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[Assistant] And say, hey everybody, why don't you help me develop this course? And bear with it, bear with me, let's all do it together, we all agree all this subject matter is gonna be public domain, and we're gonna build it together. So it's kinda like learner sourcing, but they're not really beginner learners, they're kind of people with expertise.


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[Assistant] And we'll start out with some key material, a core of it, and we're gonna refine it together and build it iteratively and explicitly so that we might have


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[Assistant] So uhm, assignments and the student will do some work and will revise the assignments and will study the changes in the work and will develop more of a model of how it works and develop the recommender or the autograder.


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[Assistant] And this can be for exploratory data analysis or debuggers or essay tutors or any of these things where we don't know either how it works at all or we don't know how to automate it that well.


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[Assistant] And slowly grow the class that and slowly add more people that are maybe less expert until we have a course in a kind of more forgiving way for the instructor.


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[Assistant] And so I think then what we could do is with these logs, we could ask people, okay, do some exploratory data analysis, do it within these rules that we're giving you, give us feedback on how we can improve this assignment, give us your logs, let us analyze it, and we'll together make this really great exploratory data analysis unit that we can all.


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[Assistant] But, so that's, that's kinda what I'm thinking is that's how we maybe can develop these things for these more difficult topics where it doesn't have to be perfect for anybody who might come along.


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[Assistant] Given that you're- I don't have that much time. Um, so, and my concluding thoughts is, at least for me, this being- learning at scale inspires the imagination. I was just so inspired by the first MOOC that I heard about. I know it wasn't the first one, but you know, Peter Norvig and Sebastian's.


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[Assistant] I was really inspired when I started to take one and I saw the active learning where there was multiple choice question after 10 minutes. I'm like, why am I not doing that in my classes? And I proceeded to do it.


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[Assistant] I proceeded to do active learning and structured peer learning in my courses. I realized I should be teaching this way. No, I wasn't taught this way, but I should be. I learned from a MOOC how I should teach in my classroom.


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[Assistant] And it inspired me to experiment with things like this, using crowd workers to assess my students' work, uh, which I felt was, was uhm, you know, for me anyway, it was an innovative way to teach.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so it's also made me start thinking, uh, and I actually got some ideas from my colleagues in computer science at Berkeley about this teaching as coaching idea because they've given up and some of them on trying to grade the assignments which, you know, this, you know, it's out there how to do the assignments rather letting people repeat them.


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[Assistant] And then the exams are what count to the grade and I thought, you know, that's a really good idea. What if we just let people try again and I can give them feedback and, you know, give them points and it's about points and about doing it and not so much about the grade and,


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[Assistant] And I think it makes learning a lot more fun for the students. And by thinking that way, it's changed.


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[Assistant] So, I, I really do think we are revolutionizing learning this plus what's going on with the learning at scale community. And I hope that a lot of you are inspired to go into this field. I know that for students, education is very exciting and I hope


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[Assistant] I heard that a lot of you are thinking about it and I'm really excited to see that a lot of the best minds are thinking about education going forward. So thanks so much for your attention.


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[Assistant] Student did a design that was really different than anything I had seen or I would have thought it was terrible. It was kind of like this red and green stoplight table sort of thing. And I thought it was awful. And it came out the top.


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[Assistant] In scores. And I was so glad I had done it this way because I would have led them wrong and maybe I'm just a bad judge and I need to see more things.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it was, it was one reason I was so glad I had this subjective approach and I now, I think I've seen more things like this and I think I've learned a pattern that it's a good design pattern. Uhm, and I tested it here and actually it did well on the Heuristics too, so maybe the students are smarter than I am.


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[Assistant] But, you know, you could imagine things going the other way. So uhm, like you're saying, it's the, for me that, that table, that scatter plot is the key thing. I think you're probably making a more sophisticated point though about this suggests we need to ask more questions. Uhm, or maybe you're saying that's saying the outlier.


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[Assistant] The idea of American democracy is when we voters are choosing someone to be a President of the United States,


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[Assistant] John Kennedy was running against Richard Nixon. Nixon was vice president. He was famous.


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[Assistant] Fully able to be President of the United States. Kennedy later said, if there hadn't been any TV debates between me and Nixon, I never could have gotten elected.


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[Assistant] Debates are a good thing. They show us all sorts of things about a candidate that we voters need to know.


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[Assistant] There was a powerful urgency in him that roused me to response despite his awkwardness.


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[Assistant] Not wanting to lecture, nor yet to highlight my own experience, I let him do what he would.


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[Assistant] Only offering an occasional suggestion such as that he might carry his weight on his elbows and not my chest.


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[Assistant] As yet, too hungry and too clumsy for tenderness.


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[Assistant] Still, he made love with a sort of unflagging joy that made me think that male virginity might be a highly underrated commodity. He exhibited a concern for my safety, though.


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[Assistant] That I found at once endearing and irritating.


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[Assistant] Sometime in our third encounter, I arched tightly against him and cried out. He drew back at once, startled and apologetic. I'm sorry, he said. I didn't mean to hurt you. You didn't.


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[Assistant] I stretched languorously, feeling dreamily wonderful. Are you sure? he said, inspecting me for damage.


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[Assistant] Suddenly it dawned on me that a few of the finer points had likely been left out of his hasty education at the hands of Murta and Rupert. Does it happen every time? he asked, fascinated, once I had enlightened him. I felt rather like the wife of Bath, or a Japanese geisha.


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[Assistant] I'd never envisioned myself as an instructoress in the arts of love.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, but I very much like it. Like, because it's been this way since the beginning. I mean, even when I was like 15 and 14, you know, touring and doing stuff, there would be people in meet and greets that were like,


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[Assistant] I wanna do something in the world of it. Uhm, I just love, like,


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[Assistant] And stuff, I mean if, if something came along that was, that felt right, then yeaah, but uhm, yeaah, I used to want to make a movie really bad, like that was like a thing that I was like planning on doing and just, who knows.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I mean I knew all of them because I've loved Bond since forever and so has my entire family and the world.


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[Assistant] And I know that was more of a recent one, but Skyfall was like my favorite song in the world. Like the song itself. I loved that song, loved the movie. Uhm, and I've said this before, but years before the Bond song.


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[Assistant] Our song was gonna be anything, was even like a topic of discussion with us, uhm.


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[Assistant] We would do it as a songwriting exercise, me and my brother. So we would like, pretend to write a Bond song. Like years ago, we would just be like, let's like sit down and like, do some chords that feel like Bond-esque.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Oh yeaah. There was a whole list of things.


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[Assistant] No, but I tried to. I was planning on it. And they were just so normal. Like they were just, they didn't make me feel like, oh, I'm scared I can't talk to them. They were, they were like very question, like they just complimentary and they had all these questions for me and they...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was not, yeah. I did many things like that in choir and it was...


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[Assistant] I thought it was funny because I was playing along and I thought I was actually serious and I didn't know anything. But here's your quiz, okay?


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[Assistant] Mary, don't send back those duckings.


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[Assistant] Beginning tomorrow morning, Nurse Mary Lamont starts as staff surgical nurse. Salary increase accordingly. She is to be assigned to Dr. Gregory Lane.


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[Assistant] Unisa, what are you doing? What do you think you're doing? What are you doing? Are you taking Sungjae?


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] You're taking this and you're literally opening it and you're squeezing it on the painting and you're moving the paint around, especially if you're going thick. So it, it's a, you know, I love it. It's freeing and it's, it's completely a different way. I mean, how tiny they used to be, you know, in comparison.


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[Assistant] There are those three rooms, uh, which is where all the Impressionist art is. I can live there. Be happy. I wish I could live there.


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[Assistant] Jung Seon-ho.


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[Assistant] Lee Seo-young and Lee Sang-woo. They have the same birthday.


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[Assistant] So uhm, uh, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah. You know, it's sort of things to do, uh, and like, you know, join the dots.


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[Assistant] Now, without wishing to bring in a kind of cynical money head into all this, there will be people thinking, because we've seen stories like this before where, you know, younger people come up with amazing ideas.


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[Assistant] They really are. How conscious are you? I mean, I'm sort of mindful about watching this. How conscious are you of how much of your private life?


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[Assistant] You put into what you do, because is there a line you want to draw? Because we often warn people about putting too much of themselves on social media things. I just wonder how you put that game.


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[Assistant] Go on, said Miss Havisham, looking interested. I thought it was you, Miss Havisham. And you encouraged me in my mistake.


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[Assistant] Yes, you're right, I said quickly to calm her.


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[Assistant] But you also encouraged your relations to think I would inherit some of your fortune.


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[Assistant] Why shouldn't I? She cried wildly. But Matthew Pocket and his son are different.


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[Assistant] I would like you to help my friend Herbert become a partner in his company. I started paying for this myself two years ago, and I want to keep it a secret from him. But now I find I can't continue the payments. I can't explain why. It's part of the other person's secret.


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[Assistant] What manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have?


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[Assistant] And I wanted to kind of repurpose lace through all my different collections and almost make them into a tapestry and look at something that was very fragile in the chill and then use all the embellishment almost like an armor and like a harness on top.


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[Assistant] Well, it belongs to the boss, too. Old lads at the commentary was telling me it's for rent.


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[Assistant] It's been laying out there now for three years. It should be as rich as mud.


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[Assistant] In the old days, old men currently used to raise the best crops in the country on it.


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[Assistant] Reckon I could ask Old Man Newett for his mules. He don't ever hardly use them, no how. Pay him with a bit of the crop.


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[Assistant] Mr. Seeds and Fertilizer, I bet I could make a deal with Harming.


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[Assistant] And as for Plow, there's that old one of Paul's been laying out in Moe's backyard ever since he died. Ain't been used for nothing but roosting chickens on. I'm gonna ask the boss about it.


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[Assistant] No, asking won't work either, don't harm a man. After all, the boss is a pretty good guy. We all have been friends.


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[Assistant] Let granny and the kids sleep in here and move our bed out on the porch. And have everything real nice.


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[Assistant] Seems like extra one thing. Pretty darn extra bad.


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[Assistant] I reckon I was thinking too hard about the land that Plum forgot about the house. It sure be some patches.


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[Assistant] Why did it take me at least two weeks to dig this well again?


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[Assistant] What worries me is that busted well.


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[Assistant] Alright old lady, but you better be down before morning or you'll go right back to camp for this truck. Old man Carrillo might not like it so much, neither.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'll drive off walking over. Won't be gone long. You better keep zooming in here.


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[Assistant] Mighty fine place you got around here. You the owner, you Henry Devers?


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[Assistant] That's right. My well ain't no good. I could have told you that. Yeah, so can I. Now, what about that water? Why don't you get your water at the river? Cause river water ain't no good for kids to drink.


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[Assistant] Here folks talk, you think there can be farmers just like that with a bare hands. Got any tools? A tractor? No, I ain't got no tractor.


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[Assistant] I aim to fish and hunt varmints and sell a few skins.


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[Assistant] Lots of folks like that live around here, and plenty more than ever before. And how about you? How'd you get started?


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[Assistant] For days now, the moon's been moving closer and closer to the north star. The animals don't like that, they hide out. Crazy to go against the signs, but what can you do?


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[Assistant] Just cause we're having hard times right now, don't mean we gotta stop nothing. We gotta keep going. Once we give up, we won't have the courage to get ourselves back to good times.


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[Assistant] You see, your hat'll just about bring the price of a pair of silk stockings for Luna. Nice and shiny.


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[Assistant] Much obliged, Lord. Looks like the Tuckers are gonna make the great after all. Amen.


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[Assistant] Like you see, I'm with my friend here and my wife's waiting for me at Harman's store.


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[Assistant] I already got some credit from his commissary.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'm telling you, Tim, this is the first time I've been able to farm on crop, just like I always wanted to. That ain't something I can give up just like that.


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[Assistant] Old man Corinth made a fortune in the last cotton boom, a real fortune. Oh, so that's the idea.


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[Assistant] Me, I'd rather work in my field. I feel better that way. I feel more...


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[Assistant] Lord, how come you put that sky up there and this old mud down here? Made it to Purdy if you didn't want us to work it and to love it.


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[Assistant] You want me to give all this up? Move in town with Tim and-


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[Assistant] Work with them in a factory under a roof that hides your sky and puts out your light.


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[Assistant] I'm mighty glad you started this, Tucker. Especially with Finley here as a witness.


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[Assistant] I'll give you a dollar. I don't want no dollar. My folks likes fish.


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[Assistant] Alright, let me take it and keep it for a day or two and show it at the store and then you can have it back. Looks like fresh fish, Devin.


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[Assistant] Well, Roo, how we gonna draw water? Oh, I got another rope in the barn.


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[Assistant] Oh honey, it ain't nothin'. I was just helpin' Davis here pull his big ol' catfish out in the river. He done caught lead tinsel.


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[Assistant] Well, they're machines of yours and they're fine, I realize that, but you sure can't eat them.


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[Assistant] Once in a while you gotta have a hunk of beef and a few ears of corn to fill up your belly. Oh, you city folks are mighty smart. But I'm afraid without us farmers you'd get kinda skinny.


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[Assistant] It's right you stay. I like to work in a bank. And that's why I come here to take you back with me.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Spring's gonna come a little earlier this year, honey. I reckon we can start our season even before the twin days.


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[Assistant] Hi there. In this video I'm going to be talking about functional misspecification.


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[Assistant] Well, let's remind ourselves of what econometrics is all about. We've got some sort of population and we don't have the entirety of the population data. We only have a small subsample from that population.


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[Assistant] So, and we can perhaps think that there was some sort of population process which was that wages is equal to alpha plus beta times, oh beta 1 times age, plus beta 2 times age squared, plus some sort of error.


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[Assistant] With these sort of, uh, and in this equation, beta 1 would be greater than 0 and beta 2 would be less than 0.


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[Assistant] And that's because you can think about there being sort of an inverted U shape in terms of the return of age to wages. When someone's very young, they've just left university. Being slightly older means they're slightly more experienced in general, which means that they can command a slightly higher age. So,


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[Assistant] In the sort of first half of your life, this term tends to dominate, uh, dominate rather. Whereas in the second part of an individual's life,


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[Assistant] U shape of the effect of age on wages.


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[Assistant] Obviously, most of the time we don't actually have what the population process is. We're trying to gauge what the population process is.


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[Assistant] So let's say we only had a sample of the data and for that sample we had an individual or a whole host of individuals wages and we could sort of plot these points on a 2D diagram of wages against age.


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[Assistant] And perhaps it looks something like this. I should probably make it a bit more noisy because processors are never quite this compact and easy in real life.


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[Assistant] And not knowing the population process, and because we haven't charted the data, perhaps we actually fit.


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[Assistant] A purely linear model to our data. So we just fit wages being determined by age and not age squared.


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[Assistant] So, if I use least squared regression, our least squared estimator line is going to look something like that. Where least squared estimators here are trying to minimize the sum of square distances of points from that line.


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[Assistant] And perhaps from this we get out an estimate of beta. And perhaps it's ten dollars.


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[Assistant] In truth, this has given us a very misleading estimate of what the effect of ages are on wage. It suggests that it's constant throughout life.


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[Assistant] When in fact we know that the population process is something like an inverted U.


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[Assistant] Our estimate of uhm, people when they sort of get to retirement age is also grossly wrong.


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[Assistant] Means that you actually command $100 less per week in wages.


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[Assistant] So not only has our sort of linear estimate of the effect of ages and wage been, uh, grossly sort of wrong for people who are young, it also is very wrong for people who are very old as well. It not only, eh, is wrong in terms of magnitude, it's also wrong in terms of size.


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[Assistant] So, I hope that this has illustrated how functional mis-specification, in this case, a mission of age squared from the regression, because functional mis-specification is a kind of, another way to think about it is a kind of omitted variable bias.


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[Assistant] How this has led us to have biased estimates of the effect of ages on wages in the population.


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[Assistant] Because we didn't specify a model correctly, we thought that there was a sort of constant returns to an age in terms of wages, when in fact almost certainly there is some sort of non-linear return of ages, of age to wages.


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[Assistant] Right, it started in 99, correct. And you haven't died on this life yet. But let's just hang in there and see what happens.


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[Assistant] I also learned something today. Perhaps if you guide him further down.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, woah. Ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-


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[Assistant] Try to bump him towards the other one. There we go.


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[Assistant] Both have full beards. Like our shirts are all unbuttoned, like.


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[Assistant] We're so tired and exhausted that we can't even expend the energy to open our mouths fully we're just like


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. For when you don't even realize you're screaming until after the scream's over.


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[Assistant] What's the- I like it when you- when you kiss the ground though.


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[Assistant] I guess we could, bleh, I burped a little. I guess we could say that, uhm, this is one of those rare circumstances where we could just call or text the person who made the level. I-I-I never talk to Ross, I'm not interested.


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[Assistant] Can't fully recall what he looks like. Or sounds like.


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[Assistant] If we could ever get to the office again. Yeah, that's right. My god.


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[Assistant] If I were- I don't know. If I was stranded on a desert island, I would probably form into tribes.


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[Assistant] Like, split into two separate camps and then go at war with each other. Because then I'd be the leader of both camps and no one would fuck with me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, you're there. Without question.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. Doing well.


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[Assistant] By the way, dude, speaking of which, this is really neither here nor there, I just reminded myself.


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[Assistant] You know, Granny Sexbang, God bless her, uh, in March she's gonna be 94. Damn. And uh, and she's uh, still sharp as a tack, you know?


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[Assistant] But, she started showing me old movies. Like, or recommending movies from like the 40s to check out. And so we talk about them because it really gives her a thrill, you know, she remembers like going to see them for like,


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[Assistant] Ten cents when she was, you know, ten years old or whatever. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Those movies from the 40s are fucking outstanding.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna say a favor to her, you know, but it was more for her benefit than mine. Right. And as it turns out, I absolutely love movies from the 40s. Yeah. Cause at least the ones that I've seen is...


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[Assistant] Oh yea, there's just like, there's no CG, obviously. There's no, uh, there's no special effects at all, really.


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[Assistant] Occasionally there's some like green, like very primitive green screen stuff. Uhm, but, uh, yeaah. I, like, they're just amazing acting and amazing stories. I watched, uh, I guess it's technically 1950, but I watched Sunset Boulevard. That shit was amazing.


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[Assistant] No, it's fine. If anyone wants to check out a bunch of cool movies, uhm, shit.


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[Assistant] No, that's it. Like, Sunset Boulevard was amazing, uh, The Heiress was really incredible if you like movies about, um,


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[Assistant] Marie Antoinette was an amazing, uh, history, story, uhm, but like drama. Uhm, friggin', uh, Pride and Prejudice was like an adorable comedy kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah. A lot of these movies have been remade too. Yeah. But- Have you seen the remakes? No. So good.


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[Assistant] I understand, it's like you're already frustrated and you don't want to hear someone being like, hey, I have a helpful idea. It's like, fuck your help. I get the impulse.


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[Assistant] We all get emotional when we play video games because these things are designed to be frustrating.


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[Assistant] 28 lives down. Alright, here we go.


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[Assistant] What? Oh. Oh. Yeah, it's more than three cats. Nine times three is twenty-seven. Ah, Jesus. I did it. I did the multiplication.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but here we are. We've grown so much.


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[Assistant] It got quiet in here the way that, like, after someone screams like that in like a movie theater.


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[Assistant] Like everyone's- or a restaurant. Yes. Everyone just gets real silent. They're like, somebody's serious about something.


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[Assistant] It's definitely some kind of, you know, survival thing, like,


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[Assistant] I mean, what could be more animal than that? Like, hear loud unexpected noise, look in direction of noise.


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[Assistant] But, again, it allows you to fuck up in a way where you can like jump right back into it.


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[Assistant] Oh, merciful heavens, we're halfway done with the level.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, I'm so glad you said that.


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[Assistant] If anyone out there knows what that's originally from, I'm sure it's 70 or 80 years old.


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[Assistant] No, I don't know how to go about looking for it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, man. Skillshare. And our less popular advertising supporter, Pleasure Share.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like the original, not, not- I wanna find the oldest example of it as possible. What the fuck? Cause I mean it really must be-


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[Assistant] I remember reading somewhere the, the uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] Or I might be thinking of da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. One of them. Wow. Yeah, so I mean they go way, way back.


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[Assistant] I, speaking of Looney Tunes, I had the strangest experience when I was, uhm, when I was a little kid, maybe eight or nine, uh, there used to be a place in New Jersey called the Ground Round, and it is not in existence anymore, but it was kind of like,


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[Assistant] Kinda like a Bennigan's, Hula Hands type of restaurant. And, except they had, uh, either sawdust or peanut shells on the floor, which I thought was so cool. Uhm, I just really liked going there. But, I remember in their Texas Roadhouse,


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[Assistant] Cool. Uh, I just remember it was a fun place to go when I was a kid. And they had a lobby where you could wait for your table, and they had a screen where they would show cartoons.


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[Assistant] For, for, to keep the kids occupied. Except it was the 80s and there was no such thing as political correctness and they would show strange cartoons. And one of the cartoons they showed was this black and white, it looked like Looney Tunes.


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[Assistant] But it was a daffy duck style duck, uhm, as Hitler.


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[Assistant] Oh. Yeah, and a goose, uh, dressed as Mussolini.


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[Assistant] I found it. I had that memory and I was like, oh my god, I live in the age of the internet, I can actually see this. It's called the Ductators. And it is so strange, so like, of another time, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Unabashedly anti, uh, well, I don't know if it's anti-Japanese, but anti the government of Japan at the time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, I mean, it was propaganda in a lot of ways. Oh, for sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it is, it is bizarre to think that Disney or Looney Tunes would have been involved in propaganda when now they would go absolutely one million percent out of their way to never be involved in anything like that. Ohhh, I see this. Oh!


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[Assistant] This is gonna be a frantic kind of level.


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[Assistant] That's really driving me nuts. Which means, uh, he has succeeded in his goal.


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[Assistant] We are now talking about two scientists who are very dependent on drugs. What time was it when they saw Ola Englund go into her house? Around midnight. Around midnight.


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[Assistant] And the one we're talking about here is the woman who said she loved everyone, and who is the mother of their two children. That's why I ask, what do we have? What do we have?


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[Assistant] Technical evidence is such a diffuse character, that it neither can nor may be added to any mentioned value.


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[Assistant] I can live more than a mother who is free. But I have a hard time living with a justice mother.


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[Assistant] If you want to be in reality, then I think it's you who seems nervous.


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[Assistant] There I go, right. Thank you for coming. It's not gonna be our usual show tonight because, and I'm gonna tell you right in front, I'm gonna cry, I'm already crying, uh, which is embarrassing, but, uh, uh.


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[Assistant] Youthful and funny and sharp and generous and I was fortunate enough to not only have Don on this show as my guest but also to become close to him and his wife Barbara which was


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[Assistant] And uhm, people always wanted to hear Don tell Sinatra stories and he had great stories.


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[Assistant] But uhm, and I think this might be what brought us here, because I told Don, and this is honestly how I felt, the Sinatra stories are great, but if Sinatra was here, I'd be asking him for stories about you. And it's uhm,


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[Assistant] Well, Bob Newhart, Don's good friend Bob Newhart, another national treasure, told me a great story about having dinner with Don and Sinatra that sums Don up pretty well, I think. Sinatra would sometimes get angry.


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[Assistant] Uh, for whatever reason and flip out. So one night, they were all at a big table at a very fancy restaurant, and the restaurant was all white. Everything was white. The walls of the table cloths.


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[Assistant] Everything. And Don and Barbara, his wife, and Bob and his wife Ginny were at the table and Frank was drinking and he was not in a good mood. He was getting surly, which put everyone on edge. When Frank wasn't happy, you had to watch it. So they're drinking and...


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[Assistant] The food comes, and the waiter brings a bottle of ketchup and puts it on the table in front of Frank. And for whatever reason, this sends Frank into a rage. He takes, he doesn't want ketchup on the table, so he takes the bottle, and a very crowded, elegant restaurant, he throws it at the wall.


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[Assistant] And the bottle smashes and there's ketchup everywhere and everyone in the restaurant stops. There's like a gasp. And Don, without missing a beat, turns and says, Frank, will you pass the ketchup?


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[Assistant] The first time Dom was on our show was almost, uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] I was in some kind of talk show host fantasy camp, sitting behind a desk, while Don Rickles made fun of me.


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[Assistant] We would always go out to dinner after the show except for one night. I couldn't go because I was already going to dinner. It was a little like a late booking. I was going to dinner with my friend Jeff Ross. The comedian was his 50th birthday and he's only in town for like the night. So a few days beforehand I told Don, I can't go to dinner after the show because I already have plans. We'll go another night.


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[Assistant] I couldn't tell if I was going to another dinner with someone else or he would bust my balls till I had none left, so. That was non-specific, I just said I can't make it.


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[Assistant] Those dinners where Don would drink vodka and tell stories. Bob Saget and John Stamos were like Don's. I won't say sons because most sons, once they pass the age of 10, don't want to hear anything their father says. Bob and John loved it. They were more like his stepdaughters, I would say.


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[Assistant] I once took him to Mozza, which is Mario Batali's restaurant here. It's a very nice restaurant. We rented the private room in the back. We had food. I invited his friends. It was beautiful. It was very expensive, okay?


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[Assistant] And I paid for it. At the end of the meal, after the end, at the end of this beautiful meal, he, he says to me, I'll never forget, he goes, I can't believe you took me to a pizza place.


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[Assistant] But he was very sweet. They called him Mr. Warmth as a joke, but that was what he was. He would always ask about, uhm,


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[Assistant] My parents, my kids, uhm, when my uncle Frank passed away, I called him and asked him to be the guest on that show. And, uh, which was a tough show and he helped all of us through it.


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[Assistant] Uh, he, I saved every note he ever sent me. There were like 27 notes and letters from Don and I want to read a couple of them.


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[Assistant] Here are a few of these very expensive, uh, notes. Uh, Dear Jimmy, thanks so much for inviting me into your home for dinner, but to be honest, we would have preferred a three month trip to Venice, Italy. Well done.


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[Assistant] Dear Jimmy, what a great, thoughtful gift for Christmas. Such a good Italian. Maybe you should open a deli and start selling salami.


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[Assistant] Dear Jimmy, uh, we watched your Academy Awards show. Barbara loved every bit of it, but here's what I thought.


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[Assistant] This is one more. Oh, this is the night Manny Pacquiao was on. I showed a picture of Don. He says, Dear Jimmy, what right do you have to hold up my picture without my okay?


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[Assistant] Do you love clicking buttons and subscribing to things? Then click the button to subscribe to my channel and you'll finally be happy.


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[Assistant] Daryl Zwerling was an American character actor in film and television, died on 11th of April 2014, at the age of 85 years. The cause of death was currently unknown.


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[Assistant] William Wintersol, who appeared on The Young and the Restless for over 20 years, died on November 5, 2019, at the age of 88.


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[Assistant] Marcia Wallace was an American actress and comedian, died on 25th of October 2013, at the age of 70 years, dead of complications from pneumonia.


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[Assistant] Paul Walker was an American actor, died on 30th November 2013 at the age of 40 years. The cause of death was traffic accident.


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[Assistant] Gregory Walcott was an American actor, died on 20th of March 2015, at the age of 87. Cause of death was natural causes.


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[Assistant] Katie Stevens was an American film and television actress. Died on 13th of June 1994. Age is 74 years. The cause of death was cancer.


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[Assistant] Isabelle Sanford was an American stage film and television actress and comedian. Died on 9th of July 2004 at the age of 86. The cause of death was cardiovascular disease.


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[Assistant] Della Reese was an American actress and singer, died on 19th of June 2017, at the age of 86 years. The cause of death was diabetes.


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[Assistant] Dr. Peters was an American actor, died on 23rd of August 2005, at the age of 78. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.


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[Assistant] Terry Lester, he was an American actor, died on 28th of November 2003, at the age of 53. The cause of death was heart attack.


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[Assistant] George Kennedy was an actor, died on 28th of February 2016, at the age of 91 years. His reported cause of death was heart ailment.


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[Assistant] David Haderson was an American film, television and stage actor. Died on 18th of July 2019. At the age of 92 years. No cause of death was found.


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[Assistant] Bruce Grey was a Canadian actor, died on 13th of December 2017, at the age of 81. The cause of death was brain cancer.


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[Assistant] Candice Daly was an American film and television actress, died on 14th of December 2004, at the age of 38. The cause of death was drug abuse is suspected.


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[Assistant] Jean Cooper was an American actress, died on 8th of May 2013, at the age of 84. Cause of death was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.


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[Assistant] Don Chastain was an American actor, singer and screenwriter. Dead on 9th of August 2002 at the age of 66. Cause of death was colon cancer.


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[Assistant] Susan Brown was an American television and film actress, died on August 31, 2018, at the age of 86. Cause of death was Alzheimer's disease.


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[Assistant] William Boyett was an American actor. Died on December 29, 2004. At the age of 77, died of complications from pneumonia and kidney failure.


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[Assistant] Ross Claiborne was an American actor and songwriter. Died on 3rd of March 2020 at the age of 69. Cause of death was suicide.


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[Assistant] Dead on January 26, 2015. At the age of 72, cause of death was heart attack.


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[Assistant] Carmen Argenziano was an American actor, died on 10th of February 2019, at the age of 75. Cause of death was not disclosed.


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[Assistant] For Joanna, lots of things changed in the weeks after scriber Jacarama Fan died. Most were for the better. Things that might never have happened, but for the murder. And that made Joanna very sad.


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[Assistant] She let woodcarver live in her cabin and take the place of the helper pack.


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[Assistant] Apparently Woodcarver had wanted to do this from the beginning, but had been afraid of the human's anger.


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[Assistant] Now they kept the data set in the cabin. There were never less than four packs of Vendatious's security surrounding the place, and there was talk of building barracks around it.


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[Assistant] Scrupulo, Vendatius, and Scarbut, the Pilgrim, all spoke fluent Samnorsk now, more than good enough so that she could see the character behind their inhuman forms. Scrupulo prissy and very bright.


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[Assistant] Vendacious as pompous as Scriber had ever seemed, but without the playfulness and imagination. Pilgrim Wake Rackscar.


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[Assistant] She felt a chill every time she saw his big scarred one.


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[Assistant] It always sat in the back hunching down to look non-threatening.


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[Assistant] But even after Scriber's death, she couldn't do more than tolerate that pack.


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[Assistant] And after all, there could be traitors in the woodcarver castle. It was only Vendatious's theory that the murder had been a raid from outside. She kept a suspicious eye on Pilgrim.


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[Assistant] At night, Woodcarver chased the other packs away. She huddled around the fire pit and asked the data set questions that had no conceivable connection with fighting the flencerists. Joanna sat with her.


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[Assistant] And tried to explain things that Woodcarver didn't understand.


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[Assistant] It was strange. Woodcarver was something very like the queen of these people. She had this enormous, primitive, uncomfortable, ugly yet still enormous castle. She had dozens of servants.


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[Assistant] Yet she spent most of each night in this little wood lodge with Joanna and helped with the fire and the food. At least as much as did the pack who had been here before.


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[Assistant] So it was that Woodcarver became Joanna's second friend among the tines.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver was very smart and very strange. In some ways, she was the smartest person Joanna had ever known, though that conclusion came slowly.


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[Assistant] She hadn't really been surprised when the tines mastered Sam Norris quickly. That's the way it was in most adventures, and more to the point they had the language learning programs in the data set.


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[Assistant] But night after night, Joanna watched Woodcarver play with the set.


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[Assistant] The pack showed no interest in the military tactics and chemistry that preoccupied them all during the day.


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[Assistant] Instead, she read about the Slow Zone, and the Beyond, and the history of Straumli Realm.


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[Assistant] She had mastered non-linear reading faster than any of the others. Sometimes Joanna would just sit and stare over her shoulders.


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[Assistant] The screen was split into windows, the main one scrolling much faster than Joanna could follow.


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[Assistant] A dozen times a minute, Woodcarver might come upon words she didn't recognize. Most were just unfamiliar Samnorsk.


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[Assistant] Other things were conceptual, and the new windows would lead the pack off into other fields, sometimes with just a few seconds, sometimes for many minutes, and sometimes the detour would become her new main path.


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[Assistant] In a way, she was everything that Scriber had wanted to be.


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[Assistant] Many times, she had questions the data set couldn't really answer. She and Joanna would talk late into the night. What was a human family like? What had Stroudly Realm thought to make at the High Lab?


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[Assistant] Joanna no longer thought of most packs as gangs of snake-necked rats.


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[Assistant] Deep past midnight the data set's screen was brighter than the gray light from the fire pit.


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[Assistant] It painted the backs of woodcarver in cheerful colors.


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[Assistant] The pack gathered round her, looking up almost like children listening to a teacher. But Woodcarver was no child. Almost from the first, she had seemed old.


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[Assistant] Those late night talks were beginning to teach Joanna about the tines too.


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[Assistant] The pack said things she never did during the day.


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[Assistant] They were mostly things that must be obvious to other tines but never talked about.


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[Assistant] The human girl wondered if Woodcarver the Queen had anyone to confide in.


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[Assistant] Only one of Woodcarver's members was physically old. Two were scarcely more than puppies. It was the pattern of the pack that was half a thousand years old. And that showed. Woodcarver's soul was held together by little more than willpower. The price of immortality had been inbreeding. The original stock had been healthy. But after six hundred years, one of her youngest members couldn't stop drooling. It was constantly padding a kerchief to its muzzle.


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[Assistant] Another had milky white in its eyes where there should have been deep brown.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver said it was stone blind, but healthy, and her best talker.


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[Assistant] Her oldest member was visibly feeble. It was panting all the time. Unfortunately Woodcarver said it was the most alert and creative of all. When it died.


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[Assistant] Once she started looking for it, Joanna could see weakness in all of Woodcarver. Even the two healthiest members, strong and with plush fur, walked a little strangely compared to normal pack members. Was that due to spinal deformities?


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[Assistant] The two were also gaining weight, which wasn't helping the problem.


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[Assistant] Joanna didn't learn this all at once. Woodcarver had told her about various tinish affairs, and gradually her own story came out, too. She seemed glad to have someone to confide in, but Joanna saw little self-pity in her.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver had chosen this path. Apparently it was perversion to some.


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[Assistant] And beaten the odds for longer than any other pack in recorded history.


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[Assistant] She was more wistful than anything else, that her luck had finally run out.


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[Assistant] Grotesquely oversized or too cramped for human use.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver's council chamber was at the large extreme.


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[Assistant] It was not a cozy place. You could get 300 humans into the bowl-shaped cavity with room to spare.


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[Assistant] The separated balconies that ran around its upper circumference could have held another hundred more.


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[Assistant] Joanna had been here often enough before. This was where most work was done with the data set.


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[Assistant] Usually there was herself and Woodcarver and whoever else needed information.


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[Assistant] Today was different. Not a day to consult the data set at all. This was Joanna's first council meeting.


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[Assistant] There were twelve packs in the High Council, and they were all here.


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[Assistant] Every balcony contained a pack and there were three on the floor.


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[Assistant] Joanna knew enough about tines now to see that for all the empty space, the place was hideously crowded. There was the mind noise of fifteen packs.


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[Assistant] Even with all the padded tapestries, she felt an occasional buzzing in her head or through her hands from the railing.


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[Assistant] Joanna stood with Woodcarver on the largest balcony. When they arrived, Vendacious was already down on the main floor arranging diagrams.


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[Assistant] As the packs of the council came to their feet, he looked up and said something to Woodcarver. The Queen replied in Samnorsk.


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[Assistant] I know it will slow things down, but perhaps that's a good thing. She made a human laughing sound.


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[Assistant] Peregrine Wick Rackscar was standing on the next balcony over just like some council pack.


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[Assistant] Strange. Joanna had not yet figured out why, but Scarbot seemed to be one of Woodcarver's favorites. Pilgrim, would you translate for Joanna? Pilgrim bobbed several heads. Is, is that okay, Joanna?


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[Assistant] The girl hesitated an instant and nodded back. It made sense.


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[Assistant] Next to Woodcarver, Pilgrim spoke better Sam Norris than any of them.


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[Assistant] As Woodcarver sat down, she took the data set from Joanna and popped it open. Joanna glanced at the figures on the screen. She's made notes.


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[Assistant] Her surprise didn't have a chance to register before the Queen was talking again, this time in the gobble sounds of interpack talk. After a second, Pilgrim began translating.


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[Assistant] Joanna almost smiled. Pilgrim Wick Rackscar was pretty good.


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[Assistant] He was imitating Woodcarver's human voice perfectly.


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[Assistant] His translation even captured the wry authority of her speech.


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[Assistant] After some shuffling around, only one or two heads were visible sticking up from each balcony.


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[Assistant] Most stray thought noise should now be caught in the padding around the balcony or absorbed by the quilted canopy that hung over the room. Vendacious, you may proceed.


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[Assistant] On the main floor, Vandaceus stood and looked up in all directions. He started talking. Thank you, came the translation, now imitating the security chief's tones.


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[Assistant] The woodcarver asked me to call this meeting because of urgent developments in the north.


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[Assistant] Our sources there report that steel is fortifying the region around Joanna's starship. Gobble, gobble, interruption. Scrupulo?


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[Assistant] That's not news, that's what our cannon and gunpowder are for.


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[Assistant] Vandacious. Yes, we've known of the plans for some time.


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[Assistant] Nevertheless, the completion date has been advanced, and the final version will have walls a good deal thicker than we had figured. It also appears that once the enclosure is complete,


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[Assistant] They're confident of having the main walls complete in just under ten ten days.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver bent a pair of noses to the keyboard, tapped in a note. At the same time,


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[Assistant] She stuck her head over the railing and looked down at the security chief.


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[Assistant] I've noticed before that steel tends to be a bit overoptimistic. Do you have an objective estimate?


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[Assistant] Yes, the walls will be complete between eight and eleven ten days from now. Woodcarver.


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[Assistant] We had been counting on at least fifteen. Is this a response to our plans?


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[Assistant] On the floor below, Vendatius drew himself together.


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[Assistant] That was our first suspicion, your majesty. But as you know, we have a number of very special sources of information. Sources we shouldn't discuss, even here. What a braggart. Sometimes I wonder if he knows anything. I've never seen him stick his asses out in the field. Huh?


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[Assistant] It took Joanna a second to realize that this was Pilgrim editorializing. She glanced across the railing. Three of Pilgrim's heads were visible, two looking her way.


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[Assistant] They bore an expression she recognized as a silly smile. No one else seemed to react to his comment. Apparently he could focus his translation on Joanna alone.


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[Assistant] She glared at him and after a moment he resumed his business-like translation.


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[Assistant] This change in schedule appears to be a matter of random suspicion. Unfortunately, we are the worst for it. Three or four counselors began talking at once.


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[Assistant] Much loud unhappiness, came Pilgrim's voice summing up. They're full of, I knew this plan would never work, and why did we ever agree to attack the flencerists in the first place?


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[Assistant] Right next to Joanna Woodcarver emitted a shrill whistle. The recriminations dribbled to a halt.


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[Assistant] Some of you forget your courage. We agreed to attack Hidden Island because it has been a deadly threat. One we thought we could destroy with Joanna's cannons, and one that could surely destroy us, if Steel ever learns to use the Starship.


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[Assistant] And there's also the little matter of getting you home and making contact with the stars. But you can't say that aloud to the pragmatic types. In case you haven't guessed, that's one reason you're here. To remind the chuckleheads there's more in heaven than they have dreamed.


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[Assistant] He paused and switched back to translating woodcarver.


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[Assistant] No mistake was made in undertaking this campaign. Avoiding it would be as deadly as fighting and losing. So


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[Assistant] Do we have any chance of getting an effective army up the coast in time?


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[Assistant] She jabbed her nose in the direction of a balcony across the room. Scrupulo, please be brief. The last thing Scrupulo can be is brief. Oops, sorry. More editorializing from Peregrin.


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[Assistant] Yes, majesty, we have the gunpowder. It is every bit as powerful as Datasette says. The gun tubes have been a much greater problem.


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[Assistant] Till very recently the metal cracked at the breach as it cooled. Now I think I have that fixed. At least I have two unblemished gun tubes. I had hoped for several ten days of testing.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver interrupted. But that is something we can't afford now.


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[Assistant] She came completely to her feet and looked all around the council room. I want full size testing immediately. If it's successful, we'll start making gun tubes as fast as we can. And if not...


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[Assistant] The funniest thing was that Skrupulo expected Joanna to inspect the gun tube before he fired it.


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[Assistant] The pack walked excitedly around the rig, explaining things in awkward Samnorsk. Joanna followed, frowning seriously.


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[Assistant] Some meters off, mostly hidden behind a berm, Woodcarver and her high council were watching the exercise. Well, the thing looked real enough.


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[Assistant] They'd mounted it on a small cart that could roll back into a pile of dirt onto the recoil force.


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[Assistant] The tube itself was a single cast piece of metal about a meter long, with a 10 centimeter bore. Gunpowder and shot went in the front end.


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[Assistant] The powder was ignited through a tiny fire hole at the rear. Joanna ran her hand along the barrel.


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[Assistant] The leaden surface was bumpy and there seemed to be pieces of dirt caught in the metal.


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[Assistant] Even the walls of the bore were not completely smooth. Would that make a difference?


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[Assistant] Scrupulo was explaining how he had used straw in the molds to keep the metal from cracking as it cooled. Yeko.


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[Assistant] You should try it out with small amounts of gunpowder first, she said.


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[Assistant] Scrupulo's voice became a bit conspiratorial, more focused.


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[Assistant] She smiled at the nearest of him, a member with no black at all in his head fur. In a kooky way, Scrupulo reminded her of some of the scientists at the high lab.


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[Assistant] Two of him were looking nervously at the high counselors beyond the berm. Uhm, yes, it looks fine to me.


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[Assistant] And of course it should. The design was copied straight from Nigerian models in Joanna's history files. But be careful, if it doesn't work right, it could kill anybody nearby. Yes, yes.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver asked her quietly. She seemed even more feeble than usual. They had spread a woven mat for her on the mossy heather behind the berm.


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[Assistant] Most of her lay quietly, heads between paws. The blind one looked asleep.


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[Assistant] The young drooler cuddled against it, twitching nervously.


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[Assistant] As usual, Peregrine Wick Rack Scar was nearby.


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[Assistant] But he wasn't translating now. All his attention was on scrupulo.


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[Assistant] Joanna thought of the straw that Scrupulo had used in the moulds. Woodcarver's people were really trying to help, but she shook her head. I, who knows.


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[Assistant] She came to her knees and looked over the berm. The whole thing looked like a circus act from a history file.


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[Assistant] There were the performing animals, the cannon, there was even the circus tent. Vendacious had insisted on hiding the operation from possible spies in the hills. The enemy might see something, but the longer Steel Lack details the better.


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[Assistant] The scruple opac hustled around the cannon talking all the time. Two of him hauled up a keg of black powder and he began pushing the stuff down the barrel.


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[Assistant] At the same time the rest of him pushed the cart around to point out of the tent.


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[Assistant] They were on the forest side of the castle yard, between the old and new walls. Joanna could see a patch of green hillside, drizzly clouds hanging low. About a hundred meters away was the old wall. In fact,


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[Assistant] This was the same stretch of stone where Scriber had been killed.


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[Assistant] Even if the damn cannon didn't blow up, no one had any idea how far the shot would go. Joanne was betting it wouldn't even get to the wall.


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[Assistant] Scrupula was on this side of the gun now, trying to light a long wooden firing wand.


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[Assistant] With a sinking feeling in her stomach, Joanna knew this couldn't work. They were all fools and amateurs. She as much as they. This poor guy is going to get killed for nothing. Joanna came to her feet. Gotta stop it.


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[Assistant] Something grabbed her belt and pulled her down. It was one of Woodcarver's members, one of the fat ones that couldn't walk quite right. We have to try, the pack said softly.


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[Assistant] Scrupulo had the wand alight now. Suddenly he stopped talking. All of him but the white-headed one ran for the protection of the berm.


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[Assistant] For an instant it seemed like strange cowardice, and then Joanna understood.


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[Assistant] A human playing with something explosive would also try to shield his body.


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[Assistant] Except for the hand that held the match. Scrupulo was risking a maiming but not death.


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[Assistant] The white-headed one looked across the trampled heather to the rest of Scrupulo.


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[Assistant] It didn't seem upset so much as attentively listening.


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[Assistant] At this distance it couldn't be part of Scrupulo's mind, but the creature was probably smarter than any dog, and apparently it was getting some kind of directions from the rest.


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[Assistant] Whitehead turned and walked toward the cannon. It belly crawled the last meter.


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[Assistant] Taking what cover there was in the dirt behind the gun cart.


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[Assistant] It held the wand so the flame at its tip came slowly down on the fire hole. Joanna ducked behind the berm. The explosion was a sharp, snapping sound.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver shuddered against her, and whistles of pain came from all around the tent. Poor Scrupillo. Joanna felt tears starting. I have to look. I'm partly responsible.


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[Assistant] Slowly she stood and forced herself to look across the field to where a minute ago the cannon had been. And still is.


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[Assistant] Thick smoke floated from both ends, but the tube was intact. And more! Whitehead was wobbling dazedly around the cart, his white fur now covered with soot.


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[Assistant] The rest of Scrupulo raced out to Whitehead. The five of him ran round and round the cannon, bounding over each other in triumph. For a long moment the rest of the audience just stared.


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[Assistant] Vendacious would have a hard time hiding that from enemy view.


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[Assistant] Two tines she didn't know ran into each other. For a moment of mindless jubilation they were an enormous pack of nine or ten members. We'll get the ship back yet.


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[Assistant] Joanna turned to hug Woodcarver, but the Queen was not shouting with the others. She huddled with her heads close together, shivering. Woodcarver?


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[Assistant] She petted the neck of one of the big fat ones. It jerked away, its body spasming. Stroke? Heart attack? The names of olden day killers popped into her mind. Just how would they apply to a pack?


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[Assistant] Something was terribly wrong and nobody else had noticed. Joanna bounced back to her feet. Pilgrim! She screamed.


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[Assistant] Five minutes later they had woodcarver out of the tent.


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[Assistant] The place was still a madhouse but gone deathly quiet to Joanna's ears.


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[Assistant] She'd help the queen onto her carriage, but after that no one would let her near.


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[Assistant] Even Pilgrim, so eager to translate everything the day before, brushed her aside.


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[Assistant] It will be okay, was all he said, as he ran to the front of the carriage and grabbed the reins of the shaggy whatsits.


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[Assistant] The carriage pulled out, surrounded by several packs of guards. For an instant the weirdness of the tines world came crashing back on Joanna.


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[Assistant] This was obviously a great emergency. A person might be dying.


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[Assistant] People were rushing this way and that, and yet...


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[Assistant] The packs drew into themselves. No one crowded close. No one could touch another.


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[Assistant] The instant passed and Joanna was running out of the tent after the carriage. She tried to keep to the heather along the muddy path and almost caught up.


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[Assistant] Everything was wet and chill, gunmetal gray. Everyone had been so intent on the test. Could this be more flencer treachery? Joanna stumbled and went down on her knees in the mud.


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[Assistant] The carriage turned a corner onto cobblestones. Now it was lost to sight. She got up and slogged on through the wet. But a little slower now. There was nothing she could do. Nothing she could do. She had made friends with Scriber.


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[Assistant] She walked along the cobbled alley between the castle's storehouses.


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[Assistant] Vendatious's security packs ran in both directions past her, stopping briefly inside niches to allow opposing traffic by.


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[Assistant] Nobody answered her questions. Probably none of them even spoke Samnorsk.


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[Assistant] Joanna almost got lost. She could hear the carriage, but it had turned somewhere. She heard it again behind her.


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[Assistant] They were taking Woodcarver to Joanna's place. She went back and a few minutes later was climbing the path to the two-story cabin she had shared with Woodcarver these last weeks.


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[Assistant] Joanna was too pooped to run anymore. She walked slowly up the hillside, vaguely aware of her wet and muddy state.


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[Assistant] The carriage was stopped about five meters short of the door.


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[Assistant] Guard packs were strung out along the hill, but their bows weren't knocked. The afternoon sunlight found a break in the western clouds and shone for a moment on the damp heather and glistening timbers.


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[Assistant] Lighting them bright against dark sky above the hills.


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[Assistant] It was a combination of light and dark that had always seemed especially beautiful to Joanna. Please, let her be okay.


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[Assistant] The guards let her pass. Peregrine Wickrackscar was standing around the entrance, three of him watching her approach.


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[Assistant] The fourth, scarbut, had its long neck stuck through the doorway, watching whatever was inside.


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[Assistant] It was the shock of that cannon going off, but almost anything could have done it.


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[Assistant] Scarbut backed hastily away as she started for the door.


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[Assistant] Inside there was only the light from the door and the high window slits. It took a second for Joanna's eyes to adjust. Something smelled... wet.


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[Assistant] Woodcarver was lying in a circle on the quilted mattress she used every evening. She crossed the room and went to her knees beside the pack. The pack edged nervously away from her touch. There was blood.


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[Assistant] So strange to have someone next to me at a time like this. You're bleeding. What's the matter? Soft human sounding laughter.


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[Assistant] The blind one was holding something small and wet in its jaws, one of the others was licking it. Whatever it was, it was wiggling, alive, and Joanna remembered how strangely plump and awkward parts of woodcarver had become. A baby?


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[Assistant] Yes, and I'm going to have another in a day or two.


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[Assistant] Joanna sat back on the floor timbers, covering her face with her hands. She was going to start crying again. Why, why didn't you tell me?


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[Assistant] Woodcarver didn't say anything for a moment. She licked the little one all around, then said it against the tummy of the member that must be its mother. The newborn snuggled close, nuzzling into the belly fur. It didn't make any noise that Joanna could hear. Finally the Queen said, I don't know if I can make you understand. This has been very hard for me. Having babies?


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[Assistant] Joanna's hands were sticky with the blood on the quilt. Obviously this had been hard.


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[Assistant] But that's how all lives must start on a world like this.


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[Assistant] It was pain that needed the support of friends, pain that led to joy.


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[Assistant] How can you understand? You humans don't even have the choice to keep on living. Your offspring can never be you.


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[Assistant] But for me, it's the end of a soul six hundred years old.


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[Assistant] You see, I'm going to keep these two to be part of me.


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[Assistant] And for the first time in all the centuries, I am not both the mother and the father. A newbie I'll become.


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[Assistant] Joanna looked at the blind one and the drooler, six hundred years of incest. How much longer could Woodcarver have continued before the mind itself decayed? Not both the mother and the father. But then who is the father? she blurted out. Who do you think? The voice came from just beyond the door.


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[Assistant] One of Peregrine Wick Rackscar's heads peered around the corner just far enough to show an eye.


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[Assistant] When Woodcarver makes a decision, she goes for extremes. She's been the most tightly held soul of all time, but now she has blood, genes, data set would say, from packs all over the world, from one of the flakiest pilgrims who ever cast his soul upon the wind.


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[Assistant] Also from one of the smartest, said Woodcarver, her voice wry and wistful at the same time.


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[Assistant] The new soul will be at least as intelligent as before, and probably a lot more flexible.


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[Assistant] I'm a little bit pregnant myself, said Pilgrim, but I'm not the least bit sad. I've been a foursome for too long. Imagine having pups by woodcarver herself. Maybe I'll turn all conservative and settle down.


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[Assistant] The ideas were so alien and yet the overtones of affection and humor were somehow very familiar. Somewhere...


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[Assistant] Then she had it, when Joanna was just five years old and mom and dad brought little Jeffrey home.


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[Assistant] Joanna couldn't remember the words, or even the sense of what they'd said, but the tone was the same as what went between woodcarver and pilgrim.


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[Assistant] Joanna slid back to a sitting position, the tension of the day evaporating. Scrupulo's artillery really worked. There was a chance of getting the ship. And even if they failed, she felt a little bit like she was back home.


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[Assistant] It's hard to not be moved by the hardship that these companies impose.


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[Assistant] Donald Trump is facing questions tonight about his charitable foundation after a report today in the Washington Post. The foundation spent more than a quarter of a million dollars of donated money to settle lawsuits against Trump businesses.


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[Assistant] Oh, yes indeed. I wouldn't miss it for the world.


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[Assistant] Really? Very forceful man, Mr. Walker. Claude isn't in any trouble, is he?


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[Assistant] Captain van Vostel, of the Royal Netherlands Army. At your service, m'lady.


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[Assistant] There are Irish soldiers about, m'lady. Papists. They're burning and looting.


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[Assistant] You are in no danger of us, m'lady, whatever your faith. It's the one we hunt that are desperate. The Silver Cross will not stop.


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[Assistant] Educating and enlightening sports talk from your favorite sports fam. I'm up in this thing. Shout out to the mighty Who Dat Nation.


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[Assistant] We representing baby. Shout out to the fan. Appreciate y'all being in this Monday episode of the coma.


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[Assistant] Man, this one entitled uh, Saints and wide receiver James Washington who came in, checked out with the team.


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[Assistant] And agree to a one year deal in Mickey, Mickey and Dennis Allen loading up that offense, man. Very good. Very just really great moves for the black and gold. We're going to cover.


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[Assistant] Several moves a day, I'ma try not to keep you guys too long on this episode of the show. But big ups to everybody out there in the mighty Who That Nation. Man, good to see y'all here. I see a lot of y'all out here. OG Jerry in the building. Pelicans, Nola, brother Edwards in this thing. Poppy 504. Mr. Bond, shout out to you, my brother. Trav 504.


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[Assistant] Kevin, good to see you fam. Shout out to you as well. King Morrison in the building, good to see you sir. St. Doug, shout out to you. Good to see you brother Tedra. All my dog Trey in the building, shout out to Trey. Much love to him.


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[Assistant] Mr. Phantom in the building, Brother Wallace in this thing. Good to see everybody. What's up, Pammy baby? What's poppin? What's good to see ya?


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[Assistant] Dev84, what's up fam? Appreciate you. What's poppin'? Brother Quivadius is in this. Thanks. Shout out to you. Good to see you, sir. Much love to everybody, man. Thank y'all for being in the stream.


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[Assistant] As we talk about this man on the day. What's up, Chris? Shout out to your fan. Appreciate you.


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[Assistant] Saints putting in that work, man. They're doing some really good solid things out there and making some really good signings. Getting James Washington, a speedy veteran wide receiver, been in the league for several years. Uh, he'll compete in the wide receiver room. And most certainly with this, you know what this means, fam, you know what this means.


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[Assistant] You up outta here playboy. They bout to get you clean up outta here, man. James Washington is a fantastic receiver, man. He dealt with some injuries.


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[Assistant] But speed and very crafty guy was productive in his years with the Steelers. The Saints get a good veteran to push the room. A.T. Perry, we're gonna go over the depth chart.


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[Assistant] From a wide receiver perspective in a little bit said, shout out to you. Good to see you, sir. Roger. Shout out, sir. Appreciate you, brother. Gundam. Shout out to you, brother. Good to see you in the chat as well. Much love. All right. Corvada says he survives all this depth. He got, yeah, I know bro. Hey man. Nah, bro is over with. That's a done data.


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[Assistant] Big time bro. This guy is, he up outta here man. He up outta here man.


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[Assistant] What's up, Dana? Shout out to you, Queen. Appreciate you, April. Shout out to you. Much love to you. Good to see you in the building. Much love to everybody, man. But we're gonna cover the news, notes, and items on this article, man. And we're gonna go over a few other things. Let's jump right into it. Uh, for the deal. Shout out to The Wire, as they were one of several outlets that covered it. Yeah, bro. I know, bro. I know I said it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I told em, man. That's the first thing I said when they signed it. James watched it. I said, man, trick.


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[Assistant] Done. It's over with. It's over with. Tell him, D. That's who you are. And when you find that out.


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[Assistant] It's over with Trey Kwan. It's a done daughter, baby, with all that kind of stuff. But anyway, let's get into it. The Saints, they signed him to a one year deal.


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[Assistant] And this is according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, dropping the scoop. Uh, he's a former second round pick out of Oklahoma State.


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[Assistant] From 2019 to 2021 before he signed a one year proven deal with the Cowboys, only to miss most of the year with a foot injury.


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[Assistant] He appeared in two games with the Cowboys before he was waived closing out the 22 season on the Giants practice squad. So how does he fit?


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[Assistant] With the Saints, we discussed the role he'll be pushing to office, but the Saints are effectively asking five players.


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[Assistant] To compete for two or three spots in Washington. Brian, Brian Edwards is a part of it.


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[Assistant] The wire receiver picked up, uh, from the fridge wire he's familiar with.


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[Assistant] Uh, Dakar, as we all know, Traquan, Smith, A.T., Perry, Malik, Flowers, assuming the top three spots are locked in, and they are with Crystal Lobby.


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[Assistant] Michael Thomas, depending on his injury situation, which is looking good, according to Mickey and Dennis Allen and Rashid Shahid.


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[Assistant] That's going to be an intense training camp competition, which is you want all of that at every level, but good to see it at the wide receiver room. So we'll see who comes out at top with this one. So man, it's going to be pretty good.


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[Assistant] Watching this, so I'm me like everybody else understands man, uh, with, with brother.


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[Assistant] Washington does. Now like I said, solid veteran wide receiver that comes in and should be able to help the Saints straight away. So anyway,


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[Assistant] He, like, like I said, man, has some good years, man, 27 years of age, man, and has some good production. So it's going to be interesting to see just how it all fits for the saints. But these are some very good signings, very solid signing to get James Washington. We talked about what other positions of need did the saints need to go in the dress outside of looking


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[Assistant] For an interior defensive lineman to help out there to still weaken the interior defensive line, depending on what time new pass and yo ends up playing.


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[Assistant] You know, they have him currently listed as an N and perhaps he can be a guy that can slide inside and spend his time predominantly inside.


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[Assistant] But we still need another veteran to compete there to be honest with you. So it's pretty cool seeing him, them signing Washington and credit to Dennis Allen, credit to Mickey Loomis.


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[Assistant] These men also spoke up and say, man, we're not done yet. There's still a lot of time between now and training camp and the Saints, they have, they have a very good.


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[Assistant] Monetary situation, this James Washington deal is obviously a very cheap deal, very friendly to the Saints. The Saints still have to sign a couple of more draft picks, we know they'll get that done. Eventually then they'll kind of add a few more guys as the season goes on before training camp. We're looking at a guy. What's next, Q? How about linebackers?


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[Assistant] We need a veteran linebacker to compete at the linebacker room. How about a cheap contract to Quine Alexander on the proven deal? That sounds good. I'm, I'm for it. I'm for a reunion or having Quine Alexander there. How about some more help at the interior defensive line? I'm for that too.


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[Assistant] How about some of that for some depth purposes? Now we do have some guys there, but they're unproven young guys and we don't know what they can do as of yet.


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[Assistant] You see, so it's only a matter of time before we see what's, what's, what's popping on that.


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[Assistant] Shout out to the fan. Appreciate y'all, uh, being in the stream. Shout out to the brother, Brian's flat power guy. Shout out to you, brother. Richard says, uh, shout out to you, bro. He says, good evening Q, another small move. I guess they felt like they wanted a young cheap version of Landry. Yeah. And good point there, brother. Richard, shout out to you, bro.


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[Assistant] This is true because that basically slams the door on Jarvis Landry, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] Now, bar and injury now, bar and injury and knock on wood. We really need.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I, and I, like, we don't really need Michael Thomas to, I ain't gonna say need, I would really like him to be healthy, but being that the saint suggested over the last several years of life without Michael Thomas, uhm,


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[Assistant] We've seen from his, his, him not simply being there, we've seen the development of a very good Crystal Lavi and we've seen a player in Rashid Shahid who really stepped in last year and really


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[Assistant] Situation by adding talented players and like I said about James Worcester.


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[Assistant] Washington is a guy that has a speed component. He can get down the field and he can catch the ball. Like they say, to form a second round draft pick.


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[Assistant] Kind of walk them into that thing. You see what I'm saying? Not just throw them out there and that kind of stuff, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they'll put the kid gloves on him because they can't really afford to put the kid gloves on him because he got a one year deal. They got to get the most out of them this year because his contract is up here and I'm talking about Michael Thomas obviously, but at the end of the day, we'll just have to wait and see how they approach it.


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[Assistant] Chris, shout out to you says, uh, Dion Jones. I don't know if Dion fits in a price range, bro. I love Dion Jones, former LSU dude.


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[Assistant] You know, but the issue is, can, can they afford them? Cause we looking at like, Sanks what, roughly, what is it, maybe, you know, 10 to 11 million dollars, you know, that they have around there, maybe a little, you know, south of that.


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[Assistant] Or will it make sense for them to go after a guy that only costs a million something bucks in like a Quan Alexander who already knows your system? That's the only thing. I love Dion Jones. I just don't know.


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[Assistant] From an economic standpoint, if you will pay, play for that amount of money. So I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I just think the quiet thing works in so many ways, but you never know bro, you never know. Alright, alright.


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[Assistant] Alright Neville, shout out to you brother. Good to see you in the chat. Shout out to you brother. Matt, shout out to you. Gee Ree, shout out to you. He says QDG. Yeah, we signed. Yeah, we got some more people. I'ma cover it.


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[Assistant] Uh, in this thing as well. Alright, so shout out to the rest of y'all. But yeah, this is good signing for us moving forward. So let's look at the rest of some of the other moves at the same sign. They did move and sign a few undrafted guys. They picked up this undrafted, uh, say, uh, defensive back here.


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[Assistant] Mr. Adrian Frye. They picked him up here today. The Saints announced the VAT.


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[Assistant] The Twitter that they picked up and signed Adrian Fry and a couple other people.


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[Assistant] And of course, Mr. Fry is a guy that uh, 40 time is 4, 4, 8, 6 feet tall, 195 pound corner. They call him a, a safety.


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[Assistant] That's what they were making mention of safety. So he has a dual component.


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[Assistant] With him, so you have six foot 195 pound cornerback out of the university of Texas tech who.


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[Assistant] Last year had 20 tackles, 12 solo, one pass defense and one pick. So good size for Adrian Fry. He picked his brother up and added them to the team today. The Saints also made another move and picked up. Let's see if I got this other guy here. Here he is.


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[Assistant] A running back for you guys out there, Ellis Merriweather.


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[Assistant] Running back from UMass to Minutemen and this is a scouting report that I was able to find on this brother, six feet tall, 220 pounds.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's, he's 40 time and all that is 4'6", but he's mostly like a, a kind of a, a power back, north-south runner. One-liner, they, they kind of lay him out there as a bruising back with great at, great athleticism.


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[Assistant] A power running style to go along with enough wiggle to make defenders miss in the open field and possess ultra ball security. Evaluation is that he's a between the team, the tackles runner who can move the change. North South power runner.


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[Assistant] Maryweather is sharp, compact, and powerful. He demonstrates a swift sidestep in the second level.


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[Assistant] And it's shown to be more capable, uh, more capable in the passing game.


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[Assistant] He wants all the carries. He's yet to fumble in his 200 and let me say that again.


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[Assistant] Yet to fumble in 283 career carries during his time at UMass and he plans to employ


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[Assistant] More up to temple office. So that's what they said. So which also means expanded committee approach, but you know, but that's what they're saying. He was a three time captain.


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[Assistant] And they just talking about could be a bargain selection with immense upside. This guy finished out to give him a six round grade. The saints pick them up late after the draft and bring them in. So.


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[Assistant] There you go. North-South power runner, yet to fumble.


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[Assistant] Y'all, uh, his name is Ellis Merriweather. He got a strong, uh, football name. And to be honest with you, man, that's, that's, that's a, that's a good football name right there. But anyway, what do you guys think about that move, man? The Saints were able to kind of grab that.


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[Assistant] And get a north-south power run. You know, we can use all the help that we can get when it comes down to doing things like that. So the Saints make a move. They get a couple of people there. Ellis Merriweather, the power back.


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[Assistant] They also get Mr. Adrian Fry the defensive back with duality play safety or cornerback for you as well. Now also the Saints add a defensive tackle to the fold.


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[Assistant] Uh, from the XFL, New Orleans add defensive line depth by pulling from an XFL playoff team. So XFL is putting pretty much a form league.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the USFL to combine their leagues into a massive summer league, that would have been really entertaining to see. That'd have been really entertaining to see.


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[Assistant] But it fell apart at the last, hopefully it can revisit that man. Cause that was, that had been a tremendous thing to see both those leagues operate as the ultimate summer league. Cause that's what it's going to take to be, to compete at that level. But anyway, let's get into the story.


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[Assistant] On the Saints, uh, I mean, NFL networks, Tom Palacero reports that the Saints are signing XFL defensive tackle Jeff Heflin on Monday. Heflin played collegiately for three seasons at Northern Iowa and one at Iowa. He compiled 21 tackles for a loss, 10 sacks,


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[Assistant] In those four years, an undrafted rookie out of Iowa in 21, Heflin played one season with the Packers and last year with the Giants appearing in five games, he just finished the spring with the Houston Roughnecks.


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[Assistant] of the XFL. Shout out to the Saints News Network giving us the school brother Kyle T. Mosley. Much love to my brother.


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[Assistant] And entered the playoffs as a top seed in the XFL south division. Heflin finished the year with a sack.


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[Assistant] And three tackles for a loss among 19 total stops for the Roughnecks.


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[Assistant] Six, three, three hundred and four pounds. Heflin joins the Saints defensive tackle position that has tons of change over. The Saints spent the first round pick on Clemson's defensive tackle, Brian Bresie, and sign for agent tackles Nathan Shepard and Kaelin Saunders.


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[Assistant] This offseason, the Saints ranked just 19th against the run.


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[Assistant] In 2022, the defensive tackles contributed just 13 and a half of the team's 94 sacks.


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[Assistant] Over the last two seasons. So you can see those were numbers heavily.


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[Assistant] That the saints are looking at to improve. So the saints go and they get a, he is a veteran guy.


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[Assistant] Uh, with two different teams, he's a young veteran, so the Saints add a very, uh, spunky defensive tackle by the name of Jack Heflin to the team. So we'll see.


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[Assistant] How that all shakes and goes moving forward. So interesting man, very interesting.


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[Assistant] For the black and gold. Alright, so let's keep it moving along. Let's take a look at


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[Assistant] Uh, the next thing we're gonna play for you guys right there, we got Cam Jordan chimed in here fam.


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[Assistant] What's up, Chief Peanut? How you doing, sir? Much love to you. Appreciate you. Brother Eric, shout out to you, bro. Much love. Appreciate you. Brother Fennis is in this thing. Shout out to you, cuz. Much love. Alright, so let's hear what Old Man Cam with the...


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[Assistant] Let's hear what old killer Cam got to say, man. Y'all put one in the chat if you can hear Cam as he was talking about, uh, what happened today.


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[Assistant] In the end, what's interesting is, is just, it speaks to Cam, man.


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[Assistant] If we vote on it and we're gonna have a showdown online, we're gonna vote. You know, the best defensive player that ever was.


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[Assistant] We know the only reason why Cam's not in the Hall of Fame right now, cause he's still playing.


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[Assistant] I mean, he took down Ricky Jackson's sack record. He got the wreck.


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[Assistant] You know, and he got another year and of course we gotta make, you know, Q, you know, they got more games than what they had back in the day. I understand that, but that don't necessarily guarantee that you gonna get that.


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[Assistant] They also, you know, getting a lot more injured frequently than they did back in the day too. So it kind of equates a bit, but this guy here, man.