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[Assistant] Well, I know. Well, hey, have you, you have been noticing it? Hey, there's dead trees everywhere. Blown down, rotted out, whatever.


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[Assistant] That monsoon season in Vietnam, you boys ain't, hadn't seen no rain.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm looking at five guys running, okay, toward shelter.


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[Assistant] It starts, them five guys disappear. And look, they're here to the wall over to me.


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[Assistant] You know, I stuck my arm out like this, out under the port. Don't say it. It looked like I had my arm amputated.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, is that your lunch? You don't like french fries? That was half of my lunch. And you just, thanks. I ate the Arby's sandwich.


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[Assistant] What do you do for a living, son? I chase tornadoes.


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[Assistant] I thought it was bowlers. It sounds like, it sounds just like sometimes a ball hitting the pins.


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[Assistant] Well, no, no, yeaah. Well, Phil thinks there is. And the good thing is, okay, there will be no limit.


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[Assistant] Well, they figure we're not dangerous, but hey, that is a, uh, true statement. No, that is an assumption on their part, which is incorrect. Oh my goodness.


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[Assistant] Hey, I'm gonna tell you about, that is one bad dude right there.


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[Assistant] Well, JD just said, ah, do you know you have Instagram? Good job, Cy.


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[Assistant] I like the one where the guy was selling some kind of uh, he was uh,


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[Assistant] The star didn't make it. It was just the, uh, what they call them.


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[Assistant] By the way folks, Stone and Philip McMillan were my guardian angels during the virus.


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[Assistant] Well, hey, Stone just said, hey, old man, get some clothes on, cause you going to the hospital. And I said, Stone, the last thing I want to do is get dressed and go anywhere. And he said, hey, I'm fixing to throw you over my shoulder and you're going naked, boy.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. You gotta, you gotta put what genre is, is that it? Yeaah. The right word? Yeaah. You know, what genre we're in, okay?


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[Assistant] I would just think so, cause I'd hate to be a judge.


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[Assistant] If mosquitoes are eating Phil alive and Skip sitting right beside him and they ain't bothering him, Phil said, wait a minute, something ain't right here. And he said, what are you talking about?


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[Assistant] He said, they're eating meal loud. I mean, I've got 50,000 on my hand. And he said, you ain't none of them, but he said, Hey, Victoria secret, uh, perfume.


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[Assistant] No, no, I'm saying, Phil said, nah, I ain't putting on a cheap perfume.


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[Assistant] Have you ever worn Victoria's Secret perfume? It's a great mosquito repellent.


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[Assistant] What was this? I don't even know who used it, but Fabriz?


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[Assistant] No, this is a deer hunting technique. Okay, we're now. Okay, so look, you know, this guy, he uses Febreze and I think it's spring. Springtime is the name of it.


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[Assistant] Look, he gets out of his pickup truck, sprays it on the bottom of his feet, and walks to his stand. Deer will literally...


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[Assistant] So feel, feel, you know, this guy kills a buck every time he goes down their own property.


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[Assistant] So Phil puts it on and he goes and climbs up his stand and he's sitting there and he's watching three bandits.


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[Assistant] Come walking his way. Okay. Raccoons. I thought you were talking about those. Three bandits and every once in a while they'll stop and go stand up on their high legs and go, and here they come again. Yeah.


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[Assistant] They actually climb the tree he's in that he tied his ladder to.


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[Assistant] Hey! Kick em! You do, no, you do like I do. That's why I have twenty, uh, twenty-two pistols on my...


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[Assistant] Hey, number one, I don't even know where the time clock is. Number two, what does HR stand for? What does HR stand for?


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[Assistant] All I gotta do is Nick you. But anyway, Phil is fishing with uh, Jimmy, Jimmy McGuire. Oh, Jimmy Mack. Oh, Mr. and Mrs. McGuire's boy. In high school, in high school, right?


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[Assistant] He's got a devil horse on his deal, topwater, okay? And he goes like this back, he hooks McGuire, I think, right here.


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, the barb has gone through, okay, so an intelligent person, okay,


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[Assistant] Would take a pair of wire, a pair, not pie, a pair. Take that pie and do something with it. A pair, you would take a pair of wire cutters, okay, and where the hook is through past the barb you would go behind it and cut it and then just slide it out. A normal


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[Assistant] Look. Sorry, I wasn't bad at digital. You probably can't see the bar, but anyway, his skin is hooked here. It's right here. So Phil takes a pocketknife, just like it's right here, right at the sharp, and he grabs the bait and pulls it up. Well, the skin is like this. And then he takes the pocketknife and just, just


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[Assistant] Put that back in there. Okay, sorry. Alright, look. The only thing, look, Jimmy McGuire is literally bleeding to death. He cut a piece of skin the size of a nickel.


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[Assistant] So hey, when you're fishing with Robertson, with Phil Robertson, if you ever get hooked, don't let him touch you.


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[Assistant] This is one of them things. Do not do this at home.


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[Assistant] Not only have we fell off the train track, it was going over a trestle and we fell in the river.


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[Assistant] That sounded like a winner to me. Hey, quit shaking that.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna pull a Marshall Dillon, and I'm gonna pistol whip.


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[Assistant] You used the word there, give me the definition of it. Pronounce it again and give me the definition.


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[Assistant] I can't wait. I can't wait. Mmm, mmm, this is tumultuous.


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[Assistant] Well, no, no, I thought he really did have a house up here in West Monroe. I mean, he built a big, uh, what a vacation.


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[Assistant] I wish you well, Mr. Drew Brees. Okay, cause you did entertain us on the football field.


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[Assistant] No, no, you don't understand. I'm going into my second childhood.


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[Assistant] We were, uh, I think we discussed this before, uh, we were about half drunk.


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[Assistant] This is done like a gas tank that you look at a meter and say, yeah, I'm half drunk now.


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[Assistant] Daddy, what has the fans been up to?


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, you're, you're double meat. Well, I know. So everything's going south in this body. Yeah. Now, 100% the hair is falling out. The teeth are starting to fall out or being pulled. My teeth fall out all the time. I still got all them.


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[Assistant] Well hey, here's the deal, baldness is cool.


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[Assistant] Hey, here's the deal. Not all. No, no, no, no. All people, okay, only a selected few look good with bald hair.


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[Assistant] I had an A-60 that was in charge of me, okay. Every time I seen that man, you know, one woman wasn't enough. Okay, and as fine as she was, he always had one on each arm.


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[Assistant] No, no, look, you gotta understand something. This guy is 450 pounds, 6'6".


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[Assistant] And his head, you ain't big headed, okay? Cause I could take a bat in his Smokey the Bear hat.


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[Assistant] I had to respect the guy though, okay, cause on Fort Benning, Georgia, you run everywhere you go. No walking.


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[Assistant] Who's the guy, he was on dancing, uh, uh, uh, uh. Dancing? What no, what's that new, new one where they, they danced and they got masks on?


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[Assistant] He won the dance, the mass dancer. I have no idea. I don't watch that. Was he bald? And also he was replaced Bob Barker on Price is Right. Drew Carey. Yeaah. He's not bald. He is bald.


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[Assistant] Oh no no no, come get me. I keep telling you all that redhead, I'm married to his man.


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[Assistant] Homicides are bullets. I'm glad he's out. I'm glad he's out.


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[Assistant] I was just excited. That would take a lot of makeup.


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[Assistant] He's a good actor, but I guess make-up can make it with him.


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[Assistant] The picture of the one y'all just said don't come up. I know Charlie Sheen.


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[Assistant] We're having to do a lot of Google searching today. Y'all are saying names in the hate. It ain't, the picture ain't coming. Oh, he could put it off.


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[Assistant] It's what Pennsylvania people think little Debbie should be.


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[Assistant] Me? From Phil? Yeah. Phil used to call me Owens because that's what he called my uncle Mac when they hunted together. But now he just, since Willie calls me Johnny D, Phil calls me any name that ends in Y and then a letter.


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[Assistant] You know what would be cool though, Martin? What? If they would, the people that keep sending us snack cakes and candy bars and they're all their favorite snacks send us ice cream.


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[Assistant] I think you can get, there's a place in town called Eskimos and it is awesome. And if you go through the drive through, they have like a dollar.


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[Assistant] We went, I tried to draw back the Owen line. I was like, let's see what happened. And it's like about a hundred years ago, somebody was in Tennessee and they're like, we're Owen and that's it. Not a lot of family history.


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[Assistant] That's like something you'd put on a hook. Willie's told the same story back whenever he was living in the laundry room and Phil just put a bunch of Vaseline in his ear. Oh, to snuff him out. And that didn't work and he ended up in the emergency room with like a big old cockroach in his ear.


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[Assistant] I can go with that. Alright, I made it to the Wikipedia page so now I can read it.


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[Assistant] Hey, I'm gonna jump the gun here cause we do have an email from Daniel.


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[Assistant] Why is Sai so scared of snakes? Did something happen to you in Vietnam? Why are you so scared?


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[Assistant] I'm just going to stay away from the venomous snakes.


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[Assistant] If you get bit by a snake, get bit by a horse.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I'm currently watching a mongoose fight a cobra.


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[Assistant] Speaking of, we got an email from Ivy. He just got married back in August, also to a mean redhead in parenthesis. Sorry Ivy.


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[Assistant] That's a big one. You got anything? That's a big one boys. That is solid. That's it. Just yes ma'am, no ma'am. That's it.


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[Assistant] And next is from another Daniel. We've got a lot of Daniels around here.


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[Assistant] Old Danny Boy with Shadrack. Uh, he's a huge fan of the show and he likes being outside and chasing animals. But he has a question. How to get over shaky hands when you shoot a deer. And I'm steady as can be. Uh, no shakes at all.


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[Assistant] Martin got the video when I killed a deer last year.


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[Assistant] I wasn't sure where I hit it, but when we had a cameraman, you can go watch it on Buck Commander's YouTube.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I, I was texting Martin and then I tried to video the video.


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[Assistant] I've heard, you know, I've heard it feel and Jason Willie, no not Willie, Al has had one going for a couple of years now.


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[Assistant] Well, of course. Let's talk something that's relevant. Did everybody enjoy Thanksgiving?


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[Assistant] That's right. I mean, that's- You know what I'm gonna do?


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[Assistant] Well look, pork rinds are good, but chicken, anything, nah.


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[Assistant] Chicken is hot. You talking about low. Hey, it didn't even make the poke. Okay.


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[Assistant] A bird, and there's gotta be a turkey. Thank you. For thanksgiving.


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[Assistant] Hey, speaking about ducks. And eat the crawfish. Stone just come to my house. Uh oh. The real reason I'm late today is Stone grill some wood duck bread.


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[Assistant] Okay, and wrapped them in bacon and all this. Oh, that's good. Then put a little honey on them before you took them out. Okay. I made myself sick on them.


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[Assistant] That was that good, I ate about 10 of them. Okay, that was fine.


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[Assistant] Until, hey, until Jace reminds me, okay, that's how turkeys get shot. I said, oop, I better stop this. I don't want to take a load of fours.


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[Assistant] Well, no, no, you gotta understand though, the people that do weather.


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[Assistant] Living buildings, okay, and most of the time they're like 40 stories. Where do you live?


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[Assistant] No, I live in a one of them that took three trailers.


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[Assistant] Well, you probably could, but you'd have trouble unhooking all the, you know, plumbing and all that, electricity, all that.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, Clayton Homes is rolling over in their grave right now. No, I know. You're calling their modular homes our trailers. I know that. Phil, Phil told the man and he said,


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[Assistant] Everybody laughs. It heals everywhere I go. Yeah, but you misquoted it. He didn't buy it. Ish didn't buy nothing.


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[Assistant] It was mine I made, but I did not spend it. I invested it.


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[Assistant] No, no, but you brought that up. I don't play anymore.


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[Assistant] No, no, I have. I gave up that bunch, okay. You got tired of playing bingo. Oh, no, no, no. We don't even know what to call it.


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[Assistant] Okay? What? Whatever there was playing. I don't even know what to call it. What? Okay. Cards? Uh, no. Poker? No.


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[Assistant] It does not fit any, any category like that, okay. So, that's why you need to quit, okay.


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[Assistant] I'll give you an example. We invited a guy, you know, to come play. Okay. He clipped us for four thousand dollars that night.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute. You clipped us four thousand, four thousand dollars. What is wrong with you?


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[Assistant] He said, I've never run into a bunch of men that play poker that do not know what the word


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[Assistant] You can't do things that you used to just, you take for granted. Move fast. What did you used to do?


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[Assistant] Oh hey, you get out of bed and you hurt and you ain't done nothing to hurt. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I hope people have said that. Tell me, man, I slept too hard last night.


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[Assistant] And you will have 35 years of research and development working for you.


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[Assistant] And we are having the greatest first split ever.


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[Assistant] The saddest part is that I have been dead on.


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[Assistant] I mean, everything that flies by me, I really don't even have to shoot it. If I just look at it, it folds. Okay?


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[Assistant] We had about ten coming to decoy it and I shot mine.


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[Assistant] He went across the blind, I shot him at seven feet. Me and you. Yep. And I just. Seven feet. Decapitated. That's all it is. Took his head off and everything. I took his head off. Nothing left on there. He was just trying to make sure.


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[Assistant] Everybody thinks it's got shine in it.


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[Assistant] No I haven't, but I made a few trips to Tennessee, and the Tennessee boys know what they're doing when it comes to making some shine. Oh do they? Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Okay. Yeah, what you do is hey, it's in a mason jar.


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[Assistant] Well what you do is you buy you some cherries, pour the cherry juice out and...


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[Assistant] Put them cherries in that shine and leave it overnight in the refrigerator. After then, you got something.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, and hey, it burns all the way down.


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[Assistant] Well, I wasn't like ol' Chip. Chip says he remembers being in his mama's womb.


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[Assistant] That's actually put a new spin on duck hunting. Okay. Cause it so called duck hunting used to be a man's sport. Yeah. Now it's a man and woman's sport.


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[Assistant] It's been so funny, cause the other day we got some in there and everybody was talking, well I kill that, well I kill that. And Phyllis just, so Stone said, well, I can see the Robertson coming out in Phyllis.


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[Assistant] Hold up, hold up. That's right, that's right. There you go. I kill votes. Yea. You know, that's well, you may have.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, no, no, but I'm sorry. The Bible says I'll give you, you know, 70 years. Well, I'm plus two. Oh, okay. So I'm in the bonus years, boys.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at, and talking about, I mean, who are all these people?


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[Assistant] You know, I looked at Phil and he looked at me, so, we're getting, these boys right here are getting old.


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[Assistant] Alright, all the, all the so-called kids? No, ain't kids anymore.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that's the bad thing. They grow up boys, they grow up.


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[Assistant] Oh, I meant, yeaah, I meant to mention that, okay, cause I get, they, hey, they put spurs on and ride me like a yard dog. Cause I shoot, cause I shoot a 20 gauge.


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[Assistant] They call it a little pop gun. Uh huh. Cause they always say when they, they fall out there about 60 or 70 or 80 or a hundo. They say, well, you're out. I said, no, I'm good up to about 125 boys. Hoping more.


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[Assistant] A big heavy 12 gauge, three inch or three and a half inch. Okay. When the people that you hunt with, we only shoot them if they're inside this room. Okay.


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[Assistant] I can kill him with a baby gun, boys.


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[Assistant] We're gonna take it a quick break cause I'm gonna kill these wood ducks.


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[Assistant] Hey look, I had an uncle that done it all the time.


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[Assistant] He didn't play poker, but he did gamble.


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[Assistant] He gambled, the gamble was I can take a .22 rifle and we'll go down there on a woody roost. He's breaking the law to begin with, okay, woody roost. Okay, and then shoot wood ducks, flying, head shot, unleashed. For a little nominal fee.


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[Assistant] The affiliate, the station or the affiliate with this does not necessarily agree with what is being said.


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[Assistant] No, that's, that's my dream. Wish. Okay, it's going to duck blind with a .22 rifle. Okay, and kill whatever flies by with a headshot. With a headshot.


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[Assistant] So I, I have to him. It wasn't to his charity, was it? No, no, it was to all these other charities.


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[Assistant] Well that's, hey, I appreciate that JD. I really do. But look, hear him saying, I don't need anything. I appreciate the thought.


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[Assistant] Y'all need to just go ahead and make it go all the way. Make you a homemade bowl and arrow.


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[Assistant] So I finally just gave it up and I go, that's what I know what I ought to do. Take that high-price rifle and go ahead and work and go back my way. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Well no no, cause every time, I always, I do something stupid to miss the deal.


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[Assistant] I mean, I've hader'em literally. I'm up in 12 foot. Oh, real high.


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[Assistant] The deer, yeah, I'm up there and the deer is literally standing right under me. Okay. That's the hardest shot.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, well hey, I missed him. Oh yeaah. Cause as soon as I done that, when I let go, I done that, well the arrow, the bow come up and it went over his back.


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[Assistant] I shot, I shot every arrow I had in my cover, and I had twelve.


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[Assistant] Because every day, no no, cause every day I seen after that it didn't make if he was a hundo or less, it was.


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[Assistant] Nah, it was in the woods. I like to kill a big buck though. He was out there about 60, and when I drew back, he took off running, I just drew back and sum it.


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[Assistant] No, no, hey, look here. I getcha. The deer's running, the arrow, here comes the arrow, deer's running, here comes the arrow. And right when it got, it was six to stick him, he ducked it.


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[Assistant] Just, he ducked it. And I went, you golly.


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[Assistant] Oh no, I'd like to stick one with a boat, but I don't hunt with them anymore so that ain't gonna happen. Hey, yeah, I just gave it up.


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[Assistant] If something, you know, you just ain't gonna happen to you. And killing a deer with a bow ain't gonna happen to me.


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[Assistant] But I've been watching a bunch of them on the TV.


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[Assistant] Zero. Zero. Zero percent was, ain't gonna happen.


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[Assistant] Was you pretty good? I was pretty good. You still got a trumpet at home?


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[Assistant] Well, you, hey, you need to bring it. Yea, and give them a shout out over here on the Pride Canada, boy. Yea.


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[Assistant] He cut me about 12 inches on the chest, then said, okay, rib spreader, put the rib spreader in and opened it up for him, his whole team. This is what they told me after I woke up out in recovery. They said, oh, ah, you know, cause my heart, there was no fat around it. It's just there. Well, look, he didn't put me on a blood machine. He just rinsed in there, picked my heart up and look at how I think about this. He took a vein from my leg.


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[Assistant] And then down on the other side. I told Phillip this story. Okay. He said, you know, he always thought it was a lie.


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[Assistant] So me and him are sitting in John Gimmer's new restaurant.


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[Assistant] I was doing a commercial for John, and a guy walked in to pick up what he's ordered.


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[Assistant] And he's wearing scrubs. Okay. And when he turns around and walks by, he sees me, he sees me and he says, Uncle Cy, how you been after, since your heart surgery?


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[Assistant] And I said, oh, I've been doing good. And he said, man, that was the most amazing thing to watch Dr. White reach into your chest, pick your heart up, and then stitch that vein on each side. And Phillip is like this.


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[Assistant] So hey, it's a true story. In between heartbeats. You gotta think about it. A human being good enough to hold a needle and thread in a slippery vein, okay.


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[Assistant] Blood everywhere, and he souls it in between heartbeats.


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[Assistant] Now look, if you look, take an x-ray of my chest, my heart.


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[Assistant] You can see where a piece of that vein is sticking up that he stitched in my heart.


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[Assistant] Hey, hold on, it's weird, it's the wildest thing. But hey.


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[Assistant] Well hey, maybe- I like to recreate in my bathroom. Right. In your bathtub. JD wants to have a party in a big bathtub. I just- I don't know-


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[Assistant] Boy wants a bigger bathtub. So hey, if you wanna buy JD a pre-Christmas present,


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[Assistant] Thanks. Me and my band had the psychotics and what do you call it, the psychos.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you got to have the songwriter, okay? I'm not the songwriter. I'm the singer.


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[Assistant] To me, that's just amazing. That someone's...


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[Assistant] No, no. I'm telling you. I just, my hat's off. You don't have to take it off. My hat's off to nurses and doctors.


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[Assistant] The first chapter of Proverbs says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Think on that.


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[Assistant] When Princess Nymeria arrived in dawn, who did she take to husband? A man. What was his name? Lord something.


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[Assistant] Princess Nymeria led her Rhoynar across the narrow sea on 10,000 ships to flee their Valyrian pursuits. She took Lord Mors Martell of Dorne to husband.


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[Assistant] And burnt her own fleet off Sunspear to show her people that they were finished running.


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[Assistant] Rob Kardashian. Thank you. Away.


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[Assistant] I wonder what y'all were doing. I didn't even know there was a podcast going on.


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[Assistant] I have not listened to the podcast, but I have heard good things about it, which is good. And that's probably the way it will stay for the rest of my life.


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[Assistant] Well, you gotta live in the moment, man. You gotta live in the moment. So Saz, what is, what is this, what is this?


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[Assistant] But what, what makes it work? I mean what, based on what rationale does it work?


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[Assistant] We have a good time doing it. So if Sy makes you laugh, it works. That's right. So that's the goal. We understand the pressure that I feel now because nobody can do what Sy does. Well we did a whole Christmas episode about that.


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[Assistant] And then took off running. I was, uh, uh, that's what I was. That was my move. I would hit or throw and then run. Ah, guerrilla warfare. Hit and go.


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[Assistant] Who's that? Jayce? W.E.? All of them. Oh yeaah. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Well you couldn't go tell, that was, there was no title telling.


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[Assistant] So you just had to deal with it when it happened.


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[Assistant] So probably my best one I got on Jayce was, uh, he threw me off the recliner and I, he's sitting up on there. He said, I'm the king of this house and.


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[Assistant] So I just leaned in from the door frame with a 16 gauge shotgun shell right between his eyes. I mean all I had.


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[Assistant] Weirdo. You know, like, he was the weird uncle. Uh, he was funny, uhm, but just bizarre. The main thing I remember about Sy was him bringing all the army clothes. We thought that was cool. Uh, so he would give us...


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[Assistant] You know, the hand-me-downs from the army. And it had Robertson on it, which was cool. So we wore, uhm, all his shirts and jackets. Uh, the, the cool thing was the sleeping bags. They had the real feathers in them. So they're army sleeping bags. And I peed on every one of them. And I peed the bed.


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[Assistant] And if you've ever tried to dry out urine from like real goose feathers, it is a chore. So here's how it go. I'd pee and then I would wake up in my cold urine. We didn't have central heat. So we have one gas fireplace. So I would just hold that blanket. I would hold the sleeping bag in front of the


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[Assistant] The little fireplace until it kinda dried out and then I snuggle back in for the night. Run it back the next night. That was a bad one.


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[Assistant] Oh, everything smelled like pee. Yeah, everything I slept on. But what was great, cause if you're in a, like, like you, John David, y'all had probably one bedroom that y'all shared. Yeah. The whole family.


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[Assistant] Nobody slept with me. You know, I was like, nobody came. So wherever I slept, like I had my own place. You got your own covers. Everything was Han Solo when it came to slumbering.


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[Assistant] First memories are like at 17, what happened to you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was like, I was like, what just happened?


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[Assistant] But I finally, I did yeaah. I don't even know how to.


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[Assistant] Them suckers. So, I was asleep.


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[Assistant] I'm just sitting there waiting on the bus, and I'm like, wow, it's Brother O's son. She's a little late this morning. Why is David Letterman on? That's weird.


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[Assistant] It actually says more about my sleep, right? Cause like I'm peeing, I'm getting, I have no idea. It's a hard life.


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[Assistant] I wasn't like a rich kid right here with his own room and his king size water bed. I did not have a water bed. Your mom would probably come in and gently like sing little tunes to you. Good morning, Johnny D. Wake up. It's going to be a great day. She's not a singer. She did wake me up though. How did you wake up? Always with yelling and anger. You know what? My mother.


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[Assistant] Every time she spoke to us, it was always like she was mad. Like, like we, she'd be like,


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[Assistant] Get off your butt and go get the groceries. I'm like.


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[Assistant] Close. Yeah, I know. When Cory and I got married, I said, I ain't ever living on this street.


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[Assistant] Yeah, now you're on half of it. Yeah, now I can hit a pitching wedge over there.


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[Assistant] Rich kids over here who have queen sized beds, you know, their own rooms. They want to play poker. Y'all want to go over there? I'm like, uh, yeah.


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[Assistant] So I do remember, Sy, uh, we were, this was at the new house, not the, the newer house, not the original house. The middle house. Yeah, the middle house.


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[Assistant] We're at the middle house, so poker game.


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[Assistant] It starts at 7, right? Besides the guy, besides there at 5.45, you know, for a 7 o'clock. Kinda like Johnny D, he's an early guy too, he's way early.


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[Assistant] So Si came in, so he would just sit, I'm like, well, it starts in an hour and 15 minutes. So he would sit in there by himself and deal hands and then play with himself. I mean, like.


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[Assistant] He would look at this hand, but what's funny was he would make commentary as well to himself. Oh yeaah. He'd be like, oh, what you holding? Oh, I got Jack 10. Jack, that's a good hand. That's a good, I'll, I'll raise on that one. Let's see what's next. Uh oh, sevens. We got pocket sevens. And then he would play and so.


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[Assistant] Bella came in there and she was a little kid and said, uh, dad.


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[Assistant] Uncle Si is, is talking to himself. I said, yeah, he's fine. Just let him do what he's doing. He's talking to the boys. And he would, he would play with himself until everybody showed up and then he would.


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[Assistant] I'll go back to when I invited Jason, I kept trying to get him to play and he wouldn't come play. He would say, no, no, no. And we were like, why not? And he goes, do you not know how to play? Which I don't know if he still doesn't know. I still don't know if he knows how to play. And he said, no, cause I love it too much. Like.


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[Assistant] I, I just, I love it too, and I was like, ah, and then I realized when he started playing, that was true. He's, yeaah. He's in. He loved it so much.


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[Assistant] Oh hey, and you didn't put my accolades when you were reading them earlier. What'd I miss?


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[Assistant] You missed probably the coolest thing I've ever done in my life. Uh oh. I got sigh.


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[Assistant] Very good side lay down aces you had, you had played some serious poker.


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[Assistant] So it's a way different. What about when, uh, person we won't name, uh, uh, so this guy would get up big?


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[Assistant] And then he would want to leave, you know, be like, oh, I'm up big money, so I'm gonna leave, and uh, which, you know.


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[Assistant] It just burned us up. He's taking all this money. So he stands up. I'm dealing, right?


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[Assistant] So I just dealt him, he said, Hey, I'm out. And I said, I'll just do your hand. It'll be dead. And so he looks down at it and he goes.


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[Assistant] I'll make him play one more. Well I know right there he's got a good hand.


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[Assistant] So I don't care what I got. I don't care what you bet. I'm in this hand. I got one shot. To get that money back. It was almost in your truck.


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[Assistant] That sucker sat back down. Oh, and he had pocket queens.


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[Assistant] And he did leave after that hand, except he took no money with him. Every dime he had. Lost it all. Pulled out his wallet. He was standing up, like he was standing up to leave. I need to know who it is.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you, the first time, so Philip was like a senior and I was in 10th grade at Westmore High School.


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[Assistant] So I knew he had this giant curly hair. I just knew, you know, everybody kind of knew who he was. That's a cool guy.


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[Assistant] And so I'll never forget, I'm sitting in front of Westmoreland High School, I'm in the gold truck, and this cat pulls up, we're like at the red light going down seven.


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[Assistant] And I look over at this guy and it's, it's old Phil and he's got a fan of hundred dollar, like, I mean, like a, a fan you could cool yourself with of hundred dollar bills. And he just looks over at me and does that face and he goes, mm-hmm. I was like, that dude is cool, man.


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[Assistant] What's my crack score? Yea. I have no idea. No idea. It's probably, I don't know, sometime you get screwed up, I don't know. You've got people for that, right?


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[Assistant] So I've been doing, I'm doing like a more, a little more. I'm not eating during when the sun is up. I'm not eating.


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[Assistant] Well that's the problem, cause I feel like now I'm kinda skanking it because if you just stay up late enough.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, John David put that in my, I think he's like the little, the, the little devil character on my shoulder. Cause he's like, well, you could eat technically in the morning. I was like, oh, I never thought about that. Like I'm doing the whole thing, but I was like.


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[Assistant] I could, I could wake up. It's dark early. Yea, cause I looked and it's like, I mean not saying that I haven't gotten up early, but I was like, what time does the sun come out?


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[Assistant] Well, there you go, cause it's like seven, I'm like, oh my goodness, I could eat, like, I could eat a full breakfast. But I think that would be disastrous, cause then I think I would just be starving to death, like, than if I had to wait. But I'm still doing it like I could, that was a good observation though. I just go by the rules.


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[Assistant] Oh, I just, it's, uh, I mean, technically I guess it would be intermittent fasting. Intermittent. Yeah. But, yeah, I just thought I'll do that because I had some stuff I wasn't gonna fa- I was like, this year, I'm not doing it.


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[Assistant] We do like a 21 day, it's intense, you know, and so it's like last year we did the straight Daniel fast, which was no meat, no sugar, pretty much nothing that tastes good.


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[Assistant] We don't discuss others. So he's doing what he's doing. I'm not going to give comments on his. He's not going to comment on mine. Cause yea, at 5.42 tonight, I could eat a Johnny's pizza.


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[Assistant] But I, uh. But we broke fast last year, me and Sadie and my whole family. We broke fast at Johnny's. We actually went to the restaurant and just scalded the top of our mouths, like, just rookie one-on-one. And then just totally scalded my mouth where I couldn't taste for another.


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[Assistant] That thing's good, I'm telling you. The impossible whopper is delicious and you can't tell. Here's the deal, people are like, no I like meat. What, the standard of Burger King meat? Like that's what you like to taste? I don't like Burger King. That's never good anyway.


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[Assistant] Or is it a sheep? I think he's, no, he's super bowed up. Is he really? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Hang on, hang on. This isn't the podcast for this. We're about to buckle down boys. Do you like, uh, uh, do you like the running back for the saint? Which one? Pfft. What is he?


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[Assistant] I'm just saying, there's a lot of pro athletes that are, I'm not, hey, I like meat. I'm just saying, don't be knocking people that eat plants. If you want to, let me think of the line right. If you want to be strong like the ox, eat what the ox eats.


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[Assistant] But I found the red-skinned, uh,


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[Assistant] The little red wieners. The football team? Oh, sorry. Not the one, not the really good ones from Nebraska. We got those red wieners, Nebraska is so good. Uh, yeaah, well, we called them Wilson, but they're not Wilson anymore. Kay told me, she said they got my brook shares, and I went up there and... Showin' up.


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[Assistant] So I cooked like 28 weenie, you know, it was basically Cory and I. He's like, I'm so hungry, like I'm just eating them like literally like I'm fixing a


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[Assistant] He's either veggie burgers or a dozen hot dogs. I'll still eat a veggie. I'll go eat impossible whopper right now. I'm telling ya, you want your food to taste better? Do it a little fast, it'll taste better. Oh, cause then you're starving. Those Brussels sprouts were good last night. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Hey, y'all can help me with this. This is what I've been doing now since, and I hate being that guy. I was that guy, like J way the third. I go to the health club. I walk in and I'm so that person. You have a gym at your house.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you why I had to go to the gym. I hate going to the gym.


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[Assistant] I'm working my legs. So one of my goals this year.


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[Assistant] Is to get my leg stronger. Why don't have leg weights at my house? Like I've got.


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[Assistant] And so I go in there and I just do legs. Now, the first time I left, you never want to hear this from the person working at the gym. When I leave, she goes, oh, you're finished already?


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[Assistant] I ate my face off in chili dogs and I sound asleep. Like my body is going, what is happening?


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[Assistant] So I'm doing leg workouts. So just so you know, if you see me like doing something athletic and you're like, whoa, man, you'll know I'm doing leg workouts.


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[Assistant] Oh. Next month. How many times have you been to the gym? Right now. Uh, three. Three. Mate notes.


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[Assistant] I feel stupid walking in there. So, but Cory's like, we have a membership. I was like, oh, perfect. So I'm just going to slide in like, hey, I'm back. You know, I'm a member. No, I don't have the right stupid fob, you know, to get in the door.


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[Assistant] And then, and then she's like, well, you're not on the list. And so I'm like, well, just put me on the list.


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[Assistant] She goes, well, you've got too many people on the list. Cause all my kids have put themselves on my plan. And so I'm like, uh, so she's looking. No, this is so funny. She goes, well, I mean.


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[Assistant] I can't wait to read the comments. I just ate chili dogs, so you know what I'm saying, like, and I like tennis, so. At my age, what else am I going to go play? Football? I mean. I'm on Martin's team. Baseball?


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[Assistant] I mean, let's face it guys, if you want to do something athletic, that's a competition. There's just a few things, you know.


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[Assistant] No, so, no, that came from I was racing wheel.


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[Assistant] Played the football game. I was smoked him, like I was gonna beat him in that race. Allegedly.


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[Assistant] Now I went to a guy on that, you know what he did? He stuck a wooden needle in my, in my muscle. A wooden needle. A wooden needle.


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[Assistant] Well, my doctor said, hey, go try this, man. It actually worked. That sucker drove a wooden piece of... I don't know. I saw Splinter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like bamboo stuck in my leg and I'm telling you. Godwin's face is disturbed right now.


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[Assistant] Yep, that's unbelievable. I've actually never wanted to fire you.


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[Assistant] I mean that says something, like 21 years. Especially if you're part of the old team, you know? Yeah. But, no.


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[Assistant] So I go to Phil, uh, what was I thinking? Well, I'll explain that in a minute. So I went in, I'm looking at the kind of the bottom lines. I'm kind of looking at the operation. We are running Duck Commander out of mom and dad's house. And so, Sy's the reed guy and, uh, but he slept most of the day.


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[Assistant] And he really didn't, you know, nobody wanted to do the reads, but I was like, this is just a bad spin on our money. We didn't have any money. And, uh, so I go to dad and I said, dad, look, we need to let go. Uh, we need to, we need to drop some.


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[Assistant] He's a read man. That's a monotonous job. Nobody wants to do it. So just let him keep doing it. And I was like crap. And so I went to actually try to get him let go from the company. That would have been a bad move. That's a good thing. My Godwin story. So Godwin, Godwin always wanted to hire.


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[Assistant] He needed more help. Like, we just need more help down here. So finally we had a meeting.


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[Assistant] And I said, Goblin, what exactly are you looking for? I need, I need three more people in this warehouse.


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[Assistant] I said, for what? Like what's the job? What do we need to get done? He goes, well, I mean, the UPS guy comes at


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[Assistant] Three. Three o'clock and it's just, I mean, we're working right up until three o'clock.


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[Assistant] To get the order in. I said, well, have you missed one? He said, nah, we hadn't missed one.


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[Assistant] I said, well, if you had, if you had more people, like, what would you want to accomplish? He goes, well, then we could have it ready to go by like 11.


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[Assistant] And then I asked him the question and he didn't have the answer to it. I said whoop.


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[Assistant] But here I am boys. I didn't hire him. And he's still around. So we played poker all the time. He worked in a sporting goods store, which is cool. And he's really smart. And he said, Hey, if you got anything you need me to do, I can help you out. I was going out of town. For free. I said for free. I said.


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[Assistant] So I said, uh, yeah, well, just, uh, I'm going out of town. Why don't you just come here and cold call some stores and just see if you can sell some duck calls. Cause I thought you knew the lingo. You weren't here at the sporting goods store.


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[Assistant] So it's like, it must have been a long trip I was going cause it's like a week and a half later, I get an email from


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[Assistant] Did you come to me and say you haven't paid me?


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[Assistant] There's been employees here that I've hired. Did I forget to tell you?


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[Assistant] Hold on, David is like my family, like he's related to my spouse. I was recruited. Right. So I remember like when he was just a little kid, yea, he was a little rich kid, and they was a queen size man, you know. They had Bill. Ah yea, so I kinda had probably something against little rich kids and so.


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[Assistant] We have some weird family meal. Cause we actually don't have a lot of family meals. It was at your house. Something happened. Johnny D's there like working the crowd. Did you have the full beard by then? It was a smaller beard. Oh yea, so he's starting to get on that nasty train and so the beard's coming out. I was doing that before.


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[Assistant] Doing that before. And I'm like, who is this kid? That's like, that's old Johnny D, baby. That's old Nervous Purvis. Remember, I remember these like, you know, convulsing when you had, when you played one hand out of an hour playing poker. I said, we need to hire this kid. And, uh, so we have a


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[Assistant] Well for nine dollars an hour, I think I can make the move.


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[Assistant] I would forget, I would forget to tell him that somebody, I wasn't as bad as Phil though. Phil would have people work for him for two years. Oh yea. You never pay him.


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[Assistant] Well, that's why, yeah, that's why I took it over actually because yeah, mom, mom, she, she did as good as she could, but I was like.


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[Assistant] And we'd sell duck calls all weekend. We'd make like 10 grand, right? And then...


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[Assistant] How's the story going in, you know? I said, why don't I just like kind of take it over and uh, took it over and it was rough. So I go to the bank and I said, uh, and this is right before.


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[Assistant] When you could still kind of talk to the bank, you know, and it was like, yeah, this doesn't really make any sense, but we'll take a chance on you. And, uh, he goes, I said, I said, I need a loan. I can't remember what I was asking a couple of hundred grand maybe. And he goes, uh,


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[Assistant] Well, you can have like $35,000 as a business loan. I'm like...


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[Assistant] I said, is there any way we can get some more? I don't know. That's about all. I don't know how we made it.


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[Assistant] But I held my checks too. They were about six months of them. They were on the top of my desk. All my paychecks were just stacked up. They were no good. They were just paper. I was betting on it to come baby. I was crossing my fingers saying let's work hard and figure it out.


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[Assistant] Now we all got queen size beds in our own bedroom. Yeaah buddy.


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[Assistant] Positive thought, alright. I'll try to be positive.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it comes from the book of Psalm. I believe it's 51, John D.


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[Assistant] Creating me a clean heart oh god. Alright, let's keep reading.


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[Assistant] Kid's going through some stuff here, right? Like, so he's wanting this cleansing. Alright, the next one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this one, this one I want to pause on. So he says, creating me up your heart, oh God. And then he ends up saying, then.


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[Assistant] Then I will teach transgressors your ways.


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[Assistant] And sinners will come back to you. You know what that sounds like, John D?


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[Assistant] Oh, now I don't often go, I'm the, uh, evangelism coordinator at our church, but, and I don't often go to the Old Testament, and I was reading that this morning actually, and I was like, wow, David's saying,


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[Assistant] He is actually gonna be evangelistic, but he's got to get himself right first. So he's asking for that pure heart. Then he will teach, uh, people their ways and sinners will turn back to God. Alright, read the name.


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[Assistant] We got more evangelism. Open my lips. And so I see this, that's a real pattern that I've never actually seen before. A pattern that


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[Assistant] To tell others good news, you've gotta work on yourself, get yourself there, and then once that opens up, you'll be able to tell others.


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[Assistant] About the hope and the joy that you have. And I actually shared that with a couple of people this morning.


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[Assistant] Because we've been going over the idea of evangelism. We're actually going to do a series on it. And uhm,


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[Assistant] So it's amazing how you can do that, because I think we're all called, uhm, uh, which evangelism, if you don't know, it's an old word, it just simply means to proclaim the good news of Jesus, either


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[Assistant] Publicly, which some people go, oh, I could never do that. Or personally.


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[Assistant] And so, once you get it down to there, then you should be able to tell others about that. Now I will say, I learned, really learned this from watching Phil, and of all the stuff that I saw Phil do, uh, that dude has always been


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[Assistant] Sharing his faith and so I witnessed that growing up and so I've tried to.


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[Assistant] Do that myself and uh, and give people good news because what I'm seeing, what's happening in the world, uhm, there's a lot of bad going on, a lot of...


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[Assistant] Heartaches, but I'm seeing opportunity surely for something better and something hopeful.


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[Assistant] Something beyond what we can see because I think 2020 exposed a lot of people as to what's important.


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[Assistant] What really matters, uh, what we're all into, what we follow, what we go to, family, you're stuck with people, uhm, relationships, I mean,


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[Assistant] There's a lot of people that's in a lot of hurt, you know, and a lot of stuff has happened. And so we're only here for a short time and then we're gone. So I'm banking on the.


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[Assistant] Just like when I took over this company and holding all my checks and was like, I hope something better is coming.


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[Assistant] But I think we saw through this past year, you know, that uhm, this world doesn't offer all those things for us. And so, the more we get tied up in it, caught up in it,


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[Assistant] And, uh, it'll chew you up and spit you out and leave you really helpless, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's what makes me get up in the morning. That's what gives me hope and, uh, happiness. And, uh, that way no matter what happens, no matter what happens on this planet, uhm, I'm hoping that there's something better, uhm, that our lives can go there and so...


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[Assistant] You shouldn't make, yeaah, I have my word. You shouldn't make your New Year's resolutions on January the 1st. Because you're coming off of Christmas and...


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[Assistant] Hectic stuff, and then you're like, oh no, what am I gonna try to do for the year?


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[Assistant] Then you come up with something and let's face it, most people by this, by now are like already failed miserably. So I took the entire month of January.


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[Assistant] To figure out what it is that I wanted to do for eleven. I'd rather have the eleven months of something.


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[Assistant] And so we're doing fasting and we're doing praying and so I'm waiting for this time, but I've come up with my word for the year and it is create.


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[Assistant] And that passage starts out with create, which is what led me to that passage. And so, uh, so this year I will try to create. I have a whole list of things that I'm going to try to create, but, uh,


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[Assistant] I'm kind of a creative type and so creating something from nothing which I'm interested in and uh, I'm glad this podcast was created.


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[Assistant] I don't have to listen to it to like it, I can just like it.


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[Assistant] Our histories. They tell us that Aegon looked across the Blackwater from Dragonstone, and saw a rich land ripe for the capture. But ambition alone is not what drove him to conquest. It was a dream.


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[Assistant] Four ships have now been lost. The last one was flying my banner.


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[Assistant] At one time. But I swear to you now, on your mother's memory, you will not be supplanted.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be doing another younger version of this is probably the coolest one yet. I can't lie. It takes top spot. I just apparently look like a whole lot of people, which has worked out great for me. So I'm not complaining, but thank you for having me. I'm so excited.


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[Assistant] There's so much to her, and I think I would describe her differently in every episode that I play her in. Just cause she changes massively throughout.


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[Assistant] Circumstance through where people push her, points that people push her to.


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[Assistant] But when we first meet her, she is a people pleaser. She's very anxious. She's a rule follower. To play as an actor, something that I pulled on a lot was duty versus heart. For her, that's super important as to she's very dutiful.


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[Assistant] She has a very clear sense of right and wrong and when feelings come into that she doesn't quite know how to process and react and respond.


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[Assistant] She's very acutely aware of the world that she lives in. She knows the Game of Thrones very, very well. She knows how these men play, but I don't think she ever expects to be one of their playing pieces. This just also comes from her being Rhaenyra's best friend, of course Rhaenyra Targaryen. Besties!


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[Assistant] To begin with, as we all know, it might not stay that way forever and ever and ever, but...


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[Assistant] They're incredibly close, and they're always sort of put together, they grew up together, and so there's always this strange sort of power dynamic that they can't avoid, and that Renea is always that one peg up, and so Alison just learns to...


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[Assistant] Her character arc sort of pushes her personality to change slightly as the series progresses.


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[Assistant] And so there's a slight disconnect, and we kind of played around with the ambiguity of how much she knows, because she's, as I said, she's so aware when it comes to everyone else and everything else, but when it comes to herself, that's where there's like a slight disconnect. She's kind of got this guilt.


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[Assistant] Floating around whenever she speaks to Ranira. This loss of Ranira's mother has brought them


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[Assistant] A lot closer together, I believe it's in episode two, we have this beautiful scene in the set, where Millie and I, we actually re-shot that, I think.


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[Assistant] Just because there was so much to it and a beautiful writing from Ryan, of course, there's this shared trauma suddenly.


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[Assistant] I think there's this emotional vulnerability that they share with one another that you just don't see them have with anyone else in the show.


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[Assistant] Throughout the entirety of this series, there's just something bubbling under the surface between these two girls or these two women eventually that they just don't have with anyone else.


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[Assistant] The friends you have as a young girl, especially at 14 of an age, your girl bestie, your best friend is like a girlfriend. You want to spend all of your time with that person. You think you're going to be best best friends forever.


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[Assistant] Tactile closeness, where you're very touchy-feely, especially as women, you know, we're allowed to change in front of each other and...


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[Assistant] We hug and we, we kiss and we hold in ways that boys, I guess, don't, which we need to change, by the way. This is not a stereotype that I enjoy, but unfortunately it does exist. Uhm, but there's just this, this pure closeness where it does toe the line between platonic and romantic, because I think at 14,


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[Assistant] You don't really know what platonic and romantic is, what the words mean, let alone what the feelings mean. And so I, we definitely talked about it and we definitely tried to play that in as well, so I'm glad that it read.


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[Assistant] It was 100% sincere, but I can also see how it would read.


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[Assistant] Where is Ellen's mom? Who is she? Who was she? Where did she go? It's not written in the book. It's not written in the script. And so I mentioned this at Comic Con, I journaled as my character.


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[Assistant] Just to get some more in-depth insight because I think there's so much going on in her brain it's impossible to think about and to process unless I put it on paper in front of me. And one thing I got to write about was


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[Assistant] Miguel, Ryan, Reese and I was that her mother was the religious one and that faith is something that Alison carries because of this connection with her mother, which is why I think that scene is so


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[Assistant] I know you think it's bullshit, but like, this is what I do and I would love and appreciate if you would try it.


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[Assistant] And I say the line, if not for me, then for them, and I signal to the gods, because


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[Assistant] For me, for Alison, that is it for her. Whereas Raniera doesn't quite get that. And I think Raniera...


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[Assistant] Does do it for Alison. I don't think she does it for the gods, you know? She does it to sort of humor her friend, and I'm sure Millie would be able to go a little bit more in depth with that, but she does it to humor her friend, I think.


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[Assistant] And even though we were on a volume stage and it was all LED screens, just having that amount of candles in front of us and what we were talking about within the scene, I felt emotional.


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[Assistant] I mean, I've journaled as Emily for, since I was a kid, I have a very busy brain, uhm, I'm a mentally ill queen and so something that I do to, to process the crazy things that go on in my head is to put them on paper.


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[Assistant] And it gives me a deeper understanding of my brain, and so I thought, hey, why not do that for the characters I play? Surely it would work in the same way that I get a deeper understanding of their brains too.


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[Assistant] Over such a long period of time, and we had such a long rehearsal period even before that.


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[Assistant] And be like, what am I doing? What's going on? I can't remember what I did. And that did happen a few times, cause you'd feel like you're missing a spark that you had in a rehearsal room because it was so raw.


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[Assistant] And then I'd open my journal and I'd be like, hey, this is first hand.


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[Assistant] Exactly how I was feeling in that moment as my character and I'd sort of recite it like a monologue and it would get me exactly in the right head space. As I said, I work very emotionally and very immersively.


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[Assistant] So it would get me exactly in the right place, in the right, uhm,


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[Assistant] What's the word? Like the right spiritual plane, I guess, that I needed to be in to do a scene.


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[Assistant] But I think it's fascinating. I think what it is, is that...


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[Assistant] No matter whether you're the lead of something and you're in every single scene in the show or the film,


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[Assistant] You never see 24-7 of that person's life, of that character's life. There's always bits you don't see, especially in an ensemble show like this, where everyone sort of dips in and out of being in the forefront, like all the in-betweeny bits, all the scenes


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[Assistant] What is Alison thinking when she's walking from Otto's office to go and put this dress on? What is she feeling when she's putting the dress on and that walk and waiting outside the door before she goes in there? I mean, that's just one select moment. That's maybe an hour, that's maybe two hours.


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[Assistant] And there's so much of that throughout the entirety of the series, so it gave me so much context, even though I am bullshitting and making stuff up.


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[Assistant] If Ryan Condor says he likes my writing, that's one thing, but I mean, yeaah. It's just, it's a really useful tool, for me at least. I think, especially on this show, I noticed every actor works in a completely different way. And I knew that before, but coming on a show like this, where you have legends who are so confident in the way they work,


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[Assistant] I know exactly what methods work for them. I think it's fascinating. It's like a workshop, masterclass kind of thing.


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[Assistant] So this is what works for me I guess, whereas everyone else sort of works completely differently.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's diagnosed. That's how I relate, you know? It's very present in my life. As a mentally ill queen, tell us about it. Um, I have never played a character this anxious before. I've done a job where I had to like play one or two panic attacks, which were interesting because they felt so out of context. I feel like if this was set in a modern day,


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[Assistant] But, I process emotions in a very similar way that Alison does, in the sense of, we both try to internalize things, but they always seep out, it always escapes somewhere, and the more you suppress things, the worse it gets. People always ask me, what did you learn from this role?


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[Assistant] That's it, that's exactly it, is to suppress less.


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[Assistant] The more you feel, I think it's a common theme, funnily enough, between the Hightowers. Whenever there's a scene where Otto and Alison should be saying how much they love each other.


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[Assistant] It's an argument, you know? It just turns into fueling the fire. I think it's no coincidence that their sigil has a little flame on it. I think they're fiery people.


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[Assistant] But on screen, I think it's such a delicate relationship that we're dealing with here.


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[Assistant] There's an undertone in there that they could be good pals if it wasn't for this weird circumstance in that I'm sort of seeing my best friend's dad behind her back and he's like doesn't want to marry a child. It's like a whole...


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[Assistant] Weird thing, and it was very difficult to try and contextualize, because obviously as an actor, like, working in Westeros is a weird thing, first of all. And then...


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[Assistant] How one would interact with dragons. So for example, Alison sees them as kind of like big dogs. She's a bit scared of them. How a totally would be scared of a big dog.


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[Assistant] That's how Alison approached the dragon. And so trying to contextualize a situation like this is weird, because if I said, oh yeaah, I'm gonna go...


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[Assistant] You know, have a little conversation, a little meet up with, um, your dad in his bedroom. It's a bit strange. Uhm, but in this world, it's slightly less...


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[Assistant] Strange, if that makes sense, just as a modern day viewer and a modern day reader of the script, it feels a lot more uncomfortable than it is. I think also it's in the book that Alison used to read to the old king, so the initial meetups are less strange.


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[Assistant] It's just, so much of it is what Alison feels the intention behind the meeting is. And again, I think I wanted to leave it ambiguous, I want the audience to be almost as confused as she is, in like,


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[Assistant] I kept saying to Miguel, I have no idea what I'm thinking. And he'd be like, okay, go with it. I'm like, no, give me something. I don't know. Tell me how to feel. And he's like, no, play on this. Play on the unknown and the fear of the unknown.


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[Assistant] Cause that's exactly what Alicent is feeling. She doesn't know what's happening. It's the fear of the unknown.


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[Assistant] The scene with the dragon when the dragon breaks on the floor, there's this beautiful shot where it almost looks like we're holding hands because I pick up the dragon and go to give it back to him.


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[Assistant] And it's like, this feels okay, and then she remembers what's happening and kind of the insinuation between just a touch of hands. The big question within the show is...


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[Assistant] Do you serve yourself or do you serve the realm? And Alison doesn't know yet. She's 14, she's still figuring it out.


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[Assistant] She's been thrown into this position that she doesn't really understand fully yet.


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[Assistant] Part of it is she's doing what she's told, but she's also trying to take away from it like...


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[Assistant] And don't take this the wrong way. She kind of recognizes how her dad reacted to her own mother's death and how Viserys reacts.


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[Assistant] Which is why she comes at it with such softness, I guess, and with such understanding and empathy. I'm not saying she sees him like a dad, that's towing the line, that's weird. But she recognizes the emotions that he's feeling because we have to remember in Westeros, especially men, showing emotion is not a common thing for a young girl to see.


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[Assistant] Where she knows what she's doing with him. It's kind of like a bomb. It's fragile, not in the sense of glass, like it could shatter, but fragile in the sense that it could blow up, which is what she would've, I'm assuming, again, would've, I've made this whole backstory up, I'm assuming that's what she would've had with her dad. I don't think Otto is the kind of guy to, to break down in tears necessarily.


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[Assistant] Especially not in front of his daughter, and so that's where the cautiousness comes, the softness comes from when Alison sort of approaches Viserys.


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[Assistant] And I was like, okay, younger version of Olivia Kirk, I could do that, maybe I might get this job, you never know. And then I found out it was Game of Thrones, I was like, oh god, okay, well there goes my chance, of course then we're gonna get it now.


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[Assistant] And then I booked it the day of my callback, which is so unheard of and so strange. I hadn't even processed that I'd done the audition, cause usually you have like, with a big, big job like this, usually you have like two weeks before you even hear anything, even if the things that you hear are like, we're still figuring things out. So I hadn't even processed that I'd done the audition, then I get the call and I'm like, whoa, okay, I booked it, great. And then they send the scripts through and I was like, okay,


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[Assistant] Great. So which bits are me? And they're like, well, everything we've sent you is you. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Cause none of them say young in front of, they just say Alison. And they're like, no, you're playing Alison in these episodes. I was like,


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[Assistant] Hold on, huh? That's not how this works. Where's my one scene? Come on, guys.


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[Assistant] This is, hold on, and then it was like, hold on, this is 10 months of my life, what is going on? And that was after I'd signed the contract. So I was like, you know, just thrown in there, like, this is crazy. And when I say it was a whirlwind, like, I mean it. I went from thinking I'd have, you know, one day on set of this really cool job.


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[Assistant] To sign in the contract, getting my scripts through and being like, hey, this is my life now. Which was very, very scary, but I had so much creative freedom with this role.


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[Assistant] It's in a sense like we're playing two completely different characters. I mean, me and Olivia didn't talk at all about the character or the job.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the same way that Emma and Millie didn't, we were kind of advised not to because it is literally like we're playing completely different people. Ten years is a really long time, you know? Yeah. You're seeing them go from practically children into grown women. There's a lot of growing up to do. And so, yeah, they treat it as like different.


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[Assistant] Characters. So it didn't feel like I was playing a younger version in a way that I'm so used to at this point. Maybe one day I will be the main one and there will be three younger versions of me. Who knows?


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[Assistant] Oh, for sure. This is the most in-depth I've ever gotten any character I've ever played and I'm so...


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[Assistant] Privileged and grateful. Like, before we even got into the rehearsal room, I was invited in to have a few character meetings with Ryan and Miguel. And I was like, so who else is coming? And they were like, no, no, no, it's one-on-one. We're just talking about you. We're talking about Alison and we're talking about you and how you work as an actor. And I was like, I've never had this before in my life. This is incredibly exciting.


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[Assistant] It felt like a workshop. And then when we got to rehearsals, it felt like, uhm, it felt like a play rehearsal. It felt like theatre. Because we, Miguel, the way he works, which I think is incredible.


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[Assistant] It keeps everyone in the room at all times. So even when they're doing scenes and rehearsing scenes that you're not in, you're sort of sat in a circle surrounding them so you just get to take it all in and it is literally like


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[Assistant] A masterclass workshop kind of vibe. It's incredible, but this for me was such a huge.


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[Assistant] Career step, not just literally, but I feel like I've grown so much as an actor just from the amount of time I got to spend with Alicent.


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[Assistant] I learnt so much about my methods, as I said early on in this, like,


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[Assistant] Every actor works in a different way and you're seeing, you're working with these legends who are so confident in their methods and they know exactly what they're doing because they just know how they function as an actor. I think...


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[Assistant] Actors as creatives, you never stop learning. It's physically impossible. And that's why I love my job. Because I know that there's always something new and there's always something to learn. Whether it's about yourself or about the industry or about a story or a character. I'm just such a curious creative.


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[Assistant] And this is the perfect job for me, but as I said, these people are so confident in what they're doing and I feel like I'm not at that level. I'm nowhere near that level, but I feel so much more comfortable.


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[Assistant] As a human being and as an actor than I did before this. I feel like I found my feet, you know?


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[Assistant] I mean, I think it actually, there's a similarity to writing both shows in that it is sort of, it's realist.


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[Assistant] There's a cadence to it and so once you hear that,


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[Assistant] You can sort of start to absorb the way that it sounds. And so for Westeros, it was very similar. Obviously I had read the books a while back. So it was reading Ryan's pilot, reading the books and just sort of absorbing the way language is used and making it my own. But, uh,


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[Assistant] It really helps to have a grounding in classic literature and understanding how those sentence structures work in the grammar because it is archaic. Cause if you do too much, it sounds insane.


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[Assistant] It's almost the same as my last show which was Orange is the New Black in that there was source material but we were really able to make it our own and to, you know, like you use the material that's there as the spine of the show and definitely more so obviously with Fire and Blood but


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[Assistant] This wasn't like making original Game of Thrones in that the original Game of Thrones was based on a series of novels, right? Whereas this is a different book and it's a history book.


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[Assistant] Very clear in writing the book that it is an unreliable narrative.


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[Assistant] Nobody in that book actually knows what happened. It's three separate reporters saying what they think might have happened and contradicting each other, which gives us as adapters an incredible amount of leeway because


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[Assistant] We have no idea what happened in one of the themes that we ran with definitely when we started thinking about it.


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[Assistant] Was that history is written by the victors, history is written by men. It's men talking about what they think happened and they are probably wrong. It's great that we have the spine and the story and the characters and all those things there. But within, within that, there's like a huge amount of leeway and liberty to tell our own story, which is great.


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[Assistant] No, that's definitely a fair question and one that I, as a female EP, am extremely concerned with. I would like to clarify that I didn't say that we are not going to portray sexual violence ever. Fair point. I'm not saying that we are. I don't know. There are hopefully going to be several more seasons of this show, so it's not like off the table.


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[Assistant] We didn't feel the need to put in what wasn't in the book. It's definitely a part of the world and something that if it is necessary, we will not shy away from, but I think there's got to be a lot of thought about how it's portrayed. But yeah, and it's also a more


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[Assistant] Nuanced point to make, I think that you don't have to be raped to be oppressed and traumatized. Absolutely. Yeah, I think I'm more interested in the more subtle ways that it plays out.


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[Assistant] Like we always thought of him as, he's like, he's an opportunist, but he's not, you know, it's, the king was going to marry somebody. Like, and Alison, I think it's, you know, they've, she's been raised as they all, as all


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[Assistant] And producing Aaron. So given that context, Viserys is probably like one of the least bad options for her. Like he's.


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[Assistant] The king and he's not a horrible guy. He's like, he's a nice man. He's going to take care of her. He's going to do his duty. And so given all the variables on the table, I don't think auto, you know, it's like, you can see it in one sense as gross and conniving and wrong.


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[Assistant] In the incredibly skewed universe that we're, you know, telling this story in, it's not the worst thing that he could be doing. He's a fun character to think about because in episode four too, I think, at the point when


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[Assistant] Like, it's like, you ca- how do you go in and tell the king, oh my god, I heard this thing and da da da da, when you know it's going to benefit you and therefore, you're gonna seem-


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[Assistant] So I think he's in that place of like, he genuinely thinks what he's doing is right and he wants advancement and those two things happen to be the same. Although.


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[Assistant] If the king had married somebody else and had a son, I think Otto would be doing the same thing. He would still be like, you should be making the son heir because that's for the best, you know, the stability of the realm. It's just that he kind of almost screws himself by having made it his own grandson. And now it's like, he can't be seen as, you know, an impartial actor.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I think he's kind of like torn in two directions.


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[Assistant] I mean, in episode five, I think she makes a pretty bold statement. Right. That she's sort of like going to stick to her own house and that she's not going to go over and support Raniera. So that's the sort of end of that section. But yeah, I think we made a very conscious decision that it's not good versus evil. It's lots of people trying to do the right thing.


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[Assistant] Allison is very concerned with doing the right thing and trying to be a good person and do the right thing and I think she's maybe always sort of envied.


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[Assistant] If you're less high up in the hierarchy, you have to be way more careful about following the rules and how you present yourself and not losing your status in society. And so I think she both is exhilarated by Renier's ability to break the rules and kind of do what she wants as a child at least.


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[Assistant] Maybe resents it a little bit in that she is sort of more, definitely more constricted, but I, you know, she's also complicated. I think she finds safety in that. She feels good.


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[Assistant] Knowing what the rules are and being able to operate within the box. So I think the betrayal.


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[Assistant] In four, when she finds out that Raniera had sex with Cole and then lied to her about it, I think is the moment when she realizes like, I don't know you the way I thought I knew you and maybe you're not somebody that I can trust and, and you got my dad fired and I just have to take care of myself at this point and figure out, you know, where I am. So I think she's,


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[Assistant] In five sort of just coming into her power, realizing sort of really owning at this point, I'm the queen and I'm going to go, you know, I'm going to bring on my like Laris and Kristen Cole. She's sort of making these alliances in five where she's shoring up her own.


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[Assistant] Position as opposed to putting herself in service to others. And so I think it's the first glimmer we're seeing of her starting to have her own agenda.


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[Assistant] I am extremely clear on what I think about it and I will say that I believe Patty also believes this very strongly and that is that it's a love story and that Viserys was deeply in love with his wife Emma and never stopped loving her and doesn't ever stop loving her.


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[Assistant] Realize, like, you gave me Raniera and he says in episode one, Raniera is that you are the best of your mother. And she is Emma's daughter.


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[Assistant] She's Emma's child. She's the only thing he has left of Emma. So he is going to make her heir and he is never going to change his mind because he's never going to stop loving Emma. So I think this putting Raniera as his heir is his penance for what happened.


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[Assistant] And his declaration of love to his wife and he's never gonna change his mind because that would be betraying Emma and what she went through. Wow.


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[Assistant] Is his honor and his, his loyalty and his oath. And I think Joffrey's intimation to him that like, uh, we're both, you know, basically sort of jiggalos on the side. I think that's the thing that sort of, well, and his, his own deep shame over it's kind of true. Like he did fuck the princess. You know, he has an oath of chastity.


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[Assistant] That he took and he broke it. The deep shame of that is eating away at him and he, you know, he tried to marry Raniera and she was, you know, she's like, no. So I think he, he's sitting there stewing in his own shame.


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[Assistant] And looking at this, you know, wedding festivity that's going on thinking like, I sullied the princess and this is what I've done. But it's, I think to get, he's, he's fanatically devoted to his cloak and to his calling. And it's, I think the fact that he knows deep inside.


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[Assistant] That he screwed up, you know, Joffrey's just joking around, whatever, but he inadvertently hits that nerve.


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[Assistant] That is, it's the thing that Cole cares the most about and the thing that drives him for the rest of the series is, you know, his sense of honor and his sense of...


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[Assistant] A little bit of sort of self-righteousness or like it's his motivation in life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he just ends up snapping because it's like, oh god, if, if this gets out, right, he would lose everything. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We knew that when you're going into a wedding, there's gonna be an expectation of things going horribly wrong. And so we wanted to kind of play with that expectation and so sort of have a bunch of red herrings in there of like,


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[Assistant] The conflict could be coming from and then have it sort of kick off when you're not expecting it, you know, in a different...


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[Assistant] Place. We didn't think anybody was watching that, was going to watch it think,


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[Assistant] I think from top to bottom our cast is so strong and especially it was a little bit harder writing into a vacuum before we had cast them and it's sort of your, your idea of what they're going to be or what they're going to sound like and then once we had cast all these people


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[Assistant] You know, these people come in and they're so incredible and it becomes, it just makes our job so much more fun because...


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[Assistant] Once you see them, you can picture it. And I mean, particularly when Emma first appeared on our Zoom screens in an audition.


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[Assistant] The character Raniera within 15 seconds just dropped into place. Like I saw them. I went, that's it. Like I immediately knew who Raniera was and what their deal was and what it's going to be. And it's just like, it illuminates things in such a fun.


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[Assistant] Go in there and it's an adventure that you're doing together. So yeah, it's been the best. Our actors are the best.


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[Assistant] We have had to endure being near the two men that walked down my driveway on May 6th, 2013 and took away the bright life in our lives that was Tim.


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[Assistant] Now make your apologies and show goodwill to one another. Your father, your grandsire, your king demands it!


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[Assistant] Lionel's Strong Sand's been staring at you since the moment we arrived, Your Grace.


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[Assistant] So today I'm going to talk about something that has been coming into us in our, uh, Team Clark Consumer Action Center and has been much in the news and


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[Assistant] Uh, on television and various forms of media about squatters stealing people's homes. And this is bad, ugly stuff that I want to talk about, I want to talk about how much you need to worry


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[Assistant] I love playing the credit card reward game.


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[Assistant] But when is it worth it? When is it not? And is it appropriate for you in your situation? We're gonna talk that through. So,


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[Assistant] One of the situations we had recently come in to the Team Clark Consumer Action Center, if you're not aware of what that is, it's where you can get one-on-one advice and information and guidance 30 hours each week for free.


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[Assistant] From our team members, both paid and volunteers. And just two weeks ago, we had our latest installment of somebody losing their own home to squatters.


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[Assistant] And this is something that has lots of wrinkles to it, but it's become a thing. And


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[Assistant] There are people on TikTok and other social media posting how easy it is and how great it is for you to just be able to help yourself to somebody else's home.


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[Assistant] One of the people who contacted us recently had gone on a one week vacation and came home.


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[Assistant] And there were people living in his home who changed the locks and the police said, well, nothing we can do about this.


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[Assistant] And this is happening in various states around the country. The biggest problems of all happening in Georgia and Texas where


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[Assistant] The laws are really essentially silent. If I go into your house, break into your house,


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[Assistant] And steal something from your house. Let's say I go in and help myself to your TV and I'm walking out with your TV. I have committed a criminal act. If I'm arrested and charged.


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[Assistant] I, you know, I did the crime, I have to do the time, right?


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[Assistant] Help myself to the food in your refrigerator. Watch that TV.


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[Assistant] Sleep in your bed, whatever, in so many states around the country.


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[Assistant] I have not committed a crime. It is considered to be a civil problem.


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[Assistant] The owner of the house has to go.


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[Assistant] To court and try to get you evicted from the home that could take months as has happened with these ugly celebrated cases around the country.


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[Assistant] And, uh, you know, there was the one in California with Airbnb, I'm going to talk about that in a second, where somebody moved into an Airbnb for a three day stay and stayed, I think, two years.


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[Assistant] And this is so in the news of the weird couple of things. One, it's not like this is going to happen to all of us. It's not even going to happen to


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[Assistant] A meaningful percent of us. But when it happens to you...


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[Assistant] And you have worked hard to buy this home and suddenly you can't live in your own home because somebody else invited themselves in is living in that home. This is just absolutely atrocious.


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[Assistant] Convince the local government, convince lenders that they're the rightful owner of the house instead of you, and they take ownership of the home, they borrow money against the home, and that has many different layers where someone's just trying to commit financial fraud and grab money against a paid off home.


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[Assistant] Or they want to go further and they want to steal the home. The second case we had


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[Assistant] In the last couple of weeks, the one two weeks ago was one where someone did that. They committed fraud and they took out debt against the home and they took control of the home and the people who had owned the home.


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[Assistant] All the, the uhm, police would do is evict the actual real homeowners.


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[Assistant] Most of the time this occurs with vacant homes and particularly a situation where, uh, maybe an aging relative has gone into assisted living.


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[Assistant] And I want you to know if you are the adult children of an aging parent who goes into, uh, assisted living or who does pass away and you now have the responsibility of the house,


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[Assistant] You want to get that house occupied. You don't want it sitting vacant because you're creating the possibility of a squatter taking possession.


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[Assistant] When that house is sitting empty, believe it or not, there are people who are watching the obits and then they're trying to figure out.


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[Assistant] If there's a house owned there that is sitting empty that they can help themselves to.


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[Assistant] Having the property loved and rented out, at least in the interim.


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[Assistant] Is a really wise thing. Having cameras on location.


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[Assistant] To make sure nothing crazy is going on there is a great idea with any vacant home.