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[Assistant] So, uh, I started watching, like, uh, Week in Taj, which was the barracks. They had, like, this, um, series that they did, Week in Taj, and it used to be, like, three minute, like,


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[Assistant] You know, skating or whatever, and then like, just bullshit, like. They do funny ass shit. Yeah, just skits and stuff. I'm like, ah, so sick, like, I'm gonna do that, and this is.


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[Assistant] And then that's when I kinda started hanging out with them, and I'm like, alright, I don't know why I waited so long to do it again, you know, like, and,


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[Assistant] Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, I'm like, oh, adventure. I was trying to like throw my name in there or whatever. And then I told the fancies like, oh, I'll fucking make you a graphic and then blah, blah, blah. I'm like, all right, well I have all this footage from like, like a year worth of stuff. So I just put it together and then yeah, the first one popped out.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, pretty much, uhm, I'm gonna make a third one and I'll be in fucking Barcelona and Estonia.


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[Assistant] It's fucking 10 people, 13 people, literally. Really? In one apartment? No, no, no. To me, I'm going with Lashawn, Reed, and Trevor, and we're staying at Simone's house, and then, uhm, Brock and like all the Long Beach crew heard about it, and like, oh, let's fucking go, tickets for a fucking 470 round trip.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we're like, dude, this is my chance to go right here, you know, I have a steady job now, I have the money to do it, and then, fuckin' uh, yeah, they heard and they're like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what fuckin'... Sossin' Inventory...


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[Assistant] I usually like, when I'm around Spanish people, or like people who are speaking Spanish, I don't say anything, cause I wanna see like,


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[Assistant] You know, me and Devin were just super into video boys when I first met Devin.


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[Assistant] I told them like, dude, you can sell this, like, I know people that would buy this, cause at Van Skate Park in HB, there's a restaurant called Grinders, and uhm. What, right near it?


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[Assistant] And uhm, he's like, yeaah. Just holding a shit ton of ramps. He's like, you want some? He's like, dude I'll fucking give you 60 bucks for that ledge.


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[Assistant] I don't watch TV anymore. Like, I bought a TV when I graduated high school, and around there, you know, like YouTube was starting to pop up, whatever, and then, yea, I haven't watched, I haven't even hooked that TV to my cable. And I like say, I tell everyone like, YouTube is like the new, that's the new TV.


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[Assistant] Coming up to the tree I could see it was a huge bur oak. It wasn't tall, it was just the opposite, rather low and squatty. The top was a thick mass of large limbs, and it hadn't shed all of its leaves yet.


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[Assistant] It stood by itself in an old field. There were no other trees within fifty yards of it. About fifteen feet to the left were the remains of a barbed wire fence, an old gate hung by one rusty hinge from a large corner post. I could tell that at one time a house had stood close by. Reuben saw me looking around.


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[Assistant] Long time ago some Indians lived here and farmed these fields, he said. I walked around the tree looking for the coon, but could see very little in the dark shadows. Ain't no use to lurk, Reuben said. He won't be there.


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[Assistant] I told Ruben I was going to climb the tree. Go ahead, he said, it won't do you any good. The tree was easy to climb.


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[Assistant] I looked all over it, on each limb, and in every dark place, I looked for a hollow. The Ghost Coon wasn't there.


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[Assistant] I knew the ghost coon had pulled a real trick, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Little Anne had never yet barked treed. I knew if the coon was in the tree, she wouldn't still be searching for a trail. Old Dan started working again.


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[Assistant] My dogs covered the field. They circled and circled. They ran up and down the barbed wire fence on both sides. I knew the coon hadn't walked the barbed wire. Ghost or no ghost, he couldn't do that. I walked over to the old gate and looked around. I sat down and stared up into the tree. Little Anne came to me.


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[Assistant] Old Dan giving up his search came back to the tree and bawled a couple of times. I scolded him again.


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[Assistant] Ruben came over, leering at me, he said, You give up? I didn't answer.


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[Assistant] Little Anne once again started searching for the lost trail. Old man went to help her. Rainey said, I told you that you couldn't tree the ghost coon. Why don't you pay off so we can go home?


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[Assistant] I told him I hadn't given up. My dogs were still hunting. When they gave up, I would too. Reuben said, Well, we're not going to stay here all night.


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[Assistant] Looking back to the tree, I thought perhaps I had overlooked something. I told Ruben I was going to climb it again. He laughed. Go ahead, won't do any good. You climbed it once, ain't you satisfied? No, I'm not satisfied, I said. I just don't believe in ghost coons.


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[Assistant] Ruben said, I don't believe in ghosts either, but facts are facts. To tell you the truth, I've climbed that tree a dozen times, and there just ain't no place in it for a coon to hide.


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[Assistant] Rainy spoke up. Our old blue hound has treed the ghost coon in this tree more times than one. Maybe you two don't believe in ghosts, but I do. Why don't you pay off so we can get away from here?


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[Assistant] I'll climb it one more time, I said. If I can't find him, I'll pay off. Climbing up again I searched and searched.


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[Assistant] When I got through, I knew the ghost coon wasn't in that tree. When I came down, I saw my dogs had given up.


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[Assistant] That took the last resistance out of me. I knew if they couldn't find the ghost coon, I couldn't.


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[Assistant] Digging the two one dollar bills out of my pocket, I walked over to Reuben.


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[Assistant] Little Anne was by my side. I handed my money over, saying, Well, you won it fair and square.


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[Assistant] With a grin on his face, Reuben took my money. He said, I bet this'll break your grandpa's heart. I didn't reply.


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[Assistant] Reaching down, I caught little Anne's head in my hands. Looking into her warm, friendly eyes, I said, It's all right, little girl. We haven't given up yet. We'll come back.


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[Assistant] We may never catch the ghost coon, but we'll run him until he leaves the country. She licked my hands and whined,


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[Assistant] A small breeze began to stir. Glancing up into the tree, I saw some leaves shaking. I said to Reuben, Looks like the wind is coming up. It may blow up a storm. We'd better be heading for home.


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[Assistant] Just as I turned, I saw little Anne throw up her head in wine. Her body grew stiff and taut. I watched her.


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[Assistant] Looking at Ruben, I said, I haven't lost that two dollars yet.


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[Assistant] Another breeze drifted out of the river bottoms. Little Anne caught the scent again.


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[Assistant] Slowly she walked straight to the large gate post, reared up on it with her front feet, and bawled the most beautiful tree bark I ever heard in my life.


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[Assistant] Then, raising his head, he shook the dead leaves in the bur oak tree with his deep voice. I looked at Rainy, laughing, I said, There's your ghost, coon. Now what do you think of my dogs? For once he made no reply.


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[Assistant] Going over to the post I saw it was a large black locust put there many years ago to hang the gate. Looking up at the tree I saw how the ghost coon had pulled his trick. One large long limb ran out and hung directly over the gate. It was a drop of a good twelve feet from the branch to the top of the gate post, but I knew we weren't after an ordinary coon. This was the ghost


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[Assistant] I said to Ruben, boost me up and I'll see if the post is hollow.


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[Assistant] After breaking off a long jimson weed to use as a prod, I got up on Ruben's shoulder and he raised me up. The post was hollow.


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[Assistant] Not knowing how far down the hole went, I started the switch down. About halfway, I felt something soft. I gave it a hard jab.


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[Assistant] I heard him coming. He boiled out right in my face. I let go of everything. Hitting the ground, I rolled over on my back and looked up. For a split second, the ghost coon stayed on top of the post and then he jumped. My dogs were on him the instant he hit the ground. The fight was on.


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[Assistant] At the foot of the tree the fight went on. Again the ghost coon fought his way free. This time he made it and disappeared in the dark shadows of the tree. Oh, Dan was furious. Never before had I seen a coon get away from him.


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[Assistant] I told Ruben I would climb up and run him out. As I started climbing I saw little Anne go to one side and old Dan to the other. My dogs would never stay together when they had treed a coon so that any way he left a tree he was met by one of them.


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[Assistant] About halfway up, far out on a limb, I found the ghost coon.


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[Assistant] As I started toward him, my dog stopped bawling. I heard something I had heard many times. The sound was like the cry of a small baby.


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[Assistant] But it was all in the game, the hunter and the hunted. As I sat there on the limb, looking at the old fella, he cried again. Something came over me. I didn't want to kill him.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, it's me Deli Sims, welcome back to my channel. Today we're playing Let's Play The Sims 4 Soap Opera Legacy Challenge. Funny thing is, I re- I just recorded the first like minute of the series, but then I realized


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[Assistant] In the top right corner, it said it wasn't recording, which I- But whatever. I think I figured out what it was. I think I, instead of hitting-


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[Assistant] Walls down, I hit stop recording. Anyways, baby, baby, baby, where's my baby? My baby's sad.


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[Assistant] Wrestle, you can wrestle, I wanna wrestle. Baby, wrestle with the nanny. Baby, wrestle with the nanny.


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[Assistant] Kick his ass, baby. Bite. Bite him. Bite him now. I wanna see what biting looks like.


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[Assistant] Let's make this baby Devon a little wild child. Mean, but again. Hit. She's just a little crazy baby.


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[Assistant] When do mommy and daddy get home? I think for this episode I want to like...


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[Assistant] To clean up my baby's mess. What do I look like? A loving and caring parent? Wow, this is starting to sound like the 100 baby challenge. Oh shit, my baby's just crazy. She bites the nanny three times in a row.


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[Assistant] Makes a huge mess in the kitchen, plays with the toilet water.


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[Assistant] Oh, she's telling him to take a bath before I told her to. She knows what she wants. She's gonna be a strong independent.


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[Assistant] Aw, baby bath, bath babies. Baby bath, bath babies. Babies who take baths.


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[Assistant] Gonna go play with the toilet water, even though we have toys everywhere. Toy box. This is decoration though. We have like one toy.


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[Assistant] Ipsies. Hey, you're a rich neighbor, Mortimer Goth. We'll be home soon. Here goes my baby making more masks.


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[Assistant] Ryan didn't get a promotion, why? Because he didn't fill out the reports? I hate my life.


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[Assistant] Pay bills. 800, that's not bad. That's actually not super bad for a house like this. Bill-wise. Deep conversation. Don't you guys work in the same, like, business? Heartfelt compliment. And then let's get to work.


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[Assistant] I hate my life. Juliet's like, bored.


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[Assistant] Juliet, you need to work on your painting skill. Let's work on your painting skill. Uhm, pop art.


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[Assistant] While you continue painting. I mean, filling out your reports. I like this painting. This is a very interesting painting.


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[Assistant] It's fine, you chose to talk to the stranger. And it's not like it's a stranger out on the street, it's a stranger inside your house with your parents like right here.


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[Assistant] Well, it looks like our time today has concluded. See you next time and remember, anything can be fun, or good, if you make it so. Thank you, Genji. You are the absolute worst nanny I could have ever hired.


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[Assistant] Baby, have this complete stranger help you with the potty.


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[Assistant] I wanna watch how this- how Devon convinces this like 30 year old man to help her potty.


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[Assistant] Vampire? You're eating the fruitcake that you left out there? Gross. It's been like, two weeks.


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[Assistant] Stranger potty drains, baby. Interesting. Parents don't care.


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[Assistant] Katarina. Katarina Caliente looks like a man. Let's have another baby.


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[Assistant] Did somebody pee? Did you pee in front of my baby Mortimer Goss?


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[Assistant] You're gross. I don't know if we can be friends anymore. No, just kidding, you're rich, we can definitely be friends. Bye baby, love you, good night. Juliet, you're... there. Let's woohoo to get our fun level up.


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[Assistant] Why is everyone working out at night? Oh look, you're like a friend, kind of.


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[Assistant] Oh, Malcolm Wangrab, are you dealing some more drugs? I'm not picking any-


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[Assistant] Little baby Devon is still asleep, asleep, asleep, asleep, sleep. Now everyone can sleep. And you can get us a promotion tomorrow.


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[Assistant] You're hungry? Okay, let's feed you. When you start work, actually.


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[Assistant] In two hours, uhm, let's take care of things that you can't do, like take a shower.


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[Assistant] Cause you can't take a shower at work, but you can definitely eat and poop at work, so. I feel like a shower is more important right now.


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[Assistant] Work for Ryan starts in one hour. Juliet, when do you start work? Oh, in two days. Perfect. You can hang out with the baby Devon.


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[Assistant] Ugh, that's broken? We don't have the money to- yeah, we do. We have the money to fix it. Do we wanna replace it?


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[Assistant] Higher repair service repair. Let's just repair it ourselves.


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[Assistant] We have 23 minutes before we have to go to work. Devin is very hungry, be sure to feed her before she gets taken away.


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[Assistant] Let's give food to Devin. Uh, cereal, it is like the morning time.


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[Assistant] Now you have to put the baby in there. Okay, here you go.


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[Assistant] There you go. Bye Ryan, have a good day at work, love you, be safe, don't do anything Jesus wouldn't do. But get promotions. Definitely get promotions.


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[Assistant] And you're poopin'. Let's check on the baby. Baby, why are you sad? From parent not being around.


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[Assistant] She just went into the next room. Jesus, you're so clingy. I didn't make you a clingy baby, I made you a wild child. Let's put the baby down.


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[Assistant] And now let's ch ch ch cook some food for ourselves and just be a domestic housewife.


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[Assistant] Domestic goddess, you have to clean up all the messes, cause that's what a wife does when the husband's not around, duh. Clean that up, clean this up, uh, clean the baby shit up.


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[Assistant] Potty Train Devon. Devon is fine. I feel like Devon is a strong, independent little toddler. He can do whatever she wants.


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[Assistant] From parent not being around, baby, stop being sad. Your mom is right here. She's- it's not the-


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[Assistant] She's not like not around, she's literally right here. You could just take like three steps. One, two, three, fall on your face and you would be able to touch her.


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[Assistant] Julia, it looks like you also have to clean this counter cause it's gross. You have so much to do and so little time. Just kidding, you have all day.


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[Assistant] It's totally normal. I have men come over my house to hang out with me in my lingerie all the time. Okay, Juliet, you're not gonna be doing all this shit since now Jeffrey's here and you need to make friends with Jeffrey Landgraab.


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[Assistant] Talk about the arte. And I'll help you clean up some of the stuff. Like this. Clean. Ew, no baby girls, no!


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[Assistant] Juliet, talk to your neighbor.


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[Assistant] Stop being rude. Gossip and flatter him a little bit. Deep conversation.


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[Assistant] Oh, you see, he doesn't even like it. No! I didn't mean to scare you away! Ew, when did homeless people start moving into the neighborhood? That's a patch the Sims should have never added, is homeless people. Just kidding, I'm pretty sure that they didn't.


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[Assistant] See, I hate when the sims do this, like they're talking and his back is like to her.


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[Assistant] Just in her lingerie, neighbors are walking past. Uhm, let's uh, compliment his appearance in a really nice way. Not in a like, romantical way. Deep conversation. Or maybe it was romantic by accident. Am I neglecting my child?


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[Assistant] Jeffrey, no! Be my friend! Be my friend! Be my friend! Give me all your money! Wait, I don't want your money. I want you to be my friend. I'm upscale and trendy. I have lots of wealthy things. Not in this house yet. I'm gonna buy a mansion soon, I promise.


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[Assistant] Wow, that was the worst song I could've ever created. Does the baby need a shower? Is that what's going on?


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't- that was- I didn't know you were watching it.


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[Assistant] Brr brr down, down brr brr. Oh Juliet! Good job with the food, girl. Your baby is gonna be born in three hours. Let's see what some drama we can make. I feel like I promised you guys soap opera drama stuff but nothing has happened.


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[Assistant] I feel like all the drama will start happening once we get the mansion. Which will be in the next few weeks, I still have to build it. I have not started building it yet. Ipsies, my bad.


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[Assistant] Okay, well I think I'm gonna leave this part off here, like, subscribe, comment, do all those fun YouTube things, and next week we will definitely have the baby.


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[Assistant] Let me know if you have any ideas for any dramas you think these characters should face and I will catch you guys all next time. I forgot how I do my outro. I'll see you guys next time. Bye everybody.


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[Assistant] His two sons complained to him that they are held hostage because of him. They couldn't travel. He said they were both bankers and their work required them to travel and they could not leave the kingdom. Their passports were confiscated and they were blaming him and that really caused lots of guilt.


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[Assistant] He told me he felt guilty that he's causing their, uh, stress and suffering.


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[Assistant] According to the information we have, the Saudi citizen is still in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.


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[Assistant] That's when I recognized them and that's when I realized they was making a lot of noise in the town because they had a lot of support and they're repping Lemon Grove. Okay. And Lemon Grove is a different part of the city.


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[Assistant] Uh, we gotta shout out, first we from Dago, so we gotta shout out to big homie Mitchie Slick. He been putting on for Dago for a long time. Okay. But, uh, now that the new generation is coming up, you know, like...


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[Assistant] We just, it's a whole different way. You know what I mean? Right. That's why a lot of people feel it cause they're repping Lemon Grove. They're not repping the southeast where everyone's gang banging and you know, that's why I want y'all to tell, tell us a little bit about Lemon Grove, what it's like coming up out there.


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[Assistant] So for example, the hottest niggas coming out of Daigle, 1207 niggas, and uh, probably me and myself coming out of Daigle, Healthy Boyz, and uh, a lot of people from that squad, Malik Burgers, shout out to Malik Burgers, Jay Davis, Free Young Niggas, Jay Davis.


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[Assistant] Like, gang, gang, gang indictments, uh, pimp indictments, like, uh, they got 20 people for a, uh, uh, human trafficking indictment. They got 20 people for a gang.


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[Assistant] I mean, at the end of the day, I feel like that's art because art is supposed to make you feel some type of way. So if you don't like it, you feel me? Then niggas still did a job because it's still art. You know what I'm saying? Art's not supposed to make you just light up on the inside. It's supposed to make you just have an emotion.


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[Assistant] I saw Kate Kelly perform Coachella 2014.


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[Assistant] So like, what's the most craziest thing you encountered coming up in lemon grove or being so close to the southeast?


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[Assistant] Like wherever you know, where it's all going down there, by the vista, by the projects, like, how did y'all, how did y'all be able to stay out of so much trouble with the police so hot out there right now?


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[Assistant] They just, you feel me, they wanted, they wanted more for a show than they deserved, you feel me? And it was acting hella petty when he a real buster. And he know who I'm, you know. He know. Yea, she happy.


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[Assistant] I just know who's hot and that's why I be so mad that I procrastinate on my own music. But it's really all about believing in yourself. I used to think that.


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[Assistant] I need like a, I need to get my money up and I need to run up a check in order to start rapping when it's the opposite, you know? Yeaah. And I spent a lot of money and tricked off a lot, like I made my first hundred thousand at twenty-two. Really? So it's like, you know, right now I'm just trying to do this music.


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[Assistant] Make sure I keep it all in the town. And then the healthy boys, you feel me? Like these the only town niggas I'm fucking with. I love my nigga OG Mitchie Slick.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we just got a whole new wave, like, you know, we really, we breaking from on it. I wanna do a song with me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were, they were definitely while you were talking about like the lean years where you're doing a, uh, lean.


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[Assistant] As a young manager, you're like, oh shit, there's all these like, bigger dudes out here that might come and like, try to snake my client, but it's all about the relationship.


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[Assistant] You're just at a one stop shop, so it kind of makes sense, like, if you're really... Why are you turning me down? That's me.


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[Assistant] Is that relationship reciprocal? Do you guys work hard for each other?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, totally. It always like, you know, it's always uhm, it's like,


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[Assistant] Or if they're, if they're an evil person, they'll be like, fuck everybody, I'm on my own now, you know? So that's why I like also identifying like who's...


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[Assistant] Like finding, like I don't normally find out about video directors, but like I found out about you, you know, in a weird way because, you know, again, the branding and like the,


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[Assistant] Like there's you, like who, other guys and you're laying like SK.


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[Assistant] I mean, who is like your, who are your friends in this or competition or who do you like, like that's also doing videos right now? Or do you talk to anybody?


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[Assistant] Cause like, rappers are very competitive, right? And they can, they have a vocal platform to talk shit, or like collab, or do whatever they want. But like, are video directors like that? What do you guys?


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[Assistant] If I gave you $200,000 to do a video for Adam 22's first single, 22 Savage,


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[Assistant] Everyone wants to hold everybody else down, I feel like, because they're, they're not getting where they wanna go.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's talk about girls. Let's do it.


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[Assistant] And he's like, there weren't really any before me and now there's like some imitators and stuff ever since like Euro shoutouts.


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[Assistant] Right, yea, he's like done with his Zan phase. I was probably when he was like 11, 12, now he's like 16.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause so many kids will throw up a video, like a picture of them like squatting in front of a Lambo and like their jacket matched the Lambo or whatever.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like you're allowed to have an opinion, basically, publicly, now that you're kind of like deep doing videos and stuff? Like, is there something you'll come out and be like, this sucks, or is it you just


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[Assistant] No, maybe the question was, the question was more along the lines of like, if you didn't have this video, would you have, would you be super opinionated if you didn't have this empire?


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[Assistant] Well, I think it was poor execution on the part of the offense. The defense actually did the best. I mean, they played their usual good defense. I mean, they gave up some.


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[Assistant] Some, uh, plays down the line that, uh, you know, toward the end of the game that allowed, uh, Green Bay to come back. Uh, some of the passing interference calls, one or two of them were questionable.


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[Assistant] But there might have been a little home cooking there, but there's no excuse.


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[Assistant] For the way the offense played today, the offense, you know, only have mustard.


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[Assistant] What? Two, two offensive touchdowns. You know, one touchdown in this game.


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[Assistant] And then one touchdown last, that's not going to cut it. We have to generate more offense.


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[Assistant] And, and then also the offensive line really plays bad. They can't run block. They can't pass block.


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[Assistant] Number 70, I think his name was, he was getting moved around like a swinging door and that on one of those plays, that's how Derek got hurt.


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[Assistant] And then also I noticed the quarterbacks, the Saints quarterbacks are holding on to the football too long.


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[Assistant] You know, if you see a guy break breaking through your offensive line, throw the damn ball away. Don't take a sack.


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[Assistant] See, Derrick held the ball a little too long and then all of a sudden that was it. He was, he was down.


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[Assistant] No offensive play, not good offensive play, the offensive line, uh, for the Saints is bad right now. You know, there's just too many, too many mistakes, uh,


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[Assistant] The quarterbacks got to have the time to get the ball out. You can't hold a guy out for three some odd seconds.


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[Assistant] Any other defense would do to, to, to rush, uh, to pass, rush to pass or the way they did, but they got sacks on them. And I knew sooner or later that that's going to get your quarterback hurt.


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[Assistant] On, on, on, uh, pass rush situations to protect Derek, they need to have a backup there or somebody on the, on number 70 side.


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[Assistant] Cause that's the side that they blitzed on and they got in there to hurt the quarterback. So they need, they need to get somebody out there blocking back or somebody out there to help number 70.


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[Assistant] And if we keep on, if this kind of situation continues, we'll be playing, we'll be playing


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[Assistant] Uh, Jamus Winston, which I don't think is a quarterback that could lead you anywhere.


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[Assistant] You know, he waits too long. He can scramble. He has the ability to scramble. He should take advantage of it.


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[Assistant] But if you run it for your life, you got your quarterback running for his life only after a couple of snaps. And guess what? Eventually go get him hurt. And that's what happened today.


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[Assistant] Well, the offensive line from, like I said, offensive line is not quality.


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[Assistant] We don't have the right players in position to have the right offensive linemen, or maybe there's, like I said, there's a, uh, uh, situation where one guy's getting beat all the time, where you can't, you got to give your, your, your quarterbacks time to do what they need to do.


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[Assistant] Uh, then if, even if we bring Kamara back, if you, if you don't have anybody that can run block for him, uh, you're going to be in trouble.


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[Assistant] And I have not seen it failed at number 70. I don't know what kind of shape he's in, but seem like he's, uh, you'd act like a slow moving bean eater and, and then guys running around him like a swinging door.


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[Assistant] But I mean, there was, there was other, uh, plays that were guys were beating, being beat on, but him, he was consistent.


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[Assistant] And your offensive line got to be first. That's the first place I would look at over the, uh, you know, between these games before we get to Tampa. Trust me, Tampa got the, got the guy, the defensive guy that'll keep our quarterback looking up at the sky.


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[Assistant] So you got to have, you got, man, you got to have some, got to have some good, good offensive play from the, uh, from the offensive line.


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[Assistant] And I don't know what the offensive coordinator is doing, but he needs to get, if he can't get these guys motivated to block and protect these quarterbacks, we're going to be down to YRC with becoming quarterbacks. He's going to get them all hurt. I saw that Derek get hurt.


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[Assistant] Whether it was in this game or the last freebie or one of the others. I saw that down the road because they, they haven't done well, Brock.


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[Assistant] They haven't done a rail blocking to protect him, pads blocking or run blocking. They just haven't done it. I mean, you get a guy, he might get a few yards.


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[Assistant] You have a guy running, they stuff him up. A guy running through, running right past a guy standing that's supposed to be able to block him and they go right through him and get to the quarterback.


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[Assistant] You got to fix that offensive line, otherwise it's going to be a long season.


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[Assistant] Uh, even though he's, he's an, his value is as a.


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[Assistant] Uh, he can catch the ball. That's one thing we know. He can catch the ball. But if you don't give the quarterback time to throw the damn ball, you're not going to, he's not going to be effective.


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[Assistant] You have to get the ball out. You have to zip that ball out of there and you have to know where your read is. You have to scan the field. I see Saints quarterbacks looking down one guy.


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[Assistant] And then, then that gives the DB time to recover and make the play.


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[Assistant] You have to look off different guys. You have to have that ability, you know, to look them all.


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[Assistant] You know, don't just wait till you get to somebody, it's way down the field cause you're not going to have time to look like, to look that way. Cause as soon as, as soon as you step back two or three seconds and a guy gets beat, then you, then your quarterback can't see if you have to take a sack.


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[Assistant] I just, I just still know that they have a lot of cleaning up. Get busy.


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[Assistant] You know, get busy. Look at what need, what these guys need to be doing. You're not


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[Assistant] Uhm, I gotta say, in the back of my mind, I say, well, they, they did help Green Bay, too.


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[Assistant] 18 points because I saw some of the best catches that was made against the Saints, even though they played hard.


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[Assistant] But they still, the young quarterback got hot toward the end, but, uh, we had opportunities.


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[Assistant] And we have to take advantage of those opportunities. Otherwise we're going to have, we have losses like this or worse. You coming up against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers team that's on fire.


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[Assistant] You gotta have your offensive line playing like that to go against some guy. They'll eat your quarterback up and spit him out. Whether it's Jameson, I don't know what the, the, uh, situation we were Derek. I don't expect Derek to be on the field next week, but we got to deal with, we got to deal with, you know who.


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[Assistant] So we got to make sure we get him together. Cause I'm going to tell you right now, man, look at that. We're going to be looking at a loss next week if we don't, if these other guys don't get it.


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[Assistant] I am the water. I can be soft. Or hard. Written by Rudy. Carl. I am water.


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[Assistant] Soft enough to offer life. Tough enough to drown in the way.


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[Assistant] Boss is Hungry. Written by Karma O'Reilly. Boss is my dog. Boss is hungry. Here is the food. Here is the water. Here is bone. The food goes here in the little bowl. The water goes here in the big bowl. The bone goes here on the grass. Look at boss. Boss is not hungry. Boss is playing. Boss is asleep.


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[Assistant] What do you mean ehh? I remember them. You heard of them? Do you have nostalgia? From the 90s? At all? Like right now? Hearing this band?


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[Assistant] This is a real song. In general, yes, I do. You have nostalgia in general? In general. For the 90s, you know? Everyone does. How old are you? 31. Okay.


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[Assistant] Apparently that was just like a sentiment that people fucked with was I think like now that I've done that video I've seen like a whole bunch of shit on Instagram of people shitting on Instagram comedians.


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[Assistant] Dude, one of the ones that I was gonna make fun of that I didn't end up using, I paused it at the beginning because they had the caption above and below, and then they had the same caption in the Instagram thing, and then they had like an actual title card in the beginning of the video with the same fucking caption. So when you paused it there, the caption was on it three fucking times. Right. And that's all there was.


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[Assistant] Like countless people before I made the video was like, what the fuck is wrong with the comedy section on Instagram? And everyone's like, yes, I totally agree. And then I made the video and it's like refreshing to see that people actually agree with that. You know what I mean? Right. That like there is like a pretty big demographic that's like, nah, it is like fucked up. How shitty all this comedy is. It's not even comedy. It's just awful.


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[Assistant] I definitely am, like when I was like, you know, popping on Vine, that's probably when I should have made the move, and I was like, I was scoffing at the people that were doing that at the time, I was like, that's...


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[Assistant] That's dumb, like mine's gonna be around forever, like I'm gonna be like a purist, I don't know, I guess I was like too proud to like really push my shit and like try and get, cause I didn't know. Like I just straight up didn't watch YouTube in high school, didn't watch it in college. I just like didn't know any YouTubers, I just like wasn't entertained by it.


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[Assistant] It's just weird like the barrier to entry to YouTube is like super big for some reason. Like to get someone to start watching YouTube and to like start really getting into it and like subscribing to people, like I feel like that's, there's like crazy friction there whereas Vine


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like once you figure that out though, like YouTube is such a confusing, just like product in general. But what's crazy is like once you figure it out, it's so goddamn like, like addictive, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Whether it's following people, like finding people you like to watch and all that shit, or, you know, being just like, I don't know, it's just like once you're in it, it's like so addictive.


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[Assistant] I don't, like, I think they just did it because, you know, videos started popping on Instagram so hard.


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[Assistant] No, I was just kind of like, I just let the followers kind of like leak over. And uhm, I got a solid- Yeah, I'm just like-


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[Assistant] Never. Yeah. And that's kinda what I wish I had done.


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[Assistant] Uh, I studied computer science and then graduated and moved to, uh, Palo Alto. Started working for a startup and I was doing like a, I was basically


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[Assistant] So we started working on a version of Snapchat with video in it basically to compete with Snapchat.


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[Assistant] And then, they came out with a video. What was it called? It was called Clip Chat.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, and even like, as an app developer, the amount of times I've had like, even like close friends being like, hey dude, like I know you know how to code, I got this crazy idea, it's like an Uber for shredded cheese, and it's gonna like revolution, it's like,


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[Assistant] So I was in Palo Alto for a year and then I was in San Francisco for a year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I made some money. You guys ever heard of the app, I'd cap that?


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[Assistant] So I made this app, it was like an app. You took a picture and it would put a random caption on it. Like, that was like, it was like usually something crude.


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[Assistant] And I like gamed, you know how Apple has a review of all the apps like on the app store? So I like gamed the review process where like the really bad captions wouldn't come out until after they approved it.


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[Assistant] So I got a call from this dude from a startup in Silicon Valley. He was like, he ran like a mobile ad company. He's like, I'll buy the app from you and I'll hire you.


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[Assistant] It did for like, it did actually, I made it, my first like job at this company was to make a paid version of the app.


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[Assistant] It did, the paid version came out, it was like a dollar, and it had like no extra features, like this thing, you know, and it was, alright, I think we sold it for like two bucks or something like that, and I think it made like,


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[Assistant] So yea, my main concern was basically just getting a job out of college. So this guy was like, I'll hire you. And I was like, okay, like as long as I can get a job, better not like, you know, move home or whatever.


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[Assistant] So I was working on these social media apps and then all of a sudden Twitter came out with Vine.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, fast forward whenever it was like three months, I started getting, I re-downloaded it because I was bored. I lived alone in Palo Alto, which is like the worst city to live in if you're a 22 year old. Right. It's like nobody around. It's like the richest, bougie place.


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[Assistant] And I like the shit that's going on in LA and I like being by the beach.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, like, at the beginning it was like Rudy Mancuso and like Nick McGallis and, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. This girl I've been seeing, I was following her on there too, in the beginning. Subtle flex. Bizarre. It's weird the way that life works out, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] In it's own sense, like you, it's problem solving, right? So like you gotta, like, you have an idea, whatever, there's like multiple different ways you can solve that problem, and then it's like, you know, up to you which way you choose, you can do it in your own style, whatever, it's like kinda the same shit as YouTube or whatever.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I think I would have been, if I kept going at it, I would have been perfectly happy. I mean, it's a great career right now, like tech.


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[Assistant] It was, I mean, it used to be all over Facebook and shit like that, just because people were like, using it and posting images. Yeah, I've seen it, I've seen it. It would, it would, it would put, you know, like, you take a picture and just throw like, meat drapes or like,


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[Assistant] Did too much coke or something like that on the picture. And they were always like, they were always like,


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[Assistant] I mean, basically we just get drunk and my friends and I just write the crudest shit we could think of.


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[Assistant] I don't really remember, honestly. The first like, the first like


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[Assistant] I ended up, eventually like, I started, my videos making fun of him started getting more likes and views than his videos, and so I was like, this is, this is crazy, like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't really know, that's a great question. I realize that it was like, I guess one of my strengths when it started, you know, when I started doing that shit on Vine, like, is making fun of people.


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[Assistant] Uh, if not for the longest time. And I, I was like so...


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[Assistant] As soon as you did one ad or started making a little bit of money or started hanging out with other, like, popular Vine people, people would just turn on you right away about this guy's a fucking sellout.


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[Assistant] Using it, like all at once. And not even the people that were like making shit. Just people just stop going on it.


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[Assistant] It's like when you see someone at the gym I used to go to at my college, like the people who worked there used to do the elliptical at lunch in their jeans.


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[Assistant] She was, she was a fan of mine before she got famous.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like she, I think she hit me up like randomly one time I was in Vegas and she like lives in Vegas and she, she's like I don't know I like your stuff or whatever and I was like thanks and then all of a sudden she blew the fuck up on YouTube.


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[Assistant] She's real. She actually is, she's like not that, like you know you watch like FouseyTube and all these, all these people that like, you know, blew up in like traditional YouTube where you just like sit in the camera. Yeah. And sit in front of the camera and give advice even though you're


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[Assistant] 16, you should not be fucking giving advice to anybody. Right. You know, that whole era where all those like, YouTubers like, got big doing that shit, and so like, that was my opinion of YouTube, was like, I couldn't even make it through 20 seconds of one of those videos without like, just being like, this is so fucking stupid, so cringe.


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[Assistant] I watched one of her videos and I was like, holy fuck, this is actually refreshing. Like, she's like honest, she's not like, all crazy for the camera. Like, well I guess she puts it on a little bit for the camera, but it's like, she's cool and she's funny.


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[Assistant] Just cause it's like, I dunno, it's new, it's cool, like I'm just- I'm just still like-


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[Assistant] Those kind of guys, yeaah. And that's when my mind started being like, what could I do with this? Like I really wanna just...


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[Assistant] Fuck around with it and see what I can do and, and, you know, now like, I don't know, I've just like gotten better at editing and shit just like through this process of like figuring out like how, like my take on YouTube and I don't know.


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[Assistant] I used to, I felt the same way I used to do three, I used to vlog. That's when I started YouTube. Cause I was like, I started watching David Dobrik's vlogs and I was like, this is it. I was like, this is, cause I just didn't know what the fuck, I knew I wanted to do something different from Vine, but I didn't know what it would be. You know, Instagram comedy was like, I don't really want to get involved with that world.


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[Assistant] I was like, maybe it's YouTube, but I just like, don't know what I would do. I don't know, like, that was my-


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was, it was growth, but it was slow, like I was 50 to 100 subscribers a day and like there were, you know, I, I felt like there were people who like,


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[Assistant] Not really. Little bit here and there. But like by the time I was doing this shit like no one was on Vine.


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[Assistant] No, it was already like totally. This was only like three, four months ago that I started vlogging on, on YouTube.


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[Assistant] When I first moved back to LA, that's when I got a manager. And, uh,


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[Assistant] Basically we like, we're like, I wanna be an entertainer like full time, but I can't do that because visa issues. And so I was in the states on a software engineering visa.


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[Assistant] And like that's how I was living here, so like I needed that. And getting like a O-1 visa it's called for like acting or social media or like comedy or whatever is like super, super hard. You have to like prove to the government that you're like


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[Assistant] And when I first moved to LA, I wasn't there yet. Right. To get, to be able to get that visa. And so that's why, like, I got a job, worked at another startup for like six, seven months, something like that, and then I actually ended up working at Fullscreen.


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[Assistant] For a little while, until the point where like I felt like that could be a, like a, you know, realistic thing is getting this visa.


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[Assistant] Well it's like, it's the company that does the asset protection I think owns the rights to my vines on YouTube so they can collect, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] So like even though it's my video, like they still take, they still want that 30%. Really? Or whatever percentage it is, I forget what it is.


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[Assistant] But they're all like, they'd call you a sellout for that and it's like, how is this selling out? Like I just want to try a different thing.


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[Assistant] And he was like, he was like on shit and he's like had this whole cast. He's like, yeah. He's like, I just got surgery yesterday or something. And I was like, what did you do? He's like real life fruit ninja. And I was like, that was like, that's insane. He's like, yep, but I got 20 million views on it though. That's, that's what this is to you.


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[Assistant] Like he had a fucking, like a half-armed cast on.


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[Assistant] No, but he did like an insanely long one? Yeah, no, he did like, he like wore like a GoPro or some shit and like live streamed his whole life and he like got crazy famous from doing that and then he ended up, he's like one of the most well known entrepreneurs right now just because he ended up


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[Assistant] No matter what platform, if you're big on whatever platform, everyone's, everyone's pushing, no, everyone's just pushing to YouTube.


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[Assistant] Like, no matter what, like, big Snapchatters, the dudes that got famous on Snapchat are all on YouTube now. Everybody who's big on Facebook. Even livestreamers, like, everyone, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's also like, you know, the video's autoplay, which is like, huge, right? People scrolling through their feed and autoplaying video. I'm pretty sure they count that as a view. So it's like, it's gotta be a little bit exaggerated.


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[Assistant] That's so fucking funny. That's the, that's the beauty, that's the best thing about live streaming is that like, it has this like ephemeral like quality to it where people are like, no one will ever, like this is,


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[Assistant] No, I, I'm still trying to figure out what, because,


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[Assistant] This kid is like, it's like a self-fulfilling thing.


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[Assistant] Is there like a mentors index online that I can just go and like search? Hey, I'm looking for a comedy mentor. And you know, there's like Hannibal Burst pops up. Hey dude, would love to get you on the horn here. Let me take you under my wing. Show you how comedy goes.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think so. I think it's just like a lot of vague- like you watched one of his YouTube videos. A lot of the shit he says is like really really vague and like, it's just like generally good advice. Right. That's what- like it's- it's not bad advice at all. Like here's a video about like- Turn that shit on. Fucking...


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[Assistant] He's paying like, like Men's Humor did it today. And like, all the biggest Instagram models that I follow all posted, like straight up just a video of Tai Lopez talking about how he's giving away a car.


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[Assistant] That's like how you enter the giveaway.


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[Assistant] And then figure out whichever one does better and just post that one to his Instagram.


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[Assistant] I dunno, like when I first left my job, it was like my first time not having nine to five for a long time, so I was like, I was like partying a lot and going out probably too much, and then- Cocaine.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, my friend, like, started hitting me, I was like, hey, man, your newest video is like, really funny. Like, thank you, fucking thank you.


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[Assistant] Like the funniest part is like I got the DM and it was like, hey dude, uh, really liked your video, like there's not enough smart commentary videos out there, so like keep doing your thing. Best of luck.


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[Assistant] Like you just kinda like fuck around with your friends and like you just film it. But like a lot of the stuff was like, oh this would be funny if we did this. Let's, let's, like, let's fake this.


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[Assistant] Especially, especially in LA. It feels like it's like, cause you see other people see you do that and you're like, uh, I know what they're thinking. I know they're thinking that like, you know, you're just some dude trying to make it on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then like, you know, working really hard on the show on full screen and then like acting too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got, I got, I actually got casted in like a series that's gonna be on Go 90. Oh, awesome. Eventually, I don't know when it comes out, but we shot it in October, so it was like right after I left my job. I got that gig, which was dope. Uhm, and did that, but like that was really like the first like real like acting gig I'd ever had. Did you feel like you prepared?


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[Assistant] And, uh, and so like now, now is like the first time I've been like, you know, new year, I want to actually like go hard on this stuff and like actually take it seriously.


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[Assistant] And like, I'm in a scene work class right now and it's just like...


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[Assistant] Which is like, you know, a lot of the times, like, the first pair, the first pair who went up last Thursday, uhm, their scene was about how, like, she had lost a child, and he, like, they were married, and she had lost a child, or they'd lost the child, and she was, like, trying to get rid of the memory of this kid, and he was trying to keep the memory. So the dude, the dude that was playing this guy ends up weeping.


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[Assistant] I was just so nervous standing in front of these 15 people doing this scene. And then eventually the acting coach could tell, so she's like, alright, like,


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[Assistant] Let's do the, let's do the scene over, I'm just gonna yell out like a genre or like, uh, an emotion or something like that, you have to like embody it as you deliver the lines. So we're like, okay. So she's like, we're doing these lines, and she's like, alright, now you're in a horror movie, so we're acting all scared. And she's like, alright, now every line you say brings you closer to an orgasm.


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[Assistant] Do you wanna plug anything? Oh yeaah, plug, plug. Uh, oh, yo, uhm, my show comes out next week, next Friday, on Fullscreen Friday. What would next Friday be?


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[Assistant] Friday the 27th on fullscreen. Check it out. Subscribe to my YouTube channel. Like, comment.


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[Assistant] You know, Cobra Gorilla. Don't you dare use C-O. Canuts.


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[Assistant] Featuring your very talented and charming young hostess, Miss Jenny Blake.


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[Assistant] Oh Paul, more is done and again.


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[Assistant] After all, Jack Morgan's not here to threaten my husband into making me do something I have no desire to do. Jack Morgan.


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[Assistant] Islam reminds us of 9.11.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Ain't no buzzard station either. Not while I'm around.


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[Assistant] Next, next, next. Let's have none of that. If we're gonna go into partnership, let's go in with our eyes open. Now, you know me. All I've got on my mind is to grab some dough and get in the money. And I don't care how I get there. As for you, baby, I've known dozens like you.


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[Assistant] Kanata! I always wanted to have another serious Buddyfight with you. Same here, gal. Buddyfights with you are always a total blast. This time, Kanata will win. Here right!


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[Assistant] I first move. So I charge and I draw. I cast visible light!


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[Assistant] Just because this tournament's in your honor doesn't mean we'll go easy on you. I do everything in my


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[Assistant] Let's try. Heavenly Crystal Dragon!


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[Assistant] I call White Crystal Dragon Rizzling to the right. Let's go forth. His effect lets me draw a card. I equip my winning wing. Whoa! Kanata reveals a new item! Athora, go attack the fighter!


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[Assistant] Thanks, but it was all due to my buddies. That was a treat for the eyes.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. Hand over Belle or else.


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[Assistant] You have beaten me before, putz, but I'm a different fighter than I was back then.


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[Assistant] I challenge you to a buddy fight! Unless you're too scared.


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[Assistant] Get used to the new Nabooru! Now I've paid you back for my last defeat, you cream puff!


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[Assistant] Oh, you know, not much. I was just tuning my deck, is all. No, Belle. That monster was- Shhh. It's between us. That was my secret weapon, okay? Okay, Belle. I left your seal, Belle. Thanks for saving Belle, Belle. No, Baru. Hey, you actually got my name right.


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[Assistant] Look at him. Those losers sure seem happier than normal. I won't rest until I've gotten my revenge for what they did to me and Master Wisdom.


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[Assistant] Or else what, you and grandpa will get another pummeling by yours truly? Do you want another beating?


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[Assistant] I accept. You're a pathetic fool. I'll shut your trap for good this time, kitten shirt.


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[Assistant] Yes, Mr. Galt. This one for sale? Yes, Mr. Galt. They're all for sale. An indentured servant?


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[Assistant] I hear seventy pounds and another six pence. Have a closer look, gentlemen. Skin soft as satin. Cheerful as a metal lock. Must get those guns in if they're all new.


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[Assistant] Come on, save your scalp!


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[Assistant] Looking for somebody? Got it right here.


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[Assistant] Holden man, great white chief, many, many,


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[Assistant] Cause we're gonna have so much fun now. That somebody here might get some now. If you are ready to go home. Can I get a hell no? Hell no.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey hadn't seen the sky for more than an hour in the last two days. He and Omdi were safe enough in the great stone dome that sheltered the refugee ship. But there was no way to see outside. If it weren't for Omdi, I couldn't have stood in a minute.


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[Assistant] The ones who killed mom and dad and Joanna were just a few kilometers away. They had captured some of Mr. Steel's guns.


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[Assistant] In the last few days the explosions had gone on for hours.


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[Assistant] And when they weren't sitting in the ship's command cabin, the two wandered outside the ship to the rooms with the sleeping children.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey had kept up with the simple maintenance procedures he remembered.


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[Assistant] But now there was joy. Ravna's long silence had ended. Omdi Jeffery and Mr. Steele had actually talked to her in voice. Three more hours and her ship would be here.


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[Assistant] Even the bombardment had ended, almost as if Woodcarver realized that her time was near to ending.


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[Assistant] Left to himself, Jeffrey would have spent the time in a state of wall climbing anxiety.


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[Assistant] After all, he was nine years old now. A grown-up with grown-up problems. But then there was Omdi.


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[Assistant] The pack was much smarter than Jeffrey in some ways. But he was such a little kid. About five years old, as near as Omni Jeffrey could figure it. Except when he was into heavy thinking, he could not stay still.


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[Assistant] After the call from Ravna, Jeffrey wanted to sit down for serious worrying.


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[Assistant] But Omni began chasing himself around the pylons. He shouted back and forth in Jeffrey's voice and Ravna's and bumped into the boy accidentally on purpose. Jeffrey hopped up and glared at the careening puppies. Just a little kid.


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[Assistant] And suddenly, happy and so sad all at once.


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[Assistant] Is this how Joanna saw me? And so he had responsibilities now too, like being patient.


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[Assistant] As one of Abdi came rushing past his knees, Jeffrey swept down to grab the wriggling form. He raised it to shoulder level as the rest of the pack converged gleefully, pounding on him from all directions. They fell to the dry moss and wrestled for a few seconds. Let's explore! Let's explore!


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[Assistant] We have to be here for Ravna and Mr. Steel. Don't worry, we'll remember when. Okay. Where was there really to go?


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[Assistant] The two walked through the torch-lit dimness to the clarestery that ringed the inner edge of the dome. As far as Jeffrey could see, they were alone. That was not unusual. Mr. Steele was very worried that woodcarver spies might get into the ship. Even his own soldiers rarely came here.


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[Assistant] Umdee Jeffery had investigated the inside wall before. Behind the quilts, the stone felt cool and damp.


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[Assistant] There were some holes to the outside for ventilation, but they were almost 10 meters up, where the wall was already curving inwards towards the apex of the dome.


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[Assistant] The stone was rough cut, not yet polished. Mr. Steel's workers had been in a frantic hurry to complete the protection before Woodcarver's army arrived. Nothing was polished, and the quilts were undecorated.


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[Assistant] Ahead and behind him, Omdi was sniffing at the cracks and fresh mortar. The one in Jeffrey's arms gave a concerted wiggle.


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[Assistant] Ha! Up ahead! I knew that mortar was coming loose, the pack said. Jeffrey let all of his friend rush forward to a nook in the wall. It didn't look any different than before, but Omdey was scratching with five pairs of paws. Even if you can get it loose, what good does it do you?


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[Assistant] Jeffrey had seen these blocks as they were lowered into place. They were almost 50 centimeters across, laid in alternating rows. Getting past one would just bring them to more stone.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I've been saving this up till we had some time to kill. Yech, this mortar burns my lips.


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[Assistant] More scratching, and the pack passed back a fragment as big as Jeffrey's head.


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[Assistant] Omni's shrill came from a member right by his ear. There's a tunnel back here. Not just another layer of stone.


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[Assistant] A member wriggled past Jeffrey and disappeared into the dark.


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[Assistant] Secret tunnels? That was too much like a Nigerian fairy tale.


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[Assistant] These are big enough for a full grown member, Jeffrey. You could get through these on hands and knees. Two more of Omni disappeared into the hole.


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[Assistant] The tunnel he had discovered might be large enough for a human child, but the entrance hall was a tight fit even for the puppies. Jeffrey had nothing to do but stare into the darkness.


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[Assistant] The parts of Omni that remained at the entrance talked about what he had found.


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[Assistant] Goes on for a long, long way. I've doubled back a couple of times. The top of me is about five meters up, way over your head.


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[Assistant] This is kooky. I'm getting all strung out.


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[Assistant] Omni sounded even sillier than his normal playfulness. Two more of him went into the hole.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, the tunnel isn't an accident. It feels like it was cut as grooves in the stones when they were laid. This is some special escape route Mr. Steel made. I'm alright. Alright.


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[Assistant] One more disappeared into the hole. After a moment, the last remaining one ran in, but stayed near enough to the entrance so Omdi could still talk to Jeffrey.


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[Assistant] The pack was having a high old time, singing and screeching to itself. Jeffrey knew exactly what the other was up to. It was another of the games he could never play.


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[Assistant] In this posture, UMD's thoughts would be the weirdest rippling things. Darn.


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[Assistant] Now that he was playing within stone, it must be even neater than before, since he was totally cut off from all thoughts except from member to adjacent member.


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[Assistant] The stupid singing went on a little longer and then Omdi spoke in an almost reasonable tone.


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[Assistant] Hey, this tunnel actually splits off in places. The front of me has come to a fork. One side is heading down. Wish I had enough members to go both ways. Well, you don't. Hey ho, I'll take the upper tunnel today. A few seconds of silence.


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[Assistant] There's a little door here, like a member-size room door. Not locked.


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[Assistant] Omdi relayed the sounds of stone scritching against stone. Ha! I can see light!


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[Assistant] Up just a few more meters, it opens onto a window. Hear the wind!


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[Assistant] He relayed wind sound and the keening of the sea birds that soared up from Hidden Island. It sounded wonderful.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, this is stretching things, but I want to look out.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey, I can see the sun. I'm outdoors, sitting way up on the side of the dome. I can see all around to the south. Boy, it's smoky down there.


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[Assistant] What about the hillside? Jeffrey asked the nearest member.


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[Assistant] It's white splotched pelt was barely visible through the entrance hole. At least Omdi was staying in touch. A little browner than last ten day. I don't see any soldiers out there.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey heard the relayed sound of a cannon firing. Yipes, there's shooting though. It hit just on this side of the crest.


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[Assistant] Someone's out there just below my line of sight. Woodcarver, come at last.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey shivered, angry that he couldn't see, frightened of what might be seen.


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[Assistant] He often had nightmares about what Woodcarver must truly be. How she had done it to Mom and Dad and Joanna. Images never fully formed, yet almost memories. Mr. Steel will get Woodcarver.


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[Assistant] Uh oh! Old Tyrethect is coming across the castle yard this way!


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[Assistant] Thumping sounds came from the hole as Omdi blundered back down.


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[Assistant] No point in letting Tyre Effect know that there was a tunnel hidden in the wall. He'd probably just order them to stay away from it. One, two, three, four. Half of UMD popped out of the wall. The four wandered around a little dazedly.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey couldn't tell if it was because of their stretched out experience or if they were temporarily split from the other half of the pack. Act natural! Act natural!


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[Assistant] Then the other four arrived and Omni began to settle down. He led Jeffrey away from the wall at a fast trot. Let's get the comms set. We'll pretend we've been trying to raise Ravna with it.


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[Assistant] Umdi knew well that the Starship couldn't be back for another 30 minutes or so. In fact, he had been the one who verified the deceleration math for Mr. Steel.


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[Assistant] Nevertheless, he chased up the ship's steps and dragged down the radio. The two were already plugging the antenna into a signal booster when the public doors on the west side of the dome were unlatched.


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[Assistant] Silhouetted against the daylight were parts of a guard pack and a single member of Tyre effect.


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[Assistant] The guard retired, sliding the doors shut and the cloak walks slowly across the moss towards them.


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[Assistant] Omdi rushed over and chattered about their attempts to use the radio. It was a little forced, Jeffrey thought. The puppies were still confused by their trip through the walls.


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[Assistant] He brushed the powder away. You won't tell will you? Fat chance he'll help us, thought Jeffrey.


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[Assistant] Mr. Tyrethecht had learned Sam Norrisk better than Mr. Steele. And besides, Steele was the only one who had much time to talk with them. But even before the radio cloaks, he'd been a short-tempered bossy sort. Jeffrey had had babysitters like him.


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[Assistant] Tyre effect was nice up to a point, then would get sarcastic or say something mean.


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[Assistant] But Mr. Tyrethect didn't say anything right away. He sat down slowly, as if his rump hurt. No, I won't tell.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey exchanged a surprised glance with one of Omdi. What is the tunnel for? he asked timidly.


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[Assistant] All castles have hidden tunnels, especially in my, in the domain of Mr. Steel. You want ways to escape, ways to spy on your enemies.


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[Assistant] The singleton shook its head. Never mind. Is your radio properly receiving, OmdeJeffrey? Omdecocked ahead at the comms display.


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[Assistant] I think so, but there's nothing yet to receive. See, Ravna's ship had to decelerate and, um, I could show you the arithmetic.


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[Assistant] But Mr. Tyrethecht was obviously not interested in playing with chalkboards.


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[Assistant] Well, depending on their luck with the ultra drive, we should have radio contact with them real soon.


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[Assistant] Then the calm window was glowing green. There was a garble of sound as it tried to sort signal from background noise.


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[Assistant] Tyrethac's laugh was a giggle. He had never heard any other kind. I?


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[Assistant] He made the tiniest chord that sounded like Tyre effect to Jeffrey. Or do you mean a taken name like steel? I don't know the exact word. You may call me Mr. Skinner.


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[Assistant] Tyrethek laughed again. For now, I can speak for Steele. Jeffrey, are you alright? Yes, yes. Listen to Mr. Skinner.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey, what's the volume of a ball 10 centimeters across?


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[Assistant] Omni had been fidgeting impatiently through the conversation.


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[Assistant] All through the last year, he had been hearing stories of humans from Jeffrey.


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[Assistant] His voice was perfect Jeffrey and completely fluent. It's 523.598 cubic centimeters. Or do you want more digits? Muffled conversation.


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[Assistant] No, that's fine. Okay, Mr. Skinner, we have pictures from our earlier pass and a general radio fix. Where exactly are you?


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[Assistant] Under the castle dome at the top of Starship Hill. It's right at the coast by a, a man's voice cut in. Fam? He had a funny accent.


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[Assistant] I got it on the map. We still can't see you direct. Too much haze.


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[Assistant] Said the cloak. The enemy is almost upon us from the south. We need your help immediately.


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[Assistant] Hmm, yes, without your help, we and Jeffrey and this ship are lost. Please land within the castle courtyard. You know we've specially reinforced it for your arrival. Once down, we can use your weapons too. No way.


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[Assistant] The guy replied immediately, just separate the friendlies from the bad guys and let us take care of things.


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[Assistant] Tyrethek's voice took on a wheedling tone, like a little kid complaining. He really has been studying us.


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[Assistant] No, no, didn't mean to be impolite. Certainly do it your own way. About the enemy force, everyone close to the castle on the south side of the hill are enemy. A single pass with your ship's, uhm, torch would send them running. I can't fly that torch inside an atmosphere.


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[Assistant] Did your pup really land with the main jet, Jeffrey? No way, Grav. Yes, sir. All we had was the jet. He was a lucky genius. Ravna.


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[Assistant] Maybe we could just float across, a few thousand meters up. That might scare them away. Tyrathax began, yes, that might.


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[Assistant] The public doors on the north side of the dome slid open. Mr. Steel stood silhouetted against the daylight beyond. Let me talk to them, he said.


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[Assistant] They were so close. Yet those 20,000 meters might be as hard to bridge as the 20,000 light years they had come so far.


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[Assistant] They floated on agrav directly over Starship Hill. OOB's multispectral wasn't working very well, but where smoke did not obscure...


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[Assistant] The ship's optics could count the needles on the trees below.


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[Assistant] Ravna could see the forces of woodcarver ranged across the slopes south of the castle.


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[Assistant] There were other troops and apparently cannon hidden in the forests that line the fjord south of that. Given a little more time they would be able to locate them too. Time was the one thing they did not have. Time and trust. 48 hours, fam. Then the fleet will be here all around us. Maybe, maybe Godshatter could work a miracle. They'd never know stewing about it up here. Try.


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[Assistant] Fam glared back at her, and for an instant, she feared he might go completely to pieces. You'd hand yourself over to that steel?


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[Assistant] Medieval villains are just as smart as any you've seen in the beyond, Rav. They could teach the butterflies a thing or two.


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[Assistant] An arrow in the head will kill you as sure as an antimatter bomb. More fake memories?


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[Assistant] But Fam was right on this. She thought about the just concluded conversation.


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[Assistant] The second pack, Steel, had been a bit too insistent.


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[Assistant] He had been good to Jeffrey, but he was clearly desperate and she believed him when he said that a high flyby wouldn't scare the woodcarvers off. They needed to come down near the ground with firepower.


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[Assistant] Just now, about all the firepower they had was Fam's beam gun. Okay then.


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[Assistant] Do what you and Steel talked about. Fly the lander past woodcarver's lines. Laser blast them. God damn it, you know I can't fly that. The landing boat is like nothing either of us know. And without the automation, I... Softly. Without the automation, you need blue shell, fam.


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[Assistant] There was horror on Fam's face. She reached out to him. He was silent for a long moment, not seeming to notice. Yeaah. His voice was low, strangled. Then, Blue Shell, get up here.


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[Assistant] OOB's lander had more than enough room for the scrolled rider and fam newen. The craft had been built specifically for rider use.


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[Assistant] With higher automation working, it would have been easy for Fam, for even a child to fly. Now the craft could not provide stable flight, and the manual controls were something that gave even Blue Shell a hard time. Damn automation. Damn optimization. For most of his adult life, Fam had lived in the slowness.


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[Assistant] All those decades, he had managed spacecraft and weapons that could have reduced the feudal empire below to slag.


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[Assistant] Yet now, with equipment that should have been enormously more powerful, he couldn't even fly a damn landing boat.


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[Assistant] Across the crew compartment, Blue Shell was at the pilot's position.


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[Assistant] His fronds stretched across a web of supports and controls. He had turned off all display automation. Only the main window was alive. A natural view from the boat's bow camera. O.O.B. floated some hundred meters ahead, drifting up and out of view as their craft slid backwards and down.


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[Assistant] Blue Shell's fidgety nervousness, furtiveness it seemed to Fam, had disappeared as he got into piloting the craft.


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[Assistant] His voter voice became terse and preoccupied and the edges of his fronds writhed across the controls.


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[Assistant] An exercise that would have been impossible to Fam, even if he had a lifetime of experience with the gear. Thank you, Sir Fam.


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[Assistant] I'll prove you can trust the nose lurched downwards and they were staring almost straight into the fjord carvin coastline 20 kilometers below.


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[Assistant] They fell free for half a minute while the riders' fronds writhed on their supports. Hot piloting? No. Sorry, sorry.


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[Assistant] Acceleration and fams sank into his restraints under a grav load that wobbled between a tenth G and an intolerable crush.


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[Assistant] The landscape rotated, and they had a brief glimpse of OOB now like a tiny moth above them.


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[Assistant] Is it necessary to kill, Sir Fam? Perhaps simply our appearance over the battle. New and grit at his teeth. Just get us down.


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[Assistant] The steel creature had been adamant that they fry the entire hillside.


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[Assistant] Steel's fortifications were clearly visible even in the natural view. The rough polygon that guarded the refugee ship.


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[Assistant] The much larger structure that rambled across an island several kilometers westward.


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[Assistant] I wonder if this is how my father's castle looked to the Changho Landers.


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[Assistant] Those walls were high and unsloping. Clearly the tines had had no idea of gunpowder till Ravna had clued them to it.


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[Assistant] The valley south of the castle was a blot of dark smoke, smoothly streaming toward the sea. Even without data enhancement, he could see hotspots, fringes of orange edging the black.


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[Assistant] You're at two thousand meters, came Ravna's voice. Jeffrey says he can see you. Patch me through to them. I will try, Sofem.


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[Assistant] And then the steel packs hybrid of Ravna and the Kid. South to go! South to go! Use fire gun! Burn them quick!


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[Assistant] Blue shall have them down in the smoke already. For seconds they were flying blind.


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[Assistant] A break in the smoke showed the hillside less than 200 meters off, coming up fast.


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[Assistant] Before Fam could curse at Blue Shell, the rider had turned them around and floated the boat into clearer air.


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[Assistant] Then he pitched over, so they might see directly down.


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[Assistant] After 30 weeks of talking and planning, Fam had his first glimpse of the tines. Even from here.


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[Assistant] It was obvious they were different from any Sofans fam had encountered.


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[Assistant] Clusters of four or five or six members hung together so close they seemed a single spider-like being.


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[Assistant] And each pack stood separated from the others by 10 or 15 meters.


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[Assistant] A cannon flashed in the merc. The pack crewing it moved like a single coordinated hand to rock the barrel back and ram another charge down the muzzle.


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[Assistant] But if these are the enemies, Sir Pham, where did they get the guns? They stole them. But muzzleloaders? He didn't have time to pursue the thought.


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[Assistant] It was the kid, speaking with his usual incredible precision. Kill him! Kill him!


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[Assistant] Pham wriggled out of his restraints and crawled back to the hatch where they had mounted his beam gun.


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[Assistant] It was about the only thing salvaged from the workshop fire. But by God, this was something he could operate.


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[Assistant] Keep a steady, Blue Show. Bounce me around and I'll fry you as likely as anything.


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[Assistant] He pushed open the hatch and gagged on spicy smoke. Then Blue Shell's agravs wafted them into a clear space and Pham lined the beamer down the ranks of packfolk.


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[Assistant] Originally Woodcarver had demanded Joanna stay at the base camp. Joanna's response had been explosive. Even now, the girl was a little surprised at herself.


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[Assistant] Not since the first days on Tyne's World had she come so close to attacking a pack.


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[Assistant] No way was anyone going to keep her from finding out about Jeffrey. In the end they had compromised.


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[Assistant] Trusted guardpacks pace their course 20 meters on either side.


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[Assistant] This area was supposedly safe from infiltration, and there had been no artillery fire from the flencerists for hours.


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[Assistant] But Peregrine absolutely refused to let her get any closer. It's nothing like last year.


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[Assistant] Then all had been sunny blue skies and clean air. And her parents murder.


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[Assistant] Now she and Pilgrim had returned, and the blue sky was yellow-grey, and the sweeps of mossy hillside were black, and now the packs around her were fighting with her, and now there was a chance. Let me close there, dammit! Woodcarver will have the Oliphant no matter what happens to me.


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[Assistant] Peregrine shook himself a tiny-ish negative. One of his puppies reached out from a jacket pouch to catch at her sleeve.


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[Assistant] A glare of heat on her back and the smoke flashed bright, again, again, and then the impact of rapid thunder marching across the sky.


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[Assistant] Pilgrim shuddered against her. That's not gunfire, he shouted. Two of me are almost blinded. Come on!


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[Assistant] He surrounded her, almost knocking her off her feet as he pushed, dragged her down the hill.


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[Assistant] For a second, Joanna went along more dazed than cooperative. Somehow they had lost their escort.


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[Assistant] From up the hill, the shouts of battle had stopped, the sharp thunder had silenced all.


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[Assistant] Where the smoke thinned, she could see one of Scrupulo's cannons, the barrel extending from a puddle of melted steel. The cannoneer had been blown to bits. Not gunfire.


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[Assistant] Joanna spasmed out of Pilgrim's grip, not gunfire.


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[Assistant] Spacers! Pilgrim! That must be a drive torch! Peregrine grabbed her, continuing down the hill. Not a drive torch! That I've heard, this is quieter and somebody's aiming it!


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[Assistant] There had been a long stutter of separate blasts. How many of Woodcarver's people had just died?


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[Assistant] His jaws ease their grip on her sleeves and pants. What can we do? Hanging around here will just get us killed.


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[Assistant] Joanna stared into the sky. No sign of fliers, but there was so much smoke. The sun was a dull bloody ball.


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[Assistant] If only the rescuers knew they were killing her friends. If only they could see. She dug her feet into the ground. If I can get where they can see me...


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[Assistant] Let go of me, Pilgrim! I'm going uphill out of the smoke! He'd stopped moving.


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[Assistant] But his grip was fiercely tight. Four adult faces and two puppy ones looked up at her, and indecision was in every look. Please Pilgrim, it's the only way! Packs were straggling down, some bleeding, some in fragments.


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[Assistant] His frightened eyes stared at her an instant longer. Then he let go. And touched her hand with a nose.


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[Assistant] The old pilgrim smile flickered across his members. Okay, let's try it!


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[Assistant] The two without puppies went up the hillside, scouting for the safest route.


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[Assistant] Joanna and the rest of him followed. They were moving across a sloping terrace. The summer drought had drained the chilled swamp water she remembered from the landing.


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[Assistant] And the blackened moss was firm under her. The going should have been easy.


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[Assistant] But Peregrine wound through the deepest hummocks hunkering down every few seconds to look in all directions. They reached the end of the terrace and began climbing.


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[Assistant] There were places so steep she had to grab the appellate stirrups on two of peregrine and let him hoist her up. They passed the nearest cannon, what was left of it.


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[Assistant] Joanna had never seen such things except in stories. But the splash of metal and the carbonized flesh could only mean some kind of beam weapon. Running across the hill were similar craters.


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[Assistant] He leaned two of himself down, tilting his epaulettes toward her hands. She grabbed them, pushing off with her feet. For a moment she in the pack teetered over a four meter fall, and then she was lying on brownish unburned moss. Pilgrim clustered around her, hiding her.


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[Assistant] She peeked out between his legs. The outermost walls of Steel's castle were visible from here.


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[Assistant] Tainish archers stood boldly on the ramparts, taking advantage of the chaos among woodcarver's troops. In fact,


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[Assistant] The Queen's force had not lost many packs in the air attack, but even the unwounded were milling around.


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[Assistant] The Queen's soldiers were no cowards, Joanna knew that by now, but they had just been confronted by force beyond all defense. Overhead the smoke faded into blue. The battlefield ahead of her lay under clear sky.


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[Assistant] In the years before the high lab, Joanna and her mother had often gone on nature trips over Bigby Marsh at Straum. With the sensors on their camper packs, they'd had no trouble watching the skygwings there.


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[Assistant] Even if this flyer's automation was not specifically looking for a human on the ground, it should notice her. Do you see anything?


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[Assistant] The four adult heads angled back and forth in coordinated pairs. No, the flyer must be very far away or behind the smoke. Nuts.


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[Assistant] Joanna can offer knees, trotted toward the castle walls. They must be watching there. What carver's not going to like this?


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[Assistant] Two of the Queen's soldiers were already running toward them, attracted by their purposeful movement, or the sight of Joanna. Pilgrim waved them back.


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[Assistant] Alone on an open field less than 200 meters from the castle wall.


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[Assistant] Even with normal vision, how could they be overlooked?


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[Assistant] In fact, they were noticed. There was a soft hissing, and a meter long arrow thunked into the turf on their left.


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[Assistant] Scarbut grabbed her shoulder, pulling her to a crouch. The puppies shifted his shields into position.


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[Assistant] Pilgrim made a barricade of himself on the castle side and started back out of range, back into the smoke.


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[Assistant] Something about staying back, in danger from the sky. It didn't stop their advance. They want you away from the arrows!


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[Assistant] And suddenly they noticed that the fire from the castle had stopped.


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[Assistant] She looked in the direction he was pointing. It was a lumpy thing, probably space based, though it had no ultra-drive spines. It bobbled and staggered. There was no sign of jets.


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[Assistant] Again the stuttering thunder, only now the light was marching right across her friends toward her.


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[Assistant] Umdee Jeffery was on the battlements. Steel hid his glares from the two. There simply was no help for it. Ravna had demanded Jeffery be by the radio to guide the strike.


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[Assistant] The human was not completely stupid. It shouldn't make any difference.


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[Assistant] An army looks like an army whether it is foe or friend. Very soon the army beyond these walls would cease to exist.


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[Assistant] How did the first run go? Ravna's voice came clearly from the comm set.


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[Assistant] Okay, I counted 15 pulses, only 10 hit anything. I bet I could shoot better than that.


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[Assistant] The voice was not Ravna's. Steel heard the irritation in it. Everybody can find something to hate in these pups. The thought warmed him. Please, said Steel. Fire again. Again.


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[Assistant] He looked over the stonework. The air attack had taken out a band of enemy by the edge of the near terrace. It was spectacular destruction.


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[Assistant] Up and down the ramparts his own troops danced about their stations.


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[Assistant] Things had been bleak since their cannon were knocked out. They needed something to cheer about.