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Benders & Brews - Episode 6 - The Good, the Bad, and the Smugly · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

• 0:03
  Jasmine, oolong, green and white.
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  Long ago, these four tees were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
• 0:11
  Then everything changed when the shop's popularity threatened its existence.
• 0:17
  All Mr.
• 0:17
  Okran, the shop's owner and teammaster, could do was to recruit four teenage orphans to learn his trade and staff his shop.
• 0:26
  A year has passed since the orphans were hired, and although their skills have progressed, they still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
• 0:34
  But I believe that they have the potential to make the Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the world.
• 0:41
  Last time on Benders and Brews an Avatar Legends podcast.
• 0:45
  Mr.
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  Ogaron says yes.
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  It was probably my old employer hot Leaf Juice, 30 years ago, but essentially I coowned hot leaf Juice when it first started with, at the time, my business partner, Madame Yang, she stabbed me in the back.
• 1:05
  Literally.
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  Since then, I've exited the company because I didn't agree with a lot of their policies and sort of the direction things were going and decided to go off and start my own tea shop.
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  She was not happy about that and she's always been after me for it.
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  Well, admittedly, Gaoling is one of the few larger cities in the entire Earth kingdoms that doesn't currently have a hot leaf juice.
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  I'm the one thing standing in our way from really taking over the entire land.
• 1:31
  Well, Mr.
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  Okoron, I have some great news for you.
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  You're going in half these for the party.
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  I found this note in their studies and it says here that Hot Leaf Juice was in with the Shifu family and they paid the Shifu family to not use our business and to switch over.
• 1:48
  The hot leaf juice is going to be here in town.
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  I'm going to get the ingredients prepped and ready.
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  We will show our professional capabilities and our tea quality will be superior, meaning we need to ditch half their supply.
• 2:02
  Hot Leafy Juice doesn't know what we look like.
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  A couple of us could just act like we're working for the Shifu family and we're going to help them unload their stuff for them.
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  And by unload, we take it the wrong way and then just ditch it somewhere.
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  We just posed as hot leads juice the entire time.
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  So Mika and I will be hot leaf juice.
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  We could have silver ink in their teeth.
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  You watch them pull in their cart.
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  As soon as it pulls over, you see a few people get out.
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  And then this woman steps out, very tall, very intimidating.
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  She looks over at you guys in your booth and she just gets this like, little curl of a smile in the corner of her lips and she starts walking towards you.
• 2:43
  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Better's and Bruise, a non canonical Avatar Legends real play podcast.
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  My name is Scott Gorsett and I am the game master, creating the story alongside my co writer, Dr.
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  Nick, and then bringing it to you and the players who are sitting around me who are going to introduce themselves.
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  Whoever's.
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  Ready? Go.
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  Dave here.
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  I'm playing Guaohan.
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  The adamant.
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  I'm Cameron.
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  I'm playing Bill door.
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  The guardian.
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  I'm Connor.
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  And I am Broccoli, the earth bending hammer.
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  I'm ECA.
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  And if you don't know my name yet, you never will to make a stage name.
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  Yeah, I got a good stage name for what do they call it? Writer.
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  I'm able and I play Michael.
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  Mabel.
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  Sorry.
• 3:36
  Mccallah.
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  I literally will throat hug you.
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  Throat Hugh.
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  The regular Bart Simpson treatment.
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  Hold on.
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  You guys never heard of throat hogging? I did today.
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  Okay.
• 3:55
  I've heard of tonsil hockey.
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  Interesting.
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  That's a whole other sport.
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  What your dentist performs.
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  Oh, I'm sure there's dentists out here.
• 4:08
  All right, so today's question for your characters is it actually, ironically, kind of follows really nicely with episode one question, which was, what is their favorite tea? Well, I have to ask you guys as we're sitting here with some wonderful Costco muffins that Connor brought us, what is your favorite tea time snack? What do you like to eat with your tea? You want me to start? Yeah, sure.
• 4:33
  You brought the muffins.
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  Clarifying questions.
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  Favorite tea time snack.
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  Our favorite tea time snack or character's favorite times? Oh, your characters.
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  But you can also add your personal favorite as well, if you want to.
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  So personally, it's probably the same.
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  I enjoy it.
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  Lady fingers.
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  Those little cookies.
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  And I feel like those would work well with Broccoli as well because they're usually very hard and dry, like a rock.
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  He's got a thing for rocks.
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  Yeah, he doesn't know what else to do if there weren't any rocks around.
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  Sure.
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  He's going to stick with the lady fingers.
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  All right.
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  That's interesting.
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  I wouldn't have thought of that one.
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  Which is ironic because I feel like it's a very popular teatime snack.
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  I think so.
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  Right on.
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  What about Guo Han? Just I don't know.
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  I'm just kind of going around the bohan.
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  Oh, sorry.
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  enjoys a nice air Nomad custard tart.
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  Wow.
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  Yeah, the air nomad.
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  Something that travels with the carnival.
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  Sure.
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  They made those, and they were quite delicious indeed.
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  Did he have a specific, like, fruit or flavor of tart that he really likes? Not just the plain.
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  Okay.
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  I was waiting for you to pull a bill Door and just be like, lemon, lemon grass.
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  Just from episode one.
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  is a pretty good tea.
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  Honestly, I would drink that.
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  I would try it.
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  It has quite the, like, zing to it.
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  It'd be very zesty tea, but anyway, very summer tea, I would say.
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  Anyway.
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  Well, if you rewind your brains and remember back, bill Door doesn't drink tea.
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  He drinks water.
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  Okay.
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  What's his favorite water time snack? I guess his favorite snack.
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  I guess just in general, because it's salad.
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  Salad.
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  He likes a nice salad with his water.
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  All right, put some he likes mixing up his dressings and stuff and mix up with flavor.
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  I'm sure if he did drink tea, he'd like it with salad.
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  Sure.
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  Just because.
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  I don't know why not.
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  Salad with the liquid is pretty good.
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  Salad, like wearing the color black.
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  It just kind of goes with everything.
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  Yes, it goes with any meal, goes with any drink.
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  Keeps you healthy.
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  Fair enough.
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  All right.
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  It's different, but that's a fair point.
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  He likes that rabbit food.
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  That's some dressing.
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  That's right.
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  Like, what kind of dressing? Like I said, he mixes it up.
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  He mixes it.
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  Usually doesn't have the same one twice in a row.
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  What does Mika like to eat with her, too? Yeah, how are you going to top salad? Mika likes some nice chocolate of any kind.
• 7:55
  Oh, okay.
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  Just chocolate, though.
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  Like, not like chocolate covered.
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  Just chocolate.
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  Okay.
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  She likes those fruity, remember? Right.
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  Which would pair very chocolate.
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  All right, that's fair.
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  She doesn't have to have a chocolate covered blueberry, for instance, because she's drinking a blueberry tea.
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  So she gets the essence of it done.
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  All the work of melting chocolate onto the fruit.
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  Yes.
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  Sometimes she'll melt the chocolate from the hot water.
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  Sure.
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  All right, perfect.
• 8:25
  Well, now that we have all that out of the way, let's move back into episode six of Benders and Bruise.
• 8:35
  Back inside the mansion, Mika is making her way sneakily through the fancy corridors, past the various servants, putting up decorations, banners and paper lanterns.
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  Not so much inside, actually.
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  Probably for the paper lanterns because those are a fire hazard.
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  But banners, posters, those little flag things that you hang on the wall, they're stringing, fancy stuff.
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  I'm not really, like, I don't know this stuff quite as well, so I'm just kind of going off of whatever pops in my head.
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  Banners, like the flag banners.
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  Sure.
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  Penance.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, there you go.
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  See, that's why you're here.
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  Garland.
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  They got garland on various anything that's a pole shape.
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  They have garland on it.
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  Lamps, pillars, floor holes, curtain rods that don't have curtains on them for whatever reason.
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  Anyways, what are you doing, Mika? What are you looking for? What are you after? Right now? I'm finding containers to hold that pond water in.
• 9:58
  Oh, okay.
• 9:59
  Well, I would say it probably wouldn't take you very long to find an assortment, or at least kind of point out you're not, like, gathering them all together, but you're kind of mentally pointing out, like, oh, over there, there's, like, an ornate Voss.
• 10:12
  Over there, there's a boss.
• 10:14
  It's smaller, probably more holdable, but it's got a flower in it, so I'd have to dump it over there.
• 10:21
  You don't see any, like, buckets? Because, again, they're trying to keep everything really clean and fancy.
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  They don't have any buckets in here.
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  The mopping has already been done, like, three days beforehand.
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  Nothing fancy.
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  Buckets in the corner.
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  You got to keep them somewhere.
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  I mean, not out in the open, at least if you wanted to check other spaces or something like that.
• 10:46
  No.
• 10:47
  Okay.
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  Just like in the open.
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  Okay.
• 10:50
  Yeah.
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  Lots of bosses.
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  Right.
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  Do you normally say boss? No, I normally say Vs, but they're fancy, so it's going to be a ball.
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  The cost more.
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  Is there like a decent sized one that I could easily carry full of water? Yeah, like I said, you find them in a variety of okay.
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  You find them in a variety of shapes and sizes.
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  So yeah, you're able to find one, you find, like, a perfectly sized one.
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  It is a bit heavy, but again, that's because this one has flour inside of it.
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  Like flour or a flower? Just what? Oh, yeah, like a flower not full of flour that the chef is running past.
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  Like, give me that back.
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  I got to go make the cake.
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  I'm so far behind.
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  Okay.
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  I pull out the flour, I break the roots off and I stick it in my braid.
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  Okay, that's good cover.
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  I mean, I'm not going to lie, I was like, oh, I've got to be intrigued by how she's going to hide the evidence.
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  I mean, there's still some dirt in there, but as I go outside, I'm just going to sprinkle it and flower beds or whatever.
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  I'm spreading fertilizers.
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  Okay.
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  I mean, nobody questions you.
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  There's so many people just rushing around doing stuff, doing crazy stuff.
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  Okay, so then I go to the pond.
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  You said there's a pond and a fountain.
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  So the pond is like it's got that gazebo that kind of goes over it and they're like the same distance away from this house.
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  Yeah, it's very which one is on the left? Which way are you facing from, like, standing towards the door.
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  Okay, so the left would be the pond.
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  Okay, I'm going to the pond.
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  Okay.
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  I'm going to fill it up with fish poop water.
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  You do that? Do you water bend it or do you just dip it in? I'll just dip it.
• 12:47
  I'll try and do it nonchalantly.
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  Okay.
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  Like I said, nobody's really looking.
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  I mean, there's that guy that's like picking I mean, he's over at yeah, but I don't want stephen was a PH, so accidentally I don't want to count as bad sign in more than I heard.
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  That's totally fair.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, you do that.
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  Actually, now that you're outside, you do see that the group that is representing the Blissful Brew is currently being approached by a very tall and intimidating looking woman in one of those very wide sleeved robes.
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  And then off, not too far in the distance and it looks like she's walking away from this is the cart of the Hot Leaf Juice Company.
• 13:32
  Okay, I'm going to water vent.
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  Okay.
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  I'm going to shape the water, kind of like sneaky, whatever.
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  And then because I have it rain on the lady.
• 13:47
  Well, you're a little ways away.
• 13:49
  Yeah, they'll just flow.
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  How far does your okay, hold on.
• 13:55
  This is why we roll for things.
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  What does it depend on? Your training? I believe it's what it helps rely on your skill and training.
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  Yeah, just focus.
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  I have great focus.
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  Zero in it.
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  Yes.
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  It's just a plus zero.
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  I roll one or two.
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  Two seven.
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  Let's go.
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  Yeah, give me just a second.
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  Just shy.
• 14:20
  No, I'm basically a pro.
• 14:22
  It's fine.
• 14:22
  Just shy.
• 14:24
  What do you want? Oh, I love you.
• 14:28
  Reroll that you don't reroll both if there's a cocktail nine, again, making it rain on the old lake.
• 14:38
  So basically, in the rules of seven to nine, you do it imperfectly.
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  So you snake the water over towards her direction, and just before it's about to like, instead of raining on her, it just rains directly in front of her, and it gets her shoes a little bit wet, but it doesn't get her whole self wet.
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  I'm just going to nonchalantly turn the other way and refill my bucket.
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  Right.
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  And head back in the house.
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  Since it came downward, she just gets very confused.
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  She's looking up like, oh, my.
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  And then she brings back her composure, and then she continues to walk towards you guys.
• 15:17
  So you get your vase filled with water, and then you take it inside, right? Is that what you said? Okay, sounds good.
• 15:22
  Brock, you're stepping outside.
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  Nica actually walks right past you, and she's carrying this big boss of water.
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  And aside from seeing that, you see over in the distance the same thing that she had seen, which is this very tall, intimidating.
• 15:37
  As he walks by me, I weaken him, and that's it.
• 15:41
  Okay.
• 15:44
  It means something.
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  Oblivious.
• 15:47
  Yeah, no, that's fair.
• 15:49
  Well, you're distracted because you see the hot leaf juice logo, which you're familiar with, you're all familiar with.
• 15:56
  And again, like I said, you see this woman walking towards your friends who are setting up the booth for the Blissful brew.
• 16:04
  Well, I have no idea who this lady is.
• 16:08
  Sure to me to broccoli.
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  I just assume that she's a partygoer, and I go about my business, which is trying to blend in with hot leaf juice.
• 16:19
  Okay, so you're approaching the cart then? Yes, ma'am.
• 16:23
  Okay, I'm going up to the cart, and I am just walking up and just trying to find a job to where I look like I'm part of that group.
• 16:33
  Okay.
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  You do notice that they all seem to be wearing uniforms.
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  They all are very, like, a bright pink color.
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  And they all have the little logo in the kind of corner up by the right breast area.
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  They're currently just unloading the cart, taking out boxes, taking out tables, some equipment, or they're moving equipment from the boxes.
• 16:58
  They're kind of like large crates inside the crates.
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  Everything is padded in was sort of like a hay like material because a lot of it's very fragile.
• 17:07
  It's teacups and pitchers and teapots and things along those lines.
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  But they seem to be taking it all inside the mansion because they were told that that's where they were set up at, is inside where you guys were set outside.
• 17:23
  So, yeah, that's what you see.
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  Okay.
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  So I'll walk up to the cart and just act like I own it.
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  Walk up, grab a box, and start following the line in.
• 17:33
  Okay.
• 17:34
  I'm going to have you roll a push your luck, see if you can kind of just blend in and get away with it.
• 17:40
  Is that creativity? Passion.
• 17:42
  Passion.
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  That is a plus one.
• 17:45
  Right on.
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  Eleven.
• 17:49
  All right.
• 17:50
  So sure enough, nobody really questions anything that you're doing.
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  You just grab a box, head on in.
• 17:55
  You can probably assume that these people are tired from a long trip all the way from Bossing, say, or wherever.
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  You assume that's where they're from, based on the letters that you guys have seen.
• 18:06
  And they are tired.
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  They don't care if someone else is grabbing a box for them that they don't recognize.
• 18:11
  Hey, if he's bringing it inside for us, I don't care.
• 18:15
  You've got a box, big old crate in your arms.
• 18:18
  I mean, you're broccoli, you're a big, strong guy for the most part.
• 18:21
  So, I mean, it's not a problem for you whatsoever to pick up this big old box.
• 18:25
  Who knows what? I'm not even rollerblade around just to show them.
• 18:29
  You might.
• 18:32
  So you've got a box.
• 18:34
  Where are you headed with this? Is there any noise coming from this box? No, everything's patted in pretty good.
• 18:42
  Okay, so even if there were teacups if there were teacups, I wouldn't hear them clanging around.
• 18:46
  Right.
• 18:47
  Okay.
• 18:47
  So I'll go to the booth where they're setting up, and I'm assuming they're opening the boxes and setting all this stuff up, so I'll open up my box.
• 18:57
  Is there anybody else at the booth at this very moment, or is it just me? Like I said, they're kind of setting up around you so you can pick out a spot that's kind of maybe a little bit off from you.
• 19:09
  Take it inside.
• 19:10
  Right? Yeah, I'm at the booth right now.
• 19:13
  Okay.
• 19:16
  Yeah.
• 19:16
  You're coming back in at this point.
• 19:19
  You're coming back in.
• 19:20
  You're getting there.
• 19:22
  You're carrying a big old thing of water and broccoli.
• 19:25
  How we think I eat.
• 19:27
  She's a strong, independent she is that's fair? Well, 17 year old, maybe.
• 19:33
  She's like, I was on my own for a short time.
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  She spent that time lifting.
• 19:40
  When you come in, are you, like, headed straight to Brock, who's doing something over? I remember I was going in with my water as he went out to go meet.
• 19:51
  Right.
• 19:51
  Okay, so you've already taken the water, and you're doing something.
• 19:54
  Okay, we'll get back to that.
• 19:55
  I'm setting it up nonchalantly.
• 19:57
  Maybe put my flour back in the pot.
• 19:59
  Right.
• 20:00
  No big deal.
• 20:01
  Yes.
• 20:01
  At this point, I forget from the last step.
• 20:04
  Sure.
• 20:06
  I'm not wearing the blister uniform.
• 20:09
  Right.
• 20:09
  You guys took yours off to help make sure that you guys were able to blend in.
• 20:13
  Okay.
• 20:13
  So as of right now, I think my strategy might shift a bit.
• 20:16
  Instead of trying to blend in with hot leaks, I may just try to blend in as, like, a servant, or are the servants also wearing other sorts of uniforms? They kind of vary between the servants because there were, like well, and I don't know if you guys would necessarily know this necessarily, but you assume that this isn't the Shifu house.
• 20:35
  This is somebody else's house.
• 20:36
  But obviously the Shifu family was involved in the planning of this event because they were in charge of the catering.
• 20:41
  So you assume that there's probably multiple families that are involved in the setting up this whole party.
• 20:46
  And they've brought their collective staff for the most part.
• 20:49
  Okay.
• 20:50
  Not their head of house.
• 20:51
  Otherwise Sebastian would be here.
• 20:53
  But other than that yeah.
• 20:54
  So there's a variety of different costumes and outfits and such.
• 20:59
  Okay.
• 20:59
  That's just more of a mental note to myself.
• 21:01
  Yeah.
• 21:02
  So I'll just open up the crate and what's inside that crate? So you open it up, and sure enough, inside there are a large number of teacups that have all been carefully have paper in between each one of them to help from keeping them from clinking against each other.
• 21:19
  And then, like I said, directly around all of them.
• 21:22
  Is that hay material to kind of pat it all in so it's not bumping against each other or against the crate itself.
• 21:28
  Okay.
• 21:29
  And there's no T in that box? Not in this one, no.
• 21:32
  Okay.
• 21:37
  All right.
• 21:38
  So I'll set up the cups that I've got.
• 21:39
  Okay.
• 21:41
  I'll set up the cups that I got.
• 21:42
  Man.
• 21:43
  Is there anybody who that I can see has a crate with tea in it? No one has the t out yet.
• 21:50
  Okay.
• 21:53
  I think I'll probably just leave this crate and go grab another.
• 21:59
  Sure.
• 22:02
  I'm going to try and just hop up on the cart okay.
• 22:06
  And try and sort of jiggle every single crate that I hand off to other people and just try and make a clanging sound.
• 22:13
  Okay.
• 22:14
  And if there isn't one, I'll put that one off to the side.
• 22:17
  Okay.
• 22:17
  All right.
• 22:19
  One guy walks up to it, and he's like, what are you doing in there? Well, just moving the crates.
• 22:27
  What are you doing? Why are you jiggling? I mean I mean, we're trying to be careful with these things.
• 22:32
  Well, we also would like to trust that the packing process was adequate, and everybody's tired from this trip, and so it shouldn't really matter if it gets a little extra jiggle, doesn't it? Well, I would hope not, but I don't want to have to have made that whole entire trip just to find a whole bunch of busted tea cups inside of one of these things.
• 22:55
  I mean, the roads over here from Boston aren't exactly smooth.
• 22:59
  They've been clanging around all day.
• 23:01
  I'm just trying not to push the boundaries of what these things can handle at this point, especially since we're here.
• 23:08
  All right, I guess you're right.
• 23:11
  As I continue to ignore him and just feeling every single crate, he kind of, like, just rolls his eyes.
• 23:18
  He looks over, he sees that Madame Yang is busy, so he just grabs a box and takes it in sick.
• 23:28
  Yeah.
• 23:29
  I mean a T box.
• 23:31
  Well, so you assume that the giveaway is that it seems like there's a couple of crates that are a lot lighter than a lot of the other ones.
• 23:38
  So you assume, oh, these probably aren't filled with, like, teacups or kind of heavier materials.
• 23:44
  There's got to be something else.
• 23:45
  All right, so I'll take the lighter ones.
• 23:47
  Okay.
• 23:47
  And I'll wait till there's, like, a break in the line, and I'll sort of, like, put it off to the side of the cart.
• 23:52
  Yeah, okay.
• 23:53
  Sounds good.
• 23:53
  Yeah.
• 23:54
  All right.
• 23:56
  I was going to get to these guys.
• 23:58
  I got Madame Yang with some wet beet coming up, setting up my pond water in their pots that they're trying to boil water in.
• 24:07
  All right, well, we will get to that.
• 24:10
  I promise you, too.
• 24:14
  You guys are standing there, you're watching this tall, intimidating Madame Yang as a pro.
• 24:19
  I guess you wouldn't know her name as Madame Yang just yet.
• 24:21
  Well, you might assume because Mr.
• 24:23
  Yanis Karan was saying yeah, never assume.
• 24:26
  Never assume.
• 24:27
  But anyway, she's walking towards you, and then you watch as this sort of snake of water sort of just manifests itself above her and then drop and just kind of get her shoes a little wet.
• 24:43
  She looks very baffled and confused for a moment, but then psychopathically just changes her emotional state back to very calm and collected person and continues walking towards you around the now spot of mud that's on the ground.
• 25:01
  Is there anything that you guys are thinking or maybe even doing as she's approaching you and kind of knowing a little bit of context in the back of your mind that, oh, boy, who knows what this is going to turn out to be? Well, this should be interesting.
• 25:17
  Yeah.
• 25:19
  I think we're screwed.
• 25:23
  Do you have that money? Yeah, I've got it stashed away in my zero pockets.
• 25:30
  I have you've got it? I gave it to you.
• 25:38
  There you go.
• 25:40
  All right.
• 25:42
  Do you want me to do the document of you? I think we're in this together.
• 25:48
  All right, tag team.
• 25:50
  All right.
• 25:51
  So she approaches and she says, well, the Blissful Brew.
• 25:58
  I wasn't expecting to see your company here.
• 26:02
  Yeah, we're setting up.
• 26:06
  What can we do to help you? My name is Madame Yang, owner and CEO of Hot Leaf Juice.
• 26:16
  I'm sure your boss, Mr.
• 26:19
  Ocaron, probably mentioned me.
• 26:22
  I was in the understanding that we're to be the salty caterers on contract for this event.
• 26:30
  I can't imagine the kind of begging and groveling Ocaron had to do in order to apparently take back his spot here.
• 26:42
  Well, Miss Yang, it's a pleasure to meet you.
• 26:47
  We heard about your fine tea establishment you have over in Bossing, saying here you have a fantastic company up there, and this family was honored to have you down here for this event.
• 27:00
  But a recent change happened in the last few hours, and they wanted a local company to help run this thing as well.
• 27:06
  They want a bit of flavors from two different companies.
• 27:09
  And there was a last minute change.
• 27:11
  You know how rich people are.
• 27:13
  And that's the reason why the Blissful Brew was asked to come co run this place.
• 27:21
  But don't worry, your company still has the nice spot inside, right next to the dance floor, which, honestly, is probably prime real estate compared out here in the garden.
• 27:31
  So I think you still get the best out of the deal.
• 27:34
  But can't do co companies co exist at the same party? Well, I suppose we have no choice now, don't we? But I must ask, is Mr.
• 27:47
  Ocaron, the so called teammaster himself, going to be here? You better believe it.
• 27:54
  He'll be here soon as our flavorful tea.
• 27:58
  I can only assume the best from Mr.
• 28:01
  Ocaron.
• 28:03
  He is a bit of a t eccentric, I suppose.
• 28:08
  Mr.
• 28:08
  Ogron is an artist.
• 28:11
  Is that how he is referring to himself these days? You corporate type wouldn't understand.
• 28:17
  I think it's you who wouldn't understand, given that you're little more than employee at a dying tea shop after all.
• 28:28
  But alas, I have a tea shop to set up.
• 28:33
  It will be interesting to see how the night plays out, don't you think? I guess so.
• 28:44
  indeed.
• 28:45
  She turns and starts to walk away.
• 28:48
  Bill door gives her a slight bow when she walks away.
• 28:53
  Like one that she would catch on, like the corner of her eye as she's turning.
• 28:58
  I guess.
• 28:59
  Yeah.
• 28:59
  I don't know.
• 29:00
  It'd be a polite yeah that you would give to a higher member of the community.
• 29:07
  Sure.
• 29:07
  They leave.
• 29:09
  Yeah, I mean, she catches out of the corner of the eye and she kind of like dips her head back at you.
• 29:14
  Kind of like just like an acknowledgment.
• 29:17
  And then she continues on.
• 29:26
  direction.
• 29:27
  Is there a term for that? Like I'm just curious.
• 29:31
  Nananabubu.
• 29:32
  I like that.
• 29:33
  It's a classic.
• 29:34
  I'm thinking of It's a Wonderful Life.
• 29:36
  I can't remember what they do in that movie.
• 29:52
  Okay, you do that and she doesn't notice this.
• 29:54
  But, Bill, you notice it.
• 29:56
  Yeah, it's pretty funny.
• 29:57
  It's pretty funny.
• 29:59
  Yeah.
• 30:02
  All right.
• 30:03
  Awesome.
• 30:03
  So she walked away.
• 30:04
  What are you guys going to do now that she's heading off? Yes.
• 30:08
  We just get things right for Mr.
• 30:09
  Oakron, all right.
• 30:11
  I know it's going to outbrew her.
• 30:12
  I mean, she seems way too uptight to actually brew anything good.
• 30:17
  Yeah, no, that's fair.
• 30:22
  Meanwhile, back inside the mansion, mika, you've got a big old Voss of water, of muddy duck and fish poop water.
• 30:37
  Okay, so there's other people, you said, setting up and doing their thing.
• 30:41
  Yes.
• 30:42
  Everybody looks like they, like, in the hot leaf juice.
• 30:45
  All the employees look like they have a very specific purpose.
• 30:48
  Like, one guy is actively doing a quick once over, cleaning out the teacups, setting them down.
• 30:55
  Somebody's making sure they're organized.
• 30:57
  Obviously, they've already got, like, a handful of tables and things, but they're still, like there's two guys that are their whole job is just to make sure that the tables are set up and they're put together in such a way.
• 31:07
  You've got somebody that's all the dishes are getting reclaimed from the drive over.
• 31:13
  They got to make sure that there's no residual taste from the hay or something.
• 31:17
  So you got people doing that, all this kind of other stuff.
• 31:26
  water.
• 31:27
  Yeah.
• 31:27
  But they're going to be boiling.
• 31:29
  Sure.
• 31:30
  Is that already set up, like, the pot or whatever? Yeah, they've got pots, and those were kind of near the back with the T.
• 31:39
  So they're bringing them in as, like, right now.
• 31:42
  They're not set up yet? Not like set up, but I mean, they're these giant pitchers.
• 31:47
  Like, two people have to carry one.
• 31:49
  They have water in them, then.
• 31:50
  Yeah.
• 31:51
  Okay.
• 31:51
  Yeah.
• 31:53
  You assume that it's probably special water.
• 31:57
  I don't mean that in a weird way.
• 31:59
  It's not like drug water or anything.
• 32:01
  It's just very purified water.
• 32:03
  Yeah.
• 32:03
  They've got some, like, water benders working for them back in Boston, say, and that's their whole job is to just, like, purify the water.
• 32:11
  Sounds like a horrible job.
• 32:13
  I don't know.
• 32:15
  Okay, well, I want to wait until they set those up so that I can find a way to put my water into those pots.
• 32:25
  Okay.
• 32:27
  So they bring them in, they pop open.
• 32:30
  They've got these kind of, like, big corks almost on them to help make sure that they're watertight, because they're obviously going to jiggle a little bit during the cart right over.
• 32:39
  So they pop them open.
• 32:40
  So it's got them open.
• 32:44
  They have the teapots, and they're filling the teapots with the water and yeah, that's the basic process of it.
• 32:52
  And then they've got some little things set up as kind of like portable burners, in a sense.
• 32:58
  But it's very like medieval hot rocks? Yes.
• 33:01
  Hot rocks.
• 33:02
  Yes.
• 33:03
  And they have one dude that's a firebender that's with them, and he's heating up those hot box with his air.
• 33:10
  He's a hot head.
• 33:12
  Yeah, sure.
• 33:14
  Or he just starts fire in his hand.
• 33:18
  And just kind of holds it over the rock.
• 33:19
  My way is I feel like anyway sure, you should have made a firebender because I feel like Madame Yank I feel like she would be one of those ones you're like you can't use your hands.
• 33:32
  You have to use your breath.
• 33:34
  Well, I mean they are not touching the rocks or anything.
• 33:38
  I know, I'm just on anyway, all I'm doing is cooling it down.
• 33:49
  I am going to watermelon the water kind of downside of my vase across the floor.
• 33:59
  So you're doing this very subtly.
• 34:01
  Like it's like a trickle sort of.
• 34:03
  And then it's going to kind of fork off.
• 34:07
  But if it's on the floor, it's going to get all dirty.
• 34:10
  That's fine.
• 34:12
  Even better.
• 34:14
  And it's flavors.
• 34:15
  I'm going to have some of the water that forks off is going to like all of that water because water better.
• 34:22
  So it doesn't really leave like a streak, I guess.
• 34:24
  Okay.
• 34:25
  And that's going to sit in front of the workers.
• 34:28
  So they're busy trying to like, oh, where does this water come from? Clean it up.
• 34:31
  And then I'm going to put the other water in the basement.
• 34:40
  They're distracted with my spilt.
• 34:42
  Water is when I would water bend the water into the pictures.
• 34:45
  I want to do it at the same time.
• 34:46
  Okay.
• 34:48
  I'm going to have you do between all of this, I would say we'll do a rely on your skills and training.
• 34:57
  Out of four, you're going to blow this whole operation probably.
• 35:04
  Okay, so you do the trickle bit slip on my own water.
• 35:10
  Sad day.
• 35:11
  Well, kind of, yeah.
• 35:13
  So you trickle the water like you wanted to and then when they're cleaning it up, you're going to bend the water and at the same time that you're bending your nasty water over to theirs.
• 35:25
  A butler over in the ballroom where you're at, he's putting up a banner and he's doing it real precariously like he's on a ladder.
• 35:34
  And he's like really stretching over.
• 35:37
  He's like, I'm so close and I don't want to have to get all the way back down and move the ladder like two inches so I can reach this.
• 35:43
  So he's just trying to do it and then he falls.
• 35:48
  The whole thing comes crashing down.
• 35:49
  It startles you and you drop your water that you were bending onto the heads of the hot leaf juice people that are cleaning up the water that you just sort of leaked over onto the floor.
• 36:06
  And they're like there's people over in the corner freaking out because this guy just fell down.
• 36:12
  He might be injured.
• 36:13
  There's people right next to you that are freaking out because they just got soaking wet.
• 36:16
  They're looking around.
• 36:17
  How the heck they're looking at the pictures because they're worried.
• 36:20
  The pictures, I mean, they were leaking before, so maybe like they spilled or sloshed or something.
• 36:25
  Maybe someone bumped them and they're confused because they're like, maybe the butler that was putting the banner up somehow fell on them.
• 36:31
  But he's all the way across there, so that doesn't make any sense.
• 36:33
  What's going on here? And Broccoli, he's not come back yet? Correct.
• 36:39
  I'm still at the cart.
• 36:40
  Yeah, he's still at the cart.
• 36:41
  He's jiggling crates.
• 36:43
  Okay.
• 36:44
  I'm going to leave the vase.
• 36:47
  It is an important job.
• 36:48
  I'm going to leave the vase.
• 36:49
  I'm going to walk outside.
• 36:50
  Okay.
• 36:59
  I'm going to see if I can find Bill door and wow.
• 37:04
  Okay.
• 37:04
  Well, you're definitely able to find them, and while you're easily finding them, I'm going to cut over to Brock.
• 37:10
  All right.
• 37:13
  You found, like, a couple of crates with t and them, you set them off to the side of the cart, things like that.
• 37:20
  You're struggling to find more because you have to keep turning to keep an eye on the crates of tea that are out by the cart, because the employee might walk up and be like, oh, there's one ready to go, and then walk off with it.
• 37:31
  So you have to be like, oh, not that one yet.
• 37:34
  It's not ready.
• 37:35
  Yeah.
• 37:36
  So you found two.
• 37:37
  Okay.
• 37:38
  I mean, they're big crates, too, so there's quite a bit of ingredients in there.
• 37:42
  Am I aware of what just happened inside, or am I too far away? You'd be too far away, yeah.
• 37:48
  Okay.
• 37:50
  So in this case, I guess I will.
• 37:53
  So how far is the cart from the inside of the party to the indoor part? Yeah.
• 38:02
  So they've made most carts, like, park pretty on the outskirts, partially just because they don't want to have to clog up the area for people that are running around trying to bring stuff in for other things.
• 38:12
  And then also partly because they don't want to damage the grass that people are going to see as they're walking into the mansion during the party, I got to keep it all clean and pristine and fancy.
• 38:24
  So I would say maybe, like, probably 100ft or so from the door, maybe a little bit further, even 100ft or so from that door.
• 38:34
  Okay.
• 38:37
  Is there any sort of I'm assuming there's some sort of security at this event? At the moment, there's not a lot.
• 38:45
  Like I said, there's the guy at the front that's kind of directing everyone that shows up, because right now it's mostly vendors or caterers or staff or things like that.
• 38:55
  So at the moment, they're not super high security on things.
• 39:00
  Okay.
• 39:01
  I want to take the two T boxes.
• 39:05
  I'll earth bend a cart for them, like, just a little slab, and I'll take the two, and I'm going to wheel it around the building and just toss them in the pond.
• 39:19
  Okay.
• 39:21
  So I'm going like the long all the way around.
• 39:25
  The way around.
• 39:26
  Okay.
• 39:26
  So as you make your way to the back, I'm just going to describe what you find back there.
• 39:32
  So there's a wide open kind of courtyard area back there that's immediately next to the house.
• 39:38
  It's got some nice rose bushes, some flower beds and things like that kind of planted.
• 39:43
  There's like paths that run between them.
• 39:46
  And then there's this massive hedge maze that's further past that and then in the middle of this fancy little just the flower bed area and things like that.
• 40:01
  It's like a walking area.
• 40:03
  You go out with your so and so, and you guys walk and talk like any episode of Game of Thrones conspire against the government or the leader at the time.
• 40:13
  And then in the middle of it all, there's a nice little water feature pond with a fountain in the middle of it that's kind of like running water too.
• 40:22
  Just throwing that out there to you so that's what you pass by.
• 40:25
  There's not a whole lot of people out there.
• 40:27
  There's just maybe a small handful of servants.
• 40:30
  They're checking the flowers.
• 40:32
  They're trimming the hedges, like just right, making sure there's nothing poking out, checking the ground for any twigs or weeds or anything like that and getting those removed, things along those lines.
• 40:44
  Is anybody paying any particular attention to me? No, they are very focused.
• 40:48
  You assume that there's a pretty decent amount.
• 40:51
  I mean, every once in a while someone's going to walk back there doing their thing.
• 40:54
  They're doing their thing.
• 40:55
  These guys are doing their thing.
• 40:57
  Nobody's really like, bugging anybody.
• 40:58
  They don't care what other people have to do for this because they need to get this job right or otherwise they might be fired.
• 41:03
  So, yeah, they don't care when you walk by.
• 41:05
  I might go a little off kilter here, so I want to I'm going to be off to the side, go off to where there's not a ton of people and where I'm not with an eye shot of more than maybe a couple, like one or two people.
• 41:19
  I take the long slab that I have these crates on.
• 41:27
  Okay.
• 41:28
  I'll take them off of the slab.
• 41:30
  I'll earth bend another slab on top of that slab that's about three times the length, put the crates back on and catapult them over, step on the other end and catapult them into the pond.
• 41:43
  So that way I'm not seen dumping them in the pond.
• 41:46
  Into the pond that's over here in the back.
• 41:49
  What would you say? Into the hedge maze or into the pond, which would be a closer shot? I mean, you could pretty much go anywhere on the circumference of the maze and launch them in pretty easily.
• 42:02
  Okay, I want to launch them into the maze.
• 42:04
  Okay.
• 42:05
  I'm not just saying that because I was kind of hoping you would because that just sounds hilarious.
• 42:10
  Into the hedge maze.
• 42:11
  Into the hedge maze, yeah.
• 42:13
  So I want to capture hidden treasures into the hedge made.
• 42:17
  Okay.
• 42:19
  I want you to roll not so much to figure out if you can or not.
• 42:24
  I just want to see I don't know if it rolls well, it's going to be, like well distributed.
• 42:30
  Things are scattered all across the maze.
• 42:32
  If it rolls low, like, the whole box just kind of plummets into, like, one spot in the maze still because it's really not hard to do this, but I'm just curious just for storytelling purposes.
• 42:43
  Feature on in case something comes up.
• 42:45
  Eight.
• 42:46
  Okay.
• 42:46
  That's pretty good.
• 42:47
  Yeah.
• 42:47
  You see some spread? I would say for the most part, most things are kind of in within one region, but they're spread across that region.
• 42:55
  So if you took one turn, the right turn in the maze, you wouldn't find the whole thing.
• 43:01
  But I don't know, it might come up, and I'm excited because that would be really funny.
• 43:07
  So, yeah, there you go.
• 43:08
  Okay.
• 43:09
  So with my crates now in the maze, I just nonchalantly walk inside and I take a post up at the hot leaf juice stand.
• 43:20
  Okay.
• 43:20
  Are you doing anything particular? Just trying to find a job, blend in.
• 43:25
  Oh, okay.
• 43:26
  Yeah.
• 43:27
  As you're standing there, one of them might call out to you and be like, hey, can you give me a hand over here? Or whatever the case.
• 43:33
  Actually, when you go in, there's a couple of them that are drying off.
• 43:38
  They're, like, kind of squeezing their uniforms, trying to squeegee out the water, and they're calling you over, and they're like, do you see anything wrong with these water containers? Any leaks, cracks or anything? I'm not seeing anything, but maybe I'm just missing it.
• 43:56
  No, maybe.
• 43:59
  Is it supposed to rain today? I don't know.
• 44:01
  No, we're inside, obviously.
• 44:06
  No, these look fine.
• 44:08
  I don't know what your problem is, bro.
• 44:09
  Maybe you just got to lay off the rice juice.
• 44:12
  The rice juice, he says, oh, you're no help.
• 44:17
  Go over there and help them put teacups on the table.
• 44:19
  You got it, bud.
• 44:20
  Okay.
• 44:21
  All right, so you go do that.
• 44:23
  You guys that are outside helping set up Mika approaches.
• 44:28
  You guys.
• 44:28
  Hey, boys.
• 44:30
  How are you doing? Well, hello, stranger.
• 44:35
  We've never met before.
• 44:38
  My head.
• 44:39
  I was under a table.
• 44:41
  Ouch.
• 44:43
  Who's that? Mi.
• 44:47
  I mean, Nica.
• 44:55
  That was your disguise name, right? Winks.
• 45:01
  I forgot.
• 45:02
  You guys.
• 45:05
  What brings you here to our fine establishment? No free samples for the staff.
• 45:11
  What do you want? I want some tea without pond water, please.
• 45:19
  Isn't that most tea? I have hope.
• 45:24
  Well, tea is not here yet, so there's not much we can do for you.
• 45:28
  And just as you're saying that, you suddenly see the familiar face of Mr.
• 45:33
  Okra making his way down towards you with a small just kind of a hand pull cart, almost a wagon, honestly.
• 45:41
  And on it he's got a number of trays and some small boxes and crates all fancied up to smaller ones.
• 45:50
  Looks to be filled with various ingredients and things like that.
• 45:54
  And he's smiling as he makes his way toward you.
• 45:56
  He's waving at you.
• 45:58
  Hello.
• 45:59
  Hey, guys.
• 46:00
  How's it going? He's, like, 5ft away.
• 46:04
  You're like, Why are you doing that with your voice, dude? It's so good to see you all today.
• 46:13
  Mika, what do you want? You're supposed to be ditching supplies.
• 46:21
  Well, you see, they're all pretty much set up.
• 46:26
  I never saw the tea come in, but the water is there.
• 46:31
  The cups are there.
• 46:36
  Maybe they're not hot leaf juice.
• 46:38
  They're just hot.
• 46:44
  They're just hot.
• 46:46
  Good.
• 47:01
  mr.
• 47:01
  O'Grad finally approaches.
• 47:03
  He says, oh, it's good to see you all.
• 47:07
  Where's Brock? Working.
• 47:11
  Okay, good.
• 47:12
  All of you seem to be hard at work.
• 47:14
  Mika, it's good to see you.
• 47:16
  Did you forget your uniform? Huh? Did you forget your uniform? What uniform? With the Blissful Brew uniform.
• 47:27
  She spelt dirt on it.
• 47:29
  Oh, no, it's a good thing I brought an extra one.
• 47:33
  Here you go.
• 47:34
  Oh, thanks, Mr.
• 47:35
  Hokwron.
• 47:36
  Let me just go change in the bathroom.
• 47:39
  All right.
• 47:39
  Sounds good.
• 47:40
  It's an apron.
• 47:41
  Yeah, good idea.
• 47:45
  And he's excited.
• 47:47
  He starts taking out all the ingredients.
• 47:49
  He's setting them on the table.
• 47:50
  He's getting everything all set up.
• 47:51
  And you guys already had pretty much everything that he sent with you already set up for the most part.
• 47:57
  So he's really happy and excited and proud of you guys for getting it all set to go on your own.
• 48:03
  And then all of a sudden, you see the familiar hair poking out as the tall woman passes by a set of bushes and approaches you once again.
• 48:14
  Oh, yeah, mr.
• 48:15
  Shark, mr.
• 48:17
  O'gran, your ex lovers here.
• 48:20
  Nervous.
• 48:21
  He keeps stacking cups.
• 48:23
  Mr.
• 48:23
  O'gran.
• 48:25
  He does that thing where he reaches by and scratches the back of his head very nervously like.
• 48:30
  It wasn't like that, I promise.
• 48:35
  And then she approaches and she says, well, I was told you would show up eventually.
• 48:44
  I was starting to wonder if you had simply sent your little workers to run this entire catering gig for you.
• 48:54
  But here you are standing in front of me, and here am I, wishing you weren't Madame Yang.
• 49:06
  Oh, you can say it, you old fool.
• 49:10
  You're not happy to see me.
• 49:13
  And believe me, the same can be said for you.
• 49:17
  No, I hold no animosity towards you and your company.
• 49:23
  It's good to see you, she says, I find no confusion in your lies.
• 49:32
  But what does confuse me is how you manage to resecure the T contract for this party, even if it is only half of what was in the original deal.
• 49:47
  Yeah, well, my amazing employees here, I don't know how they did it, but they managed to win us back onto the party board and be caterers for this event.
• 50:01
  Have these with you? Well, I couldn't be happier.
• 50:05
  And then, all of a sudden, an employee, one of the hot leaf juice employees comes running up to her, and he says up into her ear, which he has to really stand on his tiptoes to do, because again, she's really tall.
• 50:19
  And she says, what do you mean? This is not good at I made this is fine.
• 50:31
  Everything is fine.
• 50:34
  But unfortunately, duty calls and I must be going.
• 50:39
  Goodbye, Mr.
• 50:40
  Okuran.
• 50:42
  And goodbye to all of you, whoever you are.
• 50:47
  And then she just turns and walks away very quickly back into the mansion.
• 50:54
  I wonder what that was all about.
• 50:57
  I don't know.
• 50:58
  T emergencies, they happen.
• 51:01
  Oh, I am the first to admit that T emergencies are on the top list of priorities when it comes to emergencies that I deal with on the daily.
• 51:13
  Is there any other emergencies you deal with, Mr.
• 51:15
  O'clock? Oh, well, recently financial emergencies.
• 51:19
  But you guys know all about that.
• 51:22
  That wasn't at the top of your list.
• 51:24
  Well, I figure it's sort of a subcategory of a T emergency.
• 51:28
  Right.
• 51:29
  Because it was caused because of tea.
• 51:31
  Right.
• 51:31
  Or about the lack of selling it.
• 51:35
  Yes.
• 51:36
  So maybe it's less that there are T emergencies, and maybe it's more of a fact of in my life, at least, everything stems from T emergencies.
• 51:48
  I've never thought about it that way before.
• 51:51
  So glad Guao and I could be here for this marvel revelation you just came upon.
• 51:58
  Yes.
• 51:59
  I almost feel as though I've reached enlightenment.
• 52:03
  T enlightenment.
• 52:04
  Now, see, that's an enlightenment I could definitely get behind.
• 52:10
  Mr.
• 52:10
  Oakron, what's the secret ingredient to the secret ingredient? T.
• 52:15
  He puts his arm around you, he says, oh, Bill, I promise I'll tell you someday.
• 52:22
  Don't you worry.
• 52:23
  I'll get you one of these days.
• 52:25
  You'll flip off.
• 52:26
  You just might.
• 52:28
  You know I love talking about tea, and you know I love tea.
• 52:35
  It's okay.
• 52:35
  You don't have to love okay.
• 52:36
  Good.
• 52:38
  Bill, one of these days, I'll find a tea that you do enjoy.
• 52:42
  I hope so.
• 52:43
  You just they've all sucked.
• 52:46
  I'm sorry to hear that.
• 52:48
  And I won't be offended.
• 52:49
  I promise.
• 52:50
  But I'll fight one.
• 52:51
  I know there's one out there.
• 52:52
  There's a T for everyone.
• 52:54
  Quo knows what he likes.
• 53:05
  yes, she's gone.
• 53:06
  It's all right, I'd say.
• 53:08
  Don't let Madame Yang scare you, but she is quite scary.
• 53:12
  And it might be for your best entrance to be fearful of her to some extent.
• 53:19
  She can be a very dangerous woman.
• 53:21
  What do you mean, dangerous? So she doesn't sell teeth? Oh, that's not the least of it by far.
• 53:28
  Or the most of it? What are you getting at? We used to study together under a T master.
• 53:39
  She was from a wealthy family, and to be honest with you, I don't think she had much passion in tea making from the beginning.
• 53:47
  But her parents wanted her to learn the art form as a way of entertaining guests, or just it's a wealthy person thing.
• 53:57
  To do.
• 54:00
  I, on the other hand, was very passionate from a young age, even about tea.
• 54:04
  And so my studies, although very expensive and I had to work very hard for them, were something that I looked forward to every single day.
• 54:14
  But it became very difficult because of Madame Yang or just Yang at the time.
• 54:20
  We were only kids.
• 54:23
  Well, her parents were not happy with the fact that the teammaster that they had tired to tutor her were allowing me to sit in on those lessons and also learn.
• 54:35
  And so they did everything in their power to make sure that I was unable to do so.
• 54:39
  And to be honest with you, I think Yang was helping them find every way, method, and what not to do.
• 54:47
  So because I turned her down.
• 54:50
  I'll be honest with you guys, it was quite awkward.
• 54:53
  But my true love and life was always and will always be tea and the people I love.
• 55:00
  Don't get me wrong, I love you guys.
• 55:01
  You guys are like children to me.
• 55:03
  And chocolate scones.
• 55:05
  I do enjoy a chocolate scone.
• 55:07
  I see you in the back.
• 55:09
  Like chocolate orange.
• 55:11
  That's a good scone.
• 55:13
  But how is she dangerous besides political intrigue and pushing you out what you love? Yes, well, she attacked me, which is part of the reason why I had to flee the small village where we were studying together.
• 55:28
  And it was sort of a last attempt to get rid of me because the teammaster was very inclusive.
• 55:35
  He was a very kind man and found every way to sort of either thwart her family's attempts to stop me from being able to study tea with her to offering me work, which was more of like an internship program, in a sense.
• 55:49
  So there was just nothing they could do.
• 55:51
  And so that was kind of her last attempt.
• 55:53
  And that's why I said earlier about how she stabbed me in the back, fairly literally, and so I had to flee.
• 56:03
  But thankfully, that's where I was able to travel around the world and learn the key skills and arts of so many different cultures and groups.
• 56:12
  I've learned from the air benders and the water benders and even the fire benders and just learn so many different things.
• 56:19
  Obviously, the earth benders, because that's the kingdom I grew up in.
• 56:22
  I knew quite a bit about earth bending styles of tea, but I digress eventually.
• 56:28
  That's actually what led me to find you on that ship long ago, Bill.
• 56:32
  And you, too, Go, in that circus where I found you and came across to you, and we became good friends.
• 56:40
  And, yeah, that was all part of the journey that I took and led to that helped me to find out the tea that I have and can make and you guys, of course oh, sorry.
• 56:54
  Oh, my gosh.
• 56:54
  I completely forgot.
• 56:55
  And then, of course, she wanted to start the company together.
• 56:58
  I completely forgot.
• 56:59
  About that.
• 56:59
  She contacted me early on in my journey saying that she was going to start a tea company, and I was very wary of this, of course, because she stabbed you, right? Yes, exactly.
• 57:11
  So I was very hesitant, of course, but the call of the tea, I had to at least see what it was that she was doing.
• 57:18
  She claimed she was a different person, all this and all that.
• 57:21
  And so, sure enough, we were able to start a tea company together.
• 57:25
  Her with the more financial, obviously putting that forward and a bit more knowledge on running a business than I and I with the skilled art of teammaking.
• 57:37
  And it was working out very well for a while, but I started to find out that she had plans in the making, things like unpaid labor and getting sort of mass produced teas and all this other sort of things, and I couldn't stand for that.
• 57:56
  It's not how it's supposed to be.
• 57:58
  It's an art.
• 57:59
  It's not made to be mass manufactured and in sweatshops or what have you.
• 58:05
  It's meant to be an expression of oneself.
• 58:09
  And that's the beauty of a tea shop.
• 58:11
  Someone can order a tea and it'll taste slightly different than somebody else that might have also ordered that same tea.
• 58:17
  And that's the beauty of it.
• 58:19
  It's very individual.
• 58:20
  And so I left.
• 58:23
  And she never forgave me, obviously, but at the same time, her capable business runnings and whatever it is that she ended up doing with her plans for the mass production seems to have been working because she's made quite a wave with her company and her chains cross the kingdoms.
• 58:44
  Well, now it seems that she's after Jaw Ling to start a tea shop here and kick me out or buy me out or something along those lines, I can only assume.
• 58:54
  There was probably some back handed deal or something that led to us getting removed from this party.
• 59:02
  So I'm very impressed that you guys were able to get us back in.
• 59:05
  Like, my mind has been absolutely blown by that.
• 59:08
  Absolutely.
• 59:10
  I don't know how you guys did it, but here we are.
• 59:12
  To be honest, you don't either.
• 59:14
  It was all mica, really.
• 59:16
  Yeah.
• 59:16
  Well, that's just wonderful.
• 59:19
  She has really impressed me.
• 59:21
  Yeah.
• 59:22
  But then she's actually done a great job here at the place.
• 59:25
  She's already made a few people upset with her.
• 59:27
  Oh, no.
• 59:28
  I guess the Meeka magic wore off.
• 59:29
  Well, maybe it's a good thing she wasn't wearing the Blissful Roux uniform.
• 59:33
  That's what I've been thinking this whole time.
• 59:36
  But we'll get her on what we know that she's really good at and she'll really impress everybody and blow them out of the waters dishwashing.
• 59:47
  You're right.
• 59:48
  Yeah.
• 59:49
  And among other things, she loves.
• 59:51
  I personally believe that she could be a skilled tea maker someday if she would just learn, just really put her best foot forward on learning how to make those teams.
• 1:00:03
  You don't think that for all of us, right? Oh, I think all of you could be amazing.
• 1:00:07
  I strongly disagree with that.
• 1:00:09
  I like to call them Tea Benders, but that's just my personal inside joke.
• 1:00:15
  Well, I guess it's not inside anyone, but I think that's anyway, that was a very interesting I apologize.
• 1:00:22
  Yeah.
• 1:00:23
  We have so much to do here, and I'm sitting here talking.
• 1:00:25
  I don't mindlessly doing setting up stuff.
• 1:00:28
  Right.
• 1:00:30
  Kind of zoning in and out of the conversation.
• 1:00:32
  The stabbing part really brought perks my ears back up again.
• 1:00:35
  I'm sure it usually does.
• 1:00:37
  I don't tell very many people that, but I can only sure.
• 1:00:42
  Hawaii.
• 1:00:42
  When you walk, you hold your back.
• 1:00:45
  It's a part of it.
• 1:00:47
  I also just have a bad back.
• 1:00:49
  But that's just from age.
• 1:00:53
  It's okay.
• 1:00:54
  Yeah.
• 1:00:55
  I can still make tea with the best of them.
• 1:00:58
  That's what's important to me.
• 1:01:00
  Exactly.
• 1:01:00
  Well, anyways, let's get to work.
• 1:01:03
  Let's get this tea on the road.
• 1:01:05
  We're already here.
• 1:01:07
  Well, metaphorically speaking, yeah.
• 1:01:12
  I think people aren't supposed to show up, like, another hour.
• 1:01:15
  Right.
• 1:01:16
  Plenty of prep to do, have a very expository experience.
• 1:01:21
  But this tea won't brew itself.
• 1:01:23
  I suppose that's right.
• 1:01:26
  All right.
• 1:01:26
  And with that, you guys start working hard and brewing the tea and getting things all set to go.
• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:44
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