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[Assistant] And not just be successful, there's a subset of organizations that are all about safety. These organizations are called high-reliability organizations, uh, or it's like healthcare, air traffic control systems, naval aircraft carriers, nuclear power plants, where safety is critical, right? So they've done


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[Assistant] They have metrics in place, measures in place, and practices in place that


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[Assistant] If you were prioritizing efficiency, you would have maybe one person doing each job that's required on the flight deck of a naval aircraft carrier. But if you look at what actually happens on the flight deck,


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[Assistant] There's one person doing the task and two people just sort of watching them do the task for each task that needs to be done. There's a supervisor that looks over the entire deck and then there's two to three people helping the supervisor.


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[Assistant] So there's a lot of redundancies and inefficiencies that these higher liability organizations add to their pipeline because to them, safety is critical. They can't afford to make a mistake. Uhm, so sort of,


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[Assistant] So let's think about seamfulness. Uh, in HCI in particular, we talk a lot about seamlessness of integrating our product into people's everyday lives. Right? And that's in this setting for interpretability in particular.


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[Assistant] Causing a sort of automated response where people quickly make decisions. So how do we introduce the right amount of complexity as we're introducing these tools into their pipeline?


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[Assistant] So the idea behind adversarial interactions comes from red teaming, right? So you sort of come together, put different people together on the same team with different expertise to attack the system to make sure that it's not going to fail.


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[Assistant] Uhm, some ways in which we're doing this for interpretability are, instead of seeing like a top-end important features visual,


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[Assistant] And instead of, you know, again, this is sort of, uh, making things more seemful, but you can also make people a little bit more skeptical.


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[Assistant] By showing not just the top end important features that the model did consider in making a prediction, but the bottom end features that it did not consider important, right? And maybe you-


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[Assistant] Anomaly detection or other analysis that are already being done by data scientists. So again, it's all about presenting the information, directing attention the right way rather than completely changing what we think about interpretability from sort of scratch.


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[Assistant] Right, so you could put together people from different teams with different expertise, say before a model is deployed, a model engineer, a system designer, a front-end designer, a back-end designer, coming together to see these outputs about a system all together. Right, so here's an example interaction that might happen.


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[Assistant] Someone's asking more about it, thinking more about it now that they're in a group setting, kind of going off of each other's ideas. The system seamlessly adds more information in the Slack interface.


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[Assistant] Here's a seamless example of allowing that to happen in sort of the conversation. Um, recording context for other people in the conversation.


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[Assistant] Coming back to the main setting and continuing sort of conversation with different people. So how do you put different people all together in the same setting to have a conversation about the failures of the model?


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[Assistant] Now of course, inefficiency can be a potential solution here, but just making something inefficient is not always right, right? You can't just sort of make all interactions inefficient. When you're thinking about making something simple, you also have to balance that with usability, like the interactive interpretability tools in our


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[Assistant] In our experimental condition, we're too cognitively burdensome to use, so they weren't a good solution.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as you make people skeptical, they still have to trust the system, right? Because there needs to be some baseline trust, uhm, otherwise they just won't use it. And then, of course, you want to prioritize people thinking differently, but you also want them to have some shared


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[Assistant] Cognition about the task, about the team, about the goals of the sort of project at large.


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[Assistant] Undergrads and grad students at Minnesota, uhm, and sort of working with students who might be interested on similar topics. And I'm happy to take any other questions.


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[Assistant] Now what's surprising is that people who were novices and had less confidence performed better overall than people who were experts and were more confident about their answers. So there's something to be said about this idea of inefficiencies both at the people level and at the system level again.


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[Assistant] As an important task was to say, okay, we're not paying you for this, but we will donate a certain amount of money to a charity of your choice, right? Because when people.


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[Assistant] Think of doing sort of an altruistic, motivated task, they do it a little bit more seriously.


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[Assistant] I don't know to what extent this would map to a person's day, when someone treats this as their daily job and sort of has their, whether or not they get fired attached to.


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[Assistant] We forget the time before this, right? So that was a long time in machine learning and AI when you couldn't see inside the black box at all. You couldn't get interpretable outputs at all.


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[Assistant] What's new with Betsy and Jay? Weekdays at 5 on 3. Recognize that feeling?


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[Assistant] To west, to south. Stories of perseverance, of family, of love. If a story brings us together, it's what matters most.


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[Assistant] And every night at 11 on What's Next, you can rely on us.


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[Assistant] And every night at 11 on What's Next, you can rely on us.


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[Assistant] We're gonna do amazing. I mean, take a look around, Rick. This is Canada. It's six months of the year. I'd say we got this locked in.


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[Assistant] And with Danger World, Dungeon World, and Magic World already being chaosified, there are only six worlds remaining. By the time the Buddy Police notice, it will be too late.


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[Assistant] I have already used Gear God's power to chaosify nine worlds now. And once I have finished chaosifying the remaining world, I can finally begin conquering the Earth.


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[Assistant] Dear God, begin chaosifying Dragon World.


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[Assistant] Initialized gear god, the upgrading of this world. New world chaos, now on sale. Bushiroad.


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[Assistant] Today, we were planning to talk about how South Korea's president credited Donald Trump's aggressive rhetoric for getting North Korea to the negotiating table. Right? That's what he came out and said. And I was gonna be like, wow, Donald Trump, it looks like you did something right. You know? I swear, that's what we were gonna do. And then... he did something Trump.


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[Assistant] And you know, I know that everyone's focusing on him calling country shitholes and whatever, and I'm like, whatever, you can say whatever you want, but you know what part really put it over the line for me is Norway. Yeah. When he said where he wanted immigrants to come from, he didn't just name a white country, he named the whitest country.


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[Assistant] After robbing the bank, some clown looking fella jumped down this here hole. Was it the joker? Mmm, guess so.


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[Assistant] You know you look like Batman, but you sound like the fucking Riddler with all these questions.


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[Assistant] And you guys have been wanting me to review him like since August when he was revealed as a diecast. And every day it seems like it gets like more threatening. You guys are like, okay, at the start,


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[Assistant] Can you please review or try to get Chase Racelet soon? I'm like yea I'll try to get him, but I don't think it'll be anytime soon. Now it's like...


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[Assistant] Right there in the top right hand corner if you want me to review Bubba Wheelhouse next or Ryan Inside Laney.


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[Assistant] You guys are welcome, you know. I didn't have to do this, but I was like, I gotta do it. You know what?


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[Assistant] You're right, I had to do this because you guys just really want me to review all of these, especially Chase, and that's why I chose to review him first.


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[Assistant] I didn't need to do a poll, I knew you guys would choose him anyway. So yea, like I said, I got him on eBay, $25. It was originally $30, but I made an offer for $25, so that was pretty fantastic. Thank you seller for giving me a $5 discount using Case K, I believe if I'm wrong.


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[Assistant] United Kingdom and Europe, I don't know what stores, but maybe try Toys R Us. Australia, not entirely sure about down there, but these guys are becoming kind of easy to find, I guess. You know, I just don't have time to go hunting, and my stores just really, really stink, so I got them on eBay.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, hopefully you can find them if you want. I mean, the stores are gearing up for the holiday season, so there will definitely be a lot of stock, or at least I hope so, for all of you guys.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, this is not a case with a bonus collector card, like for example with Ed Trunken, Herb Kerbler, those ones along with some others in that case have like a bonus collector card.


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[Assistant] That was really cool, check out my review of Ed in the description below along with the card suggestion right there if you want to see that. Because it would just be so awesome to have a collector card for next gen Vitilene, Blinker and Transberry Juice, but


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[Assistant] On the back, you have Rusty's Lightning McQueen, Patti, Bubba Wheelhouse, Pilot, Ryan Inside Laney, and Dirt Track Fabulous Hudson Hornet. So now the only one I don't have is Patti, but as we speak, I'm making a deal together, so maybe, just maybe, I'll get her and review her soon.


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[Assistant] Blindsided by a new generation of piston-cut racers, Lightning McQueen finds himself suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back on top, he will need the help of a young race technician, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and guidance from a few old friends along the way.


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[Assistant] Nice description, never gets old, or does it get old for you guys? It kinda actually gets old for me, I've read it like a thousand times. Anyway, I'll be right back with this absolutely stunning guy out of the package.


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[Assistant] And I feel like he's just like one of the more popular ones. As for his releases, so far only as a single, but I just wouldn't be surprised if he got re-released in the future because he does speak in the movie. He does obviously have lines because he's voiced by Chase Elliott. I think he only has two lines. One is when


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[Assistant] Half and half going on here with your just regular lime green solid color, and then this metallic green. It's like emerald green. And in the prototype pictures that you see online, and whatever, or on the back of card backs, it does not show this. So this is just beautiful. I mean,


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[Assistant] This is why it's my favorite out of all of these next gens. I mean Danny's pretty cool with the gold foil, which is similar to this emerald green.


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[Assistant] It's not like Ryan Laney or Bubba Wheelhouse has anything like that. So that's why I just love him. His expression is pretty mean. He looks just really determined to win, which is how it goes for most of the next gens.


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[Assistant] Is what seems Mattel is doing with a lot of these next-gens. They'll share the same model, but they'll have different spoilers. Same goes here with the Easy Idol racer, Harvey Rodcap. Again, same model. They have much different expressions though.


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[Assistant] On the hood here, whoops, zoom back in there, you have Vitoline, kind of the new next-gen logo for older, active cars. I like this design here, where it seems like they're jail bars, the grey stripes there, so you can still see the green behind it.


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[Assistant] The nice white text there for vitally. It's kind of hard to see actually, but still visible. Very sleek and sharp. You got your grill there.


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[Assistant] Headlights, these vents down here, which I just recently learned that those are vents, I used to just call them triangles before.


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[Assistant] So his contingency sponsors are the Piston Cup, of course, Combuster, Carbon Cyber, and Synergy, which are the typical ones for most next-gen racers. These stock cars have their own set.


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[Assistant] So you can see, you have the emerald green metallic paint here. It's kind of like a triangle, kind of like that I guess, it comes up here on top. Then you have a white sliver, a grey sliver, white 24, so it stands out on the green there, very simple.


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[Assistant] I like the exhaust pipes there, then you have the jail bars again, and I like how they are white, so instead of gray, they're white up here, so it looks like sparks almost coming up from the tires, which is really cool. You can just barely see that black arrow there, which indicates to the pit crew where to lift Chase up at to do work on the undercarriage.


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[Assistant] So that's the inverse of that right there. Roof flaps. I love the spoiler here. The design is amazing. So you can really see vitally in how, I like how the V just kinda curves to the left there with that tail. Very modern.


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[Assistant] The, like, green border to it for older, active cars. I'm glad that they didn't remove the slogan for Vitalin, because with most of the next-gens, the slogans are completely gone, like with Easy Idol, unfortunately, poor guy.


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[Assistant] If you want to see my review of him, link will be down below. And I do like the green stripes there as well, like the jail, I don't know, jail bars as I like to call it.


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[Assistant] So there you go, you have the V there, standing for Vitoline, which is kind of hard to see, I don't know, it looks, it's like darker there and then white. Gascat.


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[Assistant] On the back, he does of course have his rookie stripes, because he's a rookie, and all rookies must have those yellow stripes. 24 over on the left, and then violin there on the right. Very simple, you can see some of the emerald bleeding over. Actually, this side is different. This side, oh, this is awesome. I didn't even know about this.


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[Assistant] The right side of him is different than the left. Look at that. You can see how it's different there on those designs, but the emerald green is like toward the front on his left side, but it's toward the back on his right side. So the contingency sponsors are a little bit different. Wow, that is so cool that they changed it up.


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[Assistant] Most cars, like for example, Tim Treadless here, they're symmetrical, but Chase, they went to the extra effort to actually change them up.


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[Assistant] I just noticed that, like, there was a green racer with a big V on him, so I didn't think that was vitaling. I mean, we were very, just kind of, like, naive back then. We didn't know about all this next-gen stuff, but eventually I was like, yeah, that's gotta be vitaling because of the V.


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[Assistant] Because you know, you got used to like the idea of next gens. My only complaint about this guy is that quality control sent me a bad one. Looks like, I don't know, he's sweating white paint. I see this little sliver right here, it's just kind of disappointing. I could try and scrape it off.


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[Assistant] It wouldn't be bad if it was only in the white section, but it's up there on the roof as well, so that's a little saddening, but, oh well, doesn't really stand out that much.


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[Assistant] Now let's move on to some comparisons. We got James Kleener, who is the violin stock car from Cars 1, and then Brick Yardley, the violin stock car of Cars 3, who I'm getting tired of seeing every time I walk into a store. Sorry Brick Yardley, as much as I love you.


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[Assistant] Let's take a look here at the Evolution. We should really do this. Of the VYTELINE branding. So it starts off very simple. Just kind of like that oval design.


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[Assistant] Very simple like I said. Then it gets a little bit more high tech there with the shine to it. The 3D lettering and everything so it looks cooler. Always had the, for older, active car slogan there. And now it's just like,


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[Assistant] And before he had black rims, then green, now he still has green rims.


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[Assistant] 61, 24, of course, this is one of them that changed numbers. Most of the racers have the same numbers, even if it's a different character from Cars 1 to Cars 3.


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[Assistant] Or it used to be, at least. And so, because Chase Elliott is 24, Chase Raceless is 24, and because, just to make things simpler, Brick Yardley became 24 as well. Sorry, 61, you're done. You are done.


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[Assistant] And let's just compare him real quick to Jack Gourvet, who is absolutely amazing here as well. I just like showing racers that have connections like this because obviously he used to be 24 in the World Grand Prix.


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[Assistant] And Jeff Gordon, like he's based on Jeff Gordon, he was number 24, so Chase Elliott adopted that number, I guess, because Jeff Gordon was like his inspiration or something, that's just my guess, I really don't know. Very, very cool.


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[Assistant] Let me know in the comment section below, do you prefer Chase Racet or Jeff Corvette? I think that's a pretty good question. And ironically their models are kinda similar, even though obviously Jeff's not a next gen, he's just a Corvette. I shouldn't say just a Corvette.


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[Assistant] Love to have a Corvette in real life, but I'll take my Chevy Cruze. I mean, they both started with a C and they're both Chevy, so it's close enough, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, so here is the full team of vitaling. Of course we have the pity who is just unnamed with his black rim tire stack there for James. Nice smile. Nice tool cart there. We'll pull up brick yardley.


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[Assistant] Which Vitaling racer is your favorite? Mine is definitely Chase, without a doubt, just because of how amazing and shiny he is. I like shiny things. So, thank you guys very much for watching, I hope you enjoyed this video, and I'll see you guys next time for another video.


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[Assistant] H.J. Hollis and Aaron Clocker. I think those are the ones that I need. And of course, Rusty's Crews. I'll see you guys next time, guys! Bye now!


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[Assistant] News you can trust should be news you can rely on.


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[Assistant] News you can trust should be news you can rely on.


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[Assistant] When you watch Front Row, you never have to ask what's going on in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] With gorgeous dense green forests edging the road most of the way.


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[Assistant] And the wide Quila Ute River snaking beneath it twice. I was glad I had the window seat. We'd rolled the windows down. The suburban was a bit claustrophobic with nine people in it. And I tried to absorb as much sunlight as possible.


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[Assistant] I'd been to the beaches around LaPush many times during my fork summers with Charlie, so the mile-long crescent of First Beach was familiar to me. It was still breathtaking. The water was dark grey, even in the sunlight, white-capped and heaving to the grey rocky shore.


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[Assistant] Islands rose out of the steel harbor waters with sheer cliff sides.


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[Assistant] Reaching to uneven summits and crowned with austere soaring furs.


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[Assistant] The beach had only a thin border of actual sand at the water's edge.


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[Assistant] After which it grew into millions of large, smooth stones that looked uniformly gray from a distance, but close up where every shade of stone could be. Terracotta, sea green, lavender, blue gray, dull gold. The tide line was strewn with huge driftwood trees, bleached bone white in the salt waves.


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[Assistant] Some piled together against the edge of the forest fringe. Some lying solitary, just out of reach of the waves.


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[Assistant] Pelicans floated on the swells while seagulls and a lone eagle wheeled above them.


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[Assistant] The clouds still circled the sky, threatening to invade at any moment.


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[Assistant] But for now, the sun shone bravely in its halo of blue sky.


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[Assistant] We picked our way down to the beach, Mike leading the way to a ring of driftwood logs that had obviously been used for parties like ours before.


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[Assistant] There was a fire circle already in place filled with black ashes.


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[Assistant] Eric and the boy I thought was named Ben gathered broken branches of driftwood from the dryer piles against the forest edge and soon had a teepee shaped construction built atop the old cinders. Have you ever seen a driftwood fire? Mike asked me.


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[Assistant] I said as he placed the blazing twig carefully against the teepee. You'll like this then, watch the colors. He lit another small branch and laid it alongside the first. The flame started to lit quickly up the dry wood. It's blue, I said in surprise. The salt does it, pretty isn't it? He lit one more piece.


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[Assistant] I watched the strange blue and green flames crackle toward the sky.


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[Assistant] That night at dinner, Charlie seemed enthusiastic about my trip to La Push in the morning. I think he felt guilty for leaving me home alone on the weekends.


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[Assistant] Wondered if he would approve of my plan to ride to Seattle with Edward Cullen. Not that I was going to tell him.


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[Assistant] Dad, do you know a place called Goat Rocks or something like that? I think it's south of Mount Rainier, I asked casually. Yeah, why? I shrugged. Some kids were talking about camping there. It's not a very good place for camping. He sounded surprised. Too many bears. Most people go there during the hunting season. Oh, I murmured. Maybe I got the name wrong. I meant to sleep in.


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[Assistant] I opened my eyes to see a clear yellow light streaming through my window. I couldn't believe it. I hurried to the window to check, and sure enough, there was the sun. It was in the wrong place in the sky, too low, and it didn't seem to be as close as it should be, but it was definitely the sun. Clouds ringed the horizon, but a large patch of blue was visible in the middle. I lingered by the window as long as I could, afraid that if I left, the blue would disappear again.


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[Assistant] The Newton's Olympic Outfitters store was just north of town. I'd seen the store, but I'd never stopped there.


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[Assistant] Not having much need for any supplies required for being outdoors over an extended period of time.


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[Assistant] Including one I remembered falling over in gym on Friday. That one gave me a dirty look as I got out of the truck and whispered something to Lauren.


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[Assistant] Lawrence shook out her corn silk hair and eyed me scornfully. So it was going to be one of those days. At least Mike was happy to see me. You came, he called, delighted. And I said it would be sunny today, didn't I? I told you I was coming, I reminded him.


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[Assistant] We're just waiting for Lee and Samantha, unless you invited someone, Mike added. Nope, I lied lightly, hoping I wouldn't get caught in the lie.


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[Assistant] It wasn't as simple to make Mike and Jessica happy at the same time. I could see Jessica glowering at us now. The numbers worked out in my favor though.


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[Assistant] Lee brought two extra people, and suddenly every seat was necessary.


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[Assistant] I managed to wedge Jess in between Mike and me in the front seat of the Suburban.


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[Assistant] Mike could have been more graceful about it, but at least Jess seemed appeased.


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[Assistant] Thanks to our cutting edge technology that uses the light energy of monsters. We've been able to make swift progress and help support Fortune 500 companies across the globe.


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[Assistant] The Innocence Project and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers found from the 1970s through 1999 in 268 cases where FBI hair analysis led to a conviction, 257 or 96% of them had errors in analysis.


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[Assistant] This was the last one. He hated the property. To the benefactor of mankind, but the gratitude of humanity.


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[Assistant] What was that last article of Dr. Jackson's calling him a charlatan?


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[Assistant] The paper spoke of him as the man who claimed to have discovered the use of ether. They dug up the whole nasty business. That Dr. Jackson had told him how to do it. That he, Jackson, had known about it for years. Can you imagine anyone keeping a secret like that?


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[Assistant] And Dr. Crawford Longs claimed that he had done it four years before.


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[Assistant] But it seems so cruel to have let people go on suffering so long after they knew how to stop it. All I know is...


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[Assistant] Everybody kept asking where you were. And Mrs. Burrows leaned over and said, I know exactly how it feels, dear. And of course everybody knows that her husband is the biggest soap in Boston. I never had such an evening.


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[Assistant] And of course I couldn't understand a word that really Poncil said, and the mayor's wife kept looking at the silver as if she thought it was stolen, and then the sherbet came in ahead of a fish!


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[Assistant] Oh no, it cannot be sharp, that is only one syllable. Yes, Harriet.


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[Assistant] If Mr. Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and three children, not to mention a nursemaid, a distance of 130 miles, at no greater expense or inconvenience than 40, well then I should be extremely obliged to him.


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[Assistant] Sorry Elton, we meet this evening, eh? Yeah, cuppa!


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[Assistant] With men, he can be quite simple and rational, but with ladies, I confess he makes my boot itch.


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[Assistant] Four horses and four servants, merely to convey five idle people, who would rather stay at home than go out in weather that threatens snow.


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[Assistant] I looked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled and as usual blurted out the truth. I'm trying to figure out what you are.


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[Assistant] I'd been vacillating during the last month between Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker. There was no way I was going to own up to that. Won't you tell me? He asked.


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[Assistant] Tilting his head to one side with a shockingly tempting smile. I shook my head, too embarrassing. That's really frustrating, you know? He complained.


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[Assistant] No, I disagreed quickly. My eyes narrowing.


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[Assistant] I can't imagine why that would be frustrating at all. Just because someone refuses to tell you what they're thinking. Even if all the while they're making cryptic little remarks specifically designed to keep you up at night, wondering what they could possibly mean. Now why would that be frustrating? He grimaced.


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[Assistant] We're better, I continued, the pent up annoyance flowing freely now. Say that person also did a wide range of bizarre things. From saving your life under impossible circumstances one day, to treating you like a pariah the next. And he never explained any of that either, even after he promised. That also would be very non frustrating. You've got a bit of a temper, don't you? I don't like double standards. We stared at each other, unsmiling.


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[Assistant] He glanced over my shoulder and then unexpectedly he snickered. What? Your boyfriend seems to think I'm being unpleasant to you. He's debating whether or not to come break up our fight. He snickered again. I don't know who you're talking about, I said frostily. But I'm sure you're wrong anyway. I'm not, I told you. Most people are easy to read. Except me, of course. Yes, except for you.


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[Assistant] His mood shifted suddenly. His eyes turned brooding. I wonder why that is. I had to look away from the intensity of his stare.


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[Assistant] I concentrated on unscrewing the lid of my lemonade. I took a swig staring at the table without seeing it. Aren't you hungry? He asked, distracted. No, I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full of butterflies. You? I looked at the empty table in front of him. No, I'm not hungry. I didn't understand his expression. It looked like he was enjoying some private joke. Can you do me a favor?


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[Assistant] I asked after a second of hesitation. He was suddenly wary. That depends on what you want. It's not much, I assured him. He waited guarded but curious. I just wondered.


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[Assistant] If you could warn me beforehand the next time you decide to ignore me for my own good, just so I'm prepared. I looked at the lemonade bottle as I spoke, tracing the circle of the opening with my pinky finger. That sounds fair.


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[Assistant] You didn't qualify, you just promised one answer, he reminded me. And you've broken promises yourself, I reminded him back. Just one theory, I won't laugh. Yes you will, I was positive about that.


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[Assistant] He looked down and then glanced up at me through his long black lashes, his ochre eyes scorching. Please, he breathed, leaning toward me. I blinked, my mind going blank. Holy crow, how did he do that? What? I asked, dazed. Please tell me just one little theory. His eyes still smoldered at me. Um, well.


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[Assistant] What if I'm not a superhero? What if I'm the bad guy? He smiled playfully, but his eyes were impenetrable. Oh, I said.


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[Assistant] As several things he'd hinted fell suddenly into place. I see.


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[Assistant] Do you? His face was abruptly severe, as if he were afraid that he'd accidentally said too much.


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[Assistant] And what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin. I couldn't see his face.


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[Assistant] Just his back as he walked away from me, leaving me in the blackness. No matter how fast I ran, I couldn't catch up to him. No matter how loud I called, he never turned. Troubled, I woke in the middle of the night.


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[Assistant] I couldn't sleep again for what seemed like a very long time. After that, he was in my dreams nearly every night, but always on the periphery, never within reach. The month that followed the accident was uneasy, tense and at first embarrassing.


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[Assistant] To my dismay, I found myself the center of attention for the rest of that week. Tyler Crowley was impossible, following me around, obsessed with making amends to me somehow.


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[Assistant] I tried to convince him what I wanted more than anything else was for him to forget all about it. Especially since nothing had actually happened to me. But he remained insistent.


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[Assistant] He followed me between classes and sat at our now crowded lunch table.


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[Assistant] Mike and Eric were even less friendly toward him than they were to each other, which made me worry that I'd gained another unwelcome fan. No one seemed concerned about Edward, though I explained over and over that he was the hero.


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[Assistant] How he had pulled me out of the way and had nearly been crushed too. I tried to be convincing.


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[Assistant] I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away before he was suddenly and possibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause.


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[Assistant] No one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.


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[Assistant] Edward was never surrounded by crowds of curious bystanders eager for his first-hand account. People avoided him as usual.


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[Assistant] The Cullens and the Hales sat at the same table as always, not eating, talking only among themselves.


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[Assistant] When he sat next to me in class, as far from me as the table would allow, he seemed totally unaware of my presence.


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[Assistant] Only now and then, when his fists would suddenly ball up, skin stretched even wider over the bones, did I wonder if he wasn't quite as oblivious as he appeared. He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van. There was no other conclusion I could come to.


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[Assistant] From Belgium to Belize, South Korea to South Africa, President Trump has a problem.


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[Assistant] You would have been invited to lunch by our Fuhrer. I've anticipated the pleasure of meeting you for years.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid I don't know. I like you, my dear Thorndyke. I've had but one passion in life. And that is the hunting of big game.


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[Assistant] I'm convinced that I would have become more famous even than yourself if I hadn't renounced it in favour of politics. Politics? Yes, I, uh...


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[Assistant] For 500 yards, not a tree, not a shrub, a man running towards this house would be cut down before he'd taken five steps.


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[Assistant] Obviously, my dear Thorndyke, such a man cannot be allowed to live.


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[Assistant] Surely you don't think I'm an assassin. You were stopped before you could shoot. But I could have easily. Good heavens, man, I never intended to shoot. I merely wanted to find out if it were possible. That was the excitement of it, the danger, the fun. It was that fellow jumping me that made my gun go off. You disappoint me, Thorndyke.


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[Assistant] The real fun is matching my wits against the instinct of an animal that isn't going to let me get near enough to shoot.


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[Assistant] You won't change your mind about this. Certainly not. Very well. Identification is essential in uh,


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[Assistant] Men of your character have accidents. Tomorrow the doctor and I will go hunting. No one will question what we find when we've found it. This ledge is treacherous.


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[Assistant] However, I suspect that something of that nature was about to be committed when you came to the rescue of the victim. So, uh, once again, my dear, thank you. Your memory will be imperishable as long as I live.


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[Assistant] Allow me to present a very dear friend of mine. This is Miss, uh, that's odd. What is your name?


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[Assistant] But my dear boy, this is most urgent. But no more so than this. Come on, a fiver, please.


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[Assistant] Thanks very much. Now- Just a half a minute. There you are, my dear. That's for you, and a thousand thanks.


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[Assistant] Now don't you get stubborn with me, young lady. You want to be choked again?


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[Assistant] I tell you, there's not a moment to waste. Certainly, sir. There shan't be a moment. Alice, I'm sure you and Miss Stokes will find much to talk about. Do you mind if I keep this, sir? I might need it later on.


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[Assistant] You mean I might even have the honor of having my head lobbed off by the first headsman of the Reich?


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[Assistant] But you can, old boy, by not worrying. This whole thing will blow over before long. It's bound to. And in the meantime, I give you my word of honor. There'll be no confession, no trial.


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[Assistant] It's you he wants. Who? Major Keeve Smith. Keeve Smith?


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[Assistant] Tell him, uh, tell him I've just left for the club. Goodbye, old chap. Don't you worry.


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[Assistant] From now on, I'll distrust everybody but you, Jerry. Get yourself some sleep. I'm gonna curl up on the couch. Good night.


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[Assistant] Just think what I've been missing all my life, huh? Come on, dig in, my girl, before I get your share.


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[Assistant] That's a very complicated statement, Jerry. Shall I tell you something? You have great character. You're an extraordinary girl. And a very pretty one too. Come on, eat up there.


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[Assistant] The head man, Jerry. You saw some of his minions last night.


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[Assistant] My greatest anxiety last night was in getting you mixed up in my affairs.


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[Assistant] I always pay my debts. I propose to get you 500 pounds. You may have more if you want it.


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[Assistant] My dear Jerry, forgive me. I might have known. Every good soldier needs a crest for his cap.


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[Assistant] I present you with this dangerous weapon, mademoiselle, with my undying gratitude and admiration. May you never lodge it in the wrong heart.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Saul, you can instruct her how to deposit it, eh? Very good.


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[Assistant] Oh yes you will. I'm going to have my way at least once with you.


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[Assistant] Is there another way out of here? There's the back staircase. Oh good.


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[Assistant] The coroner brings in a verdict of suicide. Suicide? Don't you believe it, huh?


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[Assistant] Three weeks. Tell me all you can. By that time I'll have a beard and I can walk into a village without being suspected. You needn't sign the letter because I know whom it's from.


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[Assistant] He won't. He'll address it to, uh, to, uh, your name. Mr. Stokes. Mr. Stokes, care of the post office at Lyam Regis.


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[Assistant] I admired your stone door so much that I imitated it by wedging another stone on the outside. You are sealed up as in a grave.


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[Assistant] Do you expect me to tell you that it was a sporting stalk? No. I'm honest with you as you are not honest with me. She made your mistake, Thorndyke.


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[Assistant] When the time is up, if you haven't delivered that document to me properly signed, I shall shut off your air and go on my way. You may last a few hours, but they will be most unpleasant.


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[Assistant] I shall remove the outside stone when you're ready to hand it out. And then shoot me when I crawl out.


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[Assistant] Push it nearer. I don't propose to have my wrists seized.


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[Assistant] This is a couple of miles. I'd have walked her if my dogs wasn't pooped out.


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[Assistant] Not no more. I lost the call.


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[Assistant] Well, I used to get an irrigation ditch so squirming full of repented sinners, I'd put near a drought on half of them. But not no more.


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[Assistant] Well, it's all gone anyway. You should have got yourself a wife.


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[Assistant] I'd feel bad and pray and pray but it didn't do no good. Next time, do it again. I figured I just wasn't worth Satan.


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[Assistant] I never let anyone get by me if I could catch her. I was snored. But you wasn't a preacher. A girl was just a girl to you. To me, they's holy vessels. I was saving their souls.


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[Assistant] I ask myself, what is this here called Holy Spirit? Maybe that's love.


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[Assistant] So, maybe there ain't no sin, there ain't no virtue. It's just what people does.


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[Assistant] Some things folks do is nice, and some ain't so nice. And that's all any man's got a right to say. Of course I'll say a grace if somebody sets out to food. But my heart ain't in it.


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[Assistant] Nice drinking liquor. Yeah, it oughta be. That's factory liquor. Cost me a buck. You been out traveling around? Oh, ain't you heard? It's been in the papers. No, I never. What? I've been in the penitentiary for four years.


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[Assistant] No, he had a knife in me. That's why they only give me seven years. I got out in four, parole. Ain't seen you folks since? No, but I aim to force sundown. And I'm getting excited about it too. Which way are you going? Oh, it don't matter.


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[Assistant] Ever since I lost the spirit, it looks like I just soon go one way or the other. I'll go your way.


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[Assistant] They're gone, but were they gone? It's Muley Graves. You remember the preacher, don't you? I ain't no preacher anymore. Alright, you remember the man, don't you?


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[Assistant] We'd be ashamed if everybody else's children wasn't the same way.


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[Assistant] I can't help that. All I know is I got my orders. They told me to tell you to get off, and that's what I'm telling you.


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[Assistant] You're lonely, but you ain't touched.


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[Assistant] What do you figure I'm doing? That's hard to say.


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[Assistant] It's mine. Oh, mine. Either we gotta tie him up and throw him in the truck or something. He can't stay here.


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[Assistant] There's something going on out there in the west, and I'd like to try and learn what it is. If you feel you got the room.


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[Assistant] This here old man just lived a life and just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad. It don't matter much.


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[Assistant] But I wouldn't pray just for an old man that's dead, cause he's alright.


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[Assistant] Grandpa here, he ain't got no more trouble like that. He's got his job all cut out for him, so cover him up and let him get to it.


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[Assistant] I, I swear I ain't, mister. Don't you go around here trying to stir up any trouble.


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[Assistant] He's telling the truth. The truth for him. He wasn't making love. Is it the truth for us? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Where are you going? California. How long you plan to be in Arizona? No longer than to get across. Got any plants?


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[Assistant] But you've seen that advertisement in the spicy western story magazine. Don't pay nothing. Just send them your coupon and you're a radio expert. Nice clean work.


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[Assistant] Then go ahead. You can get a doctor at Barstow. That's just eight miles.


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[Assistant] Here Tom, you take it, I ain't hungry. What do you mean you ain't at today? I know, but I got a stomach ache. I ain't hungry. Take that plate in the tent and you eat it. Wouldn't be no use. I still see them in the tent.


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[Assistant] Hide in the willies. If it's alright for you to come back, I'll give you a four high whistles.


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[Assistant] What's going on here? Oh, this man of yours, he got tough, so I hit him. And he started shooting, hit that woman there, so I hit him again. What'd you do in the first place? I talked back.


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[Assistant] A fella named Spencer said there was work picking peaches. Oh, you wanna work, huh?


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[Assistant] I know what these cops have got to do with it, but I don't like it. These are our own people too, all of them.


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[Assistant] Name? Jode. Say what is all this here? Jode? Not here.


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[Assistant] Well, I'd take a walk. Is there any law against that? Well, you can just turn around and walk back. You mean I can't even get out of here? Not tonight you can't. Now, do you want to walk back? Or shall I whistle up some help and have you take them back?


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[Assistant] Evening. Who are you? Just going past, that's all. Know anybody around here? No, just going past, I tell you.


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[Assistant] Casey. What if it ain't Tom Jones? Hiya, boy!


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[Assistant] No, they just run me out of town. Come on in. Tom Jones.


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[Assistant] I heard some fellas shoutin' when we come in. I come out to find out what's goin' on. What's it all about? This here's a stripe. Whoa. Well, I sense a box ain't much, but a fella can eat. I sense.


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[Assistant] They won't. They're getting five now. That's all they care about. But the moment they ain't strike breaking, they won't.


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[Assistant] Next thing you know, you'll be out. I got it all fixed down to a T.


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[Assistant] Well, as soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards, just a bum. Five they're getting now. That's all they're interested in.


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[Assistant] I know exactly what Pod say. He just say it's none of his business. Guess that's right. You'll have to take a beating before he'll know. Take a beating? We was out of food. Tonight we had meat.


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[Assistant] Maybe just some kind of fellas yelling outside a gate. Tom, you gotta learn like I'm learning. I don't know it right yet myself, but I'm trying to find out. That's why I can't ever be a preacher again. Preachers gotta know. I don't know. I gotta ask. I don't like it. What's the matter? I can't tell.


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[Assistant] Looks like about a mile. Reckon she'll coast her out? Got to coast it.


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[Assistant] That's the way it is. And you say no cops? No cop can come in here without a warrant. Can't hardly believe it.


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[Assistant] You got dances too? We have the best dances in the county every Saturday night. Who runs this place? Government. Why ain't they more like it? You'll find out. I can't.


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[Assistant] What's the matter? I'm headin' to the central committee over there. I gotta know. Well, don't tell I told ya.


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[Assistant] Every time you turn around, somebody calling somebody else a red.


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[Assistant] What is these reds, anyway? Oh, I ain't talking about that one way or the other.


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[Assistant] Hey, them's our fellas. How do you know? Huh? Just got a feelin'. They're kinda scared too. Follow him, get hold of Jackson, see if he knows him. I'll stay here.


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[Assistant] We are now officially on Deshaun Watson Watch. The decision could literally come in any second. It doesn't mean it's gonna come today. It doesn't mean...


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[Assistant] We are officially, cause I thought when the brief said the July 11th deadline, we all kind of figured she was going to take a week, chew on the briefs. But it's been a week, it's July 18th, so we've got five people hitting refresh on the internet pages, non-stop. So as soon as it's out there, you'll hear it here, two seconds later. Welcome to the program.


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[Assistant] The only way you're going to know that we're on the air talking about it is if you subscribe to the YouTube page. Once you subscribe, you'll get that notification whenever we are going live. You must hit the notification bell. Yes, you're right. Subscribe, notification, and notification.


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[Assistant] Well, I was going to segue from that because it is part and parcel kind of the same thing. When the Browns made this move, they made this move to have Deshaun Watson on the field for the bulk of this year, or likely it wouldn't have been done.


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[Assistant] They gave up three first round draft picks. They didn't do that. So well, you know, we'll be good in 2023. The clock is ticking. All these other contracts are still going. So the question was,


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[Assistant] Do you still do this trade today if it ends up that Deshaun Watson sits half the season or more, giving up three first round draft picks, still going all in on Deshaun Watson knowing that he could miss half the year? Of course you do, guys.


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[Assistant] The reason I just miss your argument right away, right away at jump is because you're operating under the premise that great teams are all built through free agency. No, they're not. There's three ways you can get players.


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[Assistant] Andrew Bear, I am 1000% in on Andrew Berry. And to be honest,


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[Assistant] Even though I wouldn't have made that deal, I would not have made the Deshaun Watson deal, because I was more of the Kevin Stefanski mindset. I didn't think it had to be made. I didn't. You guys disagree.


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[Assistant] Is I ultimately trust Andrew Barry. And so do we. So what's the problem? But you don't if you're sitting here saying that this is the only deal he could have made. I didn't say that.


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[Assistant] It, it changed the pay scale in baseball. This is the equivalent to baseball. Because after that, the 30 million dollar deals came fast and furious. And go look and see how many of those have led to World Series titles. But this is what I'm saying about be careful if you think you can spend your way to a title in any sport, particularly where there's a cap, like the NFL.


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[Assistant] When the Tigers did that, they were a relevant team. They were always fighting for a playoff spot. Since 16, they have finished last place three times, third place twice, second place once. They've never made the playoffs. Their combined record is 398 and 560.


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[Assistant] When the Angels gave Pujols all that money, which I would say is probably the second worst contract in baseball history. And there are a lot of bad ones.


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[Assistant] Here's what I would rather do. I would rather you talk about play the long game. I would rather be more conservative with one player's salary because if you're not thinking about injury, you're not, you haven't been paying attention. That's always a possibility. Okay. So what do you say?


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna skip right through the Mary Kay stuff cause we touched on it. And quite frankly, well.


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[Assistant] Of the moves that I disagree with the most made by Andrew Barry's regime, it's this one. Giving him the contract. Well I agree with you there. I don't know what, I don't know what they were thinking. Let's look at the list. We'll show the top ten. He did get votes, not that that matters. He did get votes. But he's paid guys, his contract is the second richest


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[Assistant] But Gee Bush, weren't they tight end centric last year? They were. They were. Okay, so if your offense is heavily predicated on production from the tight ends,


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[Assistant] And Hooper can't put two feet in a row together without tripping. Right.


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[Assistant] And you're not blowing the lid off of this offense, numbers wise.


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[Assistant] I think when his two years are up, this will be one of the easiest decisions they made to not pick up the third. Well, he's here.


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[Assistant] I think you're probably right about that. I just, unless he completely becomes Kittles overnight, then, I think, is he a top 10? No. Is he a top 15? That's even questionable.


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[Assistant] I think the bottom line. When a guy, when a guy's the third highest paid player in his position, I expect him to be a Chubb. I expect him to be a Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] Played the game. That was a great move.


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[Assistant] Somebody that covers the Browns who's already has a column written that if, if the Watson suspension is more than eight games, the headline of the, of the column is going to be Browns won't make Superbowl.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be in the first line of the, of the, of the, of the paragraph. I think we all agree, if he gets eight games,


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[Assistant] This team is not, they might make the playoffs, but they're not, they're not gonna win the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Oh, you know what? I know we were going to talk to Drew League, but before we do, we left one thing kind of on the table with the Watson thing, and that's that if he's suspended indefinitely, there's a report that he'll miss training camp.


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[Assistant] It probably is, but there is a scenario that exists that has him being indefinitely suspended, missing training camp, but then coming back in week 13. That exists.


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[Assistant] And they ultimately take this to court, and a court could say 12 games, right?


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[Assistant] After, after Roger Goodell, so let's say the NFLPA says we're gonna sue you.


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[Assistant] We want, we want to sue you. And we want an injunction to have it stated immediately.


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[Assistant] It should be pointed out though, I can't remember. Has the NFL ever lost in court?


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[Assistant] And on appeal, they won. I can never think of a scenario where the NFL lost in court.


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[Assistant] I guess the tough thing too is this is unprecedented. We've never had. She's new to this position. The league disciplinary officer. And we don't know. We don't know. She's had the brief.


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[Assistant] And they didn't have anything. There usually are leaks, but in this case, like I think,


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[Assistant] Brad, it's because there's a lot of people there. So uhm, So Sue Robinson is a one woman jury. Okay. She's writing her decision. She's already


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[Assistant] There was a league source that told reporter A that they were going to settle or they would, they would accept a six to eight game suspension within a day.


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[Assistant] Another source, a leaked source, leaked that this is, that not only is that not true, but that that was a lie.


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[Assistant] For those that don't, everybody knows what thru-league is, right? Pro-am. So, it's a pro-am. LeBron played in this thing. That's shocking to me. I was stunned, I was stunned.


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[Assistant] Like you're right, I ain't going pro, but I'm also not still in the argument for the goat.


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[Assistant] And if he does and gets to six, I think suddenly the argument, still, Jordan was six for six, six time MVP.


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[Assistant] Hey Aditi, we were talking earlier, I think we're officially in the...


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[Assistant] Neighborhood now of being on Deshaun Watson, watch. I get the sense that this could come literally any second now. Are you looking at it the same way?


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[Assistant] Right, yeaah, on the time frame we don't know but obviously if she hands out any suspension at all then he obviously, the NFL has the right to uh, to appeal. We were joking earlier in the program that somebody, I don't know who,


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[Assistant] So she will, well yeaah, I mean at that point, I think the league has to be in concert with her, that as soon as she informs them of what their decision is, there's a release.


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[Assistant] For a guy who's been very adamant that he's done nothing wrong,


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[Assistant] I think the perception of him saying, okay, I'll take four games. You're not going to stand up and say, I'll take four games if you did nothing wrong. To Aditi's point, the facts are in.


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[Assistant] That's done. If he plays, it's a degree of how much you lose and if he comes back and plays well, I think the short term loss is far overshadowed by the game. Big time. But Aditi, to your point, uhm,


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[Assistant] I don't even want to think about what happens if he's cleared and


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[Assistant] He comes back and plays poorly and under his leadership the Browns are 2 and 6 because then a whole lot of people


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[Assistant] No, but to Jason's point again, if you don't get Stafford...


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[Assistant] I still would say there was too much given away. Why?


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[Assistant] That's one difference. Here's the other difference. I'll point this out. And I figured this out the hard way by losing my dad. And this is the God's honest truth. If I die tomorrow without the Browns having won a Super Bowl, my life was still incredible.


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[Assistant] I learned through my dad dying, and he taught it to me in his last days.


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[Assistant] Because I knew, and he knew too, that that was it.


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[Assistant] That was it. I would never, ever celebrate a championship with my father. Because they had never won one in my lifetime. And while I'm crushed and my dad's riddled with cancer, he tells, tells me, your priorities are out of whack.


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[Assistant] You're looking at it as we didn't get to win, see a championship together. Those memories are fast fleeting. They're gone.


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[Assistant] We, I, I'm looking at it as I got to watch games 5, 6, and 7 of the ALCS, which were all losses for the Indians. They won one and they go to the World Series and likely win. And I know that. He knows that. He said, you're disappointed. I'm ecstatic.


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[Assistant] And, and Bull, and G. Bush, to your guys' point, I wanna win. God, I wanna win. I wanna win.


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[Assistant] As badly as anyone I know. Anybody that's ever played any competitive sports with me will tell you I'm the worst loser on the planet. I am. I'm ashamed to say it, but it's true. But what I learned from watching my dad die


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[Assistant] Because right now, in the first paragraph of his obituary, it's not good. It's not a good read.


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[Assistant] His legacy. The only legacy that you control is yours is yours. And so sure, I do understand the all in move got to win as a fan. Will I celebrate a Brown Super Bowl? You bet your ass. I will.


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[Assistant] And Deshaun Watson, who by the way guys, I believe,


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[Assistant] I don't. I don't want anybody to think that I'm sitting here judging him as a bad human being.


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[Assistant] I think that he made some bad decisions, and I also stated this early on. I think Deshaun, in Deshaun's mind,


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[Assistant] Why wouldn't anybody who sees this want this?


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[Assistant] There was at least one woman and maybe more, and again, no facts, just my opinion, that wanted NOTHING to do with it.


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[Assistant] And she was egreged. And she was impacted emotionally. And she left the room in tears. And he was like, oh, look, if I did something that bothered you.


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[Assistant] It's clear to me now, although it wasn't in the moment that I did things that really distressed some of these women.


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[Assistant] I do. I thought we crossed the line. And with first take, what I noticed was there were a handful of shows where there was a line and nobody had to know where it was, but everybody said, yeah, that went, that went over.


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[Assistant] An accomplished professional athlete. Like this guy wasn't there for a cup of coffee. He had a resume.


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[Assistant] And when he asked him did, how many championships did you win? I thought that was about as low as it could get.


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[Assistant] I think it was 2.1. 2.1 points a game your senior year in high school. So he...


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[Assistant] But there were times where Steve and Abe would say in a meeting, I can argue the other side of that. And I've always said, we've had, we've had this discussion here. I don't think we should have those discussions. I think we should have real discussions with disagreement. It's okay. As long as it's disrespectful. And I thought for me,


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[Assistant] That's okay. If you could somehow create that same, the Cameron Crazies atmosphere. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So we look at them. Everybody raise your hand if you love these and then come out to the five shot.


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[Assistant] So that's exactly what's going on here. Um, wow. I can't take my hat off enough to major league baseball. Last night in the major league baseball draft, four of the first five players selected were black. Why does that matter? It matters because


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[Assistant] For the sport to appeal to everyone, there has to be players on the field that look like everyone.


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[Assistant] And for years Major League Baseball has been on sharp decline.


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[Assistant] With number of black players in the game. It's been, the game has been taken over by Latin players. And I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon. But.


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[Assistant] For anyone that doesn't believe that initiatives and programs can work, I'll tell you how they work.


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[Assistant] And they said, we've got to do something. They started the RBI program, which is reviving baseball in our cities.


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[Assistant] There's, there's several programs that Major League Baseball is tied to. Play Ball is another one. The initiative is to...


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[Assistant] Provide ballparks and, and funds to bring kids, black kids from the inner city back to the game. Two years in a row now.


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[Assistant] That is a huge increase from where they were even five years ago.


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[Assistant] Major League Baseball and all of their cities and all of their teams got behind this initiative and that's why it worked. And I told you last week that on Tuesday of last week, I went to our RBI program here in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] And I, I, it's probably the most I've smiled on a baseball field in the last 10 years. And that's saying something because every time I step foot on a field, I have a smile on my face. But watching these kids from the inner city.


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[Assistant] Not just discover baseball, but fall in love with it and also be very good at it. Initiatives work and you need to get behind them. So kudos to Major League Baseball. Real change guys. Real change.


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[Assistant] 17% is huge. 17 is a big upgrade from where they were. They still have ways to go to get back to where they were in their peaks. That's pretty damn good. We're out of time. Where did the time go?


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[Assistant] Uh, we're back tomorrow, 22 hour break. I hope you enjoy it. Do something that brings joy into your life. We'll see you back here, 11... 11 sharp, and Bolt will have a different t-shirt on, I promise.


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[Assistant] They got a president, ain't they? They got somebody who knows what a shotgun's for, ain't they?


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[Assistant] Four games. Ooh. Four games. I've been saying four the whole time. Four games.


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[Assistant] When they go, when do they report? 27th? Late, late July. The 27th. 27th. I'ma go 24th. Okay.


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[Assistant] Obviously you could come in and train with strength coaches at certain, certain point in times of the day. I think that's what I was doing, but this is back when OTAs was going.


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[Assistant] That's possible. That's the best way to do it. You wanna make it an open competition. The best way Baker has succeeded in his career is when he's going through competition and he's got that chip on his shoulder. You need to make sure that you can get that version of him. You don't wanna spoon feed him the job.


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[Assistant] My only, my only concern or issue with it is that


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[Assistant] But if you can't do, produce the way that you were producing and you're hurting the team as a man, you have to look at your teammates and say, I don't want to, I'm doing y'all a disservice. I love y'all enough to know that I can't help y'all right now. So I'm going to put somebody else in. But like I say, everybody says that it's maturity things and stuff like that. And that's obviously what the problem is.


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[Assistant] But it's, I just wish he would just like say that. Cause all the people, all the people taking his back and stuff like that. One of the coaches should have did anything. Well, I'm glad that he was able to finally come out and put that to bed that no coach was going to tell him whether or not he can play. So that, that ends that conversation.


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[Assistant] The only, the only thing out of that, sorry. The only thing out of that quote that bothered me a little bit was, I want to be with a coach that, and a team that want to win games. Like, what do you think came over here?


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[Assistant] What you just said is exactly what I said about San Francisco, my time in San Francisco. I love the team, the players is great, but the way that they did me in the end, it was just, that's the rift and the problem that I had with them. It wasn't the players at all, I loved them, it was the upstairs.


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[Assistant] It's hard for any man to say that another man is better than him. And that's, that's what, as a football player and as a competitor, you always view yourself as the best. And it's hard to look at somebody else, take your spot and be like, he's better.


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[Assistant] Archie, first of all I want to say uhm, thank you for giving a great commencement speech at the 2015 graduation. You talked about overcoming adversity and how you fumbled the ball and you kept going and you ended up having a great career and it was a beautiful speech. I salute you for it.


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[Assistant] But my question for you is so, so back when I was at OSU, okay, we lost to Michigan State.


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[Assistant] In 2015 and Connor Cook goes on and they win the Big Ten Championship. It was a lot of raff about.


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[Assistant] Archie, I, I unfortunately didn't get a chance to ever meet Woody Hayes, play for Woody Hayes.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, what's your best story about him? What you got for us?


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[Assistant] You know R.T. open my eyes, man. That was what you just said was profound. So that means that it don't matter if Ohio State wins another ring or not, which they will. I'm not going to say they not. They definitely will.


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[Assistant] The thing about them, Jay, is what I learned from going to the NFL, is y'all actually not bad people, like y'all cool.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on, wait a minute Leroy, hold on, wait, let me stop you right there. I play box safety as well, so I was, you know, I earned my stripes, don't do that, I was in that box.


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[Assistant] So, everybody wants to know, we talk, we throw this term GOAT out and we, in today's society, they use it very loosely.


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[Assistant] But when we talk about Giannis Antetokounmpo and what he's done in his career, it's, it's very evident that he is not only the best player, he will always be the best player. Now, there are some stats at you.


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[Assistant] Yanis, look at this, look at this right here. This is, this is y'all kings right here. Michael Jordan and LeBron James. Now, forget the All-Star games because that's politics. Everybody knows that that's politics and it doesn't matter if you get voted for All-Star at night. That's a lot of good-


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[Assistant] Like I say, forget the All-Star games. He's already a two-time MVP.


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[Assistant] Take it to the, take it to the, kick it to the Lebron versus Giannis the last time they played.


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[Assistant] Now I know y'all gonna tell me that LeBron is in his what, 19th season or whatever it is. That, that's, but you would say that he's still playing at a...


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[Assistant] A very high level. I mean, he was on pace to win in the scoring title this season, correct? Yes. Okay. Kick me that, kick me that Mikey McNuggets, the last LeBron versus Yonkers. 73 Steve, we're pulling up 73. Are you going to give us a one game?


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[Assistant] Yanis did leave the Milwaukee Bucks in every stat, which has only been five players to do such a thing. But Yanis was one of, Yanis was a, was a two time MVP defensive player of the year, Lebron.


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[Assistant] I don't see this. Put your phone down and just sit back and just. Gee. Gee. Who's the best player in the NBA right now?


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[Assistant] Y'all just only shoot tools. Goes through the bucking and shit. That's the point.


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[Assistant] I'm going for, listen, this is how I'ma get and beat all of yous right here.


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[Assistant] Y'all this is the greatest. Don't ever forget it. But that's not what this is about. This one is actually about the Cleveland Browns. And a lot of people might disagree, but I'm coming from a place of sincerity on this one.


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[Assistant] When it comes to the Browns running back room, okay, they got Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt, D'Ernest Johnson, and Jerome Ford is his name, I think. Yep. The rookie. Rookie from Cincinnati. And so far I've heard that they're high on this Jerome Ford.


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[Assistant] I think that the best thing for the Browns to do


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[Assistant] Because it's very similar to when my time in Seattle. You know, I was in Seattle and I enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] But I was behind the LOB and my time to shine was never, I was never going to outperform the LOB.


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[Assistant] So, why would I waste my whole career just being a backup? I think Deonis Johnson has earned the right to be a starting running back in his league and I think the Browns should do him a service and trade him to a team where he can become a number one running back and get some production so he can actually get paid one day.


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[Assistant] And that's not going to happen with him being behind Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt.


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[Assistant] And I don't want you to cut the rookie because if you cut the rookie, y'all might not have him anyway. So I think the best thing to do is to trade De'Ernest Johnson and then you have your three running back room and you can just go through the season like that.


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[Assistant] So today we will probably be completing the last part of our social justice discussion.


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[Assistant] So, would you like to talk about what went wrong within the, over the year, over the centuries or millennia in terms of the caste system?


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[Assistant] Isn't it that if I'm born in a particular family, I'm entitled to the rights of that family. Rights of whatever is there in family.


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[Assistant] Not only does Krishna say, in the Bhagavad Gita, this was guna karma vibhaga shah, as according to qualities and activities.


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[Assistant] These are the qualities of these, these are the kind of works that they do.


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[Assistant] Stratificate rigid stratification or what is ossification started happening that


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[Assistant] Oh, this, this has to be avoided. You know, it's, there is not, if you look at the,


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[Assistant] Because some amount of distance was there in


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[Assistant] In the past almost all societies were highly hierarchical and say in Britain also, the butler and the village and the staff, they would eat at their own place.


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[Assistant] So the brahmanas are becoming uh, maybe position more power hungry or position hungry, but still.


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[Assistant] Was it that the lower cast were incessantly


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[Assistant] There is always some kind of filters people have based on whatever be the context.


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[Assistant] Social justice, which is critiqued, which is a criticism for India or the caste system is that


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[Assistant] But in contrast, often, this is an accusation primarily leveled by Christians. They say that Jesus showed compassion to the poor and that humanitarian work and welfare


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[Assistant] So social justice, how much, so now the caste system is at one level.


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[Assistant] In America there was affirmative action, in India there was reservations. But these are more political measures. But are there


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[Assistant] This is what we are exploring now? Yeaah, these two things.


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[Assistant] You have any thoughts on this or should I start and then you can? You can start.


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[Assistant] So you see there are only three alternatives, either God has ordained it, or it is by chance, or it is by our own past actions.


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[Assistant] It's Brahmanas because they would, they meant to guide the society and in a sense they are important. But apart from that, it was


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[Assistant] And when the British came to India, the GDP of India, or whatever term you want to use,


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[Assistant] So there's no kind of revolution happened. That means that even if the lower caste people were there, they were reasonably taken care of.


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[Assistant] And the charity was given, even now we see the temples, charity is given, food is given, many, many temples they offer food. So I feel that that's a


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[Assistant] To rectify social injustice as it remains. Any thoughts on this? Or should I start again?


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[Assistant] When you said industrialization has made costs unsustainable, that's true, but in the urban place cities or urban places,


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[Assistant] Yes, beautiful. I think there are stories of Jagannath also like that.


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[Assistant] One, I think one is simply by spiritualizing the consciousness. So one is of course if you talk about say,


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[Assistant] So in that sense, any discrimination caused by external such as the body, they are transcended because


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[Assistant] To correct social injustice, we could have some amount of socio-political measures.


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[Assistant] Communism tried that and it just had a disastrous failure.


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[Assistant] So, but if the spiritual wisdom or spiritual tradition can provide one resources


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[Assistant] Provide some insights or impetus for correcting social wrongs.


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[Assistant] So one thing when we talk about these resources, they are very, very important.


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[Assistant] And there is a saying that actually in this life,


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[Assistant] If you are enjoying, if you are in a state of prosperity, that means you are exhausting your past good karma. And if you are in a state of


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[Assistant] Any of the, so now we have a bhakti tradition alive even now.


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[Assistant] Some Madhya Sampradaya teachers who actually went into the


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[Assistant] So it's not just in terms of uh, candidate for bhakti.


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[Assistant] And of course we could say Sankirtan is one way where unity comes in. Different people come and sing and dance together. There is no consciousness of who is from


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[Assistant] Which background? Somebody might be a millionaire, somebody might be a driver, somebody might be a billionaire, something like that.


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[Assistant] I think that the Bhakti tradition just offers, uh, as you said, a different world view.


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[Assistant] And this was true even in the past, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, when he would perform his Sankirtan.


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[Assistant] Anything casteist, isn't it? Chaitanya Mahapurva did not touch anyone because he would embrace anyone and everyone, in a sense. Although he was a sanyasi and when probably when they were doing kirtan they were all coming together.


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[Assistant] How can you consider somebody so subhuman that you don't want to touch them?


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[Assistant] Uh, 15 years ago actually, 20, 25 years ago. You had to go to a computer lab. You had to take out your shoes.


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[Assistant] There is an understanding of the oneness of all living beings, of the similarity of all living beings.


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[Assistant] Just a quick point. I think the Bhagavad Gita has several works which talks about equalities. Vidya Vinaya Sampanya is one.


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[Assistant] One was the incident of Sringikaru Singh. So basically, one abuse of power by a higher caste member.


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[Assistant] That wherever power comes, some kind of discrimination against the powerless happens.


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[Assistant] It is not that karma and reincarnation they need necessarily to, uh, perpetuation of social injustice.


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[Assistant] They can help people who are at a deprived position to gain acceptance of what they are, where they are.


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[Assistant] Uh, that the Indian tradition itself offers for social justice is the...


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[Assistant] That it shifts the focus of value, not from the body in which you are born, but the kind of heart you are cultivating.


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[Assistant] Nick, keep your mind on your business. Let Vince worry about his, huh?


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[Assistant] I was with him. First I saw him outside police headquarters talking to Joe Williams. Then I drove him to the car test.


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[Assistant] Well, if you're back to your old tricks again, I've got sad news for you. I tore up your rain check three years ago.


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[Assistant] My job's to work the tables for you here, Vince, and... I don't even mind setups like the one with Petey or other deals like that, but...


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[Assistant] Vince, stay out of my personal life.


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[Assistant] Already don't be stubborn, I know Vince. He doesn't do anything without a reason.


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[Assistant] You're not taking me anywhere. You push me into this life and I like it.


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[Assistant] You want me to go home and wait for Vince to come back again? That's something Eddie Riccardi would tell me to do. Not Eddie Rice.


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[Assistant] We'll go away. We'll find that crazy world of yours.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, Ma. I didn't know what I was doing anymore when you take a breath. I didn't know I was gonna do it.


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[Assistant] Be with you and see your face when you and Pog get settled in some nice place. I'd sure like to see you then.


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[Assistant] I've been thinking about us two. About our people living like pigs and good rich land laying fallow.


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[Assistant] Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starving.


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[Assistant] And I've been wondering if all our folks got together and yelled.


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[Assistant] No, not that. That ain't it. It's just, well, as long as I'm an outlaw anyways, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can just find out something. Just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is that's wrong. And see if there ain't something that can be done about it.


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[Assistant] I ain't thought it all out clear, am I? I can't, I don't know enough.


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[Assistant] Well, maybe it's like Casey says. A fella ain't got a soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul. The one big soul that belongs to everybody.


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[Assistant] Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can't eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beating up a guy, I'll be there.


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[Assistant] And when the people are eating the stuff they raise and living in the houses they build, I'll be there too.


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[Assistant] Attention all units, attention all units, be on the lookout for the following squ-


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[Assistant] At the time, the Qing dynasty was in decline, and because China's government was so weak, the European researchers simply ignored the order not to remove the treasures from the caves.


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[Assistant] The Chinese won't give up until they get their dam. One day all of this will be underwater and gone forever.


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[Assistant] To the first westerners in Japan, it was a mysterious world.


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[Assistant] The land of riches that Christopher Columbus set out to find.


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[Assistant] When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they encountered a country embroiled in civil war.


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[Assistant] Out of this chaos, one samurai warrior would emerge.


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[Assistant] Witnesses to this world, both Western observers and Japanese, wrote of these changing times.


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[Assistant] Theirs is a story of flowering culture, of poetic ritual, and of rigid power struggles.


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[Assistant] It is the saga of opening trade with Europe and then closing its doors to the West.


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[Assistant] Samurai guards were quickly dispatched to warn their master.


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[Assistant] There were strangers on board these ships, unlike anyone the Japanese had ever seen.


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[Assistant] The local warlord called a daimyo summoned these strangers.


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[Assistant] The first Europeans to ever set foot on Japanese shores. It was the year 1543.


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[Assistant] When these Portuguese merchants arrived, the daimyo was intrigued by their peculiar unknown weapons.


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[Assistant] The Daimyo purchased two guns and put his swordsmith to work making copies.


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[Assistant] These first Europeans, their guns and their religion would have unforeseeable consequences.


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[Assistant] The son of a Daimyo lord, Ieyasu would soon have to give up children's games for the politics of war.


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[Assistant] When Ieyasu was still a child, the ruling daimyo demanded that Ieyasu's father send the young boy to him as a hostage. Insurance that all orders would be obeyed.


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[Assistant] As a hostage, the young samurai boy traveled in the style befitting his daimyo rank.


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[Assistant] João Rodrigues, an eyewitness to these perilous times, was one of the first Portuguese to arrive in Japan.


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[Assistant] As Portuguese merchants traverse the oceans in search of new ports for trade, Jesuit missionaries accompany them, searching for souls to save.


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[Assistant] Braving the hardships of the dangerous two-year voyage to reach Japan, a country which they considered ripe for conversion.


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[Assistant] They sent home tantalizing reports of an alien world.


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[Assistant] During his more than 30 years in Japan, João Rodrigues became so fluent in Japanese, he became known as the interpreter.


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[Assistant] His work allowed him to observe all levels of society. From the highest daimyo warlords, to the lowest Japanese farmer.


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[Assistant] The Japanese, João Rodrigues observed, regarded the Europeans with equal fascination.


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[Assistant] But however they were regarded, the missionaries were determined to stay in Japan.


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[Assistant] In little more than 50 years, these missionaries established over 200 Catholic churches, primarily in southern Japan, and converted up to a quarter million Japanese.


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[Assistant] Commerce and religion intertwined. Some Japanese profited.


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[Assistant] While others watched with growing concern, convinced of Christianity's threat to their power.


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[Assistant] To endure the rigors of never-ending training, to remain clear-minded in the face of grave danger, to face death matter-of-factly, this is the art of kendo, the way of the sword.


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[Assistant] Master Swordsman taught young samurai the skills of sword fighting and the traditions of a samurai code of honor.


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[Assistant] This was the education the young Ieyasu would receive, even as a hostage.


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[Assistant] A legendary swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi, would preserve the way of the samurai in a classic book, The Five Rings.


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[Assistant] It was a guide to strategy, its philosophy embraced in Japan even to this day.


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[Assistant] While the samurai class comprised less than 10% of the population, their presence loomed larger than life.


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[Assistant] Samurai women were also trained to protect their family.


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[Assistant] The samurai defended his home and family, but his true glory came on the battlefield defending his lord against enemies.


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[Assistant] The samurai dressed carefully for combat. The finely stitched fabric and leather appeared elegant, even fragile.


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[Assistant] Unseen were the tightly woven plates of steel.


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[Assistant] Much like his protective armor, a warrior's refined appearance concealed his impenetrable inner core. This ethic, preserved in writings of the samurai, would prepare the warrior to meet life and death with honor.


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[Assistant] For samurai, as important as knowing how to kill, was knowing how and when to die.


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[Assistant] Sepuku, or Harakiri, is the ritual of suicide as practiced by samurai.


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[Assistant] From the death poem to the final thrust of the dagger, seppuku is a ceremonial ritual of suicide ensuring an honorable death.


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[Assistant] Joao Rodriguez wrote of a man who committed the ritual of seppuku.


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[Assistant] The samurai, dressed in the customary white kimono, solemnly and with great dignity, mounted a raised platform.


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[Assistant] For Tokugawa Ieyasu, patient strategizing would become his most powerful weapon.


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[Assistant] He was now of age, 18 years old and married with two children.


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[Assistant] As time passed, Ieyasu strengthened his skills as a warrior, fighting alongside his Daimyo master.


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[Assistant] When his master was killed in battle, Ieyasu was finally free to determine his own destiny.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu reclaimed his title as an independent lord. A daimyo.


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[Assistant] According to his samurai training, he now carefully plotted his strategy.


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[Assistant] In a crucial move, Ieyasu allied himself with the man who killed his Daimyo master, Oda Nobunaga.


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[Assistant] Nobunaga had become the most powerful warlord in Japan, feared and ruthless.


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[Assistant] The missionary Joao Rodriguez documented Nobunaga's campaign to unify Japan.


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[Assistant] As 10,000 enemy warriors charged, Nobunaga's musketeers fired in succession, decimating the opposing army.


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[Assistant] Until one night, treachery within his inner circle caught him off guard.


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[Assistant] As the flames burned, Nobunaga's loyal general Toyotomi Hideyoshi seized the moment.


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[Assistant] Would he subordinate himself to Hideyoshi's command? Or was it time to fight for control?


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[Assistant] Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.


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[Assistant] After Nobunaga's death, Ieyasu and Hideyoshi faced off in a measured game of strategy, each in his own way trying to outsmart the other.


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[Assistant] While Ieyasu practiced restraint and careful strategizing, Hideyoshi acted quickly and decisively.


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[Assistant] The son of a lowly foot soldier, he worked his way up through the ranks.


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[Assistant] Hideyoshi became known as a brilliant general, and he held the same grand vision of himself.


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[Assistant] Shortly after Hideyoshi took control, Ieyasu challenged him.


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[Assistant] Hideyoshi rewarded Ieyasu for his loyalty with a vast domain of land.