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[Assistant] She hasn't got all of anything. I must not deprive her of her time.


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[Assistant] I soak myself, use the scrub brush, and the piece of pumice for sanding off dead skin. Such Puritan aids are supplied.


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[Assistant] I wish to be totally clean, shirmless, without bacteria, like the surface of the moon. I will not be able to wash myself this evening, not afterwards. Not for a day. It interferes, they say. Why take chances?


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[Assistant] I cannot avoid seeing now the small tattoo on my ankle. Four digits and an eye.


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[Assistant] A passport in reverse. It's supposed to guarantee that I will never be able to fade, finally into another landscape. I am too important, too scarce for that. I am a national resource.


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[Assistant] I pull the plug, dry myself, put on my red terrycloth robe.


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[Assistant] Cora brings my supper covered on a tray. She knocks at the door before entering. I like her for that. It means she thinks I have some of what we used to call privacy left. Thank you, I say, taking the tray from her.


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[Assistant] I put the tray on the small white painted table and draw the chair up to it. I take the cover off the tray. The thigh of a chicken over cooked. It's better than bloody, which is the other way she does it. Rita has ways of making her resentment felt. A baked potato, green beans, salad, canned pears for dessert. It's good enough food, though bland. Healthy food.


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[Assistant] You have to get your vitamins and minerals, said Aunt Lydia, coyly. You must be a worthy vessel. No coffee or tea, though. No alcohol. Studies have been done. There's a paper napkin, as in cafeterias. I think of the others. Those without. This is the heartland, here. I'm leading a pampered life.


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[Assistant] But there's no place to put the food, no potted plants and I won't chance the toilet.


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[Assistant] Could I leave it on the plate? Ask Quora not to report me? I chew and swallow, chew and swallow, feeling the sweat come out.


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[Assistant] In my stomach, the food balls itself together, a handful of damp cardboard squeezed. Downstairs in the dining room, there will be candles on the large mahogany table, a white cloth, silver, flowers, wine glasses with wine in them. There will be the click of knives against China, a clink as she sets down her fork with a barely audible sigh, leaving half the contents of her plate untouched.


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[Assistant] Possibly she will say she has no appetite. Possibly she won't say anything. If she says something, does he comment? If she doesn't say anything, does he notice? I wonder how she manages to get herself noticed. I think it must be hard.


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[Assistant] I tear off a corner of the paper napkin, wrap the butter in it.


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[Assistant] Take it to the cupboard and slip it into the toe of my right shoe from the extra pair as I have done before. I crumple up the rest of the napkin. No one surely will bother to smooth it out to check if any is missing. I will use the butter later tonight. It would not do this evening to smell of butter.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have like a personal life section.


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[Assistant] I can bench test it and play with it kind of setup. So you've got some push fit coming in and then, um, just switched a few parts around and then we have water going out to the machine. So this would be our next challenge, which is the quick connector that used to run to a pump.


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[Assistant] That I have long since lost. So I'm just going to cut this off and then just hardwire it into the old Seneso pump instead. And that should be good to go.


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[Assistant] Okay, so everything is run from this thing here and this thing activates these two little switches here. When you first push, you'll activate this switch and all it does is essentially start pre-infusion.


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[Assistant] By opening the group head solenoid, which is sort of over here, uh, it's hard to see. That will allow any line pressure


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[Assistant] Pump goes on. So you have to hold it down to make the pump run. So you hold it down the whole shot. So that's what's going on.


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[Assistant] Here. Now this is an old E61 style thing here. So what you've got is one tube coming out of the top of the heat exchanger running along into the back of the group head there. And then a tube underneath it running down and all the way down back into the bottom of the boiler, the heat exchanger. Now that


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[Assistant] Is a thermosiphon. So that hot water can also be drawn off here to go through the little, uh, switch here heading to the group head to make coffee.


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[Assistant] So these things are kind of stable-ish, but you often need to flush them to sort of stabilize that temperature. It's called temperature surfing.


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[Assistant] And, and dual boiler machines now don't really need that. You can see our steam pressure there. That's basically what controls the whole machine. It's not the most, uh, accurate way.


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[Assistant] To do temperature, but it's, it's a thing that works. You've got, uh, essentially a relay controlling the power going to the element from the thermostat. And then you've got power going to either the pump or to a solenoid valve to open and close it.


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[Assistant] Whenever I need to build a website by a domain, I use Squarespace. Whether it's a website to showcase the World Atlas of Coffee, or a portfolio for me to share what it is that I do for a living, Squarespace is fantastic software to build that website with. Their fantastic templates cover a whole range of needs that you might have for a website.


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[Assistant] It might be like me that you're showcasing a portfolio, but it might be that you want to build a website for your cafe or your restaurant.


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[Assistant] That was one of the articles. The other one was on how it makes lobbying easier at scale. He pointed out the things that lobbyists do and how time consuming that is and how


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[Assistant] So that's my knowledge of the subject and those seem like real risks.


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[Assistant] Right, but there are things that we are happy to see be inefficient, like retail theft. We don't want that to be a hundred times easier.


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[Assistant] Uh, in fact, lobbying has, has great value, but we, we put up with it because it's at a manageable scale. But what if the influence was, you know, a hundred times more efficient? That might not be something that we would want to see. That's the point he's making. These things never occurred to me.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's not put out the, make the next generation available until we have a handle on how to deal with the risks. That's my understanding of the intent of the letter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've been asked to sign these letters too, where I have no particular expertise and, and I simply said no, but a lot of people would.


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[Assistant] We're just sign on because, you know, it's like people who sign petitions, I guess.


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[Assistant] But there are some very serious thinkers on that list, and uh, so it's worth thinking about, worth this discussion.


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[Assistant] I've read about that. I know the physics behind it. Uhm, it was deemed highly unlikely.


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[Assistant] Uhm, articles, you know, newspaper-level articles, not technical articles, on, on various, uh, risks, the two that Schneier pointed out, uhm,


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[Assistant] There's, there's other risks in terms of uhm, uh, what's it, what's it gonna do, the job market that people are worried about. Uh, my son has a job that might be doable, might be doable.


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[Assistant] By, uh, by one of these, uh, AI systems and, uh, uh, do we want to, uh, uh, just dive in or do we want to stop and think?


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[Assistant] I don't buy that big a number because we don't have sufficient information yet.


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[Assistant] But, uh, in fact, I just, I just had to do a stock transaction and it was complicated. So I spoke to a representative there and at the end I said, thank you. You're much more helpful than chat GPT. I think there'll still be a need for people. The question is, uh, what will the transition look like?


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[Assistant] Well, there's two problems that I see. When it first came out, I was concerned about my son's job. He writes articles for the Santa Clara University website about the athletic teams.


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[Assistant] Uh, experimenting with it. And now I find that often I can get the answer faster from, from chat GPT than I can from Google.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so uhm, and I'm asking questions about code, so I know right away if it's right or wrong, but, uh, uh, but, uh, yeaah, so.


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[Assistant] But releasing the newer, the newer systems to the public is the thing I think I might want to wait on.


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[Assistant] Well, the first one was the chat engine that people train, you know, all of a sudden it was talking, uh, uh, anti-semitic and racist comments and, you know.


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[Assistant] It was awful, and they took that down right away.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and well, to answer, to do searches.


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[Assistant] And, uh, didn't work well, didn't work well. It had the hallucination problem. So, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] My answer is just because somebody is smart in one field doesn't mean they're smart in another one. So I'm taking those with a grain of salt. I want to know what their AI drops are before I...


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[Assistant] Uh, to the world, I mean, I'm finding myself more efficient because of it.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, this, the American astronomical journals are all open access now, so that may not be an issue for them.


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[Assistant] There must be a threshold then that the Copyright Office is using that I haven't heard articulated.


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[Assistant] I'm not in favor of, uh, pausing research, commercial and academic research.


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[Assistant] The commercialization, the opening up of it to the general, the general use. I think that's that's more what I think we should be doing.


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[Assistant] You know, uhm, opening up, uh, certain biological research that we think would be beneficial long-term, but


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[Assistant] We always handed out to small groups and told them, here's, here's how you can use it and here's how you can't. So for example,


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[Assistant] That was a, that was a big deal, but four was used by modest-sized audiences for months. And what they're saying now is let's, let's do five, finish it, you know, get it out there, but to,


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[Assistant] But I'm not in favor of slowing the research. I think the research has to go on because that's how we're going to know the best and the worst of it.


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[Assistant] Well, up to your funding depends on your, your proposal. Proposal, do you mean? Go ahead.


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[Assistant] I have a friend who wrote a science fiction novel about CRISPR technology run amok and being stolen by evil people.


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[Assistant] Uh, the virus research and pathogen research. But again, I, you said to slow down the research. I don't mind the research.


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[Assistant] And that's the one that, that's the part that worries me. I, I have less trouble with the research proceeding, uhm, because I think we will learn what the good parts are as well.


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[Assistant] I participate a bit in the Foresight Institute and they have people worried about AGI, artificial general intelligence.


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[Assistant] Rather than a negative influence over the AI winter, the AGI winter, they think it will be expanding human capacity and they're working on ways to make that happen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, that's pretty practical though with it. Yeah, so.


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[Assistant] But in overall, you know, like any new technology, there's a period of disruption and at the end, the world is better off.


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[Assistant] And that's their, that's my impression of their view. And they're trying to make work to make sure that that happens, that it doesn't become a problem. And so that's, that's the kind of thing they're working on.


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[Assistant] And, and this was a whole chapter in the book. And the point was, his view was we choose to do things because of emotion. And if robots don't have emotion,


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[Assistant] A lot of work on the numerical methods that they use inside of these things. I've never done the AI itself, but I've developed the algorithms that they use inside of them.


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[Assistant] And uh, explainable AI is going to be really tough.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, uh, again in Pinker's book, one of his conclusions was that in order to understand our human brain, we need something more than a human brain.


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[Assistant] And in order to understand our AI systems, we need something more than the AI systems. And, uh, uh, so.


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[Assistant] To say that that we will never be able to explain the AI, I expect that something of the complexity of chat GPT will be able to explain the decisions of a very small AI system, a hundred neuron system. I think that's entirely possible. We don't know how to do it yet, but I think it's entirely possible. But will the largest


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[Assistant] AI systems be able to explain themselves? That, I have doubts.


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[Assistant] You said something very interesting, that perhaps the answer to explainable AI.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it has to be designed together. We have plenty of examples of things that are impossible if they're designed separately.


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[Assistant] And, uh, relatively straightforward if we design them together. Now I don't know the research, so I don't know if anybody is doing that. What I, the talks I've heard on explainable AI don't sound too promising to me.


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[Assistant] Uh, one project we had, I was working for IBM at the time and this was in the late 80s. There were


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[Assistant] There were people at Stanford, I can't remember the person, the professor who was leading the effort, but uhm, they developed a discipline for extracting from them how they solve these very hard problems. Uhm, and perhaps,


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[Assistant] That's something that we could use, uh, with these AI systems to learn how they reached a certain decision. Uhm, so maybe that's an area of research that hadn't occurred to me before, but, uh, we had to do it with humans. Humans were solving very complex problems and couldn't explain how.


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[Assistant] And AI is solving very complex problems and can't explain how, so maybe we need this discipline of knowledge engineering applied to the AI. Uhm, I'm gonna have to go.


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[Assistant] Was taken by a guardian, one of those with the red armbands who are in charge of such things. We rode in a red car, him in the front, me in the back.


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[Assistant] No twin went with me. On these occasions I'm solitaire.


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[Assistant] I'm taken to the doctor's once a month for tests. Urine, hormones, cancer smear, blood test. The same as before, except that now it's obligatory. The doctor's office is in a modern office building. We ride up in the elevator silently, the guardian facing me.


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[Assistant] In the black mirror wall of the elevator I can see the back of his head. At the office itself I go in.


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[Assistant] He waits outside in the hall with the other guardians on one of the chairs placed there for that purpose. Inside the waiting room there are other women, three of them, in red. This doctor is a specialist.


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[Assistant] Covertly we regard each other, sizing up each other's bellies. Is anyone lucky?


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[Assistant] The nurse records our names and the numbers from our passes on the CompuDoc to see if we are who we are supposed to be.


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[Assistant] He's six feet tall, about forty, a diagonal scar across his cheek. He sits typing, his hands too big for the keyboard, still wearing his pistol in the shoulder holster.


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[Assistant] When I'm called, I go through the doorway into the inner room. It's white. Featureless. Like the outer one. Except for a folding screen. Red cloth, stretched on a frame. A gold eye painted on it. With a snake twine sword upright beneath it. Like a sort of handle.


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[Assistant] I take off my clothes behind the screen and leave them folded on the chair. When I'm naked, I lie down on the examining table.


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[Assistant] When I'm arranged, I reach my hand out, fumble for the small lever at the right side of the table, pull it back.


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[Assistant] Somewhere else a bell rings, unheard by me. After a minute the door opens, footsteps come in, there is breathing. He isn't supposed to speak to me except when it's absolutely necessary. But this doctor is talkative.


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[Assistant] How are we getting along, he says. Some tick of speech from the other time.


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[Assistant] The sheet is lifted from my skin. A draft pimples me.


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[Assistant] I almost gasp. He said a forbidden word. Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore. Not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren. That's the law. Lots of women do it, he goes on. You want a baby, don't you? Yes, I say. It's true. And I don't ask why.


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[Assistant] Because I know, give me children or else I die. There's more than one meaning to it.


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[Assistant] It's too dangerous, I say. No. I can't.


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[Assistant] The penalty is death, but they have to catch you in the act with two witnesses. What are the odds? Is the room bugged? Who's waiting just outside the door? His hand stops. Think about it, he says. I've seen your chart. You don't have a lot of time left, but it's your life. Thank you, I say. I must leave the impression that I'm not offended.


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[Assistant] I've crossed no boundaries, I've given no trust, taken no risk, all is safe.


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[Assistant] I was delighted to see my old friend Bessie again. She had married Robert the Coachman and was very busy with her three young children. The house itself had not changed at all, but my cousin certainly had. Eliza was now very tall and thin.


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[Assistant] With a rather sour face, dressed in very plain clothes and with a cross hanging round her neck.


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[Assistant] Georgiana, on the other hand, was still pretty, but very fat, and wore extremely fashionable clothes. They did not seem pleased to see me. In fact, they more or less ignored me, but I hardly noticed their rudeness.


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[Assistant] I told the housekeeper that I would be staying for several days and then went straight to my aunt's room. I remembered it well from my childhood. I had often been called there to be punished. Bending over her bed, I kissed her. How are you, dear aunt? I asked. I had sworn never to call her aunt again, but I did not regret breaking that promise to myself. I held her hand. Are you Jane Eyre? She asked.


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[Assistant] Her face, although deathly pale, was as stern as ever, and she removed her hand from mine. That child was more trouble to me than anyone would believe. I was glad to send her to Lowood. And John. Poor John. He needs so much money. Where can I get more money from? What will happen? She seemed very confused and excited, so I left her to sleep.


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[Assistant] I have been very much enjoying Owen Brown's stuff.


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[Assistant] Do you know Owen Brown? Who's Owen Brown? Owen Brown is the Celtic correspondent for the Athletic, and I always make sure that I keep up with his column because he's writing about Andrew Poster Coghlu, my great love, so I've been keeping up with him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so in 18-19, I believe that Liverpool were seven points ahead of Manchester City and then ended up runners up in that season, so.


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[Assistant] It has happened, but I don't- It can and has happened. Yes. Uhm, but the big thing here I think is that this is about rates of changes and it's not about-


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[Assistant] Points total per se, cause it's, you can say, you know, a few wins one way, and wins the other way, and before we know it, everything's narrowed up, and that can happen.


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[Assistant] Uh, but it's so unlikely for those sorts of things to happen unless one of the teams really drops off. So I tweeted out yesterday about how I said last week on the podcast that I think Manchester City are the best team in the Premier League, but on the basis of the way that Arsenal have been playing in the first half of the season, they have very well deserved, you know, title, title challenges.


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[Assistant] And I think that I said on the back of the first half of the season, they would very much be deserving of the Premier League. And a lot of people said, wow, you don't win the Premier League in half a season. Did they say it in that voice? Yeah, they did. They used that special font on Twitter. The most annoying voice.


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[Assistant] But the point I was making is that if Arsenal continue at this level that they've played in the first half, and Manchester City improve a lot,


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[Assistant] Then Arsenal could still win the league, just continuing to be as consistent as they've been because an eight point gap is a massive one to overcome. If Arsenal manage to draw one of those games against Manchester City, then.


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[Assistant] You know, it really impacts their ability to, to start, to start, um, narrowing that gap. And the other thing to say is that, like we talk about Arsenal playing Man City, playing Manchester United, the issue with Man City this season has been that they haven't been getting points.


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[Assistant] in all of their games against weaker opponents and, and they're the ones who look more flaky in that respect than I would say Arsenal and Manchester United for that matter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think that's a real testament to the system itself, right? We've talked about the system a lot and it's easy when you have a season like Arsenal have had this season and they've brought in players like Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus to be


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[Assistant] Entirely in that mindset right where, oh, these are the players who've made them better.


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[Assistant] You know, there's a, there's an extent to which that's obviously true. Gabriel Jesus is a really, really elite striker and plays in a really unique way. Zinchenko gives them the ability to have a, a fullback who can invert. Um, and you know, that's, it's that sort of flexibility. We talked about this all season long. That's what's made Arsenal so dangerous. Um, but it is worth saying that, you know, this system.


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[Assistant] Arsenal have improved in the system. It's taken them a long time to get this good. We spent a lot of.


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[Assistant] I spent a lot of time doubting whether or not Arteta could achieve that, and then he's gone and done it. And I think it's worth recognising that the system does bring out the best in players. So even players like Gabriel Martinelli, last season people saying, oh, is there weaknesses in his game? This season people are really liking him.


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[Assistant] Um, and I think that again, that's that all of this, all of these kinds of things, when it's happening with a lot of players, it's probably a system thing rather than just, um, individuals getting, getting better as well. And I think we're seeing that with, with Eddie and Ketia. The system is there. Everyone knows what to do. He knows his role and it makes everything so much easier when you're, you're playing in that kind of setup. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and he is doing a lot of the things that we talk about, Gabriel Jesus being good at, which may be a little bit more unusual. So he can drop in and help out. He's been, I think he's been really good in the, in the holdup.


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[Assistant] Chance in the game yesterday when, uhm, when Jaka clipped the ball through and he was just perfectly in space, didn't get the finish off.


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[Assistant] Took, took maybe not the best touch, but like, he's there and you know, you, that, as we always say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the general tenor of Arsenal games this season has been that Arsenal come out quite aggressively in the first half.


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[Assistant] Uh, and they press high as well to sort of match that as well. And there's, we've talked a lot about how in the first 30 minutes, they're, they're scoring more than they're conceding. And that's a pretty good- Talk about it more. Rest of me for- Don't leave it out. Yes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and this game followed that, that, that sort of timeline, right? They came out, they were aggressive in the first half, they went 2-0 up.


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[Assistant] Uh, XG models on this one, but uhm, I think most of them had Arsenal generating more expected goals. Now, we need to talk about game state because Arsenal were in a position where there were two goals up.


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[Assistant] Um, at halftime and they could afford to, to, to drop off the, the intensity, especially in the higher areas and allow Spurs to come forward. And Spurs, as we know, are generally more intense in the second half of games as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think with a two goal buffer as well, Arsenal might be happier being a little bit more passive because, you know, they've, they've got that, um, ability to, they've got that two goal cushion to play with.


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[Assistant] I think so, yeaah. But I guess to come back to the game state thing, you can rack up a load of expected goals at a 2-0 game state when you're, when you're, when you're 2-0 up. And I think that looks slightly different to racking up, you know, a load of XG if you're 0-0, right? So it's worth saying that.


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[Assistant] I think that it's, I mean it's partly that, but I also think that a lot of it comes down to the league and it comes down to what we're talking about in terms of pressing. So we talked about how when Arsenal came


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[Assistant] Out in the first half they were pressing really high aggressively. And it just, it means that you can really stop Spurs from getting the ball into those areas, namely Kulasevski, where they're getting a huge amount of really like incisive progression.


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[Assistant] If you can stop them doing that, then Spurs don't have anything. So they generated very little in the first half. They were kicked. I mean, the second goal comes from a kick from the goalkeeper, I think, which Harry Kane challenges for Arsenal win, and then the ball comes back and Arsenal, obviously it's a really nice goal from Erdogor, but it's from


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[Assistant] Basically Arsenal being able to make sure that Spurs can only get the ball into those advanced areas in really inefficient ways and then they capitalise on that. In the second half, Arsenal's press drops off a little bit and then suddenly Spurs are able to get the ball in much more efficient and effective ways to Kulasevski and that's when the problems start emerging and I think


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[Assistant] Flipping that on its head, I think the issue that Spurs have is that they're similar to Arsenal in that they've...


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[Assistant] The issue for me is more that he needs to have some kind of middle ground where, where


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[Assistant] The game isn't just simply losing control, or is not losing control of the game, so I think-


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[Assistant] Yeah, a mid-block is, I think, is the way to go here. There's certain teams, like Fulham for example, a great example of a team who are able to mid-block really well, and it allows them to control the games


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[Assistant] Enough for them to get upside when they need it and then to not lose control when they don't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was just going to say with Kante then, it feels to me like because in the Premier League, the out of possession stuff is so...


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[Assistant] Uhm, is, is so good for the opposition. You really have to be able to control games against everyone. Even the teams at the bottom are able to control games. And so we've seen, we've seen spurs move from this sort of situation where they want to be low block and counter, but then teams are able to actually


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[Assistant] Stop them from scoring in those, in those ways. And so it's only when Spurs are coming out in the second half, when they're down goals, then sort of really going aggressive, um, that they're, that they're able to turn things around. So I think with, with Conte, I think maybe his style of play doesn't quite have so much upside in one, the modern game, but two, maybe the premier league.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Hugo Ruiz is making lots of mistakes nowadays, and it's hurting Spurs. It's hurting them. I'm not a goalkeeper expert, but I know that what he did yesterday probably didn't help them. Yeah, probably bad.


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[Assistant] Yes. I, I mean, the thing with Rhys has been that he's always been a good shot stopper, right? One of the best in the world. And there have been deficiencies to the rest of his game, which I think have been...


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[Assistant] Okay to deal with as long as you're in a situation where you're getting that upside from shot stopping and at the moment you're not getting that upside from shot stopping as much. We're certainly getting more handling errors, et cetera. And so, you know, it comes a point where you kind of think bring in a different keeper and you're going to solve a lot of problems here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were mentioning on their coverage that the rule had been changed. I actually tried to find out when the rule had been changed and what the rule change was. But when you actually look at the offside rule as the FA define it, there's a number of bullet points that describe when a player is interfering with play.


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[Assistant] In an offside position. And the problem is, is that it actually sounds as though a couple of those bullet points refer to things that look very similar to what


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[Assistant] Uhm, which, which he seemed to think was, well, obviously this is, this is an example of that. But again, you're in a situation now where, uhm, the, the interpretation of that seems different depending on what, because as we talked about it before,


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[Assistant] Everything that Marcus Rashford does changes the way that the opposition behave and therefore theoretically could impact the way that they're going to touch the ball.


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[Assistant] I think the problem is that in the laws of the game you have all of this specific wording, right, using the phrase interfering with play and people then start arguing like the ins and outs of what interfering with play means but if you ask most people


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[Assistant] How's, have Manchester United benefited from having someone in an offside position there?


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[Assistant] You have to say yes, which raises the question of whether or not the rules are up to scrutiny. But this has always been the way, the rules always do reveal themselves to be vague and there's been no better age than the age of VAR for people to start realising actually maybe some of the rules that we have aren't really fit for purpose.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't know if I'd agree with that. You don't agree with that?


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[Assistant] I think viewing that game from a timeline position, so in the first half I think


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[Assistant] Manchester, Manchester United were very good at stopping Manchester City from doing what they wanted to do. Uhm, what they did, as JJ said, was that they kept the middle really compact, they marked player for player in the middle, and they allowed space in the wide areas for Manchester City to exploit. Manchester City played with a flat back four, uhm, so they were trying to get their full backs into that space.


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[Assistant] And ironically it didn't really work because actually I think Manchester City's best attacks come when they're able to exploit that space in the middle. So what happened in the second half, as JJ said, you started seeing Man City's fullbacks inverting.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and weirdly, by making the centre even more congested,


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[Assistant] What, what actually happened was it allowed Manchester City to have more space because they started doing what you need to do in man-marking situations which is


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[Assistant] And, and pulling, I think especially when you, when you create space in the wide areas by making your full backs really narrow, you can go direct to the wide players who can drop in. That pulls one of the full backs out of position. And because Manchester United wanted to be really strict at the back.


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[Assistant] As you say, uhm, there was a tempo shift from Manchester United, I think, with


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[Assistant] Um, 20, 20 minutes ago, they shifted, I think Anthony came on as a 9 weirdly early on and I think the idea then was to


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think the idea was that they wanted to go quite intense at this, at the Man City back line, because Manchester City were going to try and control the game from the back a little bit more. They switched that with 20 minutes ago moving Anthony out wide and that made their press a lot more dangerous, I thought, in the forward area. But I think everything


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[Assistant] Really, really fun team. And in the video I talk a lot about how what they're doing is they're trying to develop these artificial transitions, so.


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[Assistant] Usually when you're doing transition football, you're sitting deep absorbing pressure, giving the opposition like plenty of the ball and then just trying to hit them on the break. Uh, obviously comes with a bit of a risk. And so what we're seeing with derby is like this hybrid system where rather than allowing the opposition to dictate the play, you hold the ball as much as you can and then try and generate these artificial


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[Assistant] Super fun to, to watch because of that, that tempo change and you, I think players, particularly Karu Matoma, uhm, on the, on the left hand side they've got at the moment. Just a really, really fun transitional dribbler.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and yeaah, and their central midfield is in Kaiseidou and Pascal Grosso, the board's moving into that area and then this really explosive, like,


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[Assistant] Transitional football getting in behind and generating chances and they absolutely, yeaah, absolutely killed Liverpool on the transition so many times.


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[Assistant] So, it's almost impossible to say anything.


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[Assistant] I think so. And there's lots of videos of players being hounded in their cars. I saw Anthony Gordon being chased down the street by, by disgruntled fans. Right. Uh, but yeah, Everton in a mess, right? On the field, off the field, everywhere.


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[Assistant] I uhm, spent a portion of my weekend on transfer marked. What I was looking at was the transfer expenditure for teams at the bottom of the table in the Premier League.


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[Assistant] I think what's so interesting about the Premier League now is two things. One of the things is that it's the richest league in the world. So pretty much all of these teams have spent


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[Assistant] Well, it was euros in the, in the transfer window in the, in the current season, which is a lot of money. Some of those teams haven't even needed to say, for example, Brentford, a team who are well known for just being really smart in the expenditure. I think they've spent 120 million, but they haven't.


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[Assistant] I think that the result of that is that we've got a very homogenous sort of bottom half of the table where there's a huge amount of talent but you can actually get a long way by just being a super solid defensive team and not really giving much up.


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[Assistant] The teams in 6th, 7th and 8th right now in the Premier League are full of Brighton and Bramford who all have decent managers. So, I agree with you, once it gets to the final round.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Juventus came into this game on a bit of a hot run. So a lot of people were saying, oh, is this, you know, are Juventus inevitable? Is this going to be them coming good again, putting the title challenge really front and centre in Italy. But yeah, it didn't happen that way.


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[Assistant] Juventus again, and we're talking about a lot of clubs who are sort of, uh, have a messy context, both on and off the field. And Juventus is very much in that, in that ballpark at the moment as well. Um, allegedly wanting to.


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[Assistant] It's an interesting situation that Allegri sort of turned things around for them very much because they were mid-table early on in the season and they were pushed right the way up, but this game very much nailing


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[Assistant] I don't think that a lot of people were doubting that, um, because I think a lot of the games that you've been winning recently have been sort of


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[Assistant] Close 1-0 wins and not necessarily the most impressive performances but, uhm, yeaah, Napoli just came out and did what Napoli do in this game and, uh, and Juventus couldn't keep up at all. And what Napoli are doing is, there's been lots of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Quotes going around from Luciano Spalletti, the coach of Napoli, talking about how modern football doesn't use structure anymore and talking about how it's all about exploiting space in a much more fluid way. And this is what Napoli were doing. What I've noticed from them in the games that I've watched of them recently, just really, really quick.


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[Assistant] One touch passing, moving the ball around, really not letting defenses settle and, and playing the ball around until they can find those gaps in, in, uhm, particularly advanced areas. And they've got Victor Osserman, who we've talked about a lot in the context of.


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[Assistant] Rangers haven't had a penalty in something like 39 games or something. Is that right? Just putting that one out.


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[Assistant] The last week of Golden Girls, actually thinking about it, was fairly emotional. Knowing that Bea Arthur was leaving, knowing that the show was not gonna be, uh, the same and not really sure what it was gonna be.


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[Assistant] I think CBS wanted something a little bit different in that they weren't taking a show that was seven years old. This was going to be hopefully new enough and different enough that we would have another seven years.


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[Assistant] There was something about them not being in the house anymore, not being the same dynamic anymore, that was different. So even though, uh, same writers, almost all the same actors, it was different.


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[Assistant] And I always remember Harold, oh he's such a lovely actor. He had this beautiful white mustache. So whenever we had to kiss, I would go in before the scene, put lipstick on and then powder it down to the point of no return so I wouldn't get that beautiful white mustache in trouble.


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[Assistant] We weren't ever out of the top ten in the first maybe five years of the show. That is something that you just make your heart beat. You never take it for granted. It makes your heart beat faster. You kept thinking, oh, don't pop the balloon. It's just too good. So we kept everything crossed.


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[Assistant] You know, I really believe, you don't know until you test it, but I think I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon.


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[Assistant] It all depends on what you call wonderful.


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[Assistant] Still, it'll save a man from freezing to death or dying from fatigue, it could. Alright, alright, drink it yourself.


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[Assistant] Oh, anything you have a mind for me to do so. I can cook clean, take care of my clothes, anything at all at all. What would one call you? Well, you might call me Horace. I've always had a fancy to be called Horace.


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[Assistant] He's more than that. He's a life indeed. When a man enters the personal services of another man...


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[Assistant] The spectator is calling in all its foreign bureau chiefs, you know, consultation. You live here, Fitz?


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[Assistant] As a creator, as an entrepreneur of color, just seeing this movie made me realize that our stories need to be told. There's so many of us out here who are trying to create great things and I was just so inspired as someone who wants to make movies one day and wants to inspire people that art can really change the world.


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[Assistant] She examined me closely, as if to discover the reason for this strange event, and shook her head still puzzled. He's twenty years older than you! He could be your father!


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[Assistant] No, indeed Mrs Fairfax, I replied crossly. He looks much younger than that. Is he really going to marry you for love? She asked.


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[Assistant] No, no, Miss Eyre, but you must realise that this is a very unusual situation. You must be careful of your reputation. I advise you to keep him at a distance until you are married.


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[Assistant] Although I was upset by the old lady's words, I followed her advice.


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[Assistant] And in the weeks before the wedding, I went on teaching Adele as usual.


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[Assistant] Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr. Rochester.


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[Assistant] And I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me.


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[Assistant] Sometimes he was angry with me and called me a hard little thing or a cruel spirit. But I preferred that to being called my darling.


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[Assistant] I saw that Mrs Fairfax approved of my correct behavior, and I knew that he respected me for it. But it was not easy for me. I would rather have shown him my love. My future husband was becoming my whole world, and more than that, my hope of heaven.


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[Assistant] Many people neglect this most important communication skill.


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[Assistant] Do you know that we spend an average of our waking day communicating? Of this communication time, 9% is spent writing.


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[Assistant] Within two to eight weeks, we can recall only 25% or less of the original message. Our mental attitudes reduce our ability to retain what we hear.


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[Assistant] Some suggestions to being a good listener are mentioned below.


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[Assistant] First of all, stop talking. You can't listen while you are talking.


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[Assistant] Concentrate on what they are saying. Actively focus your attention on their words, their ideas, and their feelings as they relate to the subject. Look at the prospect. By looking, it gives them confidence that you are, in fact, listening. It helps you to concentrate too. Leave your emotions behind.


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[Assistant] Try to forget your own worries and problems. Leave them outside of the meeting room. They will prevent you from listening well. Understand the main points. Concentrate on the main ideas and not the illustrative material.


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[Assistant] Don't argue mentally. When you are trying to understand people, it is a handicap to argue with them mentally as they are speaking. This only sets up a barrier between yourself and the speaker.


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[Assistant] Learn to listen and you will achieve a great success in your life.


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[Assistant] I need my honey loquat. Donald Trump is already floating the conspiracy theory that the election might be rigged. And who knows? He could be right.


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[Assistant] Cause I heard that millions of Americans are planning to use a secret ballot.


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[Assistant] There are all kinds of conspiracy theories shaking up the alt darknet.


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[Assistant] Like Hillary Clinton's secret illness, which was proven last night by noted medical expert Karl Rove's face.


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[Assistant] Causing her vertical blindness in one eye. And uncontrollable giggles evidently.


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[Assistant] Now Hillary's Clinton has got to be true. Karl Rove wrote it on whiteboards.


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[Assistant] There are so many things that the puppet masters of politics don't want us to know. And tonight, I'm gonna shine a light on them in my new segment, The Late Show Presents Stephen Colbert's Tinfoil Hatch.


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[Assistant] Keeping government signals out of your brain since 1999. Welcome


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[Assistant] Now, Hillary Clinton supporters.


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[Assistant] Say Secretary Clinton is not ill. Oh really? Then why is it right in her name?


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[Assistant] It's a distraction from the real question. How come?


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[Assistant] Only one type of dog is allowed to be a fireman.


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[Assistant] Is China genetically engineering super smart babies? How else can you explain the fact that by the time they're three, they can all speak Chinese?


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[Assistant] I want you to consider the very real possibility that all Jason Bourne movies are the same movie.


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[Assistant] And they just erase our memories each time. How else could I do this?


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[Assistant] It has not escaped my notice that bowling balls and electrical outlets both have three holes.


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[Assistant] But for some reason you're not supposed to put your fingers in one of them. Or your penis in either of them.


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[Assistant] And what is the Hidden Valley Ranch hiding?


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[Assistant] Now let me just, there's more, let me just check my notes here. Let me just check my notes. Here we go, here we go. Oh yes.


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[Assistant] The so-called, the so-called New Testament is actually quite old.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of powerful people who don't want us to know things, but rest assured, you can always trust me because I can't be bought by some faceless corporate entity. And now a word from our sponsors.


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[Assistant] The good weather holds. It's almost like June, when we would get out our sundresses and our sandals and go for an ice cream cone. There are three new bodies on the wall. One is a priest, still wearing the black cassock. That's been put on him for the trial, even though they gave up wearing those years ago, when the sect wars first began. Cassocks made them too conspicuous.


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[Assistant] The two others have purple placards hung around their necks. Gender treachery. Their bodies still wear the Guardian uniforms. Caught together, they must have been. But where? A barracks? A shower? It's hard to say. The snowman with the red smile is gone. We should go back, I say to Avglen. I'm always the one to say this.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I feel that if I didn't say it, she would stay here forever. But is she mourning? Or gloating? I still can't tell.


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[Assistant] I feel rather than see her head turn towards me, waiting for a reply. Yes, I say. Praise be, I add as an afterthought. Mayday used to be a distress signal a long time ago, in one of those wars we studied in high school.


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[Assistant] I kept getting them mixed up, but you could tell them apart by the airplanes if you paid attention. It was Luke who told me about Mayday though. Mayday, Mayday, her pilots whose planes had been hit and ships. Was it ships too? At sea. Maybe it was SOS for ships. I wish I could look it up. It was something from Beethoven for the beginning of the victory in one of those wars.


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[Assistant] Coming towards us, there's a small procession, a funeral. Three women, each with a black transparent veil thrown over her headdress. An ikano wife and two others, the mourners. Also ikano wives. Her friends, perhaps.


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[Assistant] Their striped dresses are worn looking, as are their faces. Someday, when times improve, says Aunt Lydia, no one will have to be an Akana wife. The first one is the bereaved, the mother. She carries a small black jar.


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[Assistant] From the size of the char, you can tell how old it was when it foundered, inside her, flowed to its death. Two or three months?


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[Assistant] Too young to tell whether or not it was an unbaby.


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[Assistant] We pause, out of respect, while they go by. I wonder if Ofglen feels what I do. A pain like a stab in the belly.


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[Assistant] We put our hands over our hearts to show these stranger women that we feel with them in their loss. Beneath her veil, the first one scowls at us. One of the others turns aside, spits on the sidewalk. Ikana wives do not like us.


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[Assistant] We go past the shops and come to the barrier again and are passed through. We continue on among the large empty looking houses, the wheatless lawns.


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[Assistant] She's like my own reflection in a mirror from which I am moving away. In the driveway, Nick is polishing the whirlwind again. He's reached the chrome at the back.


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[Assistant] I put my gloved hand on the latch of the gate, open it, push inward. The gate clicks behind me.


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[Assistant] The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups but chalices, thrusting themselves up. To what end? They are, after all, empty.


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[Assistant] When they are old, they turn themselves inside out, then explode slowly, the petals thrown out like shards. Nick looks up and begins to whistle. Then he says, nice walk. I nod, but do not answer with my voice.


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[Assistant] Isn't supposed to speak to me. Of course, some of them will try, said Aunt Lydia. All flesh is weak. All flesh is grass, I corrected her in my head. They can't help it, she said. God made them that way, but he did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries. Later you will be thanked.


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[Assistant] In the garden behind the house, the commander's wife is sitting in the chair she's had brought out. Serena Joy.


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[Assistant] What a stupid name. It's like something you'd put on your hair. In the other time, the time before. To straighten it.


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[Assistant] Serena Joy, it would say on the bottle, with a woman's head in cut paper silhouette on a pink oval background with scalloped gold edges.


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[Assistant] With everything to choose from in the way of names, why did she pick that one? Serena Joy was never her real name, not even then. Her real name was Pam.


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[Assistant] I read that in a profile on her in a news magazine.


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[Assistant] Long after I'd first watched her singing while my mother slept in on Sunday mornings.


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[Assistant] By that time, she was worthy of a profile. Time or Newsweek it was. Must have been. She wasn't singing anymore by then. She was making speeches. She was good at it. Her speeches were about the sanctity of the home. About how women should stay home.


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[Assistant] Serena Joy didn't do this herself. She made speeches instead.


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[Assistant] Her secretary who was standing right behind her was killed instead.


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[Assistant] We'd watch her sprayed hair and her hysteria and the tears she could still produce at will and the mascara blackening her cheeks. By that time she was wearing more makeup. We thought she was funny or Luke thought she was funny. I only pretended to think so. Really? She was a little frightening. She was an earnest. She doesn't make speeches anymore. She has become speechless.


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[Assistant] Her cane is beside her on the grass. Her profile is towards me.


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[Assistant] I can see that in the quick sideways look I take at her as I go past. It wouldn't do to stare.


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[Assistant] It's no longer a flawless cut paper profile. Her face is...


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[Assistant] Sinking in upon itself. And I think of those towns built on underground rivers, where houses and whole streets disappear overnight into sudden quagmires or coal towns collapsing into the mines beneath them.


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[Assistant] Something like this must have happened to her. Once she saw the true shape of things to come. She doesn't turn her head. She doesn't acknowledge my presence in any way. Although she knows I'm there. I can tell she knows. It's like a smell, her knowledge. Something gone sour. Like old milk.


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[Assistant] It's not the husbands you have to watch out for, said Anne Lydia. It's the wives. You should always try to imagine what they must be feeling. Of course they will resent you, it is only natural. Try to feel for them.


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[Assistant] The weak-eyed blinking, the gaze upwards through the round steel-rimmed glasses towards the back of the classroom.


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[Assistant] As if the green painted plaster ceiling were opening and God on a cloud of pink pearl face powder were coming down through the wires and sprinkler plumbing. You must realize that they are defeated women. They have been unable. Here her voice broke off and there was a pause during which I could hear a sigh, a collective sigh from those around me.


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[Assistant] It was a bad idea to rustle or fidget during these pauses.


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[Assistant] Lydia might look abstracted, but she was aware of every twitch. So there was only the sigh.


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[Assistant] The future is in your hands, she resumed. She held her own hands out to us, the ancient gesture that was both an offering and an invitation to come forward into an embrace, an acceptance. In your hands, she said,


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[Assistant] I walk around to the back door, open it, go in, set my basket down on the kitchen table. The table has been scrubbed off, cleared of flour. Today's bread, freshly baked, is cooling on its rack. The kitchen smells of yeast, a nostalgic smell. It reminds me of other kitchens, kitchens that were mine. It smells of mothers, although my own mother did not make bread. It smells of me.


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[Assistant] Rita is there, sitting at the table peeling and slicing carrots.


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[Assistant] Old carrots they are, thick ones, overwintered, bearded from their time in storage.


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[Assistant] The new carrots, tender and pale, won't be ready for weeks.


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[Assistant] The knife she uses is sharp and bright and tempting. I would like to have a knife like that. Rita stops chopping the carrots, stands up, takes the parcels out of the basket almost eagerly. She looks forward to seeing what I've brought.


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[Assistant] Although she always frowns while opening the parcels. Nothing I bring fully pleases her. She's thinking she could have done better herself.


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[Assistant] She would rather do the shopping, get exactly what she wants. She envies me the walk. In this house we all envy each other something.


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[Assistant] They've got oranges, I say, and milk and honey.


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[Assistant] There are still some left. I hold out this idea to her like an offering. I wish to ingratiate myself. I saw the oranges yesterday, but I didn't tell Rita. Yesterday she was too grumpy. I could get some tomorrow if you'd give me the tokens for them. I hold out the chicken to her. She wanted steak today, but there wasn't any. Rita grunts.


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[Assistant] She'll think about it, the grunt says, in her own sweet time. She undoes the string on the chicken in the glazed paper.


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[Assistant] She prods the chicken, flexes a wing, pokes a finger into the cavity, fishes out the giblets.


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[Assistant] The chicken lies there, headless and without feet. Goose pimpled, so shivering. Bath day, Rita says, without looking at me.


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[Assistant] Cora comes into the kitchen from the pantry at the back, where they keep the mops and brooms. A chicken, she says, almost with delight.


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[Assistant] Scrawny, says Rita, but it'll have to do. There wasn't much else, I say. Rita ignores me. Looks big enough to me, says Cora. Is she standing up for me? I look at her to see if I should smile. But no, it's only the food she's thinking of. She's younger than Rita.


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[Assistant] The sunlight coming slant now through the west window catches her hair, parted and drawn back. She must have been pretty. Quite recently.


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[Assistant] There's a little mark like a dimple in each of her ears, where the punctures for earrings have grown over. Tall, says Rita, but bony. You should speak up, she says to me, looking directly at me for the first time. Ain't like you're common. She means the commander's rank.


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[Assistant] She goes to the sink, runs her hands briefly under the tap, dries them on the dish towel. The dish towel is white, with blue stripes. Dish towels are the same as they always were.


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[Assistant] Just so it gets done, says Rita. They're talking about me as though I can't hear. To them, I'm a household chore. One among many.


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[Assistant] I've been dismissed. I pick up the basket, go through the kitchen door, and along the hall towards the grandfather clock. The sitting room door is closed.


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[Assistant] Sun comes through the fanlight, falling in colors across the floor. Red and blue. Purple. I step into it briefly. Stretch out my hands. They fill with flowers of light.


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[Assistant] I go up the stairs, my face distant and white and distorted, framed in the hall mirror, which bulges outward like an eye under pressure.


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[Assistant] But then he moves forward again, steps to the side to avoid touching me, and climbs his head. He's gone. Something has been shown to me. But what is it? Like the flag of an unknown country, seen for an instant above a curve of hill. It could mean attack. It could mean parley. It could mean the edge of something, a territory.


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[Assistant] What is all this? asked Rose. It's the truth, lady.


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[Assistant] Then, Monk said he couldn't have Oliver killed because suspicion would point to himself.


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[Assistant] But he'd try for the rest of his life to harm the boy if he could.


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[Assistant] Then monks laughed again about the money Oliver should have got from his father's will. My young brother Oliver will never see that money, he said. His brother, exclaimed Rose.


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[Assistant] Those were his words, said Nancy, looking round uneasily, as if she still expected to see Sykes. And then he talked about how amazed you would be if you knew who Oliver really was. And this man was serious? His voice was full of anger and hatred. I know many people who do worse things, but I'd rather listen to all of them than to this man, Monks.


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[Assistant] But I must get back now, or people will wonder where I've been.


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[Assistant] I walk along the gravel path that divides the back lawn, neatly like a hair parting. It is rain during the night. The grass to either side is damp, the air human.


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[Assistant] Evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead, flexible and pink, like lips.


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[Assistant] In the driveway, one of the guardians assigned to our household is washing the car. That must mean the commander is in the house. In his own quarters, past the dining room and beyond. Or he seems to stay most of the time.


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[Assistant] A car is a very expensive one. A whirlwind. Better than the chariot. Much better than the chunky, practical behemoth.


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[Assistant] He's wearing the uniform of the Guardians, but his cap is tilted at a jaunty angle, and his sleeves are rolled to the elbow, showing his forearms, tanned, but with a stipple of dark hairs. He has a cigarette stuck in the corner of his mouth, which shows that he too has something he can trade on the black market. I know this man's name. Nick.


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[Assistant] He looks at me and sees me looking. He has a French face, lean, whimsical, all planes and angles, with creases around the mouth where he smiles. He takes a final puff of the cigarette, lets it drop to the driveway and steps on it. He begins to whistle.


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[Assistant] I open the front gate and close it behind me, looking down but not back. The sidewalk is red brick. That is the landscape I focus on, a field of oblongs, gently undulating where the earth beneath has buckled from decade after decade of winter frost. The color of the bricks is old yet fresh and clear. Sidewalks are kept much cleaner than they used to be. I walk to the corner and wait. I used to be bad at waiting.


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[Assistant] They also serve who only stand in wait said Aunt Lydia. She made us memorize it. She also said, not all of you will make it through. Some of you will fall on dry ground or thorns. Some of you are shallow rooted.


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[Assistant] Think of yourself as seeds. And right then her voice was wheedling, conspiratorial, like the voices of those women who used to teach ballet classes to children, and who would say, arms up in the air now, let's pretend we're trees. I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.


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[Assistant] A shape, red with white wings around the face. A shape like mine.


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[Assistant] A non-descript woman in red carrying a basket comes along the brick sidewalk towards me. She reaches me and we peer at each other's faces, looking down the white tunnels of cloth that enclose us. She is the right one.


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[Assistant] Blessed be the fruit, she says to me, the accepted greeting among us. May the Lord open, I answer, the accepted response. We turn and walk together past the large houses towards the central part of town. We aren't allowed to go there except in twos. This is supposed to be for our protection, though the notion is absurd. We are well protected already. The truth is that she is my spy as I am hers.


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[Assistant] If either of us slips through the net because of something that happens on one of our daily walks, the other will be accountable. This woman has been my partner for two weeks. I don't know what happened to the one before. On a certain day she simply wasn't there anymore and this one was there in her place.


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[Assistant] She walks demurely, head down, red-gloved hands clasped in front, with short little steps like a trained pig's on its hind legs. During these walks, she has never said anything that was not strictly orthodox. But then, neither have I. She may be a real believer, a handmaid in more than name. I can't take the risk. The war is going well, I hear, she says.


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[Assistant] Praise be, I reply. We've been sent good weather, which I receive with joy. They've defeated more of the rebels since yesterday. Praise be, I say. I don't ask her how she knows. What were they? Baptists. They had a stronghold in the Blue Hills. They smoked them out. Praise be. Sometimes I wish she would just shut up and let me walk in peace.


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[Assistant] We reached the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks or dug up sewers. A wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes. A red hexagon, which means stop.


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[Assistant] Above us I know there are floodlights attached to the telephone poles for use in emergencies.


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[Assistant] I don't see the floodlights and the pillboxes because of the wings around my face. I just know they are there. Behind the barrier, waiting for us at the narrow gateway, there are two men, in the green uniforms of the Guardians of the Faith, with the crests on their shoulders and berets, two swords crossed above a white triangle. The Guardians aren't real soldiers.


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[Assistant] Digging up the commander's wife's garden, for instance. And they're either stupid or older or disabled or very young. Apart from the ones that are eyes incognito. These two are very young.


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[Assistant] She was fumbling in her robe for her pass, and they thought she was hunting for a bomb. They thought she was a man in disguise. There have been such incidents. Rita and Cora knew the woman. I heard them talking about it in the kitchen. Doing their job, said Cora, keeping us safe. Nothing's safer than dead, said Rita angrily. She was minding her own business. No call to shoot her.


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[Assistant] Well, someone will think twice before blowing up this house anyways, said Cora. All the same, said Rita. She worked hard. That was a bad death. I can think of worse, said Cora. At least it was quick. You can say that, said Rita. I'd choose to have some time before, like, to set things right.


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[Assistant] The two young guardians salute us, raising three fingers to the rims of their berets. Such tokens are accorded to us. They are supposed to show respect, because of the nature of our service. We produce our passes from the zippered pockets in our wide sleeves, and they are inspected and stamped.


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[Assistant] One man goes into the right hand pill box to punch our numbers into the compu check. In returning my pass,


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[Assistant] The one with the peach colored mustache bends his head to try to get a look at my face. I raise my head a little to help him, and he sees my eyes, and I see his, and he blushes. His face is long and mournful, like a sheep's, but with the large full eyes of a dog, spaniel, not terrier. His skin is pale, and looks unwholesomely tender, like the skin under a scab. Nevertheless, I think of placing my hand on it.


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[Assistant] This exposed face. He is the one who turns away. It's an event. A small defiance of rule. So small as to be undetectable.


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[Assistant] But such moments are the rewards I hold out for myself.


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[Assistant] Past which nobody ever comes except the commanders of the faithful in their long black murmurous cars.


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[Assistant] Or their blue wives and white veiled daughters on their dutiful way to salvagings or prevaganzas. Or their dumpy green Martha's. Or the occasional birthmobile. Or their red handmaids on foot. Or sometimes a black painted van with the winged eye in white on the side. The windows of the vans are dark tinted and the men in the front seats wear dark glasses. A double obscurity.


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[Assistant] The vans are surely more silent than the other cars. When they pass, we avert our eyes. If there are sounds coming from inside, we try not to hear them. Nobody's heart is perfect.


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[Assistant] When the black vans reach a checkpoint, they're waved through without a pause.


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[Assistant] The guardians would not want to take the risk of looking inside, searching, doubting their authority. Whatever they think. If they do think, you can't tell by looking at them.


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[Assistant] But more likely, they don't think in terms of clothing discarded on the lawn. If they think of a kiss, they must then think immediately of the floodlights going on. The rifle shots.


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[Assistant] They think instead of doing their duty and of promotion to the angels and of being allowed possibly to marry and then


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[Assistant] If they are able to gain enough power and live to be old enough of being allotted a handmaid of their own.


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[Assistant] The one with the mustache opens the small pedestrian gate for us and stands back, well out of the way, and we pass through.


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[Assistant] The real question is, how funky is your chicken? How funky is your chicken? How loose is your goose? Your goose is totally loose.


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[Assistant] Oh, wow. That's maybe a little less than one. So cool. Okay. Oh, well maybe Mario will accidentally- nope, okay. Maybe Mario will give him negative points. Maybe, maybe she'll swim away.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's right. He's a wonderful boy.


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[Assistant] What if, what if God's watching us play Mario Party so int-


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[Assistant] I know people, you know, Europe, Asia, America, so I wanna let people know what I'm making and then get the orders and then we can, we can go.


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[Assistant] The next, uh, well we have more samples to make. So we make more samples. And then, uhm, we post this today. We see how everybody likes it, and then we get orders.


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[Assistant] Cape Coast, the Cape Coast Dungeons and the Elamina Castle are places where the slaves were held and transported out of Africa.


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[Assistant] The unmovable fate that this will pass somehow.


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[Assistant] It's generational and this is what's happened to a lot of us who have gone through that trauma of being stolen or displaced.


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[Assistant] Growing up in Virginia, it was really dope. It was really amazing, man. Everybody knew each other in my town, the town of Vienna. Everybody knew the Walkers, you know. Our family was huge, and our extended family was huge. The Walkers, the Monroe's.


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[Assistant] On my trip to Morocco, I ended up having a...


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[Assistant] So we are currently here at James Monroe Plantation where we are tracing my ancestor, John Monroe, who was supposedly a slave brought here when he was 14 years old.


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[Assistant] When I was looking in the book of names of slaves that Sara showed me, it brought up a sense of mystery about


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[Assistant] What their lives were like, what they had to go through, what they endured, the pains and the sufferings of the separations of the families and being split apart and being beaten and being sold and being oppressed. And right now we're just connecting the dots and finding out


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[Assistant] The migration and developments and what happened in the story so that we can put together this puzzle.


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[Assistant] It's very cellular. The memories of riding up the driveway at the plantation was just like arriving at the door of no return.


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[Assistant] I felt the same energy, like I've been here before, I've done this. I mean, me reclaiming my power, me coming back here, and also going to the plantation.


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[Assistant] After Alameda, I started chanting and I started singing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, when Impress was telling me don't be the person coming here on the internet, you know, asking people for money, I was like, yo, that's me right now, you know? That I was like, I've been putting those shouts out to my community and even, you know,


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[Assistant] Being, uh, frustrated with my community and displaying that.


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[Assistant] Oakland has a rich history of movement from the Black Panthers to Bruce Lee, Hells Angels, hippies. You have the riots of Berkeley that stopped the Vietnam War. You know what I mean? So it's a place of progressive movement and, uh, free thought.


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[Assistant] I couldn't ground an event space to call people in.


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[Assistant] We ended up having this barbecue out at San Lorenzo with Town Futurist, but...


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[Assistant] So, this is what we're dealing with right now, is people putting possessions before soul. Putting possessions before their evolution, the soul's evolution. You know what I mean? Cause we're so tricked to be like, oh we need this shit, we need all this material shit, so.


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[Assistant] I just need a little bit. I just need a dollar from like a thousand people. I feel like if I get that blessing from a thousand people, like one dollar, I feel like


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[Assistant] The blessing of that thousand people will multiply into millions. It'll be exponential because the power of us giving and supporting someone's dream when we do that, it


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[Assistant] Activates other people's dreams. It gives other people, uh, courage and confidence to go follow their dreams. And people actually started giving me a dollar. These blessings actually shifted something within me when I started hearing people say, hey, I got you.


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[Assistant] Here's $1, here's $3.33, here's $7.77, here's $5. You know, people are actually giving me more. I'm asking for one, but now people are giving me more. So it's, I'm, it's deep. Because,


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[Assistant] Now that I have my final samples, I feel really good with what I accomplished here, which was to start the line. You know, I have many, many designs, but I wanted to do six to eight designs that could really set the pace. What's next exactly is that I'm going to Berlin and Amsterdam.


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[Assistant] To sell the clothes and also to get orders so that I can start production here in Africa. So I have to go.


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[Assistant] Here I am, leaving the country for two to three years. I haven't seen her in a year and a half, two years.


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[Assistant] Really hard, you know, really hard to...


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[Assistant] I have realized that the repatriation that I thought, uh, was getting myself into is definitely not the one that I'm...


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[Assistant] Vibing now. It's basically shifted in the ways that has opened me up to the reality that I have to stay connected to America. I have to


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[Assistant] So uhm, basically I am moving back to America. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Well, this is my latest revelation is that I need to be close to you. My plan now is to


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[Assistant] Running away from my responsibilities, I would say, you know, maybe part of that is true. You know, I really wasn't present for a lot of my responsibilities after a while. But there's no guidebook on surviving a genocide or thriving through a genocide.


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[Assistant] The majority are going one way, and some of us crazy people are going the other way.


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[Assistant] Breaking out of America or leaving the plantation.


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[Assistant] What I thought was finding me or controlling me was actually in my mind. So when you start to realize that


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[Assistant] A physical place. It's literally where you are within yourself.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I hear a man on a journey and other times I hear a man that's going to lead the world to the mothership so we can return to paradise and home.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I think we want to cross the finish line so bad that we forget how bad we don't want to be without all the people that we've experienced on the journey.


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[Assistant] 1984 was a significant year in Godzilla history.


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[Assistant] It's when he returns to movie theaters after a nine-year hiatus.


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[Assistant] It's the year new merchandise lines launched, such as Godzilland. And in 1984, Godzilla made his first ever officially licensed video game appearance. Godzilla vs. Three Giant Monsters. That's right, today we're going back to the beginning. The start of it all. The first official Godzilla video game.


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[Assistant] Oh, and you might have noticed I'm a baby in this review.


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[Assistant] You see, what happened is this. I meant to time travel us all to 1984, but through a series of time machine mishaps, I've only accidentally managed to reverse my own aging. But that's cool, because babies are hot right now.


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[Assistant] Just before the release of Nintendo's Famicom system, the home console of choice in Japan was the MSX. This home computer was developed by Microsoft and AceGuy.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure where to go here. I think somebody pissed all over the ground over here and I can't walk through it.


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[Assistant] Even in the early days of home console history, Bandai was producing games based on their tokusatsu licenses.


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[Assistant] Okay, I recognized white base and Abadoku is just fine. Looks great.


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[Assistant] What about Ultraman? Oh hell yeaah, look at these two go at it. I'm gonna fucking get in there, I can't wait, I'm- Oh, I guess I'm the jet.


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[Assistant] This game starts with an escort mission, and even in 1984 those were annoying. There's Red King!


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[Assistant] Now I'm Ultraman! Now it's time to fight. Look out Red King, I'm gonna go over there, I'm gonna kick the sh- I died from walking into him!


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[Assistant] There were actually three Godzilla video games released on the MSX over the years. Aside from three giant monsters, there's Gojira-kun, based on the Godzilla and merchandise line I mentioned earlier,


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[Assistant] And Monsters Faire, a game where you actually play as Mothra and not Godzilla.


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[Assistant] But we're here for the first game, Godzilla vs. Three Giant Monsters. And I'll tell you what, that's a good looking Godzilla sprite right there. Off to a good start!


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[Assistant] The game puts Godzilla in a desert. Megalon comes up from the ground to attack, so you gotta blast him in his stupid face with your atomic breath. If you don't get him, he'll escape by making another hole.


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[Assistant] You're going to want to minimize the amount of holes he creates and you'll see why in the next level.


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[Assistant] You can also shoot your atomic breath diagonally, which is pretty useful. But one thing I don't like is that when you hit the button, Godzilla will stand completely still while using his atomic breath. You can't move him until he's done.


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[Assistant] So, you'd better be sure you hit your target, because your attack will leave you vulnerable for a few moments. Look at that screen. There are more holes here than in the plot of King of the Monsters.


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[Assistant] Once you destroy Megalon, you'll be attacked by the second monster, Kumanga.


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[Assistant] Or several Kumangas, I should say. He emerges from the holes that Megalon created. So that's why you want to make sure you don't let Megalon tunnel too much in the first stage. Kumanga fires webbing and some kind of spark at you. You want to dodge them, naturally, while avoiding the holes and getting close enough to hit him with your atomic breath. When there's two of them, this is a bit of a pain.


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[Assistant] You could be blasting one Kumanga, which makes your Godzilla go catatonic, and that's when the second Kumanga can strike. Clever girl.


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[Assistant] This is a long level because the Kumangas take a lot of hits each to die.


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[Assistant] Like I said, I like the Godzilla sprite, but look at him when he faces forward. His head turns into a green smiley face. That part's weird.


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[Assistant] One strategy I've found is to kinda just hover near one hole and dodge the attacks. Then when a Kumanga inevitably emerges from that hole, you're right there to hit him. It's a good strategy, but it takes a long time.


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[Assistant] When you finally kill the two Kamangas, you get monster number three. Or I guess four if there were two Kamangas. King Ghidorah!


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[Assistant] His sprite looks okay, maybe a little round, but that's alright. Although sometimes when I look at him I see him wrong. My eyes do see King Ghidorah there, but my brain turns it into some kind of floating alien.


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[Assistant] I've named him Squibbles, and he's always getting into trouble.


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[Assistant] You have to fend off King Ghidorah so he doesn't harm... Manila? Is that Manila? Man, I didn't think it was possible to make him look worse than in Godzilla's Revenge, but here we are. His head looks like a drum symbol. Of course this is a protection level, and unfortunately, it's hard to protect Manila because he's dumb as fuck. Fucking asshole. You have to be sure to hit Ghidorah right in his round belly, and he'll piss off pretty damn quickly when you do. After you shoo Ghidorah away,


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[Assistant] You can play through all three stages in about five or six minutes, really. It's a short game, unless you're playing specifically to get a high score. But is it good? Yea, I kind of think it is.


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[Assistant] Godzilla vs. Three Giant Monsters might have not aged well, but at the time it came out, this was a perfectly serviceable video game. The sprites look good, mostly.


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[Assistant] Today, this game provides a few minutes of amusement, but not much more. And that's okay. Not bad at all.


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[Assistant] While this might have been the first Godzilla video game made, it's not the first one I personally played. That credit goes to Monster of Monsters on the Nintendo Entertainment System. What was the first Godzilla video game you ever played?


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[Assistant] Let me know in the comments below! Now if you'll excuse me, I seem to have soiled my diaper.


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[Assistant] Oh, and look for baby M.I.B. merchandise next month, including action figures, animatronic dolls, Funko Pops. I gotta milk this baby crazy, you know what I'm saying? Gotta get while they get to good.


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[Assistant] I felt it too. I didn't want anything to happen, just the trip, nothing else. Oh well, we really won't celebrate tonight.


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[Assistant] We just eat supper and act like it was any other evening. We were home with the family. You know what?


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[Assistant] The little boy was in this door with his mother. I met them there. He had a ball and he was bouncing it with his left hand. I remember because...


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[Assistant] Everything sounds like planes to me. I think of Dimeon and the children.


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[Assistant] There are no houses or roads or cars on Lana, but there's a castle. The castle is very old.


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[Assistant] A young Scotsman lives in the castle. The Scotsman's name is Duncan McTavish.


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[Assistant] Duncan lives in the castle with his dog, Jock. Duncan is very happy on his island. He likes going for walks with Jock. He likes swimming and fishing in his little boat.


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[Assistant] There are many big rooms in Duncan's castle. They have a lot of old things in them. Pictures and heavy tables, chairs and beds.


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[Assistant] One Monday morning in April, Duncan gets a letter. What's this? he asks. He opens the letter. It's from the electricity company. Duncan reads, electricity from October to March, five thousand pounds. Oh, Duncan says.


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[Assistant] Duncan Telephones, a man in London. The man's name is Mr. Moneybags.


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[Assistant] Mr. Moneybags sells houses and castles. I want to sell my island and my castle, Duncan says. Okay, Mr. Moneybag says. Two days later, he telephones Duncan.


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[Assistant] You know, the famous American rock star.


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[Assistant] He wants to buy your island for his girlfriend. A rock star, Duncan says. Oh.


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[Assistant] Leaping Larry and his girlfriend are coming to the island by helicopter. They're very late. Duncan and Jock wait a long time. Then the helicopter arrives.


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[Assistant] A tall man with long dark hair gets down from it. He's about 45 years old. There's a girl with him. She's about 20 and has long yellow hair. There's a small animal with her.


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[Assistant] Hi, the man says. I'm leaping Larry.


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[Assistant] And this is my girlfriend, Roxanne. Hi, Roxanne says. This is my dog, Bobo. Larry looks at the castle.


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[Assistant] Look at that old castle, Roxanne, he says. Don't you love it, honey? Roxanne doesn't smile. It's only an old castle.


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[Assistant] Leaping Larry and Roxanne go into the castle. It's very dark. Leaping Larry can't see. He falls down. Where are the lights? he asks. I'm sorry, Duncan says. There isn't any light.


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[Assistant] I'm going to bed, but first I want a hot bath, and Bobo wants a bath too. I'm very sorry, Duncan says, but there's no hot water.


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[Assistant] No lights, no food, no hot water, Roxanne says. I don't like this place. Now, honey, leaping Larry says. Don't call me honey, Roxanne says. Let's go, Bobo. Roxanne and Bobo go to bed.


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[Assistant] Larry and Duncan eat cold food and talk. Jock watches them. Suddenly, Roxanne screams.


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[Assistant] Duncan, Larry and Jock run to her room. Roxanne is in bed with Bobo. Honey, what's wrong? Larry asks. There was a noise in the room. Roxanne says. What was it? Duncan starts to smile. Why are you smiling? Roxanne says. She's very angry.


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[Assistant] Look at Jock, Duncan says. Jock is under the bed. He has a mouse in his mouth. A mouse, Roxanne says. She screams again.


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[Assistant] Good morning, Duncan says. Roxanne doesn't answer. She says to Larry,


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[Assistant] This castle is old, dark and very cold.


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[Assistant] Our friends from California can come and stay. Duncan looks at Jock. Jock looks at Duncan. Build a big new house, they think. Oh no.


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[Assistant] Leaping Larry says, we want to see the island. Okay, Duncan says, we can go in my boat.


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[Assistant] What do you do all day? She asks Duncan. I go for walks, Duncan says. Sometimes I swim, and sometimes I catch fish. Oh, Roxanne says. That isn't very interesting. Listen, honey, Larry says, we can make the island interesting.


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[Assistant] He doesn't want to sell his island and his castle to Larry.


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[Assistant] He doesn't want film companies or Larry's friends on the island. But what can Duncan do?


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[Assistant] The electricity company wants five thousand pounds. He has no money. He can't stay in his castle.


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[Assistant] Jump into the sea, Larry! Get Bobo! But Larry doesn't move.


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[Assistant] She stands in the boat and starts to hit Larry. Don't do that! Duncan says. The boat moves. Roxanne falls into the water. She starts to scream. Roxanne is making a lot of noise.


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[Assistant] Roxanne is very angry. Take me back to California. Now, she says to Larry.


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[Assistant] Leaping Larry doesn't want to buy the island.


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[Assistant] But where can Duncan get five thousand pounds for the electricity company?


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[Assistant] Leaping Larry telephoned me, Mr. Money Bag says. He doesn't like your island. He doesn't want to buy it.


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[Assistant] Duncan goes for a long walk with Jock. He's very unhappy. They walk to a place across the island and there Duncan sees a girl. She's looking at the sea and she's painting a picture. Near her is a small boat.


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[Assistant] Good afternoon, Duncan says. The girl looks at Duncan. She's beautiful. He likes her. Who are you? she asks. What do you want?


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[Assistant] Now, McTavish painting holidays are very famous.


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[Assistant] Every year, many visitors come to the island. They stay in the castle. They go for walks and paint beautiful pictures. They take their pictures back to their homes.


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[Assistant] The rooms in the castle aren't cold and dark now. Duncan and Jean have a lot of money.


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[Assistant] There is no problem with the electricity company. And Gene makes very good food. The visitors are very happy.


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[Assistant] With Sam Cedar, where every day is Casual Friday. That means Monday is Casual Monday. Tuesday, Casual Tuesday. Wednesday, Casual Hump Day. Thursday, Casual Thurs. That's what we call it.


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[Assistant] Now you went on a nice vacation and you know what, I admire you and your wife for doing that. You know, you gotta see the world, you have an opportunity to do it. Give me some highlights.