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[Assistant] Right. There's no consistency outside of Cooper. You can't trust any of the other guys.


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[Assistant] But guys, at this point, it's irrelevant. Because it's over, right? The point is that wide receiver, you've got Amari Cooper, who's a very reliable guy, right? I don't think, as good as he is, I still don't think he's as good as he should be. I think there's another level to his game, and I hope he can get there with Deshaun Watson, and I think he might. We'll see.


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[Assistant] Although he did have a really good quarterback than Dak Prescott, although I think Deshaun Watson is better than Dak Prescott.


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[Assistant] But here's the thing, there's nobody I trust and that's to be the number two. I do think Donovan Peoples-Jones still has a lot of potential. David Najoku as a pure athlete is fantastic. Do you want Landry back?


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[Assistant] I don't have a problem that he tweeted it. He shouldn't care about it, but I don't have a problem that he tweeted it. I had fun with the fact that Trevor Bauer blocked me in the past, and Baker blocked me. I've been blocked by Baker for years.


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[Assistant] But that's it. And I'm not blocking anybody because now I'm like, I've changed my mind frame on it, I laugh at the ridiculous comments. But here's the thing.


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[Assistant] I don't love that Deshaun blocked him. Like, there's no reason. Daryl didn't really say anything. You know, I spoke to Daryl about it. He's like, I don't really know why he blocked me.


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[Assistant] By the way, I reached out when Trevor Bauer first blocked me on Twitter years ago.


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[Assistant] A few months later, I reached out, I did, my producer at the time, reached out to The Guardian and said, hey, Adam would like to talk with Trevor, off the air.


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[Assistant] Right, if he did, I don't want to see, I don't want to see, like, Deshaun's got to come in here with an open mind, everybody else has got to come in with an open mind, and I think, uh, I don't think it's good for him to block people and make, uh, get, start getting into fights with the media and start worrying about it. He can't do it. But you're right, we don't know. By the way, to your point, Jay, real quick, when Pat Shermer was the coach here with the Browns,


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[Assistant] One day, they called our station, because we had been killing them on the air. Rightfully so. And, and, yes, rightfully so. And Pat Shermer asked to meet with Dustin and I, and we went into his office and had a meeting with him.


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[Assistant] When I, when the first time I ever saw Andre the Giant in person, it was the most amazing experience I've ever had at a sporting event in my life. And then when Hulk Hogan slammed Andre the Giant at WrestleMania,


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[Assistant] That was like the greatest thing I'd ever seen in my life. What was your moment watching wrestling as a kid that you were like, oh my god, I have to do this?


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[Assistant] Hey, hey, did you see, I don't know if you saw the video, but yesterday there was a video of Nick Chub squatting 650 pounds or whatever the heck it was. 675. Did you see it?


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[Assistant] What did you think and how, and could you do it yourself?


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[Assistant] If this were the hell of the cell, us four and you, who are you trying to beat first? Like who are you getting out of the way just by looking at us? Who are you trying to knock out first?


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[Assistant] He's right, but here's the truth.


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[Assistant] If it's a guy we're rooting for and we like him, we're gonna excuse everything he does. And vice versa. That's true. But we shouldn't. We shouldn't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a bad bet because last time I checked, Aaron Savalli was pitching today. Aaron Savalli's been awful.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. He's had about three quality starts since last June. I know, and it's really perplexing. It may be time for him to go back to the Miners. That's harsh, but. Hey, Paul DeYoung, five years ago, one rookie, finished second rookie of the year. He got sent to the Miners yesterday by the Gardinals. It happens. Savalli has been horrible. If he gets smoked again tonight, I'm sending his ass back to Glover's. It is getaway day. It's an afternoon.


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[Assistant] The Celtics are taking care of business here. Why are you guys writing off the Celtics?


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[Assistant] Bad bet for me too. Bad bet. It's a good bad. Golden State takes care. Memphis is done. They did play without well without John Moran. This ain't the season and it's the Warriors. It's the playoffs. They're taking care of business.


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[Assistant] Because when, in those days, for people that are like 60 and older especially,


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[Assistant] We all thought it was a death sentence at the time. We all thought it was a death sentence.


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[Assistant] Sure. To come back quick. But he's gonna miss a number of games. Yeaah. The one thing I'm worried about is does it spread through the team? Yeaah. No, that is, that's obviously a big concern. Alright.


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[Assistant] Greg, can LeBron come back and it not be just a LeBron show again?


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[Assistant] You gotta give up something here. Well, that's what we were talking the other day when you weren't here about trading Colin Sexton as the key piece to get De'Jonte Murray from San Antonio, who I love and I think is a really good player. And he learned from those great veterans Parker and Janobili when they were still a championship team. And he's a great player on a bad team.


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[Assistant] That was like, that was the one thing I could say, like, you're this great athlete, you're a great guy, it's like, at least he's, not that you were fat, but you were just big. I'm like, hey, at least I'm like Joe, we're both 300 pounds. Now you're skinny as a rail! I don't even have that! I mean, come on!


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[Assistant] Can you put me on the Joe Thomas diet? I mean, can you help me here? I gotta be skinny like you.


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[Assistant] Should be. Joe, to that point, you know, for fans who maybe forgot, probably most fans remember because people are obsessed with the Browns and they don't forget anything.


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[Assistant] But you had a chance to go to Denver, right? They were offering the Browns a first round pick later in your career. And nobody, I don't think anybody would have blamed you for going for a chance to win, but you ultimately, you didn't want to go. Talk about that specifically, you know, and why you didn't go in the end.


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[Assistant] Joe Baker, now old news. Who would have guessed that a year ago? Deshaun Watson. We know the off the field stuff. Talk about a million. Let's talk on the field. I would say, unequivocally, Deshaun Watson is the most talented quarterback in the history of the Cleveland Browns. I don't think it's close.


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[Assistant] I don't care about Otto Graham 7,000 years ago. It was not, nobody was playing then. And as talented as Bernie is, Baker's a solid quarterback. There's no way anybody's better. Now he's got to actually do it on the field and win games for the Browns. How much better are they when Deshaun Watson's on the field?


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[Assistant] You know, I'm sick of this and I used to be a culprit of this.


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[Assistant] Everybody's got rules for fans. You can't do this and you can't do that. And if you don't do this, you're a bad fan. All that stuff is nonsense. We're always too busy criticizing each other. I'm guilty of it.


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[Assistant] But I've stopped doing it when it comes to fans. If you don't want to watch your team because they stink, that doesn't make you a bad fan. That makes you smart. If I'm watching a TV show or a movie and it's bad, I'm not gonna keep watching it.


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[Assistant] It doesn't mean I don't love the team. If my favorite team stinks, I'm not as locked in and there's nothing wrong with that. And we don't need to criticize. We put each other into camps, whether you're a Baker guy or a Watson guy, or I'm a guy who goes to the game. I'm a guy who watches on TV. Everybody does fandom.


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[Assistant] Their way. If you want to have a favorite AFC team and NFC team, when I was a kid I would have been like, you're an idiot, you can't do that.


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[Assistant] Now, I've relaxed on that. I'm going to stop telling people how to be fans. You root for your team, whether it's Cleveland or anywhere else, the way you want to do it. And stop judging people for how often they watch. It's not a competition who's the best fan.


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[Assistant] Everybody's a good fan in their own way. Everybody can do it in their own way. We need to stop judging people.


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[Assistant] Not guilty. I can't make up my mind.


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[Assistant] English version of the Bang Dream game is now available! Bang Dream Girls Band Party! Many game original songs!


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[Assistant] What's New with Betsy and Jay, weekdays at 5 on 3. Recognize that feeling?


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[Assistant] It is the feeling of being together, enjoying the company of a familiar face and sharing moments that matter to you, to me, to us. What matters to some could impact all of us, especially in a place like Northeast Ohio.


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[Assistant] Stories are shared from east to west to south. Stories of perseverance, of family, of love. If a story brings us together, it's what matters most.


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[Assistant] Recognize that feeling? It is the feeling of being together.


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[Assistant] Enjoying the company of a familiar face and sharing moments that matter to you, to me, to us. What matters to some could impact all of us, especially in a place like Northeast Ohio.


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[Assistant] Stories are shared from east to west to south. Stories of perseverance, of family, of love. If a story brings us together, it's what matters most.


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[Assistant] Grandpa calmed down a little and started talking in a serious voice.


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[Assistant] Billy, he said, it takes some doing to have a set of dogs entered in this hunt. I've been working on this for months. I've written letters on top of letters. I've even had several good friends in town helping me. You see, I've kept a record of all the coons your dogs have caught, and believe me, their catch is up there with the best of them.


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[Assistant] Now I have already paid the entry fee and everything is fixed. All we have to do is go. Entry fee? How much did it cost, I ask? You let me worry about that, he said.


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[Assistant] Now what do you say? Wanna give it a whirl? I understand the winner receives a gold cup. And you never can tell we might come home with it. We have as good a chance as anyone else.


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[Assistant] Grandpa had me so worked up by this time, I didn't think anyone else had any good hounds but me. I reared back and blurted, It's all right with me, Grandpa, just tell me what to do.


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[Assistant] Grandpa flew out of gear like a Model T Ford. He slapped the counter with his hand. In a pent up voice he said, That's the boy, that's the way I like to hear Coon Hunter talk.


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[Assistant] With a questioning look on his face, he asked, Didn't I see your dogs with you when you came up? Yes, they followed me, I said. They're outside. Well, call them in, he said. I got something for them.


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[Assistant] I called to them. Little Anne came in the store, walking like she was scared. Old Dan came to the door and stopped. I tried to coax him in. It was no use. My dogs, never being allowed in the house, were scared to come in.


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[Assistant] Grandpa walked over to a hoop of cheese and cut off two chunks about the size of my fist. He walked to the door, talking to old Dan. What's the matter, boy? He said. You scared to come in? Well, that shows you're a good dog.


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[Assistant] He handed him a piece of the cheese. I heard it rattle in his throat as he gulped it down.


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[Assistant] Grandpa came back and set little Anne up on the counter. He chuckled as he broke the cheese up in small pieces and fed her.


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[Assistant] Yes, sir, he said, I think we have the best Don Koonhounds in these Ozark Mountains. And just as sure as shootin', we're gonna win that gold cup.


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[Assistant] Crap, I didn't have to say that. The way I was feeling, I already had the cup. All I had to do was go and get it.


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[Assistant] Finished with his feeding of little Anne, Grandpa said, Now, let's see. The hunt starts on the 23rd. That's about, uh, well, let's see. This is the 17th.


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[Assistant] Counting on his fingers, he finally figured it out. At six days from now, he said in a jubilant voice. I nodded my head. We can leave here early in the morning on the 22nd, he said, and barring accidents, we should make the campground in plenty of time for the grand opening. I asked how we were going.


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[Assistant] We'll go in my buggy, he said. I'll load the tent and everything the night before.


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[Assistant] As late in the fall as it is, I don't think he's too busy, is he?


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[Assistant] No, our crops are all gathered, I said. We've been clearing some of the bottom, land, but that's almost done now. Well, ask him, he said. Tell him I'd like to have him go.


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[Assistant] I'll ask him, I said, but you know how Papa is, the farm comes first with him. I know, Grandpa said, but you ask him anyway, and tell him what I said.


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[Assistant] Now it's getting late and you had better be heading for home. I was almost to the door when Grandpa said, Wait a minute.


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[Assistant] He walked over behind the candy counter and shook out one of the quarter sacks. He filled it up to the brim, bounced it on the counter a few times, and dropped in a few more gumdrops. With a twinkle in his eye and a smile on his face, he handed it to me, saying, I saved some for your sisters.


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[Assistant] I was so choked up I couldn't say anything. I took it and flew out the door, calling to my dogs.


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[Assistant] On my way home I didn't walk on the ground, I was way up in the clouds, just skipping along. With a song I told the sycamore trees and the pop-eyed grey squirrels how happy I was.


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[Assistant] Little Anne sensed my happiness. She pranced along on the trail with a doggish grin on her face. She begged for a piece of candy, which I so gladly gave.


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[Assistant] Even old Dan felt the pleasant atmosphere. His long red tail fanned the air once he raised his head and bawled.


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[Assistant] I stood still and listened to the droning tones of his deep voice. The sound seemed to be trapped for an instant in the thick timber. It rolled around under the tall white sycamores, beat its way through the wild cane, and found freedom out over the clear blue waters of the river.


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[Assistant] The sound following the river's course rolled like the beat of a jungle drum.


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[Assistant] As the echo died away in the distance, silence settled over the bottoms.


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[Assistant] The grey squirrels stopped their chattering, the wild birds quit their singing. I stood still. No sound could be heard.


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[Assistant] It seemed that all the creatures of the wild were holding their breath.


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[Assistant] I gazed up to the towering heights of the tall trees. No leaf was stirring.


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[Assistant] The silence seemed strained and expectant like a young boy waiting for a firecracker to explode. I looked at old Dan.


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[Assistant] He was standing perfectly still with his right front foot raised and his long ears fanned open.


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[Assistant] I heard the bam bam bam of a woodpecker high up in the top of a boxelver snag. The cry of a kingfisher and the scream of a bluejay blended perfectly with a drum-like beat. A barking red squirrel glued to the side of a hackberry tree kept time to the music with the beat of his tail.


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[Assistant] Each noise I heard and each sight I saw was very familiar to me, but I never grew tired of listening and watching. They were a godsent gift, and I enjoyed them all.


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[Assistant] As I skipped along, it was hard for me to realize all the wonderful things that had happened to me in such a few short years.


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[Assistant] I had two of the finest little hounds that ever balled on the trail of a ring-tailed coon. I had a wonderful mother and father and three little sisters. I had the best grandpa a boy ever had, and to top it all I was going on a championship coon hunt.


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[Assistant] It was no wonder that my heart was bursting with happiness. Wasn't I the luckiest boy in the world?


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[Assistant] Everyone was just sitting down to supper when I got home. My sisters quit the table for the candy. I told them to divide it equally. The oldest one asked if I wanted any of it. No, I said, I brought it all for you. Of course, I didn't tell them about the four pieces I had in my pocket. They thanked me with their clear blue eyes.


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[Assistant] The perception that Germans are white, fair-haired and blue-eyed has never been true and will never be true. It's a myth.


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[Assistant] People always ask me where I'm from. Like it's not possible to be German and black.


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[Assistant] From the moment I get up and leave the house in the morning, I'm confronted with racist views, images and stereotypes of black people.


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[Assistant] As a child I always wanted to have white skin because I felt bad being black and not being able to blend in and always kind of...


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[Assistant] Sticking out of the group and being, you know, different than the rest. I didn't want to be different.


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[Assistant] I am traveling around Germany to talk with other black people about our experiences with racism.


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[Assistant] My first stop is Hamburg. That's where I was born and grew up.


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[Assistant] I had absolutely wonderful parents and that helped me a lot in difficult situations.


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[Assistant] It's called in German, so uhm, and I remember that sometimes they ran after me and said, Jana Afrikaner. It means something like, Jana is an African, Jana is an African. And the problem is that African meant something bad.


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[Assistant] I first met Sammy Deluxe when I was a teenager in Hamburg. Today he's one of Germany's most successful rappers and hip hop artists.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden you as a black person were part of the majority.


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[Assistant] I was actually, I think, the first female black anchor in Germany. I didn't have any role models.


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[Assistant] Black people have been living in Germany for 400 years. Today they number about 1 million.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about the Nazi era. It's so hard to imagine because black people would obviously attract attention in a regime that was so racist.


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[Assistant] Theodor von Jahrmichael always says there's nothing in the German constitution that states what a German is supposed to look like. But some people haven't gotten the message. For them, we are still exotic.


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[Assistant] When I was a child, complete strangers would touch my hair and say, it feels like a bird's nest.


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[Assistant] To feel comfortable in your own skin, that's the goal, but it's not so easy.


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[Assistant] See all these stereotypes about Africa, about tribes, about being primitive, barbaric, natives, underdeveloped? It hurts you.


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[Assistant] Part of the problem are the images from the days of colonialism.


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[Assistant] In Berlin, there's the streets named after German colonies and colonialists.


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[Assistant] It was here in Berlin in 1884 that European nations held a conference where they carved up Africa into colonies.


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[Assistant] Black people are often defined by their skin color. The well-known South African artist Robin Road plays with these stereotypes. He experienced apartheid in South Africa. Now he's been living in Berlin for 14 years.


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[Assistant] And I think that's a really dangerous message to everyone who experienced racism because that means, okay, you can be attacked, but you, you can attack people, but you can get away with it.


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[Assistant] Issa Barra is an apprentice roofer working in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.


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[Assistant] In 2013 he fled Burkina Faso for Germany. His job gives the 28-year-old some stability.


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[Assistant] This is the courthouse in the town of Stendahl. It's where the man who beat up Isa is on trial.


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[Assistant] The attacker who has a long criminal record was found guilty of assault and sentenced to 10 months in jail. But he appealed, which is the reason for this hearing.


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[Assistant] The conviction is upheld, but the attacker intends to appeal again.


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[Assistant] Once you wake up in the morning and you switch on the radio or you switch on the TV, you're confronted with all these stereotypes about Africa. And uhm...


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[Assistant] It's really difficult to talk about racism in Germany because once I experienced it, when I talk about racism, people say, oh, you're too emotional, you're overreacting, that can't be true.


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[Assistant] I'm sure the person didn't mean it that way, so they don't really take it serious. And that is really hard because...


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[Assistant] For me, it took a lot of effort to research black German history.


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[Assistant] When did you, uhm, start feeding that?


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[Assistant] I don't believe this dominant narratives you just talked about. When did you figure it out and said, no, no, no, this can't be it. There must be something else.


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[Assistant] Let's now turn to a question that I've heard more times than I can count. How come your parents are white? The answer, my biological father came from Zimbabwe, my biological mother from Germany. Directly after I was born in Hamburg, I was adopted by a German Swedish couple.


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[Assistant] This is Indira Pache. She too is adopted. I grew up in West Germany. She grew up in the East. We are inside an old guard tower from the days of communist East Germany. A wall divided Berlin until 1989.


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[Assistant] Indira's biological father is from Guinea. He was studying at the University of Leipzig when he met her biological mother. But she was married and her husband was in jail. Nevertheless, he said he could imagine raising the child.


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[Assistant] Indira works as a dog trainer and has adopted several neglected dogs.


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[Assistant] It wasn't until the age of 17 that Indira met her biological mother.


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[Assistant] Talking with other Afro-Germans about our experiences gives me strength.


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[Assistant] That's one reason why I'm a member of the Initiative of Black People in Germany.


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[Assistant] Every year they hold an annual meeting. This is the first time I'm attending.


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[Assistant] At the Bundesliga Soccer Club Schalke, Gerard Asamoah is a legend.


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[Assistant] I can no longer understand why as a child I wanted to be white. Even if it takes a lot of strength and energy to deal with racism and to hold your head up high, I wouldn't want a different skin color, not for anything in the world.


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[Assistant] I think in the last works that I've been doing I'm very concerned.


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[Assistant] With this question of, uh, silencing and speaking.


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[Assistant] And with the fact that it's not that we have not been producing knowledge or have not been speaking but we live in a system that constantly silence us or make these knowledges invisible. Racism is really metaphorically for me a ghost that


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[Assistant] Our society never, uh, took care of and never cared because we live in this very white narcissistic society that don't want to deal with it.


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[Assistant] It is still, I, I, I see that they are aware that it's not right. And it's extremely complicated to explain such a brutal history. And this is a trauma of black people and people from many other diasporas who went through similar experiences, collective experiences that you cannot explain and apply any logic to something that is so absolutely illogical.


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[Assistant] Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back.


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[Assistant] Everybody to another chapter of a court of wings and a ruin.


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[Assistant] Written by Sarah J Maas, and read by yours truly, Free Wada, with the exclamation point.


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[Assistant] For that added emphasis, we are back here today. Go ahead and skip forward a little bit. Uh, we're going to, if you want to, we're going to just do a little bit of housekeeping today. So A.


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[Assistant] Thank you all so much for the 700 subscribers on the channel. Give yourselves a pat on the back. If you watch the, uh, either the live streams, listen to the audio books, it actually seems like mostly it's the audio books right now. So give yourselves a pat on the back for doing such a great job. Uh, I really appreciate it. I didn't expect, um,


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[Assistant] Me reading audiobooks and giving my opinions sometimes on them, we get as much traction as it had.


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[Assistant] Uh, B, I apologize and appreciate your patience. I was out on vacation last week. I didn't even get a chance to record anything. We were out in the middle of the Bahamas, so no cell service or anything like that. I didn't have my computer.


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[Assistant] But I did see, I did see some people reading this series. I was tempted to ask them.


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[Assistant] About how they thought of the future books, cause I saw that they were reading them, but I felt like I needed to keep it a secret for myself.


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[Assistant] Uh, came back a little sick from vacation, so I do apologize if I have any eh-hes. You know, a little cough here, a little...


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[Assistant] A little pause here and there just to like kind of let myself clear my throat. So I appreciate everyone again. Thank you so much for your patience. I'm so happy to be back doing this book and let's get back into it now with chapter 27.


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[Assistant] We found Nesta and Amryn waiting outside the throne room, both of them looking pissy and tired. Well that made six of us.


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[Assistant] I didn't doubt Keir's claim about the mirror and risking gazing into it. None of us could afford it. To be broken. Driven mad. None of us. Not right now. Perhaps the bone carver had known that. It sent me on a fool's errand to amuse himself.


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[Assistant] We did not bother with goodbyes to the whispering court as we winnowed to the townhouse.


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[Assistant] The velaris. The peace and beauty that now felt infinitely more fragile.


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[Assistant] Cassie had come back off the roof at some point to join Lucian in the sitting room.


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[Assistant] The books from the wall spread on the low lying table between them.


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[Assistant] Both got to their feet at the expressions on our faces.


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[Assistant] Cassian was halfway to more when she whirled on Ryzen said, why? Her voice broke.


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[Assistant] And something in my chest cracked too, at the tears that began running down her face. Rise just stood there, staring down at her, his face unreadable.


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[Assistant] Watching as she slammed her hands into his chest and shouted, why? He yielded a stop. Eris found Azrael. Our hands were tied. I made the best of it. His throat bobbed. I'm sorry. Cassian was sizing them up.


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[Assistant] Frozen halfway across the room, and I assumed Ryze was telling him mind to mind. Assumed he was telling Amryn, and perhaps even Lucian and Nesta, from their surprised blinks. More world on Azrael. Why didn't you say anything? Azrael held her gaze unflinchingly. Didn't so much as rustle his wings. Because you would have tried to stop it.


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[Assistant] Casting cut in. Whatever catching up now over apparently. He moved to more side. A hand on her back.


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[Assistant] He shook his head at Azrul and Ryze, disgust, curling his lip.


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[Assistant] Azrael only watched them with that icy indifference. Volusion crossed his arms, leaning against the back of the couch. I have to agree with Cassian. Ers is a snake. Perhaps Ryza not filled him in on everything then.


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[Assistant] On what Eris had claimed about saving his youngest brother, in whatever way he could, of his defiance.


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[Assistant] Your whole family is despicable. Emeron said to Lucian from where she and Nesta lingered in the archway, but Aerys may prove a better alternative.


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[Assistant] If he can find a way to kill Barana, and make sure the power shifts to himself. I'm sure he will, Lucian said.


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[Assistant] She waved a hand to the townhouse, the city. This is my home, and you're going to let Keir destroy it.


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[Assistant] I took precautions. Bryce said an edge to his voice I had not heard in some time. Many of them.


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[Assistant] Starting with meeting with the governors of the palaces and getting them to agree never to serve, shelter, or entertain care for anyone from the court of nightmares. More blinked. Cassian's hand moved on her shoulder and squeezed.


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[Assistant] They've been sending out the word to every business owner in the city. The rise went on. Every restaurant, shop, and venue. So Keir and his ilk may come here, but they will not find it a welcoming place, or one where they can even procure lodgings.


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[Assistant] More shook her head as she whispered. Just still destroy it.


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[Assistant] Cassian slid his arm around her shoulders, her face harder than I'd ever seen it as he studied Ryze than Asriel. Should have warned us. I should have, Ryze said, though he didn't sound sorry for it.


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[Assistant] Azrael just remained a foot away, wings tucked in tight and siphons glimmering. Stepped in at last.


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[Assistant] We'll set limitations on when and how often they come. More shook her head, still not looking anywhere but at Ryze. If they have a rant that we're alive...


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[Assistant] The word slithered through the room, darkening the corners.


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[Assistant] She were alive and I offered to work with her. Even if it was to save us all. How would you feel?


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[Assistant] Never. They had never come this close to discussing what had happened to him.


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[Assistant] I approached Ryza's side, brushing my fingers against his, his own curled around mine.


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[Assistant] If Amarantha offered us a slim shot at survival, Ry said with his gaze on flinching,


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[Assistant] That I would not give a shit that she made me fuck her for all those years.


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[Assistant] Cassian flinched. The entire room flinched.


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[Assistant] If Emorentha showed up at the door right now, right snarl pointing toward the foyer entry, and said she could buy us a chance at defeating Highburn, at keeping all of you alive, I would thank the fucking cauldrons. Moore shook her head, tears slipping free again. You don't mean that. I do. Rise. But the bond.


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[Assistant] The bridge between us, it was a howling void, a raging dark tempest. Too far.


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[Assistant] This was pushing them both too far. I tried to catch Kassian's gaze, but he was monitoring them closely, his golden brown skin unnaturally pale.


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[Assistant] Asriel's shadows gathered close, half veiling him from view. And Amryn. Amryn stepped between that Ryze and Mort. They both towered over her.


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[Assistant] I kept this unit from breaking for 49 years. Everyone said, eyes flaring bright as lightning, I'm not going to let you rip it to shreds now.


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[Assistant] For the tears that continued sliding free, they seemed to shift somehow.


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[Assistant] Amarin turned to rise, whose face had now edged toward devastation.


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[Assistant] I slid my hand through his, I see you. I said, giving them words I'd once whispered all those months ago, it does not frighten me.


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[Assistant] Emren said to him, you're a sneaky bastard. You always have been and likely always will be. But it doesn't excuse you, boy, from not warning us. Warning her, not where those two monsters are involved.


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[Assistant] Yes, you made the right call. Played it well, but you also played it badly. Something like shame dimmed his eyes. I'm sorry. The words to more to Amryn. Amryn's dark hair swayed as she assessed them.


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[Assistant] This is war. Our allies are few and already don't trust us. I met each of them in the eye. My sister, Volusia, Mor, and Azrael and Cassian. Then Amron. Then my mate.


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[Assistant] I squeezed his hand at the gilt, now sinking its claws deep into him.


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[Assistant] You all have been bet to war and back when I've never even set foot on a battlefield, but I have to imagine that we will not last long if we cleave apart from within.


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[Assistant] Stumbling near incoherent words, but Asriel said at last, she's right.


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[Assistant] More didn't so much as look in this direction. I could have sworn guilt clouded Azrael's eyes. There and gone in a blink. Amron stepped back to nest aside as Cassian asked me, what happened with the mirror? I shook my head.


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[Assistant] Here says it's mine if I dare take it. Apparently, what you see inside will break you, or drive you insane. No one has ever walked away from it. Cassian swore. Exactly, I said.


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[Assistant] It was a risk perhaps none of us were entirely prepared to face. Not when we were all needed. Each one of us.


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[Assistant] More added a bit hoarsely, straightening the ebony pleats and panels of her gossamer gown.


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[Assistant] My father spoke true about that. I was raised with legends of the mirror. None were pleasant or successful.


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[Assistant] Cassian frowned at me at Ryze. So what? You're talking about the Ouroboros, everyone said. I blinked. Shit. Shit. What do you want with the mirror? Her voice had slipped to a low timbre. Ryze slid his hand free into his pocket. If honesty is the theme of the night, because the bone carver requested it.


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[Assistant] Amron's nostrils flared. He went to the prison.


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[Assistant] Your old friends say hello, Cassian drawled, leaning a shoulder against the sitting room archway. Amaryn's face tightened, Nesta glancing between them, carefully, reading us, especially as Amaryn's quick silver eyes swirled, why did you go? I opened my mouth, but the gold of Lucian's eye caught my attention, snared it.


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[Assistant] My hesitation must have been an indication enough of my weariness. Jaw tight with a hint of frustration. Lucian excused himself from the room. Frustration and perhaps disappointment. I blocked it out. What it did to my stomach. We had some questions for the Carver.


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[Assistant] Kassadin gave Amarin a slash of a smile when Lucian was gone. And we have some for you! Amarin's smoke-filled eyes flared. You're going to unleash the Carver. I simply said yes. But one monster army. That is impossible. I'll remind you that you, sweet Amarin, escaped. Ryze countered smoothly, and the house stayed free. So it can be done. Perhaps you could tell us how you did it.


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[Assistant] Cassian has stationed himself by the doorway. I realize to be closer to Nesta.


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[Assistant] To grab her if Amaryn decided she didn't particularly care for where this conversation was headed. Or for any of the furniture in this room.


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[Assistant] Precisely why Ryzenel placed himself on Ameren's other side. To draw her attention away from me.


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[Assistant] And more behind us. Every muscle in our live body on alert.


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[Assistant] Cassia was staring at Nesta, hard enough that my sister at last twisted toward him. Met his gaze.


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[Assistant] His head tilted slightly. A silent order. Nested in my shock obeyed.


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[Assistant] Dripped it over to Cassian's side as Amon replied to Ryze, no. It wasn't a request, Ryze said.


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[Assistant] He'd once admitted that merely questioning Amarin had been something she'd allowed him to do in recent years, but giving her an order, pushing her like this.


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[Assistant] Pyro and Cassian spoke to the Bonecarver. He wants the Ouroboros in exchange for serving us.


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[Assistant] Fighting Hibern for us, but we need you to explain how to get him out.


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[Assistant] When we're done with all of this, Bryce said, then my promise from months ago still holds. Use the book to send yourself home, if you want. Amaryn stared up at him.


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[Assistant] It was so quiet that the clock on the sitting room mantle could be heard. And beyond that, the fountain in the garden.


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[Assistant] Call off your dog, Amrin said with that lethal tone, because the shadow in the corner behind Amrin, that was Azrael, the obsidian hilt of truth teller in his scarred hand. He'd moved without my realizing it, though I had no doubt the others had likely been aware. Amrin bared her teeth at him, as her beautiful face didn't so much as shift.


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[Assistant] Rise remained where he was as he asked Dameron. Why won't you tell us?


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[Assistant] Cassian casually slid Nesta behind him, his fingers snagging in the skirts of her black gown, as if to reassure himself that she wasn't in Ameren's direct path.


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[Assistant] Nesta only rose onto her toes to peer over her shoulder because the stone beneath this house has ears. The wind has ears. All of it listening, Cameron said. And if it reports back.


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[Assistant] Amaranth surveyed the books lying forgotten on the low table in the sitting room. Her brows narrowed. I had to give something up. I had to give me up.


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[Assistant] You said someone else bound you. Pryus, question carefully. I lied.


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[Assistant] To cover what I'd done, so no- so none could know. To escape the prison, I made myself immortal.


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[Assistant] Immortal as you are, but mortal compared to what I was.


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[Assistant] And what I was did not feel the way you do. The way I do now. Some things, loyalty and wrath and curiosity, but not the full spectrum. Again, that faraway look. I was perfect according to some.


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[Assistant] Did not regret. Did not mourn in pain. Did not experience it. And yet, yet I wound up here. Cause I was not quite like the others. Even as, as what I was, I was different. Too curious. Too questioning. The day the rip appeared in the sky. It was curiosity that drove me. My brothers and sisters fled.


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[Assistant] Upon the orders of our ruler, we had just laid waste to twin cities, smote them wholly into rubble on the plain, and yet they fled from that rip in the world. But I wanted to look. I wanted.


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[Assistant] I was not built or bred to feel such selfish things as want.


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[Assistant] It's seen what happened to those of my kind who strayed, who learned to place their needs first, who developed healing. But I went through the tear in the sky, and here I am. And you gave all that up to get out of the prison? Moore asks softly.


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[Assistant] I yield in my grace, my perfect immortality. I knew that once I did, I would feel pain and regret. I would want and I would burn with it. I would fall. But I was... The time locked away down there. I didn't care.


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[Assistant] I had not felt the wind on my face. Had not smelled the rain. I did not even remember what they felt like. Did not remember sunlight. It was to Asriel that her attention drifted. Excuse me.


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[Assistant] The shadow singer's darkness pulling away to reveal eyes full of understanding locked away.


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[Assistant] So I bound myself to this body. I shoved my burning grace deep into me. I gave up everything I was. The cell door just unlocked. And so I walked out. A burning grace.


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[Assistant] That's still smothered, far within her. Visible only through the smoke in her gray eyes.


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[Assistant] That will be the cost of freeing the Carver, Cameron said. You'll have to bind him into a body. Make him.


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[Assistant] Hey. And I doubt he'll agree to it. Especially without the Ouroboros. We were silent.


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[Assistant] You should have asked me before you went. She said that sharpness returning to her tone. I would have spared you the visit.


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[Assistant] Amaryn stared at him for a long while, then me, Cassian, Azrael, Moor, Nesta, finally back to my mate.


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[Assistant] I would not remember you. I would not care for any of you. I would either smite you or abandon you. But I feel now it would be foreign to me.


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[Assistant] It would hold no sway, everything I am, this body, it would cease to be.


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[Assistant] What were you? Just to breathe? Coming around Cassian to stand at his side?


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[Assistant] Amaryn toyed with one of her black pearl earrings, a messenger, and soldier assassin for a wrathful god who ruled a young world. I could feel the questions of the others brewing. Ryza's eyes were near glowing with them.


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[Assistant] Was Amarin your name? Vesta asked. No. The smoke swirled in her eyes. I do not remember the name I was given. I used Amarin because it's a long story.


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[Assistant] I almost begged her to tell it. Soft footsteps thudded and then, oh.


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[Assistant] Elaine started. Enough so that I realized she couldn't hear us. Had no idea we were here. Thanks to the shield that kept sound from escaping.


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[Assistant] It instantly dropped, but my sister remained near the stairs. She'd covered her nightgown with a silk shawl of palest blue, her fingers grappling into the fabric as she held herself. I went to her immediately. Do you need anything? No, I was, I was sleeping, but I heard. She shook her head, blinked at our formal attire.


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[Assistant] The dark crown atop my head and ricens, I didn't hear you. Asriel stepped forward, but you heard something else. Elaine seemed to nod, but only backed away. I think I was dreaming, she murmured. I think I'm always dreaming these days.


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[Assistant] Let me get you some hot milk, I said, putting a hand on her elbow to guide her into the sitting room. But Elaine shook me off. Heading back to the stairs, she said as she climbed the first steps. I can hear her crying. I gripped the bottom post of the banister, too. Everyone thinks she's dead, Elaine kept walking. But she's not. Only different. Changed as I was. Who? I pushed.


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[Assistant] But Elaine continued up the stairs, that shawl drooping down her back. Nesta stalked from Kassian's side to approach my own.


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[Assistant] We both sucked in a breath. To say what, I didn't know, but.


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[Assistant] What did you see? Azrael said. And I tried not to flinch as I found him on my side, not having seen a move. Again.


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[Assistant] Elaine paused halfway up the stairs. Slowly, she turned to look back at him.


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[Assistant] I saw young hands wither with age. I saw a box of black stone. I saw a feather on fire land on snow and melted. My stomach dropped to the floor.


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[Assistant] One glance at Nesta confirmed that she felt it too. Saw it. Mad. Elaine might very well have gone mad. It was angry, Elaine said quietly.


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[Assistant] It was so, so angry that something was taken, so it took something from them as punishment. We said nothing. I didn't know what to say.


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[Assistant] What's even ask or demand if the cauldron had dumped something to her as well? I faced Azrael, exposing my palms to him. What does this mean?


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[Assistant] Asriel's hazel eyes churned as he studied my sister, her tooth and body, and without a word he went out away.


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[Assistant] More watch the space where he'd been standing long after he was gone.


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[Assistant] Cassian and Rice slipping away to ponder the possibilities, or lack thereof, of our would-be allies.


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[Assistant] Amaryn storming off to be rid of us entirely and more striding out to enjoy what she deemed as her last few days of peace in this city. A brittleness still in her voice before I cornered Nesta in the sitting room.


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[Assistant] What happened at the Hune City, you and Amarin? You didn't mention it. It was fine. I clenched my jaw. What happened?


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[Assistant] She brought me to a room full of treasure, strange objects, and it.


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[Assistant] She tugged at the tight sleeve of her gown. Some of it wanted to hurt us. As if it were alive. Aware. Like. Like in all those stories and lies we were fed over the wall.


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[Assistant] Are you alright? I couldn't find any signs of harm on either of them, and neither had said anything to suggest.


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[Assistant] It was a training exercise, with a form of magic designed to repel intruders.


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[Assistant] The words were recited, as the wall will likely be.


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[Assistant] She wanted me to breach the defenses, find weaknesses, and repair them?


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[Assistant] Just the weaknesses. Repairing is another thing.


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[Assistant] Nesta said, her eyes going distant as she frowned at the still open books on the low table before the fireplace. I sighed. So, that went right at least.


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[Assistant] Those eyes went razor sharp again. I failed every time. So no, it did not go right.


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[Assistant] I didn't know what to say. Symphony would likely earn me a tongue lashing, so I opted for another route. We need to do something about Elaine. Nesta stiffened. And what solution do you propose exactly? Letting your mate into her mind to scramble things around? I'd never do that. I don't think Ryze can even fix things like that.


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[Assistant] Nest a paste in front of the darkened fireplace. Everything has a cost. Maybe the cost of her youth and immortality was losing part of her sanity.


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[Assistant] My knee is wobbled enough that I took a seat on the deep cushion couch. What was your cost?


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[Assistant] Nesta stopped moving. Perhaps it was to see Elaine suffer while I got away unscathed. I shot to my feet. Nesta, don't bother.


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[Assistant] But I trailed her as she strode for the stairs, to where Lucian was now descending the steps and winced at the sight of her approach.


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[Assistant] He gave her a wide berth as she stormed past him. One look at his taut face had me bracing myself and returning to the sitting room.


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[Assistant] I slumped into the near storm chair, surprised to find myself still in my black dress as the fabric scraped against my bare skin. How long had I been back from the Hewn City? 30 minutes? Less? And had the prison only been that morning? It felt like days ago.


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[Assistant] I rested my head against the embroidered back of the chair and watched Lucian take a seat on the rolled arm of the nearest couch. Long day. I grunted my response. That metal eye tightened. I thought the prison was another mur- another myth. Well it's not.


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[Assistant] He weighed my tone and crossed his arms. Let me do something about Elaine. I heard from my room, everything that happened just now. It wouldn't hurt to have a healer look her over externally and internally.


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[Assistant] I was tired enough that I could barely summon the breath to ask, do you think the cauldron made her insane? I think she went through something terrible.


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[Assistant] It wouldn't hurt to have your best healer do a thorough examination. I rubbed my hand over my face. Alright. My breath snagged on the words. Tomorrow morning.


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[Assistant] I managed a shallow nod, rallying my strength to rise from the chair. Heavy. There's an old heaviness in me. Like I could sleep for a hundred years and it wouldn't be enough. Please tell me, Lucian said when I crossed the threshold into the foyer, what the healer says, and if you need anything from me. I gave him one final nod, speech suddenly beyond me.


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[Assistant] I knew Nesta still wasn't asleep as I walked past her room. Knew she had heard every word of our conversation thanks to that Faye hearing. But I knew she heard as I listened at Elaine's door. Knocked once. Poked my head in to find her asleep. Breathing.


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[Assistant] I sent a request to Maja, Bryson's preferred healer, to come the next day at 11. Did not explain why or who or what.


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[Assistant] Then went into my bedroom, crawled into the mattress and cried. I didn't really know why.


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[Assistant] Strong, broad hands rub down my spine, and I open my eyes to find the room wholly black.


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[Assistant] Rice and perched on the mattress beside me. You want anything to eat? His voice was soft, tentative. I didn't raise my head from the pillow. I feel heavy again. I breathe, voice breaking.


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[Assistant] I slid my arms around him, holding him tightly. I should have found another way, he said. I stroked my hair, my fingers through his silken hair. Rise murmured. If she... This swallow was audible. If she showed up at this house. I knew who he meant. I would kill her. Without even letting her speak, I would kill her. I know. I would too.


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[Assistant] You asked me at the library, he whispered, why I'd, why I'd rather take all this upon myself. Denied is why. Seeing more cry is why. I made a bad call.


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[Assistant] Tried to find some other way around this shithole we're in. And had lost something. More had lost something in the process.


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[Assistant] We held each other in silence for minutes. Hours. Two souls twining in the dark.


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[Assistant] I lowered my shields. Shields. Let him in fully. His mind curled around mine.


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[Assistant] Would you risk looking into the Ouroboros? I asked. Not yet. Was all Ryze said, holding me tighter. Not. Not yet.


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[Assistant] And that, my friends, was the end of chapter 27. Whoo, that was a long haul one. That was a big chunk of lore, so...


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[Assistant] We've learned that Amarin now is not who she is actually. Amarin is Amarin, and who she is is actually a completely different thing. That Ryze.


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[Assistant] Is very sad about what he's done already, so he's already regretted that, uh, what's going on. Elaine? Getting some...


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[Assistant] Imagery, some, maybe, I don't know if this is future predictions, what's going on currently in the world, or, you know, a little bit of mix of both. But we're starting to see everyone's different, like, powers there.


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[Assistant] Their ability to use those powers and the things they feel from the powers that they've used coming back, they kind of bite them.


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[Assistant] Honestly, like each person's had their own little bite back this chapter.


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[Assistant] I don't really know where we're gonna go from here. I suppose that we have to maybe have a little bit more dialogue before we jump into the grand meeting of all the, uh, of all the courts.


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[Assistant] But I guess we'll do that next time. Since I missed yesterday's or Monday's release, just because I was still getting over being sick a little bit,


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[Assistant] I'm thinking I might try to do a release tomorrow with our other book.


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[Assistant] So I'll try to read another one, uh, I'll have this one released as of the same day that I'm reading it, and uh,


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[Assistant] We'll see if I can't put out another one tomorrow with our Rewonderland book, just to give a little bit more extra because I feel like I've been shortchanging y'all in these books. I appreciate you all for listening though, again, thank you and much appreciation for staying patient while these haven't been coming out.


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[Assistant] Stay frosty. I don't even, I'm switching all these up y'all. I'm out of the game. Stay beautiful, stay hydrated, and I'll see you in the next chapter. Bye.


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[Assistant] Jamali spoke to me two days before his murder, that he is working with friends to establish a foundation for democracy in the Arab world, promoting the culture of democracy amongst the youth people, and also creating some form of societal reconciliation.


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[Assistant] I think that paper was cut on the short grain, which is why you can see it.


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[Assistant] Boeing, uh, in the middle towards the edges.


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[Assistant] Well, sure, as soon as you get paper wet, you can see the direction of the grain, because it will make that curvature in that way. And that just sort of is, there's a short grain and a long grain to paper, and, uh,


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[Assistant] And yeah, it's a, when you're feeding it through a machine, it matters.


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[Assistant] It's really good to see you do this though, so that, you know, uh, a lot of times, you know, folks sort of say, go do this, but it's really good that you're just showing all the way through what it takes to make this happen.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. You can really see how nice it blends.


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[Assistant] But if you painted something beautiful and then it got squished or warped.


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[Assistant] Right, it's, it's, yeaah, it's interesting cause like, there's a lot to that.


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[Assistant] And this is where we got to the don't burn art.


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[Assistant] And I actually think it's really cool because like anyone could paint on a perfect new surface, but it's kind of cool to get a painting that was like, somebody was like, nope, I'm painting over that.


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[Assistant] Check your return policy, make sure they have a good like, you know, customer service.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, alright, so, and, and so you, so you just know him from school. What about, uh, he said he got you back into, into rapping in senior year?


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[Assistant] Only Jewish lawyers in this bitch. No jumper for stands. Actually, that's our new sponsor is just some, some Jewish lawyer. Yea, we gotta find one. We gotta find one for sure. Yea. Your mic looks funny because it's supposed to be, I don't know, I'm not even gonna try to get involved.


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[Assistant] Last summer? Oh, okay, so the video came out this summer, right? Yeah, the video came out this summer, though. Alright. Yeah, man. So you just put it straight to SoundCloud and like, when did you start to identify that this was starting to pop up?


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[Assistant] Yeah, were you amazed? Did you like, previously know the value of, uh, SoundCloud?


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[Assistant] Okay. How's that work? You use somebody's beat and then you gotta fuckin' break some bread later on to make them happy about the fact that it's blown up or what?


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[Assistant] Okay. So what's the rap scene like where you guys are all from? Tell me a little bit about


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[Assistant] So tell me, what was your high school experience, like what was it like growing up in this area?


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[Assistant] Really? But what's the craziest thing you've ever seen happen in school?


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[Assistant] Yo, did you hear about this crazy ass shit that happened in Brooklyn where basically like,


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[Assistant] This is gonna, you're gonna think I made this up if you haven't heard about it already. There was a dad fucking his daughter in the park and these two fucking kids like ran up on him with a strap and said like, yo, like, we're taking over here and they, and they raped her.


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[Assistant] Well when's the- what's the last time you heard about playground rape out here in LA? Probably happens, but I don't know about it.


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[Assistant] What happened? Somebody got raped in the parking lot. Really? That's crazy. I guess we just don't know about it, you know. All kinds of fucking crazy shit going on out there. I like your theory though that New York is full of rapists. You sound like Donald Trump saying that.


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[Assistant] Hey, I appreciate that. We got a lot of friends out in San Diego on the BMX shit. It was good to be making some connections on the hip-hop shit, the non-rapist hip-hop shit on the Salas thing.


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[Assistant] Just saying no to rape. That should be the message of this day. See, that's a good idea. I'm not gonna have sponsors for the podcast. I'm just gonna have like positive messages like stay in school and don't rape anybody.


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[Assistant] The classic Eminem era. You feel like you rap like him at all or what?


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[Assistant] How would you describe your style? Uh, young Rob.


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[Assistant] Who else are you guys influenced by besides somebody like Eminem? Like other people, like maybe even more recently that just kinda inspire you.


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[Assistant] Wheezy, you see these kinda cool with Birdman again. How the hell are you gonna get your tour bus shut up and then you're cool like a week later?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, so it is your girlfriend. Yeah, it's my girlfriend. And she was your girlfriend prior to, uh, impregnating her as well? Well, that's good.


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[Assistant] Do you see this working out in the long term or are you going to be like Future with 7 Baby Mamas?


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[Assistant] For real. You see 15 grand a month of Sierra he was paying?


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[Assistant] The fucked up thing though is that Future can get like 100k for a show. So what the fuck with the 15 grand? But I bet it still really, really hurts.


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[Assistant] I have so much respect for someone. But what is the intriguing part about this? Like, living multiple lives I can barely handle my own life.


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[Assistant] If you're doing that shit, you gotta put, you gotta find a hobby. You gotta get into rollerblading or paintball or something like something to fucking put your time into besides raising two families at once. That's just incredible.


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[Assistant] That's fresh. You're gonna keep going with the merch or what are you gonna keep it?


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[Assistant] I'm not that into like action movies to be honest for the most part, but I fuck with that movie.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you really know Venus, that's the funny thing about all those comments online hating on her and shit is that, but if you knew the real her, you would probably keep your mouth shut because she might have you-


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[Assistant] So he does all your videos? What's the process like? Is it real easy?


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[Assistant] It ain't easy to make enough noise that you cancel out the football team leaving. That's a big deal.


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[Assistant] What uh, if you were, if somebody was a Chill Bill fan and they were like,


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[Assistant] They were like, ah, give me another song to check out. What would you say is your next heater up after that?


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[Assistant] Really? All the time, man. All the time. Oh, so you're a writer? You write your lyrics? Yeah, man. Okay. Usually when I have people in here, they're like, nah.


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[Assistant] See, I think that's a weird thing that like an effect that Jay-Z sort of maybe had on rappers is making it cool to say like, I don't write my rhymes or whatever. Because then you sort of take away like, if you're just going in and just doing bar after bar, you're sort of taking away your ability to build a story.


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[Assistant] Yea, and I mean a lot of the dudes who are the fucking biggest rappers right now, somebody like Cole or Kendrick, they're obviously writing the fuck out of their shit. They're obviously camped out, you know. Yea man. I don't know. I wouldn't, I can't get to that, you know. Drake not only writing but having other people write his stuff as well.


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[Assistant] What's your favorite Lil Debbie song? Two Cups. Two Cups.


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[Assistant] That one, you're right though, that one is tight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think, uh, well, Monique, cover your ears, but I don't think that Lil Debbie would necessarily go for you because she goes for like the mega hood dudes.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I never actually met Kration, but I talked about it on the podcast with everybody.


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[Assistant] She's cool man, she broke down a lot of doors for uh, for female rappers.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's good though. You're conservative. No. Simi's talking about doing seven grams on a blunt. He told me that that's all the time.


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[Assistant] Right. So what are you doing besides doing the dad thing and working on music? What do you, uh,


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[Assistant] I think that using the B's and C's, switching them around has kind of become so mainstream.


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[Assistant] But, uh, yeaah, man. I got hella excited because I seen a, um, a fake complex cover that said Bombplex with YG on the cover. And I was like, yo, that is the fucking illest thing ever, but it's not real.


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[Assistant] Okay. But you guys were thinking of burglarizing a house? Yeah, we were definitely about to do it. Okay. How long ago was this? Uh, this was a while ago. Over a year.


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[Assistant] And was this your thing, before you started rapping? Nah, nah, definitely not. It was just a good opportunity, somebody was slipping? Yea man.


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[Assistant] And so do you think that the fact that the song, cause that song has a very like great energy about it. It's very like, especially like when the chorus hits or whatever, the way the beat drops and you guys all just fucking start jumping up and down.


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[Assistant] The universe is gonna bring you around the right people. I'm very thankful for people like Salus who helped me out with getting guests and shit because I appreciate people who reach out on that shit.


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[Assistant] Oh shit, it might make all the shows happy. So let's get some thanks and some shoutouts before we uh, wrap this up. Yeah man, uh. Shout out to Monique. Shout out to Monique. She sounds great. Yeah man.


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[Assistant] And it's crazy, they just did 1400 people in Santa Ana at the observatory.


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[Assistant] I'm still stoned. He's still stoned. I knew that one. Yeaah, man.


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[Assistant] I mean, like, nobody really liked me at 11. That was kind of my weird stage. That was like my, like, very annoying, like, trying to be everything that I'm not. But that's why I wrote music, so it pays off, you know? To be miserable, you make...


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[Assistant] Thousand people listened to this song, and we were so excited about it, and it was such a huge deal. We had this moment, we were like, high five, we-


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[Assistant] I feel like a lot of people think I am something I'm not, and then the other people who think I am that, then they think I'm not. On my Instagram, people think I'm sort of, people are kind of scared a little bit. Like, they think I'm really mean because, you know, I pose like


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? So it's like, I kinda come off as this mean, like, cold being and I think some people get the wrong message from that. It's weird that everything is about appearance. Even if someone knows you better than anyone else, nobody actually knows you as well as you know you. I feel like, recently I've, I kinda, obviously I wanna be me and I wanna,


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[Assistant] Never like, not be me. You know, I had white hair. Like, white hair. Now it's like, dark.


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[Assistant] That's like, it's, it'll be white again. It'll be, you know, maybe it'll be like black one day. Who knows? Like, I just wanna do exactly what I'm doing right now. Tomorrow, I'll do exactly what I'm doing tomorrow.


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[Assistant] You know, of course when I was little I was like, I wanna be famous like every kid, you know? Did I though? But here's the thing is, like when I was like 12, I thought the window was closed. I, I, and that was fine, I was like accepted the fact that I would never be like big and I was, I was fine with it, it wasn't like, uh, I'm so, I just wanna, I'm just like, why do you guys like me?


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[Assistant] For the next two days, a crowd of policemen, journalists, and photographers filled Gatsby's house.


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[Assistant] They asked me many questions, but I said as little as possible.


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[Assistant] One police man called Wilson a crazy man.


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[Assistant] As he stared at his body that afternoon.


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[Assistant] And they learned that Wilson had believed his wife was secretly sleeping with another man.


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[Assistant] I thought then that the police would learn about Tom's relationship with Mrs. Wilson.


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[Assistant] But her sister Catherine, who could have told the police about Tom, didn't say a word.


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[Assistant] She told the police that her sister was very happy with her husband and had never seen Gatsby or anybody else.


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[Assistant] So the police decided that Mrs. Wilson had been accidentally killed by a stranger and that George Wilson, crazy with sadness, had found the owner of the car, shot him, and then shot himself. The police were happy with this story and they left.


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[Assistant] This business with the police wasn't important to me.


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[Assistant] What was important was that I realized that I was responsible for Gatsby because no one else cared about him.


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[Assistant] I realized that I was on Gatsby's side, and that we were all alone.


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[Assistant] From the moment I telephoned the news of the murder, journalists, policemen, and neighbors asked me hundreds of questions about him.


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[Assistant] Nobody except me could answer these questions because nobody else knew him. A half an hour after we found Gatsby's body, I called Daisy on the telephone.


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[Assistant] The servant told me that she and Tom had left early that afternoon and would not come back for many weeks. Where did they go? I asked. I don't know. I can't say. Is there a way to call them? Nope.


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[Assistant] I wanted to find someone who loved Gadsby, so that he would not be as alone in death as he was in life.


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[Assistant] I called Meyer Wolfsheim on the telephone, but he wasn't in.


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[Assistant] Then I went into Gatsby's office and looked in his desk for the phone numbers of his parents or any other relatives, but I couldn't find any.


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[Assistant] The only thing I found in the desk was a picture of Dan Cody on his boat.


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[Assistant] The next day I sent one of Gatsby's servants to New York with a letter to Meyer Wolfsheim asking him to come out on the next train.


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[Assistant] I thought that he would definitely come anyway when he saw the news in the morning newspaper.


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[Assistant] I was also sure that Daisy would soon call or write a letter.


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[Assistant] But, Mr. Wolfsheim didn't come. Instead he wrote a letter that said only,


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[Assistant] The police caught him when he tried to sell those stolen bank bonds. Listen, I interrupted. I'm not Mr. Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby is dead. The voice was silent for a long time and then it cried in fear and hung up suddenly.


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[Assistant] On the third day after Gatsby's death, a letter arrived from Henry C. Gatz, Gatsby's father. It said that Mr. Gatz was coming immediately. He came. He was a serious old man. He looked very tired and very sad. I read about it in the newspaper, he said. The whole story was in the newspaper. So I came here at once.


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[Assistant] I showed him the room where Gatsby lay and left him there.


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[Assistant] After a while he came out of the room, his mouth was open, and tears were falling down his face.


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[Assistant] He was an old man and death was no longer a terrible surprise to him.


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[Assistant] And when he saw the fancy house and all the expensive things in the hall and the huge rooms his sadness began to be mixed with pride. I showed him a bedroom where he could rest.


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[Assistant] and told him that the arrangements for the funeral had been stopped until he arrived


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[Assistant] I thought you might want to take his body back to the west, Mr. Gatsby.


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[Assistant] My name is Gatz, he said sadly.


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[Assistant] My son had a great future in front of him, you know. He would have been a great man if he had lived. He would have helped develop this country. That's true, I said, but I knew it wasn't true. Mr. Gatz lay down and immediately fell asleep.


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[Assistant] Mr. Clipspringer, the young man who had been Gatsby's house guest for so long, called on the phone. I was glad, because I thought he would also come to the funeral. Then Gatsby would have another friend at his grave. The funeral is tomorrow, I told him. At the house at two o'clock. Please tell anybody who'd be interested.


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[Assistant] I would call people, but I don't know who his friends were. Of course, you'll be there.


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[Assistant] Well, actually, I don't think I can cum.


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[Assistant] I, uh, just called because I left a pair of shoes there.


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[Assistant] Could you ask one of the servants to send them to me? My address is...


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[Assistant] I was so angry that I hung up the phone before he could say his address.


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[Assistant] The morning before the funeral, I went to see Meyer Wolfsheim. He brought me into his office and gave me a cigar.


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[Assistant] He told me that he felt very sad about Gatsby's death.


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[Assistant] I can still remember when I first met him, he said. He was young and had just come back from the war. He was looking for work.


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[Assistant] I remember that he was so poor that he was still wearing his army uniform because he couldn't afford to buy some common clothes. He hadn't eaten for two days when I saw him.


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[Assistant] He looked like a gentleman, and when he told me he went to Oxford, I knew I could use him.


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[Assistant] He first worked for a friend of mine, and we quickly became very close friends.


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[Assistant] Wolfsheim held up two of his fat fingers. We were always together. He's dead now, I said after a moment.


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[Assistant] You were his best friend, so you should come to his funeral today. Sorry, I can't. I can't be seen near him, he said.


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[Assistant] He came to see me two years ago and he bought me the house where I live now. He was always very kind to me.


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[Assistant] Before the man from the church arrived, I began to look outside for any cars.


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[Assistant] The servants all came and Mr. Gatz and I and we all waited in the hall.


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[Assistant] As we carried Gatsby's body toward the grave, I heard a car stop.


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[Assistant] I turned around and saw the man with the round glasses whom I had met in Gatsby's library during the first party I went to.


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[Assistant] I'd never seen that man since then, and I don't know how he learned about the funeral. Sorry, I couldn't get to the house, he said. Nobody else could either, I said with my head down. Really? They used to go to his house by the hundreds.


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[Assistant] The rain fell down his face in round glasses.


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[Assistant] He took his glasses off and we watched Gatsby being put into the earth.


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[Assistant] I tried to remember Gatsby for a moment, but he already felt very far away.


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[Assistant] The only thing I could think about was that Daisy hadn't even sent a letter or flowers.


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[Assistant] I understand now that my story of the East has really been about the West. Tom?


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[Assistant] And Gatsby, Daisy, and Jordan, and I, were all born in the West.


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[Assistant] Perhaps we all had the same deep problem inside which made us unable to live in the East.


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[Assistant] In October, I left New York and came back home.


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[Assistant] There was only one thing I still had to do before I left for the West.


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[Assistant] I went and saw Jordan Baker and I talked about our relationship and about how I had changed in the end. She sat in a big chair and was silent.


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[Assistant] When I finished speaking, she told me that she was about to marry another man.


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[Assistant] I did not believe her. I thought that she was only saying it to make me angry, but I pretended to be surprised.


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[Assistant] I stood up and said goodbye and we shook hands.


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[Assistant] What she said made me feel angry and half in love with her. And very sorry that we had ended this way. I walked away.


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[Assistant] Just before I left, I saw Tom Buchanan in the city.


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[Assistant] What did you say to Wilson that afternoon before he killed Gadsby? He stared at me and didn't speak, and I knew that I had guessed the truth.


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[Assistant] I told the servant to say we were away, but he forced his way inside. He was acting crazy and he had a gun.


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[Assistant] He drove over my girlfriend like you drive over a dog. He never even stopped his car. There was nothing I could say to him.


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[Assistant] I couldn't tell him that it was really Daisy who killed Mrs. Wilson.


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[Assistant] But I understood that he believed that he had done the right thing. He was careless and stupid.


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[Assistant] They could always hide in their money or their carelessness or whatever power it was that kept them together. I shook his hand. It felt silly not to.


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[Assistant] For I suddenly realized that I was talking to a child in an adult body.


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[Assistant] When I finally left West Egg, Gatsby's huge house was still empty.


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[Assistant] The grass in his yard was as long as my grass. On my last night in West Egg,


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[Assistant] I went over and looked one last time at Gatsby's huge house.


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[Assistant] Then I walked down onto Gatsby's piece of beach and sat on the sand. As I sat there thinking,


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[Assistant] I thought of the wonder in Gatsby's heart when he first saw the green light on Daisy's wall.


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[Assistant] He had traveled a long way to this place, and Daisy seemed so close to him that he was sure he would have her again.


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[Assistant] He did not understand that Daisy was already in his past.


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[Assistant] Their time together was still somewhere far outside of the city. Somewhere in the Midwest.


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[Assistant] Where a young Daisy and a young Jay Gatsby were still in love.


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[Assistant] Gatsby believed in his dream of a future with Daisy.


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[Assistant] But all the time we are carried back into our past.


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[Assistant] Now, let us give thanks for our food and for all the wonderful things God has done for us.


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[Assistant] I'll say a special prayer and ask him to help Billy. I barely heard what Papa had to say.


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[Assistant] During the meal I could tell that no one was enjoying the food. As soon as it was over I went to my room and lay down on the bed. Mama came in. Why don't you go to bed, she said, and get a good night's sleep. You'll feel better tomorrow. No, I won't, Mama, I said. I'll have to bury little Anne tomorrow. I know, she said, and she turned my covers down.


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[Assistant] I'll help if you want me to. No mama, I said.


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[Assistant] I don't want anyone to help, I'd rather do it all by myself.


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[Assistant] Billy, you're always doing things by yourself, Mama said. That's not right. Everyone needs help sometime in his life.


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[Assistant] I know, mama, I said, but, please, not this time. Ever since my dogs were puppies, we've always been together, just us three. We hunted together and played together. We even went swimming together.


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[Assistant] I guess that's why I want to be by myself when I bury her.


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[Assistant] Now say your prayers and go to sleep. I'm sure you'll feel better in the morning.


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[Assistant] I didn't feel like saying any prayers that night, I was hurting too much.


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[Assistant] Long after the rest of the family had gone to bed, I lay staring into the darkness, trying to think and not able to.


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[Assistant] Sometime in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window and looked out at my doghouse.


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[Assistant] It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out.


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[Assistant] Didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.


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[Assistant] Mama must have heard me get up. She came in and put her arms around me. Billy, she said in a quavering voice.


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[Assistant] You'll just have to stop this, you're gonna make yourself sick and I don't think I can stand any more of it. I can't mama, I said.


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[Assistant] It hurts so much, I just can't. I don't want you to feel bad just because I do. I can't help it, Billy, she said.


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[Assistant] Come now and get back in bed, I'm afraid you'll catch cold.


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[Assistant] After she had tucked me in, she sat on the bed for a while, as if she were talking to the darkness. I heard her say, if only there was some way I could help something I could do. No one could help, mama, I said. No one can bring my dogs back. I know, she said, as she got up to leave the room, but there must be something there just has to be.


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[Assistant] After mama had left the room, I buried my face in my pillow and cried myself to sleep.


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[Assistant] Next morning I made another box. It was smaller than the first one. Each nail I drove in the rough pine boards caused the knot in my throat to get bigger and bigger.


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[Assistant] My sisters came to help. They stood it for a while, then with tears streaming they ran for the house.


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[Assistant] I buried little Anne by the side of old Anne. I knew that was where she wanted to be.


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[Assistant] I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.


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[Assistant] I tried hard to understand some of the things my father had told me.


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[Assistant] Just like we have here on our place, with mountains and sycamore trees, rivers and cornfields and all rail fences, do you think ye did?


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[Assistant] From what I've read in the good book, Billy, she said, he put far more things up there than we have here. Yes, I'm sure he did.


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[Assistant] I was thinking this over when mama came up to me and started tucking my shirt in.


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[Assistant] It still hurts, Mama, I said, as I buried my face in her dress. But I do feel a little better. I'm glad, she said, as she patted my head. I don't like to see my little boy hurt like this.


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[Assistant] Hey, what's going on guys, it's Dan here from Table Tennis Daily. During our recent visit to the World Cup in Saburkan, we met up with World No. 25 from Nigeria, Quadri Aruna, to review the Jula Aruna off-blade.


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[Assistant] Together with Aruna, Julie designed this personal blade with Power Spin players in mind. This premium carbon blade feels very well balanced, has a comfortable handle and smooth edges.


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[Assistant] The Blaze design uses the colours of the Nigerian national flag, which adds a nice personal touch.


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[Assistant] The composition of the 7-ply Aruna off-blade has a hanoki as the outer layer.


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[Assistant] Hanoki is a prized Japanese wood, which is both soft and bouncy at the same time. Hanoki is used as the outer layer to absorb incoming spin and speed, and to give the blade soft feeling and touch. The second ply used is Koto, which is a harder wood to add more zip to the blade.


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[Assistant] The Koto is followed by a carbon layer and finally the Curie Core.


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[Assistant] The Aruna blade series comes in two types, the Aruna off and Aruna off plus. Quadri chooses the slightly slower off version as his blade of choice. The Aruna off plus is a faster version of the two and is composed of five players.


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[Assistant] The Aruna blade weighs 84 grams and has a thickness of 5.8 millimetres.


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[Assistant] In the review, we used the Duel of Rhythm rubbers on both sides of our blades.


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[Assistant] Aruna is renowned for his powerful forehand topspin and I noticed early on I was able to control the ball with ease. This hasn't always been the case when I've reviewed blades of other pro players where it's taken more time to get used to their speed with the more responsive, harder blades.


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[Assistant] When playing a topspin stroke, I produce a medium throw with good safety and control in my shots. The blade has good dwell and soft fill when topspinning. The Aruna off is softer than a carbonado or a teamable ALC for example.


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[Assistant] Quadri spoke about how players in Africa like to play back and punch shots often. The crisp feel and contact of the Aruna off means you can punch subtly through the ball with good accuracy and power, which is demonstrated perfectly by Aruna here.


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[Assistant] Once again, when blocking for Aruna, I had superb control and feeling, even with Krodri rocketing his ferocious topspins at me. He was doing a combination of two backhands and two forehands, or just some forehands in one position, hitting the ball hard and I was able to control the ball well, which I liked.


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[Assistant] The Aruna off is not as fast as the Butterfly ALC or a Jeweller Wing Carbon for example, however packed bundles of control. When playing a harder stroke, the speed was more than enough to play outright winners due to the harder inner Koto layer.


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[Assistant] As you can see from the footage, getting spin when serving is easy with this blade, which is due to the longer dwell a noki wood provides.


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[Assistant] Here's a quick insight where Quadri talks about his backhand serves.


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[Assistant] Aruna demonstrates how he can go for power on the third ball attack, but also generate a loss of spin on the heavy backspin push balls if he needs to.


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[Assistant] When touching short, the blade's soft outer ply allows for good dwell in the serve and receive game, as seen here, keeping the ball low and short over the net.


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[Assistant] When Aruna made a forehand counter topspin, it was pretty much game over for me. Aruna mentioned how he liked this blade for counter attacking shots due to its control and stability against spin.


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[Assistant] When away from the table, I had to put a bit more effort into my shots to get good speed over the table. A bit more kick in spin and speed would have helped me a bit more when away. However, the control and safety in the strokes was excellent.


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[Assistant] Here are some open points between myself and Aruna. I had a very difficult time winning a point.


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[Assistant] Our overall impressions, after playing with the Jular Aruna off, is that it is a well designed, high quality 7-ply carbon blade, with its main attributes being good control and spin due to the soft hanoki outer layer.


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[Assistant] The blade is fast, however it's no rocket and possesses a very good balance between control and speed, which helps especially with service return and opening attacks.


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[Assistant] The blade's high levels of feeling gives good stability in your strokes, in point play, and for close range, punch type shots.


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[Assistant] The soft hanoki top ply also helps when playing spin shots against backspin. As mentioned throughout the review, I've felt very comfortable with this blade, especially when blocking and under attack.


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[Assistant] As it increased the well time and reduced sponsoredness, gave me that control I needed to keep the ball on the table even when playing against a world class player called Reyes.


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[Assistant] Due to Aruna's superior technique and ridiculous power he possesses, the Aruna off is easily fast enough for him. However for mere mortals like me who are used to harder blades, the Aruna off plus may be of a better choice if you want a bit more speed on the ball.


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[Assistant] This blade is suited for players who want that bit more control and spin than a harder, faster, carbon blade.


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[Assistant] The Aruna off will work for power players and can get that extra speed through technique.


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[Assistant] We feel that Joola and Quadri Aruna have definitely combined well and created what seems to be an advancement to the popular Joola Ruskoff blade.


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[Assistant] For more reviews on the Julo Runa Blade and other products like it, be sure to check out the Tabletonist Daily Equipment Review Center by clicking the link below, where you can rate and review equipment yourself. We'd love to hear your opinions and experiences with different Tabletonist products. Thanks for watching.


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[Assistant] This might be skipping a lot of steps in this interview, but I just want to ask this one question because your start was on Vine for social.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, my question is like, are you regretting that you didn't start YouTube sooner?