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[Assistant] No. It is because gold and platinum are malleable and ductile metals. Malleability is the property by which metals can be beaten into sheets, while ductility is the property by which metals can be drawn into thin wires. These properties allow gold and platinum to be molded into a variety of designs.


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[Assistant] In addition to this, gold and platinum are very rare as well as lustrous. Meaning, they have a shiny appearance. These qualities make them even more attractive and enticing.


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[Assistant] Besides this, gold and platinum are noble metals. Noble metals are a group of metals which are not very reactive. They resist corrosion and oxidation.


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[Assistant] Most of this heat is used to maintain our body temperature and keep us warm. However, some people always feel cold. This might be because they are suffering from hyperthyroidism.


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[Assistant] In hyperthyroidism, our thyroid gland which regulates metabolism does not function properly. As a result, our metabolism slows down and less heat is generated due to which we feel cold.


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[Assistant] When a person having this disorder is stressed or is exposed to cold conditions, the arteries of his hands and legs become narrow. Hence, warm blood is not transported efficiently to his hands and legs, making his extremities feel cold.


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[Assistant] This is because spicy food generally contains chili peppers. Chili peppers have a chemical called capsaicin. When capsaicin comes in contact with our tongue, it activates the heat sensing receptors instead of our taste buds. As a result, our brain thinks that our mouth is on fire.


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[Assistant] Shall I call the fire brigade? Oh, just listen. Capsaicin present in spicy food is not necessarily bad for everybody. Only those people who have a low tolerance level or don't have a habit of eating spicy food can experience some problems like burning mouth, irritation of the stomach lining, heartburn, etc.


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[Assistant] Why does salt make food taste better? Wait, I'll explain. Salt which is basically sodium chloride makes almost everything taste better.


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[Assistant] Whether it is french fries, certain fruits, curries, or even cookies, we like at least a little salt in all these foods.


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[Assistant] According to researchers, we have evolved to like salt maybe because our bodies need salt for survival. What? Salt for survival? Indeed.


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[Assistant] Some researchers suggest that salt neutralizes the bitter tongue receptors. While some suggest that on adding salt, the brain interprets the taste as less bitter.


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[Assistant] When I was young, I was a very mean kid, and so I was cursed to be a cat spirit to stay in this forest.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeaah. Totally super. Uhm, well.


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[Assistant] Sleep well, my princess. I hope we meet again.


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[Assistant] I'm flattered, your highness. Does that mean you choose to marry me?


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[Assistant] I'll have a sausage muffin with, uh, egg and cheese.


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[Assistant] That's it. Thank you. And I tell my wife as I shave in the morning, I say either.


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[Assistant] I sat and calculated how much it would cost to buy the first weighing machine and how long it would take for the profit for that one to buy another one. I would sit there and create these compound interest tables to figure out how long it would take me to have a weighing machine for every person in the world.


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[Assistant] Einstein is reputed to have said that compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world or something like that and it goes back to that story you probably learned when you were in grade school where somebody did something for the king and the king said what can I do for you and


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[Assistant] He believed very much in having an inner scorecard and to never worry about what other people are thinking about you, you know, just, just, uh, if you know why you're doing what you're doing, that's good enough. I admired everything about him.


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[Assistant] She was very dutiful about taking care of the kids, but you didn't get the same feeling of, of love.


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[Assistant] And then at home, my mother would have terrific headaches. And you didn't want to be around her when she was having the headaches. And she would, she would lash out more. She would never do it in public.


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[Assistant] Ben was this incredible teacher. I mean, he was a natural. And he drew us all in.


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[Assistant] It was like learning baseball from a fellow that was batting 400. It really, it shaped my professional life.


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[Assistant] Rule number one, never lose money. Rule number two, never forget rule number one.


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[Assistant] But when you get married, it's not a question of saying I'm gonna put a 14% factor in for humor and 17% for intellect and 22% for looks. It doesn't work that way. I knew it was the right decision and uh, and it was.


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[Assistant] When I came back to Omaha in early 1956, I had no idea what I was going to do.


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[Assistant] I was then renting a house. I never owned a house to that point.


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[Assistant] My wife was more active than I was, but I was 100% with her mentally. I was just working a little more on my own, uh, investments. But it did make a difference what we were going to do with the money after we made it.


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[Assistant] I thought I would pile it up over the years, then she would unpile it in terms of running a one very large foundation. And I was particularly good at compounding money and therefore society would benefit by waiting.


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[Assistant] And he said FT waited for the pitch that was really in a sweet spot.


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[Assistant] And in investing, I'm in a no-call strike business, which is the best business you can be in. I can look at a thousand different companies.


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[Assistant] And I don't have to be right on every one of them or even 50 of them. So I can pick the ball I want to hit.


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[Assistant] I bought the first shares of Berkshire in 1962 and it was a northern textile business destined to become extinct eventually and, uh, it was a statistically cheap stock and a terrible business.


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[Assistant] Berkshire Hathaway was closing mills, and as they closed mills, it would free up some capital.


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[Assistant] You know, in 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men are created equal. And then when they wrote the constitution, they all of a sudden decided that, no, it was just three fifths of a person if you were black. I mean, that struck me as kind of crazy.


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[Assistant] And my sisters are fully as smart as I am. They got better personalities than I have. But they got the message a million different ways that their future was limited. And I got the message that the sky is the limit.


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[Assistant] It wasn't due to a lack of love or anything of the sort. It's just, it was the culture.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, you can look at the flip side of that and say it's quite encouraging, because if you look at what this country accomplished only using half of its talent, you know, just think of the potential for the future. I'm enormously bullish on America over the future, and part of the reason is that we, by some rather stupid decisions, essentially put half our talent on the sidelines.


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[Assistant] Moving me toward looking for wonderful companies at fair prices rather than fair companies at wonderful prices.


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[Assistant] So, I closed down the partnership at the end of 1969.


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[Assistant] A business that fits me. It's kind of crazy.


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[Assistant] We don't have a public relations department. We don't have investor relations. We don't have a general counsel. We don't have a human relations department. We just don't go for anything that people do just as a matter of form. It's exactly the life I like. And it's not work to me. It's just a form of play basically.


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[Assistant] I like to sit and think, and I spent a lot of time doing that.


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[Assistant] Worst mistakes involve not understanding other people as well, uh, as you might.


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[Assistant] And the two top officers of Solomon were on the other end and they said that, that, uh, you know, we had a problem.


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[Assistant] But 150 billion is a little staggering, and I was hoping he would say, well, don't worry, Warren, we'll give you a few weeks to breathe. And he said to me, prepare for any eventuality.


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[Assistant] I had to convince the treasury that what was done in the past


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[Assistant] Was awful and stupid and they had every right to be furious at us. But this firm employed 8,000 people.


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[Assistant] And that I really did feel that it was going to be a colossal disaster.


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[Assistant] He wasn't sure I was right at all. In fact, he probably thought I was wrong, but he knew that I felt what I was saying.


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[Assistant] So the treasury modified its order, and in effect, of course, it was quite an endorsement. It was huge.


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[Assistant] The nation has a right to expect its rules and laws to be obeyed.


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[Assistant] Kind of what I dreamt we might create over time, but it took a lot of time to do it. Never seemed like we were making that much progress on any one day. But compound interest works.


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[Assistant] Well, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting is partly a fun festival. It's sort of a Mardi Gras for people to come every year.


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[Assistant] It's a chance for us to have a lot of fun and meet the people that have entrusted us with their money.


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[Assistant] And insurance for all of your cars, for it's buy. Buy. Buy all you see at the Berk.


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[Assistant] Well, Ostrand has lived with me for a long time. She's done wonders for me. It worked well, but I don't think it'll work for lots of other people necessarily.


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[Assistant] Susan, I loved each other and we admired each other and we were totally in sync with what the other was doing, but we were two different individuals.


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[Assistant] It, uh, it's a great day for me. It's a great day for my family. My wife Susie and I had planned that whatever I made,


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[Assistant] I'd like to ask the people representing those various foundations to come out.


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[Assistant] In a sense, the game that I'm in gets more interesting all the time. It's a competitive game. It's a big game and I enjoyed the game a lot.


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[Assistant] Every day we'd hear the garage door close in the house. And then like clockwork, my dad would come in the door, I'm home, and we'd all eat dinner together, which I think surprises a lot of people.


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[Assistant] I don't think my dad ever took anybody for granted, but you are a little bit blind, I think, sometimes to what other people might be doing behind the scenes. And my dad's gotten a little bit of a pass.


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[Assistant] He knew that there was something she needed to do.


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[Assistant] It was clear that working with K gave him a different kind of confidence and he was the star.


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[Assistant] She knew it was going to be really difficult. She knew the recovery was going to be brutal.


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[Assistant] You know, my dad is a solitary guy.


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[Assistant] I think it came down to him figuring out how he was gonna get through this tunnel and get out the other side.


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[Assistant] Solomon admitted it exceeded the limits of trading in government bonds. Once by buying bonds in the name of a customer who didn't even know about the deal.


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[Assistant] I wondered when I'd be seeing you, Mr. Potter.


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[Assistant] I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens that the phoenix...


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[Assistant] Whose tail feather resides in your wand gave another feather. Just one other.


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[Assistant] It is curious that you should be destined for this wand when its brother gave you that scar.


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[Assistant] I wondered when I'd be seeing you, Mr. Potter.


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[Assistant] I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens that the phoenix


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[Assistant] Whose tail feather resides in your wand gave another feather. Just one other.


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[Assistant] It is curious that you should be destined for this wand when its brother gave you that scar.


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[Assistant] We do not speak his name. The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. It's not always clear why, but I think it is clear that we can expect great things from you. After all, he who must not be named


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[Assistant] I wondered when I'd be seeing you, Mr. Potter.


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[Assistant] I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens that the phoenix...


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[Assistant] Whose tail feather resides in your wand gave another feather. Just one other.


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[Assistant] It is curious that you should be destined for this wand when its brother gave you that scar.


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[Assistant] We do not speak his name. The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. It's not always clear why, but I think it is clear that we can expect great things from you. After all, he who must not be named


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[Assistant] Lesson 12. Banks and their customers. First listen and then answer the following question. Why is there no risk to the customer when a bank prints the customer's name on his checks?


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[Assistant] When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time.


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[Assistant] Either in cash or by drawing a check in favor of another person


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[Assistant] Primarily, the banker-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor


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[Assistant] But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another.


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[Assistant] The bank must obey its customers' instructions, and not those of anyone else


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[Assistant] It makes no difference that the forgery may have been a very skillful one. The bank must recognize its customer's signature


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[Assistant] For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the practice adopted by banks of printing the customer's name on his checks


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[Assistant] If this facilitates forgery, it is the bank which will lose, not the customer


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[Assistant] Please, yes please, if you want to do a big boo.


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[Assistant] You can't be seen. Okay, I do good hiding.


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[Assistant] Ping, I can still see your sticky, up ears.


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[Assistant] That's better. The next thing is, if you want to do a big boo, you have to be sneaky, quiet, like this.


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[Assistant] You're only a nickel baby, aren't you Charlie? But, but babies like poo!


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[Assistant] Boo! Me and Coco played, Boo! And Coco said, to do a big boo, you have to hide, like this. Shhh. And, Boo! And we big booed Flop, and he jumped.


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[Assistant] And even the puzzle jumped. Look, I did big boo on baby Charlie. And he didn't like that. Babies only like baby boos. Especially if they're not even awake yet. Boo!


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[Assistant] You know, I describe my childhood as normal, but who knows what normal is.


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[Assistant] People often think, you know, well Warren Buffett was this famous rich guy. He was not famous and he wasn't rich when we were growing up.


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[Assistant] Well my mom was the biggest part of my life growing up.


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[Assistant] She was somebody who would help anybody. I mean, whether she knew them or didn't know them or maybe even didn't agree with them. She would still help them.


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[Assistant] And it's difficult to connect on an emotional level because I think that that's not his basic mode of operation.


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[Assistant] And I think one of the reasons it was important for her to leave Omaha was because she just felt like she was kind of trapped in this environment, that everybody knew who she was, that she, you know, couldn't have her own identity.


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[Assistant] When he wrote the letter to us, he put something in that letter that was incredibly important to me, which


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[Assistant] Was exactly how our foundation behaves, which is if you're gonna try to bat a thousand, you won't do very many things that are important.


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[Assistant] But if you're willing to basically strike out a few times, you can really change something big.


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[Assistant] By synchronizing two solar reactors, the resulting particle emissions are squared. That's the OO's twin drive system.


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[Assistant] We know the location of the spaceship that's carrying the Gundams? It's coming straight from headquarters. I'd say it's reliable, sir. Commander Katagiri does it again. He plays his cards well.


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[Assistant] Now, let's guess the title of my next video. Easy peasy!


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[Assistant] Hurry up! Write your guess in the comment section below. Why are rain clouds dark? They're in a bad mood, dude. Haha.


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[Assistant] That's why rain clouds look dark when we see them.


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[Assistant] Hello! How are you? Welcome to Gryffindor.


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[Assistant] Hello! How are you? Welcome to Gryffindor.


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[Assistant] Nothing. Nothing, I'm fine.


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[Assistant] Nothing. Nothing, I'm fine.


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[Assistant] Nothing. Nothing, I'm fine.


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[Assistant] So, Panda said, do this. RUM RUM RUM! And I spinned myself the other way. I made myself much better.


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[Assistant] Dizzy is fun, but too much Dizzy is not fun.


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[Assistant] That just means I've got a lot of things I need to learn. So I'm counting on you, my oh-so-charming instructor.


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[Assistant] Again? That's the third time this week. Don't you ever eat at home, Chris?


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[Assistant] Besides, eating out all the time can get expensive.


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[Assistant] I have an idea. Let's start a dinner club. We can also ask three other friends to join us.


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[Assistant] Each of us will cook once a week. That way we can have home cooked food six times a week. And go out for dinner once a week. What do you say?


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[Assistant] Well, I need to go to my parents' house this weekend. Would it be okay if I borrowed your suitcase?


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[Assistant] Thanks a lot. Is it okay if I come by and pick it up tonight?


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[Assistant] Remember I told you that I hadn't seen my parents in a while, and this time I paid them a visit? Yeah, I remember. Are you finally going to see them? Yes, I am.


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[Assistant] Razolas was attacked by mobile suits? Damn federation. Attacking without any warning like that.


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[Assistant] No. In fact, I think we should push for an earlier start. A lot of our comrades' lives are on the line.


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[Assistant] Thanks to them, we were able to rescue our comrades who are still alive in there. Besides, this is a great opportunity.


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[Assistant] After all, they're the kind of people who share the same ambitions and ideals as we do.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, you haven't changed one bit. You look exactly the same.


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[Assistant] You're Lyle DeLondy, a member of Catharrar. You from security. I've come to recruit you. Hm? My name is... Setsuna Asaya.


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[Assistant] That girl Marie, she's from the Superhuman Institute, right? Do you think it's safe letting her on board the ship?


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[Assistant] We have a coded message from Wang Lumei. Decode it.


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[Assistant] I still have a lot of things to learn. I don't even come close to Kati.


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[Assistant] If wars can't be stopped, then I'll come up with tactics to resolve them quickly. By limiting casualties to a minimum, I'll be saving lives. I want to become a tactical forecaster, just like Kati.


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[Assistant] Lisa, I read your graduation thesis. You did a great job. Oh, thank you very much, Carti.


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[Assistant] That's for sure. Was this another of Monokan's faints?


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[Assistant] How long to resupply and repair Ptolemy and the Gundams?


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[Assistant] Exactly as planned. So far things are proceeding without a hitch.


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[Assistant] Pardon me, but with all due respect, ma'am, I've survived seven battles with the Gundams. My comrades gave me a nickname. They call me Colossauer the Indestructible.


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[Assistant] Maybe he could play with them, just for a minute.


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[Assistant] Bing wants to help you, Charlie. Yes, you can have my jingly shoes. Just for a minute, Charlie.


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[Assistant] But they're too small now, cause I'm all grown up. So, I put them on Charlie, but he wanted to keep them. That made me feel funny, cause they're my jingly shoes.


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[Assistant] Then, Charlie did walking for the first time, and we were all so excited. I said Charlie could keep my shoes, cause he needs them now.


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[Assistant] I used to be a soldier, so I believe I've already made my peace with that possibility. Besides, I've made my choice. No matter what happens, I will never leave Alleluia again.


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[Assistant] What did you do? I... I just... So you caused this. Who are you really? An ala spy?


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[Assistant] Well, Sachi Crossroad, let's hear your explanation.


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[Assistant] How could you? How could you do something so foolish?


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm different. Nothing to do with me. It's all happening in a different world. Ignoring reality like that is just a kind of inadvertent malice. And then things like this happen.


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[Assistant] Is this for real? I have to go see this painter.


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[Assistant] Quiet! Listen to me! I don't have all day for this, alright? Quickly! Draw me many different and expensive rubies and a sack to take them in. Now!


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[Assistant] What are these? How dare you joke around. Move! I will draw myself the shiniest gold chain.


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[Assistant] I think your name is felt, right? I keep feeling like you're looking at me. Why is that?


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[Assistant] Okay, I get it. Uh, mister? Call me Ian. It's Ian Vashti. Mr. Ian. So what's a guy like you doing here anyway? I've seen my fair share of battlefields. I'm sick of them, so I wanted to get rid of war. Everyone here feels the same. Some served on the front lines of a battlefield. Some had their bodies rebuilt by the military. Some lost their families to terrorism. Some were made into guerrilla fighters.


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[Assistant] So, you finally made up your mind, Billy. I look forward to working with you, Uncle. Address me as Commander when you're here.


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[Assistant] You'll be following in the footsteps of the late Professor Aifman, which means you'll be in charge of the development team responsible for new mobile suits. Roger that, sir.


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[Assistant] That theory makes sense. The Gundam's GN drives have something called a Trans Am system that releases large amounts of highly compressed particles all at once. If they make use of it, then possibly...


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[Assistant] Right. The operation will commence once we've located the enemy ship.


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[Assistant] I'll be right there. This was caused by a satellite weapon.


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[Assistant] But, right now the most important thing is for us to destroy the enemy's satellite weapon.


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[Assistant] How's the resupplying going, Felt? It'll be finished in 0032. Right.


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[Assistant] Ah, Warned Officer Halaby. So tell me, how are you feeling these days?


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[Assistant] I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition


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[Assistant] I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.


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[Assistant] As for Delon Wormwood, make a sleeping potion so powerful, it is known as the Draft of the Living Dead. A Beezore is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat, and it will save you from most poisons. As for Monkshood and Wolfbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of Akin.


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[Assistant] Note that five points will be taken from your house for your classmate's cheek.


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[Assistant] I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition


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[Assistant] I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.


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[Assistant] As for Delon Wormwood, make a sleeping potion so powerful, it is known as the Draft of the Living Dead. A Beezore is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat, and it will save you from most poisons. As for Monkshood and Wolfbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of Acona.


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[Assistant] Note that five points will be taken from your house for your classmate's cheek.


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[Assistant] I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition


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[Assistant] I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.


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[Assistant] As for Delon Wormwood, make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draft of the Living Dead. A Beesaw is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for Monkshood and Wolfbane, they are the same plant which also goes by the name of Acona.


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[Assistant] You see his face? Maybe if the fat lumb would give him this a squeeze.


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[Assistant] You see his face? Maybe if the fat lumb would give him this a squeeze.


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[Assistant] You see his face? Maybe if the fat lumb would give him this a squeeze.


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[Assistant] When his spade hits something deep into the ground.


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[Assistant] Rama was angry for having wasted his energy over nothing. He threw his spade into the metal pot and sat in the shade of the tree.


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[Assistant] Rama found that the pot now had 100 spades just like the one he had. He could not tell which spade belonged to him.


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[Assistant] Rama took the one hundred spades out and kept a single grape in the pot. He could not believe his eyes.


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[Assistant] Rama quickly went to the market and spent all his savings to buy one single egg. He then placed that egg in the pot. In no time, the pot was full of eggs. Rama was very happy. He cooked two eggs for himself.


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[Assistant] Rama then realized that the pot can not only give him food to eat, but can also help him earn.


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[Assistant] After selling all the eggs, Rama used the pot for different things. When he needed cloth, he would place a small piece of cloth


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[Assistant] Drama always hit his pot well in the corner of his house under a cloth.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, we're all looking forward to your song.


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[Assistant] Separated from the Ptolemaios, Setsuna returns to a place from the past to finally meet the executor of the master plan. Next episode, I can hear a song. When she sings, it pierces the heart.


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[Assistant] Thanks man. Alright, so say for you guys, and we have to think about mean. Remains. Sides.


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[Assistant] Potatoes. What potatoes are you getting? I cannot believe we're cooking for 150 people. Consequences, we don't work well today. There's a lot of dishes that we have to bring up in just three hours. Let's go, let's go, let's go!


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[Assistant] I think we have to work super hard and super smart to be able to execute that. Alright guys, find your section. I don't want to be the first captain of the first team challenge to send Vasu into elimination.


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[Assistant] Remember guys, three hours is not a long time, so everyone push hard please. So I hope I can pull this one off. Bring this one off. Let's get this back. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Then we've got a prawn curry, which Sandeep will be doing.


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[Assistant] Yes, George. So get complacent, guys. Keep working hard.


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[Assistant] When we start getting down the tables, guys, bring them out, take them all out. 10 minutes is gonna fly, guys. Time is flying now. Yep, get them all out for me. Sandy, get that curry done, mate, let's go. We're all pushing them really, really hard now.


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[Assistant] Start checking it out, go. Get in there, behind, behind, behind, behind. Red team, blue team.


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[Assistant] Uh, we've got a beautiful seafood spread. We've got, uh, Sandeep's prawn curry here.


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[Assistant] Some flatbread to dunk into your prawn curry. And then we've got some beautiful sticky date pudding with butterscotch and an orange creme fraiche.


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[Assistant] Enjoy guys, thank you. I'm so happy with what we've done, but...


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[Assistant] The plate I'm putting up today really emphasises my style of cooking. I don't like to waste things. I'm using the carcass from the spatchcock to really bring some flavour into that jus. I grew up in a single parent family with my mum. We often did it very tough.


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[Assistant] Growing up, money was quite tight. We even had to live in a car at some point, but mum never wanted me to miss out, so we would do things like we would have baked beans six different ways throughout the week, and she would save up the money to take me to a beautiful restaurant on the seventh day.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, it's just sauteed. Needs a bit more lemon, little bit more salt.


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[Assistant] Can't you see that I'm the one who understands you've been here all along? So why can't you see if you belong with me?


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[Assistant] I think you were talking to me now.


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[Assistant] Left you out there standing Crest falling on the landing Champagne problems Your mom's ring in your pocket My picture in your wallet Your heart was glass, I dropped it Champagne problems


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[Assistant] You told your family for a reason.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're happy, preconfused, and lonely at the same time.


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[Assistant] Tonight, tonight when we forget about the deadlines, it's time.


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[Assistant] And I was thinking on the drive down anytime now He's gonna say it's your life You never called it what it was Till we were dead and gone and barely checked the pulse Come back swearing it's the same After three months in the grave


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[Assistant] Just between us did the love affair made me all too well.


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[Assistant] I'm doing good, I'm on some new shit Been saying yes instead of no


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[Assistant] I was nowhere to be found, I hate the crowds, you know that. Plus I saw you dance with them.


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[Assistant] Back when we were still changing for the better, wanting was enough, for me it was enough.


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[Assistant] So much for soulful love and saying us cause you weren't mine to lose. You weren't mine to lose. Oh.


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[Assistant] And you wanna scream, don't call me kid. Don't call me baby. Look at this god forsaken mess that you made me. You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else.


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[Assistant] Don't call me king. Don't call me baby. Look at this idiotic fool you made me. You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else.


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[Assistant] Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring.


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[Assistant] It's been a while since I had anything heard from you.


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[Assistant] Band-aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. If you live like that, you live with ghosts.


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[Assistant] I've heard every album listen to the radio.


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[Assistant] Summer went away, still the yearning stays. I play it cool with the best of love. I wait patiently, he's gonna notice me. It's okay, we're the best of loves.


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[Assistant] There's just one who can make me stay.


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[Assistant] I see the great escape. So long, Daisy Mae. I pick the paddles. He loves me not. Something different bloomed. Riding in my room. I play my songs in the parking lot.


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[Assistant] You'll see me in hindsight, tangled up in you all


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[Assistant] And they read off our names.


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[Assistant] And the cynics were outraged. Screaming, this is absurd.


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[Assistant] It shall stand by me forever. But if God forbid, fate should step in.


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[Assistant] Long live the walls we crashed through I had the time of my life with you


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[Assistant] That's a very generous thing to do for somebody. Thank you so much. Ah.


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[Assistant] With the hope of it all. With the hope of it all. With the hope of it all.


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[Assistant] A little earlier, perhaps. Make it 7.30.


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[Assistant] The Africa Tower occupied by a coup d'etat force. It's exactly what Catherine told us about.


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[Assistant] This is a big operation. Why does Ribbons keep doing these things? You look irritated. Still waiting to avenge Brink?


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[Assistant] But daddy, I'm not hungry. I'm going to eat later, I promise. Can I go and play with Tim and Judy?


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[Assistant] Yesterday was a big day. The surprise elimination wasn't a good surprise for us all. And now it's a pressure test today. There is a possibility of going home.


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[Assistant] There's so many elements in this dish, every element has to be perfectly done. Techniques, techniques, techniques, that's all I'm thinking.


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[Assistant] Being a pharmacist, I think with the scientific background, I'm always paying attention to little details. I'm really good at following recipes, getting the temperature right, getting the weighing right. I think this is going to be an advantage for me today.


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[Assistant] So I see Nicole tempering the chocolate and I know this is so time consuming and very technical.


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[Assistant] I've got a dessert on the plate. Quite confident the flavors are all there. But I had to rush this.


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[Assistant] I didn't temper the chocolate shavings and I'm worried about the meringue. This could be the end of MasterChef for me.


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[Assistant] Yes, it just took me back 15 years ago when I was, you know, in the lab and doing my exams in pharmacy. The pressure going up and then trying to get focused and then at the end I had to start my egg whites again and that was very worrying. But I'm so happy that, you know, I got something on the plate and I'm, yeah.


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[Assistant] Today, walking into this kitchen, I felt honored to have been given this opportunity. I know a lot of people would love to be in my position. I had to remind myself why I'm doing this.


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[Assistant] MasterChef Kitchen is a great opportunity for me and my two kids.


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[Assistant] They are the reason why I'm here, and I know they're watching now, and I know they're very proud of me, and uhm, I think we talk a lot to our kids, but we don't actually set examples, so being here on MasterChef, I want to set a good example for them, so...


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[Assistant] You climbed all the way here for cherries? Wasn't that difficult?


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[Assistant] The satellite weapon was destroyed, but we were pretty heavily damaged. In the worst case, we might have to ask your branch for help.


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[Assistant] Of course! There are other things defending the stone, aren't there? Spells, enchantments.


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[Assistant] Of course! There are other things defending the stone, aren't there? Spells, enchantments.


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[Assistant] Of course! There are other things defending the stone, aren't there? Spells, enchantments.


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[Assistant] Empty out my safe so quickly. But getting their hands on it won't be easy. Please welcome...


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[Assistant] Take a look behind you. An announcement that will rock them to the core.


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[Assistant] I hear the Catherine supply trucks are already there and waiting for us.


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[Assistant] Yes, but Warrant Officer, do you ever think about acting a little more feminine?


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[Assistant] Nigelle is probably as beautiful as she looks on TV and got a cheeky, cheeky hug, which was cool. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I think my teammates have done an amazing job so far. So we've got a pomegranate syrup, we've got a crumb and a pistachio ice cream. I feel like we might just be missing one element just to tie the whole dish together. I'm gonna try and make a, a praline.


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[Assistant] Looking for great humans and making great stories. In one such town, there lived a handsome young man named Antonio.


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[Assistant] Antonio was a clockmaker and a very close friend of Churro.


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[Assistant] This got Antonio thinking. What did he have to lose? He could at least try.


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[Assistant] Well, how would he ever know if he didn't try?


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[Assistant] There were jugglers who got bored of juggling with apples and pears and began to juggle with tables and chairs. At one point, they got so desperate to prove themselves that they began to juggle the courtiers.


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[Assistant] Ooh, can I touch the cute little puppy? But as soon as the puzzle was solved...


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[Assistant] The objects quickly returned, because even the clock didn't want to lose any of his senses.


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[Assistant] They revolved around to show how beautiful our solar system is. The palace was mesmerized. As the planets returned, it was time for the nine Tinkerbells to come out and present a dance.


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[Assistant] Antonio was very sad. He carried his broken watch back to his dark house. He sat on the bed, sad, unable to move.


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[Assistant] All is well that ends well.


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[Assistant] Have you got a good idea of what the dish is? I dunno yet.


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[Assistant] My anglaise is on the go, so I start to look around at the other ingredients Abby has prepared. Pistachios was the feature ingredient, so I'm gonna get a praline on with the roasted pistachios.


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[Assistant] Or I might pass on an orange curd. A orange curd? Yeaah. That'd be so good.


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[Assistant] Thanks Jess. I think I've got a handle on the juice. Simon set it up pretty clearly.


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[Assistant] Today's mini challenge is going to take place over two rounds. In round one, you cook against each other.


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[Assistant] Win and you go head to head against professional. Beat that professional!


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[Assistant] And that pin comes out of George's pocket and onto your apron. Round one is about a dish that all four of us love.


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[Assistant] In round one, we want you to bring us your best version of fried chicken along with the perfect sauce. It can be on the bone. It can be nuggets. It can be popcorn chicken. It can be floured. It can be battered. It could even be crumbed. But it must be deep fried.


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[Assistant] It could be a ketchup, it could be a mayonnaise. Just make it something that helps your deep fried chicken to sing.


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[Assistant] That is super crispy, that's great. The peach chutney definitely adhere to the chicken. So it's a dipping sauce, it's not a great dipping sauce.


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[Assistant] Your crumb has stayed so crunchy, so amazing, it's...


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[Assistant] Really, in terms of Korean fried chicken I've eaten, in Seoul, in Sydney, in Melbourne, in Brisbane, this is, this is up there as one of the three best I've ever had.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable tasting, some unbelievable cooking. Come down the front where we decide which of you gets to cook as a top chef for that pin.


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[Assistant] No idea. We have a dilemma. We have a dilemma.


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[Assistant] And the dilemma is defined by Highway Stanley, because quite frankly, Derek, we think you've won. But quite frankly, they think you've won, Tessa.


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[Assistant] And the dilemma is defined by Highway Stanley, because quite frankly, Derek, we think you've won.


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[Assistant] It's very, very simple. You cook individually. If one of you beats the chef, you get a pin. You both beat the chef, you both get pins.


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[Assistant] How and I first met him at Jock's and Frollo's restaurant, Arana, where he was an absolute star in the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Tessa, Derek, please welcome the head chef of the pot in Adelaide.


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[Assistant] I'm sure you're surprised to see not one contestant, but two contestants standing here. So are we. Oh, you know Max, you're a fellow Adelaidean.


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[Assistant] Anything is possible. Max is a tough contestant to be in. His CV reads like the delicious 100 of Adelaide. There he's worked. But in that kitchen, with that pressure, anything is possible. And two very talented contestants, as we've seen. Honestly, if you put either of those fried chicken dishes up against most professional chefs, they would lose to that dish.


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[Assistant] Spectacular, isn't it? Spectacular. And then everything is cooked, bang on point. And there's a lot of elements.


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[Assistant] If this is a contestant, this early in the competition, we might have to change all the rules.


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[Assistant] A surefire winner. And those beautiful cubes of kingfish there, great kelp flavour, kind of pulls the orange back into line a bit.


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[Assistant] Derek, we felt you certainly championed orange, but we'd have loved a little more love with the oranges. I scored your dish 6 out of 10.


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[Assistant] Two pins on the line. Max, to beat Tessa you need 29 points out of a possible 30.


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[Assistant] Hurry up! Write your guess in the comment section below.


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[Assistant] In the grasslands of Mauritania, a gazelle suffering from tuberculosis takes its last breath. Collapsing near a small pool, the animal's corpse threatens to infect the water. But for the desert's cleanup, this body isn't a problem— it's a feast.


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[Assistant] Weighing up to 10 kilograms and possessing a wingspan of nearly 3 meters, the lappet-faced vulture is the undisputed king of the carcass.


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[Assistant] This bird's powerful beak and strong neck easily tear through tough hide and muscle tissue, opening entry points for weaker vultures to dig in.


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[Assistant] This colossal competition is too dangerous for the tiny Egyptian vulture. With a wingspan of only 180 centimeters, this vulture migrated to Africa from his family nest in Portugal, using thermal updrafts to stay aloft for hours at a time.


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[Assistant] But upon arrival, he finds himself near the bottom of the pecking order. Fortunately, what he lacks in size he makes up for in intelligence.


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[Assistant] A short distance away, he spots an unguarded ostrich nest full of immense but impenetrable eggs. Using a large rock, he smashes one open for a well-earned meal, though he'll circle back to the gazelle once the larger birds are gone.


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[Assistant] High above the commotion are Rupel's griffon vultures. Soaring at an altitude of over 11,000 meters, these birds fly higher than any other animal.


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[Assistant] At this height, they can't see individual carcasses, but the sight of their fellow vultures guides them to the feeding.


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[Assistant] Their featherless heads help them regulate the sudden rise in temperature as they descend, and keep them clean as they tear into the decaying gazelle.


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[Assistant] The carcass is stripped clean in hours, well before the rotting meat infects the water supply. And the tuberculosis doesn't stand a chance at infecting the vultures.


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[Assistant] In fact, species like the mountain-dwelling bearded vulture have stomachs so acidic they can digest most bones in just 24 hours.


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[Assistant] This adaptation helps smaller vultures supplement their diet with dung, while larger vultures can consume diseased meat up to three days old. Their acidic stomachs protect them from living animals, too. Their rancid vomit scares off those predators.


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[Assistant] These stomachs of steel are essential to removing pathogens like cholera, anthrax, and rabies from the African ecosystem. But while vultures can easily digest natural waste, man-made chemicals are another story.


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[Assistant] Diclofenac, a common veterinary drug used to treat cattle in India, is fatal to vultures. And because local religious beliefs prohibit eating beef, scavengers often consume cattle carcasses.


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[Assistant] Since the 1990s, the drug, along with threats from electricity pylons and habitat loss, has contributed to a 95% decline in the region's vulture population.


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[Assistant] In nearby Africa, poachers intentionally poison carcasses to prevent the bird's presence from alerting authorities to their location.


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[Assistant] Today, more than 50% of all vulture species are in danger. In regions where vultures have gone extinct, corpses take three times longer to decay.


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[Assistant] These carcasses contaminate drinking water, while feral dogs and rats carry the diseases into human communities. The Asian and African vulture crisis has led to an epidemic of rabies in India, where infections kill roughly 20,000 people each year.


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[Assistant] Fortunately, some communities have already realized how important vultures are.


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[Assistant] Conservationists have successfully banned drugs like diclofenac, while other researchers are working to repopulate vulture communities through breeding programs. Some regions have even opened vulture restaurants, where farmers safely dispose of drug-free livestock.


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[Assistant] With help, vultures will be able to continue their role conserving the health of our planet, transforming death and decay into life.


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[Assistant] She just didn't quite get to finish this, which is a real shame.


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[Assistant] Tonight. With 21 back in elimination.


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[Assistant] Who will be the next to go home?


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[Assistant] I was told once you've gotta do something every day that scares you. So this definitely scares me. So I may as well go for it.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna make like, marinated beef, tacos, some grilled corn.


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[Assistant] Mexican food's like my jam, so I'm excited to cook and eat something that I love to eat.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna make like a sick, marinated beef, tacos, a few sick salsas to go with some grilled corn. It's gonna be sick.


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[Assistant] Keep pushing Danny, come on. Today I'm making beef tacos.


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[Assistant] There's so much on the line in this kitchen. We've all got restaurants, brands, businesses. I wanna go home with my head held high. If I went home today with that immunity pin on my chest, I'd be absolutely gutted.


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[Assistant] My idea today is elevating street food to fine dining and there are a few restaurants in Mexico that have done that.


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[Assistant] Beautiful, incredible tacos, just one on a plate.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I've actually succeeded in doing that today. Everything's on the line here.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna go home with an immunity pen.


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[Assistant] My idea today is elevating street food to fine dining, but


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[Assistant] I don't know if I've actually succeeded in doing that today. It just makes me really nervous. I don't wanna go home based on this.


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[Assistant] The taco that I had in mind probably just didn't come to the plate. I just hope I've done enough to get through.


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[Assistant] Hello my friend. I have loved seeing you every day. Shining your light for others.


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[Assistant] My gift to you is this rain. To make you feel fresh.


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[Assistant] And also, this rainbow is for you.


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[Assistant] Don't forget about me, old friend. This is for you. So that you never, ever forget this night.


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[Assistant] You never have to thank us. You never have to thank us.


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[Assistant] You will always be in our hearts. When I am happy, I will twinkle especially for you.


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[Assistant] Nah. To understand this, we need to first learn about bad conductors of heat. Oh.


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[Assistant] Bad conductors of heat are the materials which do not allow heat to easily flow through them.


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[Assistant] Air, wood and glass are some examples of bad conductors of heat.


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[Assistant] A thick blanket allows much of our body heat to escape into the atmosphere.


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[Assistant] However, when we use two blankets one on top of the other, air gets trapped between them. This air being a bad conductor of heat. Does not allow our body heat to easily flow into the atmosphere, thus keeping us warm.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, and you've seen way too much.


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[Assistant] You got company coming, Rox! Get out the welcome mat!


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[Assistant] Here is a list of the countries that would love to buy the greatest weapon on earth. Tell them the bidding starts at 50 million dollars for a piece of the Death Stone.


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[Assistant] Next time, the victory will be mine!


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[Assistant] There's a slight concern in my mind now that I do have too many elements, but I think I need to go with my gut.


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[Assistant] Just do the biscuit. Do what I, how I would like to eat it.


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[Assistant] I just don't know whether I should be putting them back for a minute or two or just put them straight in the chiller and they might firm up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I just, yeah, okay. You're overthinking it, aren't you? Yeah, I'm just stressing, I know.


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[Assistant] Two minutes to go and I grabbed my brulee out of the chiller, looks exactly how I wanted it to look, and I'm gonna blow torch it.


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[Assistant] That was awesome. I don't cook sweets that often. So getting a dish up that I'm so proud of, I loved that cook. That was really cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, kingfish entree. The duck will have a Thai basil salad and the dessert is Asian coconut filled crepe.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna do a squeeze of lime, is that alright? No, no, no, no, no. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Make sure that everything's good to go so that you can just chuck it all on. Just chuck it on all on, yep. The entree's my dish, it's a kingfish crudo.


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[Assistant] I'm quite happy with my sides. I think it's what the judges like. They love butter, they love chicken. It's exactly what I'm giving them today.


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[Assistant] I check on the fennel, I've touched one piece of it and the texture's wrong, it's still quite firm.


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[Assistant] I don't have much time left, and I need to bump up the oven temperature to get it done in time. And I'm really freaking out.


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[Assistant] Taking the dish up to the judges and Nigella. I'm quite happy with my jus. I know it's got a great flavour. The honey carrots I'm very happy with as well.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at that chicken. I don't know if it's cooked or overcooked.


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[Assistant] The fennel is something I'm concerned about as well. I'm not giving the judges potatoes, so I'm feeling quite nervous.


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[Assistant] Matt absolutely loves his potatoes with roast chicken.


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[Assistant] But I feel like I've done everything that I could have, and I just hope it's enough.


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[Assistant] I'm hoping so. I cooked them for a fair bit in the oven, so...


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[Assistant] The texture should be, it should carry all those juices cause I love the sauce and I hope you guys enjoy as much as you can.


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[Assistant] This is crazy. That's brutal. Totally not prepared for a two round pressure test. He's an amazing chef, so whatever he's got in store for us is not gonna be easy.


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[Assistant] Next thing I get down to is a little compliment for the prawns, the boab. Boabs are those giant, bulbous trees. I had no idea they had fruit or anything on them. It's a very strange texture. It's almost like pumice stone, but I can't wait to see how this all marries in with those prawns.


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[Assistant] I've not had this much fun in the kitchen on MasterChef ever, I don't think. It's kinda perfect.


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[Assistant] Top two of all time, which is kinda awesome. This early in the competition, to be that happy with the challenge and the result of my food, it's bloody awesome.


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[Assistant] I've got a question for ya, because 90 minutes for three dishes that is on your menu, would there be chefs at Arana that would struggle with this?


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[Assistant] Chris Badenough. How you doing? Right on time. That's exactly where you should be. How you feeling? I love it.


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[Assistant] Chum was she great, seasoning perfect. Whatever mind frame that you got yourself in today, continue it on because you cook really, really good food. So well done. Thank you. Thanks.


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[Assistant] It is just cooking a prawn, but we're all finding it really difficult to absolutely nail every element. Thanks Ben.


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[Assistant] You have one hour and 45 minutes to recreate both dishes.


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[Assistant] Before we taste, you'll have seven minutes to finish the dishes in front of us. The least impressive dishes will send their maker home.


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[Assistant] Because you just never know when you're going to get it that good. So, massive prop swing for that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but a kohlrabi salad, the balance is all out. That dressing is so intense. But again, we're talking three-headed stuff from you. You did a really good job.


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[Assistant] That was emotional for us. You know, you left everything on that bench.


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[Assistant] Huge props for getting everything up, because that was an absolute mission.


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[Assistant] For the entree we have prawns with pomegranate molasses and a burnt butter and buttermilk dressing.


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[Assistant] I think the secret to the prawns is really gonna be focusing on that hibachi, making sure you've got your coals perfectly aligned, making sure that the temperature is steady, there's no flare ups, no issues. That's what you're gonna have to do.


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[Assistant] The nuts and bolts of this challenge is pretty simple. Cook a three course meal. We as judges, we've decided to put our little touch on it.


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[Assistant] We have chosen three of our favourite ingredients. One of those ingredients has to be featured in either the entree, the main or the dessert.


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[Assistant] So gang, time to get you into teams. We're just gonna go... straight down there.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we've got our teams, but guys before we start, I just want you to take a moment and think about what's about to happen.


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[Assistant] You're in a service challenge, run by Gordon Ramsay. This is one of the reasons why you've come back.


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[Assistant] So get put under pressure by someone like that, cause this is when you get better. So enjoy it.


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[Assistant] It must I say, that looks fantastic. It looks killer. Like, the smell from that black garlic sauce is yum. I reckon they're coming back.


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[Assistant] After all that trouble with the lamb, how is it cooked?


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[Assistant] Which if they get 60 of those out to those customers, it is happy days. Oh, absolutely.


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[Assistant] I think that pork is really, really yummy. It's really good. It's cooked well. We got crispy cracklings, so that's a big thumbs up. My puree, it's a little stodgy. It feels like it's been a little too overworked.


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[Assistant] Ginger, yuzu, thyme, and honey.


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[Assistant] I have to agree with Jock, I enjoyed it a lot more when I bypassed the time, and I found myself really finding parts that I did like, but then, if I eat it as an overall dish, I'm not that much of a fan, it's, I get that potpourri sensation that you're talking about, and it just takes over your whole palette. Excellent, right over, moving on to lovely plates, let's go. I also think the ginger element,


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[Assistant] It's really interesting because, Reynolds has been like, the guy at the back, just motoring, you saw him over there with his boggles on, two mixes at a time, like, putting that liquid nitrogen in, it was, it was, it was a sure thing.


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[Assistant] It's a shame. It is a real shame, because the flavours are definitely there. Seven tables to go.


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[Assistant] What a day. Seriously, I do not know who's more shell-shot. You guys, or Gordon. Gordon, how did that go?


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[Assistant] Your entree was a great combination of flavours and each element was pretty much executed perfectly. And you featured black garlic brilliantly. Green team, you guys had some great flavours too. However,


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[Assistant] So after Entrez, 1-0 to the blue team.


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[Assistant] I would have been the youngest ever winner in MasterChef history. But I've got six years of experience now.


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[Assistant] Working under some of the best chefs for opening a restaurant. They've definitely grown as a cook. Looking back, I don't think I was ready to win. But I am now.


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[Assistant] Coming runner up on Season 6 was amazing, but going so far in the competition and then falling out the last hurdle is something I struggled with.


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[Assistant] It's like where did I go wrong? How could I have done better? When I first called Jock, uhm, and asked for a job,


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[Assistant] It was like daunting. It's like, I'm 18. I have no idea what I'm doing. Help me. He said yes, which was amazing. He taught me how to run a service and how to be dependent on myself in the kitchen. He introduced me to my husband Max.


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[Assistant] So to get this right is just really, really important.


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[Assistant] Oh, that is gooood. He probably hasn't seen this side of me. I'm just gonna remain really calm and cook my best. It's very simple, but it's very honest and it's true to myself, so fingers crossed that Josh's gonna love it today.


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[Assistant] Working with Native Australian Ingredients, I'm making a dessert I like to call a native winter.


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[Assistant] This is one of the most important moments in my life, trying to impress Jock.


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[Assistant] So I've got yogurt, Davidson plum, Melaleuca, honey, and finger lime.


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[Assistant] I think probably how far I've come since I was first on the Mastership.


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[Assistant] It's very, very different. Uhm, I worked with Jock for a few years, so this is probably like what I've learnt working with him.


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[Assistant] We're all here because we made the top 12 in our season. Looking around, there's so many tough competitors. Runners up, third place getters. Some have been out for a short time, some a long time. But once you walk through those doors, none of that matters.


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[Assistant] Andy and I have been in lockstep since season 4. He's my best mate.


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[Assistant] Reminds me constantly that he won. So it'd be nice to be able to say, look, I won as well, mate, so you can just pipe down. G'day, Ben. Bertie, see, you here.


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[Assistant] How are ya? Good mate, how are you? So good. Jack, nice to meet you. And you. What are you cooking for us? I'm doing abalone and pork cheek.


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[Assistant] And you know, I started my own TV production company. He's obviously been in Sydney and doing big things. I might leave them raw. Start off strong. To see him take his place as a judge, it's an emotional feeling because, yeah.


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[Assistant] What I'm gonna do is, if I had mates coming around for lunch, it's like my favourite thing to prepare for them. Really nice steak, some amazing sides, scampi crudo, grapefruit segments.


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[Assistant] I just want to show the judges the food I love to cook, and if they would come around to my house, this is what I'd serve them. For me, I'm not someone that works in a restaurant. I write recipes for delicious, do TV shows, a lot of home-style cooking. Well that wasn't me that was burning, what was that? Since leaving MasterChef, it's been a very busy nine years.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go all out. Yeah, there's no point. I didn't come on here to fart ass around. Nice. Uhm, we're gonna go hard.


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[Assistant] Hello Hayden. Hello mate. How are ya? Good to see you boys. What's cookin' big dog? So yea, we got rib eye steak, a couple of different sides, potato gratin, charred broccolini, got a little scanty starter with a little tomato salad. What else have we got in there? You're cookin' all this now.


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[Assistant] Looking around the MasterChef kitchen, everyone's just at the top of their game. It definitely slips into your mind, you're like, am I good enough?


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[Assistant] Where's the steak? I'm just gonna check the temperature. Coming out right at the last minute. The ribeye is probably under, but fingers crossed.


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[Assistant] What I wanted was a spread of dishes that I'd cook if a bunch of mates were coming around for lunch. Some really beautiful steak, nice sides, and uhm, yeaah, that's sort of who I am. You know, that's my sort of food.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well to be honest right now, I'm, I've never doubted my ability so much in my whole entire life. Like this, right now, I'm freaking out.


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[Assistant] Normally I'm very confident, but you know, everyone back there is just incredible. And I'm concerned that I'm not good enough to kick on with the best of them.


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[Assistant] Because I don't work in a restaurant, I don't, you know, that's not who I am. I, I, you know, I do really nice tasty home cooking, you know, right for the magazine. We do our really simple fun TV show.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I guess I'm second guessing myself and uhm, it scares me because normally I'm very confident.


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[Assistant] I can't swear, can I swear Gordon?


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[Assistant] So it's abalone, pork cheek and fennel. There's a sauce on there that was made with the abalone bits and the pork stock and it's creme fraiche.


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[Assistant] Ohhhhh. Fresh hair. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] That's pretty well known. I didn't think I'd get through the first challenge. Let alone be on there.


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[Assistant] Guys, one last thing. Chalk's kinda got my heart pumping. I'm gonna make it beat out of your chest. Cause this is important. Whoever cooks the best dish today, I think you guys know what I'm talking about, gets this. An immunity pin. Or should I say, the immunity pin. Because this year, this is the only immunity pin for the whole competition.


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[Assistant] So this is your only get out of jail free card that you'll guarantee not going home in a pressure test or an elimination.


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[Assistant] Linton, Season 5. How are you? I'm alright mate. How are you?


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[Assistant] Tell me why you're back, cause mate, you're very successful at what you do.


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[Assistant] I'm actually really excited for you that you're a little bit nervous and maybe questioning yourself because I know how hungry you are. I know how much you like to succeed.


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[Assistant] You'll be fine mate, trust yourself, you're a good cook, cause that, bad cooks can't do that. Well done Hayden. Cheers.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much. Randall, it's phenomenal. You are hugely in contention to get a pin today. The only pin. So, well done mate.


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[Assistant] Can you come to my joint and make me some dumplings? They're on point. Thanks guys. Next up, Sarah Tiong.


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[Assistant] I feel like you're fixated over there for some reason.


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[Assistant] I saw you when you walked in. Surely there's other fangirls in Gordon here, like let's be honest.


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[Assistant] Lyndson, coming in here, when I saw your face, I was like, you're gonna be right up there with one to beat because you think about food really well. And that's exactly what you've done here. The execution is just slightly off. You need to render your fat on the duck breast. You didn't take it far enough.


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[Assistant] Mate, you have a lot more cooks in this competition to get that right. With your determination, that I know you've got, mate, it's, it's literally game on for those guys behind you. Nice. Well done, mate. The sauce is amazing.


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[Assistant] Can I just say, I'm so glad I'm here to see what just happened. That was really beautiful. Like for you to be so emotional coming up and then for Jock to feel that emotion through a bowl of food, it's really, really, really special. I'm really glad that I witnessed that. So thank you very much.


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[Assistant] A huge advocate for back and win. I think that you've got a good chance to do that and I can't wait to see more food.


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[Assistant] I think the technique here for the first chord is out.


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[Assistant] Danny, what did you think when you were walking out the steps this morning and you were kind of peering left and right?


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[Assistant] That is really, really tasty food. There's a technique in there you can't teach people, so well done.


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[Assistant] Huge congratulations. I hope that thing serves you well. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Like everyone else out there though, that was an unbelievable first day. I think everyone's feeling it in the room. But as you know,


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[Assistant] When you walk out those doors and tomorrow you come back in, we're going to have something else waiting for you. So go home and come back with all guns firing in the morning. See you guys.


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[Assistant] But is it possible that we've been using that word wrong this whole time?


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[Assistant] The early 16th century statesman Niccolò Machiavelli wrote many works of history, philosophy, and drama.


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[Assistant] But his lasting notoriety comes from a brief political essay known as The Prince, framed as advice to current and future monarchs. Machiavelli wasn't the first to do this. In fact, there was an entire tradition of works known as mirrors for princes going back to antiquity.


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[Assistant] But unlike his predecessors, Machiavelli didn't try to describe an ideal government or exhort his audience to rule justly and virtuously. Instead, he focused on the question of power— how to acquire it and how to keep it.


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[Assistant] And in the decades after it was published, the prints gained a diabolical reputation.


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[Assistant] By the end of the century, Shakespeare was using Machiavelle to denote an amoral opportunist, leading directly to our popular use of Machiavellian as a synonym for manipulative villainy.


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[Assistant] At first glance, the prince's reputation as a manual for tyranny seems well-deserved. Throughout, Machiavelli appears entirely unconcerned with morality, except insofar as it's helpful or harmful to maintaining power.


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[Assistant] Most famously, he notes that for a ruler, it is much safer to be feared than loved. The tract even ends with an appeal to Lorenzo de' Medici, the recently installed ruler of Florence, urging him to unite the fragmented city-states of Italy under his rule.


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[Assistant] Many have justified Machiavelli as motivated by unsentimental realism and a desire for peace in an Italy torn by internal and external conflict.


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[Assistant] According to this view, Machiavelli was the first to understand a difficult truth. The greater good of political stability is worth whatever unsavory tactics are needed to attain it.


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[Assistant] But what we know about Machiavelli might not fit this picture. The author had served in his native Florence for 14 years as a diplomat, staunchly defending its elected Republican government against would-be monarchs.


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[Assistant] With this in mind, it's possible to read the pamphlet he wrote from exile not as a defense of princely rule, but a scathing description of how it operates.


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[Assistant] Through his brutal and shocking honesty, Machiavelli sought to shatter popular delusions about what power really entails. And as he wrote to a friend shortly before his death, he hoped that people would learn the way to hell in order to flee from it.


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[Assistant] For another famous take on power dynamics, download a free audio version of The Art of War on audible.com slash ted dash ed.


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[Assistant] Game of Thrones fans will be excited to hear a stirring narration from one of the series' most morally ambiguous characters. Can you guess who?


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[Assistant] Kyle has a really clear idea of some of the dishes that he wants to get started on, so I'm feeling pretty confident.


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[Assistant] It looks like a piece of art right there on the plate. I'm so happy with it. I can't believe that we managed to pull it off.


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[Assistant] That's what Venom is after. We better assemble the team. Give me the data on the best agents for this mission.


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[Assistant] Before I drive off, I always buckle my seatbelt. I wanna be safe.


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[Assistant] I'd like to invite you to close your eyes.


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[Assistant] Cookie Monster is waving at you from his perch on top of a tan horse. It's a talking horse. You can practically feel his blue fur tickling your nose. You can smell the oatmeal raisin cookie that he's about to shovel into his mouth. Walk past him. Walk past him into your living room.


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[Assistant] She is scantily clad, she's dancing on your coffee table, and she's singing Hit Me Baby one more time. And then follow me into your kitchen.


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[Assistant] Expecting, I guess, that this was going to be like the Super Bowl of savants. This was a bunch of guys and a few ladies, widely varying in both age and hygienic upkeep.


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[Assistant] The names of dozens and dozens and dozens of strangers. They were memorizing entire poems in just a few minutes.


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[Assistant] They were competing to see who could memorize the order of a shuffled pack of playing cards fastest.


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[Assistant] And I started talking to a few of the competitors. This is a guy called Ed Cook who had come over from England where he had one of the best trained memories. And I said to him, Ed,


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[Assistant] I'm not a savant. In fact, I have just an average memory.


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[Assistant] Everybody who competes in this contest will tell you that they have just an average memory. We've all trained ourselves to perform these utterly miraculous heats of memory.


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[Assistant] I was like, well, I'm not Britney Spears, but maybe you could teach me. I mean, you gotta start somewhere, right?


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[Assistant] I met this guy. This is Kim Peek. He was the bassist for Dustin Hoffman's character in the movie Rain Man.


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[Assistant] We spent an afternoon together in the Salt Lake City Public Library memorizing phone books, which was scintillating.


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[Assistant] This idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory.


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[Assistant] Was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.


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[Assistant] Once upon a time, people invested in their memories.


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[Assistant] In laboriously furnishing their minds.


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[Assistant] That have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories. For us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. These technologies have made our modern world possible but they've also changed us.


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[Assistant] Having little need to remember anymore, it sometimes seems like we've forgotten how.


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[Assistant] Few years back, a group of researchers at University College London brought a bunch of memory champions into the lab. They wanted to know, do these guys have brains that are somehow structurally, anatomically different from the rest of ours? The answer was no.


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[Assistant] They found that the memory champions were lighting up different parts of the brain than everyone else. Of note they were


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[Assistant] And is there something that the rest of us can learn from this?


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[Assistant] Is driven by a kind of arms race. Where every year, somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch up. This is my friend Ben Pridmore. Three time world memory champion. On his desk in front of him are 36 shuffled packs of playing cards. That he is about to try to memorize in one hour.


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[Assistant] Everything, all of the techniques that are being used, ultimately come down to a concept that psychologists refer to as elaborative encoding. And it's well illustrated by a nifty paradox, known as the Baker-Baker paradox, which goes like this. If I tell two people,


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[Assistant] To remember the same word. If I say to you, remember that there is a guy named Baker. That's his name. And I say to you,


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[Assistant] The person who is told his name is a baker is less likely to remember the same word


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[Assistant] And the entire art of remembering stuff better in everyday life?


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[Assistant] It's figuring out ways to transform capital B bakers into lowercase b bakers. To take information that is lacking in context, in significance, in meaning, and transform it in some way so that it becomes meaningful in the light of all of the other things that you have in your mind.


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[Assistant] And he stands up, delivers his poem from memory, walks out the door, and at the moment he does, the banquet hall collapses. Kills everybody inside.


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[Assistant] Nobody can say who is inside. Nobody can say where they were sitting. The bodies can't be properly buried. It's one tragedy compounding another.


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[Assistant] Simonides, standing outside, the sole survivor amid the wreckage, closes his eyes and has this realization.


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[Assistant] Which is that in his mind's eye, he can see where each of the guests at the banquet had been sitting.


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[Assistant] Which is that as bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word for word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.


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[Assistant] If I asked you to recount the first ten words of the story that I just told you about Simonides, chances are you would have a tough time with it.


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[Assistant] The idea behind the memory palace is to create this imagined edifice in your mind's eye.


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[Assistant] And populate it with images of the things that you want to remember. The crazier, weirder, more bizarre, funnier, raunchier, stinkier the image is, the more unforgettable it's likely to be. This is advice that goes back 2,000 plus years to the earliest Latin memory traditions. So how did this work?


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[Assistant] And you want to do it the way that Cicero would have done it if he had been invited to TEDx Rome 2000 years ago. What you might do


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[Assistant] Is picture yourself at the front door of your house.


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[Assistant] And you'd come up with some sort of an absolutely crazy, ridiculous, unforgettable image to remind you that the first thing you want to talk about is this totally bizarre contest.


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[Assistant] And then you'd go inside your house, and you would see an image of Cookie Monster on top of Mr. Ed.


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[Assistant] And then you'd see an image of Britney Spears to remind you of this funny anecdote you want to tell. And you go into your kitchen, and the fourth topic you were going to talk about was this strange journey that you went on for a year, and you'd have some friends to help you remember that.


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[Assistant] Memorize their speeches. Not word for word, which is just gonna screw you up, but topic for topic. In fact, the phrase topic sentence, that comes from the Greek word topos.


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[Assistant] Which means place. That's a vestige of when people used to think about oratory and rhetoric in these sorts of spatial terms. The phrase, in the first place? That's like, in the first place of your memory palace. I thought this was just fascinating, and I got really into it.


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[Assistant] And I went to a few more of these memory contests, and I had this notion that I might write something longer about this subculture of competitive memorizers. But there was a problem. The problem was that a memory contest


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[Assistant] It's a pathologically boring event.


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[Assistant] And so I started trying to spend 15 or 20 minutes every morning before I sat down with my New York Times, just trying to remember something. Maybe it was a poem.


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[Assistant] I ended up coming back to that same contest that I had covered a year earlier.


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[Assistant] Now I have this notion that I might enter it. Sort of as an experiment in participatory journalism.


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[Assistant] They are tricks that work because they are based on some pretty basic principles about how our brains work. And you don't have to be building memory palaces or memorizing packs of playing cards to benefit from a little bit of insight about how your mind works.


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[Assistant] We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned.


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[Assistant] When we're able to transform it in some way that it makes sense in the light of all of the other things floating around in our minds. When we're able to transform bakers into bakers.


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[Assistant] They're not even really shortcuts. They work because they make you work.


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[Assistant] They force a kind of depth of processing, a kind of mindfulness that most of us don't normally walk around exercising. But there actually are no shortcuts. This is how stuff is made memorable. And I think if there's one thing that I want to leave you with, it's what EP, the amnesiac who


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[Assistant] Couldn't even remember that he had a memory problem left me with which is the notion that our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to


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[Assistant] Lose from our already short live.


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[Assistant] I learned firsthand that there are incredible memory capacities latent in all of us.


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[Assistant] Exactly. I need to cook my crab, cook my pineapple curry


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[Assistant] Tamarin, tamarin, where are you? Pineapple curry is so unusual. It has this incredible sweet, sour and marminess that comes from these maldi fish flakes. A very unusual ingredient.


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[Assistant] It's like the best light, tropical curry that makes you just feel like you're on holiday in the middle of summer and you're, it just relaxes you, it relaxes you and takes you to another place.


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[Assistant] So that is really concerning for me because it's not what everybody else is doing.


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[Assistant] Everybody else's dishes are looking really refined. My style of cooking is really rustic.


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[Assistant] I'm also nervous because Jock loves Sri Lankan food and loves pineapple curries and has an emotional attachment to this. I'm bringing you a taste of Sri Lanka.


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[Assistant] So I've got a Sri Lankan mud crab curry, a pineapple curry, uhm, and some homemade roti and sambal.


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[Assistant] I love Sri Lanka, it's like such a special place to me.


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[Assistant] I went there as a very young girl. I was 20. And it opened my eyes up to the world of spices and things like coconut oil. And I also fell in love there. I met my husband there. So it's a really special place. And it's got an amazing food culture. So to bring just a little bit of a taste of that. I hope you guys enjoy it.


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[Assistant] I mean like, everything's changed, but it feels really comfortable in some weird way as well. Like it's like a family here at MasterChef. It's an absolute privilege.


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[Assistant] I'm a serious contender. I'm not here to mock around.


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[Assistant] It's so hot in here. There's hibachi grills going everywhere. Everyone's got ovens on. Everyone's got stoves on.


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[Assistant] I've got my shoe in the oven, I've got my gel setting in the freezer, and I've got my creme pat chilling. So next step is to temper some chocolate for some garnish. Is it a must, Chef? No, no to melt chocolate in the microwave.


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[Assistant] The MasterChef kitchen's really hot. It's gonna be really hard to control that temperature. Fingers crossed this works.


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[Assistant] I need to take this from just an eclair to a masterpiece.


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[Assistant] But it is technically driven. This is what I love to do.


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[Assistant] Yes. Why? Daniel and his mother picked up Scott this morning. They drove to Canyon Creek to go fishing. I better hurry.


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[Assistant] What have I done? Select the mask agents best suited for this mission.


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[Assistant] The other half of the arrowhead was lost over a thousand years ago. Lost all that time? Curious. Where could it possibly be? Maybe in an old Indian couch.


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[Assistant] It matters not what a key is made of, so long as it opens the lock.


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[Assistant] That's it, Bruce. The arrowhead must be the key to something far bigger. Hmm, something much bigger. A canoe? Dusty, sometimes I think you've got an empty teepee.


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[Assistant] Bruce, I want a chance to check out the park before they arrive. Think you can slow venom down, then meet me there?


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[Assistant] A wounded rabbit makes the full fox hungry. Wounded rabbit?


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[Assistant] Venom will pay for what they did to Scott.


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[Assistant] I get the funny feeling. This star chariot is more than it appears to be. Yeaah! And what happens when Venom decides to come back and try for it again?


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[Assistant] When all of the miles mayhem of this world are gone, I think it may finally reveal its secrets.


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[Assistant] Maybe it could be. What are you making? Ah, I'm making a slow-roasted quail, put it in the oven, and it's gonna go with a mushroom and quail jus.


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[Assistant] It is a roasted quail breast with pasta puree, blackberry gel, and smoked blueberries with mushrooms.


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[Assistant] When did you press stop? Because this looks pretty sophisticated. 32 minutes and 7 seconds to go.


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[Assistant] First listen and then answer the following question. What is a hovercraft riding on when it is in motion? Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century, the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft


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[Assistant] In 1953, a former electronics engineer in his 50s, Christopher Cockerell, who had turned to boat building on the Norfolk Broads, suggested an idea on which he had been working for many years to the British government and industrial circles.


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[Assistant] It was the idea of supporting a craft on a pad or cushion of low pressure air, ringed with a curtain of higher pressure air.


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[Assistant] Ever since, people have had difficulty in deciding whether the craft should be ranged among ships, planes, or land vehicles


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[Assistant] For it is something in between a boat and an aircraft


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[Assistant] As a shipbuilder, Cockerell was trying to find a solution to the problem of the wave resistance which wastes a good deal of a surface ship's power and limits its speed.


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[Assistant] His answer was to lift the vessel out of the water by making it ride on a cushion of air.


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[Assistant] This is done by a great number of ring-shaped air jets on the bottom of the craft


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[Assistant] It flies therefore, but it cannot fly higher. Its action depends on the surface, water or ground, over which it rides


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[Assistant] The first tests on the solent in 1959 caused a sensation


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[Assistant] The hovercraft traveled first over the water, then mounted the beach, climbed up the dunes, and sat down on a road


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[Assistant] Later it crossed the channel, riding smoothly over the waves, which presented no problem