196 - #SterlingSoloTour! (ML23 E7-E9!) - Let it Roll: Big Gets and Big Takes

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Well, I was six afraid ofseven, seven eight nine. There's the
intro. Oh god it no,it's because seven was a registered six offender.
Oh I have heard that one.I like my idea better then.

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Seventy eight nine Marble League twenty threeare in the books, and the funnels
were spun, the beams were balancedon, and Blue Eye was not an
egregious monster. This year, we'rehere to talk about it all, to
sit back, strap it, tohelp it, let it roll? Whoy
boat why? Why boat? Hey? Everybody, Welcome to the number one

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podcast in Marble sports. Let itRoll. It's night. I am joined
by the trans Perfect Music City Bowlwinner, great Son, our favorite commissioner,
Jesus Citter's Bull participant, half manhalf marathon runner, mister Vacation,
a man of many classes. Theastro didja my best friend, that is

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Scott Scott? Where the fuck haveyou been? Uh? Well, I
how long has it been? Twoweeks? Forever? Well, let's see.
I re reacclaimed my half man halfmarathon runner title. I was in
India a bunch of times, andtoday and today yesterday I played ultimate frisbee
for like three hours, so Iguess that was fun. That's pretty dope.

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Again at a disc golf now thatthe weather is cool down a little
bit. Yeah, I saw youguys played the halftime show at the Colts
game. That's pretty dope. Yeah, that was really cool. Actually,
oh yeah. We are also joinedby the Postman Duck Boys right there,
the conductor, and a member ofthe editorial board on Project barbl Earth.

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That is Hector. What's that backthere, I'm back. I'm not completely
bloody exhausted from my busy life ofbeing a conductor this time. So yeah,
slightly ill, but don't care becauseit's just nice to be back talking
to you guys. Oh yeah.We also have somebody else returning to the
show, and that's the Postmaster General, the Wicked Witch of the Midwest,

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the Kazoo Kid, the gut trusther at the primary Indigo Stars fan.
She has been on a while.What is a Pippin? I've I've been
pretty good, you know, justdoing hot grosh it. Oh yeah,
like what nice being hot and beinga girl schedule that of congratulations. Finally,

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we are joined by the Great Sphinxand I don't know if he's still
leading predictions and fantasy, which thatwould still be wild, but you know
you love them. It's not gone, it's up your basic bitch. Oh
I'm so sleepy. Me too bad. So we're recording up the Daylight Savings

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happened. It's just like you thinkyou wouldn't be tired, but I'm just
I'm beat now. Oh. Alsothe only one in the Pacific time,
so you'd think I would be theleast tired. But I don't think I'm
leading predictions anymore because they picked TeamMomo like twice and they look like they're
on sedatives, so that's probably somethingto do with it, trying to match

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their energy. I guess right,Yeah, sure, billing it. But
let's get into this. Uh SoBen seven was funnel spinning. Still hate
the course that we had up goingwith this season, but yeah, I
don't really have a ton on it. And yeah, I was just bummed
that Kenny also got like fifth placebecause it was just so close to complain

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about fifth like that here term Yeah, I'm you can't say shit about fifth
place. Yeah, you're right,we got act there. Yeah, I
mean, there isn't that much tosay about the funnels. Like we know,
funnels were a good event. Theydidn't have any stupid camera angles this
year. It's just that they pickedprobably the worst possible configuration of funnels that
they could have done. Yeah,it was rough. I mean we talked

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about the Qualifiers episode and yeah,it wasn't a fan what's up? We
like, where are the orange funnelsor any other funnel? Yeah, like,
if you only have the green funnels, then nothing masses until the last
funnel unless someone manages to get amassive, great lead, which almost never

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happens. Like sort of the orangefunnels in just to spice it up a
little bit, mix things up andactually make things interesting. Yeah, I
agree with you there, it seemsa little. It sounds ridiculous saying marbles
are too random, but it doesfeel a little too random. I wouldn't
characterize it as too random. It'sjust that there are like four or five

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however many of this funnel races thatdon't matter, and then everyone goes to
the last funnel and that one mattersexactly. Yeah, so I hector,
wait, hold on, hector,I have to correct you. Twenty twenty
one was worse. Those blue funnelswere awful. They did nothing actively harmed.
This is this is still the secondworst funnel layout we've ever gotten was

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the blue funnels, the one thatfucking uh who was a skip jumped the
hell off of no going into agreen funnel. They just had the things
set up weird, and Skip wasfeeling dangerous there, and it was leap
and get your jungle jumpers straightened out. It was leap. It was leap.
Okay, yeah, to leave offaith, I forgot right. But

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no, I don't know what youhad faith, But yeah, he'd survive,
and I guess he did fair enoughcourseless the course. Well, So
the thing, the thing I noticedmost about the lack of orange funnels is
that it seems like having the leaddoesn't matter as much anymore, because if
you get a big lead coming outof a green funnel going into an orange

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funnel, you can just spin inthat orange funnel for like forever and you
can just like milk this lead,and that gives you just a great advantage
going into the last funnel. Butwithout that happening, you're just right back
into it with all the other marbles. And all it takes is one dude
taking a wild outside orbital like alip's path, and you're you're back in

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there with the heat of it.There you can't actually, there's no Like
it's kind of like kind of witha pit saying about everything being too random,
but like it just means you can'tlike actually get anything from being in
the lead. You just want tobe at the last one going in at
the bottom. That's really what itis. Yeah, it's not it's not
that the it's like impossible to geta lead because it's not. In first

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heat there was a bit of stratification, but the second heat especially, they
were all in the same funnel everytime very much, and it's just like
nothing like even in the final,like we're all gonna die. Yeah,
like we saw that does a bitdark. Yeah, but you're actually at

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the bottom of these funnels. There'sjust this pit of molten lavas there is.
It's called getting last place and thenhaving your coach accused of chucking a
thing at a screen and breaking Idon't whatever it was. I don't remember.
Wait, did Mombo's coach just breaka Microsoft surface like Tom Brady on
the sidelines there White I was apparentlydoing some stuff where yelling at his team

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or something like that. So maybedoes too. Oh yeah, I'm looking
at the results right now. Gota good look. Also, wasn't with
red eye qualifiers, So maybe yourteam just sucks at this, you know.
Yeah, I mean just coming backto the point about funnels not mastering,
like even the final like we've seenmarbles come back from massive leads before.

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Like even with Sterling's come back,it was Sterling was like first into
the final funnel, but everyone fellinto the final funnel and there was just
one massive, great shootout and Sterlinggot lucky. I wouldn't call it luck
at all, actor, I thinkthat was very, very skillful by Sterling
being the first into the funnel,last one out. That's no easy feat,
no matter the circumstance. So yeah, something to pull off. Yeah,

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I mean also two golds in aroe of Sterling got to give credit
for that. I mean, yeah, I just like seeing all the Marbles
bully each other at the very endof the funnel. They were shoving each
other out of the way. Also, is Sterling pulling basically like a John
Line and Paul McCartney will breaking upthe band and going solo for a little

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bit, hope not from him ina row is it's pretty impressive that they
might join Hazy and make a teamwith him. We discussed it. Yeah,
bring back out tired, hold outthe coaching position. Yeah, did
you recruit some of the old thunderbolts? Hell yeah. I actually received some

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breaking news intel that it wasn't actuallyWhite Eye that broke the tactical board.
It was a disgruntled, angry andrather stupid fan who was very mad that
we got last place in an eventthat were historically bad at and just threw
it over White eyes shoulder and brokethe board. But whide I being the
class act, he has took responsibilitybecause we don't want to deal with fan

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and having to arrest someone that's notcool, like, you know, we
want to have fun here. Soit was an attempted murder it might have
been, But why had I decidedto know, you know, turn a
blind eye and just be like,you know, for my community and for
the peace, I'll take the hitblind Eyes the manager right, bull eyes

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a matter? Yeah, but alls, I'm here as crazy as cat I
is probably bad for a technic futureevents because that guy very opinionated, and
I don't know, it wasn't Itwasn't that guy. He knows what's up
with the funnels. It was someoneelse, true, so, but on
the subject of breaking things, whathappened to the Marble League sign? Oh

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god, yeah, I forgot aboutthat. What are we doing here?
You never seen anything happen? Thenifore come on kind of construction this,
those base industries would never I don'tknow if you could listen to the episodes,
but I was saying that all thosemarbles that are up in behive,

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they are actually the slave labor thatbuilt this place. And obviously, yeah
they didn't work together like good beesand a nice hive, stressed out and
yeah, now we're seeing the effectsof it. The sign was held up
with honey, somebody just send methat sign. It sounds delicious. Got

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anything else about funnels? Not really? I mean classic event that they didn't
do. Justice still funnels, stillgood? Just bring back orange funnels.
I forget what that's my favorite eventlast year? I don't remember. Check
Reddit, check my history. Whywould we even jack red? Just check
the podcast that we get money forthat fine, check it myself. But

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with that, let's move on tobalancing. Balancing. It was just balancing
again, but coolest introduction of thecamera ever, these shots just going along
the side of the balancing beab itbeautiful. Eight K was amazing and yeah,
I loved it. Can we bringback camera? So I'm just a
gush about the camera work for achange. As long as you say cheese

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at the end, Oh never mind, then I'll do it. I loved
the camera. The only thing thatwas a little goofy about that camera was
it looks like it's done automatically,so like it just kind of goes to
the end no matter what, whichmakes it really weird when you have a
team do really, really bad.I can't remember which team it was,

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but like all their marbles off byabout halfway through, and the camera just
kind of kept going and recording nothing. That's all the tea marbles have fallen
off by that point, which wasa little funny, a little weird.
I'm not sure that's something they canfix in the future or what, but
I don't know. I saw itwas funny. I think it was teem
Plasma. It probably was. Theywould Yeah the furthest that one of that

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web was like sixty seven. Yeah, yeah, that's not great. Literators.
Gym is very stinked about this.We have a nailed bank from him
later that I've got to read.But well, Yo, they just found
out it's an on year, Iguess, you know, getting once to
the end h three and eighty fivecompared to t plaz was one sixty nine.

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Hey, pretty good. Sorry thatyou guys showed up late and found
out that it's on year for thisbecause almost barely making through the qualifiers and
not doing great for pretty much thewhole season. One gold and that's in
bouncing. Yeah, maybe they'll bringit back and maybe now that they've remembered
they just go, oh, ohwait, we actually need to be getting

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gold. Oh fuck it. Sothrough four of those out the next couple
of us. Yeah no. Butand that's one thing I did want to
bring up though, was the Rojorollers in this event. Yeah one shy
one roots jesus, oh mine,dude. It's because they're like used to
just being on the boat rocket isit the rollers for that right? Yeah

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exactly, so you know they knowhow to keep it steady, keep it
moving, and yeah, showed up, got silver. That's fucking awesome.
It just proves exactly, it's justprove of that back to their usual form,
because like, this ain't the twentytwenty one where her rollers we're seeing
now this is the twenty sixteen forher Rollers, and I am living for
it. I know we've brought upRoo Rollers first ever gold medalists in the

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Marble League through balancing. Did youalso know that the Mellow Yellow I don't
know why I said that Mellow YellowMellow Yellow were the silver medalists in that
event. Oh yes, the RooRollers beat them by thirty five points.
So this was definitely This is definitelycloser than that than the original revenge game,

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you know for Mello. Yeah,just beating them by one what difference?
It doesn't matter in this case.Not again, Mello was on top
them ro host to b Roland.Yes they do. But I was a
little disappointed as great cats Eye Ihave as my pick for the so did
a lot of people from what Iremember. Yeah, are we losing our

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balance here? We have Microsoft ServicesGEG broken by fans, White Eyes taking
the fall for it. I eforget what six six six? Yeah,
good showing, but yeah, I'mused to that being on the podium with
this and uh, it was unfortunateto see we're losing their touch. Yeah.

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And also to go back on theteam building, one of the shotting
sword got to the end. Therest of that did not get over forty
seven, so that Stirling was thatseven might have been Sterling. He's trying
to pull a solo act. Iwouldn't be surprised. The band's fallowing apart.

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Oh, come on, guys,get it together. Had a great
year last year, Sky missus acouple of episodes. Is the big team
building guy and all the sor I'mnot there. That's the next event.
That's the next event. I don'tknow, ten, I have no clue.

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Hang on, I'll check. Clearly, we're not doing our due diligence.
I hadn't remind him if it's ateam event, you got Sky,
We're just living in the moment,you know, they freaking Sterling's living in
the moment. He's trying to geteverybody gold. Just Sterling's living in the
moment. If he's in the nextevent, No mind, scratch that.
I misread that. How do Ijust read that? Jesus, all three

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of the next three team events,it's relay. Mazing wave guys, team
relay. We don't see ship allthe shouting, but would be disappointed in
them and the crazy cats. Eyesbetter make a triumphant return with Blue eyes
dope as had offs. Yeah,before we get onto that, though,

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she'd probably talk about the other thingthat Blue Eyes worth talking about, because
triathlon that was might have been myfavorite events so far. Yeah. It
was really good. Yeah, itwas great to watch. I'm so happy
that I was convinced by Dagger topick the fucking Thunderbolts for it. This
piece of shit. Why would youever pick the Thunderbolt I thought they needed

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to come up. You know,you got a roof for the underdogs sometimes.
But you know why two K isnot real. We've established this by
now. I thought I was itmust have been a fever dream. It
must have been you know, Iwasn't feeling great last week. Oh god,
the fever dreams are contagious. Now, I didn't love it, but

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that was so disappointing. And youknow, Rizzy gets to be the egregious
sponsor this year, so that's great. You do anything, No, yeah,
let me have this all right.Yeah, the Raspberry Races are getting
in the way of his prediction picksnow, yeah, it's always the Yeah,
Thunderbolts definitely would have gotten gold ifGrizzy wasn't such a persh Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, snorting the kopiumshock, was it not? It was
lightning lightning, Yeah, I wastrying to capture lightning a bot. It
didn't work out. Yeah. Thisevent's always been one of my favorites.
I think it was my favorite intwenty twenty and this this is the first

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event this season where I feel likeit was it was like, it was
really great. There was nothing weighingit down somehow, and agreed it wasn't
just a vanilla sprint, which didnothing wrong with sprint, but it's not
the same, you know. Soit was it was nice. It was
kind of unfortunate we get that nineevents in, but you know, better

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late than ever. And it's startin the second half. I'll take it.
Yeah, I think it's it definitelystarts the second half of the season
off strong. Yeah. I justhope they keep it up. But yeah,
like it was a really good event. It was also really nice to
see teams that either don't usually dowell or haven't had a chance to do
one in a long time, likeI mean obviously a Rangers finally getting medal,
which is things back to somewhat normalnormal for them, but also Stinger,

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like Stinger was fourth back in twentytwenty and finally competes again gets a
medal, like, that's quite abig deal for the Hornets. And then
yeah, and then Snowstorm finally takingsome of the weights off snow He's back.
That's very nice to see the bumbleHornets. Yeah. I really like

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how we didn't have just a vanillasprint because it kind of feels like a
teaser, you know, for ofthe honeytone. It kind of does.
Actually, yeah, yeah, alittle teaser trailer. What did Greig would
say at the begining of the videois like the design was after the bee
waggle, Yeah, which I thinkI don't know what that exactly that called

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the waggle. It was he's coldin the waggle before, he's cold at
both the bee dons and the waggle. I think he's done it both in
the same episode as well. Ithink that's like an actual thing too,
like the want to get like morepollen on him or something. Yeah,
the bees shaped the little bee butt. Yeah, ah, that's working.

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I did not need that. You'rewelcome. I was a little disappointed that
Rojo Trace wasn't in this. Sinkodid great, but why Trace was a
fucking disaster even without Blue Eyes help. I forgot who, but I saw
someone say that the RoHS were sendingin their most expendable member. Well,

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yeah, I'm sure. I'm sureTrace has fucking PTSD from that egregious pots
of Blue Eye. Yeah, he'sbad, but I don't know. Stinco
held his own with him and uhyeah, I was a big fan of
it. But Blue I proved thatthey don't need to be an egregious monster
because when they don't break the rules, they're actually quite good at this one
specific thing. Yeah, I mean, well, you didn't get a metal

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belt last place of their last run. You know how good is that?
It's not still better than three quartersin the third yep. Also, it
was very start to see go outlike they're that movement in the sand.
I think that run where they justdropped completely down and it was just like
they still almost got second. Butyeah, see of them just yeah fall

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flat. That was awesome and uhyeah, all momentum stopped and there's great
to see. Thank you Philosophy forsucking at this still getting fish asshole.
Yeah, I love the fact thatthe Savage Speeders are, you know,
giving other teams a chance to winthe championship for once Jesus. But it's

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one thing that's really frustrated me though, is my team sucks. What happened
to us? We were we lookedso good last year. We had four
gold medals last year and a silver, and now we're trash. It's all
been downhill since elimination race. Whatwere the gold I know it was a
swing wave climbing, No, itwas climbing swingwave. That was the first

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two blushing like a silver or something. The silver came in, the silver,
silver was in. Yeah, Ithink you're right. Yeah, yeah,
we got anything else about triathlon orany of these events. They're getting
better. I don't feel like therehave been that many highlights. Yeah that's

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the problem. Really we have.We had the sterling awesome thing, and
balancing and not balancing got in afunnels. That's like the only real highlight
I can think of, Like,yeah, balancing. We didn't have a
Marble League record fall or something,because that's the only real way you're going
to get a highlight. And thenthe pathlon We had a couple of cool
moments, but we didn't have likesome crazy pass in the water. Yeah,

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sublid event all round, but nothingamazing like say Foggy twenty twenty,
because like those moments are quite rareand we didn't get one this time.
Instead a good event, but nothingstood out. Yeah, a lot of
these events have been solid but notstand out. Yeah. I guess that's
kind of just made worse by theheat that they're coming so quickly. Yeah,
all right, So with that,let's get into a bit select fighting

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segment Marble sports podcasting history, andthat is overreactions. I guess we just
kind of over acted. Okay,I'm used to it. It's called caring
too much. It's in terrible justcalm down, rage, no noble,
this place to the ground if youpicked that one. So for event seven,
we had the hashtag I know it'sonly events seven of mL toy three,

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and we got one from human eightysix. Hell yeah, he said,
hashtag I know it's only event sevenof mL toy three. But that
giant m L side started going downaround the start of heat too, and
hit the bottom shortly after the Marblesreached the bottom of the heat. The
m L side outlast is the Marbles. The site is better than the competitors

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too. Hashtag teams giant mL signfor m L twenty four. Wow.
You know, it makes this evenfunnier when you remember that the picture on
the mL sign was a picture takenof the crazy Cat's eyes who did dog
shit event We got one from ripBiscuit, he said hashtag. I know

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it's only event seven of mL pointthree, but these graphical errors are actually
insane. Why the fuck does thisshow the Thunderbolts finishing at the top half
Get it together, JMA. No, there actually was a color I caught
in triathlon that was pretty bad.Oh yeah, you're talking about the Rangers

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or Rangers one where they won theirheat, but it said they were like
a second head of the second behindeverybody else. I think, so,
yeah, yeah, they they talkedabout that Reddit jmar actually posted it was
just like, yeah, they hadlike twenty four twisted. Yeah yeah,

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I mean at least it's an eventwhere that doesn't really make much difference.
Yeah, because we saw it happenwith Yeah, we saw what happen in
live and they weren't going to missthat. And the last one from event
seven is from Nanagon the Violet Eye. He said hashag, I know it's
only about seven of l plays threeRasie is better than a Ragers. Heck,

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yeah, I said it, goeat ship. But you know,
honestly, I remember saying that,but I had already forgotten what event it
was when I said it, orwhy because they well, I know that
that sounds like a very basic bitchtake. Yep, I'm still mad at

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it. I'm mad's disappointed. Shealso said he would not read it on
the podcast. Yeah, I toldyou I wasn't going to, but then
I did just say, fuck you, Nanagan, your stupid face. But
your camera's off. But we gotone. Uh so, Yeah, we
put out the ashtag for Event eight, the same thing as Event seven,

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except it's that eight. It's anYeah, it's an eight instead of seven
seven, eight nine. You knowthat's why six is afraid of seven.
Yes, stop making that joke now, it's the worst. God's got stuck
in my fucking head. But wegot one from Captain Dorby of the Golden

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Orbs. He said hashtag. Iknow it's only about eight twenty three.
Bus Team Plasma got last. TheOrbs would never. I'm still salty.
Yeahs absolutely would have got lost.You can't get last in the Marvel League.

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If you don't qualify for the MarbleLeague, they don't even get a
chance to qualify. Pip. That'sthe problem. He had a chance.
Man. You can't lose if you'rein the Marvel League. The food they're
getting from Orby's tavern. Man,Oh, it's too bad that their locations
keep burning down. When was thelast time the Golden Rlbs won anything?

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Oh right, twenty sixteen. Yeah, and they were fantastic then and they
would be fantastic now. But wegot one from what a Rangers gym said
hashtag. I know it was onlyabout eight Il twenty three. Bus No
one finishes last place two events ina row, right. Oh wait,

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I think if heck their roots foryou and you have plasted your day,
you were royally screwed. I thinkat this point, what a Rangers gym.
If Hector's rooting for your period,you're fucked. Boom. That's rough.
Yeah, Pivot turned around with teamteam though, you know rollers after

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what he said today, and that'sbeen overreactions. If I didn't read yours
wasn't good enough. Also, yeah, didn't put out hashtag for event nine,
so that's on me. But youknow, looked at event eight.
I was like, these guys needto do better. So I'm just gonna
give him a break and then eventten will be back. All right.
I would have blamed Jmr Term,but the way they've been pumping out these

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events that the fans haven't had enoughtime to come up with good overreactions.
I was just doing shit yesterday too, like no time on Twitter for me.
But yeah, so that's been ofreactions. Let's take a break.
We'll be back at the mail bagfantasy addictions and that's about it. Well,
maybe a little tomfoolery. We'll beback all right. And we are

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back, and we have one mailbag today and I'm going to read it
because it's directed at the postman againand it was not ready for this,
so it's a drop. It's ton. We got a couple of repeat mail
baggers. It's ton to open thelet it roll mail bag. Take a
look at this, Jesus Christ.That right there is the mail. Now

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let's talk about the mail. Canwe talk about the mail? Please?
Mac? Can we dine to talkabout the mail for you all day?
Okay? So we got one mailbag. It's from bood Oh Rangers,
which he seems to be the onlyperson who is writing your mail bags,
and he's also the toughest job onthe planet. But he said, don't
mistake that for bees buzzing, lotsof buzzing, and Hector's future between the

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tattoo drill and the hair clippers,you might want to get some beer plugs.
Heck, there, your future onlylooks noisy, my friend. The
bet stands at a Arrangers eighty oneand team loser fifty six or fifty eight.
Hector reminded me, what you agreedto here. What I agreed to

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was the tattoo, but I didnot agree to the hair clipping. That's
the hair clipping was throwing me.Yeah, So, as Hector's legal representative,
because he's not in the States,he has agreed to both bats and
that is not limited to just hairon the top of his head. It
includes facial hair, eyebrows, orthe record. After term agreed to that

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for me without consulting me, Idid fire him as my legal representative,
so he's no longer my legal representative. Contract still, you know, you
can't know avoid that because it's legalstuff now and you're welcome back there.
I never signed it in the States, so it still counts for you.

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I think that quite checks out.Yeah, anyway, ignoring the details of
the whole bet whatever, because it'snot going to matter because I'm still going
to win this. Those are awfullybold words from someone who is if I've
done the maths right, hang on, thank you? Sure, I do
the maths right. It's not amath podcast. You don't have to do
the math right. Yeah. Well, you're either less than a golden medal

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ahead of me, or you arebarely more than a gold medal ahead of
me. So consider we're only halfwaythrough the league right now. A little
bit more, I wouldn't be talkingshit yet, a little bit more than
half nine events in basically halfway havingevents to go, and those beautiful ocs
are gonna be gone, Hector,sorry about it. Yeah, in your

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dreams, but that's it for mailbags. And uh yeah, I can't wait
to see Hector Nolan void of allhair on his head. It's gonna be
fantastic. So let's move over tofantasy. Who's doing fantasy? Raise your
hand with the transfer for Music Citybullwinner Jesus Sitter's Bull participant Indian Appleis Colts

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halftime show performer Great side, HalfMad, half Marathon Runner, Mister Vacation,
my best friend Man and May Classesand the Astro. Didja what we
got for Fantasy Sky It gets longerwhen I don't show up all right,
but getting into Fantasy At the bottomof the lineup in sixth place, just

(33:07):
like the beat. At the bottomof the board, we've got Hector,
team of Team Plasma Shining Store Midnightwith Raspberry Racers, three hundred and ninety
points for you, Hector. Honestly, if it wouldn't be for Team Plasma,
this team doesn't look all that badon paper, but you pay is
double points, right, yeah?Or double points? Yeah? They were

(33:30):
doing so well at the stuff andnow they're not. They were so good
at qualifiers or fantastic. I'm disappointed, but it's not over yet. You're
right, it's not. But youknow you got a long way to go,
Hector, A long way to go. Yeah, that's just seventeen points,
but thankfully not too far to catchup to fifth place, because just
seventeen points above you. In fifthplace, we have Pippin with the Team

(33:54):
Snowballs, Raspberry Racers, Team Momo, Team Plasma four and seven for you,
Pippin I'm also realizing I never actuallyfigured out what your most valuable marble
is as a tiebreaker. I don'tremember. I was looking through the thing
I had a little like I waslooking at the total points. I have

(34:14):
an awkward pause because I'm looking tothe box next to it, where I
have all the most valuable marbles listed, and I have Momo question mark.
I think I said Mobo, yousaid Momo, but I don't think people
actually told me. Actually, PippiBay said it on the podcast, wouldn't
she had that cold question mark gotit? Yay. Somehow I have the

(34:39):
most awful picks, yet I'm stilldoing better than Hector. Hey. Hey,
the big difference is you put TeamPlasma not in the double points,
which is a really true. ButI also have to Mobo. You sure
do, but you most have thegray Racers at one point five and the
Snowballs are surprisingly not trash in doublepoints. All kind of evens out there.

(35:00):
You've been great lately, You've beenreally good lately. Don't talk shit
though, Snowstorm and all them.I mean, their team events suck and
we have three team events in therow coming zones. Anyways, maybe a'll
turn it around Winter is coming,don't forget anyways, just six points ahead

(35:22):
of Pippin, who also shows abad team for their two point multiplayer.
It's me. It's mister Team Galacticwith Team Galactic because they're double points,
Crazy cat size gliding Glaciers and MellowYellow four than thirteen points for me,
still waiting for Mela Yellow to rememberit's an on your crazy cat size doing
you know, not their thing andbalancing and sucking and funnels really really not

(35:45):
helping me. But we're surviving.We're doing all right. Some third Broyeah
could be west Yeah, well theycould be doing better, not a gone.
Also on top of that, likeya hectors at six pippots of fifth
Sky, don't yeah after lying farjust to slide out one under the ruck.

(36:10):
Wouldn't let me get away with that, would you turn? Nope,
No evident you got away with that. No what for trying to trying to
keep it contained? AnyWho? Inthird play the drop, don't worry about
it. In the plays with theteam of Rangers, Raspberry, Hyss,

(36:31):
Mello Yellow and t Momo four hundredand points, we have term doing a
you know, I'd say pretty goodall things considered, Arrangers you know,
having made of an off year,but overall is still pretty good in my
opinion. Just literally living in seventhof eighth place. I hate it,
but uh yeah, we'll get there. Is it an off year if this

(36:53):
is what they've been doing for thelast three Marble leagues? Though? Who
the Rangers off? I said iteat ships guy, Yeah, it's an
it's an off three years. Actually, it's just a phase better. And

(37:17):
then we won Marvel one last year. Jesus. Yeah, yeah, No,
one need several points ahead of term. I'm not going to do the
math. It's at least forty.We have Decker in second place with a
team of Snowballs, Arrangers, RojoRollers and Savage Spears. I can't believe

(37:38):
this team is as good as youknow it actually is. When he when
Decker drafted the Snowballs first overall,I was like, oh my god,
he's gonna get sixed again. Butthe snow Bars don't look like such a
bad pick from the old Canadian overhere anymore, do they. I still

(38:00):
like it. Oh you guys areoser, so I've been second. This
is, but you're not in thirstfirst because still in first place, we
have the great Sphinx, not agone, a team of Crazy Cat size team
Plasma somehow because of the other Imean about teams. They have fifty eight

(38:23):
points and he is winning. Iknow what to do for fantasy now.
It's if Hector says anything remarkably likeaffectionate about a team, don't fucking think
none. No, no, goneno, god no god no gone hell?

(38:50):
Yeah. All right, now let'smove on fantasy real quick. Also,
thank you very much for taking overfantasy. It was way too hard
to do it. I know Ihave to go move some pianos, so
I have to actually bow out now, No, can you like hold on
for just a little longer. Ihave a very important question to ask you
relate Okay fantasy, Sure, sure, sure, okay. I'll try to

(39:12):
move through it a little bit quicklyso I can get to your question.
Uh this is my my question.Sorry. Uh. Now moving on to
the fan fantasy standings. In fifthplace, we have Shadow Hacks with a
team of Rangers, Savage Speeders,Crazy Catsys Rojo Rollers five hundred and thirteen
points. Ie, that is congratulationscool. Now here's the question. In
fourth place, we have Violet withthe team of Crazy Savage, Crazy Cats

(39:37):
Eyes, Raspberry Racers team Plasmal SavageSpeeders, which is the exact same team
as not against team except a flippedteam Plasma Savage. Yeah, that's not
me, that's not you. That'snot me. No, that's that's that.
I'm assuming that's pesky because that's whattheir name. Yeah, a little
too suspicious, especially in the earlystages. But your exact team, and

(39:59):
you were right next to them inthe standings. Yeah, well it's not
me. What can I say?Man, play the Xyles music. It
might be down a god all rightnow, I gotta get the fuck out
here, see you later. Imay be back. I may be back

(40:21):
later for predictions, but I mightsound a little bit British. Who knows.
But the eight Violet has five hundredand fifteen points and is doing better
than not a Gun because they havebetter taste in their team. Plasma belongs
in their fantasy roster. Now inthird place, we have FB three Network
with the team of Rangers, SavageSpeeders, Crazy Cat's Eyes Raspberry Racers.

(40:44):
Extremely safe picks, but it's bangingoff five hundred and twenty five points for
FB three Network. So many points. It's a lot of points and a
lot of points. In second placewith the team of Rangers, Raspberry Racers,
Savage Speeders, and Bees, wehave Emperor a Postos A p A

(41:06):
p O s t O s A. Posts wrote that five and thirty one
points for them. Also funny thingI kend of noticed. Despite them winning
the Marvel League right now, nobodyon this podcast picked the bubble Bees anywhere
on their guest Wow, no onewas shocked about it. They're never good.

(41:29):
This is out of character, Imean, but they're like better than
the Thunderbolts, probably a meme pick. I don't think anybody picked the Thunderbolts
either, so maybe that's not agood example. But people picked the Rojo
Rollers over the bumble Bees. Well, the Bees aren't good enough to be
a solid pick, but they're notbad enough to be a funny pick exactly.

(41:51):
So it's the funniness. It's thefunniness that plays all I see.
Yeah. Anyways, In first placewith the team of crazy cat size Raspberry
Razors, Savage Speaters, and Midnightwas five hundred and forty points. Jesus,
we have Pingo Boy, Bingo Boy, Yes, poo, this dude

(42:13):
has been fucking nailing it. He'sbeen the first place for I think basically
the last two weeks. It wasin the top five in the first week.
So this dude's absolutely nailing it.Cannot wait to send him merch.
I have been saying this on theshow, and yeah, shout out to
Bingo boy. Good work. That'sall we got for fantasy cool. Thank

(42:36):
you Skuy. And now let's setit over to Hector for a predictions update
and then we'll make our predictions itsouthactor what oh yeah, it's predictions with
the Postman all right. After lastweek where I just definitely had a good
reason not to have given a predictionsupdate, we're finally back and two weeks

(42:59):
to catch up on his without furtherado podcast standings in sixth place with fifty
nine points no wins. Deca isreally paying for having missed out on three
events. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I forgot that he did not predict.
He's a busy guy. Yeah,he's a busy guy, but sadly

(43:20):
he is paying for it. Heis in sixth place right now in the
podcast standings, and in twenty sixthplace out of forty overall for the fans
standings. That's right in actually notthat place for missing three events. Now
true, missing three events, thatis not that bad. In fifth place

(43:40):
with seventy points no wins, whodo you expect? It's Sky, Yeah,
round of predictions and one of thesedays they need to lock in and
actually get a win. But Ihaven't done that yet. That's why I'm
here. Yeah, I think youneed to do some of the part to

(44:05):
like really push it to get thosegood predictions going. Yeah. Yeah,
Sky has seventy points and you arein twenty third place in the fan standings,
in fourth place, which nobody wants. Sadly someone has to take it,
and that somebody is me, ofcourse. Eighty points one win.
Not been doing great, but notbeen doing completely awful. I'll take it

(44:28):
all right, all right, inthird place complete contrasted Eca because having missed
the first three events, but stillbeing in third place in the podcast standings
eighty seven points, one win.It is, Pippin. I have no
idea how I am managing this,but I love it. I don't know
how you're doing it either, butyou are exactly whatever it is I'm doing.

(44:53):
Yeah, it's working, clearly.You're in seventeenth place. Overall,
I'm in eighteenth by the way,and we've been doing that. Yeah,
Pippin is the highest ranked person whois missing any events. Wow, god
damn. Yeah, there's people belowyou who've missed one. There's people below
you've missed none. Yeah, youare doing uncharacteristically well. Well done in

(45:19):
second place with one hundred and threepoints one win. We have term Oh
yeah that title. Thunderbolts are nothelping me out there, they really are
not. That is the only badpick of the entire season. And yeah,
if I even think about real,hy two K isn't real. We've

(45:45):
been telling you and Deck of thisfor a year now. No, but
it felt real. It's real.Well it wasn't. But despite the Thunderbolts
letting you down, you are stillin the top ten in the fan standings.
You're in ninth overall. Oh yeah, look at Marble Best Championship title
holder. Well, someone's gunning foryou there, and that someone is still

(46:09):
winning both fantasy and predictions after muchdebate, with one hundred and ten points
two correct winner picks, which isthe most anyone's got. And yeah,
just a damn good performance. Sixthplace overall in the fan standings is not
a gun. God damn it.I don't probably want a chant now because

(46:30):
it's not even here. Yeah,but yes, that is the podcast standing
recovery. I've done what seven points? Remember, uh yeah, seven points
not far behind, but yes,that is all we've got for the podcast
standing. So onto the top fivefor the fan standings. In fifth place

(46:52):
with one hundred and twelve points andtwo correct wins, it is Rip Biscuit
Rip Biscuit in fourth place with onehundred and fifteen points one win, but
quite a lot of second places.We have Donovan Drayton and Dragon hell yeah,
keep it up. Yeah. Inthird place with one hundred and thirty
points one win despite getting no pointsin the first event, we have Mia

(47:15):
one two, three, four,four five Hell yeah, ba I was
like seeing beaup there she's she's oneof the rare that like picked on reddit.
So yeah too. Yeah. Insecond place just one point out a
mere with one hundred and thirty onepoints, two correct wins, we have

(47:36):
craziest catsai. Oh it's got twopity day for me to even comment.
Yeah, but White Eye and theMicrosoft Service though, yeah yeah. And
finally in first place by quite awide margin with one hundred and forty five
points, fourteen ahead of Craziest Katsai. Still only two wins though we have

(48:00):
Tumult Wow. Guys been watching filmssince you doing shit? Oh? Yeah
yeah. For the record, Tumulthas only one pick in the nine that
hasn't been a top five Marble Wow, which is insanely impressive. Well done,
shout out, yeah, keep thisup and you might be in for

(48:24):
a title. But that is all. We have four predictions apart from making
our own. So let's get onwith that, shall we. Alrighty yep,
starting things off. The events wehave are Event ten is the five
meter relay, Event eleven is theMaze, and Event twelve is the Wave.

(48:45):
So let's start. Do we havepicks from Decca? Oh we don't.
We don't. That is tragic.Hopefully it doesn't miss anymore in that
case, Next on the list,Sky, who have you got well for
the relay? I think it's timewe finally get our first win of the
season. We gotta go Savage Speedershere. It's they won it like almost

(49:08):
every year. I don't think thatthey don't look like they're slowing down,
so I think they're probably gonna winit again. You're probably right, but
I hope you're not. Well that'sa shame, Hector, because I really
hope I'm right. Yeah, yeah, bastard. Yeah all right. And
the next one is maze, hesaid, yep, maze. The first

(49:34):
thing that came to my head wasthe snowballs, And as much as that
just seems wrong to me, Ithink I'm gonna have to go with it.
Give me the snowballs on the onthe on the maze. Oh interesting,
I don't think we've seen them inthe maze before, so that would
be a weird one to see playout. And finally, who have you
got full swing wave? Oh mygosh, I remember who did well in

(49:58):
this and qualifiers and if that evenmatters, probably not. Probably not.
That is what I'm going to gowith, So, you know, give
me give me a glide Englaciers thinkthey're gonna put on the glide on Joel
and they're just gonna be going rightover those things and stop at night.
Do what that one pinky did andjust stand in between them. Yeah,

(50:22):
all right, thank you very much, Sky for your picks. And next
on the list is me and somethingis off relay. I would pick the
green Ducks as the only team thatI've ever beaten the Speeders, but sadly
they're not available, so I amgoing to go with the Rospberry Racers because
they're usually quite good. Nice.Next up the Mays. I haven't seen

(50:44):
this since twenty nineteen. I'm goingto go back to a team that medaled.
Then I want the Pinkies, allright, you need to come up?
Yep they do. And finally forSwingwave. As much as I want
to pick Team Plasma because they've alwaysbeen quite good at this, I don't
want to jinx them, so I'mnot going to pick them. Instead,
I am going to go with theSavage Speeders because why not. I have

(51:07):
no idea if that's going to workout at this point. I'm just picking
randomly because I don't know who elseto go for. That's what I do,
and it works for me. Allright. Hey, if I'm a
jinx, then it's drinking the SavageSpeeders, which is always nice. I
don't need to it's me. Yeah, that's fair, all right. Next

(51:30):
on the list, we have Pippins, So who have you got? All
right? So for the relay,I'm getting the band back together. Shining
Swarm you know, goes on thebacks of all the others for the maze

(51:53):
buzz buzz babies, bumble beet himall right, and no the maze they
know the course they have like pheromonesship. Yeah, alright, and then
the way for a wave. Sinceyou didn't drinx them, I'm picking Team
Plasma. Okay, thank you forgiving Team Plasma a good score because your

(52:15):
predictions are a lot better than mine. All right, all right, next
up we have term all right,so relay, well we do it here
blue. Why is the best handoffs? We're going with crazy cat size alright,
maze for some reason, I likethe Midnight West I don't know what

(52:36):
interesting Yeah, and they're like aseventh place so they could use something.
Yeah, little bump and swig wave. Hi am going to drinks the funk
out Team Plasma. Here we go. So taking Team Plasma for the last
one, Yes, sir, Imean they look good. They look good

(52:57):
whenever they've done swigwaves. So it'sjust why why'd you pick them? Yeah?
They're bad now because don't pick them, guys. Let me say that.
And finally we have none Agun's picks. Oh and non Gun is back.
Oh, hello, I did warnyou would be sounding a little more

(53:20):
bit more British when I came back. Interesting. All right, so let's
start things off. My pick forthe relay, We're going for the Speeders
because even though I hate it,I have to pick them. I agree.
Yeah, for Amaze, I'm goingto go with the Raspberry Races.
And for the Swing Wave, Iwant them to beat the Arrangers. So

(53:40):
team Plasma, no way, there'sthree people Plaza for this. There's as
shocked as you are by that.We are fully it on the Jinks here.
The Jinx is them, then we'vegot a problem if the other two.
I'm just wondering two people who aregood at predictions outdo terms Jinks.

(54:04):
I don't know. I'm in secondplace, so I'm pretty good predictions.
I'm also as a Marvel Master titleholder, so ship. But we got
a hashtag four predictions for everybody tomake their predictions. Maybe an episode don't
have one yet, we need tocome up with one. Oh, it's
Sprainstorm and time. Hashtag Sterling solotoo good idea, Yeah, I like

(54:29):
that one. Yeah, hashtag SterlingSolo tool. Hashag Sterling Solo Tour is
going to be the hashtag, sothat is spelled hashtag s t E R
l I n G s O lO t O. You are Sterling Solo

(54:50):
Tour to make your predictions for thenext three events, which are all team
events. So yeah, you wantto prove us all can pick Sterling and
the Shyke swarp and do that,but hey, we're going solo with hashtag
Sterling Solo Tour. Please remandant toactually use the hashtag for predictions because otherwise

(55:10):
I won't see them and won't getthem on the list. So Twitter works,
So Hector, as a member ofthe Project Marvel editorial board, do
we know what Marty plays which instrument? Not? Off the top of my
head. I will get back toyou on that, because, like I
gotta know, is Sterling the Isit like a solo tour singer kind of

(55:35):
deal or is it like solo drummer? He plays? Also solo drummer was
Phil Collins Relax Buddy plays true allthe time. So on the editorial board
and we've just never mentioned it,Well, do you know guitars, keys,

(55:58):
singer, drummer? We will findout, No idea. Stay tuned
on Twitter, folks. I thinkthey're just gonna make it up, but
that's the episode. Use hashtag's Sterlingsolo tour to make your predictions. Put
a nice bass guitar ebo g rightafter that as well, and untill next

(56:19):
time. Literal Literal man. Howwild was this Tom guy to have an

(56:44):
entire genre fooler renamed after him.You're looking at him

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