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All right, Chad, we left off with David winning a bunch of battles. If you're an outside enemy he's gotcha inside enemy a little bit different scenario

but right now he's dealing specifically with outside enemies and is being quite successful

yeah he hasn't lost a single one and of course he won't for quite some time.

It's always the inside stuff that bothers him,

whether it's himself or his son or somebody else is close to him. I was looking ahead to all it's

kind of the after effects of the of the coup of Absalon this morning looking ahead as some of the people that show up in chapter 9.

And man, what a mess. David's kingdom is. It might look from the outside, if you're an outsider,

like David can't lose. But if you're an insider, he is bedeviled on on every side.

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