Daggermouth by H. M. Wolfe: We Are Not Okay

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There we go.
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Okay, we're rolling.
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We're live.
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We're rolling, we're live, we're live, we're live.
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Let me take a chug rolling.
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So I can edit it out in post.
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Okay.
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I gotta get my notes.
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I was gonna say you you have notes.
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I'm free balling.
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Free balling?
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I took very I have plenty of like highlights and stuff though to talk about.
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Like I I tried to like if I was just throwing a random fucking like what's it?
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Let me take this out of my case so it doesn't make noise or we're because that'll just get picked up.
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Off you go.
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Okay.
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Alright.
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You got your notes.
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I do, guys.
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I have a lot of fucking notes.
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You do!
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I'm excited.
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This is a lot to talk about.
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I feel like this is gonna be a long episode.
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It's so good.
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It's such a dope book.
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I love it so much.
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Alright, you ready?
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Yes.
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Welcome back to episode six of Spill the Spine Pod.
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I'm Morgan.
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And I'm Brie.
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And we're back.
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We have cr we have new microphones.
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We do.
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They're very neat.
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Hopefully we sound we sound good.
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Hopefully we don't sound ridiculous.
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Or loud.
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Or right, or super loud.
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I think our pr I guess he's our producer.
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Our tech guy, our producer, Daniel, will take care of uh take care of the sound for us.
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Speaking of, by this comes out, by the time this comes out, happy birthday, Daniel.
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Happy birthday, Daniel.
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We're recording the day before his birthday.
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Yes.
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We're having, I guess we're having a dinner party I didn't know about.
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Bree was like, Bree was like, come over, do you want to stay for dinner?
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We're gonna record, and I was like, yeah, let's that sounds great.
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And then I get here and she's like, surprise, we're having a dinner party.
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And I was like, oh, okay, cool.
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Everybody's here.
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I'm glad I put on real clothes today.
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Mike came dressed after the t after the tanning salon.
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Mommy.
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Shorts and t-shirt.
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Hey, nothing wrong with some shorts and t-shirt.
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It is disgusting.
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Do you like it?
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I got it in the ash boom.
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I do on your trip over last weekend.
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Yes.
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The step mushrooms on it.
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Very nice when you left me alone for two days at work.
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And asked me.
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I'm about to fucking by the time this one.
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I was about to say by the time this episode comes out, I will be on a boat.
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You'll be gone for a week and a day, so I hope.
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I will.
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I will be gone.
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So weird.
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That's coming up very fast.
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Coming up very soon.
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So bullshit.
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Today's episode is Daggermouth by H.M.
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Wolf.
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We'll get into that in just a second.
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But I wanted to tell you, I'm having FOMO this weekend.
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Why?
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From Coachella.
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I'm calling it Biebercella.
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I saw that.
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Oh my gosh.
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I I had so much fun this morning getting up and me, because I wasn't going to stay up till 2 a.m.
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Like what our time to watch it.
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Watch it live.
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No.
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That's not happening.
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Uh love you beebes and all wanted to see you for the nostalgia, but I'm not staying up till two in the morning to do it.
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Commend everybody else who did.
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But I was like, I going to festivals like that gives gives me such anxiety.
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I hate it.
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And I wanted to I want to be there in the I think it'd be very fun.
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I've been seeing a lot of Coachella things on my TikTok.
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Like all the outfits are so cool, the makeup's been cool.
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But you got me fucked up.
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You guys are wearing long pants, trousers, whatever the fuck you want to call them.
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It does get cold at night, I hear, like in the desert.
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Like it gets really cold.
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But when you're sweating, I've seen people's camp setups, which is really neat.
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I've seen a lot of really cool things, but like also I'm like, I can't.
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I couldn't do it.
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But I wanted to I wanted to see Sabrina.
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I somebody's I've seen a lot of comments, people being like, well, her set was boring, and I'm like, then it's not for you.
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It's not.
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This is what happens when a theater kid gets a budget, and she used it to the maximum ability she could use it.
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And it was so every clip I've seen, every video I've seen, it's so good.
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I haven't seen any of hers.
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I saw it.
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Oh my gosh, I'll show you.
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It's so good.
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Justin's I got I saw comments this morning being like, that's especially on like other social media, everybody's like, that's lazy.
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Did you hear what he did?
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He brought his laptop out.
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He did.
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The reason he did that is because he doesn't own his masters.
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This is a very like Taylor Swift-esque scenario where he doesn't own those songs anymore.
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He doesn't own, he can't make profit off of them anymore.
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He doesn't write, he doesn't get any royalties off of those anymore.
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So I'm sure to a certain extent, he's not legally to some degree allowed to.
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So this was his workaround.
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And I thought it was cool.
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Yeah, TRL told him.
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I thought it was kind of cute.
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Like he got on stage and he's like, I played you swag, and I played you some of swag too, which not my favorite albums by any means.
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Um, and then he's like, for the nostalgia bit of it, how far do y'all go back?
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Like it's kind of like you're just hanging with the homie on stage.
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Like it's very intimate.
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I thought that was so cool.
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So for all of you who are saying this is lazy, why do you guys allow this?
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Because this is his workaround.
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He doesn't own those songs anymore, okay?
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I'm not gonna defend a lot of what he does in life, but this is where I will st I will stand my ground and say for people who don't own their masters, there's really not legally a lot that you can do.
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Yeah.
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Like that's why Taylor's version, like, sure it sounds similar, but those aren't the same songs.
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She she didn't own them.
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She couldn't do much with them.
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Like she had to do what she had to do to say, this is me re-releasing it in my own in my own right, but he, you know, he's probably of the same mindset.
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Like, I don't own these.
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Yeah.
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So but I thought it was cool.
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I do.
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I thought I think that's so cute.
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Like, it just felt very like personable.
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Yeah.
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And his wife was in the crowd, having a good old time.
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That fucking witch.
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Hey now, I love her.
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I love her brand.
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Road is one of my favorite brands.
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You know this.
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I own like half of those lip treatments.
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I went down the rabbit hole of their relationship.
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That's a big rabbit hole to go down.
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That was.
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And there was like a 10-part series on TikTok.
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Did you watch the whole thing?
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The whole thing.
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You know what?
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Good for you.
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I I I don't think I've know like the ins and outs.
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Oh, it's a crazy fucking story.
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Oh, I'm sure.
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They I knew they knew each other like when they were young, like their family is kind of mingled or whatever I think is.
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I think she's I want to say like 13 is the first time she met him.
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And like her dad orchestrated it all.
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Yes, of course.
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Of course.
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And it's just been a big ass shitshow since then.
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Because at that point he was with Selena.
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Yes.
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The Selena of it all really is what gets me.
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Oh my god.
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That's you want to talk rabbit holes.
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The Selena rabbit holes worse.
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I love I love the conspiracy part of the I love myths.
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I just love no.
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This is a crazy conspiracy.
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That they actually got pregnant.
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Him, Justin, and Selena were forced to give it up to adoption for adoption.
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Wait, it gets better.
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It's one of the Kardashian's kids.
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Penelope, I think.
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Penelope! You're telling me that Penelope Dissick, who does unfortunately, I'm pretty sure, look like her father.
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It's one of them.
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I don't know if it's Penelope or the one underneath.
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Rain?
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Is it Rain?
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No.
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I still can't remember.
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Is Rain one of Tim's?
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I feel like Rain might be one of Tim's kids.
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Actually, no.
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I feel like it's I feel like Rain is actually her middle name.
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Penelope Rain Dissick, I think is I could be wrong.
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I'd have to I'd have to go down the Kardashian rabbit hole, and I don't think I'm ready to do that today either.
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That's a whole nother story.
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It's all a shit show.
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That's crazy.
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I didn't I've I feel like I've seen that conspiracy theory, but I think I just kind of scrolled.
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I was like, I'm not gonna.
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Oh, I listened to it.
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I was like, I'm not gonna watch that.
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But you'll have to send me that 10-part series because I'm not gonna deploy.
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I kind of want to watch it.
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But yeah, the the comments about Sabrina's set being bored, like boring really got me.
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Because I was like, you you don't know Ball.
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You don't know.
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That's exactly it.
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You don't know Ball.
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I had the best time looking at her set.
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I was like, what a great set.
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She had like a convertible that she drove in, and she had like Susan Sarandon like do a whole little piece and like all kinds of really neat like cameos and stuff.
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She builds a story throughout her set, which I think is so cool.
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But she had this convertible and dearing tears, you know that song that we love that.
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I first I wasn't at first I wasn't in on that song, and now I'm like, you know what?
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It's pretty good.
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But at the part before the dance break, she lifts the seat lifts out of the convertible, and a fountain stars going and it's so good.
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I was like, what a what a production thought to have.
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Like I will just show me that.
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I will.
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The seat of my convertible, come on, explaining that to somebody, and they're like, yeah, it's a good one.
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Explaining it to somebody who knows who knows nothing about the context of the song.
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Like it was just so funny.
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I was like, her mind is a great place to be.
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And she opened with house tour, which was cool.
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I don't really know.
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I feel like you that one's that one's the one.
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Um I repost that song probably every week some to some TikTok, the My House is on Pretty Girl Avenue.
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Oh, yeah.
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That one's my favorite.
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I do love that song.
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But yeah, I'm having I'm having a little bit of FOMO.
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Just a little bit.
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Just a little bit.
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Did you see where Teddy Swims brought out Vanessa Carlton?
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And Joe Jonas.
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Diddy, and yeah, they said they sang I saw the Vanessa Carleton one, and then they did um, he brought out Joe to do When You Look Me in the Eyes, and he was like, Oh, it's Joe Jonas, the sexiest Jonas brother.
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And I was like, correct.
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You're correct.
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Yes.
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Because I wasn't a Joe girl until I got older, and I was like, I see.
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I see what you've all been talking about.
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No.
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No, Kevin's the oldest.
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Okay.
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Joe's the middle.
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What's in a technicality?
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I mean, because Frankie is the youngest, like technically Joe and Nick are somewhere in the middle.
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But it's Kevin, Joe, Nick, and then Frankie.
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Right?
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Right.
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Yes.
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Like second guessing myself now.
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I'm like second guessing my mind.
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I could not remember the third, but yes, it is Nick.
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Yes, Joseph and the Nicholas.
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And then my friend Frankie, who's coming to town soon, actually.
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Is he a performer?
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He's yes! He has he has a band.
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They all, you know, he he said, I like I want to do music, but I'm not gonna do it with you guys.
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Not with you in your purity range.
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That's so funny.
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I love that they make fun of that now, too.
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They're like, uh, that was a different time.
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Ugh.
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Different time.
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But and it's Euphoria Sunday.
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I've never watched that show.
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Really?
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It's um I mean it's about drugs, that's for sure.
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Yeah, I know the basic concept, but never.
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I think season two was fun to watch just because it was a clo I mean, it was just like a downward slope, like a spiral.
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You've got Zendaya's character spiraling, everybody else is spiraling.
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Jake Valorty's character is just doing something different.
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Eric Dane's characters spiraling.
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I will say I wasn't originally gonna watch like much of the third season because I was just kind of it took too long.
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I'm kind of out on the whole storyline they're going with anyways.
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And then Eric Dane passed away and I was like, well, this is one of his last one of his last go-arounds, like, for the series.
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So I was like, and for Jacob Alordi.
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I was like, I'll watch it for Zendaya.
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Everybody else, so especially if you're Sydney Sweeney, I'm not a fan.
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Yeah, you and your stupid genes.
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Get out of here.
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Get out of here.
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She's doing like this, it's set in the future, like so they've left high school.
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Okay.
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Rue is Zendaya's character, I I is dealing drugs question mark.
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On the run?
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I don't know.
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I'll find out when I watch the first episode.
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I'm really confused.
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Is the first episode dropping tonight?
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Yes.
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Oh, okay.
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Yes, I think it comes out at like nine or so on HBO Max.
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So we'll see.
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I'll have to watch and report back to you and tell you tell you what I think.
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But it's it's weird.
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It's gotten very weird.
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Because she does Sidney's character does OnlyFans now.
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But she's marrying Jacob Lordy's character.
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It's gonna be weird.
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It's just gonna be what it is, I guess.
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I heard it dr uh Rotten Tomatoes gave it like 57%.
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So I'm I'm not hopeful, actually.
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No.
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That it's any good.
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Which kind of sucks because you waited this long to give us a season.
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It's been let me look it up, but it's been was I wanna say it was like a little after before COVID, after COVID?
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Oh.
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It's been a long time.
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So season two premiered, okay.
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So season two premiered January 9th of 2022 and concluded towards the end of February.
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And 2020.
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You waited three years.
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Yeah, it's been a long time.
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It's been a long time, and then we're all like, it's coming, it's coming, we promised.
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And we're like, we don't have high elaborates, don't, don't do it.
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So we'll see.
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But you know what is good that we can vouch for?
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Daggermouth.
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Daggermouth by HM Wolf.
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Let's get into it, because we I feel like this is gonna be a long one.
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This is not going to be spoiler-free.
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Oh, absolutely not.
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Absolutely not.
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If you want to read this book, which I think you should, um don't listen to this episode until afterward.
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I don't want to spoil anything because the plot twists, I could not- I had no idea these were coming.
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No, not at all.
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Her mind, like, I was like, I'm reading it and I'm going.
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I think I know where this is going.
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I think everything's gonna be kosher for a minute, and then everything goes.
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And I told you this, everything went left so fast.
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I couldn't keep up.
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Like, I had to reread the ending, like the last one.
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I reread it at least twice.
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I was like, what do you mean?
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What do you mean?
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And like I was texting Morning as I was finishing the book because she I wasn't ready to freak out with.
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So it's been it's been a week since I read it.
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I, at the point that I last Monday when I after I had finished it, and I was sitting there, I was like looking at my goodreads, going, somebody surely has read this so I can like have conversations.
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And only two of my friends at this point had finished it.
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Yeah.
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So I kind of texted them and I was like, hey, like, I finished this book too.
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And we had very brief conversations about it, but I was like, I need somebody that I can like deep dive into this.
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Um, and I same day I started it, I started it this time last weekend.
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So about like three, four o'clock, I was like, well, let me just get into it.
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Let me like see what it's about.
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And I immediately was hooked.
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Yes.
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You were touched.
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I was immediately hooked.
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It's it's just one of those like true dystopian.
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Yes.
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There's there's romance and there's Yeah, but it's not like the forefront of it.
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No.
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Which I like which I liked a lot because it was very much like, yeah, these people are falling in love, or these people are you know Daisy Daisies.
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Uh-oh.
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Uh-oh.
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My green light was on, sorry.
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Uh-oh.
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Hopefully.
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Hopefully you're not blown out and both of our fucking mice.
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I'd hope not.
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Should be fine.
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If not, Post can figure it out.
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Post can figure it out.
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But very much so, like, dystopian.
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Like true rebellion.
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Like it it brought me back to my like these books as kids, like the Hunger Game series, Divergent series, like these were my bread and butter as kids.
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I have my first note.
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It says from the beginning, it's giving Hunter James and Quitsilver vibes, which is it's also um is Quicksilver technically dystopian?
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Is that kind of the the beginning of it is like her like where she is living is very much like it's kind of very similar.
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Okay.
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Yeah, and then uh also the bride not the bride of brutal hearts, um the trial of the The Sun Queen is that yes, that is also very dystopian.
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Yes, no, but it's also like they have the the slums boundaries, like right, very much wealth disparity trying to keep the lower class back to where they belong.
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It very much like Hunger Games for sure gave me very much like they live in the she lives in the crappiest like area.
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They're all separated from the capital.
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She lives in the boundary.
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In the boundary, which is the furthest range, I'm assuming from heart.
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Yes.
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And then you have Cardinal.
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Yes, Cardinal, which Pharaoh is the leader of Cardinal.
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Yes.
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She um and Cardinal is very much like the farmers, the they're the closest to the closest to the heart because they're not the tr better treatment, not quote unquote.
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Yeah, quote unquote, better treatment.
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Um, but they're used as free labor.
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Right.
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In within the heart, they have labor camps and things like that for them because they grow the food and and work for the heart.
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The heart is essentially like the elites, the rich people, those who follow the rules and believe in whatever they make the rules, they only make the rules, that's right, you're right.
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Well, they make whatever rule Maximus tells them.
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We'll get into him in a little bit for sure.
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But bringing it back to all of these elites are all masked.
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Yes.
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Everybody else in the different rings don't.
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They don't adhere to the mask.
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No.
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Um yeah, I I fucking hate the masks.
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The masks an interesting concept.
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It is, but it's also like it's so easy to treat people like shit because you are hiding behind these masks.
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Yes, and I kind of liked the separation that she created with that because it's very much an us versus them.
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Absolutely.
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But it's interesting too when it comes to like the parallels in the different rings, is they're all doing their own thing to like aid the quote unquote rebellion.
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And none of them are working together.
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No, we don't get that until the very end.
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No, none of them are working together.
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You've got different sides, and even Grayson is the e he's the executioner.
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Grayson is our main male protagonist.
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And he has to essentially, if his dad says, yeah, this one's out for treason, for And they are the stupidest things.
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It is really the first killing we get is because they're from the boundary and Cardinal fell in love, and that is.
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Which is prohibited.
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Prohibited, right?
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Which is a death sentence.
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And that's crazy.
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He's and but you see like his inner monologue, he's like, well, his hesitation, that was it.
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Yep.
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He hesitates.
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He's he's kind of going back on like what his father is saying is word.
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Yeah.
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Like what his father is deeming right or law.
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Grayson is very much like struggling, he's at war with himself, going, This is my family, this is our legacy, but I don't want to be this person.
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It's not right.
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It's not right, they just loved each other.
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He shoots the man and he turns around to shoot her, and he hesitates.
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Yes.
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Because she's essentially begging for her life, and you know, anybody would in that situation.
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So he is hesitating, and it's all live streamed, which I think is crazy.
00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:28.319
Like everybody, including the rings, is it everybody in the rings can see I think so.
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It's like I think it's broadcasted like world worldwide, essentially, within their world, everybody can see it.
00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:44.079
And then you have Grayson hesitating on live stream, and his dad is, of course, watching and losing his shit.
00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:44.880
Yes.
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And because of this hesitation.
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Sorry.
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We get to his punishment.
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Because he's been punished.
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Because Maximus loves to punish the fuck out of him.
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Maximus loves a punishment.
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And not in a good way.
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So his punishment is to take the vow, which is pretty much marriage.
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But you, you know, uncover your face.
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You and your you and the person you're vowed to, your wife, you're only allowed to see each other's faces, and then you have to put the masks back on.
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And I think is it like essentially you never like take the mask off, like again?
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Is that kind of the notes?
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Not for that.
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Obviously not for them.
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Like in public, you can't remove your mask.
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That's against the law.
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It is so once you're married, yes, you can, you don't have to wear your mask, like in your house.
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But they he's like, This is your punishment, you have to take the vow.
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You you need to step up for this family.
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Like, this is getting to be ridiculous.
00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:53.680
And that jumps to Shadira's point of view, which Shadira.
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Yes.
00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:55.039
Huh.
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I called her Shadra.
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Fair enough.
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No, I called her Shadira.
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Right, but I call it I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's Shadira.
00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:05.200
That makes more sense.
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Does it?
00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:22.079
I love how but it goes back to that sound on TikTok where it's like In the beninging, like the weird, you're trying to like especially in like fay, like fantasy novels where you're like, I'm not quite sure how to say this, so we're just gonna blossom real fast.
00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:23.920
What do you mean?
00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:24.720
Right.
00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:31.119
So you jump to Shadira in the boundary, she is a dagger mouth, she is a mercenary.
00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:31.680
Yep.
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Killing me.
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So contract killings.
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She goes to right.
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She goes to Jaeger and he hands her a contract.
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And come to find out that Maximus killed her parents in front of her.
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She's believed to be dead to some extent.
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He doesn't know that she's still alive, kind of thing.
00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.200
Yeah, I don't think he's he hasn't been keeping an eye on her.
00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:54.640
No, he hasn't been keeping an eye on her.
00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:58.640
So she's out of the the eye of Maximus.
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Right.
00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:05.039
So she comes to find out that the contract that she's being handed is for Grayson Sorrell.
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Yes.
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So she's like, I'll take it.
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Like if anybody can do it.
00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:13.200
And Jaeger's very much like, listen, you don't you don't come back from this.
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This is not one you're just gonna come back from.
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You either kill him and you can't get it.
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You either kill him and you get out, or that's it, and I can't save you.
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She was very much of the mindset, this is it.
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I can do this, give it to me.
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Nobody else can do it like better than I could.
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I want this chance, give it to me.
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:35.359
So Jaeger gives her the contract, she goes off, Jameson comes to visit.
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Which is but also I want to add, because we find out later.
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Right.
00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:53.519
Way down in the end of the book, Jameson, not Jameson, Jaeger's like intentions, because let's be honest, although Rayson did not kill her parents, her dad, his dad did.
00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:54.000
Right.
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And she still holds a grudge, and she is very emotional about this.
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Oh yes.
00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:01.440
And so in hindsight, she should not have gotten that contract.
00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:01.759
No.
00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:06.400
And Jameson makes a point that, like, hey, you're not thinking right.
00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:09.039
You're thinking he does.
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You're not thinking of the mindset, you're not gonna get out.
00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:14.240
This is this is a death sentence, essentially.
00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:15.359
And he's not wrong.
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No.
00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:18.960
And Jaeger's intentions aren't great.
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Like, I will absolutely agree with that.
00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:24.640
His intentions aren't great because at the end of the day, doesn't he know who signs these?
00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:28.319
Right, which brings it back because these contracts are expensive.
00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:29.599
These contracts are expensive.
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Only the only the elite are the ones who are signing off on these contracts.
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They're taking out the contracts.
00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:37.279
Right.
00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:39.599
Which is uh we found out later.
00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:55.359
But like when I'm reading reading this, I'm like, somebody had to, this has to be an inside job because Well, and I I was very much like I kind of figured from the beginning, like when I'm reading this, my mind immediately went to your daddy's trying to off you.
00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:55.680
Right.
00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:57.440
I said, uh, who put a hit on Gray?
00:24:57.599 --> 00:24:57.920
Dad.
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Dad.
00:24:58.640 --> 00:24:58.880
Yeah.
00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:01.839
Sorry, your your dad's a piece of shit.
00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:08.880
If I'm gonna guess anybody put out a hit on you, it's your own parent, which is crazy to me.
00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:16.480
Like, what you're not doing what what you want him to do, so now you're like, well, let me just go down the boundary and take out a little hit real fast.
00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:18.240
I'll get him sorted out.
00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:20.079
Like, what did you think was gonna happen?
00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:20.880
Mm-hmm.
00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:25.839
So Jameson comes by, he's like, You're not thinking rationally.
00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:28.640
They after they had right after they hidden quit it.
00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:34.240
He's like, if I told you that I love you, no, get out, okay, homeboy.
00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:36.640
I I know where this is going.
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I want my enemies to lovers.
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Scram.
00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:40.799
So I have a little message.
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This is giving Gail from uh I said Jamison loving her.
00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:47.920
This budget's going to be so fucked.
00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:49.359
Oh, thousand percent.
00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:51.119
Thousand percent.
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:57.440
Um, just because like he did love her and he was like, And listen, I get it.
00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:11.599
He's he's got a soft heart in the face of you know, all this death and destruction and all things coming his way, because like he's trying to aid, he's aiding sick kids, and and this comes based on his sister.
00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:19.599
Yes, you know, he's not making it, he didn't make it with the medication before she unfortunately passed untime in an untimely way.
00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:23.119
So I get that he's like trying to make up for he's trying to save people.
00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:27.599
Absolutely, and I think that's so good.
00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:30.240
I think he's his character adds value.
00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:31.359
I think he's great.
00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:34.319
But in this retrospect, just not great for shade.
00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:36.319
It's not great for shade, right?
00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:39.920
Shade and this point of the plot.
00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:40.960
I want you gone.
00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.000
Get out of my face.
00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:45.839
You are very much the gale in my Pita Catnus realm right now.
00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:48.720
This triangle, get out, it never ends well for you, dog.
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.319
Yeah, just go while you while we're still early in, just go.
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.839
Uh side note, he did not go.
00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:57.680
He went.
00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:05.039
He went, he's been in my face the rest of this book, which, you know, again, I think his efforts are valuable.
00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:09.119
Yes, but um also get out of my face, dog.
00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:11.759
I've got other things to worry about.
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:14.880
Yes, which brings me to my next people to worry about.
00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:21.119
We have to go back because I before this, Jamerson quote, we meet callum.
00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:21.759
Callum.
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:22.559
Yes, we do.
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:25.599
I my favorite, my favorite man in this universe.
00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:30.400
And I was so fucking worried when we first started reading, I was like, please don't be a piece of shit.
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:31.359
Like, I like you so much.
00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:32.240
No, I knew.
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:44.000
Like, out the off the gate, like off the rip, I was like, you are far more valuable than dare I say he's far more valuable to all of these efforts than Grayson.
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:45.200
Like, no offense to Grayson.
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:57.440
We figure out very early on that Grayson is aiding the rebellion in his own way, all the medical supplies that he's saving, like he's keeping these efforts hidden or doing his best to because well because of who his father is, yeah.
00:27:57.680 --> 00:27:58.240
Right.
00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:01.119
But it can all be traced back to him if he gets caught.
00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:15.440
Like he's very much sending out extra supplies to the outer rings to make sure that people are at least somewhat more taken care of, that they can aid their sick, they can, you know, doing what he can live to see another thing.
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:16.000
Right.
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:22.960
Which is his he has a very like you can imagine that internal fight he has to be like, I'm killing these people.
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:32.480
But I'm also trying to, it's almost like he's trying to make good on yes, I'm having to do this because of who my father is, and I I can't falter, I can't hesitate.
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.880
This is this is my legacy.
00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:36.160
Unfortunately, I have no way out.
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.440
I I am a Sorel, like this is it.
00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:48.079
And then you have on the other side, well, if I can't get out and I can't do anything else, let me just do this because I know what he's doing is wrong.
00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:48.799
Yep.
00:28:49.039 --> 00:29:08.960
And I like the parallels I think between him and Shade, where they're doing these own things to survive, like an aid and try and like help in some way, and they're going through those internal struggles of I know what I'm doing is wrong, but this is the only way I know how to survive, this is the only way I can do this and like make it out and live to see another day.
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:17.279
So I think it's a very interesting, like if they had just talked from the beginning, like I think from the charm, if y'all just sat down and had an honest conversation.
00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:28.720
But we get it, they're both enemies because we're true enemies, like true enemies from the other side of the tracks, like and she was very clear about this from the synopsis of the book.
00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:31.759
Like, this is a true enemies to lovers plot.
00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:41.359
Because we find out that the first executioner, his brother, was had a contract hit on him and killed.
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:42.240
Shocking.
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:42.960
Shocking.
00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:45.599
We Why are you offing all of your children?
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:47.200
Oh, we know why.
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.799
We know why they know why.
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:53.440
We didn't know why they I didn't know why at the time, but I know why now.
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:57.599
So, you know I don't like the why behind the first one.
00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:57.920
Right.
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:02.000
So Grayson assumes.
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.000
Well, we know a dagger mouth killed.
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:04.799
Right.
00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:08.240
He assumes, and it's our our good friend Shade.
00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:11.519
Shade, and she's telling him, like, after I don't know who did it.
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:12.319
Yeah.
00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:14.559
But we come to find out later.
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.640
Like, she she did she did kill him.
00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:17.599
She just didn't know.
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:19.039
She just didn't know.
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:21.440
But they so she goes to kill him.
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:22.880
Yes, sorry, we sidetracked.
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:23.119
She knew.
00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:23.839
We did sidetrack.
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:24.880
She makes it in.
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:26.640
She goes to kill him.
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.480
Now, mind you, he is fighting for his life getting rid of this vow to.
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:32.160
I can't even remember her name.
00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:32.799
Not really.
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:34.559
She's irrelevant, to be honest.
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:36.799
Nobody but like she is all she's.
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:38.000
She's from a wealthy family.
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:39.519
She knows she's prepared for the vow.
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:40.720
She knows what she's meant to do.
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:42.799
She's she's essentially a snitch.
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:47.119
Like, if if he were to be honest with the person he was going to take the vow with, he'd be dead.
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:48.160
Yes, because she's a loyalist.
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:51.119
She's a loyalist to the heart.
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:54.000
Like, she's very much I'm gonna tell.
00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:54.400
Yep.
00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:54.720
Absolutely.
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:58.240
Like, there's no there's no loyalty to him, there's no secrecy.
00:30:58.400 --> 00:30:58.559
No.
00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:00.240
She would raise a red flag.
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.279
And it's like the day of their vow.
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:03.839
Yes.
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.920
And he is and she get makes it in to kill him and make good on the contract.
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:14.240
And had her own emotions not gotten in the fucking way, she would have Well, and his mask fell.
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:14.880
No, it didn't.
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:15.440
He took it off.
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:16.079
No, that's right.
00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:16.799
That's right.
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:17.440
It didn't fall.
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:18.720
That's the story he went with.
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.119
My mask fell off while we were fighting.
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.039
Oh no, she saw my face.
00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:24.880
He took it off and was basically like, do it.
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:25.119
Right.
00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:26.400
Like you're doing a favor.
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:27.039
Already.
00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:27.359
Right.
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:27.680
Right.
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:34.319
And had her emotions not get in the way because she wanted him to know who was killing him.
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:34.880
Right.
00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:36.720
So she shot him in the chest.
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:38.240
Maybe like underneath the ribs.
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:39.039
A little bit, right.
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:41.920
A little lower than like under the ribs.
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:44.559
And he, you know, they're fighting.
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:47.119
He takes his mask off and just says, do it.
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.440
And she does not pull the trigger to shoot him in the head.
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:50.240
Which is crazy.
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:53.279
Her undoing, because again, emotions.
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:54.400
And they get caught.
00:31:54.559 --> 00:32:00.160
And they get in in this whole scenario, they get caught by the Vera officers, and that's that's that.
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:00.880
That's that.
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:02.799
And you know, it's death for both of them.
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:03.200
Right.
00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:06.000
Well, she already doesn't have a mask, but he pulled his off.
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:11.440
And they find a loophole because his mom was like His mom made the fucking law.
00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:12.720
Now hold on.
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.920
We can't we can't fault her too bad.
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:17.599
And we'll get into that in a little bit.
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:18.720
I do hate her though.
00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:19.359
I don't.
00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:22.160
Oh, we'll talk about it.
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:24.240
Like in the moment, yeah, you're like, what a stupid.
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:26.640
You think that she's so loyal to her husband.
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:31.119
You think, oh, like I have I have this duty.
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:32.079
I wrote the law.
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:34.880
Like, I'll just, you know, here's what we'll do.
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:38.079
And Lyra, his sister, was even like, Well, mom found the loophole.
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:39.200
Like, you can live.
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:42.160
Like, I don't have to have both of my siblings gone.
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:42.559
Yeah.
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:47.839
You can, you know, because Lyra knows, like, she's like, I have no, I have no say in any of this.
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:48.240
Right.
00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:54.720
Like, I am just here to serve whatever purpose until she's sold off to do the vow herself.
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:55.519
Yeah.
00:32:55.839 --> 00:33:05.519
So he she's like, at least I get to keep one of my siblings, and you get to stay alive and continue on with whatever it is you're you're trying to do.
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:11.279
Because I think to some degree, while she doesn't know, like I think his sister knows, like, he's doing something.
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:18.400
I don't really know what he's doing, but he and Callum are both of the same like valor where they're doing something to help.
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:18.720
Yes.
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:20.160
Callum probably a little more.
00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:20.640
Right.
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:22.160
Because he can't get caught.
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:24.640
He's running the entertainment district.
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:31.200
They very much leave him to do whatever he's gonna do because he He's a collector of secrets.
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:31.519
Right.
00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:36.079
He knows so much about information to him is is currency.
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:40.960
You come through there and you do something wrong and you can offer him something, he's gonna take you up on that.
00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:41.920
And then kill you.
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:43.440
And then kill you, absolutely.
00:33:43.680 --> 00:34:13.039
But I think while we're on the topic of, you know, the the family and like that whole that whole thing where she has no say in like the family, that that first like kind of initial family dinner where they're talking, I think about him taking the vow and things like that is when this happens Maximus saying this family is not a democracy, you will mourn your brother however however I tell you to mourn, and you will never again question my choices.
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:16.079
That point blank, as soon as I read that quote, that pissed me clean off.
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:19.440
I was like, You're kidding me, you're kidding me.
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:23.920
Because he Maximus has not been trying to find his killer.
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:38.719
No, no, and they're all like we need to worry about who's who killed our brother, like it's been years, nobody's doing anything, like he hasn't been brought to justice, and essentially she he obviously knows who did this, what happened, right?
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:43.440
He's he's hip to the information, he's just like, Yeah, that's not happening, shut up.
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:55.840
Pretty much, pretty much what what happened, and of course, they um they are told, you know, you don't question it, you don't ask me anything.
00:34:56.480 --> 00:35:00.719
Even his mom is he's essentially like, you're you're to be seen and not heard.
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:10.400
Yeah, that's for the for the standard of women in the heart, you are to be seen and not heard, which I think is just that whole thing.
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:26.000
Like, I called this book like midway through, I'm like, this is female rage to the musical, and I love it because we because yes, the men in this book are powerful, they're doing things, they're quote unquote running the show.
00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:28.320
Yeah, but are they absolutely not?
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:33.440
The most dangerous characters in this series are by far the women.
00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:33.840
Yes.
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:42.800
And we'll get into the most dangerous one when we get to the train wreck that happened at the end, because that was I could never have guessed what was happening.
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:47.440
So to back it up, so he gets shot.
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:48.880
He gets shot.
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:53.360
She gets taken into trusty before they are figuring out what the hell to do with.
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:56.079
She's beaten to a shit at this this point.
00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:56.880
Not too bad.
00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:57.679
Not too bad.
00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:01.119
She is, but what happens is they finally figure out what they're gonna do.
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:02.239
They're gonna take the vow.
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:02.559
Right.
00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.519
So they find that loophole, they're like, here's what's go to take her out of jail.
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:13.599
And while she's in jail, she they find out that she tried to shoot Grayson.
00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:13.920
Yes.
00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:15.199
Well, she did shoot him.
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.199
So that is giving voice to the rebellion.
00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:23.119
Yes, they start singing the uh hold on, I have it.
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:31.199
Uh in the jail after the shooting, the whole jail singing the national anthem of the old world, the song that had been outlawed when Newfound Haven rose.
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:33.599
It was more than a song, it was a battle cry.
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:42.239
It very much gave catching fire where she's going to all these districts, her and PETA have been told by President Snow, like, you have to keep the peace.
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:44.480
Like, this is getting out of hand.
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:47.280
You want to live, you better keep the peace right now.
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:55.440
And you see, like, especially in the movie version of the books, you see like people getting shot like by the like And that's what happened.
00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:56.159
And that's what happened.
00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:56.800
They moved on.
00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:01.199
All these right the whole jail after singing that song.
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:05.360
It was so like I was literally like foaming at the mouth.
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:09.760
I was like, this is very much because catching fire is one of my favorite and she favorite drugs.
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:12.079
The face of the rebellion, which she does not want.
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.920
She doesn't want, she is very much like, I don't want this, don't put this on me.
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:16.960
I don't want to be a part of it.
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:17.920
I just want to live.
00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:19.760
Like, you want to do that, that's fine.
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:20.480
I'm not in this.
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:21.840
This is your fight, not mine.
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:22.880
But it's hers now.
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:23.760
But it is hers now.
00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:25.440
It's her and right.
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:27.840
You you took that contract.
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:29.360
You are now right.
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:30.400
What did you think was gonna happen?
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:32.639
You were just gonna get away with it, everything was gonna be fine.
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:34.559
No, no, you were gonna be.
00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:39.199
I think like Maximus would have made a good show out of it.
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:40.880
He would have brought somebody to justice.
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:48.639
I think this was a way, if that had been the route that he had gone and she had actually made it to kill him, she would have actually been a pawn.
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:52.880
He would have absolutely murdered her in front of a billion people and made a good show of it.
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:53.119
Yep.
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.280
Whether he called the contract or not.
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:55.679
Yeah.
00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:03.599
He would have used that as a good show to like harbor resentment towards the other rings, do what he was gonna try and do anyways, it was gonna be a whole show.
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:11.679
Uh so during that, so they have a meeting with Maximus, and then Dracon shows up.
00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.079
Right.
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:13.519
It's like a whole thing.
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:13.920
Right.
00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:16.239
She makes a big show of it, like you're gonna take the vow.
00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:17.039
Not even that.
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:23.119
So without warning, Maxim reaches up and removes his mask, and the air in the room seems to freeze.
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:24.960
I called her Shadra.
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:26.400
Shadira, right?
00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:27.119
Shadeira.
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:35.840
Um, saw for what it is, his attempt to assert dominance, flaunt his power, to tell her without words, he was the heart, and the law does not apply to him.
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.360
And that's exactly how they think they all think the law does not apply to them, they are above it.
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:43.199
Absolutely, a thousand percent.
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:45.199
Oh, fucking irts me to know it.
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:55.280
But he he threatens her and Grayson in the same breath, says, Here's video footage of all these people that you care about.
00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:57.039
I'll take them out without hesitation.
00:38:57.119 --> 00:38:57.519
That's it.
00:38:57.599 --> 00:38:57.920
Yep.
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.880
I've got bombs planted everywhere, like we don't know that yet.
00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:02.960
Is that I was about to say, is that that's too early?
00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:03.679
We don't know that yet.
00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:05.039
I think that's like down the line.
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:06.320
We will threaten you out.
00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:07.280
I'm gonna take you out.
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.519
You know, like one way or another, you're gonna comply.
00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:09.840
Yep.
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:10.800
I'm gonna take you out.
00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:12.639
So for Shade, it's Jamerson.
00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:13.199
Right.
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:16.079
And then for Grayson, it's Callum and Lyra.
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:16.880
Right.
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:19.280
Um is it Lyra or Lyra?
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:21.679
I feel like it's it's whatever the fucker caller.
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.559
I feel like it's Lyra, but I could be wrong.
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:25.119
Lyra.
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.320
I fall or both.
00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:28.480
I've cut right, it depends on.
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.079
So they do that.
00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:33.280
They agree to it.
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:34.400
They get the threat.
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:36.320
They agree to it because they're like, we gotta keep our people.
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:37.199
And you know what I'm saying?
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:44.639
Like, I hate your guts, but I we both agree, like, these people are not to be messed with, they are not collateral in this scenario.
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:46.000
You know what I love?
00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:48.800
Is after this meeting, like, she has to go live with him.
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:49.199
Right.
00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.840
And the first night they both try to kill each other.
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:54.719
Like, at what point was that gonna solve the problem?
00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:01.360
Like, for you to both now be like, Well, we might as well be judging out of each other and that be it.
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:03.519
And they do, like, it's so funny to me.
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:05.519
I'm like, what was gonna solve it for you?
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:07.599
Like, nothing, you just got threatened.
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.239
Why are you at this point again?
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:14.320
If we had just had an honest conversation, but they hate each other so much.
00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:15.440
They hate each other, right?
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:16.559
They hate each other so much.
00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:23.280
Also, at this point, his apartment's bugged, like his dad's got eyes and ears everywhere, right?
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:24.960
Which they do find, right?
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:29.920
And Callum loops it through so nobody can figure out like what's going on.
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:32.719
Here's at least a little bit of peace for you.
00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:35.280
That's you know, that's gonna be that.
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:38.800
But he is he is watching them like a hawk.
00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:45.760
He's like, whatever, you know, is going on here, I'm gonna suss it out because you're not gonna get one over on me, buddy.
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:47.519
Which I ugh.
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:49.519
I hate him for.
00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:54.239
I hate it all because of course Jameson figures out he's being watched by the drones, destroys those drones.
00:40:54.480 --> 00:41:06.880
And but they keep coming, but they keep coming because that's part of his other plan is I'm scoping out what these rings look like to know where to put my grand bombs that I'm gonna decimate the rest of the city with.
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:09.440
Which we find out later, isn't bombs, I guess.
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:09.920
Right.
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:17.199
They're trying to get they're essentially like decimating everybody like in one in one go to keep the infrastructure, but get rid of it.
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:22.559
Get rid of it and fill it with more elites, so it's more of a which we which we find.
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:30.159
So they end up going, Grayson shows her the city, giving her details without directly saying it.
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:33.519
So this is where we find out that the military's building something.
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:35.440
We later figure out this is gas.
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:36.880
Right, and they get suspicious.
00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:39.599
Yes, because he this was on the way to family dinner.
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:42.960
This is before, like in the morning after his executions, yes.
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:44.719
In the morning, before family dinner.
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:46.000
He takes her all over heart.
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:47.199
So let's see it.
00:41:47.280 --> 00:42:04.239
He lets her see the entertainment district, he lets her see the the farming portion of and then they see their ports, and that's where we find out that there are more people that survived Heart than other than Heart, which I would like to know what happened.
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:05.599
How did we get here?
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.599
I think I think that's gonna be book two.
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:10.320
Like it's kind of gonna be more like a prequel.
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:14.719
Like not like a prequel, because I don't think you can really go back that backward.
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:15.599
That's true.
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:19.360
At least after the ending, I don't think you can go that backward.
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:20.559
We gotta go forward.
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:21.760
You gotta tell me what's going on.
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:23.280
But I do want to know how we get here.
00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:24.480
I think we'd get more stor.
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:28.079
I think we'll get more like background, I think we'll get more information.
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:37.360
Because it's very much like I love the way that HM writes this because it's very much you get multiple points of views in the chapters.
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:37.679
Yeah.
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.400
I get to know what what this person's doing, what this person knows versus what this person knows.
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:43.360
I do love that.
00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:53.119
I think it's so great because now somebody give me a whiteboard because I'm gonna need to write all this down to like this person knows this, this person's doing this to kind of keep track of it.
00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:55.760
But you're getting you're getting a picture.
00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:56.079
Yeah.
00:42:56.239 --> 00:42:58.800
But it's not always obviously the complete pictures.
00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:07.119
There's a puzzle piece or two missing on unfortunately Maximus's part because he's not just gonna No, because we He's not that prideful.
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:08.639
He does not trust Grayson.
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:11.679
He does not trust Grayson within an inch of his life.
00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:14.000
We know we'll find out later why.
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:14.880
Right.
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.880
Um But she they show up to that family dinner, and that family dinner was a shit.
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:23.599
Wait, before we talk about this family dinner.
00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:27.440
So before they go out, she gets her masked.
00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:27.760
Yes.
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:29.119
Chaydra gets her masked.
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:29.519
Yes.
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:31.920
She has a little conversation with Lyra.
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:45.599
And it says this isn't just a symbol of status status, it's a muzzle, a constant reminder that my face, my identity, my very existence belongs to Heart First, to this what was their last name? 'Cause I call I've been calling them Syreel.
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:46.320
Sorrel.
00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:47.039
Sorrel.
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:50.320
To the Sorel name second and me last.
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:51.440
Yes.
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:55.280
I is that the I that might be is that chapter fifteen?
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:56.480
Is that where it comes from?
00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:59.760
I highlighted everything in my in my Kindle.
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:04.480
So it'll tell me like which chapters, but I don't get like mini context.
00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:17.840
But it's um I think that that's around the time where they're looking like they're looking out and Grayson says beautiful things are often built on ugly foundations.
00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:19.119
Oh, I have that.
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:27.760
Um after Grayson showed her the city, every perceived notion she had about Grayson had been challenged today, not erased, he was still the executioner, still the enemy.
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:28.239
Yep.
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:36.960
But beneath the identity, he was also a boy caught in a web, a man created by an evil system whose soul at the very least suffered the pain he caused.
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:39.599
Evil could sometimes come in the form of beauty.
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:43.760
And then they get to they they get to family dinner.
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:44.159
Yeah.
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:45.199
Oh Jesus.
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:50.800
Which is just that family dinner, I think, made me so angry.
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:58.480
Because essentially Lyra got threatened with I haven't done this to you yet, and I could.
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:00.000
Then there's mom got beat.
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:04.800
Mom got beat, Lyra got threatened, Grayson he pulled a gun on Grayson, shot him in the shoulder.
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:05.599
Yep.
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:08.960
I'm like, share a stab with a fork.
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:14.880
She was about to do Grayson stabbing her with a fork underneath the table, going, hey, quit it.
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:16.880
Which usually that hurts worse than a knife.
00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:17.519
We find out later.
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:18.639
Which is hysterical.
00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:19.440
I'm like, you know what?
00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:20.079
Fair enough.
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:21.360
That would hurt me worse too.
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:23.360
Because quit stabbing me over and over with a fork.
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.119
I get what you're trying to do, but let me just do what I'm gonna do, anyways.
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:28.719
Uh, yes.
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:36.719
And that leads us into after the disastrous family dinner, we see Lyra meet up with Callum.
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:37.039
Yes.
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.760
Which we learn about their whole little love story of the city.
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:43.039
Because that's that's in the that's in the training.
00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:46.559
T she's training and he comes to like visit.
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:51.840
This is after he realizes Did she get no.
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.400
He sla he slapped her around at this point.
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:56.639
Her dad slapped her around at this point, didn't he?
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:03.199
So it's either at this point or further down the line, but that that does become I feel like I highlighted some of that as well.
00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:06.079
So Lyra meets up with Callum.
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:07.679
Somebody calls for a meetup.
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:09.280
We're not sure who.
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:09.840
Yes.
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:10.400
At this point.
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:14.639
Because he's called somebody and said, hey, we gotta we gotta meet.
00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:17.360
So a lot of stuff happens that we're not quite sure.
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:18.880
Like there's a couple phone calls going on.
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:23.280
Because she she calls too at one point and is like, I have a plan.
00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:29.360
So at the same time this is going on, somebody calls, uh, and it's stretching attempt for Python.
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:31.280
Python calls and says, get me out.
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:34.159
And they're like, We can't do this, you need to stick to the plan.
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:36.559
Which we have no idea who Python is.
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:40.880
I thought it was I thought it was not Callum.
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:43.360
Callum was not on my list at all because I'm like, that's too obvious.
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:44.639
Like he's out in the open.
00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:45.199
Yeah.
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:49.599
Um, who it actually ended up being wasn't even on my radar.
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:50.239
No.
00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.400
Um, I thought it was their brother.
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:53.119
Yes.
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:55.440
I I had a very big feeling.
00:46:55.519 --> 00:46:57.360
I was like, he's gonna be alive at some point.
00:46:57.519 --> 00:46:58.800
Don't know when, don't know how.
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:03.599
Could be book two, but it gave very much like first time I'm reading Fourth Wing going, where's your brother at?
00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:04.880
Because I know he's alive.
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:06.800
Totally know he's alive.
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:08.480
But that's who I kind of thought it was.
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:17.679
I thought he was fighting, like kind of underneath underground, like kind of being like secretive, and they like for the most part, it was need-to-know basis.
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:18.400
Yeah.
00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:25.679
Kind of that kind of thing where if you know, like you tell no one, you die with the secret, like nobody knows.
00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:30.480
Um, I loved the training between them where we got more information about them.
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:38.239
Um, I highlighted females have no place training beside men, Lyra, her father had said, your place is behind us, ready to be called on when needed, not beside, never beside.
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:46.639
Like again, this is where female rage the musical comes in because it's so very reminiscent of current times.
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:48.079
Yep, absolutely.
00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:52.079
Where it's very much like you don't belong here.
00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:55.039
Why are you speaking out of turn?
00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:58.719
That kind of thing, which I'll speak out of turn as many times we can.
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:03.679
In whatever tone I feel, and I will say whatever I want to say.
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:05.519
Right, what are you gonna do to hit me?
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:07.039
I done gun.
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:08.000
Like Right.
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:10.239
Right, what are you gonna do?
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:17.760
Like at this point, it's very much like that reminiscent of that, like that whole females have no place, training beside men, bite me.
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:29.199
Like, we if if you ask me, nine times out of ten, women are more strategic than men, women are stronger than men, um, women are smarter most days than men.
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:30.079
Sometimes, yeah.
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:30.639
Sometimes.
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.320
It depends on who you voted for, and I will leave that there.
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.039
It depends on who you voted for, and we're gonna leave that there.
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:42.320
But in this day and age, that's I can tell you the people that voted that one way.
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:43.199
Dumb.
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:47.280
You would be hearts elite and you would be hearts elite and you would not be in the rebellion.
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:52.079
I, you and I would be running the rebellion from underground.
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:58.000
I'm talking like soldier boots on the ground, journalism in the heart of the rebellion.
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:00.639
Like this is we're we're doing it.
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:03.119
Um and that's the same.
00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:05.519
That chapter where she said that is the same.
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:11.760
Um the same where he's Callum says my favorite line, which I highlighted, hi baby.
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:13.599
I was like, ah, I love him.
00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:14.639
We do love him.
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:15.280
I love him.
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:16.000
He's so great.
00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:17.280
I loved their story.
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:20.239
I liked seeing he's waited five years for her.
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:22.000
Like, oh my god.
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:24.400
We can't get into it now.
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:25.119
It's too early.
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:27.360
We can't get into it now, but we will talk about it.
00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:29.280
So it's too early.
00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:37.440
So while all of that is going on, we have Jameson and the other seven people going in to get shade.
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:40.800
Yes, essentially he calls a meeting with Jaeger and is like, listen.
00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:44.559
Jaeger and um is Cardinal in this one?
00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:45.840
No, Cardinal Varner is not.
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.599
No, Pharaoh has nothing to do with it at this point, it's really just Jaeger.
00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:51.280
Jameson does go to her.
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:53.119
Jameson does go to her at some point.
00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:53.840
Before this.
00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:54.559
Before this.
00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:57.679
But she's not necessarily involved.
00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:58.400
Not yet.
00:49:58.639 --> 00:49:59.039
Yet.
00:49:59.280 --> 00:49:59.599
Yes.
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:00.719
So this is just Jaeger.
00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:04.639
This is just Jaeger and his people, and Jameson is begging.
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:05.840
He's like, we gotta go get her.
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:06.880
Like, this is ridiculous.
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:07.599
What are you doing?
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:12.000
Whiny, whiny baby, like this whole thing.
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.119
I'm like, it it reminds me, don't save her.
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:16.880
She does not want to be saved right now.
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:18.639
She's trying to do what she's gonna do.
00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:20.079
And I I get why he wants to do it.
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:21.039
I get why he wants to.
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:22.159
Nobody needs her from her.
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:23.599
Nobody knows totally understand.
00:50:23.679 --> 00:50:28.320
He's like, This is all coming from informants inside a heart that we we don't know we can trust.
00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:29.760
We don't know we can trust, right?
00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:32.800
So, like, I understand why.
00:50:33.039 --> 00:50:34.000
And she almost leaves.
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:40.000
She almost does, she falters, and then comes Jameson fucking fine, you have your hands on my wife.
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:42.800
And I was like, get away from his wife, go away.
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:43.280
Yes.
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:49.360
This is where he you are you are of no use to me, and Jaeger kind of has the same sentiment.
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:51.760
You need to leave your emotions at the door.
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:55.760
Yeah, you want to survive this rebellion, you better leave them at the check-em.
00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:56.159
Yep.
00:50:56.320 --> 00:51:06.079
And that's where I think it's so funny because I feel like in a lot of these books, it's very much the oh, women are too emotional, they can't lead a rebellion.
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:10.239
So it was kind of nice to be like, nah, this man's too emotional, get him out of my rebellion.
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:11.199
Because what are you gonna do?
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:14.000
I'm sitting there the whole time reading this, going, You're gonna blow it.
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:19.360
You're gonna blow this entire operation, you're gonna waste it for people, all because of what you love her and you want to save her.
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:21.119
She doesn't she can save herself.
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:22.719
That's never a question.
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:24.400
She's going to save herself.
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:31.119
You just have to give her some time because right now, unfortunately, the villain is villaining, and he's real good at it.
00:51:31.199 --> 00:51:33.840
And I'm so upset that he's so good at it.
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:34.480
Yes.
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.280
Um, because what is she doesn't go?
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:38.320
She doesn't go.
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:41.920
Grayson pops in and's like, You're you're not going anywhere.
00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:48.480
Um, so they move on from that, but they also learn about the bombs.
00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:50.400
At that point, they know about the bombs.
00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:53.440
She does tell them, like, listen, this is why I'm not going.
00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:54.320
I can't do this.
00:51:54.400 --> 00:52:00.079
You have to, you have to worry about the you have to worry about the boundary, you have to worry about the rings, you have to tell everybody you have to get.
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:01.360
Well, she's people prepared.
00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:03.920
I'm staying, so Jameson doesn't have to make that choice.
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:04.559
Right.
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:07.760
Because he would choose everybody else over her.
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:08.880
Right.
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:21.440
And I I do want to go back because before the before that even happened, um, some of my favorite the c there is like some very comedic, like almost like moments.
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:32.559
Like the one where he was listen uh uh Grayson was listening at the door while uh you know Yes Shadir's getting her rocks off a little bit and in the kitchen the next day.
00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:35.360
This is one of my favorite I laugh so hard.
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:40.000
He's like, you know, you're loud enough to wake the neighbors, and she goes, I don't know what you're talking about.
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:42.480
He goes, No, my mistake then.
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.920
And she goes, You're a fucking creep.
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:53.760
And he goes, since the woman who spent half the night moaning loud enough to wake the neighbors, and she goes, You don't have any neighbors, and at least I know how to satisfy myself.
00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:55.920
When was the last time somebody touched you for free?
00:52:56.159 --> 00:52:58.320
I was like, I love that line so much.
00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:01.920
When was the last time somebody touched you for free?
00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:04.239
Never, no, I'm kidding.
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:12.480
Um that was one of my favorite lines, and then you've got um Lyra had one of my favorite lines after that.
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:27.360
Um because I and it was when she was talking to Shadira, and she said, Because I'm a woman in a system designed by men to keep power in their hands, because every time I've tried to mitigate suffering, I've been reminded of my place.
00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:29.360
And it's when she was talking about the mask.
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:32.800
Um, that was before she she explained the quote that you loved.
00:53:33.039 --> 00:53:36.320
Um, that it's just it isn't just a symbol of status, it's a muzzle.
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:38.559
This is them reminding her of her place.
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:51.679
Um I did like after he shot, after Max shot Grayson, and she's, you know, she's essentially giving him I want to go back to that because she gave him a safe space like afterward.
00:53:51.840 --> 00:54:00.800
Like they were in his apartment being just very like she cleaned up his wound, and it was very like almost like we're on a similar playing field now.
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:02.159
I see what you're going through.
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:06.400
She tells him, like, I'm gonna talk to you as a survivor.
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:09.440
Right, like as a survivor, which I loved that moment so much.
00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:16.719
I think that was such a like a crossing moment for them, like a come to Jesus moment, almost like we've gone through similar things.
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:17.119
Yep.
00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:22.719
I now see your situation for what it is, and I judged you based on what I didn't know.
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:27.760
And I like that he said the woman sent to kill him was the only woman who had ever made him feel safe.
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:28.239
Yeah.
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:30.639
Because he's they're they're on their own.
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:40.320
Like they both of them, and I that's why I said I love their parallel so much of their different their stories, because they're you're alone, like you're alone in this.
00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:43.519
He can't trust his dad, he doesn't know what to do with his mom.
00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:44.480
That's not very helpful.
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:45.840
Lyra can only do so much.
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:50.159
Again, she's been reminded of her place, but again, because nobody talks to them, to each other.
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:50.559
Right.
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:52.000
Nobody talks to each other.
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:56.159
That's the other thing is Chaydra says it.
00:54:56.400 --> 00:54:58.880
How can you guys do this if you guys don't even talk to each other?
00:54:59.199 --> 00:54:59.920
Right, you guys don't even talk about it.
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:06.639
How are you gonna how are you gonna do anything if you're not even trying to help each other out first?
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:07.599
Yes.
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:20.639
Um but I loved I loved that I of course highlighted everything from the only the only technical like intimate scene we get I loved is because it's between Callum and Lyra.
00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:21.119
Yes.
00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:28.079
It's shockingly enough, by the time I got to the end of the book and I realized, oh, like Grayson and Shadira like fold around a little.
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:28.719
Yes.
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:34.960
But then he saw that picture that she had taken of him and his brother that they put like pre-masks and stuff that they weren't supposed to have.
00:55:35.039 --> 00:55:35.599
He saved it.
00:55:35.679 --> 00:55:37.760
It's contraband, but he saved it and hid it.
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:41.519
And she's like, I she's like, I recognize that face, but why?
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:44.880
And we'll get to that in just a second, because that's common.
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:54.159
Um she's he finds it when they're fooling around, so that ends that she's like, I can't trust you, like I thought I could trust you.
00:55:54.239 --> 00:56:00.400
It's a whole, you know, it's the the third act, like, I can't trust you, and I thought I could.
00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:10.639
Um but you know, they they're essentially like, you know, they were gonna get to it.
00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:12.320
But I like that they didn't.
00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:14.480
I kind of got to the end of the book and I was like, you know.
00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:15.280
I didn't miss it.
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:16.239
I didn't miss it.
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:19.440
Like their relationship grew in the ways it needed to.
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:25.840
Their bond grew like for me enough to where I was like, you know, I don't necessarily need this right now.
00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:27.599
I can be gratified later on.
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:27.920
Yeah.
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:34.239
I'm not looking for the instant gratification like I usually am, where I'm like, it's page 360 where it's just do it already.
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:41.199
Not in like fourth wing where I was like, listen, you've got me for another four other pages, but let's speed this along.
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:47.039
Because I know you hate her and you hate him, but I'm gonna need y'all to hurry up, bang it out.
00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:48.960
We're just gonna need to bang this one out.
00:56:49.119 --> 00:56:50.400
Yeah, no, I for them.
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:51.840
I feel like that wasn't gonna be an option.
00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:53.519
I that wasn't a good enough option for me.
00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:56.000
No, like I want you to communicate.
00:56:56.239 --> 00:56:57.360
I'm glad she did not.
00:56:57.599 --> 00:56:58.400
I'm glad they didn't.
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:01.280
They fooled around a little and you know, and that was enough.
00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:02.159
That was enough for me.
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:03.920
I was like, you know what, good for you.
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:05.920
But also, can we communicate?
00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:07.440
Let's just communicate.
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:08.559
Pretty there.
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:13.199
So So Okay, what were you gonna say?
00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:16.880
They go out, Jameson tries to extract her, they say no.
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:20.320
This is the what the night before the vow?
00:57:20.639 --> 00:57:20.960
No.
00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:22.079
Something happens.
00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:24.320
Something, it's like a few days before the vow.
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:27.440
Because two days before the vow, Jameson.
00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:33.280
Which is yes, Shane get locked up by his dad.
00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:35.840
They get Grayson, yes, so I'm getting there.
00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:44.960
Because this is after, so they go, they go on the night out, they get back, and that's when all the officers are sitting there ready to ambush them.
00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:46.079
They kill all of them.
00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:54.800
When we find out that they weren't trying to ambush them, what they were trying to do was put in new listening devices and fits all the stuff.
00:57:55.039 --> 00:58:08.000
Right now, did because he Maximus realized, like, I've been got, let me just go back in and get them, because somebody's not gonna get me before they get in, you know, they get a chance.
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:20.800
So they um Is it so they get got they get got they kill all of the officers, they kill all of the officers, and then and then that leads, oh my gosh, that was very much a Mr.
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:21.199
and Mrs.
00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:23.280
Smith kind of kind of vibe.
00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:24.480
So yeah, there's doing that.
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:25.760
That's when they almost have sex.
00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:27.119
That's when they're fooling around.
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:33.199
Yes, because he said, Uh if you shoot me, it will only make me want to fuck you.
00:58:33.280 --> 00:58:37.679
And then she goes, If you even th or if you even think about it, I will kill you.
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:38.000
Yeah.
00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:41.760
And he goes, and I highlighted this because I loved it so much.
00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:43.760
Um, he goes, Then I'm already a dead man.
00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:47.039
And I was like, Yeah! And that's when they fool around.
00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:50.880
Um and of course they find the picture, and that's that.
00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:57.199
But he calls Callum and is like, hey, I need warning Callum comes for help.
00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:00.639
Lyra, right, and Lyra's kind of involved at that point, but not yet.
00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:01.440
So what happens?
00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:05.360
She's kind of like in the know of what was supposed to happen.
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:13.280
So Callum comes over, finds a guard, snipered at them, or listening to Vice, right, gets that guy.
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:14.079
Right.
00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:16.079
They are in the middle of torturing him for space.
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:17.280
Yes, she comes in.
00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:22.719
And she's like, What the y'all don't call, y'all don't write, like nobody tells me anything.
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:26.239
Which and Callum has tried to keep her out of this part of his life.
00:59:26.480 --> 00:59:26.639
Right.
00:59:26.719 --> 00:59:28.079
He's trying to keep it separate.
00:59:28.159 --> 00:59:31.519
He's thinking she's not gonna love me, like she's gonna think I'm a terrible person.
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:34.880
This whole thing is like I'm trying to keep her safe.
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:37.280
Yes, they all think they're trying to protect these other people.
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:38.320
It's not working.
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:40.320
No, it's not going well for you guys.
00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:40.719
No.
00:59:40.960 --> 00:59:46.159
So turns out he, I think he name drops who's in there or she realizes who it is.
00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:50.159
They had all they had all left the room where he was in and taken a break.
00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:51.599
They were trying to talk it out.
00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:55.920
She grabbed the gun and they all forget that they have now new listening devices on this.
00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:56.480
Right.
00:59:56.559 --> 00:59:58.880
So at this point, we're all screwed, anyways.
00:59:59.119 --> 01:00:05.119
So she takes the gun and she shoots shoots the guy between point blank between the eyes.
01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:06.400
I'm sorry they made me do it.
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:07.280
I didn't mean to.
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:15.920
And this part made me like ball my eyes out because she's essentially like my dad gave me up when I was 14, and it was just officer on officer on officer.
01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:18.880
Yeah, so until his mom stopped three months.
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:19.519
Right.
01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:22.320
And the only reason he And nobody had any idea.
01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:22.800
Oh.
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:30.239
Um so that leads to afterwards, Michael Crumb gets Grayson and Shane.
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:30.800
Right.
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:33.599
And is like, hey, Maximus wants to see you right now.
01:00:33.760 --> 01:00:34.079
Right now.
01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:39.360
And so Callum's like, I'm on cleanup, I'm gonna just we will meet and we will have this conversation.
01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:41.599
We will meet, we'll talk later.
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:43.039
Yes, later does not come.
01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:44.480
Later did not happen.
01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:47.360
Not for Shade and Grayson.
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:49.679
And that's when it starts to like click.
01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:52.880
I'm like, they're about to have no idea what's happening.
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:55.679
They're gonna be locked up, no food, no water, like nothing.
01:00:55.840 --> 01:00:58.400
They're strapped to chairs for two days, beaten.
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:07.599
Grayson not so much, but Grayson not so much, but she right, and he's having to listen to this, and then his dad's like, Well, who do you think killed your brother?
01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:08.559
And blah, blah, blah.
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:10.000
Trying to oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:14.480
Trying to pin them against each other, like you can't trust her.
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:15.760
She killed her.
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:19.119
Because it comes out like, yeah, she did kill your brother.
01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:20.559
And she goes, I didn't know.
01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:22.719
I did not, and Calan would not listen to her.
01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:25.760
No, and like she Or Grayson wouldn't Grayson wouldn't listen to her.
01:01:26.079 --> 01:01:26.800
Would not listen.
01:01:26.960 --> 01:01:30.079
She is having a mental breakdown crying behind her.
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:32.960
Right, like thinking, and he can't even listen to her cry.
01:01:33.039 --> 01:01:33.840
He feels so bad.
01:01:33.920 --> 01:01:47.360
He's like, like, yeah, on one hand, I'm mad at you, but on the other hand, like, uh But he ignores her, and she's trying to talk to him for those whole two days, like after he's like, he just ignores the shit out of her.
01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:48.000
Right.
01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:51.599
And you know, they finally get released on the day of the vow.
01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:56.960
I was about to say, but you have to go back because while this is happening, no offense to them.
01:01:57.039 --> 01:02:01.360
I really wasn't worried, I knew they would be alive for the vow, but I'm like, no offense, I'm not really worried about y'all.
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:02.079
No, we know.
01:02:02.239 --> 01:02:04.159
I've got a lot of other variables here going on.
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:08.159
So Callum and they are have that conversation about this is what happened to me when I was 14.
01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:08.559
Yes.
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:18.239
He uh I love that he's looking at essentially he's looking at her like this, this must have broken you, like how fragile.
01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:19.519
And very typical.
01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:25.519
Like it's understandable, like a pity, like the kind of pity and sadness you feel for somebody in that situation.
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:29.440
And I I highlighted this because I loved the way that she put it.
01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:37.840
Women are the backbone, the foundation, the immovable force that that still does not falter when men stand on our spines to grab power stone, now calamite.
01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:45.280
I'm not fragile, the cracks in my soul aren't broken places, they're veins cemented together with rage, and it will take more than the hands of men to kill my spirit to break my will.
01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:46.639
That one online lists.
01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:47.760
Loved that quote.
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:50.960
I was like, yes, this is it, because it's true.
01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:53.840
It is thousand percent it's true.
01:02:54.079 --> 01:02:58.159
Um, and I loved his, you know, I'm in awe of you.
01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:00.800
Like, I'm just lucky enough to stand in your presence.
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:05.199
I was like, what a beautiful loved his love confession, which was I love you.
01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:08.079
He whispered again the words, a vow, a prayer.
01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:12.079
I will always love you in this life and whatever comes after that.
01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:14.079
Very much Zayden Ryerson.
01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:14.559
Right.
01:03:14.639 --> 01:03:16.480
Zada, very Zayd and Ryerson.
01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:24.800
You are correct, very much giving like, I'm just in awe of you, and if you need to stand on my back and break it to get to the top, like I'm gonna let you.
01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:29.039
So between that and then my next note, I have nothing.
01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:33.280
I was so into this book that I was like, oh, don't worry, we're about to get it.
01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:35.039
I have more notes.
01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:41.280
So while all this is happening, we have to go to the cardinal or the battery.
01:03:41.679 --> 01:03:42.159
Oh, right.
01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:45.519
So they kind of Jameson's like, listen, here's what's going on.
01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:46.400
We are calling me.
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:47.920
We need to we need to call a meeting.
01:03:48.079 --> 01:03:51.440
Everybody who's in charge needs to be in this meeting.
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:56.239
Cal he calls Callum, he's like, hey, we need a meeting.
01:03:56.400 --> 01:04:02.400
Yeah, he's like, we've been working, ghost, we've been working together, like, you know, we need to have a meeting, we need to have a sit-down.
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:04.960
So it's Jaeger, it's Pharaoh of the Cardinal.
01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:09.920
You've got um Ghost Jameson coming in, and you've got Callum.
01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:13.119
Callum brings Lyra because Lyra's like, this shit ain't happening without me no more.
01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:13.440
Exactly.
01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:14.559
I'm sick of y'all.
01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:16.800
And fair enough, me too.
01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:20.000
During this whole meeting, they're like, listen, here's what's about to happen.
01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:21.119
Oh, wait.
01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:22.239
But wait.
01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:23.519
But wait, before we get there.
01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:26.960
Pharaoh's lovely.
01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:33.199
Pharaoh brings, right, Pharaoh brings in her side piece, who just so happens to be Dr.
01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:35.519
Brooker, her brother.
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:36.320
Yes.
01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:39.440
So comes out, she's like, How are you alive?
01:04:39.519 --> 01:04:41.280
She's pissed off, and rightfully so.
01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:41.840
Yes.
01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:49.519
So turns out he did have a contract out on him, but he it was under a different name.
01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:50.480
Yes, and he had a lot of different things.
01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:53.039
He had built this whole alias, alias.
01:04:53.280 --> 01:05:04.719
He built this whole alias, he was in the boundary, like in Cardinal, like trying to like help help, quote unquote, and grew out his hair, so he was kind of unrecognizable.
01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:12.000
So when she took out the contract, they did this with the intent of creating that alias.
01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:12.960
Yeah.
01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:20.480
So he they slit his throat to a certain degree, but somebody was there to extract him and like save him so he didn't die.
01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:22.079
Yes, but she did not make sure he was drunk.
01:05:22.239 --> 01:05:23.280
She did not make sure he was dead.
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:24.079
Because she was drunk.
01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:25.039
Because she was drunk.
01:05:25.280 --> 01:05:26.079
Which is a theme.
01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:28.480
Let me just say she drinks a lot.
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:29.440
Alcoholic.
01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:31.519
You know, and understandably so.
01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:33.039
We've got a lot going on here.
01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:37.760
Not a great coping skill, but uh, you know, do what you do what you gotta do, Queen.
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:40.400
Um, so she didn't make sure he was dead.
01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:52.320
He gets extracted, saved, and is thrown in to create this alias to get them, get them on the his side, and like, and we'll explain what we mean by that in just a little bit.
01:05:52.559 --> 01:05:53.519
Yeah, gets close to Pharaoh.
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:59.519
Gets close to Pharaoh, they build a rapport and a relationship, and he essentially is helping from the inside.
01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:02.000
So we think.
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:06.639
Which, again, couldn't have seen this coming from a mile away.
01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:07.199
No.
01:06:07.519 --> 01:06:09.840
So he explains that to Lyra.
01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:15.920
All of a sudden, you know, you realize Sergeant Michael is in is in this meeting.
01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:18.320
She's like, what the fuck are you doing here?
01:06:18.480 --> 01:06:20.559
Right, let me just throw another fucking wrench into this.
01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:20.960
Right.
01:06:21.119 --> 01:06:21.519
God damn it.
01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:24.239
Grayson's dad is not his dad.
01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:24.639
Right.
01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:26.079
Maximus is not his dad.
01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:28.559
Which we find out because Lyra's like, what is why?
01:06:28.639 --> 01:06:28.960
Why is it?
01:06:29.119 --> 01:06:30.239
What do you mean protect your son?
01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:30.559
Right.
01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:31.119
What do you mean?
01:06:31.199 --> 01:06:31.840
Like, why do you care?
01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:32.480
Why are you here?
01:06:32.719 --> 01:06:33.679
Because he's his son.
01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:36.960
Don Don That came out of the state.
01:06:37.199 --> 01:06:39.119
Again, couldn't have seen that one coming.
01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:42.079
So we find out that Sergeant Michael is his dad.
01:06:42.239 --> 01:06:42.559
Yeah.
01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:53.199
He promised his mom that he would protect them from the inside, like, do what he could to save, save Grayson from any, you know, thing that might happen to him.
01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:55.599
And he makes good on that eventually.
01:06:55.679 --> 01:06:57.599
We'll get to that in just a second.
01:06:57.760 --> 01:06:58.800
So they make a plan.
01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:01.599
They're like, You're gonna go here and do this.
01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:05.039
We're gonna cut the like we're gonna switch up the surveillance.
01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:07.599
Like, Lyra, you're gonna pretend to be the dutiful daughter.
01:07:07.679 --> 01:07:08.559
Like, it's a whole thing.
01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:12.559
They're like, we'll extract as many people as we can, we'll put them underground, everything's gonna be fine.
01:07:12.719 --> 01:07:12.880
Right.
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:14.800
They have bumpers, not bunkers, bunkers.
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:15.599
Bunkers, right?
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:18.400
Like we're like, right.
01:07:18.719 --> 01:07:21.760
They've got the fucking video feed.
01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:22.159
Right.
01:07:22.639 --> 01:07:28.320
Looping, so that way, you know, it's not we wouldn't, you know, if they look, ah, it's just a quiet day.
01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:29.840
Right, everything's fine.
01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:31.519
Right.
01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:33.840
Cardinals in the bunker.
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:36.320
Everything's going according to plan.
01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:37.679
Everything's going too well.
01:07:37.840 --> 01:07:38.079
It does.
01:07:38.159 --> 01:07:38.639
Some of the things.
01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:42.239
And I quoted, and it goes by hour.
01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:51.199
So for that day, chapter 36, 11 a.m., I highlighted the very last line because I read it and then I s and then I skim uh like switched to the next page.
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:55.519
And then I went back and I was like, let me just highlight that because I feel like that's a bad omen.
01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:56.000
Yeah.
01:07:56.159 --> 01:07:58.719
And it was Calum going, it was going too smoothly.
01:07:58.960 --> 01:07:59.599
It was.
01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:02.800
So And then this is where we get our bullshit.
01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:04.559
It's the day of the vow ceremony.
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:05.039
Yep.
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:08.559
So they are basically like they're getting ready.
01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:09.840
They're like, we have to do this.
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:10.639
Everybody's moving in place.
01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:12.000
Everybody's moving in the place.
01:08:12.079 --> 01:08:14.159
They have no idea what's going on outside of.
01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:15.039
Nobody knows.
01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:15.840
Nobody knows.
01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:18.399
But Grayson and Shade, especially, don't know.
01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:19.520
Like, this is what's happening.
01:08:19.600 --> 01:08:21.119
They have no information, no intel.
01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:24.800
Lyra left them little notes of like, here's what to do, here's your part.
01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:27.119
So they're basically like out of the loop.
01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:30.159
They just go to the they get ready for the vow ceremony.
01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:33.119
They're like, this is you know what we're what we're gonna do.
01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:33.439
Yeah.
01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:34.479
We're just gonna make it.
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:36.800
As long as we make it through the vow, like who cares?
01:08:37.039 --> 01:08:37.439
Right.
01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:39.520
We'll figure what to do after.
01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:44.239
So then you've got Lyra calling Callum and going, I'm so sorry.
01:08:44.479 --> 01:08:45.039
I'm so sorry.
01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:46.319
And I'm going, what do you mean?
01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:47.439
What do you mean, Lyra?
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:47.920
No.
01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:51.039
Whatever's about to happen is a shit.
01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:53.840
And this is where it takes the left turn so far.
01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:57.600
I texted You texted me.
01:08:57.840 --> 01:08:58.239
Hold on.
01:08:58.479 --> 01:08:58.880
We can't.
01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:00.560
I think you said Lyra no.
01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:04.159
I was asleep at this point, but I knew exactly what you were talking about.
01:09:04.239 --> 01:09:10.399
Because at the same time, so it's like by the time that I get to this point, it's 11 45 last Sunday.
01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:13.520
I'm going, I just gotta make it.
01:09:13.840 --> 01:09:17.359
Because at this point, it's page 536.
01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:17.760
Yeah.
01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:20.479
I'm going, okay, I just have to make it.
01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:22.479
I just have to make it to this last little bit.
01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:23.680
I'll figure out what's going on.
01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:24.720
Maybe I'll get some answers.
01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:26.800
I can go to sleep and wait for the next book.
01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:30.479
When she says that I'm sorry, I said, What do you mean?
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:30.880
Right.
01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:32.079
So I tested you.
01:09:32.159 --> 01:09:33.119
I'm like, Lyra, no.
01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:36.800
And then I sent you this fucking TikTok that's like, and nothing can go wrong.
01:09:36.960 --> 01:09:38.560
And then all went wrong.
01:09:39.199 --> 01:09:39.920
All of it.
01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:44.560
So Lyra has they do the vow.
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:46.880
They the vow goes off without hitch.
01:09:46.960 --> 01:09:50.159
She, they are now technically vowed together.
01:09:50.479 --> 01:09:54.960
And they remove their masks and it comes out underneath their little veil.
01:09:55.119 --> 01:10:00.319
They remove their masks and they're supposed to be unveiled, remasked, and that's when they're presented as Mr.
01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:00.720
and Mrs.
01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:01.840
Grayson Sorrel.
01:10:02.079 --> 01:10:02.319
Right.
01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:08.479
Well, turns out in their little notes, Mira does tell them, like, hey, trust Michael.
01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:09.359
You can trust him.
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:10.319
You can trust him.
01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:10.720
Right.
01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:13.039
Because he comes to get them for the bow ceremony.
01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:20.000
So she just leaves them little pieces here and there, not to be too suspicious, but like, here's what I need you to do.
01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:24.880
So they get the note that's like, don't put your mask back on.
01:10:25.039 --> 01:10:27.520
So when they unveil, they're not wearing their masks.
01:10:27.760 --> 01:10:40.000
And turns out she's had a ton of other women in the underground, like removing their masks and standing up and being like and they're like and they're in white slips, so they all undress and they're in like these white slips.
01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:44.560
Because we find out, because she's telling Callum, I cannot send her to that.
01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:52.880
And we don't know what she means because when Grayson, to Grayson's knowledge versus what her knowledge is.
01:10:52.960 --> 01:10:57.119
So Grayson explains, he's like, I have to tell you this, this is what's gonna happen.
01:10:57.279 --> 01:10:58.800
I don't want you to be ill-prepared.
01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:05.840
So he explains, Oh, we have to consummate air to consummate in front of all these people, icky, that was icky in general.
01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:10.560
What we didn't know is that that's not the only thing that happens.
01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:12.720
And Lyra was like, I'm not sending this, it's awful.
01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:14.000
I'm not sending her to do that.
01:11:14.159 --> 01:11:14.560
Right.
01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:20.880
And essentially, it's that everybody who's loyal to the heart, like in Maximus's circle, gets to take a turn with her and Grayson.
01:11:21.359 --> 01:11:26.960
Including Maximus, including Maximus, we already know Grayson will not stood for that.
01:11:27.279 --> 01:11:29.520
Nah, that's you you put hands on my wife, you're dying.
01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:30.960
But it's too early in the book for that.
01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:32.399
So we don't know this.
01:11:32.640 --> 01:11:33.359
But we don't know this.
01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:37.760
This is not common knowledge until Lyra straight up says, I wasn't gonna send her to do that.
01:11:37.920 --> 01:11:38.239
Yeah.
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:47.439
Which is when she says, I'm so sorry, and switches off the phone, and it's like, well, Callum's going, I need you, and he calls Pharaoh and he's like, I need you to cut the power right now.
01:11:47.520 --> 01:11:49.359
I don't know what's happening, I'm locked out.
01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:55.840
This is when, as a reader, I'm going, ooh, I don't like what's going on here.
01:11:56.159 --> 01:11:57.199
And we don't know.
01:11:57.359 --> 01:11:59.600
I'm thinking, like, oh, she blocked him.
01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:02.319
I don't think she right, no, no.
01:12:02.479 --> 01:12:05.279
So we'll see, we're getting there.
01:12:05.439 --> 01:12:06.960
Because that's not what happened.
01:12:07.039 --> 01:12:09.359
She did not block him, she didn't lock him out.
01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:13.439
She just essentially was like, This is a death sentence to me to send her to.
01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:14.079
I'm not doing that.
01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:15.680
I can't in good conscience let this happen.
01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:16.399
I'm so sorry.
01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:17.920
That's when it comes to her plan.
01:12:18.239 --> 01:12:18.560
She changes.
01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:19.279
She changes.
01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:24.880
Everyone is in their white slips, they've taken their mask off.
01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:29.039
She's like, you know, we're the heart, we're its power, and we're taking it back.
01:12:29.439 --> 01:12:30.319
Which was so good.
01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:33.680
Have that highlighted immediately.
01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:34.319
Loved it.
01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:38.239
She's basically like, I'm not your toy, I'm not your pawn, and neither is she.
01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:41.039
Women are stronger than you, like, we're taking it back.
01:12:41.199 --> 01:12:42.079
We are the heart.
01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:42.800
Yep.
01:12:43.119 --> 01:12:49.039
And her dad's basically like, Well, that was nice, so you gotta sit down so I can tell you what's up.
01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:53.039
And this is when I started to go, oh my gosh.
01:12:53.199 --> 01:12:58.159
I started screaming like through this whole last bit, going, You're fucking with me, dog.
01:12:58.479 --> 01:13:03.039
Because at this point, Callum is Callum is like, cut the power, what's going on?
01:13:03.199 --> 01:13:07.359
Like running, running to get to her in the heart of the city.
01:13:07.439 --> 01:13:11.680
So he knocks out a guard, he runs up, he gets stopped by Brooker.
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:13.359
Which we don't know, which we don't know.
01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:16.079
We're thinking we're not thinking he's stopped.
01:13:16.159 --> 01:13:19.119
He heard somebody say something, and he keeps running right, and he keeps running.
01:13:19.279 --> 01:13:20.479
That's all we heard from Callum.
01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:21.119
Right.
01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:24.640
Until Lyra goes through all of her things, right?
01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:29.039
Lyra like does does all her stuff, and her dad's basically like, that was cool.
01:13:29.119 --> 01:13:31.680
Anyways, you gotta sit down so I can tell you what's up.
01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:33.279
Let the men talk.
01:13:34.079 --> 01:13:34.880
Pretty much what her dad said.
01:13:35.199 --> 01:13:35.439
Gross.
01:13:35.600 --> 01:13:35.840
Yeah.
01:13:36.079 --> 01:13:37.199
But that's exactly what it did.
01:13:37.279 --> 01:13:39.279
He was like, let the let the men talk.
01:13:39.359 --> 01:13:43.039
And I was like, okay, we'll talk, because I'm I'm about sick of you.
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:49.279
So while all this is going down, Callum does make it.
01:13:50.479 --> 01:13:55.760
Callum makes it gunpoint by Brooker.
01:13:56.159 --> 01:13:58.000
So we have no idea.
01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:08.079
Brooker's a double agent, which I thought, oh, maybe he's just acting for dad and he's gonna pull out and like I was so like, please, please be good.
01:14:08.239 --> 01:14:09.760
Please don't do this to me.
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:12.640
Because at this point, again, I'm screaming, you're fucking with me, dog.
01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:13.840
Like this whole time.
01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:14.720
I'm reading it.
01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:16.720
It's 1145 at night.
01:14:16.880 --> 01:14:19.279
I'm screaming into my pillow, going, You're fucking with me.
01:14:19.359 --> 01:14:20.800
Like, no way, no way.
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:24.560
So Grayson finds out Victor's alive.
01:14:24.720 --> 01:14:25.039
Right.
01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:27.840
He's like, first of all, this is a cluster for Grayson.
01:14:27.920 --> 01:14:29.119
Grayson's like, wait a minute.
01:14:29.600 --> 01:14:31.680
Shade's like, wait a minute, I merch you.
01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:32.560
What's happening?
01:14:32.720 --> 01:14:34.640
And he's like, I'm gonna have to get you for that one.
01:14:34.720 --> 01:14:37.119
And they explain, you know, the whole Like you didn't actually kill me.
01:14:37.279 --> 01:14:38.319
Like you didn't actually kill me.
01:14:38.399 --> 01:14:39.359
Da-da-da-da-da.
01:14:40.640 --> 01:14:43.039
Maximus is like, you're weak.
01:14:43.199 --> 01:14:44.640
You were never my son.
01:14:46.159 --> 01:14:47.520
Grayson's like, what do you mean?
01:14:47.760 --> 01:14:50.479
Grayson's like catching stray after stray.
01:14:50.640 --> 01:14:52.000
I felt so bad for Grayson.
01:14:52.239 --> 01:14:55.600
I hear right here said, poor Grayson, his whole life just got flipped upside down.
01:14:55.760 --> 01:14:56.319
No, literally.
01:14:56.640 --> 01:14:58.880
I can't believe they played everyone.
01:14:59.199 --> 01:15:00.720
No, because they did.
01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:02.000
It was crazy.
01:15:02.239 --> 01:15:03.520
So everybody's didn't.
01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:05.439
Everybody's catching strays.
01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:06.960
Lyra's like, my plan didn't work.
01:15:07.039 --> 01:15:08.319
Callum's like, we're fucked.
01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:08.960
Oh my god.
01:15:09.279 --> 01:15:13.760
At this point, Maximus is like, yeah, your little rebellion trick that didn't work.
01:15:14.800 --> 01:15:19.520
I knew this was happening because man on the inside, thank you, Brooker.
01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:25.279
So at this point, he's like, all your friends have been captured, your plan's done.
01:15:25.439 --> 01:15:29.760
I'm gonna blow this place to smithereens, like you're all gone.
01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:35.840
I win, checkmate, and essentially it's it becomes a shootout.
01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:36.319
Yeah.
01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:39.039
Except Callum runs to go get to Lero.
01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:40.479
Oh my god, I touched it.
01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:42.319
You runs with Callum, no.
01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:46.720
I so worker point blank shoots in the back of the head.
01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:48.880
Shoots Callum in the back of the head.
01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:54.319
Which I was thinking about it on the way here because this is first of all, I started bawling instantaneously.
01:15:54.399 --> 01:15:57.760
I was like, and at this point I screamed, you're fucking with me, no way.
01:15:58.560 --> 01:15:59.840
What a bitch move.
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:14.239
If you're gonna sh if you're gonna take not only the life of your sister's love, the love of her life, like at least have the decency or you know, the choice to like show make him look at you.
01:16:14.319 --> 01:16:16.079
Cause like, what a whack ass thing to do.
01:16:16.159 --> 01:16:19.760
You're a coward and a bitch, and I don't like you, and I hope you get yours in book two.
01:16:20.079 --> 01:16:21.199
I'm just saying.
01:16:21.439 --> 01:16:22.000
Yeah.
01:16:22.319 --> 01:16:23.680
So it's a shootout.
01:16:23.760 --> 01:16:27.119
Like, Grayson and Shade are like, we gotta do what we gotta do.
01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:34.239
She had weapons underneath her dress, so they're just pulled that fucking trigger and shot her dad, his dad in the fucking face.
01:16:34.399 --> 01:16:37.520
As soon as that cover came up from the back, she would have been fine.
01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:43.359
It might have been fine, but I think Brooker was still the variable we weren't, we weren't sure.
01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:44.479
We weren't gonna know.
01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:52.000
I still don't know why it played out, but like he's essentially like Callum gets shot, Lyra's running to him, being like having a meltdown.
01:16:52.159 --> 01:16:52.880
Which I don't know.
01:16:53.039 --> 01:16:54.000
And rightfully so.
01:16:54.079 --> 01:16:57.920
Like, even I think Grayson described it like that was just first of all, that's his best friend.
01:16:58.000 --> 01:17:02.239
He's like, he's having a moment, she's having a moment.
01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:08.800
And Shadra's having to Shadira's like, I don't know what's going on right now, this is crazy to me.
01:17:09.680 --> 01:17:11.199
What happened?
01:17:11.439 --> 01:17:16.159
Like her mind's reeling, everybody's like, I'm I'm reeling.
01:17:16.239 --> 01:17:17.199
I'm like, what are we doing?
01:17:17.359 --> 01:17:17.920
What are we doing?
01:17:18.000 --> 01:17:19.359
I'm just like flipping these face over.
01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:19.760
Right.
01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:20.479
What the fuck?
01:17:20.960 --> 01:17:26.720
So he's like, get my son off the off the platform now.
01:17:26.960 --> 01:17:27.840
They take Lyra.
01:17:27.920 --> 01:17:30.079
She's kicking and screaming like gone.
01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:39.279
Like they take Brooker, they take Lyra, and Maximus is attempting to A off the child that is now not his son and his wife.
01:17:39.520 --> 01:17:40.000
Yes.
01:17:40.239 --> 01:17:44.319
And he goes to sh he's like So the shootout happens.
01:17:44.880 --> 01:17:45.680
The shootout happened.
01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:50.399
Because Drayson is about to pull that trigger to shoot Maximus.
01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:51.039
Right.
01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:53.119
And Michael steps in front of him.
01:17:53.520 --> 01:17:55.279
Oh yeah, Maximus about to take him out.
01:17:55.520 --> 01:17:57.279
Michael Right.
01:17:58.640 --> 01:17:58.960
No.
01:17:59.600 --> 01:17:59.920
Yes.
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:04.159
So essentially he's about to take care of what he deems the problem.
01:18:04.319 --> 01:18:04.479
Yeah.
01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:06.239
He's like, I've taken care of all my other problems.
01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:10.880
Let's take care of the 99th problem, and because a bitch ain't one, and we're just gonna go.
01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:13.840
So he gets his other children off the platform.
01:18:14.079 --> 01:18:16.319
He's like what makes everybody in heart go home.
01:18:16.479 --> 01:18:16.640
Right.
01:18:16.720 --> 01:18:18.640
He's like, Y'all better get inside.
01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:18.960
Right.
01:18:19.520 --> 01:18:20.640
Makes everybody else go home.
01:18:20.720 --> 01:18:23.119
He's like, your little rebellion was cute, go home.
01:18:23.359 --> 01:18:23.840
Right.
01:18:24.159 --> 01:18:27.920
So he steps in front of the gun.
01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:30.000
Unfortunately, Michael dies.
01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:30.960
Dies.
01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:32.479
Grayson's alive.
01:18:32.720 --> 01:18:33.520
Grayson's alive.
01:18:33.840 --> 01:18:40.159
This shootout happens between Michael's men and Vera.
01:18:40.560 --> 01:18:41.359
The Vera, right.
01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:42.159
That's what I call them.
01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:44.399
So Michael had his own little team of men.
01:18:44.479 --> 01:18:45.600
It wasn't enough people.
01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:46.479
That happens.
01:18:46.560 --> 01:18:48.960
A lot of people, you know, Shade's taking them out.
01:18:49.039 --> 01:18:50.079
Grayson's taking them out.
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:51.439
Everybody's trying to fight back.
01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:53.920
And Michael did they forget about now.
01:18:54.079 --> 01:18:56.159
Maximus thinks, I've won here.
01:18:56.319 --> 01:18:56.880
This is it.
01:18:57.039 --> 01:18:57.760
You're done.
01:18:58.640 --> 01:19:01.119
He's getting ready to take them hostage.
01:19:01.680 --> 01:19:06.800
And he's got Grayson, you know, on his on face on the platform.
01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:08.079
He's like ready to go.
01:19:08.239 --> 01:19:09.600
I'm taking them captive.
01:19:09.680 --> 01:19:10.720
Like this is done.
01:19:11.039 --> 01:19:20.720
And Alara, Grayson's mom, was upset and she hid behind the little like stand that he was using as podiums, the minister.
01:19:21.279 --> 01:19:27.119
And she gets up, and it's her point of view, which we had not gotten her point of view really the whole time.
01:19:27.520 --> 01:19:33.520
And essentially, the whole book, she's like quiet, she's trying to like be a voice of reason.
01:19:33.840 --> 01:19:35.119
Maximus isn't letting her.
01:19:35.199 --> 01:19:37.680
Maximus is like, the women belong behind here.
01:19:37.760 --> 01:19:39.359
Why are you speaking out of turn?
01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:43.279
Like, beats her, like, just puts her down the whole book.
01:19:44.399 --> 01:19:47.279
And essentially, she's like, I'm gonna have to mourn in silence.
01:19:47.359 --> 01:19:48.800
Like, this is just gonna be it.
01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:52.319
And because we we know Michael is the love of her life.
01:19:52.399 --> 01:19:52.560
Right.
01:19:52.640 --> 01:19:53.039
And that's her.
01:19:53.359 --> 01:19:55.680
She's like, we never he promised, right?
01:19:55.760 --> 01:19:58.159
He promised, you know, he'd take care of our child and he did.
01:19:58.640 --> 01:20:00.960
Lay his life down and he did for this moment.
01:20:01.119 --> 01:20:02.560
She's right, yeah.
01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:07.520
So she essentially steps out from behind the podium with a gun.
01:20:07.680 --> 01:20:14.399
With a gun and points it straight at Maximus, like she takes out a couple, she takes out a couple guards, and they hesitate.
01:20:14.720 --> 01:20:17.359
And they hesitate because it's right, she's a wife, right?
01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:18.399
She's the first lady, essentially.
01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:19.439
Takes them out.
01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:20.239
She takes them out.
01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:23.920
After it's done, she looks at Maximus and she's like, Neil.
01:20:24.399 --> 01:20:26.399
And he's like, What do you mean?
01:20:26.560 --> 01:20:28.640
I am the have you lost your mind?
01:20:28.800 --> 01:20:30.399
And I'm like, I hope she did.
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:32.159
And she goes, Neil.
01:20:32.399 --> 01:20:40.960
And he gets down on her his knees, and she's basically like, You know, you never broke me, you never took my strength from me, you never stripped me of my fight.
01:20:41.039 --> 01:20:44.880
While you were reveling in your power and your illusion of control, I was watching learning, planning.
01:20:44.960 --> 01:20:46.079
And he's like, What?
01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:52.399
You killed a few, like guards, you killed a few guards, my son's still alive to carry on my legacy.
01:20:52.479 --> 01:20:54.560
Like, what did you think was gonna happen?
01:20:54.880 --> 01:20:58.399
And she, it was the best, she laughed.
01:20:58.640 --> 01:21:00.479
The sound genuine despite everything.
01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:02.880
Men never truly understand the meaning of patience.
01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:09.039
You see, men like you can't comprehend even the concept of suffering, the lesson to be learned in it, especially not in silence.
01:21:09.199 --> 01:21:10.800
But women, that is all we do.
01:21:10.880 --> 01:21:13.199
We endure, we wait, we survive.
01:21:13.520 --> 01:21:15.840
And she's basically like, You destroyed everything.
01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:19.600
Here I am holding the power, I'm getting the last word.
01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:22.560
And she and he's like, What are you talking about?
01:21:22.640 --> 01:21:25.520
Is this is this some justice proclamation, a new order?
01:21:25.600 --> 01:21:27.039
Like, what do you what are you talking about?
01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:28.159
And she's like, No.
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:29.760
And she goes, Do you know who I am?
01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:31.199
And he goes, huh?
01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:32.399
Like, what do you mean?
01:21:32.560 --> 01:21:35.199
And she's like, Do you know what they call me, Maximus?
01:21:35.279 --> 01:21:36.479
And he goes, No.
01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:40.079
And she just grins and she goes, Python, they call me Python.
01:21:40.479 --> 01:21:41.840
And he's like, but why?
01:21:42.399 --> 01:21:42.960
Why?
01:21:43.680 --> 01:21:48.399
And the way she explains it, because I slowly consume my prey.
01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:52.000
I cut off their life force without ever being noticed until it's too late.
01:21:52.159 --> 01:21:53.279
This city is my prey.
01:21:53.520 --> 01:21:54.560
You are my prey.
01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:58.800
A reckoning is coming for the city brought by my hand, but you will not be here to see it.
01:21:58.960 --> 01:22:00.560
And she's like, he's like, don't do this.
01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:02.880
And he starts begging for his life, which is great.
01:22:03.039 --> 01:22:04.319
Because shut up, bitch.
01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:05.600
What do you mean?
01:22:05.840 --> 01:22:10.640
And she's like, these will be my last words to you, Maximus Sorel, she said, cutting off his begging.
01:22:10.800 --> 01:22:12.720
Mercy does not exist in Newfound Haven.
01:22:12.880 --> 01:22:14.399
Mercy does exist in Newfound Haven.
01:22:14.479 --> 01:22:16.960
She pressed the barrel of her gun to his head, just not for you.
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:18.079
And then she pulled the trigger.
01:22:18.319 --> 01:22:19.359
And that's the last line of the book.
01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:19.600
Yeah.
01:22:20.319 --> 01:22:23.439
And I'm like having a meltdown.
01:22:23.600 --> 01:22:25.359
By this point, I'm going, You're kidding me.
01:22:25.520 --> 01:22:27.680
Like this whole book, she's been in the background.
01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:28.479
She's been quiet.
01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:30.720
Like she's been, she has been plotting.
01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:32.239
She has been planting.
01:22:32.399 --> 01:22:34.239
She has been like, you know what?
01:22:34.560 --> 01:22:35.920
I am the rebellion.
01:22:36.079 --> 01:22:38.880
I am, I am this movement.
01:22:39.039 --> 01:22:39.199
Yeah.
01:22:39.359 --> 01:22:40.560
And there's no mercy for you.
01:22:40.640 --> 01:22:42.079
It's time for you to be shut up.
01:22:42.319 --> 01:22:46.560
Now that that is the opening line of the book is you can't have mercy anymore.
01:22:46.800 --> 01:22:47.039
Right.
01:22:47.199 --> 01:22:48.000
That shows weakness.
01:22:48.159 --> 01:22:48.960
It shows weakness.
01:22:49.119 --> 01:22:50.560
And it was so interesting.
01:22:50.720 --> 01:22:52.159
I was like, what a tie-in.
01:22:52.239 --> 01:22:53.520
What a way to go about it.
01:22:53.680 --> 01:23:00.399
So, of course, by the time I end the book, and I'm having a meltdown, I sent HM Wolf up to Oh, I forgot.
01:23:01.039 --> 01:23:02.159
I you didn't want to hear it.
01:23:02.479 --> 01:23:03.279
No, she did not.
01:23:03.359 --> 01:23:05.119
Uh, thankfully, thank God.
01:23:05.279 --> 01:23:09.119
So when I finish the book, it's about 11:50, it's about 11.50 at night.
01:23:09.279 --> 01:23:10.560
I'm having a meltdown.
01:23:10.640 --> 01:23:15.680
I'm texting you at that point that I finished the book, and I I remember.
01:23:15.760 --> 01:23:18.000
Let me scroll through because it was so good.
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:20.560
Let's see, where was it?
01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:29.119
So I texted you, and I was like, um, we do text a lot.
01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:33.119
I sent you a bunch of memes too.
01:23:33.760 --> 01:23:40.239
So at the point that I was 313 pages in, I said, fuck sleep, I need answers.
01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:47.840
And at 1129 was when it appears I hit the reckoning that happened because I texted you.
01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:50.319
I said, nah, you're fucking with me, dog.
01:23:50.479 --> 01:23:54.319
The author of this book and I are throwing hands, and you were like, Did it end on the worf uh cliffhanger?
01:23:54.479 --> 01:23:56.319
And I said, The worst cliffhanger I've ever been through.
01:23:56.399 --> 01:23:57.680
She put Rebecca to shame just now.
01:23:57.760 --> 01:24:00.479
I've been crying and screaming, You're fucking with me, dog, for 20 minutes.
01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:02.720
Everything just went to shit so fucking fast.
01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:03.119
Yeah.
01:24:03.359 --> 01:24:04.800
And I said, I'm so unwell.
01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:06.640
I couldn't have called that shit from a mile away.
01:24:06.800 --> 01:24:10.960
They got me so good, and I sent like just a slew of memes.
01:24:12.560 --> 01:24:16.720
And and then I turned around and I messaged JM Wolf.
01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:20.880
And I didn't tell you this till you came back to work on Wednesday and you said, I don't want to hear it yet.
01:24:21.199 --> 01:24:22.960
So I messaged her.
01:24:23.439 --> 01:24:25.039
I'm so sorry.
01:24:25.359 --> 01:24:28.800
This was like pure, like I was going through it.
01:24:28.960 --> 01:24:33.359
So I said, Please, I beg you tell me you're fucking with me, not my Callie.
01:24:33.520 --> 01:24:34.000
Why?
01:24:34.239 --> 01:24:35.600
Honestly, I'll hand it to you.
01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:37.439
I didn't see that shit from a mile away.
01:24:37.520 --> 01:24:40.079
I feel like I just got shot repeatedly without warning.
01:24:40.159 --> 01:24:40.800
What a book.
01:24:40.960 --> 01:24:44.319
You brilliant, devious, but diabolical, brilliant soul, you.
01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:45.520
I cannot wait for your next one.
01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:50.640
I'd apologize for this unhinged message, but it's your fault I'm unhinged at midnight when I have to work in four hours.
01:24:50.720 --> 01:24:52.079
I simply will never get over this.
01:24:52.159 --> 01:24:53.039
You're truly amazing.
01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:54.640
Please keep writing forever and ever.
01:24:54.880 --> 01:24:55.520
I love that.
01:24:55.760 --> 01:24:56.239
I did.
01:24:56.399 --> 01:24:57.760
I was like, I'm unwell.
01:24:57.840 --> 01:24:59.840
I need to tell her I'm unwell.
01:25:00.079 --> 01:25:01.680
And I'm not sorry.
01:25:02.479 --> 01:25:04.960
Because again, I never saw that coming.
01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:05.279
No.
01:25:05.439 --> 01:25:06.720
Absolutely, absolutely not.
01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:08.319
Like that was nuts.
01:25:08.800 --> 01:25:09.359
It was such a dream.
01:25:09.760 --> 01:25:10.319
It was so good.
01:25:10.479 --> 01:25:11.119
Six stars.
01:25:11.279 --> 01:25:13.520
Like easily my favorite read of the year.
01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:16.479
I was like crazy.
01:25:16.960 --> 01:25:17.520
I love it.
01:25:17.840 --> 01:25:18.800
I love it.
01:25:19.520 --> 01:25:23.920
I simply be in agony until the next one.
01:25:24.640 --> 01:25:26.479
The next one's not till next year.
01:25:26.720 --> 01:25:27.840
Like I'm in agony.
01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:29.680
Like, I needed this yesterday.
01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:30.079
Yeah.
01:25:30.319 --> 01:25:33.600
I need a conclusion to this like yesterday.
01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:35.520
It's crazy.
01:25:35.680 --> 01:25:36.159
Yeah.
01:25:36.399 --> 01:25:36.960
But that's.
01:25:37.199 --> 01:25:37.520
I love it.
01:25:37.600 --> 01:25:38.479
It was such a good book.
01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:39.119
But that's our.
01:25:39.600 --> 01:25:42.159
Can't wait to reread it right before we read the second one.
01:25:42.399 --> 01:25:42.640
Right?
01:25:42.720 --> 01:25:43.279
And and will.
01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:43.920
We will.
01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:44.239
I will.
01:25:44.640 --> 01:25:45.279
And will.
01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:47.119
Hopefully listen to it all day.
01:25:47.920 --> 01:25:49.279
My sister has not finished it.
01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:50.319
Uh right.
01:25:50.720 --> 01:25:54.479
She was gonna be a guest on this episode, but alas, she did not finish it yet.
01:25:54.560 --> 01:25:57.439
So hopefully she listens to it once she does finish.
01:25:57.680 --> 01:26:05.680
But um she and I agree, so I hate Maximus more so than I've hated any villain in any book or movie before.
01:26:06.000 --> 01:26:06.479
Absolutely.
01:26:06.720 --> 01:26:09.520
Um I think he is the worst of the worst, truly.
01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:12.159
And all he is with is a man with a mouth.
01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:14.159
Um essentially at the end of the day.
01:26:14.399 --> 01:26:15.039
Not even a good one.
01:26:15.199 --> 01:26:16.079
Not even a good one.
01:26:16.239 --> 01:26:19.680
Uh but man, he put President Snow to shame real fast.
01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:24.640
I was like, damn! Uh, but she and I agree.
01:26:24.800 --> 01:26:31.119
So if this were to be made into a movie, I'm just saying Josh Brolin would play a real good villain.
01:26:31.359 --> 01:26:33.199
I would love this to be made into a movie.
01:26:33.359 --> 01:26:34.479
Oh my gosh, I would die.
01:26:34.640 --> 01:26:34.880
Yes.
01:26:35.039 --> 01:26:38.960
I'd be in the theaters, like, with my popcorn in my drink, just like buzzing.
01:26:39.680 --> 01:26:43.439
Just buzzing, boo-hooing, like buzzin' the whole time.
01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:50.000
That would be such a yeah, I think Josh Brolin would play the best, like Maximus, like villain.
01:26:50.159 --> 01:26:51.600
Just we agreed.
01:26:51.680 --> 01:26:57.520
She's like, because I talked to her a little bit after, and she's like, This man sucks.
01:26:58.239 --> 01:26:59.520
Like, yeah, he does.
01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:00.640
And he do.
01:27:00.800 --> 01:27:03.680
I have found my new favorite villain to hate.
01:27:03.840 --> 01:27:05.039
Like and I hate him.
01:27:05.199 --> 01:27:08.079
And I hate him, and I feel vindicated that you died at the end of it.
01:27:08.159 --> 01:27:11.600
Like, you got shot by your own wife who you abused for 90% of the book.
01:27:11.840 --> 01:27:12.720
Good on her.
01:27:13.119 --> 01:27:14.159
Good on her.
01:27:14.800 --> 01:27:17.600
And you didn't even see it coming, which was the best part.
01:27:17.840 --> 01:27:18.079
Yes.
01:27:18.319 --> 01:27:20.319
You were like, ah, my weak wife won't do anything.
01:27:20.560 --> 01:27:21.520
It's my weak wife, yeah.
01:27:21.840 --> 01:27:22.640
Ha! Bang.
01:27:23.279 --> 01:27:23.520
Yeah.
01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:24.239
Blights out.
01:27:25.920 --> 01:27:26.560
I love it.
01:27:26.720 --> 01:27:30.720
I'm so excited to see what she does with the rest of it.
01:27:30.880 --> 01:27:33.199
Like, how do we how do you come back from this?
01:27:33.359 --> 01:27:36.159
I can't wait to see because that's what's called Python.
01:27:36.239 --> 01:27:36.720
Yes.
01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:39.039
I'm interested to see how she started.
01:27:39.119 --> 01:27:45.199
Like, do I I hope we get more of her story, like how she kind of started to move in the shadows.
01:27:45.520 --> 01:27:49.199
But I'm more curious, how do you how do you get out of this?
01:27:49.439 --> 01:27:53.520
Like, this is very much reminiscent of catching fire.
01:27:53.600 --> 01:27:57.600
Like how like you end catching fire and you're like, Well, damn, Catis, how are we gonna get out of this one?
01:27:57.840 --> 01:27:59.760
Right, because you saw Booker and then
01:28:00.399 --> 01:28:08.000
Right, you have Brooker, you have the Loyalist, you have people in the heart who maybe still agree with it and aren't willing to like let things change.
01:28:08.079 --> 01:28:11.279
You have the outside of Newfound Haven that he was trying to bring in.
01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:14.000
What do you mean they could just gas everybody?
01:28:14.159 --> 01:28:14.560
Right.
01:28:14.800 --> 01:28:16.800
So, like, where do we go from here?
01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:18.239
So, I don't know.
01:28:18.399 --> 01:28:21.279
I've got lots of questions and no answers now.
01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:23.680
But I'm excited for the next one.
01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:26.479
Definitely six-star read, easily my favorite read of the year.
01:28:27.199 --> 01:28:27.760
This is one of my favorites.
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:28.800
So good.
01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:32.720
But I think that that's it for us.
01:28:33.039 --> 01:28:33.680
It is.
01:28:34.079 --> 01:28:34.720
Right.
01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:35.439
Well.
01:28:35.680 --> 01:28:37.119
Oh wait, what are we reading next week?
01:28:37.359 --> 01:28:41.199
Next, so next episode, I think we agreed, is Air of Illusion?
01:28:41.359 --> 01:28:42.000
By Madeline Taylor.
01:28:42.159 --> 01:28:43.119
By Madeline Taylor.
01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:43.359
Yes.
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:44.479
Who I love.
01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:46.800
Um, this will be I will be full transparent.
01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:47.920
This is a reread for me.
01:28:48.000 --> 01:28:51.039
This was probably Daggermouth just knocked that one out.
01:28:51.199 --> 01:28:59.520
Because remember, I told you that I think Air of Illusion was my favorite read of the year, and I think Daggermouth just came and was like knocked it over and said, Nope, not a chance.
01:28:59.840 --> 01:29:04.159
This one has a hell of a fucking left field ending too, doesn't it?
01:29:04.319 --> 01:29:04.720
Yes.
01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:09.439
I was on a plane reading this one, and I read it.
01:29:09.680 --> 01:29:11.039
Like 10 o'clock at night.
01:29:11.119 --> 01:29:13.119
I texted you as soon as I got off the plane.
01:29:13.199 --> 01:29:16.319
I was like, I can't even I couldn't even make a peep.
01:29:16.399 --> 01:29:17.520
It's like 10 o'clock at night.
01:29:17.600 --> 01:29:19.199
I'm trying to get home from Michigan.
01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:25.760
Like, I'm just having a meltdown on the plane, holding my Kindle, going, Oh my god! Like, what do you mean?
01:29:26.319 --> 01:29:27.199
What do you mean?
01:29:27.439 --> 01:29:29.439
So I'm excited to see what you think of this one.
01:29:29.600 --> 01:29:30.720
I'm excited to reread it.
01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:41.199
It's been since January 2nd that I have not picked this book up, so I'm excited to see to see what my thoughts are on my reread for sure.
01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:43.840
Because I definitely was like shocked the first go-around.
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I was like, what do you what do you mean?
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So I'm interested to see if a reread I can see it kind of coming, and I don't, I don't think I can.
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Yeah.
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So we'll see.
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Well, hell yeah.
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Alright, well, we will see you guys next time.
01:29:58.640 --> 01:30:00.640
It's becoming a Mike's super short shirt.
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Right.
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What did you say?
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You've never seen it was a Disney thing.
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No Mike's super short shirt.
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Yes, yes.
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Okay, I thought that's what you said, and I was like, is that what I think?
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This is not a super short show.
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No, it was not.
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This might be our longest episode, and I'm not even sorry.
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We're not sorry.
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We had a great time.
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It's not intend with the Rain and Can episode.
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Yes, that was a long one for sure.
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But this one I feel like one of our best episodes.
01:30:23.600 --> 01:30:24.000
Really?
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Yes.
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You think so?
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Uh yeah, the statistics do not lie.
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Uh speaking of the statistics before we go, I'm so glad you brought that up.
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Apparently, a lot of men listen to us.
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So we're getting better.
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And I just want you to know that if any of my exes listen to this.
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Thank you so much for your support and undying love.
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But I'm no, it's just like the men are just in the like 25 to no 35 to 44 category.
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So then it can't be anybody.
01:30:50.479 --> 01:30:51.920
How many younger men are listening to this?
01:30:52.079 --> 01:30:54.479
It can't be anybody I've dated then.
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Did I?
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No, yeah.
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No, it can't be, because if it was like 20 to 25 or like 25 to 30, I'd definitely be like, ah, my old friends are coming back because they they're curious as to what I'm doing.
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And again, thank you for your undying love and support.
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Everybody who's listened to us, we're so grateful.
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We are.
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I love it.
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I love it.
01:31:18.399 --> 01:31:22.800
Alright, well, we've rambled not even rambled, we've unpacked a lot here.
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We did, a lot of them.
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So we will see you guys in the next one.
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Yes, bye.
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Bye.