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[Assistant] And I watched it back and I was like, God, that's a bizarre way to open what is supposed to be quite a serious match. And then I've shown it, we showed it to other people in the office, you know, don't watch raw. So we showed it to Ollie, showed it to Laurie and both had the exact same reaction, which was why? Huh?


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[Assistant] Considering the angle at the end of this match, the two are diametrically opposed.


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[Assistant] I suppose you're right. But yeah, uhm, actually, I mean, my first note of this, and clearly this is why I was so distracted and didn't really pick up on things. I've just written down, does Alexa Bliss have the worst theme in WWE? Oh, I don't like it because there are a lot of bad themes in WWE. They are bad. But they're all generic. Alexa Bliss' though is aggressively bad.


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[Assistant] I like Alexa Bliss. She comes out and I'm like, oh, let's skip to Bianca Bell Airsong, that's a good one.


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[Assistant] You just don't appreciate the Queen Dom. Uh, so here is the finish of the match. Alexa Bliss in control.


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[Assistant] She sets herself up to do twisted bliss. She is on the precipice of winning this match. All of a sudden from the crowd, a lad appears.


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[Assistant] And then she walks along to another one, and another one pops up, also wearing an Uncle Howdy mask.


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[Assistant] And then a blist, she gets into the ring, flash of the, uh, Bray Wyatt symbol on screen, she sells it. That is what she did Pete, bad for audio listeners, but.


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[Assistant] And the image flashed up again. She did the exact same cell and then she attacked the referee and then laid out Bianca Belair. It was a really good beat down actually. She threw all around a ring so she gave her the DDT onto the stairs twice. Belair was bleeding from this. Like it was genuinely a very, very good beat down. I thought quite an effective little angle.


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[Assistant] And they did a breaking news thing later on where they were like, she is being tended to by medicals and we will try and have as many updates as we can. It did take this very, very seriously.


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[Assistant] Later on in the show, we're in Saxon interviews with Alexa Bliss, and Alexa Bliss says, in so many words, I did that to show why the title belongs to me. I would argue a better way to show the title belongs to you is to win the title.


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[Assistant] Which you were set up to do. So then the title actually belongs to you. Which you nearly did, until you DQ'd yourself. I don't think you proved much of anything in that. No.


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[Assistant] So I think it's a, it's a mixed bag for me, which is why I wanted to title the show like, Was This Good?


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[Assistant] Because I honestly don't know, because I thought the match itself was.


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[Assistant] And I thought some of the beatdown stuff was, but there's like little bits, the scary movie 3 bit, the lads in masks, the promo later, just like not all of it gelled together, if you can see what I mean.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't like, you know, D, DQ ding ding ding. The commentary were like, she's DQ'd.


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[Assistant] And in fairness to WWE, since Triple H has taken over, DQs are less frequent, so it doesn't feel like it, like I didn't have that, uuuh, rolling eyes that I used to during the Vince era when you had like 3 DQs per show because we just didn't want to end matches with clean finishes. So there is that positive 2-2 takeaway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'm slightly conflicted on this. Do you want to hear my friend's theory?


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[Assistant] My friend's Austin Theory about Uncle Howdy. Yes.


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[Assistant] Because everyone's running around saying that Uncle Howdy is Bo Dallas.


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[Assistant] And there's reasoning for it. And I'll read you the message that he sent across. Thank you very much, Ash. I really enjoyed this so much, uh, this morning. Um, he said, I was just looking at the clip where they appear next to Bray in the ring and I got a real, gotta make myself look big vibes.


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[Assistant] He said, yeah, it's Bliss on the shoulders of Abby, who's on the shoulders of Mercy, on the shoulders of Huskus.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, uh, I'm very curious to know what people thought of this. And I know the reason why I sort of said it was divisive and you know, you even said, I'm sure there are people that got something out of this. I'm well aware that there are because this, we put this thumbnail out with this title actually was a


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[Assistant] Loomis videos, when we, it's not my favourite thing on the show, and if you lead with it, even if you lead onto a, I dunno, a


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[Assistant] I think that Alexa Bliss has got such a passionate fanbase that whenever you say anything slight negative about it, it's just this big, like, whoosh, that was bad.


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[Assistant] But I also think there are people, I saw them on Twitter, who just thought the opening spot was hilarious, the reveal, uh, the DQ was really really smart, and the beatdown was great, and the interview afterwards was good. So I'm curious to know, if Mod Mother is around,


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[Assistant] Mod Mother, if you can hear me. Happy New Year to you by the way, hope you had a lovely holidays. Uh, can we have a poll going, uh, on the live chat please? Was Alexa Bliss vs Bianca Belair actually good?


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[Assistant] But let us know what you thought, uh, in the live chat, in the comments down below, uh, and please do, uh, let us know, uh, in the Ultra Chats, in the Oosie Chats, Wrestle.com forward slash support. Let's get into some of those Oosie Chats, in fact, right now, as I delay. I feel like I'm Ollie doing one minute warning. Chelsea football club. Chelsea football club.


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[Assistant] Charles Berg kicks us off to say Happy New Year to everyone. That was a very Vince finish to the Bel Air Bliss match.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, awesome. Just gonna give a quick shout out as well to Rob, who is our moderator today. They're gathering the, uh, the UC chats who has put the title of this spooky goth nonsense in spooky fonts.


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[Assistant] But Charles continues, uhm, I do need confirmation though, was my calendar received or was it stolen? I was going to say, we keep saying we're going to check on it and then we never do. Well, I did, I checked this morning. I couldn't see, honestly, Charles here says it was delivered on December 21st. Let me know. I mean, like Charles, don't ooze your chat in again. Send us an email, support our restore.com.


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[Assistant] Is it at Royal Mail on 21st December? Or was it like delivered to this location on the 21st December? Because we haven't had anything here. Yes. We checked in the week before we left for Credibow.


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[Assistant] I've checked today, it's my first day back since the, uh, since the 24th.


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[Assistant] And there's nothing in our cubby holes. There's nothing downstairs. There was nothing left, uh, outside our doors. So nothing has arrived, but don't use your chat and ask us. support at rustle.com is the best way to find out about this.


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[Assistant] Chris, uh, has got a lot of thoughts, uh, saying, hi guys, I like what happened last night. The match was a little clunky, uh, but I'd give Alexa more offense and take the scary movie reference out. Everything else was good. As an Alexa fan, I'd like to have the championship, but I know it's bigger. Um, uh, but I know it's a bigger thing.


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[Assistant] I would like to, I would also have liked to use Sister Abigail on the steps, but I feel that's part of the end game where Alexa joins Bray or Howdy at the Rumble. I hope both are okay after Alexa busted her nose in Bianca's chin. I like how they've gone more aggressive.


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[Assistant] As though it was a pet or something, she sees it as a property she can take whenever she feels like it, which is not what you do with a pet, uh, and tonight was just about damage.


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[Assistant] Great acting. That, I also disagree with it being great acting.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, you're a cat owner. I am a cat owner. Do you look at your cat owner, and you go, Momo, I can take you whenever I want.


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[Assistant] So this match opening was totally a reference to Scary Movie 3. I frankly lost my mind. It was hilarious. Loved it. Absolutely hysterical. Now...


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[Assistant] I find that so interesting because for me that is not what I want from a world championship match. No. With a big serious angle that's ending over this where you're like bringing out a stretcher and bringing real life husband Montez Ford down to open width.


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[Assistant] But I didn't know that some people very much enjoyed it, including Fallop. So thank you all so much. We'll get into the rest of your Uzi chats later on in the show. Let's talk about this episode of Raw in total. Um, actually it's


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[Assistant] I'm doing a live show, my, uh, my other podcast I do about 90s retro gaming is doing a live show, uh, on December 14th, sorry, January 14th, December 14th, my birthday, January 14th in Croydon, um, I'll post some links up, actually you can find them on my social media, uh, tickets are only £15, you can buy a bolt


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[Assistant] I played Super Smash Brothers on basically a 100 inch TV. Like it is a beautiful place to go and play games. That's large. Oh, it's large Pete. And we're going to have a nice time. We're going to do a two shows. One half of it is the best of games master. We're picking out some of our favorite moments from a TV show that ended in the UK in the nineties. And the second half of it is we're doing live video game challenges.


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[Assistant] I'm very, very excited about it. So please do, if you want to come see me do a live podcast and we'll have some technical issues, come down, uh, check out my social media for the links.


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[Assistant] They were doing the regular intro to the show with the music in soul. Yeah, it feels like gravy.


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[Assistant] It cuts off. You know, I told Dan this. That's what it sounds like to me whenever I hear it. Yeah, it feels like gravy.


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[Assistant] Everything feels like gravy and then it literally boom, hard cuts to the arena and the bloodline are attacking like security and they're tipping over the announcers desk and


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[Assistant] It felt like a very chaotic opening, and I said this in my answer review that there's an argument that could be made that we've done a few of these chaos, like in the Triple H era it feels like every other week of raw opens with a chaotic opening.


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[Assistant] And there's a, there's a, there is a law of diminishing returns the more often you do this. But, like, this felt like it had a purpose, it had a reason to be there.


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[Assistant] Because the bloodline are pissed. They just lost to KO and John Cena on Smackdown and they're looking for revenge. This feels like Roman Reigns ordered his goons to put a hit out on, like Kevin Owens, but also Raw as a whole because your boy came over to us. I thought it was really, really cool.


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[Assistant] Really nice, yeaah. As there's no commentary at this point, Kevin Owen's music his place goes mad for him. And Sammy's like, look, I see you got a microphone in your hand, but I'm not in the mood.


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[Assistant] Not in the mood for, for this tonight, not in the mood to chat with you tonight. We're just gonna, this is a hostile takeover. People are gonna get hurt and it's all because of


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[Assistant] And so this is over. The Bloodline have to leave now. He breaks up brawls. You know, that's what, that's what he do. That's what he did. And he sent down more security.


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[Assistant] And it just meant that Sorosugowa, in particular, just killed all of them. Yeah. It was like that bit in gold member, it's like, look at you, you've got a name badge, you don't sound like Charles at all.


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[Assistant] And then the rest of the, yeah, you're right, the Royal Locker Room emptied. So you have like, Elias, Shelton Benjamin, Street Profits, Mustafa Ali, Dolph Ziggler, Gallows, no rest of the OC because they're either injured or in Japan, Sejik Alexander and Elias. Interesting Gallows then, that means he's not a Wrestle Kingdom. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Just thought of that. I thought he might have, cause like when they were doing all their videos and stuff, I really felt like they were going to have like gallows were going to go out with, was going to be with Anderson. They were even teasing that AJ was going to be out there. Maybe the injury is a cover up and he's actually on a flight to Japan right now. And Adam Pearce basically says like, Hey,


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[Assistant] Hope you brought your gear, cause I'm gonna make matches with all the bloodline and these guys tonight. Very good opening, very much enjoyed this. Yep. We wanted to have a graphic go up, I mean maybe it'll work now.


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[Assistant] We wanted to have an image of Byron Saxton's face when it cuts back because he's just going,


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[Assistant] He interviewed Bianca who says she'll win tonight. It's a running theme. All of the interviews, look I've got here. Saxon interviews Bianca. She says she'll win tonight. Cathy interviews theory. He says he'll win tonight.


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[Assistant] This feels so beneath Solo Sakawa.


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[Assistant] It's hard to sound threatening when you hit someone with a tambourine and jingle bells go off.


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[Assistant] He did, yea, he said, I've got a FIFA. And before this match, they'd announced that one of the themes for the Royal Rumble is by a man named Hardy.


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[Assistant] This is just a lad named Hardy. I did mean to listen to some music of his and I forgot, but I didn't mean to.


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[Assistant] I mean, the song, the little snippet that they played, I thought, sounds alright, maybe I'll give that a go.


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[Assistant] He hands Elias a guitar. And the crowd's like, whoa! Like, the lad's getting involved.


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[Assistant] Think I go to plan. So Hardy then jumps over the guard rail.


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[Assistant] Gets in the ring, and he hits solo seco with his guitar in the back.


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[Assistant] Hold on. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that's very Drew Carey vibe that this lad is doing. Also, I'm very glad that someone else in the chat said he looks like Kid Rock, because that's what I thought. I was like, he proper looks like Kid Rock this lad. Um, and... He's got Kid Rock at home.


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[Assistant] Rad finish! Very cool. The match itself was like, eh, but the finish was a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] We then had the Usos and Samusain vs Kevin Owens and Street Profits, which I genuinely thought was going to be the main event. Yea, so did I.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the problem was with this match, I want to say problem, it was in the context of the actual match itself, the story they were telling within this match.


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[Assistant] He's looking to the back, he's looking down because he's worried about the state of his wife, Bianca Belair.


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[Assistant] Like there's moments when they're trying to tag and he's not getting tagged in. I mean in the end.


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[Assistant] Owens effectively forced the hot tag, like he just ran over and just hit him in the chest, and Owens woke Ford up and was like, oh yea, hot tag, and he runs wild.


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[Assistant] But he gets hit by a haluba kick and pinned. And then like comes where like that has got to put Sammy back in the good graces of the tribal chiefs. So I thought that was also really, really nice.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for me, and I had this problem with the Smackdown match as well. Now I might be wrong on this, so I'm fully...


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[Assistant] I'm 100% happy to be wrong on this. And for people to be like, no, you misread the situation. And if that is the case, grand. I'm totally fine with that.


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[Assistant] I felt the company was going to such great lengths for Sammy and Kevin not to touch.


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[Assistant] Like, they were in segments and never fighting each other. We brought this up on the podcast. People have mentioned to us in UltraChats being like, they're keeping them apart, because that's like...


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[Assistant] The match. That's the match you want to do. So we're just keeping them apart.


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[Assistant] Isn't Kevin Owens the focal point of this story? Like I get Cena's the big star, but why are we putting all the shine on? Surely Cena should be trying to use his shine to put on to, oh,


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[Assistant] But I'm also just watching Sammy working over Kevin. And then in this match, like, it was all Kevin and Sammy.


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[Assistant] And I just wonder like, when was the change made? That they just decided, ah, we can't do this. We'll just have them fight.


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[Assistant] And that's what I was, and that's why I sort of paused when I was watching this, you know, I was watching Smackdown and I was watching this match being like...


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[Assistant] Maybe I just misread it. Maybe I interpreted the story they were doing.


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[Assistant] And kind of like to continue on this theme of Kevin who is not really feeling at the focal point of his own storyline. Kind of like Robocop in the 2014 remake.


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[Assistant] Kevin, uh, like they beat down Kevin Owens a bit more after the match. And Drew McIntyre and Seamus run from the crowd and run through the crowd and make the save.


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[Assistant] And so the final shot of this segment is Drew and Seamus.


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[Assistant] Shoutin' down to the Usos, because the Usos are taking on those two lads for the Tag Titles this Friday.


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[Assistant] Kevin Owens is the focal point of the story, but at times he feels like he isn't.


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[Assistant] And really, it's only those last two shows. It's only Smackdown and Raw. Every other time I think they've done a brilliant job of this. But in these two shows, I really feel like, particularly in these segments, I'm like, it doesn't feel like he's the guy that's going for the belt at the Rumble.


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[Assistant] Interesting point here, I am going to read this out from, uh, Abir, who says, Sammy is the lead here, not Owens. Which is a very interesting way of looking at it.


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[Assistant] They announced that AJ will be taking some time off, Styles that is, because he was hurt in a house show.


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[Assistant] You can still fly to Japan. Uh, Chad Gable took on Dexter Loomis. Uh, Loomis pinned Gable. Very heatless. It's not, which is to be expected because...


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[Assistant] This character depends on city to city, but also, like, this crowd would- I just had-


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[Assistant] So much going on. Bel Air and Bliss, the bloodline opening of the show, Elias and Solo, and then that six man tag with Drew and Seamus running in.


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[Assistant] Of course, they're going to be pretty quiet for gable vs lunas.


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[Assistant] Uh, we got a video about Cody Rhodes' Road to Recovery. Uh, basically talking about his time since he returned to WWE. This is all focused around his WrestleMania return and his intentions. And they kind of built up that next week it's going to cover the Hell in a Cell match and the injury. They were even talking like Kevin Patrick and Corey were like, it was a match of the year.


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[Assistant] Like, within WWE, and we're gonna have a special video looking at that now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for me this is pretty much like all but confirmed. He's in the rumble.


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[Assistant] Damage control walking backstage. Just walk into the room being like, hahahaha, where are the heals? I just write down damage control walk backstage, then you have their opening, then they have their promo segment.


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[Assistant] But, someone knows if you've been born out on Twitter, in the background was Adam Pearce chatting with MVP Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin.


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[Assistant] Cause it's real good. Banging. Banging theme song. MVP not being wasted with a moss. Man of his talent should not be just...


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[Assistant] Go in a moss, a moss, a moss leader of the hurt business.


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[Assistant] Anyway, Damage Control came out for a promo, uh, not much of a promo in all fairness, and Becky came out for not much of a promo either, just covering a lot of the same


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[Assistant] That's a great line and really good line. Also alluded to Sasha Banks in this as well because she was like, Hey, you spent a long time trying to step out of somebody else's shadow. Wonder who that could be. And also planted a little seed in there of one of you lot are going to turn on the other. Yep.


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[Assistant] That was really nice, particularly with the rumble coming up as well.


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[Assistant] Because it's every woman for themselves in the Royal Rumble.


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[Assistant] This team is as strong as it gets when it comes to the Royal Rumble.


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[Assistant] Anyway, good line. There were some decent lines in all of this, but like it was just here to kind of set up the match. And I really like this as well because Bayley's like, Becky wanted a match with Bayley. Bayley said, ah, not for me thanks, but my friends here are in their gear luckily, so we'll have a tag match instead if you can find a partner. Becky's like, well I haven't got my phone on me so I'll just fight you two on.


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[Assistant] Cool man. Good line. That was cool. Becky Lynch goes down and I had this real, I really feel like sometimes I'm still in a Vince era where I'm like, oh my gosh, she's going to be the tag champions two on one. And this is just such a, why would WWE do this sort of thing? I'm the fool here.


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[Assistant] I often forget they have the belts. Uh, so basically the gimmick of this was that anyone could run down and be Becky's tag partner. So Becky runs wild, but then the numbers game gets the better of her and so they start beating up Becky. Mia Yim runs down.


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[Assistant] They did, like, you know, Kevin Patrick did say, oh, look, it's Meachin.


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[Assistant] I also liked in this that Becky got distracted by beating up Becky Lynch. Sorry. Becky Lynch got distracted by beating up Bailey.


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[Assistant] I went to bed last night at nine and I turned to my wife and I said, I feel like...


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[Assistant] We, I've been off work for a month and I've, and I don't feel rested at all because I did so much in those seven days.


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[Assistant] Crivens, I've driven so far and wide up and down this country.


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[Assistant] Anywho. Anywho. Uhm, at least I don't have to stay up to watch the Tracers anymore. So, there's a blessing in disguise everywhere you look.


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[Assistant] Great show that BBC have ever made since I'm Alan Partridge. Uh, but what I really liked about this was Becky Lynch got distracted by Bailey and was attacking her on ringside. Didn't see in the ring Mia Yim got double teamed by Io and Kai. Io pins Mia Yim with the over the moon salt. And Becky Lynch's reaction to this was


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[Assistant] Because I've now lost the damage control twice. And both times it's because of that numbers game.


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[Assistant] Into hopefully, like, that is how she will beat this team, is from within.


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[Assistant] I thought it was a very, very effective finish. I thought Becky selling it was very, very good.


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[Assistant] I agree. So we had a couple of interviews with Seth Rollins and then the one we had with Alexa Bliss.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we've got a recap of Dom and Ria, uh, going to Ray's house for Christmas, Angie slaps Ria, the cops show up and they arrest Dominic and Dom is like, Mammy, Mammy, don't leave me. Don't let this happen to each other. And Ria's freaking out and he's like, call Damien, call Finn, do something. And you're like, okay, well that's fun.


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[Assistant] And he's, I mean it's, basically he says he's in prison, he's just got a white wall, it's a very cheap set. Like, it's just these white walls, and he's talking about how like, prison changes a man.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, he's putting this thing and he's like, man, he just cuts this promo in Spanish and stuff. He had a teardrop tattoo! A teardrop tattoo and stuff. Oh, brilliant! And the commentator's like, he's got street cred now. And my only thing with this, and I said this in my review, I am unsure whether


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[Assistant] Dom's promo is, I'm a tough guy, but really I'm still Dominic Mysterio and I'm just pretending that prison has changed a man because you know, he's only been there for a handful of days, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] And I think that's kind of like, it's more a, I don't trust WWE thing, more than like, I don't trust my own comedic judgment on things. When I watched it at the end of it, I was like...


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[Assistant] He's in prison, he's caught from a prison, that has to be a comedy, like, and then it's only because like Kevin Patrick and Cora goes like, he's got street cred, I was like, oh no, wait.


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[Assistant] Is, is the, is this not a joke? I think Corry's in on the joke. Corry is on it, 100%. It was cause Kevin was talking about it as well. I wasn't sure. However, I really hope this is just...


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[Assistant] The next evolution of Dominic's character. He's so good.


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[Assistant] It's so good. What happened to this group? I love it. Got a video package for Bronson Reed.


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[Assistant] Well, rather than as that was, buckled while trying to do the buckle bong, cause he couldn't hold his knee up, he couldn't even do the stomp properly either.


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[Assistant] Theory tried to leave at one point and Ron has chased after him. Theory even tried to get himself DQ'd and that didn't work. And, I've said this in a previous podcast.


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[Assistant] Rollins is the best main event babyface wrestler in WWE because there is a specific babyface style main event style that WWE have. And Seth is the absolute best at it. He's so freaking good, no pun intended.


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[Assistant] Because this crowd bores into every one of his near falls. You watch matches in WWE that do near falls, the crowd go one, two, oh, but they're just like, you're just playing along. It's, it's, it's pantomime. He's behind you. Oh no, he isn't. Like all that sort of stuff, right?


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[Assistant] I thought it was intentional. Only because they went, they then went to the corner almost to do the buckle bomb thing again, but then went to the super flex spot instead. So I thought the buckling of the buckle bomb was an intentional spot and that's what led to the knee.


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[Assistant] Theory, low blow to Seth and hit A town down for the win.


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[Assistant] Very, very good finish to a really, really good match. And what was, I thought, a very good episode of all.


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[Assistant] It's interesting, Vince, the report was that Vince looked at Austin Theory not as just the next guy, you know, like he's the next guy in the way that Roman Reigns was the next guy when Cena was looking to take a step back. They looked to Roman Reigns, he's our next guy. It wasn't just like, oh, he's going to get a big push.


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[Assistant] Vince room is like, oh, he's the next John Cena. He's our next.


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[Assistant] And he's thought that for quite a while. He brought him up during the pandemic era and was trying to do something with him and then back to NXT in the end.


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[Assistant] So, I think there's a bright, bright future for Austin Theory because he's damn good. An incredible heel as well. And he's, I completely agree with what you say as well. He is a heel wrestler that is still flashing, but gets booed.


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[Assistant] One of the problems with being the flashy heel is that people are still shearing you because you do the dives and whatnot, you do the impressive moves. People don't want to see Austin Theory win. He gets legit heel heat. I think he's an incredible talent and him and Rollins worked together so, so well. This was a great, great match. I don't know what you do with Seth now.


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[Assistant] Or where Austin goes, or, you know, who's Austin's next challenger. Um, the Ali stuff, unfortunately didn't work. Uh, I don't think there's anything on Ali. I just think that was the way that he was positioned and presented.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I don't really know where you go next, but I don't feel you can go back to this well again. No, I think this is done now. Cause I feel like we've been doing this, you know, sort of the fall periods. Like I feel like that, that last chunk of the year was dedicated to this. I think we kind of need to move on to pastures new as we get into the, the rumble build.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I thought it was a very, very good episode of Raw. Not the newsworthy episode that some people thought it might have been or when led to believe that it might have been. But as SP3 said it was the least newsworthy episode of Raw in quite some time. But even so, like, when? So it's funny.


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[Assistant] I wrote, I did the Becky Lynch Damage Control match, and I finished up my notes for that. And then it was a bunch of interviews, and then it was the Dominic thing where I was like, that was mad.


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[Assistant] And then I was like, crikey, well you know, into the second hour here, like how are we going to stretch this out to get into the third hour and then the main event? And it's the main event! And I was like, oh!


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[Assistant] A lot more manageable. It's so much more manageable than Triple H. It's not the best way to format a TV show. 100p, these shows would be so much better as two shows. Still far too long, but Triple H is managing the three hour time limit, and I'm sure there'll be some of them coming around. Actually it's two hours fifteen once you take out the commercial breaks.


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[Assistant] But it's a three hour show and he managed it so much better than Vince ever did. And, uh, yeah, great show. Not a five out of five show, but it's certainly a high four out of four show, like four out of five show, because the only thing on this that I thought was bad was Loomis and Gable. And that was there to be a filler match. So you can't really have a pop of them for being a filler match. And some of the Alexa Bliss stuff didn't work.


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[Assistant] Uh, and to get into your Ultra Jazz Club, I don't think we've got any Patreon shoutouts just yet.


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[Assistant] I don't think they are ready just yet, unless of course they are ready!


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[Assistant] I've got them right here. Thank you very much to our mod mother who did get this sorted. So thank you to all of our wonderful Patreon backers over at patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk. We had a bunch of content go up in December and it's going to be a bumper month in January as well because


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[Assistant] Uh, Ollie and I didn't get to record West Talk Extra last month.


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[Assistant] I'm me being off for a week, then Oli being off for a week with the, uh, the holidays. We just couldn't get around to doing it. And we wanted to do the pair of us because it's ring of honor, uh, 2011, uh, final battle, final battle 2011 won the poll. So we wanted to review that together.


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[Assistant] Hilariously, Ollie watched, uh, Final Battle 2012 yesterday.


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[Assistant] Watch the wrong year. Uh, so he's now going to watch 2011 as well. Doesn't mind too much because he loved 2012. Um, so we're going to be doing that. We're also been doing our regular January West talk extra yesterday today.


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[Assistant] And if you are one of our 25 dollar or above pledgehammers on Patreon get your name read out on this podcast like these fine folks.


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[Assistant] He ran, Aaron, Hannah ran. Hanrahan. Dangit, I always get that one wrong.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much for being our wonderful Patreon, Pledge, Hammers! Uhm, and thank you to everyone for, uh, well it's Brandon basically, for just spamming the Moderators champion, so I'm going to scroll to find the document. They are very funny.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's me and Pete doing the Byron face. With Byron in the middle.


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[Assistant] Well done, Rob. Chris, to kick things off, saying, uh, just a thought on the scary movie reference, as in the scene like the match, Brenda gets beaten down by the Ring Girl, and by the end, just like Alexa did to Bianca, I don't think that justifies it.


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[Assistant] In Scary Movie, Brenda gets beaten down by the Ring Girl, just like Alexa Bliss did to Bianca.


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[Assistant] I do not think that justifies it, because that's not the bid that anyone's picked up on. Definitely not. I think that first 10 seconds was the Scary Movie 3 reference. Yes. And the rest of it was just a match. Yeah. Uhm, he adds, to clarify. Alexa did to Bianca here, uh, sorry, uh, to clarify, Alexa thinks she can win the championship at any time. Last night was just pain.


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[Assistant] Chris, I know you're an Alexa fan, so I know you're just, you're blindly just going to accept what she said.


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[Assistant] I mean, she's being controlled by, like, mind control. Yeah. Uh, about Bianca, I blame Pierce for not playing a race physical car.


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[Assistant] Uh, lovely MyGM references there. Uh, series three. B.M. Whitehouse 76 says, should WWE pull a Bret Hart and Lex Luger at the Royal Rumble and have two winners to challenge Roman for night one and night two for one belt apiece? I'll be honest with you, B.M. Whitehouse, I, that is not the worst suggestion I have heard about a way to split the belts and have Roman do both nights.


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[Assistant] That is legit one of the better ideas that I've been presented with as to...


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[Assistant] Could be any of them, who knows. Happy New Year, much love to you all. Happy New Year to you. N64 Life Podcast. Hi, Cliff. He just says, have a noosey stream.


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[Assistant] Thanks. Oh look, it's Aaron Hanrahan. You did it! He's been a member for 16 months in a row. Hi guys, happy...


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[Assistant] So not last year, year before. I was thinking of 2022, year 2021.


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[Assistant] Jarvis V, hi guys, happy new year. I thought last night's show was pretty good overall, but I think another reason people in the crowd, uh, might have been out of it was, uh, because of the serious scary injury that happened on Monday Night Football.


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[Assistant] But the crowd were hot. They were, yea. I mean yea, I appreciate what you're saying Jarvis, but the crowd were like electric all night. They were just dead for a certain moment, but I don't think...


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[Assistant] Those were moments they were supposed to be loud for anyway. They're not supposed to be loud for Loomis and Gable.


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[Assistant] Uh, 35Antonia, the start of the match was built around Sammy and Owens touching for the first time. It sounds wrong. The payoff was Zayn shooting first. Oh god, what a lari- Oh god, with a lariat.


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[Assistant] Vandalian1998, a positive about the Loomis Gable Mansion, and it wasn't the Miz, so the storyline is finally done. Is it though?


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[Assistant] Miss wasn't on this show. Can't completely count that out.


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[Assistant] Jambeard here says, not really a wrestling chat because I thought Raw was kind of boring and meh, but shout out to Luke for having his book featured in a WatchMojo video last week based on more combat annihilation. What? What? Did he really?


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[Assistant] So I just want to say Happy New Year to the Rustalk family and community. I hope you all had a wonderful festive period and have a great 2023. Thank you. I mean, I'm the gem that, Jampionship and the QuizzleMania Championship. So everything's coming out Millhouse right now.


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[Assistant] You and I are going to review 52 episodes of this show this year. Can I do 52 Pete's knob gags?


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[Assistant] If anything, Big MGM is a worse explanation than what I gave. That makes even less sense.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, sorry to say. However, thank you so much for the UziChat. And thank you all so much for all of your UziChats. Thank you all so much for joining us here on the rest of our podcast review of Monday Night Raw. Please do press the subscribe button if this is your first time here. If not, give us a little thumbs up button. Hey, if you've made it this far, it's 1,400 of you right now, press that little thumbs up button. Give us a little like. We very much enjoy.


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[Assistant] Having thumbs uppers. And you can check us out, uh, on Thursday with the AEW Dynamite Review. Myself and Ollie's able to be doing that. And then on Friday there'll be, well, there'll be a podcast.


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[Assistant] Tempest isn't here, so. No. It might just be me and Pete. He's still in Canadian land. He is. So it might just be me, uh, me and Pete. Two-thirds of the content club. Maybe we'll bring in a special guest. Maybe. Laurie's here. Who knows. Who knows. Uh, but until then everyone, hopefully this outro button works. Gem that gem! That gem?


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[Assistant] He's a brilliant director, he's more than competent, uh, but his demeanor just made everyone so comfortable so that the petty tensions that can exist, uhm, just, uh, just didn't.


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[Assistant] You got no right, Mr. Barker, to be carrying tales about my sister as though there was something wrong. She...


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[Assistant] Maybe funny some ways, but she wouldn't do nothing wrong. So I'd like it if you didn't talk to people like it was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure, I know. Well, you might as well go on now and tell me what you do know. No point in my being the only one who don't hear it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and where does crazy over somebody getcha? They don't put no pennies in the bank. They don't buy no clothes for the kids to go to school in. Maybe you got it better not sticking to one guy. I wish sometimes I wasn't so crazy over him.


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[Assistant] Well, I might have known, starting out to take you apart, I'd wind up with you making me over.


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[Assistant] Go on, who'd look at me? He would. Funny, sometimes you kind of forget you are a woman.


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[Assistant] I don't like to say to you what I'm going to, sissy. Oh golly, are we gonna start that again? You're the only sister I got. I don't care what people say about you for myself.


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[Assistant] But I got the kids to worry about, and if I don't worry about them, nobody else will. You're... Well, you're bad for them, Sissy. What are you trying to say, kid?


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[Assistant] But my kids is gonna be somebody if I gotta turn into granite rock to make em.


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[Assistant] Now listen, your Aunt Sissy brought that Bible all the way from Sheepshead Bay.


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[Assistant] And your papa blew in all his tips one time on that Shakespeare. Cause grandma said they was the greatest book and you should read from them every night. So you ain't gonna waste them. I don't know. Sometimes it does seem kind of foolish. It might get you somewhere. Might even get you a job someday. Who can tell?


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[Assistant] Why, I just made up my mind to wait up for you. I guess I ain't used to the hours anymore.


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't forget, not exactly, when it was a long time ago.


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[Assistant] Another market, I guess. And am I supposed to guess what's two blocks away from there? Francie, why don't you say what you mean?


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[Assistant] Please don't say nothing. I ain't told nobody yet.


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[Assistant] I ain't never heard you sing that before. It's pretty.


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[Assistant] I got two nice kids that are gonna grow up to amount to something. Why do you have to make it hard by saying their father died from the drink? And that's only a little piece of the truth. He wasn't drinking. They said so. He was out looking for work.


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[Assistant] I wanted to talk to you, Francie. I want things to go on, reading and all. I want to do


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[Assistant] You're a very bad liar, Mr. McGarrity, but you're a... a good man and I'm ashamed I didn't know it before.


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[Assistant] I'd be glad to let the children work for you, Mr. McGarrity, and the four dollars a week or...


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[Assistant] I, I, I was hoping something like this would happen, but I, I didn't want to say anything until the time come. But your pop and I talked it all over and, and there were reasons. And there just wasn't any other way.


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[Assistant] Yes, mama? It isn't gonna be long now. For me, I mean, my baby. We can't come to a hospital. There isn't even gonna be enough money for a woman to come and help.


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[Assistant] I didn't want for you to have to quit school. I tried to tell him that. He didn't mind about the baby, but he never forgive me for wanting you to quit school. I told him, and he just went out.


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[Assistant] You never forgive me either. Please don't mama. He would have bought you dolls instead of milk. I don't know, maybe you would have been happier. I don't know. I never would have thought of giving you that school like he did. And all them fine compositions of yours. I never read one of them.


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[Assistant] I should have had time. Johnny did. But I couldn't do no different. I don't know how I could do any different.


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[Assistant] Read me one of your compositions. I ain't never read any of your compositions. It's on my conscience.


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[Assistant] I tore all those up. No you didn't. Not all of them.


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[Assistant] You don't know how special it is. Two diplomas in the Nolan family all in one day. Mama, I've got a nickel if you want to leave it. People do. It's gonna be all right, Francie.


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[Assistant] I'll be glad to keep company with you, Mr. McShane. Not for the help you can give us because we know we can manage some way. But because you're a good man, Mr. McShane.


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[Assistant] To this new land, your grandfather and I came very long ago now.


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[Assistant] Because we heard that here is something very good. Half we worked. Very hard. But we could not find these things. For a long time I do not understand. And then I know. When I am old, I know. In that old country,


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[Assistant] A child can rise no higher than his father's state. But here, in this place?


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[Assistant] Each one is free to go as far as he's good to make up himself. This way.


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[Assistant] The child can be better than the parent. And this is the true way things grow better. And this has to do something with the learning, which is here free to all people.


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[Assistant] But my children's children shall not miss it. This reading will not stop.


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[Assistant] But for the true things inside of us, you don't think well about this, nor about what you do with your sister. You have forgotten to think with your heart. There is a coldness growing in you, Kate.


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[Assistant] I think one of the wonderful traits about the Golden Girls is that regardless of what the crisis was, you had this unbelievable sense of bonding that these women were totally there for each other.


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[Assistant] Didn't act like adults all the time. That it was outrageously funny.


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[Assistant] That resonated with a very young audience. That was also a lesson for us. You don't just have to go with young people on screen to get a younger audience.


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[Assistant] Spence, where did you ever learn that word? I always figured you invented the Dutch treat.


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[Assistant] I've been here four months, I wondered why you didn't drop by. Just for old time's sake.


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[Assistant] Well, Steve doesn't like me to have other boyfriends, but I could tell him you were my aunt.


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[Assistant] Drop in again, but come before six, that's when the prices change. Pick it up, Jill.


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[Assistant] No thanks, Steve. I'm still just one of the help. Besides, I see an old friend of mine.


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[Assistant] Sorrowful, why don't you call the police and let them handle this? They'll know what to do.


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[Assistant] Oh, of course he does, Marth, and he's going to buy you a big dinner.


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[Assistant] I'd like to sorrowful, but I don't finish until one o'clock and this poor kid's gotta get to bed right now.


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[Assistant] Sarva will be very nice to you, honey. He'll take care of you until your father comes.


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[Assistant] Put that back. I'll finish your bath and I'll make her some breakfast. Where's the milk?


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[Assistant] It's a good thing I showed up or she'd have the first case of Berry Berry on Broadway.


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[Assistant] Poor kid. We better turn her over to the police. They'll know where to find her mother.


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[Assistant] Look, Mr. Reardon, if you could just sorta not see her around here for a couple of days, just until Dreamy Jo runs, she might win $3,500.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but she'd get an awful good start. She'd be a big sport with the other kids.


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[Assistant] If you and Steve get that little girl out of here, it'll be over my dead body.


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[Assistant] We all gave the kid a little wrong way push. It's kinda late to start placing the blame now.


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[Assistant] She's got to be all right. Zorafil brought her the best medicine in the world.


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[Assistant] Then I wouldn't feel so lonely and scared.


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[Assistant] So you're swinging. So I break your nose like this!


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[Assistant] I don't know, I was walking along, clutching a rope, talking to my friend regret.


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[Assistant] I'm Joe Bland, Miss Reed. My partner wanted me to meet you. But we have to leave for Washington tonight.


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[Assistant] And I still don't see how my partner ever got out of it alive.


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[Assistant] That is strike three on Goldsmith. Big pitch by Freeland.


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[Assistant] To get out number two and the third for Kyle, that's his second strike out.


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[Assistant] Iglesias will get his 46th RPI. That'll be first and third after the fielder's choice. That'll bring up Randall Gritchick.


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[Assistant] Charlie clubs this ball to deep right center field. That's the way to react. Off the base of the wall. One run is scored. Here comes the go ahead run. Connor Joe will score easily. Charlie Blackman. Two run double after getting knocked down and the Rockies lead it four to three in the seventh.


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[Assistant] Peli nahi aati thi mama. Je hostel me gaya tha shuru shuru me jata rehta tha.


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[Assistant] That's why the results were bad.


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[Assistant] I said yes, but he's not with me.


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[Assistant] Why don't you call me then? I'm upset with you.


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[Assistant] Marish! Marish!


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[Assistant] Sorry.


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[Assistant] He has had special forces training and has experienced in classified clandestine operations.


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[Assistant] That's what I was afraid of, I said crossly, though in fact I was relieved that it was Jamie. I wasn't so afraid of him as of the other men, though he looked just as dangerous. Still, he was young, even younger than I, I judged.


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[Assistant] And it was difficult for me to be afraid of someone I had so recently treated as a patient. I hope you haven't been misusing that shoulder, I said, in the rebuking voice of a hospital matron. If I could establish a sufficient tone of authority, perhaps I could persuade him into letting me go. Your nuistre mush didn't do it any good, he admitted, massaging the shoulder with his free hand. Just then he moved into a patch of moonlight.


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[Assistant] rapidly reviewing procedures for emergency field treatment. No supplies to hand save what I was wearing.


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[Assistant] I was reaching for the remains of my slip, intending to use it to staunch the flow, when he laughed. Nay, pay it no mind, lass, this lot is ne' my blood. Not much of it, anyway, he added, plucking the soaked fabric gingerly away from his body. I swallowed, feeling a bit queasy. Oh, I said weakly, Dougal and the others will be waiting by the rood. Let's go.


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[Assistant] I decided to take a chance and dug in my heels. No, I'm not going with you. He stopped, surprised at my resistance. Yes, you are. He didn't seem upset by my refusal.


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[Assistant] In fact, he seemed slightly amused that I had any objection to being kidnapped again. And what if I won't? Are you going to cut my throat? I demanded, forcing the issue. He considered the alternatives and answered calmly. Why, no, you don't look heavy.


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[Assistant] I hadn't the slightest doubt he would do it, injury or no. No! You can't do that. You'll damage your shoulder again.


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[Assistant] His features were indistinct, but the moonlight caught the gleam of teeth as he grinned. Well then, since you don't want me to hurt myself, I suppose that means as you're coming with me.


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[Assistant] I struggled for an answer, but failed to find one in time.


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[Assistant] He took my arm again firmly, and we set off toward the road.


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[Assistant] Jamie kept a tight hold on my arm, hauling me upright when I stumbled over rocks and plants.


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[Assistant] He himself walked as though the stubbled heath were a paved road in broad daylight. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly.


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[Assistant] No doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.


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[Assistant] Mr. Van Ryn about everything. I want to be the one to tell him.


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[Assistant] Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, thy king cometh unto thee. He is just in having salvation, lowly.


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[Assistant] The prophet Zechariah thus foretold the coming of the king to Israel. This prophecy is now to be fulfilled.


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[Assistant] He who has so long refused royal honours now comes to Jerusalem as the promised heir to David's throne.


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[Assistant] It was on the first day of the week that Christ made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Multitudes who had flocked to see him at Bethany now accompanied him, eager to witness his reception.


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[Assistant] Many people were on their way to the city to keep the Passover, and these joined the multitude attending Jesus.


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[Assistant] Purposing to ride into Jerusalem, Jesus had sent two of his disciples to bring to him an ass and its colt.


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[Assistant] At his birth, the Savior was dependent upon the hospitality of strangers. The manger in which he lay was a borrowed resting place.


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[Assistant] His divinity is revealed even in the minute directions given to his disciples for this errand. As he foretold, the plea, the Lord hath need of them, was readily granted.


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[Assistant] Jesus chose for his use the cult on which never man had sat. The disciples with glad enthusiasm


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[Assistant] And prophecy had foretold that thus the Messiah should come to his kingdom.


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[Assistant] Jesus now accepted the homage which he had never before permitted and the disciples received this as proof.


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[Assistant] They could lead the triumphal procession with no royal standards, but they cut down the spreading palm brows, nature's emblem of victory, and wave them aloft with loud acclamations and hosannas.


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[Assistant] By those who had heard of the coming of Jesus and had hastened to join the procession.


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[Assistant] It is taken up by the people of far off and echoed from the surrounding hills and valleys.


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[Assistant] The priests at the temple sound the trumpet for the evening sacrifice, but there are few to respond and the rulers say to one another in alarm, the world is gone after him. Never before in his earthly life.


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[Assistant] Had Jesus permitted such a demonstration, he clearly foresaw the result. It would bring him to the cross.


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[Assistant] It would be needful for his church in all succeeding ages to make his death for the sins of the world a subject of deep thought and study. Every fact connected with it should be verified beyond a doubt. It was necessary then.


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[Assistant] The saviour might have appeared escorted by heavenly angels and heralded by the trump of God, but such a demonstration would have been contrary to the purpose of his mission.


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[Assistant] would have been shadowed with gloomy clouds had they known that this scene of rejoicing was but a prelude.


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[Assistant] To the suffering and death of their master.


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[Assistant] Although he had repeatedly told them of his certain sacrifice, yet in the glad triumph of the present, they forgot his sorrowful words.


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[Assistant] Never before had the world seen such a triumphal procession. It was not like that of the Earth's famous conquerors.


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[Assistant] No train of mourning captives as trophies of kingly valor made a feature of that scene.


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[Assistant] But about the saviour were the glorious trophies of his labours of love for sinful man.


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[Assistant] Many Pharisees witnessed the scene and, burning with envy and malice, sought to turn the current of popular feeling. With all their authority, they tried to silence the people, but their appeals and threats only increased the enthusiasm.


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[Assistant] The gold, silver and living green were combined with rare taste and exquisite workmanship as it twined gracefully about the white and glistening pillars


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[Assistant] The tears of Jesus were not in anticipation of his own suffering. Just before him was Gethsemane.


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[Assistant] The Sheep Gate also was in sight, through which for centuries the beasts for sacrificial offerings had been led. This gate was soon to open for him, the Great Antitype, toward whose sacrifice for the sins of the world all these offerings had pointed. Nearby was Calvary, the scene of his approaching agony.


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[Assistant] That the Redeemer wept and groaned in anguish of spirit. His was no selfish sorrow. The thought of his own agony did not intimidate that noble self-sacrificing soul.


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[Assistant] It was the sight of Jerusalem that pierced the heart of Jesus. Jerusalem. That had rejected the Son of God.


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[Assistant] And scorned his love that refused to be convinced by his mighty miracles and was about to take his life.


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[Assistant] It was beautiful for situation. The joy of the whole earth.


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[Assistant] There Jehovah had manifested his glory above the mercy seat. There the priests had officiated


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[Assistant] And left unsaid what might have been the condition of Jerusalem had she accepted the help that God desired to give her, the gift of his beloved son.


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[Assistant] There would have been no armed soldiers standing at her gates. No Roman banners waving from her walls. The glorious destiny.


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[Assistant] Hypocrisy, jealousy and malice had prevented him from accomplishing his purpose. Jesus knew the terrible retribution which would be visited upon the doom city.


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[Assistant] But here was a whole nation to be lost. When the fast, western sun should pass from sight in the heavens.


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[Assistant] Reports have reached the rulers in Jerusalem that Jesus is approaching the city with a great concourse of people, but they have no welcome for the Son of God. In fear.


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[Assistant] In eloquent strains, they repeat the prophecies concerning Christ. Adam will tell you it is the seed of the woman that shall bruise the serpent's head. Ask Abraham. He will tell you it is Melchizedek, king of Salem, king of peace. Jacob will tell you.


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[Assistant] Emmanuel, wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Jeremiah will tell you, the branch of David, the Lord our righteousness.


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[Assistant] Boxing? Yes, yes, of course. They're right over here.


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[Assistant] Now, there's a book endorsed by James J. Corbett. He won ten straight fights. Nobody could lay a glove on him till Pitt Simmons knocked him out.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's a very scholarly book here by Mr. Tunney.


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[Assistant] We're not as good as sort of figuring out how to query the search engine right. And over time, both.


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[Assistant] We became better at creating the search engines and then the search engines became better at sort of understanding how to.


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[Assistant] Oliver, his face and hands now almost clean, was led into the room.


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[Assistant] Will you come along with me, Oliver? asked Mr. Bumble in a loud voice.


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[Assistant] Oliver was very glad to be free of Mrs. Mann's violence, but he said nothing because she was angrily shaking her finger at him.


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[Assistant] And he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world.


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[Assistant] Mr Bumble walked on with long steps, with Oliver on his short little legs running beside him.


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[Assistant] The feeling of contentment produced by gin and water had now disappeared, and the beadle was in a bad mood once more.


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[Assistant] The desire of ages, chapter 64, a doomed people. The triumphal ride of Christ into Jerusalem.


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[Assistant] Was the dim foreshadowing of His coming in the clouds of heaven with power and glory.


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[Assistant] Then will be fulfilled the words of Christ to the priests and Pharisees. Ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.


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[Assistant] In prophetic vision, Zachariah was shown that day of final triumph.


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[Assistant] And he beheld also the doom of those who at the first advent had rejected Christ.


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[Assistant] They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son.


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[Assistant] And shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.


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[Assistant] In the temporal ruin of Jerusalem, he saw the final destruction of that people who were guilty of the blood of the Son of God.


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[Assistant] The disciples saw the hatred of the Jews to Christ but they did not yet see to what it would lead.


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[Assistant] They did not yet understand the true condition of Israel, nor comprehend the retribution that was to fall upon Jerusalem.


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[Assistant] This Christ opened to them by a significant object lesson.


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[Assistant] The last appeal to Jerusalem had been in vain.


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[Assistant] The priests and rulers had heard the prophetic voice of the past echoed by the multitude in answer to the question, Who is this?


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[Assistant] But they did not accept it as the voice of inspiration.


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[Assistant] In anger and amazement they tried to silence the people. There were Roman officers in the throng and to them his enemies denounced Jesus as the leader of a rebellion.


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[Assistant] The clamorous throng, as he again declared that he had not come to establish a temporal rule.


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[Assistant] Too late for their salvation, they would acknowledge him.


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[Assistant] Their hearts, those strangers to divine influence, were moved as they had never been moved before.


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[Assistant] In the calm, solemn face of Jesus, they read love, benevolence and quiet dignity.


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[Assistant] Instead of arresting Jesus they were more inclined to pay him homage.


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[Assistant] Turning upon the priests and rulers, they charged them with creating the disturbance. These leaders, chagrined and defeated.


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[Assistant] Turn to the people with their complaints and disputed angrily among themselves.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, Jesus passed unnoticed to the temple. All was quiet here, for the scene upon all of it had called away the people.


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[Assistant] For a short time Jesus remained at the temple, looking upon it with sorrowful eyes. Then he withdrew with his disciples and returned to Bethany.


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[Assistant] When the people sought for him to place him on the throne, he was not to be found.


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[Assistant] The entire night Jesus spent in prayer and in the morning he came again to the temple. On the way he passed a fig orchard.


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[Assistant] He was hungry and seen a fig tree afar off having leaves. He came if happily he might find anything thereon. And when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves. For the time of figs was not yet.


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[Assistant] It was not the season for ripe figs except in certain localities and on the highlands about Jerusalem it might truly be said the time of figs was not yet.


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[Assistant] But in the orchard to which Jesus came, one tree appeared to be in advance of all the others. It was already covered with leaves.


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[Assistant] It is the nature of the fig tree that before the leaves open, the growing fruit appears.


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[Assistant] Therefore this tree in full leaf gave promise of well-developed fruit, but its appearance was deceptive.


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[Assistant] Upon searching its branches from the lowest bough to the topmost twig, Jesus found nothing but leaves.


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[Assistant] The next morning as the Savior and His disciples were again on their way to the city,


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[Assistant] The fig tree which thou cursest is withered away.


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[Assistant] Christ's act in cursing the fig tree had astonished the disciples. It seemed to them unlike His ways and works.


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[Assistant] Often they had heard him declare that he came not to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.


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[Assistant] They remembered his words, the son of man is not come to destroy men's lives but to save them.


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[Assistant] His wonderful works had been done to restore, never to destroy.


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[Assistant] The disciples had known him only as the Restorer, the Healer. This act stood alone. What was its purpose, they questioned.


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[Assistant] God delighteth in mercy as I live, saith the Lord. I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked.


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[Assistant] But it is in mercy and love that he lifts the veil from the future and reveals to men the results of a course of sin. The cursing of the fig tree was enacted parable.


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[Assistant] That barren tree, flaunting its pretentious foliage in the very face of Christ, was a symbol of the Jewish nation.


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[Assistant] The Saviour desired to make plain to His disciples the cause and the certainty of Israel's doom.


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[Assistant] For this purpose he invested the tree with moral qualities and made it the expositor of divine truth.


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[Assistant] The Jews stood forth distinct from all other nations professing allegiance to God.


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[Assistant] They had been specially favored by him, and they laid claim to righteousness above every other people.


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[Assistant] But they were corrupted by the love of the world and the greed of gain.


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[Assistant] They boasted of their knowledge but they were ignorant of the requirements of God and were full of hypocrisy. Like the barren tree.


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[Assistant] They spread their pretentious branches aloft, luxury and in appearance and beautiful to the eye, but they yielded nothing but leaves.


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[Assistant] The Jewish religion, with its magnificent temple, its sacred altars, its mitred priests and impressive ceremonies, was indeed fair in outward appearance, but humility?


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[Assistant] All the trees in the fig orchard were destitute of fruit, but the leafless trees raised no expectation and caused no disappointment.


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[Assistant] By these trees, the Gentiles were represented.


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[Assistant] They were as destitute as were the Jews of godliness, but they had not professed to serve God. They made no boastful pretensions to goodness. They were blind to the works and ways of God.


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[Assistant] With them the time of figs was not yet.


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[Assistant] The Jews who had received greater blessing from God were held accountable for their abuse of these gifts.


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[Assistant] Jesus had come to the fig tree hungry to find food.


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[Assistant] So he had come to Israel, hungering to find in them the fruits of righteousness.


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[Assistant] He had lavished on them his gifts that they might bear fruit for the blessing of the world. Every opportunity and privilege had been granted them, and in return he sought their sympathy.


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[Assistant] And cooperation in His work of grace.


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[Assistant] He longed to see in them self sacrifice and compassion. Zeal for God.


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[Assistant] And a deep yearning of soul for the salvation of their fellow men.


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[Assistant] Had they kept the law of God, they would have done the same work that Christ did.


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[Assistant] But love to God and man was eclipsed by pride and self sufficiency.


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[Assistant] They brought ruin upon themselves by refusing to minister to others.


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[Assistant] The treasures of truth which God had committed to them they did not give to the world in the barren tree.


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[Assistant] Withered beneath the Saviour's curse, standing forth, blasted, dried up by the roots, the fig tree showed what the Jewish people would be when the grace of God was removed from them.


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[Assistant] Christ's act in cursing the tree, which his own power had created, stands as a warning to all churches and to all Christians. No one can live the law of God without ministering to others. But there are many who do not live out Christ's merciful, unselfish life.


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[Assistant] Some who think themselves excellent Christians do not understand what constitutes service for God. They plan and study to please themselves. They act only in reference to self.


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[Assistant] Time is of value to them only as they can gather for themselves. In all the affairs of life, this is their object.


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[Assistant] Not for others, but for themselves do they minister.


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[Assistant] God created them to live in a world where unselfish service must be performed. He designed them to help their fellow men in every possible way.


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[Assistant] But self is so large that they cannot see anything else. They are not in touch with humanity.


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[Assistant] Those who thus live for self are like the fig tree, which made every pretension, but was fruitless.


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[Assistant] They observe the forms of worship, but without repentance or faith.


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[Assistant] In profession they honor the law of God, but obedience is lacking. They say but do not.


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[Assistant] In the sentence pronounced on the fig tree, Christ demonstrates how hateful in his eyes is this vain pretense.


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[Assistant] He declares that the open sinner is less guilty than is he who professes to serve God but who bears no fruit to his glory.


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[Assistant] The parable of the fig tree, spoken before Christ's visit to Jerusalem.


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[Assistant] Had a direct connection with the lesson he taught in cursing the fruitless tree.


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[Assistant] For the barren tree of the parable the gardener pleaded, let it alone this year until I shall dig about it and dress it, and if it bear fruit well. But if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.


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[Assistant] Increased care was to be given the unfruitful tree. It was to have every advantage.


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[Assistant] But if it remained fruitless, nothing could save it from destruction.


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[Assistant] In the parable, the result of the gardener's work was not foretold. It depended upon that people to whom Christ's words were spoken. They were represented by the fruitless tree and it rested with them to decide their own destiny.


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[Assistant] Every advantage that heaven could bestow was given them, but they did not profit by their increased blessings.


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[Assistant] By Christ's act in cursing the barren fig tree, the result was shown.


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[Assistant] They had determined their own destruction.


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[Assistant] For more than a thousand years, the Jewish nation had abused God's mercy and invited his judgments.


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[Assistant] For these sins the people of Christ's day made themselves responsible by following the same course. In the rejection of their present mercies and warnings lay the guilt of that generation.


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[Assistant] A probationary time in which they may become reconciled to God. But there is a limit to this grace.


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[Assistant] Mercy may plead for years and be slighted and rejected.


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[Assistant] But there comes a time when mercy makes her last plea. The heart becomes so hardened that it ceases to respond to the Spirit of God.


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[Assistant] He had exhausted every resource in rejecting the warnings of God's Spirit.


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[Assistant] Israel had rejected the only means of help. There was no other power by which they could be delivered.


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[Assistant] The Jewish nation was a symbol of the people of all ages who scorned the pleadings of infinite love.


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[Assistant] The tears of Christ when He wept over Jerusalem were for the sins of all time, in the judgments pronounced upon Israel.


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[Assistant] There are many who are treading on the same ground as were the unbelieving Jews.


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[Assistant] They have witnessed the manifestation of the power of God. The Holy Spirit has spoken to their hearts, but they cling to their unbelief and resistance. God sends them warnings and reproof.


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[Assistant] But they are not willing to confess their errors and they reject his message and his messengers.


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[Assistant] The very means he uses for their recovery becomes to them a stone of stumbling.


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[Assistant] The prophets of God were hated by apostate Israel because through them their hidden sins were brought to light.


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[Assistant] They have rejected Elijah as an enemy because the prophet was faithful to rebuke the king's secret iniquities.


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[Assistant] So today, the servant of Christ, the reprover of sin, meets with scorn and rebuffs. Bible truth, the religion of Christ, struggles against a strong current of moral impurity.


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[Assistant] Prejudice is even stronger in the hearts of men now than in Christ's day. Christ did not fulfill men's expectations.


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[Assistant] The truth of God's word does not harmonize with men's practices and their natural inclination, and thousands reject its light.


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[Assistant] Men prompted by Satan cast doubt upon God's Word and choose to exercise their independent judgment.


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[Assistant] They choose darkness rather than light, but they do it at the peril of their souls.


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[Assistant] God does not purpose to remove every objection which the carnal heart may bring against his truth.


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[Assistant] They walk blindly and know not the ruin before them.


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[Assistant] Christ overlooked the world and all ages from the height of Olivet, and his words are applicable to every soul who slights the pleadings of divine mercy. Scorn her of his love.


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[Assistant] Who shouldest know the things that belong to thy peace? Christ is shedding bitter tears for you, who have no tears to shed for yourself.


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[Assistant] Already the fatal hardness of heart which destroyed the Pharisees is manifest in you.


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[Assistant] And every evidence of the grace of God, every ray of divine light is either melting and subduing the soul.


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[Assistant] Christ foresaw that Jerusalem would remain obdurate and impenitent.


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[Assistant] Yet all the guilt, all the consequences of rejected mercy lay at her own door, the Lord declares. O Israel.


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[Assistant] Here, oh earth, behold, I will bring evil upon the people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearken unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.


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[Assistant] You did find Klaus, didn't you? He knows where I am now. Are you taking me to-


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[Assistant] He's still very young and naturally boys want to play. But he's now coming to an age where seriousness begins.


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[Assistant] Ruf, listen. You're old enough. Maybe you can do it alone.


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[Assistant] Here's the money for the school. Take good care of it, and don't let anyone see it.


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[Assistant] Holly child. I had no idea you were fond of him.


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[Assistant] You know I don't mean half the things I say. I wouldn't ask him to leave if he ate twice as much, heaven forbid, if you didn't want me to. He's leaving anyway. Why?


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[Assistant] Small start-up businesses like that hold a special place in America's heart and politicians from across the political spectrum love to talk about how important they are.


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[Assistant] Recent years have seen record highs for mergers and acquisitions, as you would know if you've ever watched the thrilled reactions they get on business news.


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[Assistant] Look, even some brands that you might think of as indie now have multinational owners. Burt's Bees? It's not run by a backwards bee fucker called Burt. It's run by Clorox, Tom's of Maine, the deodorant which did so little to deodorize your freshman year roommate.


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[Assistant] And it says something about the rapid rate of mergers that even Jim Cramer occasionally finds himself in disbelief at what's happening. Watch him react to a mega-merger in the aluminum can industry.


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[Assistant] Has tipped decidedly in favor of being merger-friendly, which has led to real problems. And let's start with the obvious. For workers, mergers can often mean big layoffs. But it's not just employees that can suffer. Consumers can too, as Jim Cramer explained in that aluminum can segment in an inexplicably sarcastic tone of voice.


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[Assistant] In the wake of that incident, people said it was a PR nightmare and there was talk on Twitter of boycotting United. The problem is, on certain routes,


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[Assistant] Now, if you go into a Lenscrafters, you will see frames by brands like, uhm, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry and Ralph Lauren. All of which, it turns out, are made by an Italian company called Lugzotica.


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[Assistant] Which incidentally also owns Lenscrafters and Sunglass Hut and Pearl Vision and runs Target Optical and Sears Optical. So what can happen when a smaller company goes up against them?


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[Assistant] We seem to have forgotten how important antitrust is, and are now all being forced to live with the consequences. Because this issue affects almost everything you do. Angry at banks? Well, the industry is dominated by just these four.


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[Assistant] Frustrated with your health insurance provider? Odds are, it's one of these. And if this whole story's infuriating you so much that you are yearning for the sweet escape of death, well, bad luck, because the casket industry is controlled by these three companies.


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[Assistant] No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world. And today we have, uh, my friend and music journalist, Jeff Weiss on the show.


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[Assistant] It's 1106 PM, so let's just put that in perspective for the people out there. Real podcast hours. Yeah, and we just got done interviewing G Perico, who's the guy that you're a big fan of.


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[Assistant] It often doesn't bode well to try to do this is I wanted to sort of like throw out the question like, oh, like there are other significant gangster rappers coming out of LA that are, you know, a few years older than you, a few years more in the industry, like Kendrick or Vincer.


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[Assistant] YG or whatever. And I always want to sort of like get their idea of where they feel like they fit in amongst their peers.


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[Assistant] But then I feel like a lot of times when you do that, it's sort of- You'll never get the truth. Because nobody- rappers never want to acknowledge that they stem from somebody else in a lot of ways or that they have many common similarities. Whereas for journalist type people, that's like exactly what we do.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, like I was sitting there with Hoodrich Pablo Iwana and he really didn't seem very, uh, in favor of acknowledging, like, his stylistic influence to Gucci, or Migos, or Peewee.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm all about reading the comments and seeing, like, no, but the comments will fill in the gaps of like, oh, if there was something funny in the podcast, a few people will mention in the comments, I'll see those comments, I'll be like, yes, that was an amusing moment.


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[Assistant] See, it was very easy for me to leave wrestling behind, whereas like if I had to stop listening to rap right now, I think it would be very, very difficult.


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[Assistant] You know, once in a while, I'll be listening to a podcast or an interview with like an older rap guy and they'll basically acknowledge that they don't listen to rap anymore and that they listen to like Motown or they're listening to Aretha Franklin, they're listening to Sade, whatever. And there's a part of me that sort of envies that, like I wish that I was at like a place of peace in my life in which I just was ready to be done with the songs and the hi-hats and


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[Assistant] So let's talk about your early days of getting interested in music. Where do you come from exactly?


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[Assistant] Right. With my girlfriend sitting there silently on her phone while we had like a probably two hour drunken conversation. Not super drunken, but a few mixed drinks.


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[Assistant] I feel like if Lil Peep knew about opium that he would have songs directly about opium.


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[Assistant] So, okay, that's interesting. I was having a conversation with somebody the other day and I said basically like, you know, I imagine that a lot of people who write books in Hollywood, that they just end up doing a shitload of cocaine and then like,


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[Assistant] If I could see, I could see someone writing a book in like three or four days on a ton of cocaine, maybe they'd need an editor after the-


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[Assistant] Right. I assume that that's how a lot of like great movies are made and stuff too. But what about writing on asset? When I've done asset it's definitely-


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[Assistant] I've seen a lot of people doing it and it just doesn't really look that great, but okay, so it's weird trance music, I guess.


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[Assistant] Well, no matter what the meme I use is, like, it's, someone's gonna inform me that I'm late, so.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, there's something strange about putting a 14 year old girl in your rap video, but...


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[Assistant] Yeaah. But then again, like, after hanging, going on tour with Lil Pump and like, getting a million people accusing me of like, being a weirdo for going on tour with a 16 year old, what do I do? I go and do a 12 year old interview with MadHawks.


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[Assistant] It's weird because there's almost like a level of like, like, like, okay, he tells me that his dad died when he was two because he killed himself. I'm like,


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[Assistant] How do you have that conversation with a 12 year old? If you told me that your dad killed yourself when you were 2, I feel like I could ask you a series of follow up questions about it. He's 12, it's like I'm not a fucking high school guidance counselor. I wasn't really prepared for how to, you know.


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[Assistant] It was cool though because Maddox, uh, is a very, he is a cool kid. And I had FaceTimed with him a bunch of times for some reason, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can see that point. Well, let me bring this to the table is that me and you were having a conversation one time about, you know,


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[Assistant] Rappers are coming out and then at a certain point, like via text, it sort of became clear like, oh, everybody that we're naming right now is like,


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[Assistant] 18 or 16 or 17 and you said, you're like, you know, sometimes with this whole thing that we sort of are involved in, in terms of like, you know, trying to spot up and coming rappers before they fully blossom that you feel like you're like a high school basketball coach.


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[Assistant] I always forget that you do like actual interviews with like a little voice recorder and then not like me where I have to like figure out where I'm going to film it from and all that stuff. You're doing it the right way. Put the audio on YouTube. That's like a whole different level of. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I believe Mactan is a blood. He's a blood, yeaah. Clean Street and Goldwood Blood possibly? Okay.


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[Assistant] So to me, Matt Ox is like, you know, he's 12. It's like, if you were a college basketball scout, you'd probably be going to high school games and watching a 12 year old and thinking,


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[Assistant] But then you end up in a weird position where it's like when it becomes the standard for an artist to come out when he's like, you know, 18, let's say on average, then all of a sudden you look at somebody like G Perico, maybe it would even be a good example where he's, you know, in his mid to, what is it, 25 probably?


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[Assistant] Has, you know, had time to develop as an artist. Obviously your mind is different as a 28 year old as compared to an 18 year old. He's probably much wiser than he was at that time.


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[Assistant] But it feels like if you were in the perspective of a label dude, it's a lot harder to put your time and your money behind an adult when it seems like the people tend to go for the young dude so often.


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[Assistant] The following line really kinda helped out too. And when things get for real, my warm heart turns cold.


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[Assistant] I'm going to say my thing with Prodigy is I always felt like, you know, and a huge amount of like reverence for the catalog in general because I just grew up on that, but I always felt like as a lyricist, even in the early days that he would have like real standout moments like that, but that he would like far too often just evolve into sort of like,


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[Assistant] But you think that Mob Deep is better than Prodigy if Prodigy had just come out of his own because wasn't Prodigy writing all the Havoc shit and Havoc doesn't have the delivery of Prodigy?


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[Assistant] How would you categorize like what the lane that Mobb Deep dominated though was at that time? Because I mean, if you look back to that time period, you would have somebody like, cause we're talking about what, the first album in 95? 95 was the first album.


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[Assistant] Which is like when they were, you know. So you have like Jay-Z who's full fledged into like the hustler.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna tell this story, I'm gonna, Jeff, I apologize for kinda derailing your interview here, but I feel like it's gonna be long enough that we can do this. Lil Pump FaceTimes me last night, 2 o'clock in the morning.


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[Assistant] Well, I just feel like this story is kind of notable because this is an example of me. I felt like I'm going way above and beyond in terms of what a podcaster should be expected to do. And then I did it and it didn't work out.


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[Assistant] When he facetimed me at 1.30 and he was geeking off something, I'm assuming Molly, then it would have been a really good interview if we had seized that exact moment. Because I'm going to be honest, I think he does so much drugs that there isn't really like an option of like a sober interview.


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[Assistant] Hey, so how do you become aware of Jeff Weiss, since the spotlight is supposed to be on him here?


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[Assistant] Oh you did. So this is what you're doing right now though? You're stopping by just to see us before you go out on this mission?


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[Assistant] Gparico and TK had a whole army of people out here. There were like 30 homies coming through for a little bit there.


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[Assistant] It feels so hopeless when I'm having a conversation with like Perico and I'm talking to him about,


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[Assistant] People from his neighborhood feel like they have to have a gun from a very young age. And basically it's like, you're a clown if you don't, because you're walking around naked, like people could do whatever the fuck they want to you. But then what's he go to jail for? A fucking gun case. It's like, from the very beginning, he's gotta commit an illegal act just to be able to travel around his neighborhood and shit.


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[Assistant] That's just like, it's putting him into such a fucking trap from day one.


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[Assistant] I was always fascinated by that story though just because to me, if I was around someone who actually grew up in a gang neighborhood, I probably would not want to like jokingly claim the gang.


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[Assistant] I was talking to Alex Russell, who, uh, is Asian, and was doing like a piece about