1. Spanning Wales to bring you
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of Welsh things...
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to The Wide World of Wales.
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by Aviation Gin, obviously...
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follow any number
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Welsh football team owners.
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horse trailers you can get.
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the world
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to Wales.
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into Manchester or Liverpool.
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it's a quick a drive.
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depending—
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how to plan a trip.
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a little confused right now.
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in a Guy Ritchie movie,
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the last few episodes,
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a documentary
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from Wales
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than movies.
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for, like, the last ten years?
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- Making movies.
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with Ryan and I headed
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you might have gotten
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of this amazing place,
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on Wales.
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they love whales—
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little underwater creatures.
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talking about.
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a football team there.
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from England,
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Wales and its identity,
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the ultimate underdog story.
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it's a very special episode
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You won't learn much.
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almost none of it.
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we welcome John Green,
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Turtles All the Way Down
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a crash course in Wales?
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to Crash Course.
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about Wales,
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and epic place names.
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that's Scotland,
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here is exceptionally complex.
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its own language, Welsh,
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the Senedd.
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called the United Kingdom.
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in the World Cup,
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for Wales.
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for Great Britain.
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this strange situation,
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in what we now call Wales.
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took over the region
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in the early fifth century,
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the country was a patchwork
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and kingdoms.
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a unified Welsh culture
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an English king built
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a fancy archeological term
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and England.
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peering over
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these invasions,
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under the leadership
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as Llywelyn the Last
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King Edward I's war
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Wales lost its independence.
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to control some land.
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to control people,
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medieval Airbnbs
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power over the locals.
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per square mile
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Owain Glyndwr
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against Henry IV's England.
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ultimately failed, though.
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formally united
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into a single political system.
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to the 19th century
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on privately-owned roads
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of Welsh workers.
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the Rebecca riots,
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from Genesis
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"possess the gates
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forgive me for that pun.
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was mined and exported
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the Industrial Revolution
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19th-century transformation
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from an agricultural economy
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popular protests
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the people did eventually take
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speaking Welsh.
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a part of the United Kingdom,
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and Northern Ireland,
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nation-state.
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of Welshness
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festivals, play music,
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traditions are weird
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everywhere you go.
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Welsh sports.
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the protest song "Yma o Hyd"
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of the underdog.
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historical developments led
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in the history of Wales,
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when the fifth-tier
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was purchased by Ryan Reynolds
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all the time
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as Ryan Reynolds.
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Crash Course.
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Where did you get that?
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- The glasses and the—
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and these are fake.
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for my hands.
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Wales may be older
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in Philadelphia, Rob.
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winking to the camera, Ryan.
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winking to the camera.
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Maxine Hughes helps us
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to Welsh or Else,
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the best of Welsh cooking.
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by the cochairmen
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football club
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and Rob McElhenney.
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the apron
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- 'Cause you do
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that's why.
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with everyone.
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- Excited.
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Welsh translator.
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you're a journalist.
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I live in D.C.
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for a few years.
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political journalism,
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than dealing with you guys.
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- I'm more of a Marvel guy.
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right now?
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there's around a million,
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a very small country,
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you're gonna teach us
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of Welsh language.
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called lamb cawl.
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- Cawl.
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That's, uh—a common...
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- Animal.
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- It's definitely Ryan.
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it's a beautiful piece of lamb.
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- It's probably Rob.
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- Let's make the Welsh Cakes.
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picau ar y maen.
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- Picar-mine.
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Ara-mine.
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Ar y maen.
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all year round really.
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they're kind of like a cross
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and a scone and—
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Let's do it, yeah.
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your blawd.
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Sugar next.
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the fruit that you got—
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we're gonna put the menyn,
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and the lard in next.
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fforch.
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Fforch.
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- It's a Disney show.
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- Rob, there's an "R."
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It's a Disney show.
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Fforch.
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Llwy.
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all over the—
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Let's just put your hands—
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Start mixing.
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Let's see yours.
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What?
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"the butter is not soft"
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to roll this out now.
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to make—go too-too flat.
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take your cutter.
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a little-little circle.
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Coginio. Cook.
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Nice.
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going on.
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to me.
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it smells like a Welsh Cake.
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with passionate love
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Welsh cakes again?
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- That's a mouthful.
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if you said it in a sentence?
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Yeah.
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- Barod.
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- Take them off?
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- Let's have a look.
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they look pretty good.
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Rob's separate.
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siwgr on the top.
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Yeah.
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- How do you say "idiot"
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- Eh, twmffat.
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And how do you say
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what would "terrible"
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in a sentence together?
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a mid-life crisis?
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when Ryan and I played sports
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about them.
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the top plays
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a boyhood dream
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of Sports Center.
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fulfilling a boyhood dream
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and sitting at a desk.
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and infusion of talent,
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quite frankly, struggled.
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be winning against.
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exactly the way we—
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bleeding to death...
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- From self-inflicted stupidity
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uh, you're supposed to win.
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We sit in seventh place,
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in the national league.
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first match against Stockport.
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where the place is hoppin'--
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a throw-in
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in a decent chance on goal
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by Rob Lainton
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to a sprinting Paul Mullin
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what Paul Mullin does—
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of the net.
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who traveled to see the game
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and I'm sure 100% sober.
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McAlinden feeds
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God, we look great.
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right, Rob?
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this one, Ryan.
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to the corner, he throws it,
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They score.
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So, yeah, this is—
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Yep. Yep. It's great.
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to the testicles.
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I don't care.
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and I can do
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left to go,
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comes up the left side.
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on the right.
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Shoots and carries off,
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and they kick it in.
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And then the game's over
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Goal.
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quite yet doesn't mean
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some fantastic plays.
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It's been a team effort.
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of top ten plays
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lifts one up
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Cam Green with a nifty
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with the quick reflexes.
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from the penalty box.
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and going home.
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from a million miles away,
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Paul Mullin using that head.
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and he used it as well.
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a little trash-talking.
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Rob Lainton makes
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of choice words
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437. It's a family show, Rob.
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using that head.
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440. You know, so often,
Sports Center focuses
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playing sports competitively
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of Rob playing sports
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447. I think you can see
where this is going, Rob.
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448. - Abject humiliation.
- Absolutely.
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in the 1990s.
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450. Okay, Rob's the little one
in case you didn't know.
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451. Okay, can we just
address this right now?
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452. I am not small.
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abnormally large,
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next to you in this show.
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456. Humphrey? Humphrey is a giant.
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to Humphrey.
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I look normal on the show.
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the ones that look
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next to normal-sized people.
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463. You see? So it's all relative.
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464. But enough about me, Ryan.
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and your past.
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enjoy them together.
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the worst soccer field
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and 20% broken glass,
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the gravel.
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that picture, Ryan?
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If you zoom in,
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for his approval.
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482. That one is so sad
I'm just gonna let it go.
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483. Tomorrow night,
a hard-hitting 30 for 30
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484. investigating whatever happened
to the Wrexham Robin,
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disappeared in 2013
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by a much more dynamic,
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Good night, everyone.
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a whole other segment.
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493. There's a whole
other segment, so—
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No!
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495. I can't do it alone—
it's a two-person gig.
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496. Oh, God, the whining.
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497. You belong
in Bristol, Connecticut.
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499. Wow.
Welcome to Wales Late Night,
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that counts sheep
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of their demographic.
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502. - That was terrible.
- Horrible.
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- Uh—
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We didn't, um—
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talked about this before we...
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- Walked out
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more well-informed.
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a black belt in Wales, Rob.
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as the land of song.
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Hello.
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How are you? Come on.
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528. Good to see you.
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529. Hey. Hi, Rob. How are you?
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530. - All right, how are you?
- Ah, marvelous.
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to Welcome to Wrexham.
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- That's fun to say.
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533. Welcome
to Welcome to Wrexham.
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534. That's what I'm supposed to say
'cause I'm the host.
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535. Sorry, yeah, I'm the—
I'm the Ed McMahon here.
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- Thank you for flying in
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We are—we're so grateful.
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538. Oh, my gosh.
It is such a pleasure.
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are you from?
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I'm from South Wales.
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you remember
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"I-I can sing.
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543. But not just sing.
Like, I can sing..."
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on the radio.
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attention for it, I suppose.
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550. - Uh-huh.
- When I was about—
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anything about that.
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552. No, no,
I don't know anything—
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553. well, my children only sing
"Baby Shark."
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554. And it's—the attention is
pure negativity.
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555. Like, it's just—I-I—yeah.
It's terrible.
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where she's—
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where she's being attacked
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- Oh, gosh.
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"Yeah, you really like
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Oh, no!
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No, you didn't.
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no, I wouldn't do that.
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do you?
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565. - Yeah, yeah.
- Aww, lush.
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13 and 14,
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- Whoa!
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570. I would absolutely love
to sing for you guys.
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571. And I want to sing
for you guys as a thank you
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572. on behalf of everybody
in Wales, so—
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the time of our lives.
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We're having—
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and for as much fun
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and we've been laughing
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of these kinds of things,
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super fun—
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from the entire nation,
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581. let alone the town of Wrexham,
has just been overwhelming.
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It seems to me
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"Men of Harlech,"
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is very popular at...
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- "Men of Harlech."
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