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[Assistant] Said the latter as if he was wronged while stroking the back of his head.


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[Assistant] Anyways, first go and sign up for that holy duel, sports meeting, Gwell's told him.


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[Assistant] Afterwards, find out where we can buy the tickets for the magic movie. No matter the cost, you have to buy them. Understood?


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[Assistant] Neverwinter held the first national sports meeting on the victory day.


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[Assistant] Roland had simplified the process of the game, so there was neither an opening ceremony nor a running commentary on the match.


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[Assistant] However, this could not stop it from becoming a major event in the city.


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[Assistant] Early in the morning, everyone spontaneously rushed to the Kingdom Main Street with a little stool or a felt-padded cushion in hand, since they all wanted to grab a nice position to watch the game. Most of them went out with all of their family members.


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[Assistant] Such a huge stream of people attracted lots of peddlers.


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[Assistant] They carried snacks and beverages on their backs, peddling along the way.


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[Assistant] Considering that most people in the city needed to walk at least 28km to the middle section of the Kingdom Main Street, where the finish line was located, Roland decided to start the race at 2pm.


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[Assistant] By doing so, he could allow more time for the spectators to get ready.


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[Assistant] Still, beyond his expectations, he soon found out that he had underestimated their enthusiasm for this game.


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[Assistant] By noon, this place had already been tightly surrounded by about 10,000 enthusiastic spectators, and more people were still coming here.


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[Assistant] As the king of Grey Castle, he did not have to huddle together with the common people.


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[Assistant] The Ministry of Construction had built a stand next to the street a day before.


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[Assistant] There were around 100 seats on its platform, which were reserved for the senior officials of Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] Some soldiers of the 1st Army also were placed around the stand to ensure their safety.


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[Assistant] But due to the limited registration time, I only categorized the information and analyzed the data rudimentarily. If I had two more days, that's alright. Roland waved his hand to stop scroll.


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[Assistant] We are holding this sports meeting to boost people's morale for the expedition. We can't afford any delay.


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[Assistant] When he glanced through the roster, he found out that Scroll was just being modest.


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[Assistant] In such a short time, she found out every participant's address and resume and recorded all the information in an orderly way. Roland believed no one else could do a better job. In the roster, he came across some familiar names. One was his old buddy, Yorko. Another one was Lucia's younger sister, Ring.


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[Assistant] He also saw the three alchemists from the former capital city's alchemist workshop.


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[Assistant] He was happy to see them approve the sports meetings proverb. The most important thing is to participate, as none of them had any chances of winning the game, even though there were no witches involved in this match.


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[Assistant] The names of the participants who were more likely to win the race were on the first page.


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[Assistant] Roland saw that the top two names were Furlan Eltech and Carter Lanus.


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[Assistant] He asked Skrull, do you think the champion is going to be either the morning light or my chief knight? Skrull smoothed back her hair and replied with a smile. Your majesty, it's almost time. Barov, who was in a seat below, reminded him. Well, let's get started.


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[Assistant] Roland put down the roster and picked up the telephone next to him.


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[Assistant] Gwels wore a desert-style fighting robe and was warming up before the game.


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[Assistant] He asked Rowan, do you know what the Great Chief is going to do to make all the participants in the two regions start running at the same time?


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[Assistant] The two starting lines are on the opposite sides of one another and all of us will run toward the middle of the street. Fairness is the most important thing in the holy duel.


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[Assistant] If this race is a little bit unfair, it'll damage the great chief's reputation. Who knows? That doesn't matter at all.


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[Assistant] Rohan complained in his heart before replying with a little embarrassment, Father, could you please take that headband off? And the fur around your waist.


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[Assistant] He had never expected that a magic movie, The Wolf Princess, would have influenced his father so deeply.


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[Assistant] They had spent a large sum of money to watch the movie, and since then, his father had become obsessed with the wolf princess.


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[Assistant] Recently, he had repeatedly praised Lorda's beauty and reproached himself for asking her to cover her wolf parts to avoid criticisms.


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[Assistant] The movie made him realize how stupid and cowardly he was and regretted that he had not done his fatherly duty which was to accept and protect his daughter.


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[Assistant] Rohan understood his father's feelings, but he felt really uncomfortable seeing him dressed like this.


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[Assistant] Gwell's wore a headband with a pair of toy wolf ears stitched on it.


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[Assistant] He also wrapped a strip of fur around his waist as a wolf tail. You're the chief of the Wild Flame Clan.


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[Assistant] If someone from the port of Clearwater were to see you dressed so silly and if they were to pass it on to the Magins, how would you face the other Clan Chiefs in the future? Rohan yelled in his heart, This is my compensation for her.


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[Assistant] Don't ask me to take them off again, said Gwell seriously.


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[Assistant] The courage she displayed in the magic movie made me feel ashamed.


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[Assistant] Stick to the road of your choice and never let anyone else's opinion shake your resolve. That's what I taught her, but I myself failed to do so. The best way to cope with criticism is to confront it.


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[Assistant] If more and more people are willing to accept this look, they won't think of Lorgr as a monster.


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[Assistant] Rohan opened his mouth only to find out that he was lost for words. I heard you question the credibility of this match. Suddenly, a voice came from behind. You aren't from here, right? You've no idea how talented His Majesty is.


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[Assistant] He's invented something called the telephone to exchange instant messages with people from far away. And did you notice those things above?


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[Assistant] Rohan turned his gaze toward the place the man pointed at and saw two big black cylinders up there.


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[Assistant] He could hardly think of how they were going to pass messages to the race participants. It's called a loudspeaker. It can magnify the sound by several dozens of times.


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[Assistant] There's another loudspeaker near the start line in Wangsong district. They are both connected to His Majesty's telephone.


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[Assistant] As long as it's a fair game, I'll try my best to win the match. By the way, uncle, your body's really strong. The winter's just ended so it's still quite chilly. Aren't you cold in that short robe? The man looked at Gwell's with interest.


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[Assistant] In this headband with wolf ears, oh no, here it is. Rohan closed his eyes in embarrassment.


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[Assistant] He assumed that the man was going to ridicule his father's outfit and that his father was going to feel awkward or furiously beat the man up.


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[Assistant] When Gwell's was about to answer the man, a harsh sizzling noise suddenly came out from the loudspeaker. Good afternoon, everybody, sis. I'm Roland Wimbledon. All the people in the street fell silent. I'm sure you already know the rules of the game well.


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[Assistant] I just want to remind you that the result of the race is not the most important thing. You came here to challenge yourselves.


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[Assistant] As long as you do your best, you'll be your own hero, whether or not you make it to the end.


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[Assistant] Remember not to disturb your opponents or play any other tricks in this race.


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[Assistant] In Border District, hundreds of race participants started to run.


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[Assistant] They were greeted by cheers all along the Kingdom Main Street as they were running toward Longsong Stronghold.


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[Assistant] Some police officers who wore uniforms and bright ribbons bicycled on both sides of the street, following the participants all the way.


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[Assistant] They worked as judges and relief workers for this long distance race. The same situation occurred in Long Song District.


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[Assistant] For the first time in this world, more than a thousand people were running toward the same place at the same time.


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[Assistant] Not out of fear for their lives but to show their strength without any concerns.


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[Assistant] Undoubtedly, Neverwinter would gain a worldwide reputation for such an unprecedented event.


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[Assistant] Soon, everyone on the continent would know that the new king's city of Greycastle organized the first long distance race in the world.


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[Assistant] At the finish line on the grandstand, Lance was bending over the handrails, shouting and cheering.


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[Assistant] Cole turned toward Edith and asked, Sister, why didn't you join the race?


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[Assistant] If it's just about endurance, shouldn't you also be able to win a prize?


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[Assistant] Cole noticed that after Lance came to Neverwinter, Edith seemed to be in a better mood and became much more talkative.


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[Assistant] Most of the time, she would not even tease him in front of their youngest brother.


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[Assistant] Otherwise he would never dare to disturb Edith with such a trivial question. Oh? Edith glanced sideways at him. Why do I have to win such a prize?


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[Assistant] Uhm, didn't you really like this kind of competition before?


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[Assistant] If you hadn't stood out from the competition, you would have never become the pearl of the Northern region, Cole thought. In his view, Edith was a super competitive person.


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[Assistant] Back in the northern region, she practiced fencing with knights in the daytime and shone brightly at banquets in the evening.


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[Assistant] She defeated countless knights single-handedly and attracted lots of admirers on social occasions. Even Timothy was attracted to her.


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[Assistant] After winning many fencing matches and outshining numerous ladies at banquets, she finally became a well-known figure in the northern region.


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[Assistant] Cole really could not understand why she suddenly started to keep a low profile and refused to join this long distance race held by his majesty. Because our family needed me to do that. Edith shrugged.


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[Assistant] If I hadn't tried my best to increase the influence of the Camp family as quickly as possible, our father would have never got the Duke title.


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[Assistant] But now, I don't have to rely on this kind of competition to grab the king's attention, Edith continued, seemingly not minding what Cole previously said, which made the boy feel quite relieved. And... I'm not alone anymore. Cole was stunned. What do you mean by that? Edith looked at Lance and Cole. I now have you guys, don't I? Hearing that, Cole immediately thrust out his chest.


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[Assistant] He felt that he should say something at this moment, but he did not know what to say.


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[Assistant] How about we stop here and rest for a while? Anyway, there are many people behind us now.


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[Assistant] As Rohan had expected, not many people could keep running for more than an hour.


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[Assistant] The participants started running as a crowd, and then the crowd gradually turned into a line. At this moment, it was probably a dotted line. Gwells and Rohan were among the leading runners.


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[Assistant] Since the beginning of the game, only several participants had surpassed them.


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[Assistant] Given that, Rohan thought even if they were to take some rest here, they could still do well in the race. He did not care much about the prize. He was more worried about his father's health.


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[Assistant] Wells had not taken any strenuous exercise for a long time, and this long distance race turned out to be even more consuming than traveling across a desert. In a desert, they did not need to run very fast.


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[Assistant] They just followed a plan route and could get food and water from the oases along the way.


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[Assistant] In this race, however, they needed to use lots of energy to keep a certain speed. You wanna give up again? Gwell's glared at Rowan. Because you're not the last one? Aye. Lorgr would never say anything like that. What are you going to become like her? Try your best to fight for a goal and never give up. Have you ever thought of winning the first prize?


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[Assistant] Otherwise, how else can I defeat a divine lady favored by the three gods? I cannot even defeat our family's chief bodyguard.


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[Assistant] In order to maintain Wildflame's rank in the Iron Sand City, the clan worshipped outstanding warriors. That was why everyone thought Lorgr was the best successor.


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[Assistant] Faced with such a reality, Rowan chose to back down to avoid intraclan conflicts.


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[Assistant] He did this for the entire clan's interests, but his father did not seem to appreciate it.


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[Assistant] He had felt depressed about this for a long time, and now, he thought he really had enough of it.


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[Assistant] Besides, he was quite embarrassed by his father's wolf girl outfit.


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[Assistant] Under such circumstances, for the first time in his life, Rohan cried out to his father, I'm worried about you. If it wasn't for you, I would be at the lead now. He felt regret as soon as he finished saying this.


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[Assistant] It sounded like he was reproaching his father for dragging him down.


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[Assistant] When he was about to say something to make up for his mistake before his father flew into a rage, Gwell said, Well then, you can run by yourself. Father, I mean. Rohan turned his head to look at Gwell's. To his surprise, he saw a smiling face.


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[Assistant] I'm too old for this race now, no matter how strong I used to be.


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[Assistant] If you practice a thing for ten years, you'll excel in it, no matter how stupid you are. Gwell's paused and then added slowly, don't worry. I'll walk to the finish line. Rohan clenched his fists.


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[Assistant] After a brief silence, he said in a low voice, then I'll go first. Wait, Gwell stopped him as he was about to speed up. Put these two things on.


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[Assistant] Father, even though Lorgr had already left the southern territory, she's still a part of the Wildflame clan and your little sister. We should try our best to help her.


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[Assistant] Gwells put the headband on Rohan's head and continued, Go ahead, show the great chief what we Magins can do. Rohan looked at his father quietly and then sped off.


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[Assistant] As he was picking up the speed, he felt that the wind blowing past him was getting stronger and stronger.


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[Assistant] At first, he could hear the spectators exclaim in admiration, but now, he could only hear the wind whistling. He did not feel tired at all. He thought he could run even faster. At the moment, he felt full of energy.


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[Assistant] He was delighted to know that his father has always kept an eye on him.


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[Assistant] In order to guarantee Lordur's status, he suffered countless criticisms, both inside and outside of the clan.


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[Assistant] Whenever he felt overwhelmed by the pressure, he would leave the Iron Sand City to run in the small oases alone.


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[Assistant] He did this not only to vent his resentment, but also to prove himself.


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[Assistant] He was not good at fighting, but he thought he might be able to outshine his sister in hunting which required endurance rather than strength. Unfortunately, he never got a chance to do it.


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[Assistant] Rohan thought that no one noticed his attempt at proving himself, but now he knew he was wrong. You're really good at running, aren't you?


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[Assistant] If you practice a thing for ten years, you'll excel in it, no matter how stupid you are. His father's words reverberated in his heart. Father, you knew it from the very beginning, didn't you? Feeling encouraged, Rohan ran even faster.


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[Assistant] He still remembered the day when he had first started running in the Oasis. Ten years had passed since that day.


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[Assistant] That was a really good match, wasn't it? Charlotte Flair versus Bianca Belair for the Raw Women's Championship, main event of the show. It's gone 20 minutes. It's been built up in the opening segment and throughout the night. Oh no, what's, what's Charlotte doing there with, is she gonna, why are they looking into the corner so much? Towards the timekeeper's area. Is there something wrong? The clock's counting down. They don't have time limit draws here. Oh no.


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[Assistant] Oh dear god no. Oh god it's a DQ finish, Tempest! Ah!


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[Assistant] I'm Oli Davis, I'm joined by Pempest, we're reviewing this week's Raw. But first, let me tell you about how goddamn soft my skin is right now. Holy Christ, if you could reach through the screen right now and touch my face, you would be going, is this a face of an adult? A human adult man? Or that of a baby's body?


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[Assistant] Because it is so moisturised and soft, here's geology.


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[Assistant] Look, this is a ring-worn geology box by me. It's got a stain on.


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[Assistant] I've got my morning day cream there and I've got my nourishing


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[Assistant] Nighttime eye cream and face moisturizer for the evening. They're color-coded. Very helpful. And honestly, both me and Luke have been using it for about two months now. And I don't get flaky beard draught anymore. Which is nice.


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[Assistant] It used to be, I would type, you know, like my keyboard's here, this is where I do my script writing in the morning, and I'll look down, and my desk would just be, it looked like that scene in Breakfast Club, where she's making the little paintings with the dandruff from her head.


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[Assistant] And I'd be like, ah, whatever, and brush it aside. I didn't realise it was a problem until geology came into my life, and it's just stopped. So yes, as Lee Sean says there, or Lee Schwan, Ollie's skin is not raw, but I tell you what was... the main event of last night's show.


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[Assistant] So what happened here to run you down the sort of bookending?


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[Assistant] Main narrative of this episode. Charlotte Flair opens the show. She is...


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[Assistant] Annoyed because this is her last night on Raw. She's Raw Women's Champion and there's no ceremony. Instead, I have to defend my championship against Bianca Belair. And Charlotte, actually, I thought Charlotte's performance here was very good. She shut down a few what chants quite well. She was, she seemed organic.


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[Assistant] Uh, and she had a great line where she said, you say I'm entitled.


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[Assistant] Bianca's getting two title shots this week, one now and one of course in the Triple Threat at Crown Jewel.


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[Assistant] Uh, but Bellaire interrupted, I like Bellaire, but her sort of promo delivery does come off a bit more WWE scripted than Charlotte. So that, that's a, that's a down mark, but what was more ridiculous.


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[Assistant] You've seen Charlotte come out in a bodysuit and heels before, right? I have. Are you familiar with the pattern here?


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[Assistant] She's gonna have to kick off those shoes before she attacks someone.


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[Assistant] Whenever Charlotte goes to attack someone, it's very obvious because she has to.


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[Assistant] Bella doesn't! So flair comes at...


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[Assistant] Uh, Bianca Belair. No heels now. And Belair, still with her heels, which I looked were massive, she just picks her up into the KOD.


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[Assistant] There was the famous Fred Astaire, uh, Ginger Rogers quote, you know, the sort of musical dancing act from the 30s in Hollywood. And it was the, yeah, Fred Astaire's a good dancer, but hey, Ginger Rogers is doing all of that backwards in heels. So I just thought that was absolutely brilliant.


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[Assistant] Anyway, rest of the show, few promos, blah blah blah. We get a main event. And there's been a bit of interaction over the last couple of weeks between Bel Air and Charlotte, which has been quite nice, but I wouldn't say it's like a big story. That's reserved for the Banks' Lynch stuff.


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[Assistant] But they just go straight into this match, like they are doing.


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[Assistant] A payoff for a three month feud. And I really felt the intensity.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so the whole match was really good. Charlotte's busted open.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't really know where from actually, but there's brawls on the outside. It goes through multiple commercial breaks. Like you said, the crowds slowly, slowly get wrapped up into this story.


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[Assistant] Bel Air is just one insane strength spot after another, near fall, near fall, near fall, but then you get, I'm like, there's not long left of this show that I'm watching. I can see when the show time expires, cause I'm not watching it live and there is a minute 30 left on this legally acquired stream I have. And.


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[Assistant] I'm like, what, what are they doing here? And then that is reflected in the wrestlers. Both Charlotte, Bianca, and I think the referee as well, kept looking to the corner, which is where the timekeeper guy is or a producer or an agent. And they're like, now?


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[Assistant] Boring, lame, uninspired, and then Bianca hits Charlotte with the chair in the ring and stands tall, but who cares? And the crowd is, I was just watching it being like, why did I care?


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[Assistant] And it's like, you know, in isolation, you're like, well, that's what WWE always does. You're like, yeah, it is. And they've done it for a very long time because they haven't had any competition. And what we've seen from another company is that.


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[Assistant] When there is competition that do clean finishes, you're like, oh, actually,


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[Assistant] That is so much better, and it shines such a spotlight on WWE's shortcomings for me, like this finish here, where, like you said, everything is lined up to be very good. And maybe even Bianca doesn't win, although


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[Assistant] You know, I don't think Charlotte just winning and beating Bianca would have gone over.


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[Assistant] I think that would have actually probably been worse, because Banks is in the title match at the pay per view.


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[Assistant] But just don't book the freaking match then, if you're that much into a corner. So yes, this is a bad thing that WWE do and over time it takes any


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[Assistant] sort of significance from the actual exciting matches themselves. The wrestlers are fantastic, but again it's creative decisions overshadowing everything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, just have the DQ right at the start of the match.


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[Assistant] It sucks, it's going to annoy me, but at least you don't waste 20 minutes of my time, WWE.


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[Assistant] Timeline was hoping for, is that a, is that common parlance abbreviation?


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[Assistant] Uh, the way my entire timeline was hoping for Bianca and Sasha winning this week so we could get Banks vs Belair 3 at Survivor Series, instead we're gonna get a lame title swap and Becky Charlotte 3000.


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[Assistant] Uh, they somehow always choose the two worst options.


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[Assistant] Again, I think Charlotte winning would have actually been the worst option.


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[Assistant] Andrew A, I was at Raw with my brother. His first event since 2010. He is 21 years old. He enjoyed the show, thought the Mansour match was


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[Assistant] He thought the main event was good till the DQ. We marked out for Jeff. You can see me on the hardcam with my CM Punk shirt.


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[Assistant] It's that classic, uh, sort of Hollywood indie trope of the obsessive, creepy stalker guy who's just a lovable, he just loves that girl.


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[Assistant] Or another, we don't have that in this country. That's not another example of me being...


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[Assistant] Passed it. Or another legal stream you aren't counted. Also, not every TV is tracked. Hashtag LIW. For life.


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[Assistant] Yes, Van Twinblade. There is, uhm, there is no perfect way to measure how much...


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[Assistant] A show is being watched in people's homes at the moment.


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[Assistant] However, because everybody is kind of on the same bad footing in terms of the ratings data.


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[Assistant] That discrepancy is taken out, if you know what I mean.


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[Assistant] If I stand on some weighted scales and the scales are off by five kilograms, it's not going to show me my true weight, but it's going to show me how much weight I gained or lost.


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[Assistant] Right. So everyone's on the same sort of analytical footing.


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[Assistant] So yes, the story is that AEW and SmackDown were level in one bit.


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[Assistant] And yeah, I'm sure all those little bits that you're talking about that weren't factored in here and there, it's kind of accounted for.


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[Assistant] And finally for now, MrKajillie or CJUlilly. Uh, hey guys, just wanted to ask when everyone else gets entrance music now that Oli has his, I think for when he gets back, Pete needs some as he's champion for now and Oli, Alex has been drafted to Raw, as in your new video you said she's undrafted, jam that jam. Oh, she's still on Raw, is she?


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[Assistant] I bet you, even if that happened, Mr. Kajili, which I'm sure it did, I bet she turns up on SmackDown.


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[Assistant] You can get your Ultra Chats in to WrestleTalk.com forward slash support. We'll read out everyone over $5 by the end of the episode. And also, if you want to be a super duper, super moisturised WrestleTalk fan, uh, we should have done a moist TV thing, shouldn't we?


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[Assistant] I'm only just realising this now. Next month. Geology, folks.


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[Assistant] Use our link in the video description below. Go do it now! Tell me what it says to you, because...


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[Assistant] They will do a 30 second free quiz, super easy, super quick to take and they determine your best bespoke skincare regimen. Now, I got


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[Assistant] Regimen number 30. There it is. Look at all that stuff. Look at all that wonderful science that goes into my face now. That's how you get this boy. For science? Science? Science face.


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[Assistant] Here. But now, no more. You know what though?


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[Assistant] I learned not to put the moisturizer on this bit before I record the news.


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[Assistant] The rest of it needs it. All of this needs the moisture. This is an oily nightmare. Oily Davis. And it is quite a large forehead. And it started to reflect the light that sits on top of it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yes, please do go over to geology. It's a great service. Me and Luke have been using it for a couple of months now and yeah, totally transformed my face. Hair not withstanding. That was something else.


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[Assistant] I like that. I don't hate it all the time.


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[Assistant] Well, we had the opening Charlotte Flair promo that we've already discussed. I enjoyed the first match.


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[Assistant] Xavier Woods vs Jinder Mahal. It's the final of like the raw block of the King of the Ring tournament.


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[Assistant] And the reason this works so well is because there was a promo beforehand from Woods saying this is my dream winning King of the Ring. The commentary team putting over how it's Woods' dream. And there's Jinder Mahal in the ring.


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[Assistant] The scary super push that could just happen at any moment. He's a maharaja. He could be the maharaja of the ring. And my god.


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[Assistant] All of that made me on the edge of my seat for this, particularly when Jinder Mahal hit the Colossus.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Woods won, uh, really like exciting stuff near the end because of exactly what we've spoken about. He'll face Finn Balor in the finals. I'm really looking forward to that match.


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[Assistant] Stuff goes down in Saudi. Goldberg beats The Fiend for the Universal Championship. Shane McMahon wins a tournament to crown the best wrestler in the world.


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[Assistant] Who do you want to win and who do you think will win?


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[Assistant] I think, I think the same, but I don't think either are bad choices. I'm sort of rooting for both guys.


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[Assistant] Which is nice. Uh, after that we got Austin Theory from earlier in the day backstage, he's doing an interview, the 24-7 title people run in, he shouts at R-Truth, agreed to a match, they have the match here, but R-Truth's like, it's not actually me, it's Jeff Hardy you're facing, make sure.


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[Assistant] And there's the Jeff Hardy arms from Tempest. And theory one.


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[Assistant] And did the selfie at the end, but Jeff Hardy then laid him out and took his own selfie.


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[Assistant] I think he should have been beaten more. He's on the way to Smackdown.


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[Assistant] I feel like Austin Theory, in a month, is gonna disappear from Raw.


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[Assistant] After that, Charlotte Flair goes backstage, uh, to see Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville just having a normal conversation. Nothing!


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[Assistant] About DeVille going crazy with power? On Friday's Smackdown here? Just, well, just general managers.


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[Assistant] Just do the Jeff Hardy albums again. Yea yea yea. It all makes sense with Jeff Hardy. I'm sure it does.


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[Assistant] He just does the eye thing with his lids. Yeaah. Yeaah, I see it now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, after that we got Big E and Drew McIntyre. How will they coexist? Taking on Bobby Rude and Dolph Ziggler, those dirty dogs, in a match that we saw two weeks ago?


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[Assistant] Finish clean, uhm, and we also saw the co-exist storyline implode last week, but they're here, they're doing it again, and they


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[Assistant] Yeah, the big brawl last week. The non-coexisting.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then we got a Street Profits confrontation with AJ and a Moss backstage. Mansour took on Cedric Alexander, which was a nice little development because Cedric had beaten Ali last week very quickly, and that's what prompted Ali to turn on Mansour.


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[Assistant] So Mansour won real quickly there, which is unfortunate for the hurt business. But then Ali came out, cut this awesome promo, he looks great in a suit as well, like he's gone full heel, and Mansour cut an even better promo back. I'm gonna beat you in my hometown because we can't say Saudi Arabia.


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[Assistant] And I just, I just thought this was one of the better complete things on the show, uh, bar Cedric getting pinned so quickly.


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[Assistant] I totally agree. DonkeySaurusRex here has said Mansour will lose because it is his hometown. I disagree.


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[Assistant] Because most hometowns don't pay for an entire WrestleMania show to happen there.


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[Assistant] I think the results would be a bit more fan servicing if they did.


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[Assistant] After that we got Bobby Lashley and Goldberg having one of those split screen interviews, kind of like how me and Tempest are doing now.


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[Assistant] And Goldberg said it was described as a no holds barred interview. I didn't really- I don't know what that means. It just felt like a pretty, pretty bland interview actually.


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[Assistant] Uh, controversially, I'm not a big fan of the Mark Henry.


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[Assistant] Rampage thing either, you know. And it's time for the main event!


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[Assistant] Because it's also like the split screen interviews and I get why they do it.


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[Assistant] I guess it's something different. It separates rampage from dynamite, but I'm never like, oh, this looks great.


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[Assistant] Goldberg threatened to kill Lashley again. Lashley explained that's illegal. Uh, but yeaah. Goldberg said kill your Thursday.


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[Assistant] When people, wrestlers, start bringing up hair a lot in promos, you're like, okay, well yeah, yeah, now I want to see hair get shaved off.


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[Assistant] So when the baby face starts saying, I'm going to kill you, like,


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[Assistant] Just storytelling satisfaction as immoral and abhorrent as it is. You gotta kill the guy now, at least in kayfabe. So...


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[Assistant] I don't, I can't, I don't know how they're gonna do this. Do you think they've got a big stunt planned?


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[Assistant] He, uh, Riddle, Riddle's still doing, what's the plan? What's the plan? And he's like, there is no plan. And Riddle's like, yeah, sure. So Odin just like.


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[Assistant] Flies by the seat of his, seat of his pants and he says, yeah, you know what? There is a plan. We're going to win now. We're going to win on Thursday. You want the smoke? Cause they're facing the street profits and Riddle just goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I just thought the way they looked at each other, I was like,


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[Assistant] Hell yea, he does. Of course. Or Orton's got a bit of a documented history as well, with a few. Of course. There's a rule named after him. Yep. That was very cute. I love these guys together.


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[Assistant] But where they often fail is that they then have to have a match with AJ Styles and Amos. AJ great, Amos can't do anything. So seeing them here with the Street Profits who are also excellent, I thought this was a, I thought this was a really fun match.


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[Assistant] To, to get from wherever he was before the, that, the draped T was amazing. Um, but yeah, really, really fun stuff. But as you said, AJ styles, his music hits a mass walks out from the back. AJ hits the phenomenal forearm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a sucky DQ, but at the same time, it was playing off the previous week with the attack from out of nowhere. I didn't act-


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[Assistant] It was annoying, but it was nowhere near as bad as the DQ in the main event.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I must hit the roundhouse kick again.


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[Assistant] It's just that, it's that baffling WWE thing where they're like, oh, okay, you're a big guy. We can book big guys, do a 450 splash. You know, it's just that, no, I thought WWE, you know how to book the lumbering immobile monster.


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[Assistant] Throughout the show, we had a bunch of video packages of people who are coming from Smackdown to Raw. We got Kevin Owens, we got Becky Lynch, we got Seth Rollins, and then we got one for a guy who's already on Raw, but he's getting a bit of a gimmick change. Bearcat Lee is going to claw his way to Raw.


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[Assistant] Alongside, you know, you look at the other people who got a video package. Owens, Rollins, Lynch. Fingers crossed.


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[Assistant] Uh, Shayna Baszler vs Dewdrop, I, I apologise because I said to Laurie last week in my Raw review,


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[Assistant] I just thought, surely Shayna Baszler, she's the queen of spades, queen's crown, dewdrop's great, they've actually had a storyline that's lasted a couple of weeks?


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[Assistant] But no, here, we got, it went two, three minutes, and the finn- pretty much right away, Shaina gets the Kirifuda clutch locked in, Dewdrop's sort of down to one knee, it's back in again, Dewdrop falls backwards, and she pins Shaina.


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[Assistant] So now it's Alina Vega versus Dewdrop in the Queen's Crown Tournament Final.


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[Assistant] In Saudi Arabia. I mean, we've seen the last women's match in Saudi Arabia.


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[Assistant] It's sure momentous, uh, but it's still a little bit, you know, cringy and awkward to watch as someone with Western sensibilities. So yeah, baggy t-shirts, get them out of the wardrobe. So fun.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Nikki Cross, sorry, almost a Subaru, and Rhea Ripley, who did have her championship belt, welcomed Bianca Belair to Raw. They gave her a little raw baseball cap. This was terrible.


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[Assistant] Uh, then we had Finn Banner taking on Mace. Mace, he's ready for a big singles push.


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[Assistant] I almost wish it was more of a squash though. You know, I don't care who Finn Balor faces, but this went two minutes and the first minute is Finn Balor getting beaten up. And then Balor does his set of moves and he finishes very strong.


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[Assistant] I just wanna see shotgun dropkick into the corner, coup de grace.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And then he stares down Xavier Woods on the ramp, which was really well done, I thought. Uh, I love Balor in his current guise. I hope he does actually get more of a push. That's why I wouldn't mind him winning King of the Ring as well. Uh, over Woods.


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[Assistant] And then the main event was the...


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[Assistant] The Charlotte vs Bianca match that we've already talked about. So overall, I gave this a 2 out of 5 on my...


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[Assistant] On my review earlier, I enjoyed a lot of the show actually, but that finish at the end was just left such a sour taste in my mouth. I marked it down from what could have been a three out of five.


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[Assistant] Thank you for being here on the Raw Podcast.


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[Assistant] But it will be Luke back next Tuesday, live in the studio. Hopefully, potentially we might be doing it remote because we might be refitting the studio. So I actually get podcast arms, which currently connect to the table because the table we got made with a flimsy perspex top and it's now starting to snap.


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[Assistant] That's why we wear the little lav mics. So we don't know yet, but it will definitely be Luke next week. And that's not all you'll get of Oli and Luke. You'll also get WrestleTalk Extra.


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[Assistant] A long, long, long podcast review for Patreons of Bound for Glory 2007, goddammit.


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[Assistant] And also, if you pledge $25 a month or more, you get a shout out on this very show with a wrestling nickname and a little cheap pop. So thank you, Michael. Mark for life, Ploughman.


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[Assistant] Yeah. The name's Jablonski. Daniel C. Jablonski.


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[Assistant] Smash the glass ceiling, CJ Slatton.


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[Assistant] Thank you very much everybody there. Uh, let's get into the rest of your Ultra Chats before we close out the show. WrestleTalk.com forward slash support. Get them in there. We'll answer every single one over $5. Oneamouse243, watching during work as usual, had to pull my earbuds out and speed walk away from my desk angrily twice.


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[Assistant] Once when Shaina got pinned and again at the DQ at the end, Friend actually asked, what did raw do this time? Because this is becoming a common occurrence.


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[Assistant] Much love for you guys. Never ultra-chatted before, but wanted to show some support for you guys. Random question. What do you think is Vince McMahon's favourite match of all time?


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[Assistant] I disagree. I think the answer's quite obvious. He doesn't like wrestling.


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[Assistant] But he does like himself, and he likes narcissism.


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[Assistant] So surely it's Wrestlemania 17's Shane vs Vince match.


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[Assistant] Uh, the minus ones this week seem like they were quite a factor this week. Dark was fun though, not feeling the studio though, atmosphere feels dead.


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[Assistant] Yes, of course, AW Dark is taped in the old impact zone now.


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[Assistant] Oli, I really can't understand how people can defend WWE to the point of saying AEW sucks, etc. How, Oli? Please shed some light on this, please. I absolutely love AEW and don't hate WWE most of the time, but please help me understand WWE diehards mindset. Well.


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[Assistant] Sometimes when somebody likes something so much and has been watching it for so long, it becomes a part of what they identify as. So any attack...


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[Assistant] On that thing then becomes an attack on themselves ideologically. So I don't-


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[Assistant] I can definitely understand why people do become tribal. I don't agree with it, but I definitely can understand it.


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[Assistant] 69 Intangible's Sadie Deegan again. Back again, since y'all didn't do a podcast. What did y'all think of Dynamite? I love the Hangman promo so, so much.


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[Assistant] In bits, it's like they've got the PWG side, they've got the Cody, the comic book side, with that Arn Anderson training stuff.


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[Assistant] They've got variety and that's one of the most important things.


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[Assistant] And finally for now, Nate S. I'll leave for my partner's birthday this past weekend. I took her to an orchard. We just stood there looking at trees most of the time. Not the Apple Watch she was expecting apparently.


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[Assistant] Is that an attempt at an English accent?


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[Assistant] I don't walk around trying to do Australians accents. Do I, mate?


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[Assistant] It's not a, it's not the feeling of an English speaker in it. You'll be looked down at if you say in it over here. In it.


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[Assistant] Anyway, thank you everybody ever so much for jo- Oh, and we got the AAA Tag Team title change. Oh yeaah, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, FTR being the Superanas or whatever they were called. It's the Christian Cage of October, I think. Very good. Very good. But yes, thank you everybody for joining us so much today and for all your wonderful ultra chats. We'll get through


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[Assistant] Raw together. It's a season premiere next week.


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[Assistant] But we've got all the content for you here. We've got Tempest and Laurie doing NXT tomorrow. We've got me and Adam Blampied doing Crown Jewel predictions right after that. And then a Crown Jewel live reactions on Thursday.


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[Assistant] And then making his return, because he said...


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[Assistant] I want to do the Saudi show. I can't. I know I've just had a kid, but I want to talk about the Saudi Arabia show. It's my favourite place in the world, he said. Big fan of the business practices and relationships. Luke will be making his return with Denise to do a Crown Jewel review.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know. I don't know. Before or after?


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[Assistant] Here to perform a special duet, please welcome Barbara Streisand and Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's great to see me.


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[Assistant] Adams, I've been setting pictures for many years.


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[Assistant] And in my business, it's always a dream that someday you'll come across, shall we say, a great picture. This is, I feel now, a sort of fulfillment of mine.


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[Assistant] Something not of the present, not of the past. Okay, you caught it. It's the face of that same little girl.


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[Assistant] Nice. Oh, he got him, he got him, he got him. He sucks, just get sucked.


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[Assistant] Will you get an officer maybe? And I might be sort of like having Pop back. An officer? Do you know, Mother, I think maybe she's right. I understand there's not a room to be had in town.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I don't know you very well, but alright, Jill.


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[Assistant] You don't have to drink it, girl. Would you rather go home and talk? We could sit on the porch.


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[Assistant] Of course, but what's that got to do with it? You're a soldier and I'm, that is, we're proud of you. And I hope you never get promoted.


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[Assistant] All those officers strutting around with their gold braid and everything.


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[Assistant] All right. Provided you don't ask my permission to smoke.


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[Assistant] Something up there on the tractor, I guess.


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[Assistant] Oh Bill, I'd take care of you the rest of our lives. Always.


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[Assistant] Oh, fine. How's school? Oh, same old bore. Young girls should get an education.


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[Assistant] And they're so cheerful, most of them. I know.


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[Assistant] It's almost time for your lunch. Dr. Golden will be awfully angry with me if you're late. He's taking a great interest in you.


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[Assistant] Now you make a wish. And remember, if you want it to come true, you have to blow on all the candles with one breath.


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[Assistant] They're young too, lots of them. But they weren't too young for that, Mrs. Hawkins.


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[Assistant] They've rebadged it, you fools! Is the new era, the season premiere of Monday Night Raw really just the old season of WWE Friday Night SmackDown? I'm Oli Davis. I'm joined by a returning first time back on, well,


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[Assistant] Here, cause you did the Friday Crown Jewel review, but this is the one that counts. It's Luke Owen. D. A. D. Officially. Do you wanna say a few words about being a dad in person?


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[Assistant] Do you track yours correctly? Because with the Aura Ring!


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[Assistant] On this finger, a lot of you have noticed it. Looks like I'm doing something rude there, doesn't it? But I'm not. This is perfectly fine. This is not the bird. It's the finger next to the bird. A lot of people have been going like, oh my god, Ollie got


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[Assistant] So the Aura Ring, folks, is, it's a fitness tracker. Uh, but rather than a watch, which personally I tried, tried to track my sleep and stuff, I don't like wearing a watch to bed. I thought gen- because I only got this last week, I thought genuinely, I would, it would be on my mind all the time. I've never worn rings before.


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[Assistant] Six hours, I forgot it was on there. And it's great. I really like it. This is actually, this is the new one.


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[Assistant] But the one, the previous model, which I had only last week, uh, it knows you so well.


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[Assistant] And I look at the Aura app and it said, hey, did you eat late last night? And I said, yes. And it said, well,


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[Assistant] That makes sense because your heart rate took forever to calm down, like 3am.


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[Assistant] So you ate too late, your body's still digesting, you had a bad night's sleep. Stop eating late, Ollie. I was like, THANK YOU AURORING!


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[Assistant] But yes, sorry, I spoke far too much about this already. I know you all want to talk about wrestling. It's cause I approached them and I was like,


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[Assistant] Please advertise with us. I really want your product, I like it. And they did, so thank you. Or a ring. We'll talk more about them I guess, although we've probably already overspoken about it. There's a link in the video description below for you to check them out.


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[Assistant] Right, this episode of Raw was the season premiere of Raw. You've missed a lot in your 4 weeks off. You missed a whole


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[Assistant] We said we were speaking on the SmackDown podcast. We were like, he said, you know what they've done?


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[Assistant] Now I know how like all those shoot interview of gotcha moments feel. Put that on botchamania.


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[Assistant] Tempest said on Smackdown's podcast they did with him, it was like, you know what, in the draft I feel like I had a good Smackdown roster and the drafters, you know, ruined that. And I said, I felt like Raw had a good roster and they ruined that. So what WWE have managed to do is make somehow


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[Assistant] Everything less than the sum of its parts, while also really not changing anything up. So a lot of the stuff that's been on Smackdown for the last three months, Bianca Belair vs Becky Lynch, Liv Morgan vs Carmella,


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[Assistant] That's just been, those feuds have been transplanted wholesale over to Raw, and we're not, we got very, very few instances of the new draftees mixing it up with the pre-existing roster.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, of course AJ Styles was not on this episode. Wasn't at all backstage apparently. So when, you know, for people who have...


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[Assistant] Commented on that. I think whenever someone's off TV at the moment, they get a free pass. Like it's, you know.


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[Assistant] Big E comes out, he does the sort of, hey, it's WWE.


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[Assistant] You haven't been watching? Here's what's happened over the last few days.


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[Assistant] We just got that in a video package, but Big E says it so well. He's so good. I love him as WWE champion. Yeah. And this brought out Smackdown.


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[Assistant] So Seth Rollins came out, Finn Balor came out, Rey Mysterio came out, Kevin Owens came out, and they all


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[Assistant] Put their case forward for why they should get a shot at thee.


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[Assistant] WWE Championship by listing all the titles they've won.


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[Assistant] They went too far the other way to what you're saying. Where they just reeled off.


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[Assistant] Like I said in my review, it was a Wikipedia page. And I've been thinking about this promo a lot.


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[Assistant] And it's not that it's bad. It's not like a bad content. It's just so lazy. Yeah. Because you need characters to sound distinct from each other. But everybody sounded the same.


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[Assistant] Let me explain it for the modern, the modern boy. NFTs.


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[Assistant] They're real life NFTs that you use to throw other NFTs.


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[Assistant] This is no way to behave. All of you listing your championships. Why isn't anyone throwing a title on the ground? So yea, Big E by the way, watch this ladder match from backstage.


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[Assistant] At the most extreme angle. Pretend this is the, that they cut back to Big E. That's the monitor where the ladder match is taking place. He is honestly like that. It is so


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[Assistant] Please, everybody, find that image of the women watching the TV and change what is on the TV screen. This is a meme call-out. Pogs. Pogs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but this was an excellent match. I feel like...


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[Assistant] But when I watched it, I was like, this feels like NXT 1.0 is still alive. And I thought, oh Rey Mysterio's in there. And I thought,


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[Assistant] Rey Mysterio is now an honorary member of NXT before it got rebranded.


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[Assistant] But uh, loads of really good spots. Like you said, Kevin Owens took the bulk of the punishment. Uh, he threw himself through ladders on the outside, but he also like, he lobbed a ladder at Rey Mysterio doing a dive at one point. But the spot of the match for me,


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[Assistant] It was Finn Balor's sell job of Seth Rollins' stock, where he just sold it like he was


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[Assistant] Uh, Owen's got pushed through that ladder, Seth got the stomp, so, yeah, Finn got stomped, Seth went up the ladder and won.


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[Assistant] So here is, this is, I haven't said this out loud yet, so apologies if it brings it into being. Survivor Series.


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[Assistant] A lot of people drop their main title.


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[Assistant] I feel like Big E, Seth, it's gonna be a TV match. Because, you know, otherwise you have to wait till Day 1. Day 1 in January 1st. So I feel like it's gonna happen before Survivor Series. And if Seth wins...


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[Assistant] Beige and Drew McIntyre. Beige does not associate with that.


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[Assistant] Uh, they seemed to finish a little bit early, so they just stalled for time. I don't think Biggie was meant to come out.


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[Assistant] Originally, but they were just like, oh, quick, go out there, stare at him, because it wasn't.


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[Assistant] Wasn't like a particularly strong way for a champion to look, go halfway down the ramp, stop, follow Seth up with your eyes, like, and then Seth cut a weird promo backstage, which was, you know, very well done, on the fly, considering the match he just wrestled. And then they just did this slow motion replay of the win.


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[Assistant] You know what this is that I used, I think I'm cheating a bit using my shoulders.


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[Assistant] Okay well, if it's Lynch vs Flair, kind of.


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[Assistant] I wanna see it happen. At this point, yeaah. It's the hottest feud in the company.


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[Assistant] Shall we move on to the main show, but not before a word from our sponsors, Aura.


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[Assistant] Go over to the link in the video description below. Check them out. Because they track everything I'm doing right. That sounds a bit Orwellian.


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[Assistant] I'm tracking everything I'm doing right now. Yeah. I'm tracking, uh, my skin temperature.


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[Assistant] I'm tracking my heart rate. My heart rate variability. Didn't even know what that was. I didn't, I still don't know what that is. I could learn though. Apparently.


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[Assistant] When you have quite a regular heartbeat. Boom. Boom.


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[Assistant] Boom. Boom. That's because your body's actually in sort of a state of stress. So everything tightens up and makes everything, you know, quite formulaic. But, what, like, WWE Raw?


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[Assistant] They're under pressure. They just go back to the same old stuff. Whereas...


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[Assistant] When you're really relaxed, your heartbeat should have variability in between each beat. So it'll be going like boom, ba-boom, boom, boom, boom, ba-boom.


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[Assistant] And when you go to sleep, your heart rate variability goes up. It's fascinating. It gives you little, uh, ideas and suggestions. The sort of...


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[Assistant] Help you out. And also, you know when you're like, oh, am I feeling ill? Am I coming down with something? It takes the average of your body, like skin temperature from the last two weeks, I think. And it'll be like, hmm, your body temperature has raised. Maybe take it easy today.


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[Assistant] Fight off whatever's coming on. So you might be able to preemptively fight off getting sick.


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[Assistant] Maybe this is the time to get one of these. Check out that in the video description below.


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[Assistant] By the end. So we got our opening bit which was all the Smackdown...


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[Assistant] Draftees standing in a row. And then we got all the Smackdown tag teams standing in a row. Street Profits took on the Dirty Dogs. Versus, uh, Alpha Academy. I've written down Team Alpha here. Otis looks sad.


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[Assistant] I don't think I do. Arcade Bro had a really good match against Street Profits. No one won though, because AJN must beat them all up afterwards.


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[Assistant] Luke is drunk on holiday. Slash paternity leave. We can't take what he's saying seriously. Uh, this was a good match though. Uh, Omos cost the street profits the match and the dirty dogs got the win, which means later on, on the same night, which is a bit psychologically skew with, cause you don't want the heels fighting from a disadvantage.


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[Assistant] We got RK Bro vs The Dirty Dogs, and if it wasn't for the really good main event, this was by far my match of the night.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Randy Orton, his, he seems so motivated right now, which is exciting to watch. And the final minute of this, where Randy hit an RKO on Rude I think, he was pushed out of the ring, Riddle and Ziggler went back and forth with pins. Ah, it's great.


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[Assistant] Is now the Queen's crown winner, which ergo means she now occasionally has an English accent. Do you want to hear my massive hot take on this? Yeah, it's good. Watch it play out. Oh no,


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[Assistant] I wish they gave her some kind of powers.


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[Assistant] Because she cuts this... Mental powers. ...long promo. Yeah, you know, like, you did all that stuff with Bliss. Why drop it?


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[Assistant] Respected and loved and ruthless. I'm like, but what does that mean?


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, this turned into Dewdrop vs Vega.


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[Assistant] It went shorter than the final of the Queen's Crown Tournament and Vega won with a scepter to Dewdrop's head behind the referee's back.


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[Assistant] Should have been Doudrop. Doudrop should have won.


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[Assistant] Becky Lynch came out after that and she kind of promo...


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[Assistant] I think they're- I think they're withdrawing from full on heel, and I think they're just having her as-


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[Assistant] Like, a badass character who occasionally does heelish things to win.


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[Assistant] Uh, so Bianca Belair comes out because, you know, season premiere, everything's changing, and she said, well,


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[Assistant] I technically beat the Raw Women's Champion last week so I should get a shot now and it was actually pretty good.


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[Assistant] But Belaire still looked tall, like stood tall at the end. So this was...


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[Assistant] This was pretty decent. It's repetitive because we've already seen this on the other brand and I was kind of ready for something new.


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[Assistant] And it would be better if Bianca just had the title after beating Charlotte last week. But yea, this was alright.


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[Assistant] So currently advertised for next week, whether we'll get it, you know, who knows. We've got Lynch vs Belair for the title. It's a screwy finish, right?


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[Assistant] After that we got Damien Priest vs T-Bar. T-Bar, unfortunately, because if there's ever a time to change up someone's gimmick, it's... Why would you change it?


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[Assistant] Now thankfully we've got a hundred percent unfiltered, unadulterated T-Bar that he can finally get over. He has a match with Damian Priest here, which goes a minute and a half


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[Assistant] T-Bar quite impressively gets one of the large commentary table chairs and just lobs it at Damien Priest. Remember when Braun Strowman did that? And we were all like, this is amazing. Or Roman did it to Braun, I can't remember which way around. So, T-Bar lost.


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[Assistant] Damien Priest then goes crazy and awesomely beats up T-Bar around the ring and lays him out in the middle. And I've seen a lot of people go, oh no, we've got a Jekyll and Hyde character or, you know, a sort of schizophrenic, he's good one moment and really angry the next. I just saw this as he got a chair lobbed at him.


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[Assistant] After that, we got, I enjoyed this, Jimmy Smits on commentary. They're doing a push for you to vote for The Miz.


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[Assistant] On dancing with the stars, like to keep him in. But he said it in a way where it was like, you too can prevent the abuse of Byron Sack.


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[Assistant] And I just, I thought he was doing a legit charity drive message. So that made me laugh. And it's very rare that a commentator


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[Assistant] You know what? It's pretty good. Like when they wrestled their- I've done it enough.


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[Assistant] Because he comes out, he's a bearcat now, he's big and powerful and burly and he threw Cedric around and that was really cool. You know, Keithy's fantastic.


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[Assistant] And he won, and he was put over strong. All good.


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[Assistant] Nothing against Keith Lee's performance, I think, for what they told him to go out and do. He did. He did it exactly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but unfortunately their version of creativity is so, so far below what Keith can do if he was given his own stuff.


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[Assistant] Uh, and the final thing to talk about is Dominic Mysterio vs Austin Theory. Uh, yeaah. Dominic Mysterio... sort of...


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[Assistant] Was like, I'm not gonna take a selfie of you and my dad, Austin Theory. That led to a match. Austin Theory beat him in a few minutes. Another win for Austin Theory.


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[Assistant] Yep, and then we've, you know, we've covered the tag match and the ladder match which closed the show. So overall, I gave this a 3 out of 5.


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[Assistant] Well, it wasn't though, was it? It was an average start to a new era of WWE. Yeah, fair. It was an average start.


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[Assistant] I think that's unfair for Rorthal. I think so.


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[Assistant] I've seen raw for shoes. This was not that.


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[Assistant] Well we've got a packed week of Patreon content coming up for you Patreons. We have fan-quizzle-mania tonight and you'll be competing


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[Assistant] Ninety people playing, I think? Wow. And for half the quiz, because it's real time tracking the way we do it, I was 89th. Wow.


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[Assistant] Just whenever you think that WWE is really bad, just remember it could be so much worse. And also if you donate $25 a month or more, you get a wrestling name and a shout out on this very show. So thank you, pick him up.


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[Assistant] Right, let's do all of our Ultra Chats. Last call for those. Say hi to Luke again. WrestleTalk.com forward slash support.


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[Assistant] StarTrain24, I watched the rise and fall of ECW last night. For obvious reasons, we can't see the match, but it made me realise how much I want to see a Walter vs Mike Awesome bout. Talk about big beefy boys. And Luke, welcome back! I wish you guys all the health and love. Well, I'll track it. Or a ring. I love Mike Awesome. Love him so much.


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[Assistant] James Hanley. Welcome back, Luke. Thank you. We've all missed you. Did either of you watch the Danielson Rhodes match on Saturday? Yes! Holy balls. The Andrade pack match on Rampage was one of the most insane things I've ever watched. Huh? What?


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[Assistant] For four years he's been flying that Dustin flag. Match of the year. Yeah. Like, that was better than the Omega match.


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[Assistant] Charles Berg. I think Bruce Prichard said this, but I'm not sure, and it feels this way to me. WWE put on the shows with the idea that this is somebody's first time watching, so maybe that's why it's repetitive. Anyway, time to walk some dogs in the pouring rain.


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[Assistant] Get a little bit of exposition as naturally as possible in there. And then there'd be a little editor's note that would say, see X-Men issue 244. That's what the video recap packages are for. You recap Liv Morgan vs Carmella, here's what happened two weeks ago, now here's the rest of the story. You don't then just do the recap again. Yep.


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[Assistant] Steve Duggan. Hi guys, not asked with Raw, but do you think Cody using the Tiger Driver 98 to win against Malakai means anything? Feud with Kenny after he drops the belt? He'll turn soon? Find Cody fascinating right now. Congrats Luke, welcome to Dad Club D.A.D.


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[Assistant] I haven't, that's the one match I haven't seen yet. That's dead good. Yeah. Uh, but I don't think code is turning. No, neither do I.


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[Assistant] Yes we have. On the Andrade pack match. It was fantastic. That DDT. The sort of bump that Andrade took when he went over and just fell on the apron. Oh man, that was so good. Do you want a hot towel?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it was also the same time that the channel fell apart for about two months because of the...


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[Assistant] Dynamite had just launched, it was hell in a cell, clickbait gate, community tab post, we pissed everyone off. I was like, ah, back to basics.


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[Assistant] That's it, I'm not the ultimate loser. My master was.


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[Assistant] When do you think Dominik will win matches? And when will we get Bearcat vs Teabag? Ruin Keith Lee vs Dominik Dijakovic? Uh, hashtag jam that jam.


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[Assistant] So he's got to lose a bunch of matches for that frustration to make him split with his dad. So... February? Yea, after the rumble. Maybe eliminate his dad from the rumble.


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[Assistant] And Hedglin, when will we get a Corey Graves mustache break? I'll look into that actually.


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[Assistant] I think he's got some guy, it's, it's Movember coming up soon, right? Has he really?


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[Assistant] Um, yes, well, remember, go over to Patreon and become a Pledgehammer there if you want to play Fang Quizzle Mania tonight with Luke. Uh, the details are all over there about how to


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[Assistant] Join in and what time it starts and everything. And also go and check out the fine folk at Aura, the Aura ring. The link is in the video description below and you too can track all of your health biometrics through an app.


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[Assistant] Mmm, I feel superhuman. My readiness score is 88 today.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm ready. 70 means you're gonna have a good day.


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[Assistant] Anyway, thank you. It's lovely to have Luke back. And on Thursday, if all goes according to plan, we might have a new desk with nice audio setups. So fingers crossed.


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[Assistant] But we're also not good at getting things done on time. Thank you. Jam that jam!


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[Assistant] Of another day when Americans were fighting to preserve their sacred heritage of liberty.


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[Assistant] Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand.


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[Assistant] The other two must still stand tall as mountains. We can take you to-


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[Assistant] I'd seen her once before at a council of the gods, but I hadn't paid much attention to her.


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[Assistant] At the time, I'd been surrounded by a bunch of other gods who were debating whether or not to kill me. I didn't remember her looking so normal.


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[Assistant] Of course, gods are usually twenty feet tall when they're on Olympus, so that makes them look a lot less normal. But now, Hera looked like a regular mom. She served us sandwiches and poured lemonade. Grover, dear, she said, use your napkin. Don't eat it. Yes, ma'am, Grover said. Tyson, you're wasting away. Would you like another peanut butter sandwich?


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[Assistant] I can't believe it. What are you doing in the labyrinth?


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[Assistant] Here I smiled. She flicked one finger and Annabeth's hair combed itself.


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[Assistant] All the dirt and grind disappeared from her face.


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[Assistant] I came to see you, naturally, the goddess said. Grover and I exchanged nervous looks.


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[Assistant] Usually when gods come looking for you, it's not out of the goodness of their hearts. It's because they want something.


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[Assistant] Still, that didn't keep me from chowing down on turkey and swiss sandwiches and chips and lemonade.


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[Assistant] I hadn't realized how hungry I was. Tyson was inhaling one peanut butter sandwich after another and Grover was loving the lemonade, crunching the styrofoam cup like an ice cream cone.


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[Assistant] I didn't think... Annabeth faltered. Well, I didn't think you liked heroes.


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[Assistant] Hera smiled indulgently, because of that little spat I had with Hercules. Honestly, I got so much bad press because of one disagreement.


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[Assistant] Didn't you try to kill him like a lot of times? Annabeth asked.


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[Assistant] But Zeus and I have had some excellent marriage counseling sessions since then.


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[Assistant] We've aired our feelings and come to an understanding.


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[Assistant] Especially after that last little incident.


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[Assistant] You mean when he sired Thalia? I guessed. But immediately, I wished I hadn't.


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[Assistant] As soon as I said the name of our friend, the half-blood daughter of Zeus, Hera's eyes turned toward me frostily. Percy Jackson, isn't it? One of Poseidon's children.


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[Assistant] I got the feeling she was thinking of another word besides children.


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[Assistant] As I recall, I voted to let you live at the Winter Solstice. I hope I voted correctly. She turned back to Annabeth with a sunny smile.


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[Assistant] At any rate, I certainly bear you no ill will, my girl. I appreciate the difficulty of your quest, especially when you have troublemakers like Janus to deal with.


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[Assistant] Annabeth lowered her gaze. Why was he here? He was driving me crazy. Trying to, Hera agreed.


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[Assistant] You must understand, the minor gods like Janus have always been frustrated by the small parts they play in the universe. Some, I fear, have little love for Olympus and could easily be swayed to support the rise of my father. Your father? I said. Oh, right.


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[Assistant] I'd forgotten that Kronos was Hera's dad too, along with being father to Zeus, Poseidon, and all the eldest Olympians. I guess that made Kronos my grandfather.


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[Assistant] But that thought was so weird, I put it out of my mind.


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[Assistant] They give lip service to Olympus, and yet, that's where Dionysus went.


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[Assistant] I remembered. He was checking on the minor gods. Indeed.


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[Assistant] The area here in southeastern Ohio is what you want to call like Appalachia.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can, they're tearing down factories, they're tearing down houses.


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[Assistant] My name's Billy White, and I'm a tattoo artist in Zanesville, Ohio.


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[Assistant] It's simple. I tell people all the time that like, I really feel like my community is 30 years behind.


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[Assistant] You know, I've, I've even tattooed some of these guys and didn't know they had this kind of stuff on them. And then boom, here we are and we're covering it up.


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[Assistant] Come on back, man. Because of my social media outreach, you know, a lot of people, once I say share, it spreads like wildfire.


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[Assistant] And it happens. You see it both sides. You see people that are super stoked for the person and that are really happy that the person is moving on. And then you have the people that are like, well, would they have done it if it wasn't for free kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Cause I mean, I'm sitting here and I'm getting all these tattoos lasered off of my face. You know, I'm taking them off my face because I don't like the way it makes people perceive me.


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[Assistant] They mean a lot to me. Cause I got them all for like my parents when they passed away. And uhm...


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[Assistant] I'm on the cusp of my mom's birthday. Makes me all emotional and shit.


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[Assistant] So, uh, I lost my parents 49 hours apart, uh, seven years ago in April.


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[Assistant] So when I'm gone, they're not like, yea my dad was just a guy. He just did tattoos, you know? Maybe he did something.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna keep doing these things. I'm gonna keep covering up this stuff forever as far as I'm concerned.


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[Assistant] Le-le-le-le-le. Le-le-le-le.


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[Assistant] Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.


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[Assistant] Read by John Nicholson, Alexandria, Virginia, January 2007.


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[Assistant] The story, which is narrated in the following pages, came to me from the lips of my old friend Alan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain as we used to call him in South Africa.


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[Assistant] The death of his only son so unsettled him that he immediately left England.


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[Assistant] Accompanied by two companions, his old fellow voyagers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good.


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[Assistant] And has now utterly vanished into the dark heart of Africa.


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[Assistant] He is persuaded that a white people, of which he has heard rumors all his life,


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[Assistant] Exists somewhere on the highlands in the vast, still unexplored interior.


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[Assistant] And his great ambition is to find them before he dies.


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[Assistant] This is the wild quest upon which he and his companions have departed.


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[Assistant] And from which I shrewdly suspect they never will return.


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[Assistant] One letter only have I received from the old gentleman, dated from a mission station high up the Tana.


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[Assistant] A river on the east coast, about 300 miles north of Zanzibar.


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[Assistant] In it he says that they have gone through many hardships and adventures, but are alive and well and have found traces which go far towards making him hope that the results of their wild quest may be a magnificent and unexampled discovery.


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[Assistant] I greatly fear however that all he has discovered is death. For this letter came a long while ago.


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[Assistant] And nobody has heard a single word of the party since. They have totally vanished.


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[Assistant] That he told the ensuing story to me and Captain Good, who was dining with him.


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[Assistant] He had eaten his dinner and drunk two or three glasses of Old Port.


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[Assistant] Just to help good and myself to the end of the second bottle. It was an unusual thing for him to do, for he was the most abstinuous man.


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[Assistant] Having conceived, as it used to say, a great horror of drink,


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[Assistant] From observing its effects upon the class of colonists, hunters, transport riders, and others, amongst whom he had passed so many years of his life.


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[Assistant] Consequently, the good wine took more effect on him than it would have done on most men.


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[Assistant] Sending a little flesh into his wrinkled cheeks and making him talk more freely than usual.


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[Assistant] Dear old man, I can see him now as he went limping up and down the vestibule with his gray hair sticking up in scrubbing brush fashion. His shriveled yellow face.


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[Assistant] And his large dark eyes that were as keen as any hawks and yet soft as a bucks. The whole room.


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[Assistant] For he was not very fond of narrating his own adventures.


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[Assistant] But tonight, the port wine made him more communicative.


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[Assistant] Ah, you brute, he said, stopping beneath an unusually large skull of a lion, which was fixed just over the mantelpiece beneath a long row of guns.


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[Assistant] It's jaws distended to their utmost width. Ah, you brute. You have given me a lot of trouble for the last dozen years. In will, I suppose, to my dying day.


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[Assistant] Tell us the yarn, quarter main," said Good. You have often promised to tell me, and you never have. You had better not ask me to, he answered, for it is a longish one.


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[Assistant] He filled his pipe from a jar of coarse-cut boar tobacco that was always standing on the mantelpiece.


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[Assistant] And still walking up and down the room began.


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[Assistant] It was just after old Sukwati's time, and Sikokuni had got into power. I forget how. Anyway, I was there.


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[Assistant] I had heard that the Bapidi people had brought down an enormous quantity of ivory from the interior.


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[Assistant] It was a risky thing to go into the country so early on account of the fever.


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[Assistant] But I knew that there were one or two others after that lot of ivory. So I determined to have a try for it and take my chance of fever.


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[Assistant] I had become so tough from continual knocking about that I did not set it down at much. Well, I got on alright for a while.


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[Assistant] It is a wonderfully beautiful piece of bush veldt, with great ranges of mountains running through it, and round granite copies starting up here and there, looking out like sentinels over the rolling waste of bush.


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[Assistant] But it is very hot. Hot as a stew pan. And when I was there that March, which of course is Autumn in this part of Africa, the whole place reaped of fever.


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[Assistant] Every morning as I trekked along down by the Oliphant River.


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[Assistant] Of what looked like the finest cotton wool tossed up lightly with a pitchfork. It was the fever mist.


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[Assistant] Out from among the scrub, too, came little spirals of vapor.


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[Assistant] Rising from thousands of tons of rotting vegetation.


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[Assistant] It was a beautiful place, but the beauty was the beauty of death. And all those lines and blots of vapor.


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[Assistant] Wrote one great word across the surface of the country, and that word was fever.


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[Assistant] I came, I remember, to one little crowd of knob-noses and went up to see if I could get some moss or curdled buttermilk and a few mealies.


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[Assistant] As I drew near, I was struck with the silence of the place. No children began to chatter, and no dogs barked. Nor could I see any native sheep or cattle.


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[Assistant] The place, though it had evidently been inhabited of late, was as still as the bush round it.


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[Assistant] And some guinea fowl got up out of the prickly pear bushes right at the corral gate.


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[Assistant] I remember that I hesitated a little before going in.


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[Assistant] There was such an air of desolation about the spot.


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[Assistant] Well, I passed into the corral and went up to the principal hut.


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[Assistant] I stooped down and drew off the rug, and then shrank back amazed, for under it was the body of a young woman, recently dead.


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[Assistant] For a moment I thought of turning back, but my curiosity overcame me. So going past the dead woman,


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[Assistant] I went down on my hands and knees and crept into the hut. It was so dark that I could not see anything, though I could smell a great deal. So I lit a match. It was a tan sticker match, and burnt slowly and dimly.


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[Assistant] And as the light gradually increased, I made out what I took to be a family of people. Men, women and children, fast asleep. Presently it burnt up brightly.


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[Assistant] And I saw that they too, five of them altogether, were quite dead. One was a baby.


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[Assistant] I dropped the match in a hurry and was making my way from the hut as quick as I could go when I caught sight of two bright eyes staring out of a corner.


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[Assistant] Thinking it was a wildcat or some such animal, I redoubled my haste when suddenly a voice near the eyes first began to mutter and then to send up a succession of awful yells.


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[Assistant] Hastily I let another match, and perceived that the eyes belonged to an old woman, wrapped up in a greasy leather garment.


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[Assistant] Taking her by the arm, I dragged her out, for she could not, or would not, come by herself. And the stench was overpowering me. Such a sight as she was.


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[Assistant] A bag of bones covered over with black shriveled parchment. The only white thing about her was her wool. And she seemed to be pretty well dead, except for her eyes and her voice. She thought that I was a devil come to take her, and that is why she yelled so.


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[Assistant] Well I got her down to the wagon and gave her a tot of Cape Smoke, and then as soon as it was ready, poured about a pint of beef tea down her throat.


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[Assistant] Made from the flesh of a blue wildebeest I had killed the day before. And after that she brightened up wonderfully. She could talk Zulu.


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[Assistant] Indeed, it turned out that she had run away from Zululand in Tchaka's time.


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[Assistant] And she told me that all the people whom I had seen had died of fever.


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[Assistant] When they had died, the other inhabitants of the corral had taken the cattle and gone away, leaving the poor old woman, who was helpless from age and infirmity.


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[Assistant] To perish of starvation or disease as the case might be.


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[Assistant] She had been sitting there for three days among the bodies when I found her.


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[Assistant] I took her on to the next corral and gave the head man a blanket to look after her, promising him another if I found her well when I came back.


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[Assistant] I remember that he was much astonished at my parting with two blankets for the sake of such a worthless old creature. Why did I not leave her in the bush? he asked.


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[Assistant] Those people carry the doctrine of the survival of the fittest to its extreme, you see.


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[Assistant] It was the night after I had got rid of the old woman that I made my first acquaintance with my friend yonder, and he nodded towards the skull that seemed to be grinning down at us in the shadow of the wide mantle shelf.


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[Assistant] I had trekked from dawn till eleven o'clock, a long trek, but I wanted to get on, and had turned the oxen out to graze, sending the Vorloper to look after them.


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[Assistant] My intention being to in-span again about 6 o'clock and trek with the moon till 10.


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[Assistant] When I rose and cooked some meat and had my dinner. Washing it down with a panikin of black coffee.


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[Assistant] And the driver, a man called Tom, was washing up the things. In comes the young scoundrel of a Vorlooper, driving one ox before him. Where are the other oxen? I asked. Kuss! He said. Kuss! The other oxen have gone away. I turned to my back for a minute.


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[Assistant] And when I looked round again, they were all gone except Captain here, who was rubbing his back against a tree.


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[Assistant] You mean that you have been asleep and let them stray, you villain. I will rub your back against a stick, I answered, feeling very angry, for it was not a pleasant prospect.


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[Assistant] To be stuck up in that fever trap for a week or so while we were hunting for the oxen.


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[Assistant] Off you go. And you too, Tom. And mind you don't come back till you have found them.


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[Assistant] They have trekked back along the Middleburg Road, and are a dozen miles off by now, I'll be bound. Now no words, go, both of you. Tom, the driver, swore, and caught the lad a hearty kick, which he richly deserved.


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[Assistant] And then, having tied old Captain up to the dissel boom with a ream, they took their esigeis and sticks and started. I would have gone too, only I knew that somebody must look after the wagon.


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[Assistant] And I did not like to leave either of the boys with it at night. I was in a very bad temper indeed.


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[Assistant] Although I was pretty well used to these sort of occurrences.


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[Assistant] And soothed myself by taking a rifle and going to kill something.


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[Assistant] For a couple of hours, I poked about without seeing anything that I could get a shot at.


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[Assistant] But at last, just as I was again within 70 yards of the wagon,


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[Assistant] I put up an old Impala Ram from behind Mimosa Thorn. He ran straight for the wagon.


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[Assistant] And it was not till he was passing within a few feet of it that I could get a decent shot at him.


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[Assistant] Then I pulled and caught him halfway down the spine. Over he went, dead as a doornail.


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[Assistant] And a pretty shot it was, though I ought not to say it.


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[Assistant] Especially as the buck had rolled right against the after part of the wagon.


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[Assistant] So I only had to gut him, fix a rim round his legs, and haul him up.


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[Assistant] By the time I had done this the sun was down and the full moon was up, and a beautiful moon it was.


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[Assistant] And then there came that wonderful hush which sometimes falls over the African bush in the early hours of the night. No beast was moving, and no bird called. Not a breath of air stirred the quiet trees, and the shadows did not even quiver, they only grew.


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[Assistant] It was very oppressive and very lonely, for there was not a sign of the cattle or the boys. I was quite thankful for the Society of Ol Kaptain.