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[Assistant] The story of any volcano begins with magma. Often, this molten rock forms in areas where ocean water is able to slip into the Earth's mantle and lower the layer's melting point.


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[Assistant] The resulting magma typically remains under the Earth's surface thanks to the delicate balance of three geological factors. The first is lithostatic pressure. This is the weight of the Earth's crust pushing down on the magma below. Magma pushes back with the second factor, magma-static pressure.


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[Assistant] The battle between these forces strains the third factor— the rock strength of the Earth's crust. Usually, the rock is strong enough and heavy enough to keep the magma in place. But when this equilibrium is thrown off, the consequences can be explosive.


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[Assistant] At high enough concentrations, compounds like water or sulfur no longer dissolve and instead form high-pressure gas bubbles.


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[Assistant] Their presence lowers the magma's density and increases the buoyant force pushing upward through the crust.


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[Assistant] There are two known natural causes for these buoyant bubbles. Sometimes, new magma from deeper underground brings additional gassy compounds into the mix.


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[Assistant] In its molten state, magma is a mixture of dissolved gases and melted minerals. As the molten rock hardens, some of those minerals solidify into crystals.


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[Assistant] Not all eruptions are due to rising magma-static pressure. Sometimes the weight of the rock above can become dangerously low. Landslides can remove massive quantities of rock from atop a magma chamber, dropping the lithostatic pressure and instantly triggering an eruption.


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[Assistant] Acidic gases and heat escaping from magma can corrode rock through a process called hydrothermal alteration, gradually turning hard stone into soft clay.


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[Assistant] But the rock layer could also be weakened by tectonic activity. Earthquakes can create fissures, allowing magma to escape to the surface. And the Earth's crust can be stretched thin as continental plates shift away from each other.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, knowing what causes eruptions doesn't make them easy to predict.


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[Assistant] But vulcanologists are constantly exploring new technology to conquer this rocky terrain.


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[Assistant] Advances in thermal imaging have allowed scientists to detect subterranean hotspots. Spectrometers can analyze gases escaping magma. And lasers can precisely track the impact of rising magma on a volcano's shape.


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[Assistant] Did you know that there's an even more explosive and destructive kind of volcano known as a supervolcano? 650,000 years ago, when the Yellowstone Supervolcano last exploded, it covered North America in nearly two meters of ash and rock.


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[Assistant] Find out more about these epic eruptions with this video.


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[Assistant] I'm not entertaining the idea of going into round two, so I'm just gonna use my favorite ingredient, sugar, to stay out of that situation. So I'm making a Japanese pancake with a brown sugar ice cream and a miso caramel. Japanese pancake isn't your regular pancake.


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[Assistant] For round one, I'm cooking a Japanese pancake and a brown sugar ice cream.


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[Assistant] There is no way that I wanna be in that round two to cook with my least favourite ingredient. Not feeling very confident.


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[Assistant] Well, I was hoping to make a Japanese pancake, uhm, but in the last two minutes of the cook it didn't work out, so I ditched that and now it is a caramelized banana sundae.


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[Assistant] I don't understand how it worked out to be this way, but I'm glad they loved the ice cream. I did not expect that at all.


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[Assistant] At the moment, Dee and Mandy are keeping up with Curtis, but Tim and Joe seem to be struggling.


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[Assistant] The only thing you can hear in the room right now is the sound of whiskey with Bernays going nuts. It's really important to make sure this is perfect to get this community there.


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[Assistant] It's round two and I'm standing across okra, my least favourite ingredient. Mum used to always cook okra. I always hated the texture of it. It was always so slimy. I'm gonna make a mum's recipe and it's called Bamiya.


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[Assistant] First thing that I have to do, I've got to fry off the okra just to brown it just a bit because that will bring out a lot more flavour. Crisp it up and hopefully make it less slimy.


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[Assistant] So, I wanna put some more camo in there and some more pre-car. Just praying that it's enough. I'm fighting for my life right now.


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[Assistant] Georgian Gary asked me to put as much flavour as I can in that sauce. So yeah, it's got some cumin flavour in there, and paprika that I want, and it's got garlic as well, so hopefully it's good. I can feel the richness of the sauce. I'm feeling a little bit more confident now.


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[Assistant] We had the best time hanging out. Laughing, eating.


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[Assistant] I won't be able to see her that often from now on. I'll miss her very much.


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[Assistant] That's true, I suppose. But it would have been better if she'd found a job here.


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[Assistant] Yes, I know this is the opportunity for her lifetime. And she simply can't let it slip through her fingers. She's very excited about it. I mustn't spoil things for her.


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[Assistant] Not well, I'm afraid. I've gotten myself into trouble.


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[Assistant] I took my eye off the ball when I was trying to negotiate an important deal and managed to lose the deal at the last minute.


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[Assistant] She was really angry and lashed out at me, saying I was losing my touch.


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[Assistant] It was quite a slap in the face because I've brought in many good business opportunities until now.


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[Assistant] I wanna prove my boss she was wrong to judge me by one incident.


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[Assistant] I want her to see I'm still very competent and skillful.


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[Assistant] My son Josh has already left home. We only see him a couple of times a year.


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[Assistant] They've got the same eyes and nose, the same hair color, and they are even the same height.


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[Assistant] Even though we're sad that he's left, it's normal that he's done so.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, we have more time to walk the dogs, slowly renovate our new home,


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[Assistant] Hi, Olivia. I wonder if I could have a brief chat with you. Yeah, sure, Chloe. Please have a seat. So, what is it? Well, it's a delicate subject. I don't know how to begin.


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[Assistant] I've made a big mistake today. It was an accident, actually. Chloe, please cut to the chase. Just tell me what's wrong and I'm sure we can sort it out. But please promise me not to get upset. Okay, I promise. Well, today I did some online shopping at work.


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[Assistant] Then I accidentally paid for it with the company credit card that was lying in front of me.


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[Assistant] I mistook it for my personal mastercard when I made the purchase. I see, how much did you spend? $1500. Oh, that's a lot of money. I know, I bought some gifts for my family. Well, there's a procedure to deal with this.


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[Assistant] I will make a deduction from your final salary payment to recover the costs. Thanks a lot Olivia, I promise to be more careful from now on.


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[Assistant] One more thing. If you're getting your work done on time, I don't have anything against shopping online at workplace. But if you're falling behind because of this, then I'm against it. So please don't let this affect your productivity.


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[Assistant] Of course not. You know I've always submitted my projects on time. Yes, I know. Just keep up the good work.


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[Assistant] Yes, I believe a good night's rest helps their performance in school.


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[Assistant] Aren't they tired the next day? Don't you think they should go to bed earlier?


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[Assistant] So you think we should let them go to bed when they're tired? But kids never admit they're tired.


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[Assistant] Hey Beth, did you hear Lucy and Max broke up?


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[Assistant] Yes, I heard that. What's more, she's going out with David. Get out of here. I saw them together yesterday.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's better this way, because Lucy and Max didn't have anything in common.


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[Assistant] I liked him until I found out he cheated on his last girlfriend, you know.


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[Assistant] Just go straight down this road and when you get to the end, turn right. It's on the opposite side of the street.


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[Assistant] I've been to Disneyland a ton of times. You can always have such a good time there, no matter how old you are.


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[Assistant] It sounds like an interesting city. I hope to get a chance to visit it someday.


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[Assistant] Well, it was a pleasure talking to you. I need to go to the bakery now. Have a wonderful stay in LA.


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[Assistant] No, it never ever snows here. In winter, it is sunny during the day.


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[Assistant] You must have heat in your house. Or have wool blankets. I am not kidding. It gets cold at night.


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[Assistant] Courtland. Wow, you're far from home. What's the weather like there?


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[Assistant] Well, what a treat! Your parents raised you very well. Hats off!


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[Assistant] Jessica! Well, well, I haven't seen you in a while. You look different. Have you changed your hair? Yeah, it's shorter, and I wear contacts now. Oh, and I've lost weight. Well, you look fantastic! Thanks, so do you. So, what have you been up to?


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[Assistant] Well, I've been working very hard, got a new apartment, and I'm making better money now. Things have been going really good. What about you, Stacey? What have you been doing?


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[Assistant] Same old stuff, you know, I'm working in the same bank and still going out with Anthony. I've also been busy fixing up my place.


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[Assistant] It's almost done! My brother's helping me to keep the price down. How about you? Do you work at the same company?


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[Assistant] Yes, but I've been promoted to a managerial position. I'm very thrilled about this. That's amazing! Congratulations! Thanks. Are you still seeing Liam? No, we broke up last year. I'm seeing somebody else now. His name is Eric, and we got engaged!


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[Assistant] That's great news! Congratulations for this too! Do you live in the area? Yes, I live around the corner.


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[Assistant] And if you want to come by, my penthouse is over on 1600 Park Avenue, 13th floor, Suite 1320A. Feel free to come by any time. I would love to do some catching up. Penthouse, huh? Well, alright, I will. Well, I need to get to work. Feel free to stop by any time after 7pm, okay? Take care, Stacy. You too, bye!


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[Assistant] Texting while walking is a bad idea, because you can get distracted and trip, fall, or run into something or someone.


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[Assistant] You put yourself at risk of getting into an accident. Or you can hurt someone else.


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[Assistant] You can't walk along like that with your head down, expecting everyone else to walk around you.


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[Assistant] Stop overreacting. You're making a mountain out of a molehill. Now I think you are the one who takes things too lightly.


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[Assistant] If you must text while you're out, you should stop somewhere and get out of everyone's way.


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[Assistant] Fine, you've gotten your point across. I'll be more careful from now on.


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[Assistant] I like to give that little flash in a pan. It's like the ultimate bacon roll.


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[Assistant] Alright, so on the weekend we got our phones out and filmed a typical day doing what we do best. Cooking and eating.


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[Assistant] So your job today is to use those same ingredients to cook other dish good enough to keep you in this competition.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, so this is my pantry. Coffee pecorino. Durum flour for making pasta. Enough HP sauce. It's an important addition. Milk, salt, pepper, pancetta, butter. Yeah, it's pretty sparse, but delicious.


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[Assistant] Danny's got some of your, uh, rum cap there. Oh nice.


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[Assistant] Brandon, let me guess, let me guess, let me guess. Dumpling.


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[Assistant] Remember what is at stake, guys. You're all wearing black aprons, yes? One of you is going home. You've got ten minutes!


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. It was all going so well. And then all of a sudden, with just a couple of minutes to go, a few of you stumbled.


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[Assistant] Clearly, the pressure of an elimination is getting to you.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. A little bit bitter-edged, which makes this dish perfect.


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[Assistant] Hands up if you made noodles today. Come on buddy, bring it down.


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[Assistant] That coffee ice cream smooth as the web chocolate is to die for. I got hit in the jam. Wow. Just made me smile. It's just...


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[Assistant] So good. And the balance is so good. The elements are so good. It is so good. Well done mate.


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[Assistant] Love the panna cotta, love the fruit. Don't love that crumb. Okay. Black sesame aside, it's a bit floury.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's the only jarring thing for me is, is the chips out of packet. You're in an elimination.


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[Assistant] Cheese filling. And that one is as silky as a gigolo's compliment. Well done.


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[Assistant] It's more than a smidge over. When you get to that tail end, you can see it looks a bit like tin salmon. Had to be brutal about it.


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[Assistant] And that's the danger of doing a tailpiece. And I know, yes, it cooks faster. I get it. But then you've got...


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[Assistant] I love the flavours, but we've gone a little bit too acidic for me. The roof of my mouth actually hurts. It's not your best dish, mate, I've gotta say.


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[Assistant] And when you add that salad onto it, and some of that, and I'm not a garlic guy, somehow you've made me turn a corner there with the avocado in it maybe, or maybe it's just because it's so bloody good. Well done.


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[Assistant] Two of you in particular missed the mark by a long way.


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[Assistant] Both of your dishes had problems, but at the opposite ends of the spectrum. Rose, your crumb was underdone, then your fish was overdone.


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[Assistant] In fact, it was so acidic that none of us could have finished that dish. And that's why I'm sorry. You're going home.


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[Assistant] Well, yes, I was traveling from my workplace to my home. When the car suddenly stalled and wouldn't start. I think the engine stopped due to some internal failure. I'm not sure. There are no garages around for miles.


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[Assistant] Oh really? That's great to hear. It would be wonderful if you could fix it.


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[Assistant] Wow, the car started. You're a life saver. I really appreciate your help. How much do I owe you?


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[Assistant] But I just had to dash into the bakery to buy bread. Supposing you cancel it just this once?


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[Assistant] It's always interesting watching you come in on a day like today because some of you steely and determined, others, Leah, big smile on your face. It's about mindset, regardless of whether you're dressed in black or not. But what a week to be in a pressure test. Nigella week.


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[Assistant] So, you have 90 minutes to bring us the perfect roast chicken with two sides of your choice. They just have to be hot.


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[Assistant] The recipe for the roast chicken is at your bench. Everything else is up to you. Nigella, you do the honours.


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[Assistant] Look, I love it. The sauce is great. The roast flavour's there. It's roast chicken. I think she's done a smashing job, I really do.


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[Assistant] So we all know that roast chickens are regular at your dinner table. Are you pleased with the spread that you've put up?


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[Assistant] But you also all made mistakes that stood out.


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[Assistant] But Monica, there was also an underlying bitterness and sourness to your gravy. And I'm sorry. That's why you're going home.


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[Assistant] Absolutely fighting for my life today. Uhm, I'm excited about the cook. I do cook roast chicken and sides a fair bit for my family. So yeaah, I'm excited.


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[Assistant] I'm just hoping that it reduces down and I can pick it up on the streets so there's plenty of gravy for them too. I have.


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[Assistant] At this point I've got all eyes on my gravy, but I'm so aware that I've got so many things that need to get done before that clock runs out.


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[Assistant] First pressure test is over. I'm feeling relieved and proud that I've got this beautiful dish up, but I'm also feeling a bit worried because I know there's a few things that aren't quite right.


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[Assistant] This is a proud moment for me because my students will be so excited that I'm serving Nigella one of her dishes.


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[Assistant] There are a few things that are concerning me. I know that that gravy isn't quite perfect.


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[Assistant] I'm feeling so proud of myself. I'm not really a roast chook kind of gal. I don't cook them very often.


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[Assistant] I'm hoping so. I've been in a bit of a rut for the first few weeks and I don't think I've had a chance to really show you what I'm about as a cook and what I love doing and what I'm good at doing. Uhm, so I'm hoping that I've got a chance to do that.


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[Assistant] Being a master chef, the one thing that I've really learnt is to always, always cook what you love and eat what you love.


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[Assistant] The MasterChef experience has been absolutely amazing. I've realised that I do love educating and teaching young children, but I'd love to do it in the side of food rather than in the classroom.


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[Assistant] There'll be love custard in our house, particularly my son Noah. It's something that I can whip up in about five minutes, so too easy.


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[Assistant] And then I realised, I haven't put the eggs in my custard.


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[Assistant] Customs at Peter's, so of course that was a bit that I had to, had to, uhm, stuff up today, wasn't it?


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[Assistant] So my heart sinks a little bit. And then I have a little taste. It's really caramelised in the oven. So I strain the custard into the jug and serve that to the judges.


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[Assistant] I've made a coconut custard with a black sticky rice and a mango salsa.


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[Assistant] Simon's taken the lid off his peas and it's split. It looks like he's over-whipped the cream.


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[Assistant] I get the filling into the freezer because I want it to harden up so that when I wrap the dough around it and then cook it in the oven that that kinda melts the filling essentially.


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[Assistant] I would normally make these buns in around two to three hours because it takes the time for the dough to prove. It's a massive risk, uh, getting a little bit worried. Have I made the right decision now?


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[Assistant] This is a MasterChef 10 Relay on steroids.


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[Assistant] I'm excited-ish, because I know that I'm going to have to be cooking a dessert. And then I'm like, oh, what happens if I have to end the dessert and nothing's working and I can't make anything else and I take our team into elimination?


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[Assistant] Crispy shallot sits on its way. Radishes are in the oven, people!


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[Assistant] Po is working on my main, which is gonna be a seared duck breast with a really lovely salad on the side and a really punchy sauce. I'm gonna finish the duck in the oven at the end.


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[Assistant] My dish is the main, which is gonna be a seared duck breast with a really lovely salad on the side and a really punchy sauce.


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[Assistant] The duck has come off the stove and into the oven. The temperature, I need to get it to at least 63, 64.


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[Assistant] I'm checking the temperature of my duck, or my mane, to get that duck breast cooked perfect.


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[Assistant] If I cut into this dark and it's not perfect, it will be my fault that our team goes into elimination.


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[Assistant] I've got two duck breasts, one's on the stove, one's in the oven. I've done duck a lot of time. I know what it should feel like, I know what it should taste like, and I know what temperature it should be at for it to be pink.


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[Assistant] And I'm trying not to laugh but I'm laughing because I've put myself in the weeds here.


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[Assistant] Roasted duck breast. Fish ginger caramel sauce. And then refreshing salad on the side. And poke the desserts.


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[Assistant] If you don't get that chicken in the oven in time to get nice and golden and roasted, it's pretty much your ticket home.


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[Assistant] That is amazing. That is cracking.


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[Assistant] You're in tomorrow's pressure test. And one of you will be going home.


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[Assistant] All of you cook in round one, the three least impressive cooks going to round two.


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[Assistant] And one of those three will be going home today.


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[Assistant] Ryeberry Crumpets, Sugar Bag Honey and Whipped Butter.


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[Assistant] So, the prawns, we cook them on hibachi.


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[Assistant] I want people to pick up that head and suck the mustard out of it. And the body needs to be just set. What are you testing in that can when you test that head?


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[Assistant] Next, chawanmushi, a savoury custard. This is a tight rope of balance. You're not going to have to make the bunionot miso that came from Iran. It took two and a half years to make. You don't need to make that today, okay? Part of the pleasure of this dish is being able to take a little bit of that and the chawanmushi and eat it together, right? That is so nice.


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[Assistant] Good luck, your time starts now.


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[Assistant] Difficult if you've never done this before. Yeah, yeah, gotcha. If they're not thinking ahead for the next step, two steps ahead, they're gonna fall short on time.


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[Assistant] There's a lot to do. There is a lot to do, but just one step at a time.


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[Assistant] When I said my heart was full of pride, I wasn't joking. This is...


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[Assistant] The moment that sweetness comes through, the balance, the texture just changes. It just elevates that prawn to something completely different. You might nail that. Perfectly set. Great balance. Yes, your holes did depart you somewhere along the line.


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[Assistant] But you know what? That was the only thing that was wrong with them. Well done mate.


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[Assistant] Corny. Prawns. What happened here? Just didn't take it out. It can happen.


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[Assistant] Chawabushi for me, uh, really likes seasoning.


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[Assistant] Crumpets, beautiful colour on the bottom. Mine was crispy when I bit into it, which is awesome. Great, really good cooking.


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[Assistant] You were very cool, very collected, very...


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[Assistant] Tessa, confident cooking. Perfectly cooked prawn.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Ben. The only thing missing from the crumpets is the bloody holes. It's what makes a crumpet a crumpet. Uh, chowamushi. Perfectly cooked. The thing that lay you down is the prawn. Undercooked all over. Just not quite set.


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[Assistant] Having a poo shirt in your prong, not great. Which is a shame, because the cooking was good.


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[Assistant] But when you miss that little step, it doesn't matter how good you're cooking. You missed the step.


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[Assistant] What a great cook. You should all be very, very proud of yourself. There are a couple of you that were close to perfect. Tessa? Chris?


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[Assistant] You could come and work in Irana and do a service, no problem. Equally!


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[Assistant] If I say your name, please step forward. You will be in round two.


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[Assistant] Congratulations to the rest of you. Head up to the gun tree. Good luck guys.


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[Assistant] Bruce, Courtney, Ben, it's crunch time. One of you will be going home after this cook. Are you ready to see what it is?


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[Assistant] It is my pickled kohlrabi salad.


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[Assistant] Cooked on the coals, a little bit of eucalyptus.


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[Assistant] So, two more dishes from Arana's menu, both require technical precision. We're just gonna let that cook, okay, while we're talking. The kohlrabi salad. Everyone know what kohlrabi is, first of all.


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[Assistant] We're gonna lathe it, not too thin, not too thick. If it's too thick, then we won't get the shape of these beautiful cones that form this dome, okay? If it's too thin, it's impossible to hold its own structure. Let's try a little bit. Inside the middle of it is barata.


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[Assistant] The burrata's been made into a form, and the form helps support the structure of the kohlrabi cones. That dressing you can see there is lemon myrtle.


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[Assistant] My damper, just break it and then dip it into this lamb butter.


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[Assistant] Now lamb butter essentially is a hollandaise made out of lamb fat.


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[Assistant] Mate, you're composed. Yeah. You're focused. I like that. Thanks. This is a different race.


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[Assistant] So the firmer you push here, the thicker it is. Yep. So find that balance between too thick and too thin.


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[Assistant] How much did you put in? Just a pinch. Either you've spun it too much, the Xanthana's just let go, or it's not enough Xanthana.


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[Assistant] This is the pointy end of the steak. The focus needs to really come together because the time pressure is making sure that they get those critical technique points right. You know, the caramelization of the lamp fat is critical. This is go time. Yeah. 20 minutes to go! Come on guys, give it! Come on!


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[Assistant] Well, right now, this is your time. Good luck, Rhys. Thanks, Cass. Thanks, Matt. Thank you. Thank you, Rhys.


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[Assistant] The damper is extraordinary. It is restaurant-a-run-a-ready.


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[Assistant] Here he is. Well, here we go. Let's go buddy.


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[Assistant] The dumpers, light, it's airy. The cons.


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[Assistant] Fantastic slicing there, great consistency, nice pickle. The consistency of the lamb butter was perfect, but the flavour...


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[Assistant] Was not perfect. Uh, the barata that I had on main was really nice and, and nicely balanced too.


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[Assistant] I couldn't agree with you more and it's great to hear you talk like that and positively is the thing that's going to pull you through this. Thank you. Thanks Courtney. Thank you very much Courtney. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Obviously she just didn't quite get to finish this. Was missing the dressing. Which is a real shame.


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[Assistant] Uh, in a rush to, to finish. This is a tough one because, because this is delicious.


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[Assistant] The burrata was delicious, but we have to bear in mind this is incomplete. Whether we like it or not.


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[Assistant] First of all, I just want to thank everybody who cooked today. Especially you three. Rhys, your damper was a runner ready. Best in the lot, mate.


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[Assistant] Ben, your kohlrabi corns were perfect. Courtney, your burrata and your lamb butter were the best of the lot. But...


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[Assistant] I'm so determined to stay out of that second round. I really don't want to be cooking twice. As long as I can just keep moving, keep breathing, uhm, I should be okay.


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[Assistant] At the beginning I was pretty nervous and then pretty quickly I felt really confident and I just backed myself.


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[Assistant] With an anchovy crema and a tomatillo and jalapeno salsa.


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[Assistant] Gordon being super nice yesterday. I feel like today we'll see a bit of mean Gordon come out. You know, maybe someone's going to be an idiot sandwich or something's going to be thrown across the room.


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[Assistant] The role of the captain is super important. I just need to go and wander the pantry for a sec so I can get some ideas. It's to make sure that our dishes are creative, that they can be done in the time. It's a full on job.


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[Assistant] It's always been a dream of mine to be yelled at by Gordon at some point in my life. Maybe.


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[Assistant] I'm on the green team, I'm in charge of desserts. Oh no, they're underneath.


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[Assistant] We've gone for classical because we know we've got Reynolds and some really technical dessert cooks on the other team. We've gone for more of a, um,


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[Assistant] The dessert, I'm making an almond orange pastry with a spiced ginger brulee with a little branded apple underneath. I delegate myself the pastry. Rose is doing the custard and Sarah's doing the apple.


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[Assistant] The risk with this is that Gordon is from a classical background and we will really, really need to nail this. If even one tiny element is like not spot on, it'll write the dessert off, like literally.


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[Assistant] Go easy, go easy, go easy. The tight shells. I made them too thin. They are breaking left, right and centre. We've broken more than we can.


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[Assistant] Uhm. Things are starting to fall apart and Gordon is asking for a sample. Entree is nearly served. Our custards, I don't even know whether are cooled down enough. I am starting to have a meltdown.


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[Assistant] How did this happen? It's only three elements and I've just managed to still shoot myself in the foot. Okay, I have to do more tart shells, okay? Last table guys, come on!


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[Assistant] We are now nearly to main course and I'm making new pastry shells.


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[Assistant] It looks like an absolute inferno around me, but I get my tart shells in the oven and just cross my fingers.


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[Assistant] Not at all. How was that cooked for you? My dream to be yelled at by Gordon Ramsay did come true.


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[Assistant] MasterChef definitely changed my life. It turned my life on its head. I don't feel like my feet have touched the ground since. I've had my own cooking shows, written books, started my own business. It's just that electricity in the MasterChef kitchen is like nothing I've ever felt in my life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just want that feeling again. I have been dreaming about this for the last ten years. And, of course, I'm back to win.


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[Assistant] I cooked abacus beads for my audition. My mum taught me this recipe from her side of the family. They're Hakka. The dish changed my life. I was made of a risk taker in the competition.


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[Assistant] Abacus Beads are like a gnocchi-like dumpling made out of taro.


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[Assistant] Stop it! Stop it! A lot is going on right now. Gordon Ramsay is in front of me, telling me I'm the crowd favourite, and I'm like, no! What? I need this extra pressure!


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[Assistant] This dish has so much sentimental value to me. It was my audition dish, the abacus beads. I take out the tarra dumpling, a taster, and it's the wrong texture. I want it bouncy. I'm actually in a bit of trouble, hey.


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[Assistant] I forgot to make an entire element of my dish. The chilli sauce, it's the thing that knits all together.


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[Assistant] I've forgotten an entire element of my dish.


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[Assistant] It's abacus beads in a chicken and anchovy broth.


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[Assistant] I just got really, really lost in the stress and there's an entire element missing.


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[Assistant] It's a chili sauce and it's the thing that actually brings everything together.


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[Assistant] The chilli sauce has acidity, sweetness, brightness, and that's going to be missing from the dish.


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[Assistant] Two sisters take the same DNA test.


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[Assistant] The results show that one sister is 10% French, the other 0%.


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[Assistant] Both sisters share the same two parents, and therefore the same set of ancestors.


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[Assistant] So how can one be 10% more French than the other?


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[Assistant] Tests like these rely on our DNA to answer questions about our ancestry.


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[Assistant] But our DNA actually can't tell us everything about who we are, or where we're from.


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[Assistant] DNA tests are great at answering some questions, like who your parents are.


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[Assistant] It helps to know where our DNA comes from in the first place.


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[Assistant] Each person's DNA consists of about 6 billion base pairs stored in 23 pairs of chromosomes, 46 total.


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[Assistant] That may seem like a dizzying amount of information.


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[Assistant] Contains everything distinct about an individual's ancestry.


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[Assistant] One chromosome in each pair comes from each parent. These halves join at conception when a sperm and egg


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[Assistant] Each with only 23 chromosomes combined.


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[Assistant] The story of our ancestry becomes muddled before conception.


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[Assistant] That's because the 23 chromosomes in a sperm or egg aren't identical to the chromosomes of every other cell in the body.


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[Assistant] As they go from a cell with 46 chromosomes to a sex cell with only 23, the chromosomes within each pair swap some sections.


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[Assistant] This process is called recombination and it means that every sperm or egg


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[Assistant] Contains single chromosomes that are a unique mashup of each pair.


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[Assistant] Recombination occurs uniquely in each sex cell, making two sisters chromosomes different not only from their parents, but from each others.


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[Assistant] Recombination happens before conception.


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[Assistant] So you get exactly half of your DNA from each parent.


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[Assistant] But going further back, things get more complicated.


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[Assistant] Without recombination, you would get a quarter from each grandparent.


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[Assistant] An eighth from each great-grandparent, and so on.


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[Assistant] But because recombination happens every generation, those numbers vary. The more generations removed and ancestors,


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[Assistant] Just one sixty-fourth of your DNA would come from each ancestor six generations back. Because of recombination, that number can be higher, though we don't know for sure how high. Or it can be as low as zero.


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[Assistant] So one sister isn't more French in the sense of having more ancestors from France.


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[Assistant] Instead, the French ancestors are simply more represented in her DNA. But the story doesn't end there.


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[Assistant] The tests don't trace the DNA of the sister's actual French ancestors. We don't have access to the genomes of deceased individuals from previous generations.


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[Assistant] Instead, these results are based on a comparison to the DNA of people living in France today.


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[Assistant] The tests look for genetic markers or combinations of genetic markers.


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[Assistant] These markers are short sequences that appear in specific places.


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[Assistant] The sister deemed more French shares genetic markers with people currently living in France.


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[Assistant] The assumption is that these shared markers indicate ancestors from the same place, France.


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[Assistant] It's important to note that results are based on people who've had their genome sequenced.


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[Assistant] 80-90% of which are of European descent.


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[Assistant] Many indigenous peoples are barely represented, if at all.


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[Assistant] The test won't reveal heritage from people not represented in the database.


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[Assistant] And shouldn't be used to prove race or ethnicity.


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[Assistant] And as more people get sequenced, your results might change.


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[Assistant] Looking further back, you may get a result like 2% Neanderthal.


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[Assistant] Though Neanderthals were a separate species from humans,


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[Assistant] That 2% doesn't come out of the 99% of our genome shared among all humans, but the 1% that varies.


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[Assistant] That's because about 40,000 years ago, certain human populations interbred with Neanderthals.


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[Assistant] Meaning some people alive today have Neanderthal ancestors. Many Neanderthal ancestors, in fact.


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[Assistant] There are so many generations in 40,000 years that a single Neanderthal's genetic contribution would be untraceable.


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[Assistant] You can be both 100% French and 2% Neanderthal.


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[Assistant] Though both come from the 1% of DNA that makes us different, they're accounting for different things.


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[Assistant] Looking for traces of our ancestry in our DNA gets complicated very quickly.


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[Assistant] Both the way we inherit DNA and the information available for testing makes it difficult to say certain things with 100% certainty.


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[Assistant] When you think of the discovery of DNA, you probably think of two names, Watson and Crick. But there is a third, unsung scientist, whose name you should know. Get the story of the woman behind the double helix with this video.


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[Assistant] What are you thinking, Loz? Seafood or red meat? Amelia, Harry and I are gonna do entrees today and I'm gonna take charge with that. We have to use black garlic.


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[Assistant] But I am really nervous because it is such a simple dish.


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[Assistant] If Gordon doesn't like it, we've got nothing to fall back on.


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[Assistant] I asked him about the great seal of England and he replied saying that he doesn't know about it. He is the prince. It's his duty to keep the seal safe. How can he not know?


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[Assistant] King's health worsens with each passing day, and his son loses his memory! Lord saves this kingdom!


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[Assistant] It is now time to crown you as our king. Wha? What?


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[Assistant] People of this kingdom need you, Prince. And you have learnt enough.


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[Assistant] This has to be done. I will arrange for the coronation ceremony.


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[Assistant] What? How dare you! Look at your clothes! Guards, arrest him!


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[Assistant] You can't just be unhappy here. What is the reason for your unhappiness?


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[Assistant] Okay, go fly down to Earth. Find two best things from a city and get them to me.


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[Assistant] I work in a primary school, so to be able to cook for the teachers, I know the amazing work that they do. That's brilliant.


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[Assistant] But I think that'll make us more relaxed as a, as a team.


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[Assistant] On the original menu, there was a dish that said lamb saddle with mint. So we're going to use that as inspiration for our main course, lamb backstrap with a pea and mint puree and some crispy chips on top to really modernise the dish.


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[Assistant] I think the most crucial thing on this dish will be getting that lamb cooking consistently. So we're gonna pan fry it just to seal the outside and then take it off and finish it in the oven just before service.


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[Assistant] For our main, we're doing a lamb backstrap with minted pea puree and sweet potato and parsnip chips.


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[Assistant] This is a bit different to throwing some lamb on the barbie at home for some mates. Now we've got to cook these massive backstraps. You get all the lamb cooked the same, it's going to be dim good. And that's the, that's the pressure point right now.


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[Assistant] I reckon we should start portioning up the lamb. I mean it's been out of the oven for a few minutes now. Hopefully it's good.


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[Assistant] Stiletto, fire! The curses of the ages upon you!


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[Assistant] Special pepperoni. Like you ordered, sir? Thank you again. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] I'm looking around the room and there are some amazing dishes getting formed up.


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[Assistant] And I've got Dessert King Reynolds next to me. Can you sing the song? No, you can.


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[Assistant] I have been out of the food industry for a little while now, so I do feel nervous. Yeah, you can take that one too if you want.


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[Assistant] But I just need to focus on my dish and not what's going on around me.


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[Assistant] I'm just doing my math homework, and it's a little bit difficult.


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[Assistant] She's in the kitchen. I think she's baking an apple cake.


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[Assistant] Excuse me, can you help me out? Sure, what do you need? Thanks.


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[Assistant] I'm a new student here, and I can't find my classroom. What class are you looking for? Science. It's in room 204. Where is that? Hey, we're in the same class!


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[Assistant] To have a new bunch of faces in with an old bunch of contestants is going to be an incredible experience.


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[Assistant] Can relate to him and I look up to him. He's a great bloke.


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[Assistant] Do you want us to get away or are you good? Nah, it's pretty okay.


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[Assistant] Dry aged Great Ocean Road duck with muntries and radicchio. That looks stunning. Thank you.


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[Assistant] But the tribe long ago disappeared.


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[Assistant] They used their strange weapons to force me to tell them Daniel had the other half of the arrow hit.


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[Assistant] I'm thinking about strategy, that's really important. I definitely want to leave myself as much time if I do have to go to round two. So I've got a super strong idea of a really quick dessert, which is a chocolate mousse with coconut yoghurt and rhubarb.


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[Assistant] Even though it's a quick dish, it is still technical. There's a frozen component. So the first thing I want to work on is my coconut yoghurt snow.


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[Assistant] It's been like a minute or two and one element's already on the go. So, on to the chocolate mousse.


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[Assistant] I'm doing a cabbage with some butter and soy on hibachi. I've got a cream with roasted peanuts and miso.


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[Assistant] I've chosen this dish because I love vegetables so much. So the idea is to punch a lot of flavour into this so it can carry me through and so I don't have to go into round two. Five of us will be in that elimination round and I definitely don't want that to be me.


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[Assistant] Made a dessert in 28 minutes. Maybe I'm like the Usain Bolt of desserts.


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[Assistant] I'm super happy. The feedback's great, so definitely Speedy Gonzales' idea was the right decision. Done. Done.


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[Assistant] Four have been tasted already and there's 19 of us left cooking.


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[Assistant] Done. I'm pleased with the dish as a whole. It's definitely my kind of food, so I hope they like it just as much. Simon. That's cool, big man.


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[Assistant] What have you got? It's burnt soy cabbage with a miso peanut sauce and some pickled onions.


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[Assistant] Hey, uh, Rose, just keep an eye on those eggplants.


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[Assistant] I can't shake em. I'll divert their attention.


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[Assistant] The intelligence of a civilization millions of years beyond Earth. A ship that came from so far away must have an incredible propulsion system.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my nickname's Traintrax. Long time ago, cause I was like a lone ranger, uh, Longgrain took me under their wing and helped me out. And they were paying me out about my knife skills, cause I kept on, uh, all my, um, spring onions were connecting, and that's called a Traintrax.


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[Assistant] As a software developer, you get a chance to connect with people from different corners of the world.


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[Assistant] Yes, speaking English fluently is a big plus. I think your English sounds really good already. Thanks, Maria. What about you? Where are you studying it? Oh, I have a lot of reasons. Probably the most important one is my boyfriend.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's right. I'm very thrilled about that.


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[Assistant] Hi Sylvia, what are you doing? Hi Kate. Oh, I'm just trying to write an application for an IT job. But I've been stuck for a while now.


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[Assistant] Jeff promised to help me write it. He knows how to write everything in a professional manner. And he has great ideas.


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[Assistant] He must have changed his mind and now he doesn't know how to get away with it. If you run across him you can tell him I'm very annoyed with him. So it seems I'll have to do it myself. Oh, sorry about that.


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[Assistant] Do you think you could lend me a hand? Any help would come in handy.


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[Assistant] I'd love to help you out, but to be honest, I'm not very good at that sort of thing. What sort of thing? Spelling, punctuation, writing in general. I just want some help with ideas, not spelling and punctuation.


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[Assistant] You've written an application letter before, so you know what I'm talking about. Oh, you know what? I just remembered that I need to be somewhere.


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[Assistant] That's great. A real situation will always expose fake friends.


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[Assistant] I couldn't resist. I had a craving for chocolate cake that I just couldn't shake.


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[Assistant] I decided to let myself eat whatever I'm craving, in moderation. You only live once, you know. I think it's common to have a sugar urge if you're on a diet.


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[Assistant] Did you drink enough water today? If you didn't, have a cup of water. And that cuts the cravings.


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[Assistant] Oh, I doubt that. I drank enough water and it didn't cut the cravings.


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[Assistant] Thanks, but I think I'd better pass. I'm avoiding sweets.


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[Assistant] You? I don't believe it. You never used to turn down chocolate cake.


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[Assistant] I know, I used to have such a strong sweet tooth, but I'm watching my weight now. Come on, it's really good.


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[Assistant] No, I'm going to stick to my plan. Don't tempt me with that cake. How can you resist and not give in to temptation?


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[Assistant] I always consider the consequences. This is how I avoid temptation.


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[Assistant] What's more, she loves giving our customers the best customer experience.


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[Assistant] I pick to differ. In my opinion, if she becomes director, we'll lose a lot of customers. She doesn't encourage innovative ideas from employees. But I will go along with whatever the majority decides.


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[Assistant] I agree with you on this one. I don't think she will be able to develop and implement the marketing plans. This job is too much for her to handle. We need someone to be able to think outside the box. I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] In the first place, Rose doesn't have much experience.


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[Assistant] Can you lend me some money? I'm afraid I don't have enough money.


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[Assistant] Let's see if Gabriel can lend you some when he shows up. Oh look, here he comes.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos like this.


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[Assistant] I've changed hundreds of light bulbs in my lifetime and didn't think twice about changing this one too. I used a little chair to stand on. I removed the light bulb, replacing it with a new one.


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[Assistant] As I attempted to get off the chair, it slipped out from under me, so I fell off the chair and hurt my knee.


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[Assistant] And as if that wasn't enough, I was making myself a cup of tea when I spilt boiling water over my hand and scalded myself.


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[Assistant] Oh, I wanted to hang a picture on the wall in the living room, but I hit my finger with the hammer.


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[Assistant] Were you bleeding? I was bleeding a little. That's why I bandaged it.


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[Assistant] That's a great idea. I don't think I should risk cooking with the day I'm having.


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[Assistant] We need to talk about choosing a new director for the marketing department. There are two candidates for this position. Amy Coleman and Rose Stewart.


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[Assistant] First, I'd like to hear your comments, both pro and con, about Amy's qualifications for this position.


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[Assistant] On the pro side, she's a hard worker and has excellent communication skills. She has experience in running a marketing team.


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[Assistant] On top of that, she is really popular among the other employees.


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[Assistant] On the con side, Amy is not receptive to new information or viewpoints.


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[Assistant] Okay, then let's talk about Rose. What do you guys think?


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[Assistant] She would never be able to offer advice to develop innovative advertising. She's definitely not suitable for this job.


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[Assistant] Our last project was very successful thanks to her ideas.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, we haven't managed to find the ideal person to handle this job. We'll meet here again on Friday at 9am. I'll expect new suggestions, and they'd better be more promising.


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[Assistant] Hey, Mike, can I tell you a secret about Sam? It's something awful. I'd rather not know, Jeff. Better don't tell me. I'm not interested in any gossip. It's not gossip. It's the plain truth. Well, it's not really about him. It's about his dad.


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[Assistant] His dad got fired from his company for fraud and fabricating paperwork? He is nothing but a scammer. He might go to jail, you know. Where did you hear this? I'm sure it's just a lie. I heard my parents talking about this. My mom works at the same company.


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[Assistant] Even if that's true, Sam is my friend and he's not responsible for what his parents do.


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[Assistant] Sam is an honest person, and I won't change my opinion of him even if his dad goes to prison.


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[Assistant] Well, you know what they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Oh, come on. Some children have different personalities than their parents. Anyway, just don't tell anyone else, okay?


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[Assistant] How would you like it if I went around telling other people private things about your family? Yes, you're right. I should have thought. Yes, you should have. But I've already told Bob. Oh no. Now everyone's going to know. Bob can't keep a secret and you know it. Oh, if only you'd kept quiet.


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[Assistant] I got a note through the letter box from the post office to say an underpaid item was waiting for me and I needed to pay ten dollars to get it. I saw nothing wrong with that. Did you pay it? Yes, I paid it on my phone. Really? Yes, really. I was curious about the item. I wondered what it was and who the sender might be. What happened then? Did you get it? It turned out it was a scam.


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[Assistant] The note wasn't from the post office, it was from a scammer!


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[Assistant] No way. I was really angry with myself. How could I fall for it? Oh, come on. It can happen to anyone. How are you supposed to know? Still, it was only a small amount of money. I know, but if a hundred people reply, the con man makes a lot of money, don't you think? Have you reported it to the police? Yes, I have.


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[Assistant] They told me that hundreds of people have been tricked. Did they catch the con man? Not yet. Well, I hope they catch him soon.


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[Assistant] Hmm. I think some money is missing. I certainly had much more than this in here.


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[Assistant] I only have five dollars in my wallet. It was supposed to be more than that.


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[Assistant] I had $45 this morning. I can't have spent all that.


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[Assistant] And then I ate a cheeseburger that was nine dollars, and I drank a cola.


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[Assistant] Let me think. Oh yeah, I bought an ice cream. It was six dollars. That's all.


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[Assistant] Look, seeing Po so frantic breaks my heart. Like, she's such an amazing, capable cook and I know that her internal dialogue is completely shutting down her now and I know that she's freaking out. Let's just get it done. Let's get it done. Nothing's done until it's done, mate. Nothing's done until it's done.


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[Assistant] Do you think we should leave it out? The apple? Yeah. Let's not second guess ourselves anymore.


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[Assistant] When I was nine years old, I went off to summer camp for the first time, and my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do, because in my family, reading was the primary group activity.


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[Assistant] And this might sound antisocial to you, but for us it was really just a different way of being social. You had the animal warmth of your family sitting right next to you, but you were also free to go roaming around the adventure land inside your own mind.


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[Assistant] Our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that she said we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill camp spirit. And it went like this.


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[Assistant] By the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, why are you being so mellow? Mellow, of course, being the exact opposite of R-O-W-D-I-E.


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[Assistant] And there they stayed for the rest of the summer. And I felt kind of guilty about this. I felt as if the books needed me somehow, and they were calling out to me and I was forsaking them.


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[Assistant] All the times that I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go and that I should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert.


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[Assistant] It's different from being shy. Shyness is about fear of social judgment. Introversion is more about how do you respond to stimulation, including social stimulation.


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[Assistant] To maximizing our talents is for us all to put ourselves in the zone of stimulation that is right for us. But now here's where the bias comes in. Our most important institutions, our schools and our workplaces, they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts' need for lots of stimulation.


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[Assistant] And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.


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[Assistant] And we all fall at different points, of course, along the introvert-extrovert spectrum. You know, even Carl Jung, the psychologist who first popularized these terms, said that there's no such thing as a pure introvert or a pure extrovert. He said that such a man would be in a lunatic asylum if he existed at all.


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[Assistant] And in fact, we have known for centuries about the transcendent power of solitude. It's only recently that we've strangely begun to forget it.


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[Assistant] This is no surprise though, if you look at the insights of contemporary psychology.


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[Assistant] You might be following the person with the best ideas, but you might not. And you really want to leave it up to chance.


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[Assistant] Much better for everybody to go off by themselves, generate their own ideas, freed from the distortions of group dynamics, and then come together as a team to talk some through in a well managed environment and take it from there.


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[Assistant] Why are we setting up our schools this way in our workplaces and why are we making introverts feel so guilty about wanting to just go off by themselves some of the time? One answer lies deep in our cultural history.


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[Assistant] Western societies, and in particular the US, have always favored the man of action over the man of contemplation. And man of contemplation.


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[Assistant] In America's early days, we lived in what historians call a culture of character, where we still at that point valued people for their inner selves and their moral rectitude. And if you look at the self-help books from this era, they all had titles with things like, character, the grandest thing in the world.


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[Assistant] And sure enough, the self-help books change to meet these new needs and they start to have names like how to win friends and influence people and they feature as their role models, really great salesmen.


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[Assistant] And the problems that we are facing today in fields like science and in economics are so vast and so complex that we are going to need armies of people coming together to solve them, working together. But I am saying that the more freedom that we give introverts to be themselves, the more likely that they are to come up with their own unique solutions to these problems.


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[Assistant] Underneath his ceremonial role, he was really modest and really introverted. So much so, that when he delivered these sermons, he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congregation that he had been speaking to for 62 years.


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[Assistant] But now, all of a sudden, my job is very different. And my job is to be out here, talking about it. Talking about introversion.


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[Assistant] But I'll tell you, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope, that when it comes to our attitudes, to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly are poised on the brink of dramatic change. I mean, we are. And so I am going to leave you now with three calls for action for those who share this vision.


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[Assistant] Okay, number two. Go to the wilderness. Be like Buddha. Have your own revelations.


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[Assistant] So extroverts, maybe your suitcases are also full of books. Or maybe they're full of champagne glasses or skydiving equipment.


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[Assistant] Whatever it is, I hope you take these things out every chance you get and grace us with your energy and your joy. But introverts.


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[Assistant] You being you, you probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase. And that's okay.


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[Assistant] It is growing all around us. It's strong. It's elegant. It's earthquake resistant.


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[Assistant] This is the story of a princess. But don't be fooled.


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[Assistant] She is not waiting there for a prince charming to save her. She's different. She has a warrior spirit.


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[Assistant] The King's family lived in peace and harmony. Until one day...


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[Assistant] The whole kingdom was worried, as they did not have enough army to fight. The king had not been keeping well.


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[Assistant] Princess Violet heard the Queen speaking to the King. We must seek help from King Tom.


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[Assistant] But father, you are not keeping well. I will go and bring the army. I trust my daughter. Let her go.


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[Assistant] In my absence, the army must be prepared for any attack. Chief.


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[Assistant] The dragon had lived there for thousands of years, but no one had seen her.


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[Assistant] Her hot breath has burned the earth near her cave, and nothing grew there.


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[Assistant] At night, she tells the dragon about her story.


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[Assistant] Honorable King Tom, our kingdom is in danger. We need your army. Won't you help us?


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[Assistant] The king and his army all kneel in front of her. The princess locks up her uncle and commands the army to reach the castle. Let's go, Fiona!


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[Assistant] The king tells the princess that their men had all run away, but only the army chief stayed back to fight and got captured.


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[Assistant] Well, Peter, have you thought about what you want as a reward?


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[Assistant] That's what I call irony. But, it isn't bad.


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[Assistant] With charred mango and a chilli lime syrup with chilli salt on top.


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[Assistant] If he knew what we were going to do with the plutonium, I don't think he'd be too happy.


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[Assistant] What's the problem? We seem to have run out of fuel. Perhaps you could spare some. Bring a couple of tanks of propane.


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[Assistant] Thank you for your time, Major. Sorry for distracting you. Take care. Same to you.


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[Assistant] Yes, that is strange, Scott. Well, try to make the best of it till I pick you up.


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[Assistant] You've described working at Russell Gordon Ramsay as a bit like being in the SAS.


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[Assistant] This dish, under the cloche. Give us a sense of what makes it so hard.


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[Assistant] You spent so much of that challenge with a big smile on your face. Did you love that?


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[Assistant] What a bummer. Can't help mask. And on top of that, Venom ruined the movie.


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[Assistant] But I love space films. You know how interested I am in outer space.


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[Assistant] Hey look, Dad. Jep's hitchhiking. He'll get to the soccer field way before us.


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[Assistant] Jack, when it comes to hitchhiking, I say thumbs down.


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[Assistant] The lamb, smoky, beautifully seasoned.


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[Assistant] Just like cutting through a piece of cake. And it's my favorite flavor! Plutonium!


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[Assistant] You're ruining our chances, T-Bot. I was just trying to fit in.


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[Assistant] First listen and then answer the following question


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[Assistant] Why is education democratic in bookless, tribal societies


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[Assistant] Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest 20th century opportunities.


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[Assistant] Convinced of the importance of education, modern states invest in institutions of learning to get back interest in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders.


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[Assistant] Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out. Punctuated by textbooks. Those purchasable wells of wisdom. What would civilization be like without its benefits?


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[Assistant] So much is certain that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants, marriages and births. But our spiritual outlook would be different


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[Assistant] We would lay less stress on facts and figures and more on a good memory, on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow citizens


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[Assistant] If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of college, imaginable


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[Assistant] Among tribal people all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all


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[Assistant] It is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life


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[Assistant] It is the ideal condition of the equal start, which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain.


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[Assistant] In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all


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[Assistant] There are no, illiterates. If the term can be applied to peoples without a script.


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[Assistant] This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the, happy few, during the past centuries


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[Assistant] Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means. All are entitled to an equal start. There is none of the hurry which, in our society, often hampers the full development of a growing personality.


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[Assistant] There, a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parent. Therefore the jungles and the savannas know of no juvenile delinquency.


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[Assistant] No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children, and no father is confronted with his inability to buy an education for his child.


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[Assistant] Tanzanga was ruled by an evil king called Boris.


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[Assistant] The soldiers were bullies, and no one was allowed the right to freedom of speech. But it was not always like that.


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[Assistant] Tanzanga used to be a happy and peaceful kingdom, under the rule of its rightful king, King Ruben.


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[Assistant] Boris, who was then the army general of the king, decided to go against him.


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[Assistant] With great discreet and carefulness, he slowly started to influence the ministers and the knights to revolt against the king.


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[Assistant] It did not take him much time, as he used their greed to his advantage.


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[Assistant] They discussed amongst themselves, and then came back to Boris and said,


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[Assistant] Good. You are now ready to go to Tanzanga.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, she became the role model for the kids.


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[Assistant] The Minister of Public Welfare, a designation that was only kept for its name, Mr. Haruto, arched his eyebrows.


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[Assistant] Hmm. I am sorry to interrupt, my lord. But if Minister Rang could tell us when exactly does she appear,


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[Assistant] Mr. Haruto was at the deserted road of the town square, when he suddenly felt someone behind him. He smiled.


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[Assistant] Mr. Hiroto at once held her hand and looked at her in the eye and smiled. Anastasia was confused. Princess Anastasia!


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[Assistant] She now had Mr. Haruto on the ground. My brother has taught you well.


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[Assistant] Helpless, the soldiers and the ministers did exactly that. Anastasia whistled.


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[Assistant] Anastasia reunited with her parents. Mr. Haruto reunited with his brother.


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[Assistant] I failed as a meister. Lyle, I just wanna- I'll fight. Oh yea, I'll fight.


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[Assistant] Lesson 38. Water and the Traveler. First listen and then answer the following question. What does this text describe?


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[Assistant] Contamination of water supplies is usually due to poor sanitation close to water sources, sewage disposal into the sources themselves, leakage of sewage into distribution systems or contamination with industrial or farm waste.


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[Assistant] Even if a piped water supply is safe at its source, it is not always safe by the time it reaches the tap


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[Assistant] Intermittent tap water supplies should be regarded as particularly suspect. Travelers on short trips to areas with water supplies of uncertain quality should avoid drinking tap water, or untreated water from any other source.


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[Assistant] It is best to keep to hot drinks, bottled or canned drinks of well-known brand names. International standards of water treatment are usually followed at bottling plants


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[Assistant] Carbonated drinks are acidic and slightly safer. Make sure that all bottles are opened in your presence and that their rims are clean and dry.


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[Assistant] Portable boiling elements that can boil small quantities of water are useful when the right voltage of electricity is available


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[Assistant] Refuse politely any cold drink from an unknown source. Ice is only as safe as the water from which it is made, and should not be put in drinks unless it is known to be safe


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[Assistant] Drinks can be cooled by placing them on ice rather than adding ice to them


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[Assistant] Alcohol may be a medical disinfectant, but should not be relied upon to sterilize water


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[Assistant] Beware of methylated alcohol, which is very poisonous, and should never be added to drinking water


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[Assistant] If no other safe water supply can be obtained, tap water that is too hot to touch can be left to cool and is generally safe to drink


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[Assistant] Those planning a trip to remote areas, or intending to live in countries where drinking water is not readily available, should know about the various possible methods for making water safe


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[Assistant] You know, we're young and unemployed, so we do the whole thing on back roads. Through state parks and national forests. Basically the longest route we can possibly take.


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[Assistant] What's up with the Chinese character I keep seeing by the side of the road?


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[Assistant] All the signs we keep seeing with the Chinese character on them.


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[Assistant] She just stares at me for a few moments and then she cracks up because she figures out what I'm talking about. And what I'm talking about is this.


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[Assistant] Right. The famous Chinese character for Picnic Area.


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[Assistant] I've spent the last five years thinking about being wrong.


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[Assistant] But it actually has one great advantage. No job competition.


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[Assistant] You know, we get it in the abstract. We all know everybody in this room makes mistakes. The human species in general is fallible. Okay, fine. But when it comes down to me right now,


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[Assistant] To all the beliefs I hold here in the present tense.


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[Assistant] We go to meetings in the present tense. We go on family vacations in the present tense. We go to the polls and vote in the present tense.


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[Assistant] So effectively we all wind up kind of traveling through life sort of trapped in this little bubble of feeling very right about everything.


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[Assistant] I think it's a problem for each of us as individuals in our personal and professional lives. And I think it's a problem for all of us collectively as a culture.


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[Assistant] Embarrassing. Okay, wonderful, great. Dreadful, thumbs down, embarrassing. Thank you. These are great answers. But they're answers to a different question.


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[Assistant] You guys are answering the question, how does it feel to realize you're wrong?


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[Assistant] Doesn't feel like anything. I'll give you an analogy.


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[Assistant] There's a moment where the coyote is chasing the roadrunner and the roadrunner runs off a cliff. Which is fine, he's a bird, he can fly. But the thing is the coyote runs off the cliff right after him. And what's funny,


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[Assistant] At least if you're, you know, six years old, is that the coyote is totally fine too, he just keeps running. Right up until the moment that he looks down and realizes that he's in midair. That's when he falls.


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[Assistant] When we're wrong about something, not when we realize it, but before that. We're like that coyote after he's gone off the cliff and before he looks down. You know, we're already wrong. We're already in trouble, but we feel like we're on solid ground. So I should actually correct something I said a moment ago. It does feel like something to be wrong. It feels like being right.


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[Assistant] You know, most of the time, we don't have any kind of internal cue to let us know that we're wrong about something. Until it's too late.


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[Assistant] You're sitting there in class and your teacher is handing back quiz papers. And one of them looks like this. This is not mine, by the way.


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[Assistant] You've already learned, first of all, that people who get stuff wrong are lazy, irresponsible dimwits. And second of all, that the way to succeed in life is to never make any mistakes.


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[Assistant] We learn these really bad lessons really well. And a lot of us, and I suspect especially a lot of us in this room


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[Assistant] Deal with them by just becoming perfect little A students. Perfectionists. Overachievers. Right? Mr. CFO astrophysicist ultramarathoner?


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[Assistant] You're all CFO astrophysicists, ultra marathoners, it turns out. Okay, so, so fine, right? Except that, then we freak out at the possibility that we've gotten something wrong. Because according to this, getting something wrong means there's something wrong with us. So we just insist that we're right.


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[Assistant] Because it makes us feel smart and responsible and virtuous and safe. So let me tell you a story.


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[Assistant] Couple of years ago, a woman comes into Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for a surgery.


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[Assistant] So this woman comes in and she's taken into the operating room, she's anesthetized, the surgeon does his thing, stitches her back up, sends her out to the recovery room. Everything seems to have gone fine. And she wakes up and she looks down at herself and she says, why is the wrong side of my body in bandages?


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[Assistant] When the vice president for healthcare quality at Beth Israel spoke about this incident, he said something very interesting. He said, for whatever reason,


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[Assistant] This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often is not a reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world.


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[Assistant] And when we act like it is, and we stop entertaining the possibility that we could be wrong,


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[Assistant] Well, you know, that's when we wind up doing things like dumping 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Or torpedoing the global economy.


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[Assistant] So this is a huge practical problem. But it's also a huge social problem. Think for a moment about what it means to feel right.


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[Assistant] It means that you think that your beliefs just perfectly reflect reality. And when you feel that way, you've got a problem to solve.


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[Assistant] Which is how are you gonna explain all of those people who disagree with you? It turns out most of us explain those people the same way by resorting to a series of unfortunate assumptions. The first thing we usually do when someone disagrees with us is we just assume they're ignorant.


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[Assistant] When it turns out those people have all the same facts that we do and they still disagree with us, then we move on to a second assumption, which is that they're idiots.


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[Assistant] This attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to and causes us to treat each other terribly.


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[Assistant] But you know, to me, what's most baffling and most tragic about this is that it misses the whole point of being human.


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[Assistant] You know, it's like we want to imagine that our minds are just these perfectly translucent windows and we just kind of gaze out of them and describe the world as it unfolds.


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[Assistant] That is not true, and if it were, life would be incredibly boring. The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't. We can remember the past, and we can think about the future.


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[Assistant] And we can imagine what it's like to be some other person in some other place. And we all do this a little differently.


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[Assistant] Which is why we can all look up at the same night sky and see this. And also this. And also this. And yea, you know, it is also why we get things wrong.


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[Assistant] Twelve hundred years before Descartes said his famous thing about, I think therefore I am, this guy, St. Augustine, sat down and wrote, Fowler ergo sum. I err, therefore I am. Augustine understood that our capacity to screw up


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[Assistant] It's not some kind of, you know, embarrassing defect in the human system. Something we can eradicate or overcome. It's totally fundamental to who we are. Because unlike God, we don't really know what's going on out there. And unlike all of the other animals, we are obsessed with trying to figure it out.


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[Assistant] To me, this obsession is the source and root of all of our productivity and creativity.


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[Assistant] As a staff, we joke that every single episode of our show has the same crypto theme. And the crypto theme is, I thought this one thing was gonna happen, and something else happened instead.


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[Assistant] And for the rest of us, as audience members, as listeners, as readers, we eat this stuff up.


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[Assistant] You know, we love things like plot twists and red herrings and surprise endings. When it comes to our stories, we love being wrong. But you know,


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[Assistant] Our stories are like this because our lives are like this. We think this one thing is gonna happen, and something else happens instead.


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[Assistant] And Hosni Mubarak thought he was going to be the dictator of Egypt for the rest of his life until he got too old or too sick and could pass the reins of power onto his son.


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[Assistant] And maybe you thought you were going to grow up and marry your high school sweetheart and move back to your hometown and raise a bunch of kids together. And something else happened instead.


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[Assistant] I thought I was writing an incredibly nerdy book about a subject everybody hates for an audience that would never materialize. And something else happened instead.


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[Assistant] We generate these incredible stories about the world around us. And then the world turns around and astonishes us. I mean, no offense, but this entire conference


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[Assistant] Is an unbelievable monument to our capacity to get stuff wrong.


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[Assistant] Because half the stuff that seemed most mind-boggling and world-altering at, you know, Ted1998, eh.


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[Assistant] So here we are again. And that's how it goes. We come up with another idea. We tell another story. We hold another conference. The theme of this one, as you guys have now heard seven million times, is the rediscovery of wonder. And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder,


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[Assistant] I heard you weren't feeling well. Is something the matter?


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[Assistant] So that you can bring about a united world without war.


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[Assistant] And avenge your parents by defeating the Gundams.


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[Assistant] I brought this regnant specifically for you.


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[Assistant] I want you to become humanity's first innovator, so you can guide this world. Will you, Louise Halavy?


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[Assistant] That's right. We are superior beings, absolute and perfect.


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[Assistant] I can't stand us being treated as though we were as lowly as humans.


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[Assistant] Just got another shipment out. Should be on the mainland within an hour.


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[Assistant] So far everything's normal. Okay buddy, stay in touch.


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[Assistant] So I'll start with this. A couple years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event and she called and she said,


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[Assistant] I, I don't, I, I, let me think about this for a second. And so, I tried to call deep on my courage, and I thought,


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[Assistant] You know, I am a storyteller. I'm a qualitative researcher. I collect stories. That's what I do.


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[Assistant] And maybe stories are just data with a soul, you know, and maybe I'm just a storyteller. So I said, you know what, why don't you just say I'm a researcher storyteller? And she went, there's no such thing.


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[Assistant] So I'm a researcher or storyteller. Uhm, and I'm gonna talk to you today. We're talking about expanding perception. And so I wanna talk to you and tell some stories about a piece of my research that fundamentally expanded my perception, uhm, and really actually changed the way that I live and love and work and parent. Uhm, and this is where my story starts. When I was a young researcher, doctoral student,


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[Assistant] My first year I had a research professor who said to us, here's the thing, if you cannot measure it, it does not exist. And I thought he was just sweet talking to me. I was like, really? And he's like, absolutely. So you have to understand that I have


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[Assistant] A bachelors in social work, a masters in social work, and I was getting my PhD in social work. So my entire academic career was surrounded by people who kind of believed in the life's messy, love it, you know, and I'm more the life's messy, clean it up.


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[Assistant] Organize it and put it into a bento box.


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[Assistant] And so to think that I had found my way to found a career that takes me, you know, really one of the big sayings in social work is lean into the discomfort of the work.


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[Assistant] So I was very excited about this, and so I thought, you know what? This is the career for me. Because I am interested in some messy topics, but I want to be able to make them not messy.


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[Assistant] I want to understand them. I want to hack into these things that I know are important and lay the code out for everyone to see.


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[Assistant] So where I started was with connection. Because by the time you're a social worker for 10 years, what you realize is that connection is why we're here. It's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.


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[Assistant] This is, this is what it's all about. It doesn't matter whether you talk to people who work in social justice and mental health and abuse and neglect. What we know is that connection, the ability to feel connected is


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[Assistant] Neurobiologically, that's how we're wired, it's why we're here. So I thought, you know what, I'm gonna start with connection.


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[Assistant] And all you can think about is that opportunity for growth, right?


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[Assistant] They tell you about heartbreak. When you ask people about belonging, they'll tell you their most excruciating experiences of being excluded. And when you ask people about connection, the stories they told me were about disconnection.


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[Assistant] So very quickly, really about six weeks into this research, I ran into this unnamed thing that absolutely unraveled connection in a way that I didn't understand or had never seen.


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[Assistant] And so I pulled back out of the research and thought, I need to figure out what this is. And it turned out to be shame.


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[Assistant] And shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection. Is there something about me that if other people know it or see it, that I won't be worthy of connection?


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[Assistant] The things I can tell you about it, it's universal. We all have it. The only people who don't experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection. No one wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it, the more you have it.


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[Assistant] Which we all know that feeling, I'm not blank enough, I'm not thin enough, rich enough, beautiful enough, smart enough, promoted enough. Uhm, the thing that underpinned this was excruciating vulnerability. This idea


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[Assistant] In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen. Really seen.


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[Assistant] And you know how I feel about vulnerability. I hate vulnerability. And so I thought this is my chance to beat it back with my measuring stick. I'm going in.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna figure this stuff out, I'm gonna spend a year, I'm gonna totally deconstruct shame, I'm gonna understand how vulnerability works, and I'm gonna outsmart it. So I was ready, and I was really excited.


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[Assistant] So I could tell you a lot about shame, but I'd have to borrow everyone else's time. But here's what I can tell you that it boils down to.


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[Assistant] Thousands of stories, hundreds of long interviews, focus groups. At one point people were sending me journal pages and sending me their stories, uhm, thousands of pieces of data.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and six years, and I kinda got a handle on it. I kinda understood this is what shame is. This is how it works. I wrote a book. I published a theory.


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[Assistant] But something was not okay. Uhm, and what it was is that if I roughly took the people I interviewed and divided them into people who