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[Assistant] And so there's a couple different systems here. One is made out of uhm, wood pieces that you can laser print and laser cut and, and iterate very quickly that way. You can scale them or put little features on them or make them lopsided or whatever. And the other is just made out of plastic that you print on a piece of plastic and then cut out. And so they're pretty quick to iterate.


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[Assistant] So these, these, uh, design systems. But at the same time we're realizing that, so one of the reasons we wanted to iterate so fast was that the behavior and the motion need to be designed at the same time. So, so how it moves and how it can move.


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[Assistant] We bring subjects in and say, how do you want it to move or, uh, if you want it to show, let it scared, you know, what should it do? And they would say, oh, how did, like, I, I can't program it in code. And they would start vocalizing. They would make, I wanted to go like this, or I wanted to do this, this sound. And, and they would use their body to make these sounds. And so we went.


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[Assistant] With that, so these are, these are some of the different tools we actually use including, you know, using audio to source sounds and then play those out as a starting point or the verbalizations. And I'll just show you an example of one project which was about using voice.


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[Assistant] So that was, I was really proud of that project. That was an undergrad researcher who did that and presented it this last year and got a prize. So that was kind of fun. Uhm, so, so what you see there is,


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[Assistant] So uhm, and then, okay, we talked about experimentation. So how, when we're trying to decide how expressive it was, so this is one of the kinds of studies we do where we, we did a participatory design with, uh, professional voice actors.


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[Assistant] I want you to change the system to make it more expressive. And they would actually say, well, what if you, um, do this with my voice and I want a robot that can do this. And we would iterate on both Voodoo and the robots and they'd come back and they'd do it again. And this is just showing that over three visits,


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[Assistant] They would draw, these are the spaces on the affector that they felt they could reach, uh, when they, if they wanted to do something, they could make the robot do that. They had that expressive control. And you can just basically see that over time,


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[Assistant] With these iterations through some hard to quantify combination of experience and improvement in the tools and the robots, they were able to get more proficient or more capable of it over, over the time.


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[Assistant] So, so that would be a create tool. So the combination of Voodoo and the whole Cuddle bit system and all this was uhm, this whole big launch to try and say creating expressive movement. Now, if we want to edit that movement that we've sketched, then we use something like Macaron, that editor, and go and tweak it.


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[Assistant] Once you've laid down the first track, you want to go in and tweak it. So, uh,


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[Assistant] That's one thing. And so, I just wanna touch briefly on the sensing side, which I talked about this, this bottom part of the display. So here's, uh, I told, I showed you those FSRs on the, uh,


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[Assistant] So this is, uh, a first sensor. So we had this problem of wanting to really pick up delicate touches. So this work is by Anna Flagg.


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[Assistant] So this is, uh, actually inspired by some work by Leah Ducley at MIT, which, so this photograph is Leah's work, not ours.


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[Assistant] Uh, we kind of take this smaller set to do a lot of our studies. And so what we saw with this sensor is that this is the kind of recognition accuracy that we could do on touches of these different kinds of touches. So basically almost 100% distinguishing using the simple sensor. But this is a really cool one, like that we were hoping for. This one was a complete shock. So here's the different touches.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think this had 15 subjects. This is how well we could tell which person was touching it.


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[Assistant] We went on to make a different kind of sensor as well. This is a very inexpensive fabric sensor that uses electrically striped fabric in different layers and you make taxels that are about, uhm, a finger pad size large.


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[Assistant] And, uh, just saran wrap, robots on it, so we've come a long way from the FSRs. And we're now also collaborating with a group in Germany at Max Planck who is doing the same idea but in, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uhm, printable electronics that are gels that you can just layer onto things and are more customizable this and working on making different shapes and


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[Assistant] Uh, kind of make, make design tools to actually print these, these sensors and so we can do all kinds of stuff with that.


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[Assistant] So uhm, I, out of time, so I won't go into the many things that we're doing here, but these systems that are then customizable, working on making tools to us, you can actually design and print these sensors and put them on different shapes and then you can, not just on robots, but on,


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[Assistant] And uh, do some kind of intervention because of the way you're fidgeting with something is that's one of the, the things that we're actually going for here. And then have these in a way that people who want to play around with it can customize it and do their own version of it.


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[Assistant] So trying to go back to the accessible haptics, we have all these tools, okay, that I can, you know, link into a design framework and say there's these different kinds of things.


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[Assistant] Different design stages that we use. There's a lot more that I didn't talk about here. Uh, and, and these are all, you know, we put them on our website and we've got them on GitHub and people can do that. But how can we really help people design better?


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[Assistant] And so the next kind of phase of research that we're really trying to do now is really to go directly at the problem of making it accessible and putting out there and understanding designers. We've done some studies of designers, but now we're trying to look at different kinds of designers.


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[Assistant] And, uh, trying to create an online repository of tools that people can build and customize and develop so that we can start to break this.


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[Assistant] So trying to make- oh yeah, this slide is messed up. Okay, so.


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[Assistant] So thinking about the design ecosystem, which differs by what your design purpose is, what your knowledge and background is, and, uh, but giving access to it.


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[Assistant] Uh, so for all these, this is the framework and we're trying to support a larger audience. And so we're developing a open haptic repository. You won't find anything at that location yet. It's, it's under development. But the idea is that so far we have a lot of haptic devices, we have a lot of tools, uh,


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[Assistant] We're trying to bring other people into it. It's not supposed to be just our work. The whole point is it's, it's gonna be a public open access thing. I was just spent the day yesterday at Mozilla actually talking with them about


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[Assistant] I'm not talking about right now, some of it were- actually both of these things were demonstrating at hap- the haptics conference in March in San Francisco.


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[Assistant] Which I can give a plug for if you wanna go up there. Um, uh, there's software, so the backend software that lets you actually prototype things on devices that you may have made yourself.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we've run student design challenges where we put those tools out there and support student designers and actually study the student designers to see what kind of problems they have. Plus the student designers generate all these designs that we can then also post.


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[Assistant] And, uh, haptic device library, uh, and this is a case where we've been very frustrated that there's all these, uh, going back to the 1990, all these inventions that people have made of haptic devices. And I've, um, uh, long enough in the tooth now that when young people come to me and say, Karen, um,


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[Assistant] Can you tell me all the pantograph designs that are out there? And I'm going, uh, uh, I know there's five or six, but I can't even remember who they all are. And that's like one of the most common mechanisms.


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[Assistant] There should be an online place where people can go and browse. A lot of this stuff was actually invented before we, you know, those papers are not even available online, so it's very hard. And so instead people have to go and invent it all over again.


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[Assistant] And so we're trying to figure out if you make- if you find all those inventions and you post them.


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[Assistant] How can you visualize and browse them so if I'm looking for something like uhm, I wanna make a wearable device and I want these attributes and I wanna find designs that are suitable for low power wearable applications in a particular way and you wanna find stuff where the original designers weren't thinking of those attributes when they did it.


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[Assistant] So we're trying to collect the designs and then expert source annotations on them so that we can actually visualize and browse these kinds of things. So it's actually a big community project that's involving the whole haptic design community to help contribute annotations as well as designs.


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[Assistant] Um, and then, uh, a big project that actually started with Alison and Okamura here at Stanford, but we're continuing on our own, is educational tech that helps, uh, people learn.


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[Assistant] Uhm, contentize them and do this all with extremely low-cost technology that could be successful in a classroom environment. So that's another big push that we're doing and we'll be a driver for some of that.


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[Assistant] Uh, PhD students and advanced masters, masters who want to do research. So it's not an industry, uh, professional masters. It's really for researchers. And, uh, it's, uh,


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[Assistant] Very interdisciplinary. You guys have a great interdisciplinary group, but I can go in better. We actually have eight departments, not three or four, and we have about 80 or 100 people, uh, coming to our lunch sessions, which are only once a month, not every week.


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[Assistant] And, and so what we're really trying to do is band together to both solve these hard interdisciplinary problems and have collaborations to do that, but also to, uh,


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[Assistant] So there's a lot of activity going on in that at UBC right now.


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[Assistant] So, uh, I'll stop there and hopefully you guys have some questions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's, there's two ways to look at this context question and one is in deep frustration. It's like, man, it's really hard to control what people sense because the context, like, if I can't control the context, I have no idea how they're gonna interpret it. So that's kind of a discouraging way to think about it. And then the other way is like, wow, I can really, uh,


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[Assistant] So the long-winded answer, uhm, you know, I showed you this affect grid of kind of these discrete emotions and we've really over the last few years have started to say, you know, that's really not a very useful


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[Assistant] Real, real situations. Real situations, you're feeling complex emotions multiple at a time. It's not like, oh, right now I am sad, right now I am...


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[Assistant] So, so we've really departed from that original one, although it is a kind of a grounding and a way of talking about it and organizing your thoughts still. Uhm, in terms of the narrative, uh, it's funny, just, uh, again at my Fourier Mozilla, this stuff is already,


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[Assistant] So we've focused more on touch because that's kind of where we started, but there's a lot of information from other sources including vocal prosody and stuff you might getting from imagery and video cameras and


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[Assistant] You know, patterns in the child's life and I think that if you had that and you could stomach all the huge ethical issues that you're dealing with at that point, uhm, you could do some really amazing things in terms of being able to intelligently infer what's going on. Uhm, that's getting much deeper into the AI than I am.


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[Assistant] The expert on, and so that, for me, this would be collaborations with other people who do that more. But I think that that is, if we're trying to make extremely rich interactions, that that's kind of the direction you're going. Uh, I, I think it is, you know, being the patterns and, and, and, uh, personalization, actually understanding a particular individual, it's gonna be very important. Yeah, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we've, we kind of figured out fairly early on, made many different shapes with many kinds of appendages on them, and we were trying so hard to have them not look like real animals, we actually put these


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[Assistant] Uhm, so the reason we didn't want to have a head was because we were trying to really focus on the haptics and the touch and so we were trying to not make a visual focal point on, on the object. Of course now as we're going into these more interaction design things it is actually helpful to have a visual.


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[Assistant] Uh, for example, in a hospital environment, we will have a situation where uhm, the first stage of the interaction is actually getting the kid to pick the robot up.


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[Assistant] And so that's all visual. So now we're working on visual gesture and at some point you transfer over to haptic gesture. And so the, the ears are, are a useful tool because they're very recognizable as a way of indicating attention and arousal level. And so they're just, we, we are so, uh, well trained.


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[Assistant] And so being able to do this versus do this and have that integrate with the breathing and still having a very simple mechanism. And so we're kind of, we're doing a lot of form studies to first get the spine right. We've got a pretty good spine that does all that, but now we're trying to make it work with the ribs breathing at the same time and have that very low degree of freedom and very simple to build. So it's, it's really, uh, I, I guess,


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[Assistant] The, the degrees of freedom are very much out of uhm, how people interpret them and being able to cover the bases on the different kinds of things we're trying to express with it and ears turn out to be useful instead of spine instead of breathing.


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[Assistant] Pulse, not so much. People say, pulse and heat. Those are the most common questions I get. And you think about pulse and heartbeat and you think, well how often can you actually feel the pulse or heartbeat in a creature that you're interacting with? Uhm, and it's, it has to be pretty upset before you can actually feel the heart pounding.


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[Assistant] Uh, and so we actually found that that's not as useful a degree of freedom, but purring is super valuable. You can do lots and lots with purring. It's very complimentary to breathing. So we, we, and it's very easy to do. You can just, you know, make it rumble. And, and it, so that's, that's a, that's a keeper as well.


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[Assistant] How's it interesting for the, I, HungryBlox starting off really shocked.


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[Assistant] Last night, the kid's mother found us out. And so, now we've come to you.


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[Assistant] Well, I suspect it as much. You gnats should have left it up to me!


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[Assistant] Huh. It was nothing. What is it you kids say? It's just how I roll. But hey, I, uh...


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[Assistant] Uh, about two months ago. So are you more or less likely to talk about getting a massage based on what's going on right now? I thought about


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[Assistant] Yeah, to take a look and see where it is. All these things. Did you actually pass a stone or did they, did they late? In the past? Yeah, have you ever passed one?


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[Assistant] I just want to take 30 seconds to speak to a captive audience. A large percentage of our audience is men, not all of it.


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[Assistant] We as a gender do not take our health seriously. No!


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[Assistant] Get your regular screens, get your prostate, your colon. They say start that stuff at 50. If you have a family history of it, which I do, start it at 40 or 30 depending on how severe the history is.


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[Assistant] But men, we typically will see there's a problem and we think if we don't say anything about it, no one will know and it will never manifest itself.


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[Assistant] If you feel something is off, if something appears to be off, stop the John Wayne Act, make a doctor's appointment, and go.


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[Assistant] This is, this is a true story. The reason this is, I had a friend, a high school friend, I was just telling Bree before the show, I went to his funeral yesterday. Lifelong friend, lived behind me, played baseball together, went to high school together. I get a text less than two weeks ago from his sister.


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[Assistant] Saying that Jeff has been diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told him, you have weeks, there's nothing we can do. Seven days after I got that text, he passed away.


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[Assistant] He was feeling mild stomach irritation. That was it.


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[Assistant] They went and found cancer everywhere. And it's an absolutely life-changing event.


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[Assistant] He's in his 50's, was a healthy guy, a great athlete.


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[Assistant] And it can happen to all of us. And he didn't even feel anything was wrong. So get checked out. Alright, uhm, we're starting with the Deshaun Watson news. So we'll backtrack just for a second. Yesterday, Charles Robinson of Yahoo had the news of the day. He reported that the NFLPA plans to sue in federal court


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[Assistant] The NFL, if Watson's suspension is more than a year. We expected that. They dropped bombs that that was gonna happen. So it wasn't really a major surprise because everybody expected that. But today's news comes from Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, who's been on this story. Some of the stuff we've, I think, agreed with. Some of the stuff we said, I don't know where he's getting this. Mike is reporting that the NFLPA will not have to file a suit. And here's why. He's saying that people in Watson's camp and the NFLPA


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[Assistant] They believe, they pounced on one thing that we talked about at length on this show. There is a line in the league's conduct policy that says ownership or club management


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[Assistant] Will be held to a higher standard and be subjected to more significant discipline.


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[Assistant] Well that's very interesting because last Friday we ended the show with the news that the Houston Texans


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[Assistant] Non-disclosure agreements to hand out to anybody that gave him a massage because Deshaun had told the team, I'm being blackmailed by someone.


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[Assistant] Has not done to the Texans to what they're preparing to do to Deshaun Watson. And before I have you guys jump in on this, the last thing I'll say to that is as of yesterday, neither the league nor the Texans


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[Assistant] But after today's news, I feel much more confident that it's going to be on the lower side of six games. How does this news change your opinions?


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[Assistant] As a point of clarification, the league did lose the CTE. They made a huge settlement, and I don't know why anybody can say that's anything but an L, particularly when you look at the number that was attached to it. That was class action, and they felt they were going to lose, so they decided to settle and come with a settlement that none of us have ever seen before.


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[Assistant] And to back up your point and tell you why you're right, here's what's gonna happen. The director of security for the Texans will be fired. Oh yeaah. And the Texans will say, he operated independently of us, we've already cleaned up the problem here, nothing to see. That's right. That's what they're gonna say. Yes.


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[Assistant] And she's a woman of integrity, 25 year career as a district judge. But let me throw this into the mix, Mike, and see what you think about this.


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[Assistant] Normally I think you make a great case, but because the optics of this case,


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[Assistant] And the one thing the league has at least on the surface, the optics, they've tried to make strides in race relations. Some will say they've fallen woefully short.


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[Assistant] And you pointed to the Flores lawsuit. You can look at Colin Kaepernick. You can look at the baseline, the sub-baseline testing for black players in the league and how they pay out on the CTE settlement.


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[Assistant] Their track record on race relations is not great. No. They've hidden behind the Rooney rule but what does that


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[Assistant] You know, the Kaepernick, the Flores. You mentioned the CTE baseline testing for blacks.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, is there a point, and is this the straw?


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[Assistant] Where Black America says, you know what? We have officially seen enough.


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[Assistant] But G. Bush, aren't there levels of, obviously there are certain crimes that rise to higher.


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[Assistant] That's a world of difference. They're huge. And I really go back to what you said on the apples to apples comparison.


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[Assistant] The language that you read out of that particular statute was, the language is very specific, employees. It didn't say anybody that is covered under a collectively bargained agreement.


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[Assistant] And, and that's what the league would argue. The league would argue is you're talking about employees here. Right.


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[Assistant] That's why I think both hands are on the button to settle.


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[Assistant] Because ultimately, especially after seeing Florio's report yesterday, to me my takeaway from that, and I'll get yours in a second and we'll move on, but to me, when I digested what I had read,


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[Assistant] I had sort of moved to the point that both teams, I'll use your analogy, both teams have their finger on the nuclear button.


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[Assistant] And typically when we've had those Bay of Pigs situations where you're staring one another down, typically cooler heads prevail, they cut their losses, they take their hands off the button, they shake hands and come to an agreement.


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[Assistant] The NFL stands down and says we'll stand by that. I don't think they want to raise this thing to DEFCON 10 and nuclear war because to your point,


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[Assistant] If the documents from the Washington football team investigation become public information, we are going to


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[Assistant] Change the way we watch sports because I guarantee you there is plenty in there that the league and Washington.


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[Assistant] And to your point about the money. I don't know if you guys were following the DirecTV comments and what's going on with that. DirecTV has been a long time provider of Sunday Ticket.


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[Assistant] The report came out Friday that those new rights are going to go to Apple at a price tag of three.


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[Assistant] You think so highly of ourselves as a society. All that will happen is you'll lose it. You may lose them in the short term. We've seen the last couple of years the NFL ratings go down.


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[Assistant] Well, what was the source? It was a league source.


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[Assistant] And the NFL is just saying, yeah, we looked at that, there's nothing to see there. It doesn't matter. It's akin to the Players Association leaking from the hearing. Yeah. They presented no evidence of forced coercion. Well, that's their opinion. Right, sure. They weren't convinced by any of the evidence they saw, but we don't know what Sue L. Robinson will think of that.


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[Assistant] Based on some of the briefs that were filed last week and the whole discrepancy between owner punishment and player punishment. What do you make of that? Are you buying that?


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[Assistant] Tim's probably more successful in his second career than he was in his first financially.


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[Assistant] My only fear with him is the injury.


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[Assistant] When you've had that injury, it does change the way you play. When you have that injury a second time, it puts limitations on what you can do.


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[Assistant] And, uh, you know, you can't forecast injury. You can't, other than.


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[Assistant] When you're in the game and on the field, but are you thinking about that off the field and your off season preparations in your downtime? Like, you know.


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[Assistant] Well, one of the reasons that you couldn't get, couldn't stay healthy was because Mike was


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[Assistant] Burrow went and lost. The other four have not even been. And then five of these ten have won. Alright, back to the offensive tackle rankings. No Browns in the top ten.


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[Assistant] To enjoy success in the NFL. What do you think that, that position is?


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[Assistant] Tim really, and it is, what you see is what you get. Tim and I spent a lot of time together in meetings or at dinner preparing for our broadcasts and I would try to, I would bait him and try to see if I could get him to say something disparaging about anybody. Or, you know, just in like a weak moment say, you know what, I really was done wrong by Cleveland.


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[Assistant] The guys that were most ready for the league were the running backs and we saw because of that, the running back was devalued both in where they were taken in the draft and what they were making in their second contracts. And now that's exactly what we're seeing with wide receivers. We've seen high quality


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[Assistant] Top name wide receivers. Just this past year, we've seen their teams say, we're good. We're not going to go into that second contract. But the new teams paid them a ton of money.


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[Assistant] There's, there's always going to be exceptions to that, but when you look at the caliber of receivers that have changed teams in just the last year in the NFL, it used to never be that way. You got a good receiver and you held on to them.


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[Assistant] He's an 86 top. Tim, how much do players look at those numbers and do they ever talk smack during games when they're being covered by someone or they're playing against someone that was rated higher than them? They, they, they, they pay attention, don't they?


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[Assistant] Back to the uhm, the position that you'd most like to have elite talent at.


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[Assistant] This was a debate and a question that I would have often for our former players, executives, coaches. I was really interested in general managers because they're the ones that are pretty much constructing the team with obviously the input of the coach. And the answer that I would always get to that question was always clear cut, obviously, quarterback number one.


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[Assistant] Number two is always PassRusher. Always. Because...


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[Assistant] The GM's would always say there's two players that can impact the game regardless of what anybody else is doing. The quarterback.


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[Assistant] Because he's ultimately deciding where the ball's going. And on defense, it's the guy that's getting after the quarterback. And uhm, I think in the pay structure, I don't know when you go by positions of where the highest paid position players are.


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[Assistant] I don't know if defensive lineman is, defensive end is number two or not, but I'd be curious to know if there's a list.


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[Assistant] I just, because most of the executives that I talked to answered that very definitively and without much thought.


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[Assistant] When I read this yesterday, the first thing that came to my mind, and we'll get what everybody else's greatest comeback is, the Indians in 95 or 97, one of the years they went to the World Series, they were down to the Mariners 12 to 2. I saw that during my research. Okay.


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[Assistant] And before they scored their go-ahead touchdown, the Browns were moving the ball and


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[Assistant] You were involved in a comeback in college. You and I talked about this once. It was the blue, what was it called? The bluegrass miracle? And it was against LSU, right?


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[Assistant] Weren't you guys down like 10 to 1 or something and you came back in 1?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but again, when you consider that Ray Rice punched a woman, his fiance,


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[Assistant] Ben Roethlisberger was accused of raping two women and Joe Mixon was on videotape hitting a woman.


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[Assistant] I do think one of those comments said it's amazing how it's the incredible shrinking suspension.


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[Assistant] Right, it seems that way, I agree. Because there's more conversation now, Senator, what are we talking about today? Two to eight. Right. Where there were weeks ago we were talking about, we're talking games, should we be talking years here? Right. After Bauer, and then, and then the big talk was indefinite.


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[Assistant] So I just feel like if you're sliding scale this whole thing, I think like once upon a time we were talking more than a year or a year and now it seems like we're pushing it the other way.


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[Assistant] Yes, we are. I doubt she's watching any of this, but if she's, if she is seeing any of the national coverage or reading any of this, she's probably like, oh, it's so cute. They think they know things. Somebody heard something.


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[Assistant] I gotta, I gotta tell ya, for anybody that's ever swung a bat 50 times in two minutes, dude, it's exhausting. That's what I'm saying, why do they give them that much time? It's physically exhausting. Dude, 60 seconds! Well, you have to understand, it's a made for TV event, they need it to go four hours because it gives them all the commercial inventory. Why? Because ESPN's losing their shirt on the baseball deal.


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[Assistant] So anytime they can have a bake sale and make money, they do it. But are they getting ratings?


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[Assistant] That's where they're making their money. And, and special events like this. Home run derby, all-star game. If you notice, they also, they teased the start of the Derek Jeter seven-part mini-series. Right. And they held that until after last night. It's basically the Michael Jordan thing all over again last night.


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[Assistant] They ran a clip last night in the All-Star game in the Home Run Derby where it, they do discuss the beef between the two of them and the clip they ran, which was really telling, A-Rod says in the clip, he goes up to Jeter and said, Hey, are you good?


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[Assistant] And we don't know what it was in reference to. While he was saying that, they were showing the time where Jeter and A-Rod collided at third and short on a pop-up, and they both looked at each other like, you're an idiot.


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[Assistant] So I don't know that that's specifically what they were talking about, but they ran the clip of A-Rod saying to Jeter, hey, are we good? And Jeter's response was, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I want to see if they address that and they better. But the other thing I want to see is there's another clip in the trailer that they ran that caught my attention. Jeter said, had there been cell phones during my career, I wouldn't have lasted three years in the league.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, we, on the surface, he did a magical job of making everybody think that he was Mr. Squeaky Clean and I'm never gonna get married because right now baseball is the most important thing to me. Uhm, I think there are some ghosts there and some skeletons there that hopefully


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[Assistant] And it wasn't just the gift bag, it was when the liaison was complete.


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[Assistant] At his discretion, whether that's at 3 in the morning or 7 in the morning or 10 the next day, he would say there's a car waiting for you downstairs to take you home. This is the legend. And the women would go downstairs and there would be a nice town car, black car service ready to take them home.


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[Assistant] I'm interested to see it. That's impressive. I don't know that I'll watch it all, but I'm interested to see it. Okay, so the recap of the home run derby, yes, Jose lost in the first round to Juan Soto, the eventual champion. Jose did not hit the ball hard. He did not hit the ball far. Well, here's the thing about Jose. His farthest home run was 420 feet.


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[Assistant] You had to come from behind and you needed those extra, to your point about the, you could earn another 30 second bonus if you hit one over 450.


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[Assistant] So, Ramirez lost in the first round to Juan Soto. Albert Pujols advanced to the semi-finals.


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[Assistant] Uh, at 42 years of age, when he was in a groove there in his second...


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[Assistant] Go round, he, I think he hits six or seven in a row. That was fun to watch. Soto at 23 years old wins it.


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[Assistant] Here's why, he plays in Seattle, the team's not relevant, they're playing all their games when we're in bed, for the most part, and he's a rookie. I will say this, next year the All-Star game is in Seattle, he'll come in as the overwhelming favorite to win that thing. He had 81 home runs, 81 last night. Soto won it and hit 53.


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[Assistant] I consider myself a die-hard Guardians fan. I know who he was coming in, but I learned a lot more about him last night. His parents really pushed when he became part of the Mariners organization, they told the Mariners,


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[Assistant] We want, we want him to be fluent in both languages. We want him to continue his education. So I learned more about his life and who he is and where he comes from. Cause they had to fill four and a half hours.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, the Dodgers, the Angels, the Mariners, the Giants, the A's, like, can you name two starting pitchers for any of those teams other than the Dodgers?


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[Assistant] That was awesome. You know what? Love it. I did. It's like a 70's spy. By the way, I was just, I was just kinda taken aback at Griffey's appearance.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was disappointing, I gotta say. He was grounding, he was hitting balls on the ground.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's a reference to the shot they took before his defeat in the semi-finals. They took a shot of Pete Alonso underneath the stadium.


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[Assistant] There's gonna be a point in his life when he looks back and says, I should have been more in the moment. To me the scene of the night was when Poo Holtz came off after they thought he was eliminated.


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[Assistant] And, and, and I think it's, it's, it's been reported by so many and the agent certainly didn't shoot it down and the agent that he has would have if it wasn't true.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the contract's worth more, just under 30 million. 29.9 million annually. But what was really interesting to me was the length of the contract.


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[Assistant] 15 years. You just don't see that. And the reason you don't see that is because


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[Assistant] And I pulled some numbers that we can talk about this after you guys go around, but 30 million dollars, that's basically what Frankie was asking the Indians, now Guardians for, and there were fans in this fan base that thought the Guardians blew it.


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[Assistant] But the player we got for him, one of the players we got for him, who makes less than 1 million a year.


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[Assistant] Why, I love that the Guardians Indians did not sign Frankie.


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[Assistant] Top 10 have won combined 6 World Series. None of them have won more than one.


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[Assistant] All of these guys became that after they had their breakouts. See, Frankie's got his contract because he took a mediocre franchise with a subpar payroll to the World Series and he was the face of that franchise. But when you look at this list,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's again, that's not apples to apples. Because all of these play in big markets. First, I'll read the cities. New York, New York, LA, Minnesota, and experts are killing them for making that Correa deal. Because it's just, in a market like Minnesota, it's hard to monetize that. The other ones, Washington,


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[Assistant] L.A., New York, L.A., Texas, who went on a spending spree that all of baseball was shocked by. What are they doing? And then St. Louis. Here's a real question. Are any of those guys not performing?


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[Assistant] Some of these guys, well, Frankie Lindor is not performing to a $34 million a year. This is a larger question.


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[Assistant] You're talking about a group of people that they do have a very strict, before anybody becomes an owner, they are vetted up one side and down the other. Uhm, Mark Cuban.


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[Assistant] And Cubs fans wanted him to buy it. For the very reason you're talking about it. Yes. This dude will win. We saw what he did with the Mavericks. He's gonna come in, spend a lot of money, get the best players, and we're gonna finally win a World Series.


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[Assistant] Major League Baseball said, mm, not the kind of guy we want to do business with.


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[Assistant] I think his persona is much different now than it was. You'll remember a time when Mark Cuban was getting fined a million dollars per episode and it was like, like nothing. He was flipping off the refs. He was making disparaging comments about the refs. Sounds like a fun overview. And baseball owners said, we don't want someone that's going to tear our sport down from the inside.


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[Assistant] Don't get in the game if you can't afford to be in the game. Well, the notion that these guys with that kind of money are falling out of trees that are interested in buying pro sports teams because for the most part pro sports teams are losing ventures until you sell.


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[Assistant] However, and this is my stat that I always use when I defend the Dolans, but it's true, so I'll use it again. No team for the last 10 years in the American league has won more than the Guardians.


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[Assistant] Of course they have, because that's the ultimate prize, but as you know, when you get into that, it's a crapshoot. You don't know what's gonna happen when you get to the playoffs. The best team does not always win.


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[Assistant] When you look at the local, I don't think a sport, I don't think any team should have a geographic advantage.


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[Assistant] I think if you really want to create a fair league, and this is why the NFL is the most popular league, they've never left markets behind.


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[Assistant] And by that, I mean by, by splitting the national TV money 32 ways, everybody has the same chance and there's a limit on what you can spend. That makes the NFL relevant in 28 of the 32 cities every single year. I agree.


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[Assistant] Anything can happen once you get there. But in the NFL, I think in large part, the best team, usually not always, usually wins. But not always.


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[Assistant] And then subscribe, and then like us on Twitter and Instagram. And is any of the player memorabilia going to be Austin Hedges? TBD. TBD. We're working with Curtis. If you request an Austin Hedges...


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[Assistant] And especially because baseball has turned into an all or nothing game.


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[Assistant] Food challenges. What do you got, Jay? Alright, we were gonna do this as a topic, but it fell by the wayside. It was the only topic we didn't get to today, so, but I made this graphic, so I'm gonna use it.


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[Assistant] Can you guys think of anything that the NFL is ranked last in? Dead last.


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[Assistant] Yeah, accountability too. So here's our all-star game rankings. We were asked to do these. I can, I can do the three Steve if you want. I can hold it this way. We were asked to rank the all-star games in favor of our favorite one at the top, least favorite one at the bottom.


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[Assistant] And when I finished my individual rankings, I said to myself, this is the only thing that I would rank the NFL last in. The NFL and just about everything else for me is first.


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[Assistant] My favorite sport is baseball, but I think the NFL does.


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[Assistant] The sports show better than anybody else.


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[Assistant] MLB's All-Star Game is my favorite. I think that's the one that I ha- I watch every year.


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[Assistant] I put the NBA second on there. It's close to first. I just love the NBA All-Star game and I love the changes they made to the way they score it and how they make the fourth quarter meaningful. I thought that was a really good adjustment by the NBA. One of the best that we've seen. Then I've got the NHL.


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[Assistant] The NHL All-Star game doesn't really move my meter at all, but the NFL moves my meter the wrong way. Yea, it's the opposite. So I have to put them last. It hurts the league.


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[Assistant] It hurts the league. It's the only thing. It's the only ritual that they have all year. We look forward to the draft. We look forward to guys running 40s in spandex.


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[Assistant] I would watch it right now. The only thing the NFL offers every year that I automatically say, well, I will spend zero time on that.


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[Assistant] It's a joke. They somehow, I don't know how they reinvent it. I don't know what the answer is. They don't either or they would do it. But it's broken and we all know that and they really should fix it because the league is better than that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Robert's still put together. Euclid High School legend. Ohio State Buckeye. Legend.


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[Assistant] And they're legitimately good friends. I'm looking forward to that immensely. Charles Robinson too. He's been one of the guys who's been out in front on the Deshaun Watson thing from Jump. Very reputable writer for Yahoo Sport. Looking forward to talking to him about everything that's going on. Other than that, Mike Polk and I are about to go dig some holes. That's true.


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[Assistant] Buddyfight X, use the powers of Chaos Monsters to upgrade this world. Geargod 7, scrap this junk. Chaos Control Crisis, on sale July 14th. Bushiroad.


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[Assistant] Once the Mirage card became the Chaos, it cannot return to its original state. Now, shall we Buddyfight?


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[Assistant] Hop on! Bots can't be far! We'll find him together. It's a festival! A festival! We'll all pitch in and help Gao go and look for bots!


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[Assistant] Aibo Academy Elementary School, 6th Grader Kanata Ozora. I consider you as very... intriguing. With school and soccer, you show genius-like potential.


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[Assistant] Our company acquires all existing data relating to Buddyfight.


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[Assistant] Me? I know you're a very gifted Buddyfighter. Perhaps you'd-


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[Assistant] I want to bring a new order to the relationship between humans and monsters.


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[Assistant] As things are now, with humans and monsters living together as equals, we'll soon reach its end.


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[Assistant] Eventually, all monsters will become Chaos Monsters and be controlled by me.


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[Assistant] Chaos monsters. By focusing my chaos monsters on upgrading the world, I'll be able to achieve quite remarkable things.


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[Assistant] Listen, Kanata. It's clear you already possess the aptitude. I'm offering you the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to become one of those who will upgrade the world. The Earth needs people like us. He's been my buddy for a long time. And there's no way he'd join you in such a foolish endeavor. Who is this monster that dares to address me?


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[Assistant] Under this flag, I can call any chaos monster regardless of its world origin. Chaos monsters? Losing all the worlds? It's unfair!


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[Assistant] Once you experience the power of the Chaos and Gear God 7 firsthand, I'm confident you'll change your mind.


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[Assistant] Or rather, I'm confident that I will change it for you.


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[Assistant] Now watch me. And learn something. While I draw. Charge and draw!


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[Assistant] Poor choice with that prism dragon. Your chances of surviving my turn with no damage are zero.


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[Assistant] And I increased my hand cards by two! Brute! Attack Calvados!


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[Assistant] Osiris! The center is open! Go attack the fighter!


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[Assistant] The Mirage card was stolen by a guy called Wisdom.


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[Assistant] Chaos Hadath usually requires 5 gauge, but with Dear God 7's ability, I can call him at no cost at the beginning of my attack phase. And with my earlier spell and Chaos Azrael's effect, he now has a critical of 5!


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[Assistant] It's a pity that I must do away with such a promising young prospect such as yourself, but


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[Assistant] Your friend rejected my offer, so I had Geargod7 dispose of him.


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[Assistant] It's your turn next, Gaomikado. Don't be as foolish.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna be bold and say that this guy's name is incredibly boring. Like, come on, Pixar, you couldn't come up with something a little bit more exciting than that. I mean, I guess I understand if it's named after an employee, which it probably is, but still... Bro.


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[Assistant] This one's pretty lame, and it segues into the perfect story that we're going to lead off with today that involves Rich Harry, but who I actually refer to him as.


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[Assistant] In late 2019, he was supposed to come out along with all those tractors, you know, the tanko tractor, no cell tractor, combustor tractor, high ride Louise Nash, high ride Steve Herschel, all those guys long ago. And so we've known about him for awhile.


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[Assistant] Why did we know about? How did we know about them is because they have Walmart and Amazon listings in which their pictures were revealed. Now this also means their UPCs were revealed. So I had this amazing idea one day. It was like sometime in March of 2020. Yeah, it was March 2020.


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[Assistant] And I decided to come up with this little prank in which I make my own case list that looks exactly like how they are officially leaked.


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[Assistant] With all the UPCs, all the names and everything, like it was perfect. Put it like in a little Excel spreadsheet so it looks, you know, official. And I even like referred to some of these guys as like the weird names that caseless do, like sometimes they'll be like, you know,


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[Assistant] McQueen fan or pissing cup fan or pissing cup reporter. So I just, oh my gosh, I absolutely fooled some of my friends and they hate me for it. It's like world renowned in our little group chat because I totally just, they fell right into my trap and I called this guy Clay Playfork and it's just so funny.


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[Assistant] And I did decide to review the others before him, but that does not mean I like this guy. He might end up being my favorite from the case. Like I currently am undecided.


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[Assistant] But his artwork's pretty small, I guess weird how like left oriented it is, you know, cause we have this choking hazard over here and new for 2021. And this, and the sound box too, this kind of pushes it all over, but still looks pretty good. He's obviously way darker than he actually ends up being here on the diecast.


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[Assistant] On the back here, SCN Cars 3, Muddy Rusty's Racing Center McQueen, Trainer Cruiser Mirage, Jimmy Cable's Murray Fletchburn, and Ducky Faunleroy, all of which have been out for a while now, and none of which are even new to Case K.


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[Assistant] What is new to Case K is this logo down here, empowering the next generation through play. So anything that is new to Case K and onward will have this logo.


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[Assistant] So that means the only cars that have it so far are Sterling, Clay Play Fork, aka Rich Hurried, Racing Ride Cruise, and Dewey Cone Rod. So even though, you know, for example, this Mater was in the case, he does not have it because he had been released before.


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[Assistant] And if you guys have been watching my reviews, you know that. I know I repeat myself in these videos.


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[Assistant] Case K, I'll link it in the description below. The good case.


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[Assistant] This is the new logo, I know I say that stuff every single time, but like, I know there are some people who haven't seen those last two reviews. So anyways, I'll be right back with this guy all opened up.


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[Assistant] Okay, I think I can officially say this guy is my favorite from Case K, even though he's the last one I reviewed. He just looks so nice, like he just is unique. You know, these two, they're awesome releases, like I love them, they're probably, they'd be my favorite in any other case for the most part, but


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[Assistant] Rich Rages is really cool. I love the color and he's unique.


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[Assistant] And that's what we kinda go for these days. I'll toss a little picture of him on the screen there.


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[Assistant] Again, looks darker, but it is a dark bar. So I'll give Mattel some slack there.


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[Assistant] Now, what do I want to talk about? What do I want to talk about? What do I want to talk about? You know what? I'm gonna try and show the picture of his original prototype there on the screen, where he has like this experiment logo. Now for some reason, there was like a split second in the movie.


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[Assistant] It's the funniest thing really, if you think about it. Obviously none of those 93 logos made it to the diecast, which thank God, because otherwise you might as well just call it a sparement pity. But yeah, animation glitch leads to massive stock image, sparement pandemic, whatever. We're going to start with the little accessories here. Now this sound box is identical.


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[Assistant] So the one included with Robert Jam Jones, several actual, Oh my God. Oh my God. I sound like an idiot now.


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[Assistant] Can't believe they actually made a smaller one, but that's cool though. Like I'm happy, you know, now when you set the whole band up, it looks a little bit more realistic cause pretty sure in the movie they weren't the same size.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or maybe they just were trying to cut costs because we're already getting the slide guitar. But either way, it's a nice little accessory here. Got the little dials on there, got the little handle.


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[Assistant] It's like it's split in half, like it almost looks like you pull these two parts off each other like a Lego. Same thing with this bigger one, but you can't. Or at least I haven't tried that hard.


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[Assistant] Now both of these, this one feels a little bit more rubberish, like it's tacky, like when you run your finger across the speaker here, it's tacky.


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[Assistant] This one, a little bit, maybe it's too small a tile, but it's a nice texture though.


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[Assistant] So that's nice, nice, nice, nice. Now here's a little slide guitar.


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[Assistant] Kind of interesting how they did this. Like on the bottom here we have these two like little circles. I don't really know what those are supposed to be. They're just like the...


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[Assistant] Rivets that hold these two pieces together, I guess.


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[Assistant] Nicely decal. It's not a sticker. It's like printed on there. Again, this looks like you also pull it apart. It's odd. Legs are nice. Yeah. Can't complain about it. It's a pretty perfect height too.


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[Assistant] Maybe if it was a little taller, or maybe if the forks were a little lower, but still. You get the gist there, it looks pretty good.


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[Assistant] So now moving on to Rich himself. The best part of him, in my opinion, is his expression. It's so charismatic. You can see he's just really enjoying playing his little slide guitar. Like he is enjoying it. He's feeling good. I wish they painted his teeth though, cause it looks like they're just that green color. So that kind of stinks, but yeah, he looks awesome. I love the placement of his forks here. I like how they're like turned to the right. And then also,


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[Assistant] This one's like pivoted a little bit, it's rotated, and this one's kind of turned a little bit inward as well. So everything's moving, like the whole apparatus is moving, each prong is moving in a different direction. I like that a lot.


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[Assistant] The rims are also kind of like this green color. The base is the green color, P19A.


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[Assistant] For the 19th week of 2021 at the A Factory in Thailand. They really crammed a lot there on the base.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the windows look pretty good. Slightly grainy, but not bad. And then this brown cap is plastic. Yeah, this is awesome. I like this guy a lot. I'm a big fan.


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[Assistant] I don't think he's my favorite band member, I think Pam Wieldaro is, but then he would be my second favorite.


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[Assistant] I like Robert Jam Jones, like I love the guitar and everything, but the expression isn't as good as Richard is here. Now the funny thing too, I actually have a prototype of this guy. Here he is.


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[Assistant] And when I got him, I was bummed because I thought that the forks were like twisted, like I thought they were like dented basically out of place.


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[Assistant] So there you guys go, there is Rich Hurry. I do want to compare him to a few other pitties, but not many that are like him.


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[Assistant] But here's another guy who kinda has his forks in a similar position. This is Nat McLugnant.


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[Assistant] It's either Nat Mclogna or Michael Hongsell, one of the airport pitties.


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[Assistant] We have a couple members that Uncle Topolio has banned here, just for laughs and giggles. We got Guido, just for a little size comparison, he's the most common pity. What pities have they released this year? Besides the band members and no, I don't really think they've done anyone else, so.


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[Assistant] Don't think he's his own unique model though, that's the thing. Here's a pissing cup pitty, now we can use Schmidt.


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[Assistant] We know that Double Clutch Daily and Pam Wieldaro are the same model, but I don't know about, I don't think Rich Hurri is.


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[Assistant] Duplicated, but I don't know, you guys let me know in the comment section below what is the most similar pity model to him, cause I completely might be.


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[Assistant] But yea, we're gonna pull up the whole band now. Let me know in the comments below, who is your favorite band member? From the collar pin.


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[Assistant] We now have like three complete bands in the Cars universe. Isn't that wild? We have like Heavy Metal Mater, Uncle Topolino's band, and now...


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[Assistant] Pam Wieldero is easily my favorite because I just love her drum set, but Rich is awesome too. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it. I've been trying my best to pump out the videos. This is like my little pre-recording stint before I go to college. This is already like the third video I've recorded today.


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[Assistant] All over the state, the chief subject of conversation was Nellie and what she had last done.


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[Assistant] After a while, the farmer saw that it would be a good thing to turn all these interests to account.


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[Assistant] And a quarter if they went for a ride on her back around the bar.


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[Assistant] You'd be surprised how the money kept pouring in, instead of the farmer being ruined, as his wife had feared. They will soon well off.


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[Assistant] And at the same time, they had such fun.


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[Assistant] All this happiness was due to Nellie, and the farmer's wife was just as glad as the farmer was that he had been sleepy that evening when he rode with such careless handwriting for elegant pants to the nice, kind mail-order house.


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[Assistant] Which always tried to fill every order, no matter how peculiar it might be.


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[Assistant] When I left my office that beautiful spring day I had no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect for anything unusual to happen.


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[Assistant] It was one of those days when a man feels good. Feels like speaking to his neighbor. Is glad to live in a country like ours and proud of his government.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean, one of those rare days when everything is right and nothing is wrong.


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[Assistant] I was walking along whistling when I heard the dog fight.


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[Assistant] At first I paid no attention to it. After all, it wasn't anything to get excited about, just another dog fight in a residential section.


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[Assistant] As the sound of the fight grew nearer, I could tell there were quite a few dogs mixed up in it. They boiled out of an alley, turned, and headed straight toward me. Not wanting to get bitten or run over, I moved over to the edge of the sidewalk. I could see that all the dogs were fighting one.


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[Assistant] About twenty-five feet from me they caught him, and down he went. I felt sorry for the unfortunate one. I knew if something wasn't done quickly, the sanitation department would have to pick up a dead dog.


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[Assistant] I was trying to make up my mind to help, when I got a surprise.


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[Assistant] Up out of that snarling, growling, slashing mass reared an old red-boned hound. For a second I saw him. I caught my breath. I couldn't believe what I had seen.


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[Assistant] Twisting and slashing, he fought his way through the pack and backed up under the low branches of a hedge. Growling and snarling, they formed a half-moon circle around him. A big bird dog, bolder than the others, darted in. The head shook as he tangled with the hound.


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[Assistant] He didn't get off so easy. He came out with his left shoulder laid open to the bone. He sat down on his rear and let the world know that he had been hurt.


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[Assistant] By this time my fighting blood was boiling. It's hard for a man to stand and watch an old hound fight against such odds.


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[Assistant] Especially if that man has memories in his heart like I had in mine.


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[Assistant] I had seen the time when an old hound like that had given his life so that I might live.


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[Assistant] Taking off my coat I waded in. My yelling and scolding didn't have much effect, but the swinging coat did. The dog scattered and left. Down on my knees I peered back under the hedge.


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[Assistant] He bowed his head and his long red tail started thumping the ground. I kept coaxing.


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[Assistant] On his stomach an inch at a time he came to me and laid his head in my hand.


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[Assistant] I almost cried at what I saw. His coat was dirty and mud caked. His skin was stretched drum tight over his bony frame. The knotty joints of his hips and shoulders stood out a good three inches from his body. I could tell he was starved.


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[Assistant] I couldn't figure it out. He didn't belong in town. He was far out of place with the boxers, poodles, bird dogs, and other breeds of town dogs. He belonged in the country. He was a hunting hound. I raised one of his paws. There I read the story.


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[Assistant] The pads were worn down, slick as the rind on an apple. I knew he had come a long way, and no doubt had a long way to go.


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[Assistant] Around his neck was a crude collar. On closer inspection I saw it had been made from a piece of check-lined leather. Two holes had been punched in each end, and the ends were laced together with bailing wire.


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[Assistant] As I turned the collar with my finger I saw something else. There, scratched deep in the tough leather, was the name Buddy.


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[Assistant] I guess that the crude scribbly letters had probably been written by a little boy.


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[Assistant] It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years, yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new just by something you've seen or something you've heard or the sight of an old familiar face.


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[Assistant] What I saw in the warm gray eyes of the friendly old hound brought back wonderful memories.


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[Assistant] To show my gratitude I took hold of his collar and said, Come on, boy, let's go home and get something to eat.


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[Assistant] He seemed to understand that he had found a friend. He came willingly.


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[Assistant] I gave him a bath and rubbed all the soreness from his muscles. He drank quarts of warm milk and ate all the meat I had in the house. I hurried down to the store and bought more. He ate until he was satisfied.


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[Assistant] He slept all that night and most of the next day. Late in the afternoon he grew restless. I told him I understood, and as soon as it was dark he could be on his way. I figured he had a much better chance if he left town at night.


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[Assistant] That evening, little after sundown, I opened the back gate. He walked out, stopped, turned around, and looked at me. He thanked me by wagging his tail. With tears in my eyes I said,


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[Assistant] You're more than welcome, old fella. In fact, you could have stayed here as long as you wanted to. He whined and licked my hand. I was wondering which way he would go.


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[Assistant] With one final whimper, he turned and headed east.


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[Assistant] I couldn't help smiling as I watched him trot down the alley. I noticed the way his hindquarters shifted over to the right, never in line with the front, yet always in perfect rhythm. His long ears flopped up and down, keeping time with the jogging motion of his body.


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[Assistant] They were all there, the unmistakable marks of a hunting hound. Where the alley emptied into the street he stopped and looked back. I waved my hand.


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[Assistant] As I watched him disappear in the twilight shadows, I whispered these words, Goodbye, old fellow. Good luck, and good hunting.


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[Assistant] I didn't have to let him go. I could have kept him in my back yard.


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[Assistant] But to pan up a dog like that is a sin. It would have broken his heart. The will to live would have slowly left his body.


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[Assistant] I had no idea where he had come from or where he was going. Perhaps it wasn't too far.


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[Assistant] Wasn't impossible, even though it was a long way from the Snake River Valley in Idaho.


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[Assistant] I figured something drastic must have happened in his life, as it is very unusual for a hound to be traveling all alone. Perhaps he had been stolen.


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[Assistant] Or maybe he had been sold for some much needed money. Whatever it was that had interrupted his life, he was trying to straighten it out. He was going home to the master he loved, and with the help of God he would make it.


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[Assistant] To him it made no difference how long the road or how rough or rocky. His old red feet would keep jogging along on and on, mile after mile. There would be no crying or giving up.


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[Assistant] When his feet grew tired and weary he would curl up in the weeds and rest.


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[Assistant] Water from a rain puddle or a mountain stream would quench his thirst and cool his hot dry throat. Food found along the highway or the offerings from a friendly hand would ease the pangs of hunger.


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[Assistant] Through the rains, the snows, or the desert heat he would jog along, never looking back.


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[Assistant] Some morning he would be found curled up on the front porch. The long journey would be over. He would be home.


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[Assistant] There would be a lot of tail wagging and a few whimpering cries. His warm moist tongue would caress the hand of his master. All would be forgiven.


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[Assistant] Once again the lights would shine in his dog's world. His heart would be happy.


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[Assistant] After my friend had disappeared in the darkness I stood and stared at the empty alley. A strange feeling came over me. At first I thought I was lonely or sad.


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[Assistant] But I realized that wasn't it at all. The feeling was a wonderful one.


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[Assistant] Although the old hound had no way of knowing it, he had stirred memories, and what priceless treasures they were. Memories of my boyhood days, an old Casey bacon powder can, and two little red hounds. Memories of a wonderful love, unselfish devotion, and death in its saddest form.


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[Assistant] As I turned into my yard, I started to lock the gate, and then I thought, No, I'll leave it open. He might come back.


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[Assistant] I was about halfway to the house when a cool breeze drifted down from the rugged Tetons.


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[Assistant] It had a bite in it and goose pimples jumped out on my skin. I stopped at the woodshed and picked up several sticks of wood.


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[Assistant] I didn't turn on any lights on entering the house. The dark, quiet atmosphere was a perfect setting for the mood I was in. I built a fire in the fireplace and pulled up my favorite rocker.


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[Assistant] As I sat there in the silence, the fire grew larger. It crackled and popped. Firelight shadows began to shimmer and dance around the room. The warm, comfortable heat felt good. I struck a match to light my pipe.


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[Assistant] As I did, two beautiful cups gleamed from the mantle. I held a match up so I could get a better look.


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[Assistant] There they were, sitting side by side. One was large with long upright handles that stood out like wings on a morning dove. The highly polished surface gleamed and glistened with a golden sheen.


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[Assistant] The other was smaller, and made of silver. It was neat and trim and sparkled like a white star in the heavens. I got up and took them down. There was a story in those cups. A story that went back more than a half century. As I caressed the smooth surfaces


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[Assistant] At 6.25pm, just before the store's closing, defeated, I began to get myself ready to leave.


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[Assistant] a middle-aged couple walked into the room trying to recover my composure


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[Assistant] There was something different about the way they were looking at me that I couldn't quite identify. But I didn't know what else to say.


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[Assistant] However, additional words were unnecessary.


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[Assistant] But instinctively, despite the impulse to jump in the air and wring their hands to thank them for being my first readers,


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[Assistant] Because our son committed suicide two years ago. She took my hand


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[Assistant] In that moment I knew if I never sold another copy of the book, my four years of writing it had served its purpose.


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[Assistant] My prayer of asking for the words to touch just one person's life had already been answered.


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[Assistant] Although I would have many more challenging years until my book caught on and saw substantial distribution.


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[Assistant] This couple's story was all the motivation I needed at that point to keep me moving ahead.


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[Assistant] Thanks to them, I would come to the realization that the greatest of lives are made all in the same way.


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[Assistant] If the zone conditions remained stable, if they were not overtaken in the meantime,


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[Assistant] Less than two months, after the six already voyaged. But the days were not like before. Every one was a challenge. A standoff, sometimes cloaked in civility. Sometimes flaring into threats of sudden death, as when Fam retrieved Blue Shell's shop equipment.


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[Assistant] Pham was living on the command deck now. When he left it, the hatch was locked on his ID. He had destroyed, or thought he had destroyed, all other privileged links to the ship's automation.


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[Assistant] He and Blue Shell were in almost constant collaboration, but not like before.


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[Assistant] Every step was slow, blue shell explaining everything, allowed to demonstrate nothing. That's where the arguments came closest to deadly force, when fam must give in to one peril or the other.


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[Assistant] For every day the pursuing fleets were a little bit closer.


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[Assistant] Two bands of killers, and what was left of Sandra Kay.


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[Assistant] Evidently, some of the SJK commercial security fleet could still fight, wanted revenge on the alliance.


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[Assistant] Once Ravna suggested to Fam that they contact commercial security, try to persuade them to attack the Blight fleet. Fam had given her a blank look. Not yet, maybe not ever, he said, and turned away.


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[Assistant] In a way, his answer was a relief. Such a battle would be a suicidal long shot. Ravna didn't want the last of her kinsfolk dying for her.


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[Assistant] So the OOB might arrive at Tyne's world before the enemy, but with what little time to spare.


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[Assistant] Some days Ravna withdrew in tears and despair. What brought her back was Jeffrey and Greenstock. They both needed her, and for a few weeks more she could still help.


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[Assistant] Mr. Steel's defense plans were proceeding. The tines were even having some success with their wideband radio.


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[Assistant] Steel reported that Woodcarver's main forest was on its way north. There was more than one race against time.


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[Assistant] She spent many hours with the OOB's library devising more gifts for Jeffrey's friends. Some things like telescopes were easy, but others...


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[Assistant] It wasn't wasted effort. Even if the Blight won, its fleet might ignore the natives, might settle for killing the OOB and winning back the countermeasure.


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[Assistant] Green stock was slowly improving. At first, Raffna was afraid the improvement might be in her own imagination.


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[Assistant] Ravna was spending a good part of each day sitting with the rider, trying to see progress in her responses.


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[Assistant] Greenstalk was very far away, almost like a human with stroke damage and prosthesis.


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[Assistant] In fact, she seemed regressed from the articulate horror of her first conversations.


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[Assistant] Maybe her recent progress was just a mirror to Ravna's sensitivity. To the fact that Ravna was with her so much.


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[Assistant] Blue Shell insisted there was progress, but with that stubborn inflexibility of his. Two weeks. Three.


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[Assistant] And there was no doubt. Something was healing at the boundary between Ryder and Scroodling.


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[Assistant] Green Star consistently made sense. Consistently committed important rememberings.


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[Assistant] Now, as often as not, it was she helping Ravna. Greenstalk saw things that Ravna had missed.


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[Assistant] Sir fam isn't the only one who's afraid of us scrote riders. Blue shell is frightened too. And it is tearing him apart. He can't admit it. Even to me. But he thinks it's possible that we're infected independently of our scrotes.


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[Assistant] He desperately wants to convince Fam that this is not true. And so, to convince himself.


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[Assistant] She was silent for a long moment, one frond brushing against Ravana's arm.


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[Assistant] Somewhere it will always be, no matter what happened at Seondra K. No matter what happens here.


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[Assistant] Blue shell was hearty gentleness around his mate, but alone with Ravna, his rage showed through. No, no, I don't object to Sir Pham's navigation, at least not now.


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[Assistant] Perhaps we could be a little further ahead with me directly at the helm. But the fastest ships behind us would still be closing. It's the other things, my lady. You know how untrustworthy our automation is down here.


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[Assistant] FAM is hurting it further. He's written his own security overrides. He's turning the ship's environment automation into a system of booby traps.


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[Assistant] Ravna had seen evidence of this. The areas around OOB's command deck and ship's workshop looked like military checkpoints. You know his fears.


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[Assistant] If this makes him feel safer. That's not the point, my lady. I would do anything to persuade him to accept my help. But what he's doing is deadly dangerous. Our bottom automation is not reliable. And he's making it actively worse.


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[Assistant] Oh, fam understood. He and Ravna still talked.


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[Assistant] Their arguments were the hardest thing in her life. And sometimes they didn't exactly argue. Sometimes it was almost like rational discussion. I haven't been taken over, Ravna. Not like the Blight takes over Riders anyway. I still have charge of my soul.


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[Assistant] He turned away from the console and flashed a wan smile in her direction, acknowledging the flaw in such self-conviction.


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[Assistant] And from things like that smile, Ravna was convinced that Fam knew and still lived. And sometimes spoke. What about the God shatter state?


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[Assistant] I see you for hours just staring at the tracking display or mucking around in the library and the news. Scanning faster than any human could consciously read. Fam shrugged. It's studying the ships that are chasing us. Trying to figure out just what belongs to whom. Just what capabilities each might have. I don't know the details. Self-awareness is on vacation then.


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[Assistant] When all fam's mind was turned into a processor for whatever program's old one had downloaded.


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[Assistant] A few hours of fugue state might yield an instant of power grade thought, and even that he didn't consciously remember. But I know this.


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[Assistant] Whatever the Godshatter is, it's a very narrow thing. It's not alive. In some ways it may not even be very smart.


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[Assistant] For everyday matters like ship piloting, there's just good old fam newin'. There's the rest of us fam! Blue shell would like to help!


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[Assistant] Ravna spoke softly. This was the place where Fam would close into icy silence or blow up in rage. This day he just cocked his head. Ravna, Ravna, I know I need him. And I'm glad I need him. That I don't have to kill him. Yet.


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[Assistant] Fam's lips quivered for a second and she thought he might start crying.


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[Assistant] The Godshatter can't know Blue Shell, not the Godshatter.


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[Assistant] Blue shell and green stalk are loyal fam, except at harmonious repose, fam side. Yeah, I've thought about that a lot. They came to relay from Stromly realm. They got Vrenemy looking for the refugee ship. That smells of setup, but probably unknowing. Maybe even a setup by something opposing the Blight. In any case, they were innocent then, else the Blight would have known about Tyne's world right from the beginning.


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[Assistant] The blight knew nothing till R.I.P. till green stock was converted.


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[Assistant] And I know Blue Shell was loyal even then. He knew things about my armor. The remotes, for instance, that he could have warned the others about. Hope came as a surprise to Ravna. He really had thought things out and


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[Assistant] It's just the scrodes, fam. They're traps waiting to be sprung.


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[Assistant] I can't imagine the takeover of green stocks being so smooth otherwise.


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[Assistant] Yes, a risk, a very small risk compared to, Pham didn't move but something in him seemed to draw away from her, denying the support she could offer. A small risk? We don't know. The stakes are so high. I'm walking a tightrope.


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[Assistant] If I don't use blue shell now, we'll be shot out of space by the blighter fleet. If I let him do too much, if I trust him, then he or some part of him could betray us. All I have is the God shatter and a bunch of memories that may be the biggest fix of all. These last words were nearly inaudible. He looked up at her, a look that was both cold and terribly lost.


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[Assistant] But I'm going to use what I have, Rav, and whatever it is I am. Somehow I'm going to get us to Tyne's World. Somehow I'm going to get Old One's Godshatter to whatever is there.


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[Assistant] It was another three weeks before Blue Shell's predictions came true.


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[Assistant] The Ohobi had seemed a sturdy beast up in the middle beyond. Even its damaged ultra drive had failed gracefully. Now the ship was leaking bugs in all directions. Much of it had nothing to do with fam's meddling.


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[Assistant] Without those final consistency checks, none of OOB's bottom automation was really trustworthy.


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[Assistant] But its failures were compounded by FAM's desperate security fixes.


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[Assistant] The ship's library had source code for generic bottom automation. FAM spent several days revising it for the OOB.


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[Assistant] All four of them were on the command deck during the installation. Blue shell trying to help. Fam suspiciously examining every suggestion.


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[Assistant] Thirty minutes into the installation there were muffled banging noises down the main corridor.


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[Assistant] Ravnum might have ignored them except that she'd never heard the like aboard the OOB.


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[Assistant] Fam and the writers reacted with near panic. Spacers don't like unexplained bumps in the night.


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[Assistant] Blue shell raced to the hatch, floated Franz first through the hole. I see nothing sir fam.


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[Assistant] Pham was paging quickly through the diagnostic displays. Mixed format things, partly from the new setup.


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[Assistant] I've got some warning lights here, but Greenstalk started to say something, but Blue Shell was back and talking fast.


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[Assistant] Femm stared at him a second, then returned to his diagnostics. Five seconds passed.


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[Assistant] You're right. Status is just looping through stale reports.


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[Assistant] He began grabbing views from cameras all over the OOB's interior. Barely half of them reported. But what they showed...


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[Assistant] The arm checkpoint outside the workshop had slagged down. The beamers were firing continuously on low power. And for all the destruction...


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[Assistant] Pham jumped up from his saddle and bounced off the ceiling. For an instant, she thought he might go racing off the bridge. Then he tied himself down and grimly began trying to put out the fire.


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[Assistant] For the next few minutes, the bridge was almost quiet. Just fam quietly swearing as none of the obvious things worked.


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[Assistant] Interlocking failures. He mumbled the phrase a couple of times. The fire's enough automation to doubt I- I can't dump atmosphere from a shop. My- my beamers have melted, everything's shut. Ship fire.


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[Assistant] Ravna had seen pictures of such disasters, but they had always seemed an improbable thing. In the midst of universal vacuum, how could a fire survive? And in Zero-G, surely a fire would choke itself, even if the crew couldn't dump atmosphere.


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[Assistant] The workshop camera had a hazy view on the real thing.


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[Assistant] True, the flames ate the oxygen around them. There were sheets of construction foam that were only lightly scorched, protected for the moment by dead air.


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[Assistant] But the fire spread out, moving steadily into still fresh air.


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[Assistant] In places heat driven turbulence enriched the mix and previously burned areas blazed up.


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[Assistant] It's still got ventilation, Sir Pham. I know, I can't shut it. The vents must be melted open. It's as likely software.


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[Assistant] Blue shell was silent for a second. Try this! The directions were meaningless to Ravna. Some low level work around.


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[Assistant] But Fam nodded and his fingers danced across the console.


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[Assistant] In the workshop the surface hugging flames crept farther across the construction foam.


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[Assistant] Now they licked at the innards of the armor Pham had spent so much time on. This latest revision was only half finished. Ravner remembered he was working on reactive armor now. There would be oxidizers there.


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[Assistant] Fan, is the armor sealed? The fire was 60 meters aft and behind a dozen bulkheads. The explosion came as a distant thump, almost innocent.


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[Assistant] But in the camera view, the armor dismembered itself and the fire blazed triumphant.


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[Assistant] Seconds later, Fam got Blue Shell's suggestion working, and the workshop's vents closed. The fire and the wrecked armor continued for another half hour, but did not spread beyond the shop.


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[Assistant] To estimate the damage and to have some confidence that no new disaster was on the way. Most of the workshop was destroyed. They would have no armor on Tidesworld.


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[Assistant] Pham salvaged one of the beamers that have been guarding the entrance to the shop. Disaster was scattered all across the ship.


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[Assistant] The classic random ruin of interlocking failures. They had lost 50% of their water. The ship's landing boat had lost its higher automation.


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[Assistant] OOB's rocket drive was massively degraded. That was unimportant here in interstellar space. But their final velocity matching would be done at only 0.4 G's. Thank goodness the agrav worked.


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[Assistant] They would have no trouble maneuvering in steep gravitational wells, that is landing on Tide's World.


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[Assistant] His pain and devastation were obvious, but he didn't lash out, just doggedly went about gathering up the pieces.


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[Assistant] The Godshatter had bet too much on fams doing it all himself. Now it was turning down the paranoia a little.


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[Assistant] Seven weeks out from harmonious repose, less than one week from whatever waited at Tyne's World, Fam went into a multi-day fugue.


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[Assistant] Before, he had been busy, a futile attempt to run handmade checks on all the automation they might need at Tine's World. Now, Ravna couldn't even get him to eat.


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[Assistant] The nav display showed the three fleets as identified by the news and fam's intuition. The blights agents?


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[Assistant] The alliance for the defense and what was left of Sandra Kay commercial security. Deadly monsters and the remains of a victim.


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[Assistant] The Alliance still proclaimed itself with regular bulletins on the news.


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[Assistant] SJK commercial security had posted a few terse refutations, but was mostly silent. They were unused to propaganda, or, as likely, uninterested in it.


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[Assistant] A private revenge was all that remained to commercial security. And the blighter fleet?


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[Assistant] Ravna knew that the war tracker's analysis was wrong about one thing. The blighter fleet was not silent. 30 times over the last weeks, they had sent messages at the OOB, in scrowed maintenance format.


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[Assistant] Fam had had the ship reject the messages unread, and then worried about whether the order was really followed. After all, the O.O.B. was of rider design.


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[Assistant] But now the torment in him was submerged. Fam sat for hours staring at the display. Soon, Seondra K. would close with the Alliance fleet. At least one set of villains would pay.


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[Assistant] But the Blighter fleet, and at least part of the Alliance, would survive. Maybe this fugue was just godshatter getting desperate. Three days passed. Pham snapped out of it.


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[Assistant] Except for the new thinness in his face, he seemed more normal than he had in weeks. He asked Ravna to bring the riders up to the bridge.


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[Assistant] FAM waved at the ultra drive traces that floated in the window.


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[Assistant] The three fleets were spread through a rough cylinder, five light years deep and three across.


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[Assistant] The display captured only the heart of that volume, where the fastest of the pursuers had clustered.


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[Assistant] The current position of each ship was a fleck of light trailing an unending stream of fainter lights, the ultra-drive trace left by that vehicle's drive.


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[Assistant] I've used red, blue, and green to mark my best guess as to the fleet affiliation of each trace.


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[Assistant] The fastest ships were collected in a blob, so dense.


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[Assistant] That looked white at this scale, but with colored streamers diverging behind.


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[Assistant] We might get a little more speed if you would grant me direct control. Not much, but... Tham's response was civil, at least.


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[Assistant] Their distribution was in near agreement with what the news claimed to be the remnants of Sandra K commercial security. All that's left of my people.


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[Assistant] That was surely a rhetorical question, but it put the topic on the table.


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[Assistant] Wartrackers thinks that Sandra Kay had been expecting something unpleasant ever since the Alliance started talking death to Vermin.


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[Assistant] Commercial security was providing deep space defense.


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[Assistant] Their fleet is converted freighters, armed with locally designed weapons.


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[Assistant] WarTrackers claims they weren't really a match for what the other side could field if the Alliance was willing to take some heavy casualties.


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[Assistant] Trouble is, Xandra Kay never expected the Planet Smasher attack. So when the Alliance fleet showed up, ours moved out to meet it.


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[Assistant] And meantime, the K.E. bombs are coming straight into the heart of Saundra Kay. Into my heart.