us maybe six inches of rain? I wish they could.


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[Assistant] Let's quit arguing and kidding ourselves. We're all in the same boat. And we're all gonna sink. Unless we stick together.


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[Assistant] Every one of us has been served with a dispossessed notice. Not by Uncle Sam or a bank or some mortgage company, but by a little old gal we've been kicking in the teeth. Mother nature. We've had enough talk. How about getting some work done? Are you gonna pitch in and help?


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[Assistant] We're farmers. We own our own land. Like our fathers and our grandfathers. You can't shove us around to match pretty pins on your maps. We're not swivel chair farmers. And we're not licked yet.


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[Assistant] Don't be a sucker. Don't waste your time. Why don't you pack your things and clear out?


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[Assistant] You and your old man had the right hunch when you first got here. You wanted to pull out the same day. Well, I'm sorry I ever talked you into staying.


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[Assistant] I'm not so drunk, I don't know what I'm saying. They showed me maps and charts of our land today. It isn't worth saving, see.


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[Assistant] Well, I do. I know when I'm licked. Move off to land, the fella says. It's dead. And it is dead.


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[Assistant] We're all dying on our feet and haven't got sense enough to know it. Well, why don't you clear out while the clearing's good? We'll be following you pretty soon anyway.


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[Assistant] That's right, that's what they want us to be. They want to move us to Oregon.


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[Assistant] No, we could stay here and starve, I guess.


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[Assistant] I was giving you a pep talk. You know what that means?


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[Assistant] Our law is written by the wind and the dust.


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[Assistant] We'd be a lot better off you and I, Lenny, without so much understanding.


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[Assistant] We get all tangled up in other people's feelings with duties and obligations. We know where our happiness lies. Why don't we take it?


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[Assistant] Well, just something I can fight. But I can't. It's like that storm outside.


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[Assistant] But as long as we have to move off the land, let's move like an army and not like rabble. Let's make it an advance and not a retreat. I don't want to go any more than the rest of you. Only a few months ago, it was I that argued that we stay here and fight. Well, we fought and lost.


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[Assistant] The patch on the map is Oregon. That's 1500 miles from here. That's a long haul in any man's country. But it's new land.


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[Assistant] And if we go together, stick together, and work together, and pool our monies and supplies, we can make it.


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[Assistant] So we gotta take your word for it, John, that this here Oregon is a land flowing with milk and honey, huh? There's no land anywhere worth a hoot, till it's flowed with good, honest sweat.


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[Assistant] Why don't you mind your own business? Leave her alone, can't you?


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[Assistant] Want to ask you to quit making trouble. Listen mister.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of fellas think the way I do. Now what do you know about that? I know that one rotten apple can spoil a barrel. Now just stay in line and quit shooting off your mouth.


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[Assistant] When we make camp tonight, if you got anything to say, I'll listen to you. I don't have to take orders from you. You're a fool, Higgins. This isn't my show, it's ours. I didn't ask to run it. But as long as I am running it, you're gonna take orders from me and like it.


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[Assistant] What do you know about it, Nunk? You ain't never been there. No, but I have. Sure, there's miles of groves and orchards.


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[Assistant] There's also about two or three hundred thousand migratory workers there. There isn't enough fruit for them to pick to make a living wage. Sure, we can go to California. But what good will it do us?


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[Assistant] We'll just become migrants too, drifting up and down the state, following the crops. We're not fruit pickers, man, we're farmers.


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[Assistant] Up in Oregon, where we're heading for, there's land for us. Land that we can own and farm.


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[Assistant] Your oranges and sunshine, take it anytime you want to. But quit stirring these people up.


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[Assistant] You ain't gonna bulldoze me with that high and mighty talk. We're getting out of here. But not before you hand over that dough we chipped in. Now one dime, Higgins. You know what that money's for. I suppose.


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[Assistant] It wouldn't be for that little furon dish that's struttin' around your back.


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[Assistant] Well, if I remember correctly, Doc, Moses got good and sore at them, too.


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[Assistant] Well, that'll be okay with me too, Doc. My heart won't be in it.


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[Assistant] Oh, we got a right to stay here. We're gonna settle this right now, Mr. Phillips. No stalling.


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[Assistant] We want our dough and our supplies, and we don't want no part of Oregon. We sure don't. How about it, man?


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[Assistant] Listen, man. We've driven all day through a furnace. We've only just made camp. You're hot and tired and hungry.


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[Assistant] Go on back to your tents and let the women feed you. Take a swim, cool off, we can get-


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[Assistant] Alright, Higgins, you win. You lead them.


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[Assistant] Lead them where they're not wanted. Lead them where they'll starve. Lead them into the middle of Death Valley and let them rot for all I care. Where's our dough? You'll get it.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna quit us now. I've taken all I can stomach. That's the money. Do what you like with it.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm clearing up. I'm quitting. I'm through. Is that clear?


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[Assistant] San Francisco is less than 200 miles from here. It's a clear day, Lenny. Maybe you can see the Golden Gate.


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[Assistant] What are we kidding ourselves for? Why don't you quit too? There's a lot of things stronger than duty. And we're both crazy if we don't realize it.


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[Assistant] It's easy to run away. I just found that out. It'll be easy for you, too.


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[Assistant] It's time we started thinking about ourselves for a change and not others. Grab this chance to be free, Lenny. It'll never come again.


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[Assistant] You're all wrong, Doc. It's the other way around. I'm trying to sell her a bill of goods.


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[Assistant] Whether it was the gruel, which was a little thicker than usual.


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[Assistant] It's a very muddy walk unless you keep the footpaths. James can tell you where it is best to cross the street.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Carroll has invited us to dinner on Thursday. Oh, but I thought


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[Assistant] She apologises for the short notice, but they wanted to ensure the arrival of a new folding screen to protect me from any draft of air.


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[Assistant] However, as they are very anxious to have your company, I don't wish to prevent it, provided weather be what it ought, neither to damp nor cold nor windy.


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[Assistant] Oh, thank you, my dear. Now that would be most agreeable. Yes, you will make my excuses, as civilly as possible.


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[Assistant] And have a word with James. Tell him to wait with the carriage. You'll be soon tired with all that noise.


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[Assistant] No great harm if it does. The sooner every party breaks up the better in my opinion.


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[Assistant] We take this train every day, but only because the company pays for it. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to afford it.


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[Assistant] In a few moments, I'll let you hear some of the actual voices of the people who lived through these past few days of devastation. You'll hear history in the making.


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[Assistant] Asheville Forks is packing up lock, stock and barrel and is moving on up into Oregon. How about you, sir?


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[Assistant] Will you say a few words to our listening audience about this great trek that you're contemplating? I ain't no Charlie McCarty. I ain't got time. Then it'll only take a moment. Just tell us in your own words about your experiences during this calamity. In my own words? Yes.


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[Assistant] Say buddy, it's gonna take us a couple of hours to sort this stuff. We ain't gonna sort it. We'll take it the way it is. Hold on a minute. This ain't all ours. We can't do that.


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[Assistant] You're listening to The Downside. The Downside. With John Marcos Serresi.


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[Assistant] All right, but remember to dollar extra charge for last night.


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[Assistant] Oh, Tommy. Reading Christmas stories? No ma'am, I'm studying the Blue Jackets manual. Blue Jackets net? Oh, you're going to be a sailor too.


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[Assistant] Tommy, it isn't good to study too much. You ought to be out playing with the other children.


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[Assistant] As the French would say, if they could speak English, I'll thank you to keep your big mouth shut and your nose out of my business. S'il vous plait. Au revoir, choucroute.


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[Assistant] Hello Richard. Hello Mr. Brown. I just wanted to congratulate you on the way you handled the case.


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[Assistant] The object of the law is to temper justice with mercy, isn't it? Well, that's the way I've always looked at it, but I didn't think you'd see it that way.


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[Assistant] Well, I, uh, I can't get married for at least a month. Oh, Richard. Richard.


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[Assistant] Find time of night to be calling me. Who does he think he is anyway?


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[Assistant] Hello! Which Rockefeller is this, Nelson or Winthrop?


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[Assistant] Hello? Oh, hello, Sam. Sam Goldwyn.


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[Assistant] But it might be someone important. What do you mean it might be? It is someone important. That's the trouble of being a famous New York lawyer, no privacy.


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[Assistant] I appreciate your feelings, uh, Richard, but I'd rather stay here if you don't mind. Well, I do mind! Now look, Mr. Brown, I've taken just about enough from you.


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[Assistant] Of course, it's not that I need the money, it's just that I have so many chains. I know, I got a lot of them too. I'll give you four dollars for it. Four dollars? Listen, when my father gave this to me, he told me it was worth twenty-five.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm sure I can get her on the WPA or, or the night shift at Lockheed.


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[Assistant] Well that just goes to show you, if you build a better mousetrap, I'll be down soon, Miss Crockett. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] But please remember, nobody must know you're here. Do you understand? Nobody.


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[Assistant] Yes, ma'am. It seems she doesn't care to see you, sir. She's gotta see me!


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[Assistant] He was outside a little while ago. Maybe he's still there. I'll go and see.


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[Assistant] But there are some other cases when I'm not so sure of my legal rights.


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[Assistant] In the preseason game that you do in these practices, these team practices, they've been so beneficial, but some of the


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[Assistant] I'm alright, it's, it's just I've been under such a strain and, and now this.


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[Assistant] I beg to ask the undersecretary of state for foreign affairs a question of which I have given him private notice.


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[Assistant] What is a hashtag? Hashtags are basically just words that you associate your post with. Or it could be your product, it could be a noun, it could be a feeling, adjective, phrase, it could honestly be anything.


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[Assistant] For example, if I had a picture of fried chicken, I can put in fried chicken, I can put in that it gives me a feeling of being happy. So I put in happy or be your own champion, right? These are all


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[Assistant] Digging a little bit further, how does it work? It's basically used to categorize


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[Assistant] So it's like a giant folder that each of these posts and each of these words that people have, they can actually put their own content in this giant folder. So whenever people are searching for that specific term, they can actually find all the content in there. Now,


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[Assistant] So whenever people are clicking into these hashtags, once again, they can access the information in these folders. And all you're doing is when you're hashtagging is that you're putting your posts in this specific folder so people who are searching for this thing can actually see it and they can actually go and scroll through basically all the content within that hashtag.


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[Assistant] That's how hashtag works. Now with typically any post that you make on Instagram, you can add up to 30 hashtags on a single post.


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[Assistant] Then you can put your hashtag groups either in the bottom of the post like on the left hand side image or to make it even cleaner you can actually put the hashtags


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[Assistant] In the first comment as well. Either way works. So it really depends on, uh, your preference on how your aesthetics work for your Instagram account.


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[Assistant] Now, why is this important? Okay, like a lot of people think that, oh hashtags are just like very geeky stuff. No, it actually allows you to make your business way more discoverable.


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[Assistant] On this platform. Because when you use this, it's actually


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[Assistant] When you use the hashtags that are genuine, that are...


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[Assistant] Uhm, that are really applicable to your content and that is useful, then it shows Instagram that, hey, you know what, when people click on this hashtag, your post is much more engaging. That means people are actually searching for, uhm, your type of content and then they will push your post and they'll push this content up higher so it's more accessible for other people to find. So that's the reason, that's what, truly what


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[Assistant] That means that they, they better, they, they optimize the, your piece of content over other people who are not relevant. So for example, if I have a picture of fried chicken in, uh, I'm on my post and then I put in fried hamburger.


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[Assistant] Right? And if people click into fried hamburger and they see a fried chicken,


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[Assistant] There's no relevant- it's not the right content. So, people click out right away, and when people click out right away and it's not relevant, then-


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[Assistant] Uh, Instagram would automatically know in within their own platform that hey, you know what? This is not the right word. People are not liking the content that they found through the hashtag and thus pushing your content lower and lower into the folder. So then that way,


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[Assistant] What's the point of hashtagging? There's no point if it's not relevant.


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[Assistant] So next up, it also helps you drive organic impression and increase your reach as well. What does that mean? That means that for every single post that you put up there on Instagram,


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[Assistant] Are willing to engage with your post. What does engaging mean? That means they'll click into it, they'll go through different hashtags within your post, and on top of that they might even comment because you have a hashtag.


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[Assistant] It also increases the engagement with your followers. So for example, whenever we run our campaigns, we always have our own hashtags. So then that way, people that are interested in seeing, hey,


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[Assistant] How are people interacting with our products, right? They would click into our company's hashtag, for example, hashtag 720sweet.


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[Assistant] There's 5000 plus posts on this hashtag.


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[Assistant] Why is that the case? Because people like to share their experience with our brand.


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[Assistant] And how do they share that experience to ensure that other people see it? They add in hashtags.


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[Assistant] So then that way, whenever new customers come into our brand, what they do, what they do, they click on our company's hashtag to see how other people are engaging with our product and thus giving them the trust and the credibility that, hey, you know what? This product is, is great. Let's, let's, let's buy it or let's order from them.


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[Assistant] That's the reason why hashtags are so important.


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[Assistant] Use branded hashtags to encourage interaction with your customers. Exactly what I was sharing with you, right? A lot of times you would want to be able to use hashtags or have one or two hashtags that are similar to your brand name. For example, our ice cream shop, 720 sweets and et cetera, we use the hashtag


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[Assistant] Branded hashtag, so whenever people click on search for 720 sweets, that would pop up. You would want to do the same for your hashtag groups.


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[Assistant] So to maximize the use of hashtags, we don't want to just create one or two and yet we don't want to use 30 hashtags. The reason why we don't want to use 30 hashtags is because, like what I was sharing with you earlier,


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[Assistant] Instagram is a search engine. When you put all 30 into their search engine, a lot of times I find it, it becomes buggy. It becomes like, uhm, a lot of these hashtags are not indexed, that it's not searchable. What does that mean? That means that, uhm,


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[Assistant] The label is not put on your post properly and thus it doesn't show up properly. That's what it means by indexing. So that's the reason why we recommend using 25 hashtags.


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[Assistant] Right here, uh, you can see this is our hashtag group for our Bulbasaur case study that we have created.


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[Assistant] Now, you can see that there's two different hashtag groups. One that is very, very, uh, bubble tea focus, that has bubble tea, beautiful British Columbia, bubble tea, love tea, tea's diagram, bubble love, bubble milk tea, and this is very heavy on


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[Assistant] Right? That is on the bubble tea side. Whereas the one on top, the blue one, is


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[Assistant] Less of a bubble tea focus because we focus more on Vancouver. Vancouver is awesome. 604. Vancouver foodie. Vancouver eats. YBR eats. Van City eats. What does that mean? That means we're catering more to influencers. We're catering more to like, hey, when people are searching for


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[Assistant] The bottom hashtag, so then that way it just transfers a different type of energy and a different type of feeling altogether.


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[Assistant] Now, the four steps in creating the best Instagram hashtag groups, okay? First up, do your hashtag research. This is the thing that most people trip up on, and that's the reason why we're doing this.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to be introducing you to the rabbit hole method. What is that? So basically on your explore page of your Instagram account, click on the search bar on the top and click on the tags tab. You can see that we have highlighted in the red squares.


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[Assistant] Now type in your keyword specific to your location and what you want to sell. So it could be any type of keyword that you can think of right off the bat, but something that is a little bit more specific to your product. So for us, YVR Eats is the one that we chose.


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[Assistant] And then you would see that there's a bunch of keywords that also popped up that has YVR Eats.


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[Assistant] Then you look through the top post of YVR Eats and this is what you see on the right hand side and you're gonna see that these are the content that other people have logged under YVR Eats. So what do we do?


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[Assistant] We click on one of these images, the top post, okay, there's going to be more than 800,000 posts. That's 800,000 content that people have created on


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[Assistant] Okay, so what do we want to do? We want to pick the top one because we want to see what other hashtags that they're using.


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[Assistant] So you can see right there, we clicked into that one and we see that, wow, this is a beautiful image. This guy must know what they're doing.


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[Assistant] Then on the bottom, click on the comments.


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[Assistant] And you're going to see that they hide their comments in the first


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[Assistant] And as you can see there, there's YVR Eats, YVR Foodies, there's Vancouver Chef, Vancouver Is Awesome Foodie, and these are all great hashtags that you can potentially use


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[Assistant] These are the search volume for your keyword. And that's really important for you to actually log down onto the excel sheet. And once again, that excel sheet is in the resources down below.


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[Assistant] Click on the link, download that, and so then that way we can go through this together.


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[Assistant] They also use funnel cake, burgers, cheeseburger as hashtag and obviously if you're selling fried chicken or if you're selling bubble tea kits, this is not as applicable so you don't want to include those.


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[Assistant] On to your excel sheet down below. Download it from the link below and follow along.


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[Assistant] Make sure that you guys don't use overused hashtags. Just imagine that you hashtag food. There's 425 million posts and content created on food. So what does that mean? That means most likely people are not going to find your content because there's 425 million


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[Assistant] That's the reason why we don't want to use the basic and broad hashtags. Even food porn has 250 million posts, foodie, 175 million posts. You're not going to have your content found and the whole point of us using hashtags is for us to be discovered by new customers.


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[Assistant] So we want to avoid these because it just makes no sense. Okay?


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[Assistant] So next up is to find your customer. It's always a good idea to use specific and locational based hashtags, even though the search volume is lower.


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[Assistant] When you use hashtags like Boston food porn instead of just food porn, you see that with food porn, there's 250 million posts all about food porn. That is okay. That's a big pull.


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[Assistant] When, and when we narrow it down to Boston food porn, we see that there's


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[Assistant] That's actually a good thing because just because it's less demand and less


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[Assistant] Content doesn't mean it's a bad thing because more chances of your posts getting found by people who are searching for this hashtag. So if you're in Vancouver, you shouldn't be promoting to someone who is in New York.


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[Assistant] That has no intention of buying your product or even if they have that intention to they can't buy your product. So why are you marketing to them? It just makes no sense.


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[Assistant] And lastly, I want you to create a group of 25 hashtags based on their search volume. So then that way we can actually diversify and actually hit different types of hashtags. So for example, we only want one popular hashtag, okay?


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[Assistant] That has more than a million posts. So our first one is Vancouver is awesome. That one has more than a million search and million posts that is related to Vancouver is awesome. It's okay to actually type in a very broad hashtag because


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[Assistant] Types of hashtags so then that way we can really focus on the locational and more specific hashtags.


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[Assistant] This is a bubble tea kit that we created and this is what we're using to cater to our first


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[Assistant] Our product of bubble tea kit and so on and so forth.


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[Assistant] But because we are focusing this specific group to cater to just foodies in general, that whenever we're posting things that we wanna be appealing to these foodies, so then that way they can promote for us, then we're gonna use the same hashtag group, so then that way it's more discoverable.


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[Assistant] Now it is your turn. Use the Instagram hashtag group document in the resources link below.


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[Assistant] And create three hashtag groups that is best suited for your business based on the different feelings. So for example, our first one is YVR foodies. Second one, it could be about our bubble tea kit and third one, it could be about, um,


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[Assistant] Our marketing campaigns, right? So those are the three different, uh, feelings or different groups that we're creating based on the posts that we're deciding.


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[Assistant] And targeting, right? First up, decide the group that you want to target second, create and use that.


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[Assistant] Add in a mix of 25 different hashtags based on volume again, guys. So understand that we're using hashtags based on volume and then repeat steps one to three for groups two and three.


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[Assistant] Or there. Or there. No, I'm afraid that's not the type I'm looking for.


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[Assistant] I received a cable in New York which I believed was from him, begging me to come at once. It wasn't from him, it was from the Gestapo. They had been trying to force him to give the names of his German associates, but he wouldn't speak. Nothing they could do would make him speak. So they hit on the idea of getting me over to persuade him.


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[Assistant] And did you? You don't know my father. He's fearless, unshakable. No two people were ever closer than he and I. He filled my life with love and tenderness. He's wonderful.


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[Assistant] That's why I don't care what I do to earn his freedom. There's nothing. Nobody I wouldn't sacrifice for that. I think he's worth it.


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[Assistant] I guessed at the moment I saw you. And the admiration of that boy David convinced me.


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[Assistant] You and your party were in the other frontier post when Carl Plunkie escaped. Your diggings were only a few miles from a concentration camp where a scarecrow came to life. You are that man I know it. Aren't you?


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[Assistant] Very well. Here it is at first hand. You were right and I was wrong. That professor's crazy. And so is I to think that he's your famous rescuer.


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[Assistant] I found out something. Something which might give use to you. Look, I made a note of it.


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[Assistant] Well, if I can't be of any more use to, I'll leave you my taxes ticking away.


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[Assistant] But if my father's safe, why can't I go to him?


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[Assistant] But if you have no fear for yourself, what about those who depend on you?


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[Assistant] They're kinda ugly though. I feel like I should get like a Skittles endorsement at this point. I feel like I might have made them a little extra money.


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[Assistant] I got a F in PE and they're like, how the fuck you fail PE? And I was like, that shit easy bro, I'm a lazy son of a bitch. So I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year. I just cannot sit down for seven hours a day and listen to some old bitch just talk about


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[Assistant] I just fucking, I was just joking. I didn't know what the fuck I was going to do in life. I got FaceTap's before I even started making music and then I was like, you know, I was a photographer as people know. Camera got stolen so I started rapping and you know, it started off real slow but six months later it's like overnight.


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[Assistant] Carl Gallagher, I FaceTimed him. He's really cool, so it was cool to FaceTime him, yeaah. He's actually a friend of mine, uh, we're supposed to link up pretty soon in Chicago and take the most iconic photo. Lil Xan, Carl Gallagher from Shameless, shoutout ECAT. Oh, why, why?


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[Assistant] I don't know why I don't think I'm beautiful, but thank you. Appreciate you. Even before like the clout and shit, I had like a little cult girl following that were like, oh he got facetabbed.


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[Assistant] Fuck his music, he just looked a certain way. But then that kind of transitioned into the whole aesthetic and everything. Yea, the girls, I get called daddy like 800 times a day.


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[Assistant] I love, I mean, I love all my fans and supporters. Y'all keep calling me daddy, but you can't keep sliding in my DMs when you 15 years old trying to say let's fuck because we respect the minors out here. I'm not replying to your DM if you are underage.


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[Assistant] You gotta send a picture to IED. Yeah, no, it's not the girls fault. I love y'all. I love y'all. Keep calling me daddy and shit. Just don't be like, fuck me, fuck me. You're not gonna get a response. But you can say nice things. Oh, heartbreakersco.com. They're like, that's not my brand and we haven't collabed. But they're like, they send me pictures.


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[Assistant] I'd probably be like a 0.5 peach Ativan, you know? Mild, really mild shit that they used to prescribe me. I wouldn't be like a full 2 bar. I'm definitely not a Pres-Zan. I'm not Lil Pres-Zan. That shit's bad. I am Lil Pharmazan. Pharmaceuticals that come out the bag. Wait, but I also don't take Xans by the way, so.


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[Assistant] When the first bad batches were coming around, they had fentanyl, and the people messed up on the dosage, so all my friends were puking, and they tried to give me these bars, like, these shits are strong as fuck, they make me puke, and I'm like, that's a little weird, I don't know if I wanna get that turnt while I'm puking. So I took like a quarter, and I felt like I was on meth, like, cause it was like, fentanyl.


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[Assistant] So after that, I had a homie die from it, so the Pres Zans, it had to come out like a prescription bottle, and it had to taste, you know, I just know what a Real Zans look like. So that's kind of when I started slowing down on Zans, because it was nothing but Pres Zans, and it's really hard to get like pharmaceuticals.


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[Assistant] I am a, I'm full hispanic. My name is Diego Llanos. I look white as fuck, but if you're a true...


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[Assistant] Latino, you understand that a lot of Mexicans are pale as fuck and very white. So shout out to South America, shout out Mexico, shout out all my Mexican fans. I love them all. I got a big Mexican fan base. Shout out Santiago, Chile. I'm coming out there soon.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my 21st birthday, I had a little party at the studio. It wasn't nothing crazy. If I wasn't, well I used to clean streets. I was a street sweeper getting paid like dirt cheap.


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[Assistant] Hey, I've seen, I've seen that drawing, bro. It's a really good drawing. Don't get me wrong. I just get so many requests. But that's a beautiful drawing and if you get it framed, send it to me and I'll put it in my apartment.


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[Assistant] What's up? It's not the cereal, it's the berries. Yeah, the capital country, just the berries. Oh, oops. I just had some of those, it's bland.


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[Assistant] And what was the other one? Future Collab, I got a song with Ski Mask, Youngboy Trunks, Ray Sremmurd, Lil Wop and me got a whole bunch, and me and Ronnie J just laid down a bunch of tracks, so you could look out for a bunch of them.


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[Assistant] I'm not dating Reddish Blue. Reddish Blue wants to be in Xanarchy so bad, but we won't let her in because she talked too much. Sorry Reddish Blue, you can't be in Xanarchy.


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[Assistant] Uh, we were at the studio and Robesman invited Cole cause I didn't have enough power points for Cole to come over yet. But Robesman got me. So we linked up, we got drunk at the studio, I showed him some music. And ever since, it's like my big, big, my big bro.


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[Assistant] Might be older than him. I don't know. That's my brother. Him and uh, Lil' Jake and glowup Jake. I got mad love for Lyrical Lemonade for that Betrayed video. Cole really out here starting careers. I owe him so much. Like, I already had a song going up, like Slingshot, 11 million, so like, it was going good, but like, Cole like changed my life, so. That's my brother for life. I owe him everything.


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[Assistant] Uh, I thought about changing my name like halfway through when I, you know, stopped doing Zans and shit. And I even con- I still might drop Lil from my name and I might go by Zan. I'm still thinking about it because people just call me Zan. Like who the fuck want to say Lil Zan? Look, it's corny. I mean the name works. Why would I change my name when it's working? The formula is doing great, so I'm gonna keep it up.


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[Assistant] That's insane to me. I fucking love y'all for that. I love randomly meeting fans in public places. I love, like, taking pictures with them. Cause it's like, without them, like, what am I? You know what I mean? They're the ones that show up to your shows, buy your merch, support you, listen to you every day. So, I love my fans to death. Like, my fans are everything. Without my fans, the anarchy wouldn't be the thing it is.


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[Assistant] I've been listening to a lot of Lil Wap. I'd have to say Lil Wap, no heart. I really start my day like listening to Lil Wap. Like that's my motivation to get out there and just fuck shit up. So Lil Wap. Fuck no. Fuck that shit. I'm not a Jake Pauler.


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[Assistant] And the more they talk, the better. I like, I leave it up for interpretation. I might be devil-worshipping, sacrificing ghosts and shit. Or I might not. I might be playing Xbox. Either or. You gotta figure that one out. G Wagon, G Wagon, G Wagon. That's all I ever wanted. I have...


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[Assistant] Uh, nah, nah, I don't have any bitches. I have no bitches.


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[Assistant] Also, didn't you fuck this girl? One of my first shows is where I met you. We got that legendary picture before anything. It was at the San Diego show.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it was like, nobody was fucking with us back then. That shit was funny. You was popping off big though. Yeaah, and I went out and I seen Adam, I got a picture with him and I'm like, yo, this is lit. And then like, months later he discovered he was like on my rapper name Lil Xan.


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[Assistant] So, but I can literally credit Adam for like, giving me that push. Like, No Jumper definitely gave me that push in the beginning that like, propelled me to all the great shit. Yeaah. Which is dope though. I thought he kept me around and the shirts we made are legendary. So if you have like the OG Robeson collab, you gotta, you can sell that shit for like,


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[Assistant] Go out. Yeah, shout out Roseman though. He really helped me out. And Adam.


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[Assistant] Uh, shout out Stephen Cannon, uh, shout out, uh, Zan Frank aka Arnaud Luzdez, Zanarky Gang, 2K17, crazy, 2K18, we coming even- we coming in even crazier, I'm a little faded. Shout out Rogue Gang, no joke.


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[Assistant] Nah, it's cool cause those get like the most love. Right. But yeaah, it's a little, I don't watch them. Yeaah. I'm like really looking at my old shit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, so, we linked because of Tubby. Uh, Tubby came through to the store in Connecticut. And then, uh, we went to the Iraqi store. The dirtbag store in Connecticut. Yeah. Okay. Uh, in Bridgeport, 1001 Main Street. Right. If anyone in Connecticut tried this last year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, not yet. Elvin. Yeah. Elvin, but he's like in his own lane. He's like- Yeah, he's not even close. He's not close, bro. He's like beyond that shit. He's like, it's him. He's the only one.


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[Assistant] So instead of going to school, I would be going to the city and like meeting people and stuff. Right.


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[Assistant] And then, yeah, I kinda like, it's my second home, basically.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, it's like, I didn't really have a name at first and then, uh, I was up in a hospital bed cause I had a Crohn's flare. Right. And I came up with a name, uh, and that was about when I was like 11, 12. Okay. So I've been just running with it since like 2007.


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[Assistant] There were like two other brands that were like screen printing shirts and I just was like, oh, I can do this too if they're doing it. And then I like researched how to do it on like YouTube and stuff. And I like fucked up a bunch of times and then I finally got it and I just started printing shirts for like my homies at the skate park. And then it kind of,


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[Assistant] I just kept going with it and like I got, I went to like a professional.


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[Assistant] Uh, Norwalk skate park. Norwalk, okay. At Calf Pasture Beach.


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[Assistant] Man, uh, Pharrell got my interest at a young age. Polo. Yeah, polo. I mean, like, Connecticut styles in general, like, seeing clothing, I was always interested in, like, dressing well. My parents, like, they, they were New Yorkers before they, like, moved to Connecticut, so they, like, dressed really well. They're both artists. Right.


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[Assistant] But getting into clothing, uh, a brand culture, uh, k-u-l-t-j-a-h culture, uh, they were like hand dyeing tees and they were like hand screen printing tees and they had like a little boutique.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's back like 2007 and like below, like they started like in the 90s, like just doing like pop ups and like trade shows and stuff.


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[Assistant] And the dude Jemaine, uh, I don't know, I would, I just went to like the store one day in like 2006 when I was like in 6th grade, copped some, uh, some shoes and like a tee and I just like fell in love with it and I just wanted to like pursue like what they did but like in my own way.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean I grew up on the internet. Like I've had a computer all my life. Right. Uh, I was like on forums and stuff.


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[Assistant] I was more interested in like filming skateboarding and taking photos and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean there's not a lot of foot traffic, but my stuff's mainly online anyway.


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[Assistant] It's cool. I like having it like a place to like create, like have people come through. There is like a little community of like people that like come out. Right. Uhm.


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[Assistant] That like I take photos of or and like the homies like they make music or like they're artists. So it's like a small nit.


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[Assistant] I remember the first time, it was like the last night, like the last hour of the night that we made shit. Like that was the first time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, uh, I was making skate videos like back in the day and using, uh, odd future music. Oh, okay. Uh, and then I was like showing Tyler and Tyler liked it. And then the first time he came out to New York, uh, or second time I like came out.


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[Assistant] I met him, gave him some clothes, and that was the time when like, the whole group came out, so like everyone got like a piece, and they wore it on stage. And we did like a collaboration to you too.


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[Assistant] My dad always just used to play like soundtracks and stuff, so I was just like always like gravitated to like just like different types of beats. So his production really like drew me in. And then, uh, Tyler makes some hard ass beats. That's what I'm saying. So hard ass beats.


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[Assistant] He was fucking with him and then that happened and then it kinda just like everyone just started, everyone in the crew just started fucking with it.


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[Assistant] Yo, I didn't even have a car, my dad had to take everything to like the post office during school and shit. Really? And like, yeaah, it was crazy.


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[Assistant] You'd get any kind of attention or coastline. It's huge, yeah. Yeah, definitely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause I didn't really go to school. So like, I really didn't go to school. So whenever I went, I was kind of like the Yeti cause kids would be like using, or kids would be wearing my shirts in school and like teachers that I didn't know like, knew about me. Right. So that was kind of trippy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, when I felt well. Okay. Or like when I wanted to go. I had really bad anxiety about that show too. About what? Just like going to school.


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[Assistant] My body's like attacking myself, I have inflammation in my intestines, in my lower intestines, so I get like, uh, stomach pains and whatever contributes to that. That's why we got the KK. Yeah, it uh, stress like induces it and stuff like that. Okay. So I didn't, I was like kinda homeschooled, I had like a tutor that used to come sometimes. Right.


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[Assistant] The grass is always greener. That's what the name of it is. Yea, it's on Vimeo.


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[Assistant] On Vimeo. She like, got a bunch of people together and did it herself.


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[Assistant] I mean, everything happened for a reason, like I totally believe like everything has happened for a reason. Like me getting crones, me like staying home, me just working on the brand like when I'm home and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just cause like, I gotta get my mind off it. Right. Somehow. So you gotta work on something. I really had to create my own world, and I feel like Dirtbag is like, a world.


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[Assistant] People from the beginning, like my skate park homies like Jacques and, uh, I mean Jacques was mainly the one, he was like a fine artist, he was like 30 at the time and I was like 15 and he would just pick me up and like we would go on skate trips, film, just like in parking garages and he would paint.


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[Assistant] As soon as I left, I was working on the story while I had a- while like the last month of school.


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[Assistant] Do however it sounds like- Life's gonna be so much easier if you just be yourself. Like a hundred percent. My life's been so much better when I became myself.


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[Assistant] I have a, there's like a spare bedroom that I turned into an office. I don't have like everything. It feels creepy as shit, yo. Pat down. Pat down. That's what they do here.


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[Assistant] We got one, but never know with doctors and shit, yo. Nah, this happened when I was like...


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[Assistant] Anybody that has a crazy work ethic I respect and I appreciate and I look up to usually.


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[Assistant] I'm not really expected to do anything. I'm kind of just living my life and as I live my life at design and things happen for a reason like I said before and I'm just trying to progress with the clothing thing. Like I'm trying to do more cut and sew stuff. Uh, I feel like my designs are up to par. I'm just sitting on a bunch of stuff so.


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[Assistant] Nah, I just dropped off this, like a shirt that I wanna get patterned. Right. And the lady's supposed to get the sample done before I leave tomorrow.


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[Assistant] And then it's gonna be like production and stuff. But, uh, man, I'm just trying to make more stuff. I'm trying to just hit all creative outlets.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. Uh, but it's cool, it's cool for like a first tape. I'm just trying to like, it was like a year's worth of music that I just wanted to be like, okay, now I can like move on and like.


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[Assistant] Him probably. But like, I don't know, I've always just like, liked Pharrell's beats, and I liked production Timbaloon.


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[Assistant] You just gotta do that shit. Yeah, you just gotta feel it. Like after a certain point of like making stuff, you just realize that like, okay, there's no real, there's like a formula to like a certain extent, but you just gotta like feel it. Right. You just gotta be in the right like.


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[Assistant] I gotta do it like one time and then I can like tweak it or whatever after but like, it has to be that stream of consciousness because it's like me.


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[Assistant] Man, trying to, I don't know. I got, I mean I have goals, yea.


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[Assistant] Man, I'm cool in Connecticut right now. I don't know in the next five years where I'm gonna be. I would definitely like to have a store. That'd be cool. Just a dope studio. Yea, like a warehouse.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I feel like I'm- there's much more to me than just like the clothing and stuff and I feel like-


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying, and like, the payoff that I'm receiving now, like I just sent some shit to Vogue, like, uh, I'm in Dover Street now. Really? Like, crazy shit that I would never have thought. Flex. It's gotta be a flex, yeaah. Flex. Just one time, just, cause it's my birthday.


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[Assistant] Yo, anyway, shout out to everybody that holds this town.


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[Assistant] Yo, uh, slide to the shop, uh, 1001 Main Street, uh, Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604, uh, you could.


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[Assistant] Get at me on Twitter, Instagram at Philip L. Post. One L in my name, Philip.


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[Assistant] P.O.P. And then dirtbag, uh, dirtbag with the E. U.S.


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[Assistant] They didn't let me do that much stunt driving. So what would they let you do, like parallel park? No, they did not, definitely did not let me parallel park, no.


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[Assistant] The problem, so I did like 10 stunt driving classes and I actually learned how to drive.


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[Assistant] I put the word in. I wanted to know how to drive like baby.


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[Assistant] Then when I actually got on set, uh, I was like, okay, what are we doing? What are we doing? And I said, you're not doing anything. We got Jamie Foxx in the car and Jon Hamm in the car. You're not doing anything. Right. And then when Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm were in the car, then they let me do stuff. Oh, interesting. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So you got to keep your car. What kind of car is it? It's a Subaru WRX STI. It's the one from the opening scene. Gotcha. And I just kept begging for them to let me have it. And I said, I'll buy it, I'll do whatever, and I just kept following up and emailing. That's how, if you want something in life, you just keep following up.


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[Assistant] So forget em. Yeaah. I just kept emailing the producers and saying, hey, about that car, you know, I'm willing to pay for it, let me get that car, and then...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, it's a little odd because people do call me baby now. Like uhm, there's this deli around the corner of my house in Brooklyn. Uhm, and the guys are nice and they were always nice to me for the first two years that I've lived there and gone in there. But now I walk in there and this dude from Yemen's like,


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[Assistant] And, and, and he wouldn't, you know, have turntables on set.


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[Assistant] But he, he would, you know, connect his boombox to his phone and start playing music between takes. And the whole crew loves it, especially on like late night shoots. It'd be like 4am and people are tired and it keeps the energy up. And he's good at it. He's a good DJ. He's great. And he also, you know, he sort of ad-libs too. He sort of does like the, yeah, come on. Alright. He's his own, he's his own DJ.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he hypes up the whole crew. It was really fun. So uhm.


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[Assistant] Then I figured like that was a great thing to do on a set. And then, and the next movie I did after Baby Driver was this movie called Jonathan. Uhm, and the first day we were in a bar.


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[Assistant] So I actually found like, uh, these turntables and, and a cord to plug my phone in. And I figured it would have a great sound system. And I thought what would be a fun song to play for the crew. And this is a morning shoot, so it's a little early, about 6 a.m. Yea. And I decided to play, uhm, Hardaway What is Love. You know, What is Love?


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[Assistant] Well, the baby was delivered without the lights because you didn't need the lights for the delivery. That's manipulative. Remember, you're reaching up into the uterus, grabbing a foot, which is strictly by feel. You rupture the membranes and you bring the foot down.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm all thumbs when it comes to tying a proper bow. And the table, oh, it's magnificent.


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[Assistant] To tell you the truth, I'm relieved that the Van Rippers are not coming. He's telling the same jokes he told twenty years ago, and she dies


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[Assistant] I'm worried about Jimmy. It's not right for him to go away with that Terry woman. No good will come of it. Nothing but trouble. Do everything you can to stop him.


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[Assistant] Well let me know when you go on. I'd like to hear you. My telephone number's on there. Good luck.


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[Assistant] Oh, you must be swell because Barrett's tough. Sure, I'll be listening in. Thanks for letting me know. Goodbye, Mr. Houston.


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[Assistant] We'll have a lovely time in Pinewood. We'll walk and ride horseback and roast chestnuts by the fire. No crowds, no autographed hounds.


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[Assistant] There aren't many people up here this time of year. I'll have you all to myself.


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[Assistant] This is the official companion podcast for HBO's The Last of Us, hosted by Troy Baker. Our producers are Elliot Adler, Rhea Mariette, and Noah Camuso. Darby Maloney is our editor.


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[Assistant] The show is mixed by Hannes Brown. Our executive producers are Gabrielle Lewis and Barry Finkel. Production music is courtesy of HBO, and you can watch episodes of The Last of Us on HBO Max.


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[Assistant] We're here in the Waterloo region, which you may not have heard of before, but if you have, it's because you know that this is the tech hub of Canada. It's home to BlackBerry, the University of Waterloo, and scores of startups.


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[Assistant] We're gonna get to know one in particular that's doing something pretty unsexy, but whose technology is vital to the way we'll consume video online.


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[Assistant] I'm Alexis Ohanian, startup founder and Y Combinator partner. Over the last year, I went on a 200 event book tour and met people building small empires all across North America. Now I'm back with a new season, revisiting some of my favorite stops from the tour.


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[Assistant] So this is all happening while you're at university. Then it's time to graduate.


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[Assistant] What, what was the decision there? Was it a no-brainer? I mean, you had co-op jobs.


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[Assistant] Historically, the best data you could get for things like film or television was pretty awful.


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[Assistant] It was Nielsen ratings or test screenings. None of which were terribly helpful, but it was the best you could do.


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[Assistant] Now, thanks to the internet, thanks to software, we can get real-time analytics about what parts of our videos you loved or hated. Even an episode of Small Empires like this, we can learn at exactly what moment you click stop. Please don't.


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[Assistant] That means we can try harder the next time and maybe do less of the stuff you don't like and more of the stuff you do. So you can continue to go about watching your videos and we, as video producers, can learn how to make them even better.


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[Assistant] If you can go into a bit of a detail, a bit of detail, how has Vidyard helped you make a video like that more effective?


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[Assistant] There comes a time in every early stage startup's life when they get an acquisition offer from some large competitor. These are usually referred to as aqua-hires because they're essentially a signing bonus and the employees and the technology all get gobbled up by that big company.


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[Assistant] You know, it is a significant amount of money. Plenty of founders do accept it.


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[Assistant] The fact is though, as soon as they sign those documents, they go from being the boss of their own startup to just being an employee in a large company.


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[Assistant] So, what was it like watching The Rise and then Fall of R.I.M., or Blackberry, yeaah.


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[Assistant] We're here at the University of Waterloo in front of Engineering 5, which is not the most creative name for a building, but it is the hub for all those amazing co-op students we've been hearing about. I'm going to sit down with the Dean of Engineering to talk to her about what it is about this place and about this curriculum that makes it so special.


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[Assistant] What was that portion of your work experience at RimLikes? You just graduated, you had relationships from the co-op, and then you were just like, hey guys, I'm


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[Assistant] Uhm, do you think maybe it even helped, I don't know, motivate founders even more, knowing that this once Titan had fallen?


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[Assistant] We're here in the anechoic chamber of the University of Waterloo. There is no noise here, just signal. That's what you need when you want to take a longer term perspective on things. It's exactly what the university has done with regard to intellectual property. Instead of obsessing over every idea in the head of their students,


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[Assistant] They're trying to give them freedom so they can go off and create amazing things that only benefits the university long term. Likewise, when a founder has a decision to take an early acquisition and she decides not to, she's doubling down on herself. She's taking that longer term perspective on what that startup can one day be.


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[Assistant] It's that same mentality that has allowed the region of Waterloo to not look at the decline of Blackberry as a decline of their community.


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[Assistant] Instead, it just means a richer, more diverse ecosystem. Many, many more startups now that, if anything, have just made it a stronger place.


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[Assistant] He's combining attack and defense at the same time! He's like off the chain strong, yo!


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[Assistant] Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back everybody to another chapter of a court of wings and ruin.


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[Assistant] Written by Sarah J. Moss. Read by yours truly. Free water with the exclamation point.


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[Assistant] For that added emphasis, we are, oh my gosh, we are back here today. I can't even, I can't even, I can't even.


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[Assistant] I literally can't even, I haven't said that and Lord knows how long, but I can't even, I can't odd. Tamlin, of course, coming in just to make life a little bit more difficult.


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[Assistant] You know, back at the good old Akatar stage, I was like, oh, you know, Tamlin, he's, you know, he's doing his thing, my boy. And Ryze coming out, I was like, oh, you know, Ryze is here to mess things up and blah, blah, blah. And look at where we've come now. We started out where we're Tamlin sympathizers.


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[Assistant] Now we're all the way over here, where we're like, Jesus, Tamlin, just, just get, just get a hobby, man. Just get a hobby.


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[Assistant] We're, if for anyone, uh, jumping into this now, we are at the meeting on chapter 44. Um, and with that, with that, let's get back into it with chapter 44.


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[Assistant] Absolute silence. Absolute stillness.


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[Assistant] I felt the tremor of magic slide through the room as SHIELD, after SHIELD, blocked into place around each high lord and his retinue.


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[Assistant] The one Risen had already snapped around us, now reinforcing.


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[Assistant] Rage. Laced its essence. Wrath and rage. Even if my mate's face was bored. Lazy.


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[Assistant] I tried to school mine into the cold caution with which Nesta regarded him. With a vague distaste on Morse, I tried and failed utterly. I knew his moods, his temper.


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[Assistant] Here was the High Lord who had shredded those Naga into bloody ribbons. Here was the High Lord who had impaled Amaranth on Lucian's sword and ripped out her throat with his teeth. All of it.


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[Assistant] Gleaming in those green eyes as they fixed on me, on Ryze.


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[Assistant] Damlin's teeth were wide as crow-picked bones as he smiled broadly.


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[Assistant] Nice and rose, his captain remaining seated beside him, albeit with a hand on his sword. We were not expecting you, Tamlin.


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[Assistant] Decent gesture with a slender hand toward his cringing attendance. Fetch the High Lord a chair. Tamalin did not tear his gaze from me, from us. His smile turned, subdued, yet somehow more unnerving, more vicious.


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[Assistant] He wore his usual green tunic. No crown, no adornments. No sign of another bandolier to replace the one I'd stolen. Garon Gerald. I will admit, Tamlin, that I'm surprised to see you here. Tamlin didn't alter his focus from me. From every breath I took.


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[Assistant] Rumor claims your allegiance now lies elsewhere. Tamalin's gaze shifted but down.


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[Assistant] To the ring on my finger. To the tattoo adorning my right hand.


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[Assistant] Blowing beneath the glittering pale blue sleeve of my gown.


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[Assistant] Then it rose, right to that crown I'd picked for myself. I didn't know what to say, what to do with my body, my breathing.


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[Assistant] No more masks. No more lies and deceptions. The truth now sprawled bare and open before him.


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[Assistant] What I'd done in my rage, the lies I'd fed him, the people and land I'd laid vulnerable to hibern, and now that I'd returned to my family, my mate.


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[Assistant] My molten wrath had cooled into something sharp, edged, and brittle.


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[Assistant] The attendants hauled over a chair, setting it between one of the Baron's sons and Helion's entourage. Neither looked thrilled about it.


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[Assistant] So they weren't stupid enough to physically recoil at Tam- as Tamlin sat. He said nothing. Not a word. Helion waved his scar-flecked hand. Let's get on with it then. He Sinclair'd his throat. No one looking toward him.


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[Assistant] Not as Tamlin surveyed the hand rise had resting on my sparkling knee.


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[Assistant] The loathing in Tamlin's eye is practically simmered. No one.


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[Assistant] Not even Amarantha had ever looked at me with such hatred. No, Amarantha hadn't really known me. Her loathing had been superficial, driven from a personal history that poisoned everything. Kamlin? Kamlin knew me.


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[Assistant] Hold it with a face like ice and yet utter rage roiled beneath it.


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[Assistant] Cataclysmic rage, surging and writhing down the bond between us.


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[Assistant] But my mate addressed Thiessen, but yet had reclaimed his seat, yet seemed far from any sort of ease. We can discuss the matter at hand later. Tamlin said calmly, don't stop on my account. The light in Riessen's eyes guttered.


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[Assistant] As if a hand of darkness wiped away those stars. But he reclined in his chair withdrawing his hand from my knee to trace idle circles on his seat's wooden arm.


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[Assistant] I'm not in the business of discussing our plans with enemies. Helion across the reflection pool, grinned like a lion. No, Tamlin said with equal ease. You're just in the business of fucking them. Every thought and sound eddied out of my head. Cassie and Azrael and more were still as death.


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[Assistant] Their fury rippling off them in silent waves. But whether Tamlin noticed or cared that three of the deadliest people in this room were currently contemplating his demise, he didn't let on. Price shrugged, smiling faintly. Seems a far less destructive alternative to war.


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[Assistant] And yet here you are, having started in the first place. Ryzen's blink was the only sign of his confusion. Claws slid out of Tamlin's knuckle.


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[Assistant] Callius tints, a hand drifting to the arm of Vivian's chair, as if he'd throw himself in front of it.


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[Assistant] But Tamlin only dragged that claw lightly down the carved arm of his own chair, as he'd once dragged them down my skin. He smiled as if he knew precisely what memory it triggered, but said to my mate, If you hadn't stolen my bride away in the night, Ricent.


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[Assistant] I would not have been forced to take such drastic measures to get her back. I said quietly. The sun was shining when I left you. Those green eyes slid to me.


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[Assistant] Glazed and foreign, he let out a low snort then looked away again. Dismissal. Callius asked, Why are you here, Tamlin? Tamlin's claws dug into the wood, puncturing deep even as his voice remained mild. I had no doubt that gesture was meant for me too.


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[Assistant] I bartered accro- ex- ah, I bartered access to my lands to get back the woman I love from a sadist who plays with mines as if they're toys. I meant to fight Hibern.


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[Assistant] To find a way around the bargain I made with the king once she was back.


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[Assistant] Only Ryzen and his cabal had turned her into one of them.


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[Assistant] She delighted in ripping open my territory for Hibern to invade. All for a petty grudge. Either her own or her master's. You don't get to rewrite the narrative, I breathe. You don't get to spin this to your advantage. Tamalin only angled his head at Ryze. When you fuck her.


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[Assistant] Have you ever noticed that little noise she makes right before she climaxes? Heat stained my cheeks. This was an outright battle.


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[Assistant] But a steady, careful shredding of my dignity, my credibility. They were unbeamed, delighted, while Eris carefully monitored.


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[Assistant] Rise turned his head, looking me over from head to toe and back to Tamlin. Storm about to be unleashed.


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[Assistant] But it was Azurill who said, his voice like cold death, be careful how you speak about my high lady.


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[Assistant] Surprise flashed in Tamlin's eyes. It vanished.


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[Assistant] Vanished, swallowed by pure fury as he realized what the tattoo coating my hand was for. It was not enough to sit at my side, was it? A hateful smile curled his lips. You once asked me if you'd be my high lady.


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[Assistant] And when I said no, a low laugh. Perhaps I underestimated you. Why serve in my court when you could rule in his?


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[Assistant] Tamalin and Last Face, the other gathered high lords and their retinues.


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[Assistant] They peddle tales of defending our land in peace. And yet she came to my lands and laid them bare before Highborne.


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[Assistant] She took my high priestess and warped her mind after she shattered her bones for spite.


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[Assistant] And if you're asking yourself what happened to that human girl who went under the mountain to save us, look to the male, sitting beside her, ask what he stands to gain, what they stand to gain from this war, or lack of it. Would we fight, Hibern?


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[Assistant] Only to find herself with a queen and king of pritheean. She's proved her ambition.


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[Assistant] And you saw how he was more than happy to survey Marantha to remain unscathed.


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[Assistant] It was not an effort to snarl. Not to grip the arms of my chair and roar at him. Rise let out a dark laugh. Well played, Tamlin. You're learning. Iyer contorted Tamlin's face at the condescension.


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[Assistant] But he faced Calius. You asked why I'm here. I might ask the same of you.


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[Assistant] I wanted to rip that finger right off Tamlin's hand and feed it to the Middengard worm. The silvery glow about Cali stalled. Even Vivian seemed to dim.


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[Assistant] We came here to decide that for ourselves.


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[Assistant] Mor was staring at her friend in quiet question. Vivian, for the first time since we'd arrived, not looked toward her, only at her mate. For I said softly to them, to everyone. I had no involvement in that. None. Callius's eyes flared like blue flame. You stood behind her throne while the order was given. I watched, stomach twisting as Ryza's golden skin paled. I tried to stop it.


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[Assistant] Tell that to the parents of the two dozen younglings she butchered, Callia said, that you tried. I had forgotten. Forgotten that bit of Amaranthas despicable history. It had happened while I was still at the spring court.


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[Assistant] A report one of Lucian's contacts at the Winter Court managed to smuggle out of two dozen children killed by the Blight by Amarantha. Ryza's mouth tightened.


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[Assistant] There is not one day that passes when I don't remember it. He said to Calius, to Vivian, to their companions, not one day. I hadn't known.


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[Assistant] He had told me once, all those months ago that there were memories he could not bring himself to share, even with me.


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[Assistant] I had assumed it was only in regard to what Amarantha had done to him.


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[Assistant] Not what he might have been forced to witness to. Forced to endure. Bound and trapped.


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[Assistant] And standing by, leashed to Amarantha while she ordered the murder of those children.


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[Assistant] Remembering, Callius said, doesn't bring them back, does it? No, Ry said plainly, no it doesn't.


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[Assistant] And I'm now fighting to make sure that it never happens again. Vivian glanced between her husband and Rise. I was not present under the mountain, but I would hear, Hi Lord, how you tried to stop her.


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[Assistant] Pain tightened her face. She, too, had been unable to prevent it while she guarded her small slice of the territory. Ryze said nothing. Viron snorted, Finally speechless, Ryzen. I put a hand on Ryze's arm. I had no doubt Tamlin marked it, and I didn't care. I said to my mate, not bothering to keep my voice down, I believe you. Says the woman.


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[Assistant] They were encountered who gave an innocent girl's name into her stead, for Amarantha to butcher as well. I blocked out the words, the memory of Claire, where I swallowed, I tightened my grip on his arm. His voice was rough as he said to Callius, when your people rebelled. They had, I recalled. Winter had rebelled against Amarantha, and the children. That had been Amarantha's answer. Punishment for disobedience.


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[Assistant] She was furious. She wanted you dead, Calius. Vivian's face drained of color. Rise went on. I convinced her that it would serve little purpose.


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[Assistant] Who knew? Iran mused, that a cock could be so persuasive. Father, Aaron's voice was low with warning.


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[Assistant] For Cassie and Asriel more and I had fixed our gazes upon Varan. None of us were smiling. Perhaps Aerys would be Highlord sooner than he planned. A rise went on to Callius. She backed off the idea of killing you. Your rebels were dead. I convinced her it was enough. I thought it was the end of it. His breathing hitched slightly. I only found out when you did.


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[Assistant] I think she viewed my defense of you as a warning sign. She didn't tell me any of it. She kept me confined.


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[Assistant] I tried to break into the minds of the soldiers she sent, but her damper on my power was too strong to hold them, and it was already done. She, she sent a Demarii with them, too. He faltered. The children's minds, they'd been shattered, or I swallowed.


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[Assistant] I think she wanted you to suspect me. To keep us from ever allying against her.


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[Assistant] And he must have witnessed in the soldier's minds. Where did she confine you?


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[Assistant] Where did she confine you? Question came from Vivian. Her arms wrapped around her middle. I wasn't entirely ready for it when Ryze said, her bedroom.


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[Assistant] My friends did not hide their rage. Their grief at the details he'd kept even from them.


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[Assistant] Cassian snarled rising in his seat, wings starting to flare. No.


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[Assistant] Ryze cutting his more blocked Cassian with an arm, forcing him to sit.


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[Assistant] Rise at it, Icallius, but I swear it. Upon my mate's life. His hand at the last, rested atop mine.


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[Assistant] For the first time since I'd known him, Ryze's skin was clammy. I reached down the bond even as Ryze held Cali's to stare. I did not have any words, only myself.


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[Assistant] Only my soul as I curled up against his towering shields of black adamant.