ToM (Ch12-13): The Min-gerbread Man

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Hello. Hi. And welcome back once again to Wheel Takes,
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a podcast about the wheel of time. A series of
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fantasy novels written by Robert Jordan and completed by Brandon Sanderson.
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My name is Gus. I have read all of them.
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And I'm Allie. And reading is fundamental. And I am
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on book 13. Uh-huh. Chapter 10. 13. 13. 13!
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13-13!
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I like the symmetry of that.
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Yes, this podcast only contains spoilers for what Allie has
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already read. And again today, that is everything up to
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and including Towers of Midnight Chapter 13 for what has
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been wrought. Allie, how you doing?
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Couldn't be better.
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We have been actually like back in our game.
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Podcasting up a storm.
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We've released three episodes in the past week.
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We have.
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One Wheel of Time, one Sunrise on the Reaping, and
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then a very special Dungeon Crawler Carl episode. If you
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are interested in that, that's going to be on our
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Patreon after the first book, which is now uploaded in
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this very feed. So you've probably seen it. It's fun.
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We had a good time. It's like three hours long.
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Yeah.
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Allie, here's what.
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You should check that out.
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Yeah. Here's what I want to know. Yeah. Where'd we
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leave off?
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Fuck.
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It was a controversial moment that you loved. A controversial missive.
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Oh, yes.
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Matt sent a letter.
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Matt's letter.
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Yeah, I didn't see what the big problem was. And
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maybe that's on me.
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It's not like everybody hates it. A lot of people
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like it. There are some people who hate it. But
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there are some people who hate chocolate. Chocolate.
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You know, here's the thing. I'm just known for having
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bad opinions.
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I don't think that's true. I have never, never, never
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believed that. By the way, I went through and I
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did a tally of all the chapters I want to
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live react to in this book.
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Yeah, you said it was a lot.
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It's so many. Just for the folks listening, to give
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you an idea of the things that I would like
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to live react to, and you can look up these
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chapters yourself. Obviously, I can't say what they are. Down
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the line, I am hoping to live react to chapter 20,
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chapter 30 and 31, chapter 37 and 38, chapter 42,
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chapter 48 and 49, chapter 51, chapter 53 through 55.
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Yeah, it's never been a better time to be a patron,
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has it?
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So look forward to that. We're also doing a Sunrise
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on the Reaping live reaction episode. to Sunrise on the Reaping,
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Chapter 5, this coming Sunday at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
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It's now Gus's turn to be.
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To suffer.
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Pacific Standard Time, because that is the day that Daylight
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Savings Time ends. Which is confusing enough for me, and
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if you're somewhere else trying to do the conversion, I
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can't even begin to imagine how confusing that is for you.
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Allie is squeezing my bicep.
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Well... I'm sorry, if you don't want to be harassed
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on the podcast, don't do it with your wife.
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I suppose that's true. I can't be too upset about this.
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That's what you get for getting all muscly.
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That's what happens when you go to the gym, I guess.
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Chapter 12, Allie, an empty ink bottle. This is the
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chapter logo.
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Oh, it's Katsuin's little hair thingies.
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It is Katsuin's little hair thingies. Did you take any notes?
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I did. Yeah, I'm really on my shit again. Okay?
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I'm happy. I'm doing well. Let's see. Wait, hold on.
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I do have to call the DMV. Sorry. Just look
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at my notes. Okay. Nine Eve discovering iced tea. We laugh.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Nynaeve being so casual about Alana going missing.
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It could be more worried.
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She's like, ugh, Tuesday.
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Well, how does Nynaeve feel about Alana?
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Well, is anyone really a fan of Alana?
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Not really. No.
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So, but here's the, well, I mean, show Alana, yes, deeply.
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But book Alana?
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Less.
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No. But yeah, she's missing.
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I don't like that.
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Because here's the thing. If you really want to fuck
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with Rand's healing, kill Alana. Am I wrong? I'm not wrong.
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That would be a spanner in the works.
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And I have it on my bingo sheet.
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You do. We got to look at that again soon. Oh, yeah.
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We didn't make one for Sunrise.
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Well, we just started.
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Yeah. Well, you should make one.
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I will. Just typically you let me get, you know,
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a little ways into the book.
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Do it right now.
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Okay.
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Maybe that'll be part of our live show.
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Maybe.
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I don't like Lin Min.
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Who?
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Who? I don't like Min being slow now. She's like,
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she's like, I'm slower now. I think maybe because I've
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been reading a lot.
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Well, yeah, she hasn't been throwing knives.
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I don't like it.
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She's been reading books.
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She can do both reading and throwing knives at the
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same time.
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Reading books and having a ton of sex. Honestly.
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Well, that part I'm happy.
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Yeah.
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Sounds awesome.
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That's kind of the vibe.
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I take back what I said. Yeah.
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No, we're all very happy.
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And I said, it's probably the dang dress. And then
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I said, wait, she's in pants, my B. She's in
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pants right now.
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Yeah.
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I said, Min, quick, do a 5K. Brandon always has
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to remind us that Rand has a stump.
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Yeah, yeah.
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He goes pretty far with the stumping reminders.
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He does. I think it's kind of an element of the.
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Hey, everybody, did you know Rand lost an arm?
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I think it's... Brandon really likes to remind the reader
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of things, but also I think it's an element of
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Min still getting used to it.
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Oh, wait.
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I accidentally read for chapters 12 and 13. That's okay.
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Okay.
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And I said, who the fuck is in the caroling grass?
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That's a really good question. Where do you think Moiraine is?
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Tower of Genji? Is the Tower of Genji in the
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caroling grass?
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No. The caroling grass is.
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Well, okay. It was a good guess.
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It is a good guess. The caroling grass... Where the
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fuck is the caroling grass?
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Sorry, that was a lot snarkier than I meant it
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to be.
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The Tower of Genji is kind of, but not really...
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Tower of Genji's, like, over here on this river. Uh-huh.
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Caroline Grass is just this area. See?
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It's pretty close.
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North of Four Kings.
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But close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
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North of Bram Wood. Very good question as to who
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might be there. I guess we'll talk about that in
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a minute. But first, we're going to talk about Chapter 12,
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An Empty Ink Bottle. It's a min-chapter chapter. these two
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chapters are also kind of linking chapters. I think part
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of the reason why we had such a hard time
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getting off the ground with, uh, towers of midnight is
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because we've had a lot of set up and linking chapters. Um,
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but again, as, as, as you might take from my
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previous indication of what we're going to be reacting to, I,
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I actually had to cut like two or three other
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entries from that because I was like, Oh, probably maybe
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also this, maybe also this, maybe also this. Did I
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say chapter 40? Multiple people demanded that I do chapter
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40 today as well, so also chapter 40.
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Chapter 40?
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Live reaction. So that's 20, 31, 32, 37, 38, 40, 42, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54,
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and 55. Good God. The book, a lot happens.
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So there's a pop-off.
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There's a pop-off.
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A pop-off. We're going to pop-off.
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But don't worry, I'm sure we'll still find time to
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have Perrin think about going to look at the horses.
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I'm certain of it. Min sat on a window ledge.
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As long as we still have time to think about
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doing something.
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What are the gist of these two chapters?
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Rand shows up. Well, Alana goes missing.
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Yes.
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Then Rand shows up and kind of gives people a
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lot of exposition.
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Yes.
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And then looks at Cat's way and is like, I
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forgive you, kind of.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I will deal with land eventually. And like, I got
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to deal with some McGuane shit. It's kind of what
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he does. And he's like, and there's a person in
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the Carolyn grass we got to get.
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Yeah.
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And I'm like, who is there?
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He basically shows up.
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Who do we not know the location of?
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Sorry for what I said when I was despondent. I
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have integrated with myself. Yeah.
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I've integrated my shadow. I went to therapy in 49 seconds.
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Yeah, I did. I did like 10 years of therapy.
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It's like the Instagram real videos where they're like, here's
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two years of therapy in two minutes.
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He actually did that.
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Yeah, he did that.
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Yeah. And also integrated with his past life.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's good for him. Men hanging out in the
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Stone of Tear, having a time. A lot of exposition.
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This is interesting. In the stone's courtyards, defenders in their
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striped sleeves and breeches kept stopping and looking up toward
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the open sky. the clouds still lurked on the horizon
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but they were broken around the city in an unnatural
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ring perfectly circular the warmth that men felt was not
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caused by sunlight why have the clouds broken around here.
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Because Rand.
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Because Rand is there.
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Yeah.
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Rand brings sunlight and roses and happiness everywhere he goes.
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Sounds like you.
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You remember last book?
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Switch.
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Last book when he was pissy and mad and he
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would go places and it would be shitty. Yeah. Now
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he goes places and it's nice.
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No, see, but that is like literally what happens when
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you become a happier person.
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Kind of. But do you also remember the prophecy about
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the land is one with the dragon?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But that's kind of true about all of us.
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It kind of also is.
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That's true. Yeah, like haven't you noticed that as you've
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been like becoming a happier person that like everyone around
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you is weirdly happier?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's funny.
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It's an energetic thing.
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Naini was mad and anxious. Three days. Three days he's
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been gone. The last battle looms and the dragon reborn
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is missing. And Min goes, he's not missing. Rand knows
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where he is.
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You do as well.
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I'm not leading you to him. Nine Eve. And why not?
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I'm surely you can't. He needs to be alone. Rand's
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actually not here yet, but Min is. And like maybe
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because Min is connected to him, she's got like a
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bud of his good vibes. I'm not sure.
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I feel like Min is also just kind of good
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vibes on her own.
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She is. She'd been tempted to use the bond to
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seek him out at first when he'd felt that awful anguish.
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Pain deeper than the wounds in his side. Agony, anger,
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and despair. In those moments, Rand had seemed more dangerous
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than he ever had before. Not even that night when he... Yeah,
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I remember when he almost killed her because of the
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true power. And then had come the warmth. It radiated
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from the bond like the comfort of a winter hearth.
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Something wonderful was happening. Something she'd been awaiting without knowing it.
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It'll be all right, Nynaeve. How can you say that?
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He didn't destroy Ebudar, but that doesn't mean he's not dangerous.
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You heard what he nearly did to Tam. His own father, Min.
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A man should not be condemned for what he nearly did, Nynaeve.
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A man can't threaten his dad with death? Like, come on.
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He stopped himself.
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That was one time.
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He didn't stop himself at Natran's barrow. And that was necessary.
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And he killed an entire, like, stronghold of people one time.
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Jeez.
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Get off his dick. Jesus.
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Serene comes in and goes, she has need of you.
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And Nynaeve goes, is that so? Well, perhaps. Alanna is gone.
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Vanished right from her chambers. The defenders, they didn't see
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her go. And there was no sign of a gateway.
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So the defenders are not very good at their jobs.
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Oh.
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No offense.
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Well, let's go then.
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Where do you think she is?
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Um. What do you think's going on here? What's the concern?
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I don't fucking know. Okay. So the question is, did
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she leave because of Rand? Like Rand showed up first
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to hang out with her and was like, go do
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this thing for me. But then why wouldn't he just
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do that in front of everybody unless it was like
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a top secret mission kind of thing? Or did someone
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steal her? Like, that's my concern is like someone fucking
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stole her out the room.
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Is valid. Valid concern.
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They said that there was not enough magic that she
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was like doing to constitute a gateway. And I'm like,
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so has anyone checked the closet?
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She's tucked away.
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Like, what if she's just hiding under the bed so
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that everybody thinks she's gone so that she can actually
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sneak out?
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That would be pretty funny.
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I'm just saying, has anyone checked the closet?
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No.
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Check the walk-in.
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Behind the coats.
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They felt no channeling.
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That's what I'm saying. What if she's in the closet?
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Has anyone checked?
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I think if you invert your weave, no, if you
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invert your weaves, you can still detect the channeling, right?
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I don't know. You just can't see him.
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Can you?
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I don't remember.
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I don't know.
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Oh, she'd felt channeling, but nothing demanding. Certainly not enough
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to create a gateway.
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Um, what if she made herself very small?
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Well, can you do that?
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Maureen could do it.
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No, she couldn't.
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She made herself really big.
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No, she didn't. Oh, she, yeah, that's right. She just, yeah.
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Illusions.
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Yeah, she just, she just freaked him with the okey-doke. Okay. Okay.
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So, fine. So what if Alana just made herself invisible?
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They come in. They can't find her. She sneaks out.
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That would be pretty funny.
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Would you need a lot of magic to do that?
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To bend the light around yourself? I don't think so.
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Ran did it to Min once very easily.
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There you go. That's my theory.
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Katsuin's trying to find her. Nynaeve is like, okay, who
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gives a fuck?
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Which we should, because if something happens to her, Rand
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will go fucking apeshit again.
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She's only one person, and so far as I understand,
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she was free to leave when she wished. Ha! The
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girl isn't only one person, she's a tool. An important one.
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Hand her a sheet of paper that had been folded
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with a blood red seal of wax on one side
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and goes, do you recognize this? And he was like, uh, no. Why?
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The letter was opened in haste. The paper was torn.
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It was dropped on the floor and the note inside
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taken along with clothing and emergency items. And I was like, again,
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who gives a fuck? And Min is like, Well, you know,
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there's the whole bonded to Rand thing.
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That's what I'm saying. Game face, Nynaeve. We know this.
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We know why it's important.
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Anybody, this letter, where do you think she got this letter?
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The letter from Alana?
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The letter, Alana had a letter that she received and
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then booked it.
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Wait, say what the contents of the letter were again.
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We do not know the contents of the letter.
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Why do we not know that?
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Because she took it with her.
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But why do we know that she had a letter?
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Because she left the envelope that was sealed with red wax.
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Okay, so it's from Rand.
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Is it?
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Possibly.
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Has Rand been writing people letters?
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Matt has. Is it Matt?
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What kind of wax sealed the letter to Elaine?
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It didn't have any wax on it.
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Okay. Varen has?
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Varen has been writing letters.
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And I think she's the kind of gal who would
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do a red wax.
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Wait. I believe that Varen's other letters were also sealed
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with red wax.
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Oh. Aha. Is Alana Black Aja? That'd be crazy. That
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would be crazy.
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Would Varen out Alana or out herself to Alana in
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that case?
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Well, Varen's dead, so she doesn't give a fuck.
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Yeah, but, you know, if Varen left instructions, it's probably
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something important that needs to be done.
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Okay, but what's the instructions? What needs to be done?
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They got to get Rand to Shia Ghul. Is it
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like go hang out in Shia Ghul and make him
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come get you?
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Maybe.
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Or what is it?
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I don't know. I can't tell you.
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Is it something White Tower related?
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I can't tell you.
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Or is there like somebody who's Black Aja that's like,
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you got to go do this shit?
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I don't know.
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What is it?
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It's from Barrett.
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It's for Baron. Okay, what has Baron been up to
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other than fucking... And now Rand can tell just based
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on vibes. Which, like, same at this point. I'm like,
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I don't fuck with you anymore. I'm so picky now.
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Um....
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Okay so she left after getting a letter from varin
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varin has been doing black asha sneakiness has she been
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doing anything else well she involved in any other shit.
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Her her machinations yeah.
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What machinations all of the you know all of.
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The stuff she was doing with uh revealing the black asha.
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Yeah. But like, what else might she have been doing
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that required Alana specifically? Someone who is bonded with the
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dragon reborn. What else is there left to do?
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I don't know. This is going to bother me. Rand
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does mention that she seems to be somewhere north, possibly
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in the borderlands.
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Oh. Somewhere north in the Borderlands. Daemon Dredd. Maybe.
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Maybe.
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In the Borderlands. Or land. Could be related to the
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land stuff. With the Menetherans.
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Somewhere, the borderlands, perhaps Arafel, he says.
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Oh, the fuck's in Arafel?
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Arafel is here. It's west of Shinar.
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What the fuck is in Arafel?
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Nothing much.
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Well, we know that Narishma's from there. They got bells
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in their hair. Yes, he is. I swear to God.
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Look it up.
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I believe you.
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Well, Kandor just fell.
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It did.
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So maybe she's trying to prevent further shit. Maybe she's
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trying to get Rand to go there.
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Maybe.
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Right?
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Well, where's, where's Lan?
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Riding east.
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Where?
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Not sure.
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They're not sure?
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Well, I'm not sure. I mean, the timeline is all
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fucked up. He's somewhere.
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Where? Find out.
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I can't find out because I don't know when exactly
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this happens.
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You could Google it. Couldn't you?
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No, I can't.
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Do the Googling?
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No, I can't because he rides the entire fucking continent.
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Well, where'd she drop him off?
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Here. World's End. He had to go all the way through.
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I'm pretty sure he's in like Chachin.
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At this point. So she could totally intercept him. She could.
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In the prologue, Lan is in Saldea.
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He's all the way over there.
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Yeah.
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And didn't Kandor just fall?
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Yeah. Yes, I think it was Kandor in the prologue.
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What is she doing up there?
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Yeah, Kandor.
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What the fuck is she doing up there? Is it
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related to Tarwin's Gap?
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I don't know.
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The Mountains of Doom?
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Or maybe I do know. Oh, wait.
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Shia LaBeouf's up there.
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It is.
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So she's going to Shia LaBeouf.
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Maybe.
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Why?
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I don't know.
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Was she Black Aja this whole time?
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Well, if the letter's from Varen, does that suggest that
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she was Black Aja?
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Well, could.
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Because who else has Varen sent letters to?
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I don't remember.
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Who? McGuane, Matt, like a bunch of good guys. Okay.
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So, what's she doing up at Shial Ghul?
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I guess we're just going to have to read.
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And find out. Well, his blood has got to be
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on the rocks eventually.
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I guess so.
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But, like, why's she up there? Why, Gus?
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No, I mean, Gus, we've been fools. There should have
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been a hundred maidens guarding her. I thought you said
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she wasn't that important. Yeah, she immediately pivots.
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You know, I do know people like that. Where they'll
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say something, and then you disagree with them, and then
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they'll go... Well, yeah, obviously. Yeah. And it kind of
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makes me laugh because I'm like, you can't admit you're wrong?
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It's a little funny. Cat Swing gets some tea and
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she's ready for it to taste like absolute dog shit ass.
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But it tastes amazing. And it tastes so good.
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And she's like, what the fuck?
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Fran's tea is piping hot and delicious.
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Min gasped, turning sharply toward the northern quarter of the city.
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The two maidens in the doorway were gone in a heartbeat,
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dashing down the hallway.
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Dashing down the hallway.
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Katsu and suspicions were confirmed. Their careful watch of Min
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had been less about protecting her and more about watching
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for signs of... He's here, Min said softly. And that's
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the end of chapter 12.
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That's how I feel whenever you come home.
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Ha! Chapter 13, everybody, is called, for what has been wrought,
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that's the chapter logo. What is that?
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It is Spears and a Buckler.
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Spears and a Buckler. We're back with Min. We were
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with Katsuin for a minute.
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You want to hear something funny? Yes. So I have
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a student right now, because I tutor, who's reading fucking
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a Herman Melville story. It's... like Benito, something, something. Anyway,
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it doesn't matter. But the amount of fucking words I
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now know because of this podcast, like balustrade.
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It's a good one.
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And like balustrade. I don't know. I just knew a
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lot of fucking words for castle and a lot of
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fucking words like on ships.
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00:24:59.829 --> 00:25:00.430
Yeah, I would.
511
00:25:00.569 --> 00:25:06.400
And I was like, damn. I can't think of any
512
00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:07.440
of them at the top of my head.
513
00:25:07.460 --> 00:25:07.940
That's what happens.
514
00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:09.339
But I knew what they all were on site.
515
00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:10.339
And Nomi, I got you.
516
00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:14.970
Yeah. But I was really proud of that. Like, she
517
00:25:14.990 --> 00:25:16.470
kept being like, what does that mean? And I'd be like,
518
00:25:16.809 --> 00:25:18.150
I already know.
519
00:25:18.309 --> 00:25:19.029
It's a parapet.
520
00:25:19.869 --> 00:25:20.559
Parapet, that's one?
521
00:25:20.569 --> 00:25:20.670
Mm-mm.
522
00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:25.000
It was like a balcony one.
523
00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:27.440
By the way, you finally got me to read The
524
00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:30.220
Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, which I really liked. I
525
00:25:30.259 --> 00:25:32.529
love it. You should have just told me that palimpsest
526
00:25:32.660 --> 00:25:34.630
is a central concept of the book.
527
00:25:35.650 --> 00:25:36.710
I did tell you that.
528
00:25:36.829 --> 00:25:37.039
You did?
529
00:25:37.349 --> 00:25:38.589
Yes, I did.
530
00:25:38.609 --> 00:25:39.710
I'm a bitch.
531
00:25:39.809 --> 00:25:42.089
I did tell you that. I told you that like
532
00:25:42.130 --> 00:25:43.970
a year ago. I told you that when I was
533
00:25:44.009 --> 00:25:45.569
reading it. I was like, Gus, you're going to love this.
534
00:25:45.630 --> 00:25:49.769
Palimpsest is a key and central part of this book.
535
00:25:49.789 --> 00:25:51.549
I had a great time with that book. That was great.
536
00:25:52.309 --> 00:25:52.789
You did?
537
00:25:52.829 --> 00:25:56.170
That was really fun. Aw.
538
00:25:56.930 --> 00:25:58.950
Gus is reading books I recommend.
539
00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:01.619
I am. Not just The Hunger Games and Sunrise on
540
00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:02.079
the Reaping.
541
00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:02.960
I know.
542
00:26:03.019 --> 00:26:07.019
Possibly other ones soon, but we'll talk about that when
543
00:26:07.059 --> 00:26:07.559
it's relevant.
544
00:26:07.619 --> 00:26:11.920
Are we going to have another project? Maybe.
545
00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:17.410
Min, she's busting in. She's running her ass off as
546
00:26:17.490 --> 00:26:19.990
fast as she can, outpacing the eyes to die.
547
00:26:21.769 --> 00:26:24.529
You can't catch her. She's the Minja Bread Man.
548
00:26:25.930 --> 00:26:29.630
You know, you heard yourself say that. Yeah.
549
00:26:31.269 --> 00:26:31.799
I stand by it.
550
00:26:31.849 --> 00:26:34.210
It's really... Vagikimbo?
551
00:26:35.230 --> 00:26:35.930
Yeah, and all that.
552
00:26:35.950 --> 00:26:36.619
Vagikimbo.
553
00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:38.000
Also, I'm not British.
554
00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:41.160
No. So... No.
555
00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:42.539
We don't call it that here.
556
00:26:42.700 --> 00:26:42.980
No.
557
00:26:44.099 --> 00:26:44.859
What is that, pubes?
558
00:26:45.460 --> 00:26:47.279
I don't... I think it's just a vagina.
559
00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:48.980
I'm pretty sure minge is like your pubes.
560
00:26:49.019 --> 00:26:49.920
Is it your pubes?
561
00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:50.559
Pretty positive.
562
00:26:51.390 --> 00:26:52.470
Oh, God, now I have to look up.
563
00:26:52.470 --> 00:26:53.609
Yeah, because Ginger Minj.
564
00:26:53.630 --> 00:26:54.650
Definition Minj.
565
00:26:54.670 --> 00:26:56.250
Because Ginger Minj is a drag queen.
566
00:26:56.609 --> 00:27:10.710
Definition Minj. It's a vulva. No. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah, yeah,
567
00:27:10.809 --> 00:27:11.539
it's female genitalia.
568
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:14.690
Well, you know all the fucking British people are howling
569
00:27:15.380 --> 00:27:23.339
at Minj or Breadman. You know they're fucking out there dying.
570
00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:24.319
It's good wordplay.
571
00:27:25.180 --> 00:27:26.960
It is good wordplay. You could do a lot with that.
572
00:27:28.730 --> 00:27:29.210
Okay, wait.
573
00:27:29.730 --> 00:27:33.990
Next Jordan Con or something. Someone comments the miniature bread man.
574
00:27:35.150 --> 00:27:36.769
Wouldn't that be more appropriate at Malkyrie Con?
575
00:27:38.049 --> 00:27:41.740
Yes, next Malkyrie Con. And then send us pictures. I
576
00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:44.059
don't know how you pull that off, but I'm really
577
00:27:44.099 --> 00:27:44.819
excited about it.
578
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.599
Min busts in. There he is. How's he doing?
579
00:27:49.430 --> 00:27:51.930
Does it have to be a min costume, a vulva costume,
580
00:27:52.150 --> 00:27:53.650
and a gingerbread man costume?
581
00:27:53.789 --> 00:27:57.470
It's got to be everything under the sun. Yeah. It's
582
00:27:57.490 --> 00:28:02.190
just got to be. I'm excited. I'm not.
583
00:28:02.349 --> 00:28:05.150
Someone will do it for us. And it will be iconic.
584
00:28:05.170 --> 00:28:06.710
We shouldn't put anybody through that.
585
00:28:07.630 --> 00:28:09.450
They're putting themselves through that.
586
00:28:09.470 --> 00:28:11.509
That's true. It's voluntary.
587
00:28:11.529 --> 00:28:17.250
Then you know Kate Redding would love it. She wouldn't
588
00:28:17.289 --> 00:28:18.970
understand it, but she would love it.
589
00:28:19.109 --> 00:28:19.710
She would ultimately.
590
00:28:19.730 --> 00:28:22.210
Because she's everyone's supportive mom.
591
00:28:22.250 --> 00:28:27.779
She really is. She really is. Rand's there. How's he doing?
592
00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:30.720
He's great, actually.
593
00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:31.559
Absolutely fucking phenomenal.
594
00:28:31.579 --> 00:28:36.799
Like, for the first time ever. For the first time
595
00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:38.480
in forever.
596
00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:39.750
New viewings.
597
00:28:39.769 --> 00:28:41.869
Rand is actually happy.
598
00:28:42.069 --> 00:28:45.250
New viewings spun around his head. She normally ignored those,
599
00:28:45.289 --> 00:28:48.279
but she couldn't do so now. An open cavern gaping
600
00:28:48.339 --> 00:28:48.920
like a mouth.
601
00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:51.119
Gaping like the minger bed man.
602
00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:55.059
An open cavern gaping.
603
00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:56.019
You know who you married.
604
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.950
An open cavern gaping like a mouth. Blood stained rocks.
605
00:29:00.309 --> 00:29:01.410
I learned a new word today.
606
00:29:01.490 --> 00:29:03.109
Two dead men on the ground.
607
00:29:03.210 --> 00:29:04.730
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
608
00:29:05.150 --> 00:29:08.029
I have been trying to read these damn fucking viewings
609
00:29:08.069 --> 00:29:11.680
for 10 seconds and you keep making vagina jokes. Wait,
610
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:14.380
give me it. No, I will read them to you. No. No.
611
00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:15.380
You have to start over then.
612
00:29:15.619 --> 00:29:16.039
I was going to.
613
00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:16.720
You have to start over.
614
00:29:16.819 --> 00:29:19.819
I did three times, but you kept on making vagina jokes,
615
00:29:19.859 --> 00:29:20.539
which I support.
616
00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:21.740
I stand by that. Yeah.
617
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:27.609
I support that, but you know. An open cavern gaping
618
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:28.309
like a mouth.
619
00:29:28.910 --> 00:29:29.670
Minge your bread, man.
620
00:29:32.650 --> 00:29:34.849
I can't title the episode Minge Your Bread, Man.
621
00:29:34.869 --> 00:29:39.289
Yes, you must. You know you must.
622
00:29:39.609 --> 00:29:39.970
Oh, dear.
623
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.410
You know that. We're so unhirable.
624
00:29:43.849 --> 00:29:45.069
Bloodstained rocks.
625
00:29:47.890 --> 00:29:48.690
Minge Your Bread Man.
626
00:29:49.190 --> 00:29:53.109
Two dead men on the ground surrounded by ranks and
627
00:29:53.190 --> 00:29:54.269
ranks of Trollocs.
628
00:29:55.650 --> 00:29:59.700
Oh, no. I don't like that at all. Is that
629
00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:01.880
from Kandor or is that from something else?
630
00:30:02.609 --> 00:30:05.049
This is a viewing she's having of Rand.
631
00:30:06.829 --> 00:30:07.609
Two dead men.
632
00:30:07.750 --> 00:30:10.210
A pipe with smoke curling from it.
633
00:30:11.809 --> 00:30:12.890
Well, that's gotta be Tom.
634
00:30:14.430 --> 00:30:16.089
This is a Rand viewing she's having.
635
00:30:16.650 --> 00:30:18.670
She's having a viewing of Rand smoking? He never smokes.
636
00:30:18.789 --> 00:30:21.329
Not of Rand smoking, it's just a pipe with smoke
637
00:30:21.430 --> 00:30:22.079
curling from it.
638
00:30:22.289 --> 00:30:24.779
Okay, well that tells me nothing. Yeah.
639
00:30:27.819 --> 00:30:32.769
Any thoughts on these? Bloodstained rocks, a cave.
640
00:30:32.789 --> 00:30:34.779
We're seeing Shia LaBeouf, obviously.
641
00:30:34.950 --> 00:30:36.740
He's going to light up. He's going to spark up
642
00:30:36.779 --> 00:30:39.490
at Shia LaBeouf. Apparently. He's going to fucking 420 blaze it.
643
00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:42.740
He's smoking the wacky tobacco at the Shia LaBeouf.
644
00:30:43.779 --> 00:30:45.240
Just fucking rip one.
645
00:30:45.579 --> 00:30:48.279
Puff Puff Pass with Shadow Daddy.
646
00:30:48.579 --> 00:30:50.400
Is that what they're going to resolve the whole thing?
647
00:30:50.420 --> 00:30:51.410
They're just going to.
648
00:30:52.670 --> 00:30:55.230
Talk it out? With some weed? Honestly?
649
00:30:55.289 --> 00:30:55.710
Might work.
650
00:30:56.990 --> 00:30:57.710
Have we tried it?
651
00:30:57.750 --> 00:30:58.089
No. No.
652
00:30:58.789 --> 00:31:03.009
Have we tried puff puff pass with evil? And just gone, yo,
653
00:31:03.029 --> 00:31:06.670
could you not? I kind of feel like that would
654
00:31:06.710 --> 00:31:07.950
fix most of the world's problems.
655
00:31:08.210 --> 00:31:10.710
Rand met her gaze and despite the bond, she was
656
00:31:10.769 --> 00:31:14.509
amazed at what she saw in him. Those gray gemstone
657
00:31:14.609 --> 00:31:18.019
eyes of his were deeper. There were faint wrinkles around them.
658
00:31:18.059 --> 00:31:20.299
Had those been there before? Surely he was too young
659
00:31:20.339 --> 00:31:24.859
for that. Those eyes did not look young. Min felt
660
00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:25.400
a moment of panic.
661
00:31:25.420 --> 00:31:27.200
Actually, you know how this feels? Because you have like
662
00:31:27.299 --> 00:31:28.640
old man eyes and it's really scary.
663
00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:29.039
It's true.
664
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.910
Sometimes, like when I've been inebriated, I've looked into them
665
00:31:32.950 --> 00:31:35.029
and been like, I can't look directly into your eyes, actually,
666
00:31:35.089 --> 00:31:37.130
because you have the wisdom of the cosmos. No, you
667
00:31:37.150 --> 00:31:39.049
don't have the wisdom of the cosmos. You have the
668
00:31:39.089 --> 00:31:40.650
wisdom of the rocks and trees in there.
669
00:31:40.910 --> 00:31:41.450
I like that.
670
00:31:41.470 --> 00:31:42.069
Do you know what I mean?
671
00:31:42.130 --> 00:31:42.609
That's very sweet.
672
00:31:42.630 --> 00:31:43.609
You know what I mean, though.
673
00:31:43.670 --> 00:31:46.819
That's very kind of you. Min felt a moment of
674
00:31:46.859 --> 00:31:50.140
panic as his eyes held hers. Was this the same man?
675
00:31:50.890 --> 00:31:53.369
Had the Rand she loved been stolen away, replaced with
676
00:31:53.410 --> 00:31:55.930
an ancient force of a man she could neither know
677
00:31:55.990 --> 00:31:56.650
nor understand?
678
00:31:56.670 --> 00:31:58.559
Okay, that reminded me of a Taylor Swift song.
679
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:01.240
Yes.
680
00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:03.960
Which I feel like is appropriate for men. Where she's like,
681
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.920
I take this magnetic force of a man to be
682
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:08.740
my lover.
683
00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:10.519
Oh, that one, yeah.
684
00:32:10.900 --> 00:32:13.259
And that reminded me of that when she said force
685
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:13.490
of a man.
686
00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:15.579
Well, here's the thing. Is Rand the same person?
687
00:32:17.420 --> 00:32:17.720
No.
688
00:32:18.539 --> 00:32:19.140
He's better.
689
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:24.480
Well, but no, I mean. We've talked about this under
690
00:32:24.579 --> 00:32:29.119
the aegis of going to therapy. Where you're like, wow,
691
00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:32.029
I feel like a different person. But then you're like, well, no,
692
00:32:32.049 --> 00:32:34.369
you're not. You're just you. I'm better.
693
00:32:34.730 --> 00:32:35.829
I'm a better version of me.
694
00:32:35.910 --> 00:32:37.650
Well, it's like you minus all the static.
695
00:32:38.549 --> 00:32:40.289
Yes. Me minus the static.
696
00:32:40.710 --> 00:32:43.329
The amount of people who have been commenting.
697
00:32:42.829 --> 00:32:44.490
That I haven't seen in a long time on how
698
00:32:44.549 --> 00:32:45.880
happy I am is really lovely.
699
00:32:45.910 --> 00:32:46.490
It's really fun.
700
00:32:46.859 --> 00:32:49.259
They're like, oh my God, you're so steady. You're so grounded.
701
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.579
You're so... happy and i'm like thank you i have
702
00:32:52.619 --> 00:32:57.480
done so much work on myself it's actually insane um
703
00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:05.140
to a point where i'm like what's left we're gonna
704
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:09.619
find out but yeah i'm pretty chill at this time.
705
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:11.779
So is rand do we think rand is the same
706
00:33:11.819 --> 00:33:18.240
person we barely seen him since uh uh since uh
707
00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:24.160
veins of gold We saw him with Almond Bunt. And
708
00:33:24.180 --> 00:33:25.440
then we saw him talk to Egwene.
709
00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:26.519
Yeah.
710
00:33:26.660 --> 00:33:29.960
And this is the third time we've seen him since
711
00:33:30.579 --> 00:33:31.039
Veins of Gold.
712
00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:33.039
I'm not going to sleep tonight wondering what Alana's up to.
713
00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:37.710
I'm so sorry. I can't stop thinking about it. Okay.
714
00:33:39.430 --> 00:33:40.390
What is Rand up to now?
715
00:33:40.470 --> 00:33:42.849
Is Rand the same person or does he seem like
716
00:33:42.869 --> 00:33:44.250
a totally changed person?
717
00:33:44.309 --> 00:33:48.519
Well, okay. If we want my spiritual mumbo jumbo. He's
718
00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:50.220
more in touch with his higher self.
719
00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:50.960
I like that.
720
00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:53.799
Does that make sense? He's less staticky.
721
00:33:54.019 --> 00:33:55.980
So he's the same guy, but better.
722
00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:57.019
Yeah.
723
00:33:57.140 --> 00:33:58.420
More grounded, more rooted, more connected.
724
00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.269
The goal is to integrate your shadow and become aware
725
00:34:01.289 --> 00:34:05.049
of your patterns and all that shit in order to
726
00:34:05.990 --> 00:34:08.670
have more of a communion with your higher self and
727
00:34:08.690 --> 00:34:10.530
be more consistently in touch and in tune with your
728
00:34:10.550 --> 00:34:11.030
higher self.
729
00:34:11.329 --> 00:34:14.059
I like this too. The air did seem to distort
730
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.769
around him. Was that a trick of the sunlight? You
731
00:34:17.809 --> 00:34:20.230
remember before it like darkness warped around him?
732
00:34:20.739 --> 00:34:20.989
Yes.
733
00:34:21.090 --> 00:34:22.559
Now light is warping around him.
734
00:34:23.460 --> 00:34:24.159
Cool.
735
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:29.820
And then he smiled and the eyes, deep though they
736
00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:33.300
had become, were his. That smile was something she'd been
737
00:34:33.340 --> 00:34:36.969
waiting a very long time to see again. It was
738
00:34:37.010 --> 00:34:39.170
now much more confident than the one he'd shown her
739
00:34:39.190 --> 00:34:41.510
during their early days together, yet it was still vulnerable.
740
00:34:42.469 --> 00:34:43.869
It let her see a part of him that others
741
00:34:43.909 --> 00:34:48.280
were never allowed. That part was the youth. Somehow innocent still.
742
00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:51.179
She ran up to him and seized him in an embrace.
743
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:54.429
You wool-headed fool. Three days?
744
00:34:55.030 --> 00:34:56.510
What have you been doing for three days?
745
00:34:57.630 --> 00:34:57.949
Shopping.
746
00:34:58.369 --> 00:34:59.090
Existing, Min.
747
00:34:59.690 --> 00:35:02.789
Existing? Oh my god, this sounds like conversations that I
748
00:35:02.969 --> 00:35:04.369
have with you sometimes.
749
00:35:04.409 --> 00:35:05.210
I wasn't aware that was.
750
00:35:05.250 --> 00:35:08.010
I'm existing. I wasn't aware that was such a difficult task.
751
00:35:08.329 --> 00:35:10.210
It is a difficult task.
752
00:35:10.389 --> 00:35:13.789
It has been for me at times. And they hug,
753
00:35:13.829 --> 00:35:14.179
and then she.
754
00:35:14.230 --> 00:35:16.929
I kind of hate that Mai and Ran's healing are coinciding.
755
00:35:18.340 --> 00:35:19.960
Well, we did take three months off.
756
00:35:21.099 --> 00:35:23.900
Yeah, so that I could be on my own rock.
757
00:35:24.539 --> 00:35:26.960
I went to my own mountain for a while. No,
758
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:29.400
I just kind of hate that the trajectory of these
759
00:35:29.460 --> 00:35:32.019
books kind of mirrors our lives in a way. And
760
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:32.800
it really is annoying.
761
00:35:32.900 --> 00:35:34.480
I also did a shitload of healing.
762
00:35:34.619 --> 00:35:35.300
I know.
763
00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:38.619
It was just way more internal.
764
00:35:39.820 --> 00:35:41.059
I know, you heal a fuckload.
765
00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:41.400
Yeah.
766
00:35:41.809 --> 00:35:43.710
You're like, there's way less bees in your sanctum.
767
00:35:43.730 --> 00:35:44.690
There's so many fewer bees.
768
00:35:44.849 --> 00:35:46.590
Because that's what we call the static now. We're like,
769
00:35:46.659 --> 00:35:47.449
there's bees in the sanctum.
770
00:35:47.469 --> 00:35:50.920
The static being, you know, anxiety or whatever negative thing you're. Yeah.
771
00:35:50.940 --> 00:35:53.860
Can you tell how fucking not anxious I am right now?
772
00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:54.260
I can.
773
00:35:54.380 --> 00:35:55.539
It's so sick.
774
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:56.440
She goes, Rand.
775
00:35:56.460 --> 00:35:59.219
But now when you're around staticky people, it's really hard.
776
00:35:59.380 --> 00:36:01.960
It can be. She goes, Rand, Alana's gone. She vanished
777
00:36:02.019 --> 00:36:03.880
earlier today. And he goes, yes, I felt her go
778
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:09.260
northward somewhere at the borderlands. Perhaps Arafel. She could be
779
00:36:09.340 --> 00:36:11.570
used against you. To find where you are, and he goes,
780
00:36:11.710 --> 00:36:13.639
the shadow does not need her to find me, Min,
781
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.579
nor will it ever again. All its eyes are fixed
782
00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:19.000
directly upon me and will be until I blind them.
783
00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:19.539
It's alright.
784
00:36:20.659 --> 00:36:22.840
The time when it could silence me quietly and therefore
785
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:26.969
win has passed. The confrontation is assured and the scream
786
00:36:27.010 --> 00:36:31.710
that begins the avalanche has been sounded. You might say
787
00:36:31.769 --> 00:36:34.110
the avalanche has already begun is too late for the
788
00:36:34.130 --> 00:36:41.750
pebbles to vote. That's a Babylon 5 reference. Anyway, yeah.
789
00:36:42.610 --> 00:36:45.989
It's too late for the pebbles to vote? What's that?
790
00:36:46.130 --> 00:36:48.289
It's cryptic and weird, Allie. What character do you think
791
00:36:48.329 --> 00:36:53.159
says it? Uh, Joanne?
792
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:54.900
Oh, no, Kosh?
793
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:59.260
Yeah. Anyway, uh, so the Aiel are all here. They've
794
00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:02.030
busted in. They're surrounding him. And what does he do?
795
00:37:02.409 --> 00:37:03.869
Does he tell them to fuck off and then he
796
00:37:03.909 --> 00:37:05.670
doesn't want any maidens with him? Does he sneak away?
797
00:37:06.630 --> 00:37:06.989
Uh, nope.
798
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:07.820
What does he do?
799
00:37:08.409 --> 00:37:10.429
I'm fucking with the maidens now. Finally.
800
00:37:12.230 --> 00:37:16.550
How did you feel about this? After 10 books of
801
00:37:16.650 --> 00:37:19.510
screaming at him to actually work with the fucking maidens.
802
00:37:19.530 --> 00:37:24.409
I was like, thank fucking God. Finally. I was so
803
00:37:24.489 --> 00:37:27.380
pissed off for so long. And now I'm like, this
804
00:37:27.429 --> 00:37:27.780
is good.
805
00:37:27.860 --> 00:37:34.360
This is, uh, yeah. Finally. He goes, I have toe. And, uh,
806
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:37.260
he says, if Rourke comes up, he goes, In the
807
00:37:37.300 --> 00:37:41.989
Threefold Land, there is an animal, the meagerling. It looks
808
00:37:42.050 --> 00:37:44.349
much like a rat, but it is far more stupid.
809
00:37:45.130 --> 00:37:47.829
If you place it near grain, it will go straight
810
00:37:47.869 --> 00:37:51.409
towards it, regardless of the danger. No matter how many
811
00:37:51.489 --> 00:37:54.170
times it falls in a trench between itself and the food,
812
00:37:54.829 --> 00:37:57.090
it will repeat the same action if you move it
813
00:37:57.150 --> 00:38:01.969
back to the start. Aeol children amuse themselves with the game.
814
00:38:01.989 --> 00:38:06.429
I had not thought you would be a meagerling, ran Dalthor.
815
00:38:09.389 --> 00:38:13.469
Rand goes, basically, my bad. Won't happen again. I'll keep
816
00:38:13.510 --> 00:38:16.730
the maidens with me. And Rourke goes, this will prevent
817
00:38:16.750 --> 00:38:20.130
you from earning more though. It will not change what
818
00:38:20.170 --> 00:38:26.239
has gone before. And promises have been made before. Rand goes,
819
00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:30.000
this is true. I will meet my toe then.
820
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:32.639
He's going to get the shit kicked out of him, right?
821
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:33.400
He might.
822
00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:35.739
Yeah, that's what that means.
823
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:36.699
It's very probable.
824
00:38:37.460 --> 00:38:40.079
Well, what else do they do? They don't put you
825
00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:41.019
in a timeout corner.
826
00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:42.369
It's pretty much just kicking the shit out of you.
827
00:38:42.380 --> 00:38:44.349
Yeah, they just beat you with a belt.
828
00:38:44.769 --> 00:38:46.530
It'll be all right. This is one of the things
829
00:38:46.590 --> 00:38:50.369
I needed to fix. I mean, this is like Rand's
830
00:38:50.409 --> 00:38:51.809
apology tour, kind of, right?
831
00:38:53.969 --> 00:38:54.590
Kind of, yeah.
832
00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:54.900
Yeah.
833
00:38:56.000 --> 00:39:00.039
It's kind of like in Mean Girls when they all
834
00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:03.820
stand there. And have to, like, read apologies to each
835
00:39:03.860 --> 00:39:06.659
other and then fall into, like, this group of people
836
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:08.750
that catches them. Like, that's what I'm kind of imagining
837
00:39:08.789 --> 00:39:12.929
right now. Is this, like, Cat Swain? What did he say?
838
00:39:13.650 --> 00:39:16.929
I'm sorry I called you a gap-toothed bitch. It's not
839
00:39:16.949 --> 00:39:20.789
your fault you're so gap-toothed. That's literally what he does.
840
00:39:20.809 --> 00:39:22.250
That's basically how he handles her.
841
00:39:22.269 --> 00:39:23.889
That's literally what he does.
842
00:39:23.929 --> 00:39:26.730
Nynaeve comes up to him. She goes, Randalf Thor, you
843
00:39:26.849 --> 00:39:30.789
are an idiot, an arrogant fool, an impulsive, wool-headed boy
844
00:39:30.809 --> 00:39:34.309
in need of a second year of boxing. Yes.
845
00:39:34.610 --> 00:39:36.429
This is what our first major fight was like as
846
00:39:36.449 --> 00:39:38.340
a couple. Remember?
847
00:39:38.610 --> 00:39:38.780
Yeah.
848
00:39:38.820 --> 00:39:40.820
I was like so ready to be pissed off. And
849
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:41.699
then you're like, you're right.
850
00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:43.380
I shouldn't have done that. That's my mistake.
851
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.199
And I was like, what the fuck?
852
00:39:45.260 --> 00:39:48.139
All true, Nynaeve. I see it now. Perhaps I finally
853
00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:51.039
gained a portion of wisdom. I do think you need
854
00:39:51.059 --> 00:39:53.659
some new insults, however. The ones you use are wearing
855
00:39:53.699 --> 00:39:57.099
out like last year's lace. Someone send for Cat Swain.
856
00:39:57.179 --> 00:39:58.460
Get new material.
857
00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:01.639
Someone send for Cat. Someone send for Cat Swain. I
858
00:40:01.889 --> 00:40:03.309
promise not to execute her.
859
00:40:03.929 --> 00:40:06.309
That would devastate me, actually. If somebody was like, get
860
00:40:06.349 --> 00:40:08.550
new material, I'd be like, ow.
861
00:40:08.610 --> 00:40:11.829
He sends Narishma on an errand. What's he send Narishma
862
00:40:11.849 --> 00:40:12.130
to do?
863
00:40:12.469 --> 00:40:13.610
Go get Alana, I think?
864
00:40:13.739 --> 00:40:19.139
No. Much more exciting. To you for a plotline you
865
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.030
have been waiting for a fucking inch of movement on
866
00:40:22.090 --> 00:40:26.429
since book eight's prologue. What was it? Narishma, I need
867
00:40:26.449 --> 00:40:29.789
you to visit the Borderlander army that came looking for me. Oh!
868
00:40:29.949 --> 00:40:32.750
I'm assuming it's still in formatting. Tell the leaders there
869
00:40:32.769 --> 00:40:34.420
that I accept their terms and will come in a
870
00:40:34.449 --> 00:40:36.300
few days to meet with them. And he goes, my
871
00:40:36.579 --> 00:40:40.539
lord dragon, is that prudent, considering the nature of that place?
872
00:40:41.780 --> 00:40:47.329
Prudence is for those who intend to live long lives, Narishma. Also,
873
00:40:47.489 --> 00:40:49.750
so that happens. And he also says, oh, I'll let
874
00:40:49.769 --> 00:40:52.030
everybody know the White Tower is back together and Egwene
875
00:40:52.050 --> 00:40:54.190
is the Amaryllis Sea. And everyone's like, what? And he's like,
876
00:40:54.269 --> 00:40:57.190
maybe don't mention that it's back together. Maybe just say
877
00:40:57.210 --> 00:40:59.150
that Egwene is the Amaryllis Sea. He's like, good point.
878
00:40:59.690 --> 00:41:02.699
Don't want to embarrass the witches. Compliment.
879
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:04.880
It is a compliment.
880
00:41:08.980 --> 00:41:12.280
Borderland or Army Alley? Um.
881
00:41:13.179 --> 00:41:14.829
It's happening. Find the fucking Lee.
882
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:15.780
It's happening.
883
00:41:15.989 --> 00:41:18.119
Find the fucking Lee.
884
00:41:18.150 --> 00:41:19.210
What's going to happen?
885
00:41:20.710 --> 00:41:24.429
What are they going to do? What's going to happen?
886
00:41:24.449 --> 00:41:25.929
It better not be lame.
887
00:41:26.050 --> 00:41:27.650
They're going to tell him.
888
00:41:27.670 --> 00:41:30.949
They're going to say he's great. It better not be
889
00:41:30.969 --> 00:41:31.250
fucking lame.
890
00:41:31.269 --> 00:41:33.489
They're going to slap the shit out of him.
891
00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:35.519
It better have a good payoff. That's all I'm saying.
892
00:41:35.659 --> 00:41:38.659
It's been so many books now. I'm so excited.
893
00:41:40.900 --> 00:41:41.800
What if they just say.
894
00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:48.000
sup no that's not acceptable what are they gonna do
895
00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:51.579
i'll i'll beat him with a stick if they do that.
896
00:41:53.449 --> 00:41:55.670
I feel like i can't continue to ask you what
897
00:41:55.690 --> 00:41:58.090
they're going to do when you have gotten zero information
898
00:41:58.150 --> 00:42:01.730
on this none since book eight none since book eight.
899
00:42:02.170 --> 00:42:06.079
They're either good or bad that's what i got slap.
900
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.840
The shit out of them uh what do we got um.
901
00:42:11.329 --> 00:42:13.369
Well, I feel like Tanobi has got to die eventually,
902
00:42:13.449 --> 00:42:19.809
so I don't know. I feel like I don't know shit.
903
00:42:19.989 --> 00:42:20.929
You don't about that.
904
00:42:21.530 --> 00:42:26.179
No, about this, about Alana. All right, I've got to
905
00:42:26.280 --> 00:42:28.780
speculate wild. Alana's going to Shia Gou.
906
00:42:28.820 --> 00:42:46.750
Do that after these ads. Welcome back.
907
00:42:46.769 --> 00:42:49.409
Okay, Alana's going to Shia LaBeouf for some fucking reason.
908
00:42:50.170 --> 00:42:52.610
Seems like where she's going. I don't know what she's
909
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.219
doing there, but she's going. Why do you have your
910
00:42:57.260 --> 00:42:57.659
phone out?
911
00:42:58.280 --> 00:42:59.639
I'm checking something. Keep talking.
912
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:02.659
I don't like that. I don't like that you're checking
913
00:43:02.699 --> 00:43:05.179
something right now. She's going to Shia LaBeouf. Final answer.
914
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:06.760
Okay.
915
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:13.659
Maybe not. I withhold, I maintain my right to change
916
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:16.599
my mind at any time. Okay, but that's what she's doing.
917
00:43:17.659 --> 00:43:22.960
And then, what's the other thing?
918
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:26.199
Oh. Borderlanders.
919
00:43:26.219 --> 00:43:26.820
Borderlanders.
920
00:43:30.030 --> 00:43:31.650
You know, there's a part of me that thinks it's
921
00:43:31.690 --> 00:43:35.269
going to wet fart its way out. What? Yeah.
922
00:43:35.289 --> 00:43:35.389
Yeah.
923
00:43:36.550 --> 00:43:38.889
I think it's just going to get resolved. And I'm
924
00:43:38.909 --> 00:43:40.989
going to be like, why did we need to do
925
00:43:41.030 --> 00:43:44.639
that for 85 books? And I mean that with all
926
00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:45.579
the respect in my heart.
927
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:49.559
Sure.
928
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:52.679
But you know what? I could be jaded from the slug.
929
00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:54.460
It's possible.
930
00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:56.760
Still after all this time.
931
00:43:56.980 --> 00:43:57.599
It's possible.
932
00:44:01.670 --> 00:44:02.750
All right. More?
933
00:44:02.969 --> 00:44:07.400
More. Yes. blah blah blah he talks about how he
934
00:44:07.420 --> 00:44:09.639
went to the tower and then left because he wasn't
935
00:44:09.659 --> 00:44:13.119
going to let them not leave and he's like I
936
00:44:13.139 --> 00:44:16.739
need some big ass gateways we gotta move a lot
937
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:20.190
of people and 90 goes Tarwin's gap and he's like
938
00:44:21.130 --> 00:44:24.369
uh no but you remember last book when I was
939
00:44:24.409 --> 00:44:27.090
like fucking let him die I don't feel that way
940
00:44:27.130 --> 00:44:30.469
anymore that was my.
941
00:44:30.309 --> 00:44:32.550
Bad well that's nice.
942
00:44:34.429 --> 00:44:38.039
She goes, uh, not yet, Nynaeve. I've poured hot oil
943
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:40.260
into the White Tower and it will be boiling soon.
944
00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:40.940
Time.
945
00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.039
We don't have time. As he said in Book 7,
946
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:46.559
we don't have time. Uh, I will get help to land.
947
00:44:46.579 --> 00:44:47.300
We actually don't have time.
948
00:44:47.340 --> 00:44:48.980
I vow it to you now. But right now I
949
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:51.280
must prepare to face Egwene. Nynaeve is like, back the
950
00:44:51.340 --> 00:44:55.679
fuck up. Face? Egwene? What do you mean face? Well...
951
00:44:56.619 --> 00:44:58.960
Why are we facing Egwene? What the fuck did you do?
952
00:44:59.199 --> 00:44:59.800
She's almost.
953
00:44:59.820 --> 00:45:00.980
Did you piss off your ex?
954
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:04.059
She's the Elmer Lynn Sheet and I did piss her off, yeah.
955
00:45:07.420 --> 00:45:10.760
But I'm on an apology tour. Accountability. It's so great.
956
00:45:11.550 --> 00:45:13.889
He's going to go to Eredaman with Bashir and Min
957
00:45:14.289 --> 00:45:16.969
because he needs Min. And she goes, you have me,
958
00:45:17.110 --> 00:45:18.050
stupid luby.
959
00:45:19.269 --> 00:45:19.489
What?
960
00:45:20.030 --> 00:45:21.110
That's a hell of an insult.
961
00:45:22.570 --> 00:45:23.409
What's a luby?
962
00:45:23.510 --> 00:45:27.050
I'm not sure. L-O-O-B-Y. I think it just means like
963
00:45:27.090 --> 00:45:27.510
a goober.
964
00:45:27.530 --> 00:45:29.449
Okay.
965
00:45:29.590 --> 00:45:33.559
Are you looking it up? You pulled your phone out,
966
00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:35.760
but then you just kind of didn't look it up.
967
00:45:36.179 --> 00:45:39.639
I'm looking. I'm looking it up, you sassy luby.
968
00:45:39.659 --> 00:45:40.570
I am a sassy luby.
969
00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:49.219
You luby. An awkward, clumsy, lazy, or foolish person. Similar
970
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.860
to a lubber, a lout, or an oaf.
971
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:54.619
I read a book called The Dragon Bone Chair.
972
00:45:54.659 --> 00:45:59.179
There are also people, notable people with the last name Luby. Huh.
973
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:04.070
Including Z. Alexander Luby, an American civil rights leader, lawyer,
974
00:46:04.289 --> 00:46:09.909
and politician from Nashville, Tennessee. and Luby, an Australian actress
975
00:46:09.969 --> 00:46:14.269
and producer, and Keith Luby, Australian artist.
976
00:46:15.230 --> 00:46:16.409
I read a book called.
977
00:46:16.429 --> 00:46:23.489
There's also some cryptocurrency called Luby by Stephen Bliss. Ugh. Agreed.
978
00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:28.619
And there's a nursery rhyme. The word is famously featured
979
00:46:28.659 --> 00:46:31.360
in the traditional children's song and game, Here We Go,
980
00:46:31.460 --> 00:46:34.760
Luby Lou. Oh, yeah, that one. Everyone's heard of that.
981
00:46:34.780 --> 00:46:35.320
Yeah.
982
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:40.500
I read a book called The Dragon Bone Chair, and
983
00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:44.699
the main character of that book, whose name is Simon,
984
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:49.489
spends a full third of the book referring to himself
985
00:46:49.590 --> 00:46:55.849
derogatorily as Mooncalf. And people call him Simon Mooncalf.
986
00:46:55.869 --> 00:46:57.670
Don't get to nickname yourself.
987
00:46:57.750 --> 00:46:59.789
It's not a nickname. It's an insult because people call
988
00:46:59.829 --> 00:47:00.610
him a Mooncalf.
989
00:47:00.989 --> 00:47:01.789
What is a Mooncalf?
990
00:47:01.869 --> 00:47:04.500
A dumb fuck. as far as I can tell. But
991
00:47:05.449 --> 00:47:08.530
I was reading something else. I think it was Addie LaRue.
992
00:47:08.929 --> 00:47:11.849
And then they said in Addie LaRue, somebody called somebody
993
00:47:11.889 --> 00:47:13.769
a moon calf. And I was like, what the fuck?
994
00:47:14.550 --> 00:47:15.349
What the fuck?
995
00:47:15.369 --> 00:47:17.590
The Dragon Bone Chair is following me.
996
00:47:18.469 --> 00:47:20.079
The Dragon Bone Chair is following you.
997
00:47:20.150 --> 00:47:23.289
I read that book, man. It's a beautiful book. It
998
00:47:23.349 --> 00:47:28.010
is a pillar of contemporary 90s, 80s fantasy, pre-Wheel of
999
00:47:28.090 --> 00:47:33.610
Time kind of fantasy. Beautifully written, stunning book. I was
1000
00:47:33.829 --> 00:47:39.000
so bored. It was great. It was beautiful. I spent
1001
00:47:39.019 --> 00:47:41.559
the whole book screaming for the main character to do something.
1002
00:47:42.380 --> 00:47:42.760
It's true.
1003
00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:45.820
I spent the whole book. It's so nineties. Like you
1004
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:47.219
remember the pacing of eye of the world?
1005
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:47.840
Yes.
1006
00:47:48.090 --> 00:47:53.989
It's, it's slower, but it's beautifully written and the characters
1007
00:47:54.030 --> 00:47:54.449
are great.
1008
00:47:54.789 --> 00:47:56.309
I'm sure it is. And I'm sure I will not
1009
00:47:56.349 --> 00:47:56.860
be reading it.
1010
00:47:57.289 --> 00:47:59.010
No, you, I don't think you will. I will.
1011
00:47:59.670 --> 00:48:01.570
And then you know what's going to happen in like
1012
00:48:01.650 --> 00:48:03.829
two years? You're going to be like, we actually really should.
1013
00:48:04.110 --> 00:48:06.309
There is no chance I'm going to suggest that we
1014
00:48:06.329 --> 00:48:10.780
podcast respectfully to the people who love Memory, Sorrow, and
1015
00:48:10.820 --> 00:48:13.940
Thorn because it's very good. We're never going to podcast
1016
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:15.420
through Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.
1017
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:16.000
Okay.
1018
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:19.039
It's not going to happen. Okay. Beautiful book.
1019
00:48:20.900 --> 00:48:21.320
Very slow.
1020
00:48:22.139 --> 00:48:22.329
All right.
1021
00:48:23.789 --> 00:48:24.889
All right.
1022
00:48:25.250 --> 00:48:26.690
Two Sharks to Cad's Wave.
1023
00:48:26.730 --> 00:48:27.329
Yeah, so.
1024
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.099
Sorry, it's 11 o'clock.
1025
00:48:30.219 --> 00:48:35.320
It is 11.48. He's going to, yeah, Cadswain busts in
1026
00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:38.760
and he goes, Cadswain Mlyadrin, I pardon you for past
1027
00:48:38.820 --> 00:48:41.300
mistakes and I revoke your exile. Not that it was
1028
00:48:41.380 --> 00:48:44.119
ever anything more than a minor inconvenience to you. And
1029
00:48:44.139 --> 00:48:45.889
she pulls her hood down and goes, if you believe
1030
00:48:45.909 --> 00:48:49.429
that wearing a cloak in this heat is a minor inconvenience, boy.
1031
00:48:49.449 --> 00:48:51.090
Wait, why did she have to wear a cloak so
1032
00:48:51.110 --> 00:48:51.949
he doesn't see her face?
1033
00:48:52.010 --> 00:48:53.550
Because he exiled her and said, if I ever see
1034
00:48:53.570 --> 00:48:55.969
you again, I'll have you executed. And then she just
1035
00:48:56.010 --> 00:48:57.139
follows him around with a hood on.
1036
00:48:57.849 --> 00:48:58.530
That's hilarious.
1037
00:48:58.550 --> 00:48:59.969
It's iconic behavior.
1038
00:49:00.030 --> 00:49:00.929
That's hilarious.
1039
00:49:00.949 --> 00:49:02.900
It is genuinely incredible behavior.
1040
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.599
Honestly, incredible. We love this sassy old lady.
1041
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:11.159
She goes, I trust you see the error in your deed.
1042
00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:14.690
It strikes me as unsuitable that I should need forgiveness
1043
00:49:15.309 --> 00:49:18.409
or a pardon in the first place. And Ren goes,
1044
00:49:19.289 --> 00:49:21.400
well then, please accept- Now.
1045
00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:23.179
You're starting to sound like everyone's toxic mom.
1046
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:27.000
My pardon alongside my apology. You may say I have
1047
00:49:27.019 --> 00:49:31.940
been under unusual stress of late. She goes like, you
1048
00:49:31.980 --> 00:49:34.860
can't be doing that. And he goes, on the contrary,
1049
00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:37.960
I am who I have become because of that pressure, Katsuin.
1050
00:49:38.909 --> 00:49:41.159
Metal cannot be shaped without the blows of the hammer,
1051
00:49:41.199 --> 00:49:44.099
but that is beside the point. You tried to manipulate me.
1052
00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:47.780
You tried to manipulate me, and you failed horribly. But
1053
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:51.340
in that failure, you have shown me something, which is,
1054
00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:55.239
I thought I was being forged into a sword, but
1055
00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:59.389
I was wrong. I'm not a weapon. I never have been.
1056
00:49:59.409 --> 00:50:03.329
And Min is like, uh... What? Okay, so what are...
1057
00:50:03.329 --> 00:50:05.809
What do you mean?
1058
00:50:05.829 --> 00:50:07.889
A weapon man.
1059
00:50:09.099 --> 00:50:11.099
He gives her a job. What's the job?
1060
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:13.840
Casway?
1061
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:14.099
Yeah.
1062
00:50:14.380 --> 00:50:16.320
Go get somebody in the caroling grass.
1063
00:50:16.420 --> 00:50:18.440
Find this dude. Or lady.
1064
00:50:18.460 --> 00:50:19.059
Who is it?
1065
00:50:20.929 --> 00:50:21.559
Or non-binary cat.
1066
00:50:21.570 --> 00:50:22.469
Who's not around?
1067
00:50:24.690 --> 00:50:25.730
It's Val and Luca.
1068
00:50:25.909 --> 00:50:27.510
That would be amazing.
1069
00:50:28.150 --> 00:50:30.989
It's not Val and Luca. Who's not there?
1070
00:50:31.010 --> 00:50:33.829
I need you to locate someone.
1071
00:50:33.989 --> 00:50:35.860
Doobie doo? Someone who is missing.
1072
00:50:36.659 --> 00:50:38.679
Someone I now suspect may be in the hands of
1073
00:50:39.389 --> 00:50:42.190
Well-meaning allies. You see, I've been informed that the White
1074
00:50:42.230 --> 00:50:42.849
Tower is holding.
1075
00:50:42.869 --> 00:50:43.409
That's not Alana.
1076
00:50:43.849 --> 00:50:46.010
I've been informed that the White Tower is holding Matt
1077
00:50:46.030 --> 00:50:49.449
and Stepanios. She goes, and... Oh, that's who it is.
1078
00:50:49.869 --> 00:50:51.170
He's in the White Tower. Oh.
1079
00:50:51.969 --> 00:50:52.190
My bad.
1080
00:50:52.250 --> 00:50:53.590
He goes, not at all. I haven't decided what to
1081
00:50:53.610 --> 00:50:56.010
do about him yet. So he can stay Egwene's problem
1082
00:50:56.030 --> 00:50:57.829
for the time... No, no, no. The person I want
1083
00:50:57.969 --> 00:51:00.230
is probably somewhere in the Carolyn Grass.
1084
00:51:01.219 --> 00:51:02.010
Who is it, though?
1085
00:51:02.030 --> 00:51:06.500
I'll explain more when we're not in the open. But who...
1086
00:51:07.099 --> 00:51:09.619
Who's missing? Who is Matin Stepanios?
1087
00:51:10.219 --> 00:51:16.869
He was the king of... Ilion. Yes. Yes!
1088
00:51:20.050 --> 00:51:22.690
That was the deepest pull you have ever done in
1089
00:51:22.730 --> 00:51:24.969
your life. Damn!
1090
00:51:25.449 --> 00:51:28.139
She's so back, baby!
1091
00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:33.000
That is the deepest fucking pull I have ever seen.
1092
00:51:36.570 --> 00:51:41.369
Fake ripping my own shirt off okay um so that
1093
00:51:41.409 --> 00:51:44.969
felt good that felt good what is not in my
1094
00:51:45.010 --> 00:51:48.010
brain that should be whoever that information being there.
1095
00:51:47.989 --> 00:51:51.050
Whoever this person is he is associating them to some
1096
00:51:51.110 --> 00:51:54.500
extent with matt and stepanio's king of ilion like.
1097
00:51:54.500 --> 00:51:57.300
Ask me what party martin van buren are one of
1098
00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:00.199
our presidents was no fucking idea but i know that
1099
00:52:00.659 --> 00:52:05.219
fucking matt stepanios was the fucking king of ilion and
1100
00:52:05.260 --> 00:52:08.030
it's even funnier because martin van buren is a direct
1101
00:52:08.110 --> 00:52:08.710
relative of.
1102
00:52:08.710 --> 00:52:13.130
Mine that's that's true uh is there anybody else who
1103
00:52:13.230 --> 00:52:16.250
might fun fact be important to find.
1104
00:52:17.309 --> 00:52:19.699
That i might have shared on this podcast before in
1105
00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:21.820
a similar seven fucking years.
1106
00:52:21.699 --> 00:52:25.679
It's been seven years in a similar vein what is
1107
00:52:25.699 --> 00:52:31.619
there anybody else who might be Important to find.
1108
00:52:32.150 --> 00:52:33.349
Darlin? No, he's here.
1109
00:52:33.369 --> 00:52:33.829
He's here.
1110
00:52:33.849 --> 00:52:35.809
A king?
1111
00:52:36.690 --> 00:52:37.269
Potentially.
1112
00:52:37.989 --> 00:52:39.829
Oh, oh, oh.
1113
00:52:42.030 --> 00:52:46.269
What's his name? You know the guy who had the
1114
00:52:46.309 --> 00:52:51.110
king who sent a bunch of weird letters? What's his
1115
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:51.780
fucking name?
1116
00:52:53.380 --> 00:52:56.239
Al-Salam? Yeah, that guy.
1117
00:52:59.860 --> 00:53:03.199
Gus cannot believe I remember that guy. I can't either.
1118
00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:06.659
You know, it's policy.
1119
00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:08.639
Gus is looking at me with the widest eyes I've
1120
00:53:08.860 --> 00:53:09.320
ever seen.
1121
00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:12.500
It's the policy of the podcast that I don't tell
1122
00:53:12.539 --> 00:53:16.119
you when you get things right. Even if it doesn't
1123
00:53:16.179 --> 00:53:17.409
fucking matter at all.
1124
00:53:20.010 --> 00:53:20.079
Uh.
1125
00:53:22.500 --> 00:53:23.630
But I just blew your mind just now.
1126
00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:25.829
There are times where I wish that that were not
1127
00:53:25.889 --> 00:53:26.989
the policy of the podcast.
1128
00:53:27.010 --> 00:53:28.989
I just blew your fucking mind just now, didn't I?
1129
00:53:29.389 --> 00:53:33.369
That I got that. Did I just blow your fucking mind?
1130
00:53:33.389 --> 00:53:38.909
First you ass-pull Matt and Stepanios. My ass-pulled Matt and Stepanios.
1131
00:53:39.070 --> 00:53:42.019
And then you reached even deeper and you pulled out
1132
00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:43.579
fucking Al-Salam.
1133
00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:48.510
Yeah, because what's the guy... What's the guy with the earring?
1134
00:53:48.590 --> 00:53:50.000
Rodel I Tirolda.
1135
00:53:50.079 --> 00:53:52.599
Yeah, that guy. His fucking king is missing.
1136
00:53:52.639 --> 00:54:00.079
Yeah. Yeah, he is, Allie. And it would be really
1137
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:03.550
helpful if Rand could find him because Ered Duman is
1138
00:54:03.610 --> 00:54:05.130
in shambles.
1139
00:54:05.409 --> 00:54:06.010
Right, right, right.
1140
00:54:06.869 --> 00:54:09.949
And nobody wants to take charge while Al-Salam might still
1141
00:54:09.989 --> 00:54:10.469
be alive.
1142
00:54:12.889 --> 00:54:16.820
I blew your mind just now. You just got a
1143
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:18.780
whole new respect for me that you didn't even know
1144
00:54:18.800 --> 00:54:20.590
was possible. I just saw it happen.
1145
00:54:21.849 --> 00:54:22.110
Yeah.
1146
00:54:22.789 --> 00:54:24.309
I'm fucking smart.
1147
00:54:26.050 --> 00:54:28.679
I don't think we've ever been more back. I don't
1148
00:54:28.699 --> 00:54:33.429
think we- I cannot explicitly confirm if that is who
1149
00:54:33.489 --> 00:54:34.409
Rand is looking for.
1150
00:54:34.429 --> 00:54:34.769
That's fine.
1151
00:54:34.789 --> 00:54:35.489
You don't have to.
1152
00:54:35.550 --> 00:54:36.750
I just blew your fucking mind.
1153
00:54:36.949 --> 00:54:40.250
So Rand gets all of the nobility of Tyr into
1154
00:54:40.289 --> 00:54:41.949
the room. He's like, line them up, line them up.
1155
00:54:42.289 --> 00:54:43.969
You know what's fun? I'm so ADHD, no one ever
1156
00:54:44.010 --> 00:54:45.960
thinks I'm fucking listening. And then I'll be like, I
1157
00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:47.840
will read you for filth.
1158
00:54:47.900 --> 00:54:49.699
Oh yeah, Matt and Stepanios, King of Iliad.
1159
00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:53.579
I have noticed every fucking thing in this room all
1160
00:54:53.659 --> 00:54:58.000
at once. uh don't get it fucking twist.
1161
00:54:57.739 --> 00:55:00.110
It okay he lines up all the nobility is it
1162
00:55:00.170 --> 00:55:03.190
to do a guillotine party no uh but kind of
1163
00:55:03.769 --> 00:55:05.730
why does he line up all the nobility.
1164
00:55:08.949 --> 00:55:11.570
To oh oh because he's gonna go through and he
1165
00:55:11.690 --> 00:55:13.050
picks out the people that.
1166
00:55:12.909 --> 00:55:17.090
Suck define suck They're dark friends. How does he pick
1167
00:55:17.130 --> 00:55:17.469
them out?
1168
00:55:17.590 --> 00:55:19.449
He walks up and he goes, your vibe sucks.
1169
00:55:19.710 --> 00:55:22.889
He literally makes eye contact. And if they can't make
1170
00:55:22.989 --> 00:55:24.590
eye contact with him, they're dark friends.
1171
00:55:24.610 --> 00:55:29.829
That's actually a really good indication of someone being a fuckhead.
1172
00:55:30.250 --> 00:55:33.139
But now like it's painful for them to do. Yeah.
1173
00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:36.099
You know what I've realized is when I don't like someone,
1174
00:55:36.260 --> 00:55:39.880
my body tries to not know that. This is what
1175
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:42.800
I've learned recently. If I don't feel safe with someone,
1176
00:55:44.300 --> 00:55:47.659
My body will tell me by me being unable to
1177
00:55:47.699 --> 00:55:50.320
make eye contact with this person. I used to think
1178
00:55:50.380 --> 00:55:54.750
I was just deeply autistic, but now I've learned that
1179
00:55:54.889 --> 00:55:58.050
actually it's my body's way of, one of my body's
1180
00:55:58.090 --> 00:56:00.329
ways of telling me that I don't like someone, that
1181
00:56:00.349 --> 00:56:01.329
I don't feel safe with someone.
1182
00:56:01.349 --> 00:56:01.909
That's interesting.
1183
00:56:02.050 --> 00:56:03.730
I just stopped being able to look them in the eyes.
1184
00:56:04.650 --> 00:56:06.929
If I don't, if I feel completely comfortable with someone,
1185
00:56:07.579 --> 00:56:09.019
I can look them in the eyes at this point.
1186
00:56:09.820 --> 00:56:12.380
and like hold eye contact. But if I don't feel
1187
00:56:12.380 --> 00:56:15.380
100% confident with someone, I cannot look them in the
1188
00:56:15.500 --> 00:56:20.110
eyes at all. It's weird.
1189
00:56:27.610 --> 00:56:28.429
That's pretty cool.
1190
00:56:29.070 --> 00:56:31.190
So yeah, actually, and the same is true in reverse.
1191
00:56:31.789 --> 00:56:36.429
I've noticed that like when I can bring myself to
1192
00:56:36.469 --> 00:56:39.760
make eye contact with people, Like now that I started
1193
00:56:39.780 --> 00:56:44.539
to reverse that, the people who I don't feel safe
1194
00:56:44.579 --> 00:56:47.179
with tend to struggle to make eye contact with me.
1195
00:56:48.380 --> 00:56:54.349
It's a weird, it's true. This is actually real. The
1196
00:56:54.469 --> 00:57:01.059
vibes are off. So Rand's intuition, he integrated his divine feminine.
1197
00:57:01.099 --> 00:57:06.429
His intuition is absolutely spot on on point.
1198
00:57:06.550 --> 00:57:08.630
Rand gets all the high lords and ladies because form
1199
00:57:08.670 --> 00:57:13.010
a line. Align now. And they do. And he just
1200
00:57:13.050 --> 00:57:17.489
makes eye contact with everybody. Min glanced to the side
1201
00:57:17.809 --> 00:57:21.320
near the end of the line. Wiramon kept glancing at Rand,
1202
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:24.579
then looking away. Tall man had thinning gray hair. His
1203
00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:29.429
beard oiled to a point. Rand eventually reached him. Meet
1204
00:57:29.469 --> 00:57:31.940
my eyes, Weeramon, Rand said softly.
1205
00:57:34.980 --> 00:57:38.239
My lord dragon, surely I am not worthy.
1206
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:41.679
To- Do it. Weeramon did so with an odd difficulty.
1207
00:57:42.019 --> 00:57:44.519
He looked as if he was gritting his teeth, his
1208
00:57:44.619 --> 00:57:49.510
eyes watering. So it is you, Rand said. Wynne could
1209
00:57:49.530 --> 00:57:52.489
feel his disappointment. Rand looked to the side to where
1210
00:57:52.590 --> 00:57:55.500
Anayela stood, last in line. The pretty woman had pulled
1211
00:57:55.519 --> 00:58:01.300
away from Rand, her head turned. Both of you. Okay, um,
1212
00:58:02.059 --> 00:58:05.949
we're Amon. One of the funniest fucking characters in the
1213
00:58:06.010 --> 00:58:09.250
series to this point, in my opinion, is evil.
1214
00:58:10.449 --> 00:58:15.469
Yeah, um, I feel like they like making the ridiculous
1215
00:58:15.530 --> 00:58:19.309
person evil all along. And I kind of dig that.
1216
00:58:19.349 --> 00:58:20.110
I kind of love this.
1217
00:58:20.130 --> 00:58:23.250
Because I had this dream recently, and I won't share
1218
00:58:23.289 --> 00:58:26.110
the contents of the dream, but it made me realize
1219
00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:30.139
that evil people are a bunch of big goo-goo-ga-ga babies.
1220
00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:32.579
And that we actually, we try to make them sound
1221
00:58:32.599 --> 00:58:35.519
so fucking metal by being like, they're evil, they're demons,
1222
00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:38.960
they're devils. I'm like, no, they're big fucking goo-goo-ga-ga babies
1223
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.090
who don't understand empathy and emotional regulation.
1224
00:58:41.820 --> 00:58:43.590
Big loser behavior.
1225
00:58:43.690 --> 00:58:43.889
Yeah.
1226
00:58:44.170 --> 00:58:45.110
No? Yeah.
1227
00:58:45.429 --> 00:58:46.510
Big loser behavior.
1228
00:58:47.579 --> 00:58:49.360
Do you remember all the times he wanted to lead
1229
00:58:49.639 --> 00:58:53.039
a charge? That was his whole personality.
1230
00:58:53.059 --> 00:58:53.780
Well, yeah, probably.
1231
00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:54.860
Charging is for the boys.
1232
00:58:54.920 --> 00:58:57.360
Well, yeah, because evil people are kind of dumb.
1233
00:58:57.559 --> 00:58:59.840
Well, he probably wanted to fuck shit up. But who
1234
00:58:59.900 --> 00:59:03.260
is the other dark friend? Anayela. You remember her?
1235
00:59:03.889 --> 00:59:04.590
Like, barely.
1236
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:10.019
You remember when Ran did the own goal lightning? Mm-hmm.
1237
00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:12.380
And the two women knelt down next to him and
1238
00:59:12.420 --> 00:59:12.940
pulled a knife?
1239
00:59:13.820 --> 00:59:14.179
Oh, yeah.
1240
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:14.980
She was one of them.
1241
00:59:15.260 --> 00:59:16.679
Oh, well, that's not surprising.
1242
00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:24.829
It was her and Eylil. And they also fucked off
1243
00:59:24.849 --> 00:59:26.469
to the Stone of Tyr without his permission.
1244
00:59:27.300 --> 00:59:28.760
Oh, so we knew she sucks.
1245
00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:31.800
Wiramon and Anayela have been doing sketchy shit in the
1246
00:59:31.820 --> 00:59:33.239
background the whole time.
1247
00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:37.940
I've been here the whole time.
1248
00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:40.860
Yeah, it's fun on a reread. You know, any little
1249
00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:43.039
thread's fun to track, but these two are very fun
1250
00:59:43.059 --> 00:59:45.039
to track on a reread.
1251
00:59:45.940 --> 00:59:48.519
I like that. Maybe one day I'll do a reread.
1252
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:51.840
It's going to happen. It's going to happen.
1253
00:59:51.860 --> 00:59:52.789
But let me recover for a little while.
1254
00:59:52.809 --> 00:59:54.329
You're going to take 10 years off and then you're
1255
00:59:54.349 --> 00:59:54.769
going to read it.
1256
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That'd be cute.
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00:59:56.130 --> 00:59:57.210
Yeah. This is what you're going to do.
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00:59:57.289 --> 00:59:58.670
It's probably going to not be 10 years.
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00:59:58.690 --> 01:00:00.349
No. Maybe five.
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01:00:00.610 --> 01:00:02.510
Give me five years. Then we'll talk.
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01:00:03.610 --> 01:00:05.690
Rand sends them to deliver a message.
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01:00:05.710 --> 01:00:08.590
And I'll still remember who Matt fucking Stepanios is.
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01:00:08.630 --> 01:00:11.510
Tell them that they cannot hide among my allies any longer.
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01:00:12.309 --> 01:00:16.809
Wehrman tried to bluster, which I assume sounds like... But.
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01:00:17.510 --> 01:00:20.130
Yeah, that's what evil people really sound like, actually.
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01:00:20.269 --> 01:00:25.440
Rand goes, tell them... that I am no longer blind.
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01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:30.269
And Aniela goes, why are you letting us go? Because
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01:00:30.289 --> 01:00:32.949
today is a day of reunion, Rand said. Not a
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01:00:32.989 --> 01:00:37.090
day of death. Go. And they do.
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01:00:37.130 --> 01:00:38.829
How about you don't even ask that question? How about
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01:00:38.849 --> 01:00:40.130
you just fucking fuck off?
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01:00:40.639 --> 01:00:42.300
And Min is like, how the fuck did that happen?
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01:00:42.340 --> 01:00:43.019
How did that happen?
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01:00:43.559 --> 01:00:45.380
Because vibes.
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01:00:45.539 --> 01:00:48.460
Yeah. The shadow made its play for me and lost.
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01:00:48.820 --> 01:00:51.480
It is war, not subterfuge, that turns the day now.
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01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:56.019
So they're dark friends because they're no longer a threat.
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01:00:56.679 --> 01:00:58.630
And then someone else comes in. Who is it?
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01:01:00.260 --> 01:01:02.179
Oh, I don't remember.
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01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:04.539
It's dad. Oh, yeah.
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01:01:04.559 --> 01:01:05.329
It's everybody's dad.
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01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:06.510
And then everyone cries forever.
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01:01:06.590 --> 01:01:11.090
Everybody cries forever. Tam Althor stood nearby. He had just
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01:01:11.150 --> 01:01:13.489
walked out of a nearby entrance into the stone, pausing
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01:01:13.530 --> 01:01:16.710
on a low set of steps leading down to the courtyard. This,
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01:01:16.769 --> 01:01:18.429
by the way, is where the timeline thing starts getting
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01:01:18.449 --> 01:01:20.400
confusing because Tam is with Perrin.
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01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:20.900
Yep.
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01:01:22.030 --> 01:01:24.969
Rand's emotions grew apprehensive again and Min realized what he'd
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01:01:24.989 --> 01:01:28.730
been searching for earlier. Tam... I'm gonna read a lot
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01:01:28.750 --> 01:01:31.769
of this. Tam looked at his son falling still. His
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01:01:31.809 --> 01:01:34.469
hair was gray and his face lined, yet he was
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01:01:34.530 --> 01:01:37.730
solid in a way that few people were. Rand lifted
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01:01:37.769 --> 01:01:40.769
his hand and the crowd, I said I included, parted.
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01:01:41.849 --> 01:01:45.780
Rand passed through them, Min following behind, crossing to the
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01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:49.519
steps up the stone. Rand climbed a few of those steps, hesitant.
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01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:55.480
The courtyard fell silent. Even the gulls stopped calling. Rand
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01:01:55.539 --> 01:01:58.239
stopped on the steps, and Min could feel his reluctance,
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01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:03.099
his shame, his terror. It seemed so strange. Rand, who
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01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:06.320
had faced Forsaken without a tremor, was afraid of his father.
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01:02:07.909 --> 01:02:10.530
Rand took the last few steps in two sudden strides
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01:02:10.590 --> 01:02:13.949
and grabbed Tam in an embrace. He stood one step down,
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01:02:14.010 --> 01:02:16.849
which brought them near an equal height. In fact, in
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01:02:16.869 --> 01:02:20.030
that posture, Tam almost seemed a giant, and Rand but
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01:02:20.050 --> 01:02:24.409
a child who was clinging to him. There, holding to
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01:02:24.449 --> 01:02:31.369
his father, the dragon reborn began to weep. I like
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01:02:31.409 --> 01:02:31.800
this part.
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01:02:32.570 --> 01:02:33.579
It's so beautiful.
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01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:39.119
He says he's sorry, he's done bad things, and Tam goes,
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01:02:39.900 --> 01:02:42.619
nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again.
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01:02:42.639 --> 01:02:44.710
It didn't break you when you fell.
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01:02:44.949 --> 01:02:45.550
And you see?
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01:02:45.750 --> 01:02:46.630
That's the important part.
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01:02:46.650 --> 01:02:51.329
He took accountability for it. Yeah, that's what healthy fucking
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01:02:51.510 --> 01:02:53.050
people do.
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01:02:53.150 --> 01:02:55.179
Come, father, there's someone I want to introduce you to.
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01:02:55.199 --> 01:03:00.440
Tam chuckled. It's been three days, Rand. I've already met her. Yes,
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01:03:00.500 --> 01:03:03.400
but I didn't introduce you. I need to. He waved
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01:03:03.420 --> 01:03:05.659
to Min and he raised an eyebrow, folding her arms.
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01:03:06.500 --> 01:03:08.440
He looked at her pleadingly, so she sighed and climbed
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01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:12.320
up the steps. Father, Rand said, resting his hand on
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01:03:12.389 --> 01:03:18.219
Min's back. This is Min Farshaw. And she's very special
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01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:18.559
to me.
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01:03:18.579 --> 01:03:22.840
Is that how you felt introducing your dad to me? Yeah.
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01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:25.099
And that's the end of chapter 13. Allie, how do
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01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:27.000
you feel about chapter 13? I liked it.
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01:03:27.619 --> 01:03:34.210
I liked it. Ran's intuition is popping off. Yeah. It's
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01:03:34.269 --> 01:03:34.750
popping off.
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01:03:34.769 --> 01:03:37.130
It's popping off. I really, I like these because it's
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01:03:37.150 --> 01:03:39.590
just sort of like Ran's in a good place again.
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01:03:40.389 --> 01:03:41.889
We love seeing people in a good place.
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01:03:41.909 --> 01:03:44.219
He hasn't been in a good place since....
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01:03:46.039 --> 01:03:48.090
I don't know, like fucking Beltine?
1334
01:03:48.110 --> 01:03:53.030
Dude, I'm in the best place of my life. Since
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01:03:53.050 --> 01:03:54.590
Winter Night? Ran's in the best place of his life.
1336
01:03:54.710 --> 01:03:57.050
You're in the best place of your life. Petey's in
1337
01:03:57.070 --> 01:03:58.769
the best place of his life. He's running in his
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01:03:58.809 --> 01:03:59.409
sleep right now.
1339
01:03:59.469 --> 01:03:59.969
Right now.
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01:04:00.949 --> 01:04:03.170
The cats are fine.
1341
01:04:03.190 --> 01:04:10.269
They're here. The cats are exactly the same as they
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01:04:10.309 --> 01:04:11.809
were seven fucking years ago.
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01:04:11.829 --> 01:04:13.610
No, Manny is in a good place and Beaker is
1344
01:04:13.650 --> 01:04:18.449
an eldritch beast and always has been and always will be.
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01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:21.840
Yeah, that's just good. How do we feel about Rand's trajectory?
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01:04:21.880 --> 01:04:23.260
I mean, I know I've brought this up a lot,
1347
01:04:23.300 --> 01:04:23.579
but like.
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01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:24.550
I really fucking like it.
1349
01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:24.960
Yeah.
1350
01:04:26.639 --> 01:04:30.019
I really fucking like it. I hate in a good
1351
01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:33.219
way that I feel like we're on a similar healing path.
1352
01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:33.820
I know, it's fun.
1353
01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:39.679
It's very annoying. I'm here for it. I love him now.
1354
01:04:39.699 --> 01:04:41.219
I get it.
1355
01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:43.579
Y'all were right.
1356
01:04:44.659 --> 01:04:45.300
He's baby.
1357
01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:46.119
He is baby.
1358
01:04:47.860 --> 01:04:49.699
I like that he's in a good place. It makes
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01:04:49.739 --> 01:04:51.179
me happy to see him in a good place. I
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01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:54.099
hope everybody is nice to him. I hope everybody's nice
1361
01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:56.659
to each other, including you all out there. Be nice
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01:04:56.679 --> 01:05:00.289
to each other. And that is the end of the podcast.
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01:05:00.329 --> 01:05:02.650
Thanks for listening, everybody. We have social media. If you
1364
01:05:02.670 --> 01:05:05.210
want to know what we've got going on, I post
1365
01:05:05.250 --> 01:05:08.679
on the blue sky. We also have a Patreon. It's patreon.com
1366
01:05:08.699 --> 01:05:11.340
slash wheel takes. Dungeon Crawler Carl episodes are going to
1367
01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:13.969
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1368
01:05:14.010 --> 01:05:15.750
rating and a review. It helps a lot.
1369
01:05:16.449 --> 01:05:18.150
Dungeon Crawler Carl is stressing me out.
1370
01:05:18.309 --> 01:05:18.550
Yeah.
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01:05:18.650 --> 01:05:19.230
In the best way.
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01:05:19.250 --> 01:05:19.550
Yeah.
1373
01:05:20.469 --> 01:05:21.809
Other than that, anything else, Allie?
1374
01:05:24.110 --> 01:05:26.730
You can't catch me. I'm the Ninja Bread Man.
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01:05:26.750 --> 01:05:28.769
Thanks for listening, everyone. Bye.
1376
01:05:28.789 --> 01:05:29.329
Vaginas.
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01:06:09.130 --> 01:06:09.809
Thank you.