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[Assistant] Well, you know how we've got people who always just vote, um, one out of five on dynamite shows? I think that's what this is. People who just like, no matter what this company does, I'm always going to rate it one out of five. And I think that is unfair.


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[Assistant] Bound for Glory 2007. TNA's Bound for Glory 2007, reviewed by these two fine folks for you. That'll be dropping Wednesday or Thursday when I get a chance to edit it. I don't know about you.


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[Assistant] I think it's one of the most fun reviews we have done in Restalk Extra history. We laughed a lot, because there was so much to laugh at, including everyone. A reverse Battle Royal.


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[Assistant] That starts with 16, becomes 8, which then turns, once 6 are eliminated, becomes a singles match that sets up an 8-man tournament with the order of eliminations determining the seeding for that tournament, which is then won by someone who wasn't part of the original 16 people.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I, uh, like listening to the podcast version is Tempest going, yeah!


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[Assistant] Uhm, where do we get to? Le Chef de la Trebue links the sun. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Manipulating Manny Umaria! Always shining, Garrett Albright.


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[Assistant] WrestleTalk Extra Polemaster Lendell Branson!


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[Assistant] And lastly for this Hall of Fame class, on the 26th of October 2021, Bobby G in da house.


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[Assistant] Never heard of it. It was a really, really great match between Danielson and Dustin. Yeah. My highlight though was going onto Twitter and seeing the Mayor of Painesville, Dan, as I say, well, match of the year.


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[Assistant] It was Stan Lee's quote he used to say about comic books, which is that every comic book is someone's first comic book.


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[Assistant] Thank you very much. Uhm, hey, do you know what my Spitfire hot take is? I thought the Cody Malachite black match was awesome and I loved the finish.


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[Assistant] And we'll do Nate S. Welcome back, Luke. D-A-D. Ollie for the Survivor Series stream. You should book Brand Warfare. Jam that Jampion Pete versus QuizzleMania Champ Tempest. LIW implodes. You can't book that though. You're not in charge anymore. You're a manservant.


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[Assistant] Zoe Sung, with all the backstage leaks and news coming from WWE over the weekend, this is a good time to remind people to protect your mental health. You never know what someone is going through or what kind of year someone has had. Nice tits, Ollie. They are nice tits.


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[Assistant] Uh, one anonimouse243. Mad I have to spend £5 to make sure you know this, but yes, we did know Tempest's name, because it was back in the day when it was just voiceovers and people made jokes about him sounding like the brain. See, Key Larson, WWE NXT must learn- Oh, Key Lessons. Key Larsons.


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[Assistant] Key lesson WWE NXT must learn from- I forgot Tempest used to do voiceovers from as his real name.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know what, uh, has happened there, but it's something that we will look into, though. Uh, and lastly, from Danny G. Looking forward to Fan Quizle Mania tonight. Nice to have Luke playing along, but secretly wish it was Ollie, as I'm not great, and Ollie having a go would be a nice eco boost. Here's to not coming last.


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[Assistant] It really was. That was a nice one. I said to Adam when I came in on Thursday, I was like, it might be one of my favorite, like, that you've ever done.


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[Assistant] Just nice. It was a retro-quizzle maybe. It was, it was really nice. Uh, before we go, before you do your plug, can I, will you indulge me for just one moment? Yes, I saw this coming, so...


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[Assistant] Once upon a time, a very special little girl was born.


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[Assistant] Aww, that's very nice from Heather and... You say that, Alice?


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[Assistant] Ellis? U-less? U-less maybe. It might be U-less. U-less makes sense. Thank you so much. That's really, really beautiful. Apologies for butchering your name. I am quite glad at names and reading.


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[Assistant] I, I wasn't, I did, you know, I didn't catch every single elemental rock, so I had my kid on me. Uhm, uh, so I missed, like, any time it came to the commentary desk, I basically just sort of looked at her, and just be like, oh god, you're brilliant, aren't you?


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[Assistant] Jam that jam, everyone. Have a great rest of your day while I press this button. Bye, everyone.


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[Assistant] Was a farmer, had a daughter and her name was Clementine. Light she was and like a fairy and her shoes were number nine. Drove she ducklings to the water every morning just at nine.


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[Assistant] Hit her foot against a splinter, fell into the foaming brine.


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[Assistant] Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine.


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[Assistant] You are lost and gone forever. Dreadful sorry Clementine.


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[Assistant] I'm always curious when researchers pull up images of ants and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] People benchmark all these, you know, insects and organisms. Where do people find all these, you know, small details of their anatomy and use that for inspiration? Is there, you know, some...


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[Assistant] University that's done some papers about that and that's what people just build off of or?


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[Assistant] I didn't know what they were talking about, but it sounded like it was about more than a choice between doors.


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[Assistant] I don't leave her alone, I said. Who are you anyway? I'm your best friend, the right face said. I'm your worst enemy, the left face said.


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[Assistant] I'm Janus, both faces said in harmony. God of doorways, beginnings, endings, choices.


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[Assistant] I'll see you soon enough, Perseus Jackson, said the right face. But for now, it's Annabeth's turn.


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[Assistant] He laughed giddily. Ho ho ho, such fun! Shut up! His left face said. This is serious. One bad choice can ruin your whole life. It can kill you and all your friends. But no pressure, Annabeth. Choose.


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[Assistant] With a sudden chill I remembered the words of the prophecy, the child of Athena's final stand. Don't do it, I said.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid she has to, the right face said cheerfully. Annabeth moistened her lips. I, I choose.


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[Assistant] Before she could point to a door, a brilliant light flooded the room. Janus raised his hands to either side of his head to cover his eyes. When the light died, a woman was standing at the fountain.


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[Assistant] She was tall and graceful, with long hair the color of chocolate, braided in plaits with gold ribbons. She wore a simple white dress, but when she moved, the fabric shimmered with colors like oil on water.


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[Assistant] Janus, she said, are we causing trouble again?


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[Assistant] No m'lady, Janus' right face stammered. Yes.


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[Assistant] Not you m'lady. I was talking to myself.


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[Assistant] I see, the lady said. You know very well your visit is premature. The girl's time has not yet come. So I give you a choice. Leave these heroes to me or I shall turn you into a door and break you down. What kind of door? The left faced asked. Shut up, the right faced said.


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[Assistant] Because French doors are nice. The left face mused. Lots of natural light. Shut up.


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[Assistant] The right face wailed. Not you, m'lady. Of course I'll leave. I was just having a bit of fun, doing my job, offering choices, causing indecision.


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[Assistant] The woman corrected, Now be gone. The left face muttered, Party pooper.


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[Assistant] Then he raised his silver key, inserted it into the air, and disappeared.


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[Assistant] The woman turned toward us, and fear closed around my heart. Her eyes shined with power. Leave these heroes to me.


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[Assistant] That didn't sound good. For a second, I almost wished we could have taken our chances with Janus. But then the woman smiled.


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[Assistant] She waved her hand and the old Roman fountain began to flow. Jets of clear water sprayed into the air.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's probably been about five years.


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[Assistant] Alrighty. Thank you so much, man. You're awesome. You're welcome. I really appreciate that.


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[Assistant] Okay. Dun, ding, ding, ding.


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[Assistant] Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, then stop.


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[Assistant] If I could touch the sky, I would grab a star and hide it in my belly. If I could touch the sky,


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[Assistant] If I could touch the sky, I would give away all the stuff that are there to spherical everywhere.


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[Assistant] One year, Skipper. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] It was like a, yeah, panel. Like, you know, like in, in wrestling, there's like personalities behind there. It's literally like wrestling. So it was like a duchess, there's Chris Crespo, he had no arms.


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[Assistant] I always forget that there's people who might be hurt by what I say.


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[Assistant] And there's other stuff too, like, Maddie laughs at her own jokes when no one else has to. Stuff like that, where you're like, damn, that hurt me to my core. But then the further along you get, the more you're like, I don't know, fuck it. You see people say some crazy shit.


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[Assistant] I would also like to let it be known that before the show even started, there's the Zoom like sound check and stuff like that. So we're all just sitting on Zoom like, hey, how have you been? And John Marko is just in his bathtub. I thought, oh, this is cute. I'm adding some flavor to this horrible medium.


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[Assistant] No one does. You look like a gay all day long! The jokes about your comedy, you're like, come on, that's really hurtful.


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[Assistant] I respect any sort of experimental stuff, in my opinion. If it flops, it flops, but, you know, like I was judging Roast Battle the other night and Mano Fernandez and Dalton Peruit.


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[Assistant] But when people like do crazy, even on Wild N Out, when people do like crazy experimental stuff, even when a bomb, you're like, I respect them for trying something new.


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[Assistant] If that was the case, then you would think really funny standups should be able to do roasting.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, totally. It's just like a different art form and some people can- I can kind of be good at everything if you just like put it in front of me and I focus for a day, you know, like pack ants in my- all sorts of stuff. But some people are just like, this is it, but you can't do that. It's just one part of their brain.


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[Assistant] He's someone who's like always just like, even before we did the roast battle tournament and right before he went on he was like, let me think about Chris Crespo a little bit and I'm like, what the fuck? And he's very, I would love to be someone like JP, who's more relaxed, just excited to show off some jokes, some of them flop, some of them are fire, but me I'm like, pfft.


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[Assistant] I would love to, and I try to also do a Zoom roast battle and I thought, oh, I'll be relaxed. It'll be fun. I'll learn how to roast battle without going crazy. And I couldn't, it brought back too much trauma. So I still can't even do roast without going full intense.


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[Assistant] I just got sucked up into this fight club thing and I'm like alright, I'll do the mean. I'm like really good at assignments.


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[Assistant] Sometimes people will be like, are you embarrassed to be on that show? I'm like, bitch, I'm making money. Yeah. Fuck off. What are you talking about? People here are very like controlling about how they want their career to pan out. But I feel like if you just go with the flow and just be good wherever people ask you to be good, things unfold pretty well for you. But if people are like, I don't want to be in that. I want to be in that club, not that club. Just be good where you are.


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[Assistant] You're supposed to like, you're supposed to say like, I have everything I need.


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[Assistant] I did a course in high school, but I went to a really rich high school, so I was never the best of anything. So now, like I said, I'm like mildly good at everything, you know what I mean? But I went to such wealthy places that I was never the best of the best. If I went to a small high school, I would've been like, fuck yeah.


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[Assistant] Hey Maddie, we'd love to do your podcast. It's literally called that time of the week. And it's like all, it has like the female symbol in it. It's all girls, has only been girls, and yet it didn't cross people's minds that it's an all women podcast.


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[Assistant] Like, I had like a one-off show once and people were like, I would love to do this. I'm like, dude, it's over.


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[Assistant] We're just on Twitter, and other people aren't. Every other industry, Evan, has been like whack as fuck. Academia? Can we talk about that?


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[Assistant] Oh my god, what a question. It's so cold. From October to May, it snows. It literally gets into freezing cold.


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[Assistant] So my dad's from there, my mom went to school there, she's from Long Island, and she went to school at Buff State, and then they met in Buffalo. My dad grew up on a dairy farm in Clarence, New York, which is outside of Buffalo, it's like a big farm town, well not like suburban, but it was a farm town, and then they moved, we moved up and down the East Coast, but we ended up back up in Clarence, for a variety of reasons.


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[Assistant] Literally, when I tell you guys, I had a full list of colleges. I was like UCLA, like all these places I wanted to go, and then my dad sent me down. We were like half broke, half not, weird, they were divorced, people were running out of money.


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[Assistant] 13 on. 13 on, okay. Yeah, so uhm, and my dad sent me down, he's like, let's, uh, let's get that list down to state schools. Just do that for your mom and I. Yeah. Dreams shattered. I literally was gonna go fucking west. I was like, what the fuuuck? And I was like, okay.


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[Assistant] But then they didn't even help me pay for college. It's like, okay, if you're not gonna help me, let me go wherever the fuck I want. It was just the difference between 50k of debt, which I have, which I guess out of state would be 200k, you know what I mean? But still I was like, okay.


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[Assistant] In high school. So in high school I did theater, drama club, chorus, band, all the sorts, all the music stuff. And then when I got to college, I wanted to actually do piano performance, but then I was like, I don't want to practice my whole life. You realize like, oh, it's a lot of fucking work. Can you still, can you play at all?


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[Assistant] I should more. You should. I wanna be, I wanna, you know, you get caught up in the grind 20 years later, like, fuck, damn. Fuck, damn.


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[Assistant] Later on, you just, I could see how people get lost in the mix. I really went with the flow and, and uhm, didn't like do anything fun. But uhm, so I played piano all through high school and then I got to college. You know when you get to college, you're like, I'm gonna be in this, I'm gonna be in this, I'm gonna be in this. And then you get wrapped up in both your studies and partying and I auditioned for an acapella group.


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[Assistant] And it was a girl's one. I got a callback. And then in the callback, this is just a gripe that I still have. They made me do bass alto. I'm not a bass alto. They made me do a low fucking G. And I was like, I can't hit these notes. You guys sabotaged me. So then I didn't get in. Cause it was like,


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[Assistant] In my life, we did, there are places I remember. All my life. And so my part was like, there are places. And they're like, Maddie, you need to hit the, and then I didn't get in. So then of course the next four years I was like, I don't do music.


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[Assistant] I listen to like full, like pop, like one million beats per minute. You will not catch me running the musical theater.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've kind of parsed through them. I took out one where I said the R word. So, that was the biggest one. You know, I was talking to Dave Cyrus and he's like, as long as it's under the roast umbrella, you're relatively good. You are a little protected under the roast umbrella.


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[Assistant] You anti-eastern poverty shaming bitch. You know what I mean? It's not gonna be a joke. It's gonna be some ignorant fucking shit that's not even ignorant, but people are gonna look it up and...


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[Assistant] I'm obsessed with antibiotics. Really? Obsessed


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[Assistant] A lot. Yeah. When you go upstate. That's all you do. I always blame it on the location. I'm like, oh, it was cold, but I actually, I think I had a drinking problem.


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[Assistant] For the last three years, the first year I tanked, like a fucking, I didn't realize you, I watched all these movies, Animal House, Old School, I thought it was like, ehhh.


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[Assistant] Geneseo like doesn't give out, this is how you become a good school, is you don't give out any fucking A's. They give out, they like make it so hard. Here's my thing, if you're going in debt for school, do not give us GPA's.


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[Assistant] And that was horrifying because once you get beyond calc 2, it's like impossible to do unless you have that side of your brain activated and you're literally Elon Musk. Well, he's not smart, but someone like him.


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[Assistant] That's three years I majored in econ. Murdered it, but the first year I- you had to climb out of a 2.6 and then I ended up with a-


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[Assistant] It wasn't like a blocked thing, but it was like, that's what all my time was dedicated to. And for thankless. No one reads this cool newspaper.


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[Assistant] And I would like write little fake opinion. It was like anti-UG boots.


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[Assistant] And then one of them was like, don't be the guy who wears a white tux to prom, you know, like funny, high school funny. But then when I got to college, I was like, okay, I'm going to join the opinion team on the newspaper and write like funny, kind of like satire, but like opinion.


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[Assistant] And I literally got fucking roasted to my core by the, there was one article I wrote and they didn't even put it in because, and that's how I learned like, oh you can't just come in and try to be funny.


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[Assistant] It was, uh, it was, uh, something about women's fashion. Not UGG boots, but there was something else that was going on at the time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is way more serious. That's when I started getting into the features writing where you could kind of like make fun of what you're writing about. Like I wrote about this, this uh, brat.


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[Assistant] It's the whole thing, they have this thing called garbage plates, which is meat, mac salad, home fries, all in one, mustard, all over the top, you mix it together, and it's called a garbage plate. Sounds good. It's actually fire. It's actually horrifying, but, so you run, the guys would run a mile, eat the garbage plate, run another mile, and my first article for features was kinda like quipping at how fucking, like, gross all these people are.


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[Assistant] I think so, yeaah. Yeaah, I think so, yeaah. Cause I've only blacked out twice.


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[Assistant] I was in a lot of pain, but I was like, need to taste that feeling.


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[Assistant] So Blackout Maddie became like this thing where they're like, she's going, she's going. And people would be like, we need to see you out tonight. And so you just get addicted to that, like.


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[Assistant] There's a little bit- As I got older, there was regrets. There was regrets. But early on, it would be like, oooooh. You watch videos of yourself. Most sane people would be like, this is creepy.


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[Assistant] That I disappeared for a long, but I was so lost in my life that I was like, cool. I'm the life of the party. I'm like the fun person.


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[Assistant] Most normal people would be like, I never want that to happen again, I'm really scared. But I was like, enthralled.


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[Assistant] I'll open up a little bit too much when I get drunk, and I'm like, can I tell you how I feel about them? And they're just like, oh, and I might shit talk a little bit too much, you know, you get a few drinks of you and you're like,


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[Assistant] I have something to say about blah blah blah, and you're like sharing too much stuff, but it's never backfired too much.


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[Assistant] It's a little bit slippery. You have to make sure there's trust. You have to make sure you're on the same page.


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[Assistant] And you have to make sure that they're, uh, they're gonna shit talk too. It's a two way street. I absolutely hate when you start shit talking and they're like,


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[Assistant] I hate that. So yea, it's that feeling.


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[Assistant] But I will say for the most part when you're in the car talking shit, I- there's always the same people that everyone hates.


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[Assistant] They're all shit, everyone's shit talking to everyone. And then at the end of the day, you're like, alright, whatever. I'm still doing well.


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[Assistant] It's tough. You have to get your crew and you have to know they're there for you and you have to know they don't care how far you go or not. You have to get like a group of people who you could hang out with and not talk about comedy. Yeaah. And you have to respect- Yeaah.


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[Assistant] You can't do it the next day. So I think, like, college, I was able to deal with that, and it was fun, blah, blah, blah. I kinda...


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[Assistant] And when you're younger you can push through a hangover. But then, think New York, when you start blacking out it gets a little scarier.


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[Assistant] Expensive. You wake up in Sheepshead Bay on the train. You woke up on the train.


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[Assistant] Where I had a lot of, uh, random hookups going on, and then I think I woke up one morning and I was like, yeah, I can't do this anymore.


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[Assistant] So your boyfriend, Andrew Schaffone? Andrew Schaffone, my boyfriend, obsessed with him. We started, when we started dating, we were like drinking a lot. And then I think once the relationship was solidified, I was like, we're done. We're done with this whole thing.


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[Assistant] The idea, it's so fun, it's so enticing, so blacked out at an open bar wedding, and then I think it's pretty much slowed down a lot since then. Past Halloween might have been the last time. And that was like the first post-COVID outdoor party where it just got out of control.


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[Assistant] I'll do little edibles every so often, little gummies and stuff like that. The smell of gummies. So in college I smoked a lot of weed. I didn't even say that. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So the smell of weed really sends me to a different place that I don't like to be in. It reminds me of college. I really don't like the smell of weed, so I like edibles a little bit more. I also don't like how weed hits you right away when you smoke it. I don't like that being like, oh fuck, I'm already a different person. I like edibles, they hit you a little bit.


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[Assistant] And you can like take a little nibble and then be like, alright, I'll take a little bit more. And it's like, it's just like a calm. You can control exactly how many milligrams you're consuming.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're like more present, you're like having more fun in your bits. Every so often when you have like a low stakes night, you're like, okay, yeah, cool, I'll take a little bit of these.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeah, that's my perfect little gummy little tiny thing. But like people at New York Comedy Club like Sagalo and Mike Cannon will be like, I just took a hundred milligram thing. I'm fucking pumped. And I'm like, hell, you will never catch me.


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[Assistant] It was bad. And that was the sort of thing where it was like, it wasn't edible, it was like blunts, and I took one hit and they were like, Maddie, it's puff, puff pass, not puff pass. And I was like, okay, cool. And then I was just like, really spiraling.


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[Assistant] Like all sex and like all those shows that were like next, date my mom, hit my ride, like all these shows that were like cool, like.


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[Assistant] I think it's younger. I would probably, my analytics on Instagram say most of my followers are 24 to 35.


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[Assistant] So it's not as young as I thought, cause most of my followers are from while and out, but it is a pretty youthful demographic. Just MTV in general. But it's also like international too.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I gotta get it, I gotta get someone to analyze all my shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To see where I should go. But it's a- The Pakistan tour. Yeah. Hello everybody! That's it?


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[Assistant] The biggest downside is how stressful it is, and how every season I say, I'm gonna be healthy this season, I'm gonna just be fun. I mean, I've only been on three seasons, so, and first two were pre-pandemic.


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[Assistant] So this post pandemic, I was like, I'm just gonna have fun. The minute I got there, I was like,


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[Assistant] Must write amazing jokes. Same with Rose Battle. You think, you know, you think you're gonna have fun, and then the minute the show starts, you're like, fuck, I'm in that headspace again.


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[Assistant] But then they'll have like a couple three episode days where they amp us up. They're like, guys, get to sleep tonight. Cause tomorrow's the three episode days, but this season it was three episodes every day. So it was chaos. So insane. So our, the girl's call time would be 7 30 AM. Get down to the hotel.


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[Assistant] Yeah, really good numbers. Yeah, so you're like, that's a really good place to shine. The whole show is about rapping. The other games are very fun, but you're like, I want to get in this because this is a really good place for roasting, but it's really hard to get in. So you don't know who you're going to be facing. It's absolutely


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[Assistant] Chaos. And then there's all these games that you have to write for.


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[Assistant] Not in the wild style I have, but that was more so like I was so off rhythm. It was like a good joke.


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[Assistant] Like there was one about, there's a little guy in the show and they call him Lil Head Cortez. Uh huh. And so I said, uhm,


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[Assistant] I said something about Lil Head is your nickname, cause that's all you need to cum really fast. You know? But it bombed just because my rhythm, it was su- You can say cum?


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[Assistant] I don't, I think it was finish quick in bed or something. Finish quick in bed. Your nickname, what is it? Lil head? Cause that's all you need to finish quick in bed. But I think it was like too... Look at that. It was a little too heady, no pun intended. Yes. And it fully bombed. Yeaah. But no one, like that kind of stuff is like, ehm, those are just


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[Assistant] They would love it. I just haven't had the time yet. I've been in LA. You know what I mean? I just got back. Uhm, so yeah, it's a lot of writing. And it's a lot of writing where you're like, I know I can pass with this line, but how can I crush with a different, like, awesome line? You know what I mean? So you get the games and you're like, okay, that's an easy one.


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[Assistant] How can I like, make something momentous with something else?


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[Assistant] He has a few now, and then there's a new pregnant girl, I think.


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[Assistant] Absolutely insane. The minute Wild N Out raps, I think he's on to the next thing. He doesn't even, like, he's so busy. Do they give you good food there?


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[Assistant] Usually it's like pretty poppin', but this season, we were in San Bernardino, California, in a COVID bubble.


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[Assistant] So the thing usually packed rooms this season, COVID bubble, what they did was audience members, if you're not in the episode, cause some people aren't in every episode, if you're not in the episode, you're in the audience.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so me and Jacob are next to each other in the audience a few times, and then they had some paid... It's, it's very interesting. It was shot more like a movie than a live show. So, you'll see.


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[Assistant] It was like a distanced audience. Which is why the season was so weird because like, if your joke, technically like everything kind of bombed because there was like minimal audience but you had to make it look like it didn't bomb.


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[Assistant] In, uh, in my, in my first season, we went to Magic City in Atlanta. Wow, what ca- Blacked out, obviously. Oh, you were blacked out? Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's the same thing with open bar. Open bar is similar to like a rat party on a season because you're so tired and your mindfulness is not there and you're just like consuming everyone. They're like, you crash and you're like ahhhh. You keep going and then all of a sudden you're black out at a strip club and thank god I was with someone who was like, we're going home. Otherwise I would have woken up there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so literally I was at home and we're like, smells like smoke outside. The air was filled with smoke.


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[Assistant] And I lived over like a mile away from like two miles away from this place. So what happened was like one of those 50 person flights went right into someone's house. Literally the lot where the house was was the only thing that was destroyed. So there's just like this empty lot there now. Everyone on the plane.


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[Assistant] Pass away. And then, uh, everyone who lived in the house made it out, except for the dad.


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[Assistant] He was in the house, I think everyone sprinted out. I see. I think they literally saw the plane coming. Oh my god. Which is insane. So that was a con- it was some sort of 3407 or something like that. Was that like- Absolutely insane.


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[Assistant] I don't remember what month it was. I wanna say it was in the summer. So I remember there was no snow.


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[Assistant] It was an event, but I think it was in the summer because I remember not talking about it at school. Yea. But I think we did like a summer rehearsal of Turn, Turn, Turn by the Birds.


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[Assistant] No. It was really sad, but I think that was over a month after it happened.


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[Assistant] Those small planes. When I, I took one to Philly from New York recently and I was like, uhm, you can feel every cloud that you fly.


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[Assistant] I was doing Wild'n Out and then I was in LA. Usually I'm pretty good with the news and stuff. I totally miss that. And my sister was like, you're a fucking dumbass.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this, this was, uh, this might sound like 2008 comedy, but, uh, I was thinking about this post-pandemic. Let's stop requiring bathroom codes and or keys when you go somewhere. Let me use the fucking bathroom.


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[Assistant] And you all know it's an anti-homeless thing. Let them use the bathroom. What the fuck do you have against people fucking taking a piss?


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[Assistant] Leave the door unlocked, I don't give a fuck which gender it is. As long as you're sitting on a toilet.


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[Assistant] It's really bad, but I do think some public bathrooms could change a few things. Yes, I do too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, I actually was gonna say, uh, antibiotics. Well, I was thinking about that on the train, and then I was literally was like, eh, might be too many. Well, I'm grateful for medicine. I'm unless a pro.


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[Assistant] So this is what happened. I was on it for a year and a half pre-pandemic.


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[Assistant] Pandemic hit, I couldn't see my doctor, new doctor, and they were like, mm, she can't legally give you meds without seeing her. I'm like, okay. Are you fucking serious? I'm like, you cannot not give a white woman her Lexapro. I'm like, you understand that's the equivalent of...


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[Assistant] It manifests in ways that are like, catastrophizing, overgeneral, like, just thinking into the future, like, this is why they got this and I'll never get that, like, insane things to say about yourself. Especially after you just spent a year inside and you should just be grateful to be outside. So I had a few, like, spirals. I need to get a Lexapro. You're describing them like, yea, that's what I feel right now. It really just evens you out.


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[Assistant] It's not even, you just look back and you're like, oh, I do feel better. It's not, like, cause I was on Well Buterin for a second and that's a really intense one where you lose your appetite, like you feel like a different person. But Lexapro's more of like a passive, like, it kinda just...


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[Assistant] It, uh, what's the word? Edges. What's the word? Uh, takes out the edge. It's, you know, rounds things out for you.


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[Assistant] It uh, it did, it used to, but lately it's not been as bad. I think I'm less stressed too.


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[Assistant] Pre-pandemic, I didn't know where I was going. I was floating a little bit. But lately I've been feeling a little bit more solidified in life. And I think when you feel better, you also are like, yeah, let's have sex. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Oh, it's your birthday. It's my birthday. Any other questions? So yeah, I'm also not that sex oriented to begin with. So it's like, did it kill it or am I just Maddie and I'm not, you know,


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[Assistant] I just would like to plug my podcast that time of the week with Maddie Smith. It's really fun. It's just kind of like topical and girls bantering with each other. And then also I'll be at Zany's Nashville, August 2nd and 3rd filming a little thingy, not a special kind of just like a little thingy, a little 20 minute set.


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[Assistant] It's on YouTube and I'm doing a couple serious tracks. Serious XM. Oh cool. Serious XM. I thought you-


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[Assistant] How did you feel? I know, serious exam, uh, but that'll be at Zainy's, uh, so come out. Yeah.


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[Assistant] A playground for actors, actresses, screenwriters, and directors, all trying to make it big. But there's few larger than Robert Blake.


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[Assistant] Homicide Detective Ron Ito begins to uncover one of Bonnie's darkest secrets. A sex racket that crisscrosses the country.


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[Assistant] The wife of Hollywood actor Robert Blake, best known as TV's Beretta, is found dead. Shot twice.


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[Assistant] Detective Ron Edo wants to know more about Blake's story.


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[Assistant] He discovers that Bonnie was working targets closer to home.


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[Assistant] In 1996 Bonnie lands herself a new man. A celebrity in his own right.


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[Assistant] Hollywood actor Robert Blake, who went from child star to starring in over 70 movies, is at the center of a murder investigation. But the murder victim is not as innocent as most.


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[Assistant] Marlon Brando's son, ex-con Christian Brando. And famed tough guy actor, Robert Blake. Blake is 15 years older than Christian Brando, but he has one thing young Brando doesn't.


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[Assistant] After a paternity test, she renames the girl Rosie Blake.


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[Assistant] Detective Ito has to consider every possible suspect. Christian has a history of extreme violence.


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[Assistant] The LAPD looks at Brando as a suspect. But Edo's investigation hits a wall. Brando has an alibi.


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[Assistant] Brando is struck from the list of suspects, and Dito is no closer to pinpointing the murderer. Given Bonnie Bakley's past, the killer could be one of hundreds of men she has duped.


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[Assistant] Detective Ito needs physical evidence to connect a suspect to the case. Days after the murder, Ito finds what he needs.


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[Assistant] Edo thanks the killer through the murder weapon in the dumpster after the shooting. But there's a problem. The gun is covered in oil, and no fingerprints can be lifted.


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[Assistant] Edo still can't prove who pulled the trigger. And the world is watching.


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[Assistant] Detectives dig harder. Edo's team took Blake's clothing after the murder.


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[Assistant] So Edo talks to people at the restaurant where Blake took Bonnie before the murder.


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[Assistant] Blake may have no alibi, but did he have motive?


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[Assistant] Eidosun learns that Bonnie and Robert Blake began as lovers, but became sworn enemies.


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[Assistant] News of the mysterious murder makes international headlines.


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[Assistant] Weeks into the investigation, LAPD lead detective Ron Edo still can't prove who murdered Blake's con artist wife, Bonnie Bakley.


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[Assistant] But then a new witness comes forward. The victim's sister, Marjorie Bakley. And her story has Edo intrigued.


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[Assistant] Everything changes when she confesses she's also sleeping with Christian Brando.


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[Assistant] But Bonnie soon discovers that this time, Robert Blake hustled her.


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[Assistant] They accuse Blake of kidnapping and demand child support. Bonnie threatens Blake with a lawsuit, but Blake makes an unexpected move.


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[Assistant] Edo goes through hours of Bonnie's taped phone calls and boxes of letters. They confirm Marjorie's story.


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[Assistant] Bonnie believed her husband Robert Blake was up to kill her.


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[Assistant] It's the summer of 2001, and former Tough Guy actor Robert Blake is under investigation for the murder of his wife. Seductive con artist Bonnie Lee Bakley.


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[Assistant] Then stuntman Gary McClarty comes calling.


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[Assistant] McClarty tells police just how far Blake was willing to go to get custody of his daughter.


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[Assistant] He gets out on bail for 1.5 million dollars and virtually disappears.


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[Assistant] For two and a half years, he hides out at his studio city ranch with a police monitor on his ankle. On December 20th, 2004, Blake's case finally goes to trial. He's charged with one count of murder and two counts of solicitation of murder. If convicted, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.


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[Assistant] On March 4th, after a two and a half month trial, the prosecution and the defense rest.


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[Assistant] We want LAPD to investigate Robert Blake because the more they investigate, they'll find out he didn't do it. Now it's appropriate for them to investigate him and everyone else.


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[Assistant] Have you any brandy? I'm afraid it's out of hours. Oh, surely, if somebody's feeling ill. I'm all right, really. Just a sip of brandy, buck you up. Please. Very well. Thank you. How much? Tenpence, please.


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[Assistant] Don't go and catch cold now. The damned nightly sitting about on seats.


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[Assistant] Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and ultimately cannot do the work required of them.


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[Assistant] Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use.


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[Assistant] So that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guards the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture, every department of human endeavor.


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[Assistant] Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist.


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[Assistant] The celebrated mathematician Edmund Stone would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness.


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[Assistant] Had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside, instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.


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[Assistant] Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.


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[Assistant] And technically you're only like, five inches from where you've died a hundred times. Yeah. It's just you got through that little like, buh buh buh.


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[Assistant] That you weren't even like, yes, yes, I did it! You were like, alright.


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[Assistant] Got it. Whoa. Whoa. Heater. It's a heater.


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[Assistant] Don't give me your heartache. It's the Great Deku Tree. Reach the goal after defeating all. One. Boom boom. Okay.


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[Assistant] This sandwich will require one, one dickload of ham. Ah, it's...


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[Assistant] See, it's our boy Link. Isn't there like a- woah. Goodness me.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, it looks great. Oh, that's, that's killer.


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[Assistant] You can straight up murder stuff.


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[Assistant] Yes. And boy, eh, having the, uh, the ability to kill things really changes the whole situ- Oh, Mario.


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[Assistant] I like this, this is kinda fucked up.


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[Assistant] Based on the password. And then that password will work on any cartridge. Exactly. And you just remember it forever. Like I still remember my Strider password. BJAPPNANOB. Oh yes.


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[Assistant] I guarantee we did, because it would have been the only thing I would have remembered. That's right, check out 2013's Strider, our least popular series.


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[Assistant] I don't know either. Maybe you have to bounce that pee on your head.


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[Assistant] Geez, this is, this is a tricky one. I'm like totally stumped. So we might have to call Ross.


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[Assistant] He's gonna josh ya. He's gonna give ya japs. Oh, do I have to?


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[Assistant] Alright. Let's get Ross man on the horn. Alright.


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[Assistant] The what? The cactus heads.


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[Assistant] Thanks for us, thank you for the horrors, we're loving it. Sorry, what'd you say Dan? Thank you for the horrors, we're loving it.


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[Assistant] Okay, well the people who watched his chat and the people who watched this, uh, playthrough will be able to paste the, uh, the footage together.


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[Assistant] Yea I know, uh, it's, it's been wild, but, uh, very cool that you can do the stab down.


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[Assistant] Now you can't break through that impenetrable cloud.


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[Assistant] Catch the sword. Out of the thing. Uhm.


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[Assistant] We played Berlin. Did you? Yeah, on the NSP tour. That's awesome. Yep, and Commander Meowch and I went to, uh, the Naturkind Museum.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's mean looking, dude. I wish I could remember, they gave him a name, but it's all black and it's got giant, uh, jaws. It was honestly the first fossil that ever I thought was frightening. Wow.


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[Assistant] Good thing you land on your feet, cause you were falling balls first for quite some time there. Shit. Oh boy.


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[Assistant] Maybe, like right now, that's a painful landing no matter what you're-


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[Assistant] Hell yeaah. That's really good. This is good. Looks like it was a Zelda thing. Oh.


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[Assistant] Wow, that is gri- Master Sword, you are a legend. That was really fucking good.


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[Assistant] I do. Not exactly, but kind of.


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[Assistant] I just- that music sounded perfect for falling. Super cool and fun! Ah shit.


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[Assistant] I mean, the firepl- the plants are the ones shooting the fireballs at you, so take them out! Nice.


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[Assistant] I wish, it's tough to know exactly where in the song you are.


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[Assistant] Oops. It's also tough because this iPhone is perfectly set up with the way I hold my phone and the way my thumbs are to accidentally turn it off constantly.


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[Assistant] Well, sure. And I mean, you'll see more of that as people incorporate tech into their bodies. That'll be sort of the next thing that people are...


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't want to say racist, but I don't prejudice about.


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[Assistant] Terminator will be viewed as a hate film at some point in the near future.


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[Assistant] It's so perfect. Yeah, it's just got like a wee kind of quality.


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[Assistant] Boy yeah, there is a time limit that's pretty strict. So you're down to 70 seconds already.


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[Assistant] Boy, as soon as you learned how to actually use the character you were playing, you rocked that. 48 seconds, how? 48 seconds is amazing.


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[Assistant] I wonder if that's- shouldn't that have changed to 70 once you beat it?


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[Assistant] There's a cute little hold Y, I think, probably. Oh. There you go. Oh, to charge up.


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe I'll need it. I'm assuming it's important later. Yeah, to get through some kind of difficult enemy.


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[Assistant] That shit should be on spoofy. Oh man.


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[Assistant] Yes. Master Sword, we're coming for you.


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[Assistant] Dude. We could ruin someone's life for, what, probably seven dollars? You gotta take that opportunity!


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[Assistant] I guess, oh I, I guess Nintendo is more successful than Game Grumps now. Is that, is that what it is? Is that what I'm supposed to believe? Yeah. Nintendo? Who's even heard of it?


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[Assistant] Maybe you can jump on the, those Cheerios under the pink stuff?


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[Assistant] Oh yes. Well let's hope you don't shart yourself. True to form.


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[Assistant] Yes. And you can shart yourself at almost any time. As we well know.


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[Assistant] Well considering he went through the direction where he supposedly couldn't have to begin with, I'd say he can.


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[Assistant] We're gonna count this as a guest grumps because we've made so many appearances on this episode.


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[Assistant] Now we know what's going on. Yea, I gotta know what I gotta do. Boy, a lot of people have died on this.


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[Assistant] And look, your balloon's all tricked out with fire decals on the side. Pretty sick. Love it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, cause it's good. If Yoshi gets knocked out of the balloon, then you'll have one shot to land on him.


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[Assistant] Yes. I could agree with you. Not anymore than I would.


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[Assistant] Yes. That's the problem with hills that you're willing to die on. You usually die on them.


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[Assistant] Me too! I listened to that album all the way through and it made me really happy.


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[Assistant] I feel like we finally got Starbomb to what it was meant to be on that third album.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in terms of the sound of the music. Got it. It's like, oh, this is what we dreamed of.


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[Assistant] Shit. That's how it goes, man. Yeah. Get after him!


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[Assistant] Do you have the necessary cojones? Save the president from ninjas?


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[Assistant] And it wasn't good enough!


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[Assistant] This isn't where I wanted to be. This isn't where I wanted to be!


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[Assistant] Nice and cool and fun. Nice and cool and fun.


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[Assistant] Try again, kid. Ah, ah, ah, ah.


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[Assistant] Monks suddenly pushed the table to one side and opened a small door in the floor.


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[Assistant] Down below, rush the river, its muddy waters swollen by the heavy rain.


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[Assistant] If you threw a man's body down there, where would it be tomorrow? Ask monks.


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[Assistant] Twelve miles down river and cut to pieces replied Mr. Bumble in a shaky voice.


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[Assistant] Search for Baby Shark Brooklyn on YouTube!


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[Assistant] Now that I was alone, I thought bitterly of the people I lived with. John Reed, his sisters, his mother, the servants.


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[Assistant] They all accused me, scolded me, hated me. Why could I never please them? Eliza was selfish but was respected.


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[Assistant] Georgiana had a bad temper, but she was popular with everybody because she was beautiful. John was rude, cruel, and violent, but nobody punished him. I tried to make no mistakes, but they called me naughty every moment of the day. Now that I turned against John to protect myself, everybody blamed me.


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[Assistant] And so I spent that whole long afternoon in the red room.


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[Assistant] Asking myself why I had to suffer and why life was so unfair. Perhaps I would run away or starve myself to death. Gradually it became dark outside. The rain was still beating on the windows and I could hear the wind in the trees. Now I was no longer angry and I began to think the reeds might be right. Perhaps I was wicked.


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[Assistant] Did I deserve to die and be buried in the churchyard like my Uncle Reed? I could not remember him.


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[Assistant] But knew he was my mother's brother, who had taken me to his house when my parents both died.


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[Assistant] On his deathbed, he had made his wife, Aunt Reed, promise to look after me like her own children. I suppose she now regretted her promise.


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[Assistant] Yes, and sitting down with Assad, let me come to that in a second. First of all, your point, conflict is getting worse. Civil wars do that.


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[Assistant] They don't just automatically go out, they tend to get worse and worse and worse. Until something dramatic happens, all the parties are exhausted, are dead, are incapable of fighting, or in our global age, the outside world comes in and tries to put pressure on the different parties.


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[Assistant] Now as horrible as Assad is, I do not believe that negotiations can arrive at an agreement that do not reflect the realities of power on the ground.


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[Assistant] And Assad's government controls large parts of Syria. Not all of it, but parts of it. And if you want to cease fire,


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[Assistant] The military reality on the ground which is that Assad still has power to rule large swaths of territory.


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[Assistant] Right, right, so we would like it, but uhm, we've been at this for four years.


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[Assistant] And all along we've said there's no military pressure for Assad to negotiate a deal with the rebels.


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[Assistant] Because we haven't been willing to put military pressure on him. And I fear that we can, you know...


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[Assistant] Ask for military pressure on Assad till the cows come home. But as long as Germany isn't willing to lead the way, I don't think America is going to do that right now. Uhm, so we're stuck- Well, you know, you've got a hundred, a hundred uhm,


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[Assistant] Exactly, Melinda. That example was also on the tip of my tongue. Europeans, your viewers, will recall in the 90s bloody civil war in Yugoslavia. And Milosevic's forces were bombed. Locals on the ground were organized to fight against him. But we also talked to him.


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[Assistant] The political dynamic is if we arm them, then we own it.


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[Assistant] Then there will be political pressure from around the world when the civil war continues, that America go in with ground soldiers and help. Now if the Syrians attack New York City, the calculation will change.


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[Assistant] But as long as the Syrians are just killing each other and ISIS, I'm afraid a cynical view will prevail in Washington that says, like Stalingrad, let them kill each other.


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[Assistant] You know, Melinda, America is conflicted on this too. In the summer of 2012, as Obama was running for re-election,


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[Assistant] All of his advisors, Clinton, Dempsey, Petraeus, Panetta, Gates, they all said armed the opposition, and he said no. Now that took backbone.


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[Assistant] And maybe it was wrong, but today as well, there are people including Mr. Obama in the White House who don't want to be involved with it.


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[Assistant] The question is, uhm, why do they do anything at all? And I think that there is an argument for keeping options open. You wanna know who's on the ground and who's fighting against whom. But very reluctant to give the kind of weapons that are necessary. So I fear that, uhm, it's either gonna be, uhm,


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[Assistant] A qualitative change in the nature of the war, like with the chemical weapons attacks, that changes the political mood in Washington. Or it's gonna have to wait until another president and we're just gonna keep watching. Now what could change? The chemical weapons, you know, we didn't go to war, Kirsten, but we did have enough pressure to pull the chemical weapons out.


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[Assistant] Then we look at, at, uh, Syria. And maybe a question for, for, for both of you is also whether the Syria of today, with its borders, is the Syria we should negotiate for. Or are we going to see a breakup of Syria, like we saw a breakup of Yugoslavia?


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[Assistant] Well, Russia plays a very troublesome role in the Middle East from my perspective. I think also from Berlin's perspective here.


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[Assistant] The government doesn't think it's good that Russia


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[Assistant] And so you work around the United Nations. And uhm,


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, as tragic as it is, and it is the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century, as bad as it is, it could be a lot worse.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what if Iran doesn't agree next week on nuclear weapons? Then we've got a whole other fight. So I fear our first priority has to be to keep things from getting worse.


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[Assistant] Monks opened a small door saying impatiently, come in don't keep me waiting.


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[Assistant] Mr Bumble was only brave when dealing with poor, helpless people.


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[Assistant] He felt very uneasy about entering this dark building with an ill-tempered stranger However, he was equally afraid of his wife Nervously, he followed her through the door


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[Assistant] Inside, monks stared at Mrs Bumble for some time. So this is the woman, is it? Yes, replied Mr Bumble cautiously.


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[Assistant] Did I tell you the story about how my condo flooded? No. Yeaah. How? You're like on the billionth floor. I'm on the billionth floor, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I was gone for like a week or two weeks traveling, and when I'm not there, Millie's not there, right? So the place is empty. Oh. I got home, I picked up Millie, we came to the place, had a Friday there, it was totally fine. Saturday evening, Millie comes in and she goes, hey, uhm,


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[Assistant] I spilled some water or something in my closet and I just, it's a little bit more than I can clean up. I don't know what to do. And I was like, okay.


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[Assistant] Let me take a look at it. Spilled water in a closet? I walk into her closet, she like, She's like a walk-in closet. Okay. And she likes to sit in there and like,


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[Assistant] Like, he's standing, like, like, up my shoe. Jesus. Like, I thought my, like, I thought it was gonna crest my fuckin' toes. And, uh, I go, I go, Milk, what did you spill? And she goes, I don't remember spilling anything, but I don't know what it is. And I go,


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[Assistant] This is a leak, this isn't, you didn't do this. She's like, oh thank god, I thought I was screwed, I thought I was in so much trouble.


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[Assistant] And I go, yeah, I don't know how you, how a human being could spill this much water without a hose. And so I start looking and I find it's like seeping in from like a point in the wall. When did you find out, when did you notice this? Cause we've been home for a while. And she goes,


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[Assistant] So my condo, they have a thing where you submit a, like a work order, and you can mark it as like normal, or like, holy shit, I just flooded an apartment. This is Saturday, I say, I'm gonna use the appropriate measures, so...


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[Assistant] I submit the ticket, I mark it as, uh, holy shit, this is a big deal. Couple hours go by, still haven't heard anything, so I submit another ticket.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, have a Saturday night, eat dinner, go to bed, whatever, get up Sunday, and I'm like, man, I still haven't heard from these motherfuckers. So I go downstairs to the front desk, and I go, hey, uh,


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[Assistant] Let me tell you that nothing is further from the truth.


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[Assistant] We have read stories about movie stars who committed suicide or died from drugs.


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[Assistant] Quite clearly, money is not the only answer to all problems.


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[Assistant] Wealth obtained through dishonest means does not bring happiness. Lottery winnings do not bring happiness.


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[Assistant] Gamble winnings do not bring happiness. To my mind,


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[Assistant] The secret to happiness lies in your successful work, in your contribution towards others happiness.


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[Assistant] If you obtain wealth through luck or dishonest means, you will know that it is ill earned money.


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[Assistant] If you get your money by taking advantage of others, or by hurting others, you will not be happy with it. You will think you are a base person. Long-term happiness is based on honesty, productive work, contribution and self-esteem. Happiness is not an end, it is a process.


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[Assistant] It is a continuous process of honest, productive work which makes a real contribution to others and makes you feel you are a useful, worthy person. As Dr. Wayne wrote, there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. There is no use saying,


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[Assistant] Someday when I achieve these goals, when I get a car,


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[Assistant] Build a house and own my own business, then I will be really happy. Life just does not work that way.


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[Assistant] And depend on external circumstances of life to make you happy you will always feel unfulfilled. There will always be something missing.


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[Assistant] Madam President of Finland, Mr. President of Namibia, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen.


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[Assistant] I am deeply honored to welcome you all. Never before have the leaders of so many nations come together in a unique assembly. This is a unique event, a unique opportunity, and therefore a unique responsibility.


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[Assistant] You, ladies and gentlemen, are the leaders to whom the world's people have entrusted their destiny.


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[Assistant] They look to you to protect them from the great dangers of our time, and to ensure that all of them can share in its great achievements, in an age where human beings have learnt the code of human life, and can transmit their knowledge in seconds from one continent to another.


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[Assistant] No mother in the world can understand why her child should be left to die of malnutrition or preventable disease. No one can understand why they should be driven from their home or imprisoned or tortured for expressing their beliefs.


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[Assistant] No one can understand why the soil their parents tilled has turned to desert, or why their skills have become useless and their family is left hungry.


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[Assistant] Public and private. Where human beings join hands to promote their ideas and their interests.


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[Assistant] People want to see this happen between neighboring countries and among all the countries of each region. But since today's biggest challenges are global, they expect above all that we will work together at the global level as the United Nations. My friends, that is why we are here.


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[Assistant] We are here to strengthen and adapt this great institution, forged 55 years ago in the crucible of war, so that it can do what people expected of it in the new era, an era in which rule of law must prevail.


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[Assistant] Please consider that report very seriously. It is not only in that field however, that the United Nations needs strengthening.


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[Assistant] We must strengthen it across the whole range of our activities. We need to decide our priorities. And we must adapt our United Nations so that in the future, those proprieties are reflected in clear and prompt decisions leading to real change in people's lives.


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[Assistant] That, my friends, is what the peoples expect of us. Let us not disappoint them. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Fagin entered at this point with two young men and joined in the conversation.


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[Assistant] One of the young men had just come out of prison, and there were many cheerful jokes about his very short haircut.


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[Assistant] Everybody sat around the fire, talking and laughing for hours.


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[Assistant] Fagin told Oliver how good the Dodger was at his job, and what a friendly boy Charlie was.


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[Assistant] It was without doubt an interesting evening for Oliver, after so many days locked up alone.


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[Assistant] He spent a lot of time with the Dodger and Charlie and often played the handkerchief game with them.


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[Assistant] At other times, Fagin would tell them all about robberies he had committed in his younger days, telling the stories so well and putting in so many funny details that Oliver could not stop laughing, even though he knew it was wrong.


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[Assistant] They didn't tell us that any patients would be sent here today.


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[Assistant] We are not prepared to treat any patients at this time.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid that I can't provide you with any sheets for the bed. Everything is in shortage.


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[Assistant] I don't understand what this says. Even if I spoke Italian.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't be able to do anything until the doctor comes back. He's out of the town right now.


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[Assistant] Hello, Mr. Henry. I'm sorry, but the doctor is still away.


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[Assistant] I can't change your bandages until he comes back. However, if you want, I can give you a bath.


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[Assistant] No, there's just Mrs. Walker and myself. My name is Miss Gage.


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[Assistant] But I heard there are more nurses coming later, since we are going to get more and more patients.


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[Assistant] You see, Miss Van Campen is nicer than you think. She asked me to give you this.


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[Assistant] Maybe you should be friendlier to her in the future.


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[Assistant] She has a lot of pressure to do good work here. You ought to make her job a little easier


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[Assistant] And he must have been really proud of this tweet because it's the first time he ever signed one. Bad or sick guy.


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[Assistant] This is a serious allegation. This might be the most serious allegation any president has made against a previous president. And you know Trump takes it seriously.


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[Assistant] That's right, first he alleges a scandal worse than Watergate, then he immediately goes after Schwarzenegger.


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[Assistant] It's like if Deep Throat told Woodward and Bernstein, you know, Nixon's a criminal. Oh, and the six million dollar man isn't real. It's all done with slow motion.


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[Assistant] The Obama people say they never wiretap Trump. Here's former Obama Press Secretary Josh Earnest.


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[Assistant] Need more, no proof? Here's former Director of National Intelligence and sentient testicle James Clapper.


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[Assistant] So, faced with zero evidence, the Trump team did the only logical thing and called for an investigation. White House press secretary and man using a coupon on his first date, Sean Spicer, took, sure was a nice date, good fun date.


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[Assistant] Took to Twitter to demand that the intelligence committees in Congress investigate Trump's charges, adding, So now, they're not gonna comment on the bad thing they made up?


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[Assistant] So why did Trump do it? Apparently, Trump was none too pleased that thanks to more Russia revelations, Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself on Thursday. So Trump's staff did whatever they could to calm him down.


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[Assistant] So my news channel, Real News Network, filed this explosive report on the Obama allegations.


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[Assistant] Well, since I appear to have offered a remark that's an outrage on human nature, I shall wait in the library for my tea.


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[Assistant] After they finished the operation, I woke up with a very sick feeling.


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[Assistant] I looked around the room and found Miss Gage standing nearby.


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[Assistant] I felt very weak and soon fell asleep again.


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[Assistant] There were four patients in the hospital now, including myself.


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[Assistant] Catherine became very well liked among the nurses because of her willingness to work nights.


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[Assistant] Miss Ferguson had recently transferred to Milan as well. I saw her often and I thought she was nice.


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[Assistant] She would often help Catherine and I send messages to each other.


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[Assistant] Will you be there when Catherine and I get married? I asked her one day.


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[Assistant] I am always careful. You are a good woman, Ferguson.


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[Assistant] Alright. I'll arrange it so she works days for a while.


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[Assistant] Of course I like it. However,


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[Assistant] If it's making her tired, she should rest for awhile. After Ferguson left, I called for Miss Gage.


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[Assistant] Would it be possible to put Miss Barkley on the day shift for a while? She seems so tired lately.


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[Assistant] Have a drink with me, I said, pulling out the bottle of wine. I poured her a glass and handed it to her.


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[Assistant] For three days in a row, Catherine was taken off of the late shift. When we finally saw each other again,


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[Assistant] It seemed like we had been away from each other for months.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he's straightened himself up.


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[Assistant] And looked round at me in triumph. It is glue, Watson, said he. Unquestionably, it is glue. Have a look at these scattered objects in the field. I stooped to the eyepiece and focused my vision. Those hairs are threads from a tweed coat. The irregular grey masses are dust.


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[Assistant] There are epithelial scales on the left. Those brown blobs in the centre are undoubtedly glue.


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[Assistant] Well, I said laughing, I'm prepared to take your word for it. Does anything depend upon it? It is a very fine demonstration, he answered.


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[Assistant] In the St Pancras case you may remember that a cap was found beside the dead policeman. The accused man denies that it is his, but he is a picture frame maker who habitually handles glue. Is it one of your cases? No.


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[Assistant] My friend Mary Vale of the yard asked me to look into the case.


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[Assistant] Since I ran down that coiner by the zinc and copper filings in the seam of his cuff,


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[Assistant] I pay for it with about half my wound pension.


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[Assistant] Then I'll make you my handy guide to the turf. What about Sir Robert Norbertson? Does the name recall anything?


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[Assistant] Well I should say so. He lives at Shoscombe Old Place. And I know it well, for my summer quarters were down there once.


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[Assistant] Norberton nearly came within your province once. How was that? It was when he horse-whipped Sam Brewer.


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[Assistant] The well-known Curzon Street Moneylender on Newmarket Heath. He nearly killed the man. Aha, he sounds interesting.


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[Assistant] Does he often indulge in that way? Well, he has the name of being a dangerous man.


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[Assistant] He's about the most daredevil rider in England. Second in the Grand National a few years back.


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[Assistant] He is one of those men who have overshot their true generation. He should have been a buck in the days of the Regency.


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[Assistant] A boxer, an athlete, a plunger on the turf, a lover of fair ladies,


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[Assistant] And by all account, so far down Queer Street, that he may never find his way back again. Capital Watson. A thumbnail sketch. I seem to know the man.


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[Assistant] Now, can you give me some idea of Shoscombe Old Place?


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[Assistant] Only that it is in the centre of Shoscombe Park, and that the famous Shoscombe Stud and training quarters are to be found there. And a head trainer, said Holmes, is John Mason.


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[Assistant] You need not look surprised at my knowledge, Watson, for this is a letter from him which I am unfolding. But let us have some more about Shoscombe. I seem to have struck a rich vein. There are the Shoscombe Spaniels, said I. You hear of them at every dog show. The most exclusive breed in England.


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[Assistant] They are the special pride of the Lady of Shoscombe Old Place. Sir Robert Norberton's wife, I presume. Sir Robert has never married. Just as well, I think, considering his prospects. He lives with his widowed sister, Lady Beatrice Folder. You mean that she lives with him? No, no.


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[Assistant] The place belonged to her late husband, Sir James. Norburton has no claim on it at all.


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[Assistant] It is only a life interest and reverts to her husband's brother. Meantime she draws the rents every year.


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[Assistant] And Brother Robert, I suppose, spends the said rents? That is about the size of it.


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[Assistant] He's a devil of a fellow and must lead her a most uneasy life. Yet I've heard that she is devoted to him. But what is amiss at Shoscombe? Ah, that is just what I want to know.


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[Assistant] And here I expect is the man who can tell us. The door had opened.


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[Assistant] And the page had shown in a tall, clean shaven man, with the firm austere expression,


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[Assistant] Which is only seen upon those who have to control horses. Or boys.


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[Assistant] Mr John Mason had many of both under his sway and he looked equal to the task. He bowed with cold self-possession


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[Assistant] It was too delicate a thing for me to put the details on paper, and too complicated. It was only face to face I could do it. Well, we are at your disposal.


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[Assistant] First of all, Mr Holmes, I think that my employer, Sir Robert, has gone mad. Holmes raised his eyebrows.


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[Assistant] This is Baker Street, not Harley Street, said he. But why should you say so? Well, sir, when a man does one queer thing or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder. I believe Shoscombe Prince and the Derby have turned his brain. That is a cult you are running? The best in England, Mr. Holmes. I should know if anyone does.


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[Assistant] I know you're a gentleman of honour and that it won't go beyond the rum. So Robert has got to win this derby.


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[Assistant] He's up to the neck, and it's his last chance. Everything he could raise or borrow is on the horse. And at fine odds too.


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[Assistant] You can get 40s now, but it was nearer the 100 when he began to back him.


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[Assistant] But how is that if the horse is so good? The public don't know how good he is.


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[Assistant] Sir Robert has been too clever for the taunts.


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[Assistant] He has the prince's half-brother out for spins. You can't tell him apart.


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[Assistant] But there are two lengths in a furlong between them when it comes to a gallop.


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[Assistant] He thinks of nothing but the horse and the race. His whole life is on it. He's holding off the Jews till then. If the prince fails him, he is done. It seems a rather desperate gamble. But where does the madness come in? Well, first of all, you have only to look at him. I don't believe he sleeps at night. He's down at the stables at all hours. His eyes are wild.


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[Assistant] Then there is his conduct to Lady Beatrice. Ah, what is that? They've always been the best of friends. They had the same tastes, the two of them. And she loved the horses as much as he did.


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[Assistant] Every day at the same hour she would drive down to see them. And above all, she loved the prince. He would prick up his ears when he heard the wheels on the gravel.


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[Assistant] And he would trot out each morning to the carriage to get his lump of sugar. But that's all over now. Why? Well, she seems to have lost all interest in horses.


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[Assistant] For a week now she has driven past the stables with never so much as a good morning. You think there has been a quarrel?


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[Assistant] And a bitter, savage, spiteful quarrel at that. Why else would he give away her pet spaniel that she loved as if he were a child?


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[Assistant] He gave it a few days ago to old Barnes, what keeps the green dragon three miles off at Crendall. That certainly did seem strange.


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[Assistant] Of course, with her weak heart and dropsy, one couldn't expect that she could get about with him. But he spent two hours every evening in her room. He might well do what he could, for she has been a rare good friend to him. But that's all over too. He never goes nearer. And she takes it to heart. She is brooding and sulky. And drinking, Mr. Holmes. Drinking like a fish. Did she drink before this estrangement?


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[Assistant] Well, she took her glass, but now it is often a whole bottle of an evening, so Stevens the butler told me. It's all changed, Mr. Holmes, and there is something damned rotten about it.


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[Assistant] But then again, what is Master doing down at the old church crypt at night? And who is the man that meets him there? Holmes rubbed his hands. Go on, Mr Mason. You get more and more interesting.


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[Assistant] It was the butler who saw him go, twelve o'clock at night and raining hard. So next night I was up at the house and sure enough master was off again.


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[Assistant] Stevens and I went after him, but it was jumpy work, but it would have been a bad job if he had seen us. He's a terrible man with his fists if he gets started, and no respect for persons, so we were shy of getting too near, but we marked him down all right. It was the haunted crypt that he was making for, and there was a man waiting for him there. What is this haunted crypt? Well sir,


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[Assistant] There is an old ruined chapel in the park. It is so old that nobody could fix its date.


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[Assistant] And under it there's a crypt, which has a bad name among us.


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[Assistant] It's a dark, damp, lonely place by day, but there are few in that county that would have the nerve to go near it at night. The Master's not afraid. He never feared anything in his life. But what is he doing there in the night-time? Wait a bit, said Holmes. You say there is another man there. It must be one of your own staplemen, or someone from the house.


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[Assistant] Surely you have only to spot who it is and question him? It is no one I know. How can you say that? Because I have seen him, Mr. Holmes. It was on that second night


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[Assistant] So Robert turned and passed us, me and Stevens, quaking in the bushes like two bunny rabbits, for there was a bit of moon that night, but we could hear the other moving about behind. We were not afraid of him.


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[Assistant] So we up when Sir Robert was gone and pretended we were just having a walk like in the moonlight.


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[Assistant] And so we came right on him, as casual and innocent as you please.


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[Assistant] Hello, mate. Who may you be? says I. I guess he had not heard us coming.


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[Assistant] So he looked over his shoulder with a face as if he had seen the devil coming out of hell.


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[Assistant] He let out a yell, and away he went as hard as he could lick it in the darkness. He could run, I'll give him that. In a minute he was out of sight and hearing. And who he was, or what he was, we never found. But you saw him clearly in the moonlight?


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[Assistant] Yes, I would swear to his yellow face. A mean dog, I should say. What could he have in common with Sir Robert?


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[Assistant] Ah, said Holmes. I can't tell tales out of school. I quite understand, Mr. Mason. Of course, the situation is clear enough.


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[Assistant] From Dr. Watson's description of Sir Robert, I can realize that no woman is safe from him.


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[Assistant] Don't you think the quarrel between brother and sister may lie there?


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[Assistant] Well, the scandal has been pretty clear for a long time, but she may not have seen it before. Let us suppose that she has suddenly found it out. She wants to get rid of the woman. Her brother will not permit it.


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[Assistant] The invalid with her weak heart and inability to get about has no means of enforcing her will. The hated maid is still tied to her. The lady refuses to speak, sulks, takes to drink.


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[Assistant] So Robert, in his anger, takes her pet spaniel away from her.


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[Assistant] Does not all this hang together? Well, it might do. So far as it goes? Exactly as far as it goes.


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[Assistant] We can't fit that into our plot. No sir, and there is something more that I can't fit in. Why should Sir Robert want to dig up a dead body? Holmes sat up abruptly.


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[Assistant] We only found it out yesterday after I had written to you. Yesterday Sir Robert had gone to London, so Stevens and I went down to the crypt.


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[Assistant] It was all in order, sir, except that in one corner was a bit of a human body. You informed the police, I suppose. Our visitor smiled grimly. Well, sir, I think it would hardly interest them.


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[Assistant] It was just a head and a few bones of a mummy. It may have been a thousand years old. But it wasn't there before, that I'll swear. And so will Stevens.


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[Assistant] It had been stowed away in a corner and covered over with a board. But that corner had always been empty before. What did you do with it? Wow, we just left it there. That was wise.


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[Assistant] You say Sir Robert was away yesterday as he returned? We expect him back today.


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[Assistant] When did Sir Robert give away his sister's dog? It was just a week ago today. The creature was howling outside the old wellhouse.


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[Assistant] And Sir Robert was in one of his tantrums that morning. He caught it up and I thought he would have killed it.


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[Assistant] Then he gave it to Sandy Bane, the jockey.


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[Assistant] And told him to take the dog to old Barnes at the Green Dragon for he never wished to see it again. Holmes sat for some time in silent thought.


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[Assistant] He had lit the oldest and foulest of his pipes.


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[Assistant] Perhaps this will make it more definite, Mr. Holmes, said our visitor.


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[Assistant] He took a paper from his pocket, and unwrapping it carefully he exposed a charred fragment of bone. Holmes examined it with interest. Where did you get it?


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[Assistant] There is a central heating furnace in the cellar, under Lady Beatrice's room.


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[Assistant] It's been off for some time but Sir Robert complained of cold and had it on again. Harvey runs it. He's one of my lads.


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[Assistant] This very morning he came to me with this, which he found raking out the cinders. He didn't like the look of it. Nor do I, said Holmes. What do you make of it, Watson? It was burned to a black cinder,


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[Assistant] But there could be no question as to its anatomical significance.


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[Assistant] It's the upper condyle of a human femur, said I. Exactly. Holmes had become very serious. When does this lad tend to the furnace? He makes it up every evening and then leaves it.


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[Assistant] Then anyone could visit it during the night? Yes, sir. Can you enter it from outside? There is one door from outside.


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[Assistant] There is another which leads up by a stair to the passage in which Lady Beatrice's room is situated. These are deep waters, Mr Mason, deep and rather dirty.


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[Assistant] You say that Sir Robert was not at home last night? No, sir.


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[Assistant] Then whoever was burning bones, it was not he. That's true, sir. What is the name of that inn you spoke of? The Green Dragon. Is there good fishing in that part of Berkshire?


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[Assistant] The honest trainer showed very clearly upon his face that he was convinced that yet another lunatic had come into his harassed life.


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[Assistant] Well sir, I've heard they're a trapt in the mill stream, and pike in the hall lake. That's good enough.


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[Assistant] Watson and I are famous fishermen. Are we not, Watson? You may address us in future at the Green Dragon. We should reach it tonight.


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[Assistant] I need not say that we don't want to see you, Mr. Mason, but a note will reach us.


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[Assistant] And no doubt I could find you if I want you.


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[Assistant] When we have gone a little farther into the matter, I will let you have a considered opinion.


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[Assistant] Thus it was that on a bright May evening, Holmes and I found ourselves alone in a first-class carriage


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[Assistant] A short drive took us to an old-fashioned tavern.


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[Assistant] We're a sporting host. Josiah Barnes entered eagerly into our plans for the extirpation of the fish of the neighbourhood.


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[Assistant] What about the Hall lake and the chance of a pike? said Holmes. The face of the innkeeper clouded.


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[Assistant] That wouldn't do, sir. You might chance to find yourself in the lake before you were through. How's that then? It's Sir Robert, sir. He's terrible jealous of touts.


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[Assistant] If you two strangers were as near his training quarters as that, it'd be after you sure as fate. He ain't taking no chances, Sir Robert ain't. I've heard he has a horse entered for the derby. Yes, and a good colt too.


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[Assistant] He carries all our money for the race and all Sir Roberts into the bargain, by the way. He looked at us with thoughtful eyes.


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[Assistant] I suppose you ain't on the turf yourselves. No indeed, just two weary Londoners who badly need some good Berkshire air. Wow, you're in the right place for that. There's a deal of it lying about.


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[Assistant] But mind what I've told you about Sir Robert. He's the sort that strikes first and speaks afterwards.


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[Assistant] Keep clear of the park. Surely, Mr Barnes, we certainly shall. By the way.


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[Assistant] That was a most beautiful spaniel that was whining in the hall. I should say it was. That was the real Shosken breed. There ain't a better in England. I am a dog fancier myself, said Holmes. Now, if it is a fair question, what would a prize dog like that cost?


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[Assistant] More than I could pay, sir. It was Sir Robert himself who gave me this one. That's why I have to keep it on a lead. It would be off to the hall in a jiffy if I gave it its head.


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[Assistant] We are getting some cards in our hand, Watson, said Holmes, when the landlord had left us.


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[Assistant] It's not an easy one to play, but we may see our way in a day or two. By the way, Sir Robert is still in London I hear.


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[Assistant] We might perhaps enter the sacred domain tonight without fear of bodily assault.


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[Assistant] There are one or two points on which I should like reassurance. Have you any theory, Holmes?


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[Assistant] Only this, Watson, that something happened a week or so ago which has cut deep into the life of the Shoscombe household. What is that something? We can only guess at it from its effects. They seem to be of a curiously mixed character. But that should surely help us.


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[Assistant] It is only the colourless, uneventful case which is hopeless. Let us consider our data.


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[Assistant] The brother no longer visits the beloved, invalid sister. He gives away her favourite dog.


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[Assistant] Her dog, Watson, does that suggest nothing to you? Nothing but the brother's spite. Well, it might be so, or, well, there is an alternative.


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[Assistant] Now to continue our review of the situation from the time that the quarrel, if there is a quarrel, began.


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[Assistant] The lady keeps her room, alters her habits, is not seen save when she drives out with her maid.


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[Assistant] Refuses to stop at the stables to greet her favourite horse, and apparently takes to drink. That covers the case, does it not? Save for the business in the crypt. That is another line of thought. There are two, and I beg you will not tangle them.