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Talk soon and thanks for listening.Agent Beage, can you bring me up
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to speed on the situation? Isee that you have one of the people
I've been following in interrogation. I'msorry, ma'am. I'm actually Agent Tope.
Agent Beige is on vacation. Theybrought me in to fill in.
Oh sorry, you just look reallysimilar. Well can you bring me up
to speed? Yes, so webrought in this guy for questioning and someone
said he might be related to acase of yours. Yes, we're actually
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following them, but I can't actuallytell you what it's about. Okay,
Sam, if you just want tostay here on this side of the glass
and he won't even know you're here, sounds good. Hello, thank you
for coming in for a simple questioning. I hope this won't take more than
a minute or two. So canyou state your name? For the record,
please, Yes, it's Richard Cox. You know, we understand that
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you recently placed a bet on arace at the City Track, and you
know, we like to follow upon some of these things when there's an
odd large sum of gold made offof one transaction for someone who's never participated
in one of these races before,and just wanted to give you a chance
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to clear the air and tell uswhat happened that day. Yeah. So
I know that the competitors knew intown. I think they're just really trying
to establish themselves as a really strongcompetitor, and you know, I'd seen
them train, so I was like, oh, they're they're definitely going to
win this. So I just kindof went all in, okay, And
so we have on here it's recordedup to about halfway through the race.
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So what did you witness after thatthat, you know, really let you
know you'd made a good To behonesty, I didn't actually see a lot.
I know, they kind of wentover some weird like tarpit bridge and
then the whole arena this was afog of smoke and then they won.
So I mean, I'm happy.I don't know what happened in that smoke
cloud. But you know, okay, anything strange or out of the ordinary
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occur right after the race or yeah, well, now that you mention it,
there's this guy we ran into onour way into town who was kind
of a jerkface who was trying tosend some secret messages. Interesting. What
was his name? I think somethingdoctor Dorito esque like I don't quite remember.
I know it definitely started with ad thank you for your time.
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I don't see anything out of theordinary here. We're going to go ahead
and process through your payment and everythingand make sure you get made whole.
Just out of curiosity. What wouldyou say your betting strategy is? You
know, I've studied a lot oftechniques and theories, but really it all
comes down to is it's better tobe lucky than to be good, but
it's best to be both. Greetings, my paid and unpaid interns. I'm
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Alex Capps. You're DM or Districtmanager and this is Overworked and Underplayed A
D and D podcast for Young professionals, By young professionals. Today's ice Breaker,
What is your favorite kind of dog? What up? It's you boy?
Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox, ahuman consultant turned Hafling bart who holy
believes it's better to be lucky thangood, but it's best to be both.
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And Richard's favorite dog is a bassetHound. He just loves those droopy
years and the just smushable face.Hello, my name is Annelin Hardy and
I played Taylor Jacobs, a centaurBarbarian with the heart of gold and her
this is an unpopular opinion, dogsrequire so much focus away from work that
she doesn't even really think about pets. I don't like now she's the villain,
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doesn't want to be friends because oneday Bentley was talking about how he's
a dog person and she's like,yeah, I don't really do animals,
and he's like, you're dead tome. Goodness, Hi everyone, I'm
Katie and I play Crystal the Drowdruidwith her very own MLM. And Crystal
does not have a favorite dog becauseshe sponsors an animal shelter, super out
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of character. But everybody's got aweakness, and y'all just found out crystalskness.
She doesn't promote it on our socialmedia. She shes it as a
weakness and she hides it. Don'tdon't awe her. She did it to
avoid sanctions from the sect. Thereis a twist, there's a benefit that
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is a tax shelter, but alsoshe's still a good thing. It's still
a nice little animal rescue. SoHey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy
and Amanda, a basicly rough andtumble human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry
degree. Amy and comes from abig family. Her mom loves little dogs,
always has little dogs running around.We've kind of referred to her as
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the Queen because she's got lots oflittle Corgi's running around after her and Amyen's
favorite is one of those dogs.She's like eighteen years old at this point,
but her name is Peaches and she'svery sweet. Hi, I'm Tyler.
You just want to say Hi.Bentley? Yeah, I played Bentley,
the IT Paladin and Bentley's favorite dogis Breathe. I'm gonna go with
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Doge. Does seems like it couldbe are awesome and Doze is the most
famous one. They are really awesomeand it is much like you to like
a cat. Is that his newcrypto that I was gonna into bitcoin and
I could I could do it again? He's like I like dogs. Hi,
I'm Alex Capps. You'r DM ordistrict manager, and my favorite kind
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of dog or my favorite dog isa rescue because they are the best dogs.
Right. Adopt don't shop. Yeah, adopt don't show. And that's
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us out at patreon dot com slashown up pod. When we last left
off, you guys had managed tonot only survive the death race, but
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you managed to win the death raceand they are now flush with cash my
name and name money. Some ofus are flush with cass. Although Richard
did run into a little trouble whenhe went to collect, but he's back.
I mean that kind of breaks scanningbecause Bentley went to collect because I'm
technically the one that places the bet. Oh, this is a different timeline
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in the multiverse and no whatever.Uh, and then it's just that Richard
was easier to smaller Richard went backto get it in smaller bills. Yeah,
probably larger bills, so it's lessto carry. Maybe I don't know.
That was a good joke, andI ruined it. Let's talk,
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and Marjorie received a note from asecret admirer. Ew nice nice, all
right, and action. Okay,so this amulet is really cool. Does
Crystal get one? Oh? Yeah, see normally we uh, normally the
there's only one sentient being in therace, so there's one prize. I
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take a fence to the idea thatthe animals being written are not sentient.
Well, they can't read and write, but they can feel, and they
were mostly food. Lots of thingscan feel also, though, like,
why would you give an animal anamulet when you could give Look, this
is a this is a rather uniquesituation. So I mean, I guess
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we could give her the amulet andgive you like a cart of apples or
something. I mean, I wantshe gets an amulant and I get something
else too, of equal value orhigher value, equal or higher value.
Sorry, that's not really how thisworks well, okay, so yeah,
here you can have the prize moneyhere. We also you get your six
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hundred gold more than the Amult probablyI guess that's fine. Before it's actually
a super expensive Amult surprise. Wedon't actually know what things cost in this
right exactly. And we're walking.Yeah, Thunderhoof is like, all right,
well, uh, thanks for participatingin. We'll catch you next time.
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Probably not, but thanks anyway,Yeah, and thank you for all
the information. Yeah, and forthe cool stuff. You're ben a treat,
would you like one? No?Thanks, Thunderhoof out peace. So
who all is around? Now?Where are we? You're at the race
track still? Okay? So peopleare People are just kind of shuffling out,
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Like you see people pointing at TaylorJacobs and Crystal like, oh my
gosh, look there she is.Taylor's pointing at Crystal. Crystal is expecting
that. She's like, yeah,hey, Taylor, did you pick up
your sword? Oh shit? Sheruns over. I'm going to say that
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there was like a grounds worker thatwas like he was like carrying the sword
back over. He goes, uh, ma'am, please try not to litter
on the race track next time.Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
Thank you. Okay, have agood day. Okay, guys, what
are we gonna do about that?First of all, congratulations, that's so
exciting. Yeah you guys didrect Yeahyeah, this like somehow makes it into
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our performance review and yeah, nowwe're like award winning. Yeah, I
mean, why I just got decapitated, like you know, two lengths behind
you guys. So yeah, likehe just like quick bloo, quick bloop.
That's crazy. Yeah, I don'tthink we saw that part so definitely.
As y'all are having your conversation,you see that, like someone approaches
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Richard and it's like, hello,mister Cox, I'm a agent, Tope,
I'd like to have a word withyou if possible. Sure, but
we gotta make this quick round schedule. We're just we're just gonna be over
in this room for just like fiveminutes or something. All right, guys,
surprise the rack has a dungeon righthere, Richard, All right,
keep your bracelets on. Yeah,all right, continue, So I mean,
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and I show him the note fromd D so presumably d'artarrian. Yeah,
what time of day is it?So it's gonna be I'm gonna say
mid aftern and so there's like threefour o'clock. You made me racing the
hottest part of the day. Yeah, extra points, extra listening. Yeah,
I hope we put sunscreen on.Oh we probably did it. Oh
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yeah, I feel like I feellike how long we have been traveling together.
So Amyen is effectively ginger, Soshe has very strict about, you
know, sun protection, much likeMarjorie is. And so I'm sure you're
very kind, but I'm sure throughoutour travels we've talked about this and been
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like, okay, use this one. Here we go. So I feel
like you guys would probably I definitelyhave new light sensitivity that I didn't have.
Yeah. Yeah. So so justto simplify this whole thing, I'm
going to say, sunscreen somehow issomething that was invented in this universe.
They just did. It's just likeit's just like coconut oil all over,
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just sizzling. Oh my gosh,golden brown baby. And where did you
get this letter? I think daritarianitarianwhatever Happenarian we look it's like a thunderclap.
Okay, So what do you guysthink about this? Meet me at
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twelve or what meet me at midnight? Midnight by yourself. Yes, that's
over. No, that's how youlike get dead. Yeah, that's we
as women will not be living.Okay, so I don't care how that
works out, but someone's going we'reall going with Okay, thank you,
guys, thank you. It's obviouslyfirst rule, stay sexy, don't get
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murdered. Yes, yes, absolutelywe might not getting er good god,
amazing. Okay, not sponsors okasin this world? Oh, they definitely
do. They just don't call thempodcasts. Yeah, they're probably the nails.
Okay, we gotta think of thename casts. There's little tree pods
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that you cast out and h onehas this. Yeah, it's like a
tree that everybody picks from when itcomes out. Just like we're moving,
we'ving on. Oh is Richard backyet? Yeah, I'm gonna say Richard's
back? Hey Richard, Okay,gets figured out what to do with the
well the letter you were gone.Yeah, incredible, incredible. I just
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had to use the bathroom real quick. So I think we're good to go.
Now we should probably head back tothe You shouldn't wonder off it's dangerous,
absolutely correct. Next time I wantBentley, what do you think we
should do? About this letter,and she and I and I hold it
up just like it's like Yucky withjust two fingers is like something like looking
at this looking at his his winningnote, it's like, what did you
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say something? Oh? Oh,yeah, you should tell him about tell
us what I'll tell you when weget back to the crust. Oh that's
right. Okay, yeah, okay, I will be forgetting that. I
thought we decided to work a threeway without us. Wow. I didn't
realize you guys were that wow leavingus out. We're not for twenty minutes.
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Twenty hole, man, you guysleft. Do you guys be supportive?
Okay? Well, anyways, likewe were making up, how much
twenty did you guys get from thatwhole risk in your lifes thing? Not
enough? We got an amulet andmake off to cover the rest. I
don't know, maybe it depends Amylooking at it. Let's let's start walking
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back, yeah, and then onthe way we can talk about how duitarians
an arch they Okay, yeah,definitely. Yeah. Do we trust banks
in this world? I have money, you do in the bank, But
if we ever get teleported out ofhere, it's going to be completely useless
to you. I mean that thatyou can take anything from this world back
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to our world. Well, wedid bring some of the things that we've
had. I wonder if the exchangechanging all of a sudden, we're back
in the real world with like magicalweapons whatever, and just gold. We
just like go to the bank andjust hand them actual gold coins just crashed.
And definitely, you guys are reallymad because all their gold and they're
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safe, is suddenly worthless. There'ssome boomers that there's out there. This
is a safe ben real estate.Look at that way. We'll say,
you guys made it. It's easyenough to make it to the bank,
into the crow's nest. So okay, what happens at the bank? Do
they see, oh, I'm adeposit they have debit cards here they do
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not have debit cards. They havecheck books them just like you can't just
you're carrying a giant bag of money. You think we won't notice that like
a cartoon. It's oh, butyou have to deposit it. You have
to walk up to a tailler anddeposit the money. I think you're a
little self subsorbed. So is reallyhigh. Okay, So here's here's we're
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at the bank. We're at thebank, and Richard, you approach the
tailler. Okay, Bentley and Richardapproach the tailor, but we get separate
bank accounts. Yes, you establishedfrom being a played by Blue goal.
Yeah, the tailor's good afternoon,sir. What can I do for you?
Well, my friend Hey would liketo make a deposit. You're just
gonna keep carring yours around. Well, we got to spend it. We
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got to give it to what's hisname. I'll just deposit my half.
Yeah, Bentley goes does what canI do for you? My name is
Bentley. I think Blue will openan accounts up for me. I'd like
to make a deposit. Oh,yes, Master Bentley, and you are
figures. He has one of thosekinks. Jesus Christ. My name is
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Richard. But I'm not here todo anything. I just I'm holding the
money so we don't get robbed.I just kind of look, I can't
fight while holding the money. Sookay, oh oh, I think I
understand this type of arrangement. Okay, So yes, master, I have
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your account pulled up here, sowanting to make a withdrawal or deposit deposit
and what is the amount of thedeposit. Uht me you have something?
Yes, excellent, here's a slipof paper. I feel out the paper.
I'm looking. I am looking sohard. Make me a perception,
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So Crystal make a perception check.And then Bentley, I need you to
make a slide of hand check.I look around, dam I'd like to
also look around and see that we'rein the bank. We're safe. Are
there a lot of people around us? So I'm gonna say, you don't
even need to roll for this,Okay. It seems pretty safe in there,
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okay, And there's only like ahandful of people in the entire building.
I see, I see, SoI'll say, okay, wait,
I'll wait till okay, that's that'sa fourteen okay, because I have a
minus two. Hold one second,let me make sure very well for bank
transactions. Did you roll for omens? I did so. There's two good
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omens and three bad omens. Thisis worth it? Uh? What was
your number? Yeah? What wasyour number? I know what the number
is. So it's seven plus six? Yeah, I know. I will
so you look and like right asyou think you're about to see the number,
like a piece of his armor,just obscure your line of sight.
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But I will say, as closeas those two numbers were, you do
see that there are more digits thanyou expected. You just don't know what
those digits are. Like, guys, make a bet. Oh my gosh,
they won four thousand gold. Ihope you said that in a regular
voice. Yes, yes, yes, in a regular voice. Now around
whoa, whoa? You see aslike the few people and they're kind of
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like a loud I'm going to depositeverything. That's why I was like,
nobody's around. It's fine. It'snot a secret to them, you know.
So it says Richard just starts hoistingbags of gold out everything. Whoa.
It just can't be subtle, Likethat's the thing is like, guy,
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yeah, doesn't put any money in. Yeah, we want, we
want. We put our bodies onthe line. I don't know. If
you saw them and a lot ofpeople died like we got apparently head chopped
off, you should be glad.I bet on you. Clearly my luck
assisted you in winning. We shouldbe glad. Yeah, I could have
bet on someone else. Maybe heshould be glad, would have been if
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I had blessed so so the thething that I forgot in the last episode
because we were trying to wrap up. As you see the person who got
their head lopped off, like gettingcarted off. You see a cleric approached
and he like healed him, likehe put his head back on and healed
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him and then handed him a bill, so like for healing him, he
has to pay to get his headmedical bills that Paladin could be charging medical
expenses. Yeah, if you're atrue capitalist, Yeah you got the idea,
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and now you're like therapy and I'mgoing to I'm going to make start
making like release for him. Well, welcome to Bentley Cross Bentley Shield.
That's not wrong. The tailor looksthat. She says, that is quite
the deposit. Yes we will.We will open the vault immediately and begin
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placing your sacks of gold and securelocation. It seems super trustworthy, he
says. I like gold. AnywayI can make notes to like, hey,
someone without having to come here directly. Yes, you need a check
book, that would be awesome,Yes, excellent. Here you are the
first Bank of Travaria. Thanks youfor your patronage. A curiosity. Technically
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we're not supposed to take tips,but oh no, I was asking,
like the DM. Sorry, Ifeel like he does give you a lollipop,
though what flavor? Yeah flavor,I don't even care what flavor.
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I love. It's a root beardBrussels sprout flavored, candied maple Brussels sproud.
Yeah okay, yeah, but yourealize it's actually just it looks like
it's just a Brussels sprout. It'slike it's like coated and carmel and sugar.
It's literally a candied brussels. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like it's
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good until suddenly it's absolutely just.It's like a cup of coffee. Us.
I'm depositing the my portion in thewinning So I mean he's gonna he's
gonna mean shut up, just depositedand call it a day and start walking
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off. Yeah. So you guysare on your way to the Crow's Nest.
Now, if you're done at thebank, should we put our money,
No, we're gonna pin the mealwith it. You're immediately going to
get rid of it. So youguys easy enough to make it to the
Crow's Nest. And once you're there, you see Captain Montiac is over behind
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the bar and he says, oh, my friends, welcome back. Can
I pour you a drink. Iheard you had quite the afternoon. Hey
generational, well, I mean CaptainMontyac. So good to see you.
It's wonderful to see you. Wewill one a race really yeah, yeah,
I re to hear all about it. Yeah, the dead one,
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you know, the death race.Yeah, I heard you entered. So
so we weren't exactly expecting an actualdeath race where we're from. That's not
really a thing. But it went, you know what, we did it.
So we don't have any trauma left, none at all. None,
No, of course not. That'swhat Yeah, that's what essential oils are
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for. Yeah, so we havestuff for nemeo. Yeah, actually you
know where he is, he says, he like kind of looks both ways.
He goes follow me, and hegoes over to his little office and
like cracks the door and he says, all of you inside now, okay,
And you say his nemeos just kindof hanging out behind the desk.
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Can we like see if he's beingweirdly secretive when he doesn't need to be,
or if like I feel like he'she's just suddenly like a check okay,
definitely not what did you get onyour inside check? Not enough okay,
yeah, he seems like he's completelynormal, and once everybody gets in,
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he kind of closes the door andhe says nemeos. Sitting behind the
desk, he goes, excellent,friends, Uh, did you bring me
my money? Yep, we gotyour thousand dollars that we promised for the
first half, and then the otherhalf will get you when the job is
accomplished. Excellent, excellent. Blincolnis putting together quite a crack team.
We already found a lock pick FinnianImberforge, and right now we're working on
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a specialist retrieval specialist if you knowwhat I mean. I don't want to,
he says, I have a fewfeelers out, but I think tonight,
well we will. We will makethe snatch and grab. Can we
watch about what time do you thinkthat'll happen? Probably around midnight? Well,
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we have a previous engagement speaking whichnever mind. I'm like, should
we ask him for information about thatarea or something? I don't know?
But I don't know either. Idon't know. I think the less we
know, the better legal legal propability. I wholehearted we're paying them to do
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something to fust anything. But ifI have learned from my attorneys is the
less you know, the better.That's a good point. I thought you
were talking about like ingredients in mysule. That's what it says on the
on the label knowledge. They areall organic. That's what I know to
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be true. Well, what shouldwe do between now and midnight? No
need to take this offline. Overworkedand underplayed, will circle back after these
messages. What else do you needfrom USO? That's it. We got
the money, We're gonna get theteam together, and we're gonna try to
steal that thing. You're going togoing just the thing we're gonna We're gonna
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hopefully complete the mission. It's calledthe cell phone. We're paying you too
much for this, hopefully. Ineed some confidence coming out of you.
I'm confident. I wouldn't do itif I didn't think I could do it.
So you are confident, you thinkyou can do this. We're gonna
give it our best try. Idon't love the language, Richard Goblin.
Goblin culture dictates that we cannot promisesomething that we cannot guarantee. I cannot
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promise you with one hundred percent certainty, did I will give hand you your
Thingam a jigger tomorrow, but Ican tell you that we have a pretty
good chance that we're going to getit. Okay, what's your team?
How many people? So far?As three of us? Three? Yeah,
keep the team, slim, gotto stay under the radar. This
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is this is a covert operation,not a not a smash and grab.
Yeah, that seems totally reasonable,Crystal. Hu Amen, you're so.
I really appreciate all your valuable input, but you're not the best when it
comes to you people being suspicious.That's a good point, Crystal. Thank
you for reminding me. Okay,I don't want to say, how do
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I say you're gullible without I guess? So if you get caught, are
you going to point the finger backat us? No? That would be
against our goblin Ways can we tellif he's lying? You can make another
insight check. I'm gonna try.That's eighteen. Yeah. You look at
him, he's dead in the eyelooking at you. You genuinely believe that
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he means that. Oh shit,really high wow. Wow. Maybe it's
just that he's not lying. No, obviously he's lying. She's also a
scam artist. She's son of conman. He says, this is one
of the reasons why I'm providing youa layer of separation. You don't know
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the people, they don't know you. They only know nemeo. This is
what you're paying for. That feelsa little better. I feel like we're
splitting the hairs here. Guys,we have the money of the group.
Doesn't want the phone anyway? Ithink we just got you don't want the
phone? No, No, Ithink we've established that our number one getting
home. This is an extra effortwe're doing simultaneously so that way we can
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get two things done at one time. Yes, we want to go home
exactly. That's why. That's whywe're trusting these people with money that we
didn't even have to work hard toget. Sorry, you guys didn't have
to work hard. You guys workedhard for the six hundred No, what
you the money? You want?Your guys' grand prize was the hard work.
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We literally was like two hundred dollars. Well, then are you cool
with being paying the rest? Yes, that's why we put that bet down.
Okay, because that doesn't sound likewhat Bentley is intended. Bentley's two
thousand dollars is unimportant in this story. I also have two thousand dollars,
which will cover the fifteen hundred thatwe see. Neo pops up. He
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goes, look, I don't knowwhat a dollar is, but I only
take Imperial credits. Yeah, don'tworry about the exchange, right, don't
worry about the exchange. It's fine, we'll handle that. Okay, fine,
we'll go ahead with this. Idefinitely feel like I'm being scammed.
But Nemeo, thank you for coordinatingthis effort and for planning anything everything.
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And we've never done this before,so you could understand why we're a little
hesitant. But you know, we'reexcited at the prospect of getting the phone
back. So thank you so muchfor doing all this. And I think,
guys, is there anything else wewanted to talk about with Nemeo?
You're great, Nemeo, thank you. We'd love to learn more about your
Goblin ways after this is all ordeal, geve that okay, that could be
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arranged. Awesome, Thank you again, and we won't keep you any longer.
We know you have a very importantjob to do, all right,
Well, enjoy your evening. Hesees he's like counting the gold out as
he's like walking out right, andwe never see him again. All right,
we're out. Each of us areat two hundred gold that we just
got from half a day ago fromBlue Goal. Yeah, okay, Tylers,
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I'm over here. Like. Thereason I'm not involved in the negotiations
is because one of my money isYeah, thank you for not helping.
Next episode, you'll be asleep inbed. You guys are one critical detail.
Bentley works for the car company,not for Crystal. That means his
interests are not the same as yours. Yeah, heaven for bid he help
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just just a little bit. Idon't even work for the same company,
Bentley. I was just here fora meeting to get some free donuts,
like wave for work. Now nowwe're now we're learning that amy N was
never intending to be involved. No, I mean I was. We've been
having course, yes and stuff,but I mean I never meant to,
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like, you know, get suckedinto a different dimension and where the heck
this is? That seems fair.I don't think any of us thought if
I'd known that this would have endedme in a different dimension, I totally
wouldn't started working with first. Thisisn't reflection, you know, and the
really the first thing we should havebeen kind of worried because that meeting was
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so early. That's like way earlierthan Yeah, we'll have to Taylor.
We'll have to figure out who schedulethat meeting. It was very interesting.
Yeah, honestly don't remember what timeof the meeting was originally, Yeah,
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but it was it was early enoughthat Taylor overslept and that's all the matters
because the nightmares. Yeah. Yeah, but anyway, So are we all
going to go see doctor da?I mean trusts him. I would never
It's like going on a date,you know, you always bring somebody.
Yeah, I'm not going to goby myself. Are we all going?
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Yeah? Okay, I mean ifhe's there, I want to beat him
up for trying to steal. Okay, exactly do you have anything in your
book Richard about arch phase? Itseems like it that might be important.
Last time I tried looking up aboutpeople didn't work. It really only works
on things as I say, like, I mean, I can try.
It does not work, okay,as I expected didn't. Wow, alright,
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blue terminal it is. So I'mgonna say, just out of for
ease, you guys go to thebluegal terminal and you can find some basic
information and it seems like it speaksabout a more like cryptid or like a
my mythological kind of creature where it'slike some say that they are the lords
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of Fay realms and they're not partof the world that we're in. Some
say they're just really strong versions ofthings like pixies and and sprites, and
then others will say that arch Fayturned them into animals with just a glance.
Oh so they're like fairies. Yeah, they're kind of probably what like
you would think of as fairies,and like how our folk lore depicts them.
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Okay, okay, so sneaky trickeryand like really pretty. Probably I
bet this isn't his natural form.Well we have he's got I was looking
mask on it still sweaty underneath.So I mean maybe I don't know,
you know, maybe he's got likereally pretty wings. I bet we should
ask. Oh, he probably could. Maybe that's why he has the masks
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because we wouldn't be able to talkto him with how pretty romance novels in
my time, you know, likeOrlando bloom Is the Elf, you know,
just yeah, pretty, just reallypretty. Is there anything in that
Bluegle tells us that we should likeprepare for have like, uh, I
don't know, like we're a certaintype of metal. Don't say your full
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name to him like stuff like that. So no, no, just so
that to protect ourselves, shoot himwith a silver bowl. Don't let him
cross the threshold into your house.Can't cross running waters, salt. But
anyway, so as they're doing thosequestioning and you know how the internet loves,
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Oh, you're asking about this,Richard wants to stop asking about the
arch phase in general and just askabout the supposed government employee, doctor Tatarian
specifically. Okay, you're so smart. So as you as you you start
trying to search through the Bluegle archives, you keep hitting a page that reads
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access denied. Who sets this permissionthing up? Like who decides what is
denied and what's not denied? TheLoegal terminal tells you that would be up
to the Office of Blugle Security andClearances. So whoever they allow to view
certain data? Can we send likea quick text to Matt Damon about that
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rule. It's like when you're deniedaccess to a spreadsheet and you like request,
so you send a request in Yeah. That that's the real question is
does the access page have like afirewall exception request to you put in,
So you submit a rec west,it may be some time before you hear
anything back. That sounds appropriate.Well, how will we get notified every
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single day? Like every five feetnow a bird will come up and give
you a tweet. Oh that's agood one. Oh Lord, is there
any way I can contact the Ricksthrough this bluegle terminal? Is there?
Did we establish that there's like sometype of messaging? So there's the blue
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Book. The blue just like it'slike a public posting board where people can
like post what they're doing and yeah, and uh yellow pages that even you
would find. You go looking throughthere and you find that the Ricks have
a joint blue Book account. Secret. They're very they're very is. Their
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hobbies include Jim tanned laundry. Oneof them, the profile pick sure is
definitely all of them holding a fish. I'm really surprised that they didn't all
somehow go on the date with ew. That's gross, no sharing, Okay,
So I'd like to send I don'tremember which one I went on a
date one date on with el Eric. I want to send him and be
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like, hey, l Eric,sorry, it's been a long time since
I messaged you. I've been busy, but let's let's get together. I
want to get your ideas on somestuff. I'm going on a date,
a date so that you could tellhim that you're going on a day to
make him jealous. I'm just saying, well, that's a good idea,
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Crystal, but I don't really wantto make him jealous. You get almost
an immediate reply back, Okay,oh wow, it's and it's like kind
of it's a little misspelled, butI mean you you're able to parse it
together and it's fountain Head in anhour. What time is it, Well,
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say this is now. You're probablyabout four or five o'clock, so
it's a dinner day. I'm kindof loving this. What are you wearing?
Okay? I said, hey,hold on one second, Hey guys,
you want to go on a littleside quest there? Yeah is going
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to be there? Are all theRick's going to be there? He's disappointed.
The soul is crush see you seeit's it's it's like a little the
dots are going. It's like whenyou asked someone to go get someone out
and they're like, oh yeah,who else coming? Yeah? Yeah,
exactly yeah, Oh, I wasright. It was Elric and it types
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back and finally said they can bethere if you want them to. I
said, okay, we'll see yousoon. I'm bringing the crew. Smiley
face. He just touched back.Oh dot dot dot did see you there?
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Starved for her spicy books? Youneed it? Oh my god.
Yeah. Sometimes sometimes what's the mostrelaxed? Those are the best payoffs.
Yes, absolutely they are. Soyou guys, you guys, make it
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to the fountain Head. The fairiesare still dancing in the little glass tubes.
And as you walk in, establishyes, still low key concern.
Just because you're getting paid to dosomething, doesn't you wanted to see?
It? Seems Atlas behind the barwaves did he didn't shrug? He didn't
this time. And uh. Asyou're walking in Taylor, you hear a
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familiar voice. You hear his Randyappears. Oh, hello, I see
you returned. Hi, Randy.We had such a conversation last time.
Yeah, and you see. Shetakes a long drag of her obnoxiously long
cigarette and she says, it's sodelightful to see you again, honey,
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So seeing you too. How haveyou been? I have been as I
am Wow, how profound? How'sbusiness? Ben could be worse? All
right, well, do you mindif we grab a seat? No,
go ahead, you can take anyseat you'd like. Dear, Oh,
I thank you, good to seeyou again. I was very nice to
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see you. It Taylor and horseForm. Yeah she forgot she keeps ducking
well. Also, did we establishthat you get pants when you turn back
into a person or is she nakedon another's no, we just have we
have some pants for you. Wewent to the store pants. I'm just
a little worried. I was like, it makes sense if she would stay
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in horse for me if she doesn'tturn back with pants on. She found
some stretchy pants, so they're justalways on her hind legs. Yeah,
I guess that's oh god, Ohyeah, it's fine. So you guys
all find you a seat. Andit's about a few minutes later you see
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Elric and Ulric walk in. Ohhey, guys, and you see you
see Elric normally has his mohawk.You see he's got his hair like all
slicked back, and he's like he'sgot his nice battle armor on. Oh
okay, So I get up togo and like say hi to him.
And to give him like a littlefist bump. Okay, well this is
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going to be awkward. Oh whyhe is dressed up? So as as
wait, wait, wait, Ijust to make sure it was the one
I already had a data Yeah okay. And so as you walk up,
like he sees, you put yourhand out and you notice he had one
hand behind his back and he producesit for pay of flowers, press out
of it, and you just youjust fis bump his hand with the flowers,
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and he's just standing there, goes, thanks, are these for me?
If you want them? I loveflowers. Thanks, take them up.
He's account of hot and cold.I'm glad you liked him. Everyone
else in the party is just likelooking at each other. Oric is just
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standing there with this plague. Wow. Man, that was a bad idea,
dude, this was a business call. Like this wasn't well, I
mean not really I wanted to It'skind of both, you know, Yeah,
she wanted to see you, Yesshe did, Yes you did.
Yeah you know what. He's like, I'll take it, yeah, Crystal
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like elbows amy and and she's like, yeah, you wanted to see him,
you wanted to see it, andyou say, Ulric turns. He
goes, yo, rich, dude, my man, you're a party hell
yeah, but hey, we gottado we have business first, party later.
Yeah, business in the front,party in the rear. Let's do
it. Please don't poison him again. Did you just say party in the
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rear? Oh no, you saidyou like party in the rear, not
me. Oh I get it.Hey, listen, you gotta take what
you can get in this world.I mean, I'm just saying very interesting.
That cool. You see us,you see us, Elric said,
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I just want to make it knownI did not party in the rear.
No, okay, okay, shallwe sit? Sure? Yes, thank
you? Okay, so you guyswant some time alone? No. But
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then he hears that and stands backfrom let's all go get some soup.
Yes, please please stay here,please please, pulls a chair out at
the table. I feel like everyoneevery please he dies a little bit,
we leave, I leave. I'mnot I'm giving them privacy. Absolutely.
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Taylor feels torn, so she'll stayat Crystal. Yes, it's true,
just character growth, just her protectivenotes over her friends. Go ahead,
I'll just say amen. So Lericpulls a chair out at the table.
M h, what time is it. I'm gonna say it's like between five
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and six pm. Okay, yeah, that math checks out. Okay,
I couldn't remember what time that onewas. Okay, okay, Hey,
thanks thanks, Rick. Can Ilike tap him on the back like friendly?
Oh? It was nothing? Hey? So she hits him just a
little bit too hard and he likesit. So have you been Hey,
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Well, I haven't heard from yousince our little rendezvous. I know you
don't have to call it that,but thanks for the information, you know.
I give him some expedition expedition expositionexposition generally on the details of what
we did and how I looked forthe people at the orchard that he recommended
and all that, like that kindof stuff. Give him up to up
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to speed one. I don't.I don't say that. I don't say
that because it was Yeah, well, it sounds like you've really been putting
them alms to work. So whatmy mom would want? Uh? So?
What? So? I really wantedto get you guys over here because
I feel like, I don't know, your mother sounds fascinating. She she
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really is. I feel like wewould get along. She's a hard woman,
but God, she's got a softinterior. Most sometimes I find most
people have a soft interior. Imean when you really get down to brass,
texts and testines are okay, Sowhat do you know about okay?
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So I wanted to get them herefor a couple of reasons so we could
get their truth. Serum earlier said, and he liked it. We're still
she was like saying expedition like expeditionsbecause I was laughing, and you see,
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like like like, dude, you'reyou're you're doing great, Illric,
I'm very proud of you. Like, just just keep it up, man,
this is totally working out loud.I like have a very strong friends
support group. That's right. It'sbecause they're brothers, Richard, So what's
going on? Man? Like whatare we here for? Yeah, well
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I don't know what they're here for, but now that we're here, definitely
want to hang out have some goodtimes. You know, I haven't seen
you guys in a while, butyou remember that thing you gave me and
it made me say a lot ofstuff I didn't want to say. Oh
yeah, do you think we couldget our hands on a couple of vials
of that? We got some shadycharacters are about to start dealing with I
think that'd be really handy. Ohman, that sounds like fun. Yeah,
here and he hands you sweet handsyou viol It would also be really
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nice to be like leveled up soI could have some truth. That would
also be nice. We're never wehave to work so hard for that.
It's gonna be another one hundred episodesof levels. I have a feeling that
Marcel will be living in Annelin willbe living in another state before you guys,
like, yeah, so who areyou going to use that on?
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Man? Like, you know,that's some pretty chrippy stuff, Like you
gotta be careful you can't use thaton some nerd. That's a good question,
like, so, what's what's thedosage on this? Like a couple
drops? So do you or theyneed to drink the whole thing? It
depends on how big they are.I mean, we're talking like a normal
sized humanoid? Are we talking likea little dude like you? Like what
I mean? Last time I sawhim, he's probably height of our friend
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Bentley over here. Probably not hisbuilt, but I'd say about that size.
He sees he like, he likelooks up Bentley and He's like,
hmm, here, actually take twofor good measure, Like you don't care
if this dude, like, youknow, maybe doesn't wake up, Like
that's not like a huge issue.I mean, serum does if it over
if you overdose, it's not likethey can't ever tell a lie ever.
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Again. Yeah, it's not aduration thing. It's more like a sedative.
So you know you gotta Yeah,you gotta be careful about your dosage.
But if you don't give a shitabout this dude, like, yeah,
hit him with two and he'll tellyou everything I was say, Depending
on how the situation goes, thatmight be preferable. We've really all some
shady stuff and it only takes oneorganized a slippery slope organized crime for thrift
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roofies. We're just it all startedwhen he's smashed that skull of that bear.
Hey, hey, Ricky, yes, do you know anyone by the
name of D'artynian dartarnians Tatarian? Thankyou, Bentley, he says. He
kind of sits up. He goes, what delans do you have with doctor
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d Is it well? Is okay? Are you for him or against him?
Okay, we've got he sent mea creepy, creepy note. And
I wanted to get you guys herebecause I feel like you guys might know
how to deal with this what codof note? And I showed him and
he goes, oh, he's justkind of looking at it, and he's
just he's stolen something from us before, like I told you when we were
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Oh so this wasn't like, thisisn't like a date. No, oh
what if we tell him that itis and then he needs to defend his
Yeah, well, what how wouldyou feel about adding security because we don't
super dress this guy. Yeah,and he's supposed to be an arch fae.
Yeah he is pre I don't knowabout no fairy nonsense, but yeah,
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he is well connected in the city. You got to watch out.
Okay, he's creeping on her andit's like crossing a lot of boundaries.
He like had the note delivered bya child. Yeah, so what you
hell? He kind of sounds likea stalker to me. Well, since
you're asking, how can I sayno? I punch him in the shoulder
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like she's a method actor and aser, dude, you're so lame,
Like, well, not just you, but all you ricks. That's that
was why I was calling all youguys here. See if you and we
can pay you entered the chat guys, Eric, Eric, the rest of
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them won't be necessary. I'll keepyou safe. No, no, I
can have died. That's a death. I love her way. I don't
want you to like he was marriedthis whole time, Like, no,
maybe he's maybe he's into polygamy.That's not cool. That's our Marjorie.
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Yeah, as long as everyone isa marriage adults, it's one consising adult
and another cons adult. No moreowership in the state of you Jah,
just plumb. We gotta get itback. I mean bad enough after my
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jo Yeah, the soaking episode.God anyway, squirrel, big squirrel.
But no, I can pay youguys. Oh you guys, because I
don't want you to just be youknow, on your want to get hurt
and all that. My brothers areall assignment. But it's like tonight,
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right, So I'm here, okay, And he just turned to old Rick
about you you're gonna you're just gonnalet me fly solo like that. I
mean, I guess I'm in,like you know, let's party. That's
right, Let's party. And thenRichard goes up to the bar. Oh
oh, four hours absolutely situation.I have an idea. I suddenly feel
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the urge to ask for something calledsun drop. I think I think we
should just all get some good soupand then we'll go meet this sketchy motherfucker.
Okay, yeah, I do likea good soup. Yeah, I
think we all do. Here.It's kind of weird, and you know,
it'd be cool to see if youare Amy and could eat the most
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soup, it would be don't letme win. Yeah. A gratitude today
keeps the haters away, and that'swhy we want to thank you for listening
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