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[Assistant] Even though you or I might be committed to raising less straight-jacketed kids, the culture at large, while perhaps changing, is still far from changed. Trials we might. In movie theaters, classrooms, playgrounds, our sons and daughters are bombarded with traditional messages about masculinity and femininity, hour by hour, day by day.


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[Assistant] Again, we all use the word traditional rather than patriarchal. Yet traditions are rarely hard to change.


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[Assistant] What has been all but impossible to change is the widespread cultural patriarchal propaganda.


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[Assistant] Yet we begin to protect the emotional well-being of boys and of all males when we call this propaganda by its true name. When we acknowledge that patriarchal culture requires that boys deny, suppress, and if all goes well, shut down their emotional awareness and their capacity to feel.


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[Assistant] Little boys are the only males in our culture who are allowed to be fully, wholly in touch with their feelings. Allowed moments where they can express without shame their desire to love and be loved.


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[Assistant] Those rare boys who happen to live in anti-patriarchal homes learn early to lead a double life. At home, they can feel and express and be outside the home they must conform to the role of patriarchal boy.


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[Assistant] Patriarchal boys, like their adult counterparts, know the rules. They know they must not express their feelings, with the exception of anger, that they must not do anything considered feminine or womanly.


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[Assistant] A national survey of adolescent males revealed their passive acceptance of patriarchal masculinity.


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[Assistant] Researchers found that boys agreed that to be truly manly they must command respect, be tough, not talk about problems, and dominate females.


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[Assistant] Every day across this country, boys consume mass media images that send them one message about how to deal with emotions, and that message is ACT OUT.


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[Assistant] Usually, acting out means aggression directed outward. Kicking, screaming and hitting to get attention.


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[Assistant] Since patriarchal parenting does not teach boys to express their feelings in words, either boys act out or they implode.


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[Assistant] Very few boys are taught to express with words what they feel when they feel it. And even when boys are able to express feelings in early childhood, they learn as they grow up that they are not supposed to feel, and they shut down.


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[Assistant] Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and dominance teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly,


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[Assistant] Progressive feminist research on adolescent males has debunked the heretofore accepted notion that it's natural for boys to go through an antisocial stage where they dissociate and disconnect. Recent studies indicate that it is actually emotionally damaging to young males to be isolated and without emotional care or nutrients.


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[Assistant] In the past it was assumed that aggression was part of the ritual of separation, a means for the growing boy to assert his autonomy.


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[Assistant] Yet clearly, just as girls learn how to be autonomous and how to create healthy distance from parents without becoming antisocial, boys can do the same.


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[Assistant] In healthy families, boys are able to learn and assert autonomy without engaging in antisocial behavior, without isolating themselves.


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[Assistant] No wonder then, that when they re-enter a community, they bring with them a killing rage as their primary defense.


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[Assistant] Even though masses of American boys will not commit violent crimes resulting in murder, the truth that no one wants to name is that all boys are being raised to be killers even if they learn to hide the killer within and act as benevolent young patriarchs.


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[Assistant] More and more girls who embrace patriarchal thinking also embrace the notion that they must be violent to have power.


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[Assistant] Talking to teenage girls of all classes who are being secretly hit or beaten by boyfriends.


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[Assistant] We say that they are quote unquote disciplining them. One hears the same Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde narratives that grown women tell when talking about their relationships with abusive men.


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[Assistant] These girls describe seemingly nice guys who have rageful outbursts. Time and time again we hear on our national news about the seemingly kind, quiet, young male whose violent underpinnings are suddenly revealed.


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[Assistant] Boys are encouraged by patriarchal thinking to claim rage as the easiest path to manliness.


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[Assistant] It should come as no surprise then that beneath the surface there is a seething anger in boys, their rage waiting for the moment to be heard.


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[Assistant] Much of the anger boys express is itself a response to the demand they not show any other emotions. Anger feels better than numbness because it often leads to more instrumental action.


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[Assistant] Anger can be and usually is the hiding place for fear and pain.


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[Assistant] In The Heart of the Soul, authors Gary Zukav and Linda Francis explore the ways anger barricades the feeling self.


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[Assistant] Anger prevents love and isolates the one who is angry. It is an attempt, often successful, to push away what is most longed for, companionship and understanding. It is a denial of the humanness of others, as well as denial of your own humanness.


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[Assistant] Anger is the agony of believing that you are not capable of being understood, and that you are not worthy of being understood. It is a wall that separates you from others as effectively as if it were concrete, thick and very high. There is no way through it, under it, or over it.


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[Assistant] Certainly, in almost all the situations where boys have killed, we discover narratives of rage that describe the emotional realities before they happen.


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[Assistant] Importantly, this anger is expressed across a broad spectrum of class, race, and family circumstance.


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[Assistant] violent boys from affluent homes often are as emotionally alienated as their ghetto counterparts.


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[Assistant] At a time in our nation's history when more boys than ever are being raised in single parent female headed homes, mass media sends the message that a single mother is unfit to raise a healthy boy child.


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[Assistant] All over our nation, mothers worry that their parenting may be damaging their sons.


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[Assistant] This is the issue Olga Silverstein tackles head on in The Courage to Raise Good Men.


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[Assistant] Homophobia underlies the fear that allowing boys to feel will turn them gay. This fear is often most intense in single parent homes. As a consequence, mothers in these families may be overly harsh and profoundly emotionally withholding with their sons, believing that this treatment will help the boys to be more masculine.


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[Assistant] No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that many gay males come from two-parent homes and can be macho and women-hating, misguided assumptions about what makes a male gay still flourish.


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[Assistant] Every day, boys who express feelings are psychologically terrorized and extreme cases brutally beaten by parents who fear that a man of feeling must be homosexual.


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[Assistant] Luckily, there have been and are individual gay men who dare to challenge patriarchal masculinity. However, most gay men in our culture are as embracing of sexist thinking as are heterosexual men. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behavior that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.


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[Assistant] Hence, many gay men are as angry as their straight counterparts.


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[Assistant] Just as maternal sadism flourishes in a world where women are made to feel that their emotional cruelty to sons makes them better prepared for manhood, paternal sadism is a natural outcome of patriarchal values.


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[Assistant] In the book, The Man I Might Become, Gay Men Write About Their Fathers, edited by Bruce Shenitz, many of the stories of boyhood describe rituals of paternal sadism. As James Saslow writes in Daddy Was a Hot Number,


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[Assistant] All children suffer that aching stab of inadequacy when Papa turns his face away. It's just twice as sharp when he's your object of desire as well as your mentor and role model. Only mother love is unconditional.


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[Assistant] But fatherly love is also about licking the child into shape.


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[Assistant] Most patriarchal fathers in our nation do not use physical violence to keep their sons in check. They use various techniques of psychological terrorism, the primary one being the practice of shaming.


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[Assistant] Patriarchal fathers cannot love their sons because the rules of patriarchy dictate that they stand in competition with their sons, ready to prove that they are the real man, the one in charge.


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[Assistant] In his essay, Finding the Light and Keeping it in Front of Me, Bob Vance describes walking behind his father as a boy longing to connect but knowing intuitively that no connection was possible.


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[Assistant] This is the earliest memory I have of my father. End quote.


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[Assistant] To the patriarchal dad, sons can only be regarded as recruits in training. Hence, they must constantly be subjected to sadomasochistic power struggles designed to toughen them up, to prepare them to maintain the patriarchal legacy.


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[Assistant] Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves.


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[Assistant] Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into better than grandiosity, nor less than shame. Contempt is why so many men have such trouble staying connected.


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[Assistant] Since healthy self-esteem, being neither one up nor down, is not yet a real option and since riding in the one down position elicits disdain in oneself as well as in others, most men learn to hide the chronic shame that dogs them, running from their own humanity and from closeness to anyone else alongside it.


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[Assistant] This flight from closeness is most intense in the lives of adolescent boys because in that liminal zone between childhood and young adulthood they are experiencing a range of emotions that leave them feeling out of control, fearful that they will not measure up to the standards of patriarchal masculinity.


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[Assistant] Suppressed rage is the perfect hiding place for all of these fears.


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[Assistant] Despite major changes in gender roles in public life, in private, many boys are traumatized by relationships with distant or absent fathers. Working with groups of men, listening as they talk about boyhood, I hear the stories they tell about their father's lack of emotional connection.


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[Assistant] As they attempt to measure up to patriarchal expectations, many boys fear the wrath of the father.


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[Assistant] In Man Enough, Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity, Frank Pittman recalls


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[Assistant] Fearing I didn't have enough of it, I was in awe of masculinity. I thought my father had some magical power he wasn't passing onto me, a secret he hadn't yet told me. End quote.


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[Assistant] Again and again, the same assumption appears which suggests that there exists a masculine ideal that young males are not sure how to attain, and that undermines their self-esteem.


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[Assistant] The crisis of this longing seems most deeply felt by boys with absent fathers. Without a positive connection to a real adult man, they are far more likely to invest in a hyper-masculine, patriarchal ideal.


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[Assistant] Fear of not being able to attain the right degree of manliness is often translated into rage.


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[Assistant] Many teenage boys are angry because the fantasy emotional connection between father and son, the love that they imagine will be there, is never realized. In its place there is just a space of empty longing.


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[Assistant] Even when it becomes evident that the fantasy will not be fulfilled, that the father wound will not be healed, boys will hold onto that longing. May give them a sense of quest and purpose to feel they will someday find the father or, through having children, become the father they had dreamed about.


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[Assistant] frustrated in their quest for father bonding, boys often feel tremendous sorrow and depression.


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[Assistant] They can mask these feelings because they are allowed to isolate themselves, to turn away from the world and escape into music, television, video games, etc.


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[Assistant] There is no emotional outlet for the grief of the disappointed teenage boy.


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[Assistant] Being able to mourn the loss of emotional connection with his father would be a healthy way to cope with his disappointment. But boys have no space to mourn.


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[Assistant] This need for a space, a space to grieve, is poignantly portrayed in the film Life as a House.


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[Assistant] In the short time that he lives with his dad, the son is able to develop an emotional connection. When the son finds out that his dad is dying, he rages out about being offered love that is not going to last.


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[Assistant] Trapped by a world that tells them boys should not express feelings, teenage males have nowhere to go where grief is accepted.


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[Assistant] As much as grownups complain about adolescent male anger, most adults are more comfortable confronting a raging teenager than one who is overwhelmed by sorrow and cannot stop weeping.


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[Assistant] Boys learn to cover up grief with anger. The more troubled the boy, the more intense the mask of indifference.


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[Assistant] Shutting down emotionally is the best defense, and the longing for connection must be denied.


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[Assistant] Teenagers are the most unloved group in our nation. Teenagers are often feared precisely because they are often exposing the hypocrisy of parents, and of the world around them.


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[Assistant] And no group of teenagers is more feared than a pack of teenage boys. Emotionally abandoned by parents and by society as a whole, many boys are angry, but no one really cares about this anger unless it leads to violent behavior.


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[Assistant] If boys take their rage and sit in front of a computer all day, never speaking, never relating, no one cares. If boys take their rage to the mall, no one cares as long as it's contained.


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[Assistant] In Lost Boys, the therapist James Garbarino testifies that when it comes to boys, neglect is more common than abuse. More kids are emotionally abandoned than are directly attacked, physically or emotionally.


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[Assistant] Emotional neglect lays the groundwork for the emotional numbing that helps boys feel better about being cut off.


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[Assistant] Eruptions of rage in boys are most often deemed normal, explained by the age-old justification for adolescent patriarchal misbehavior. Boys will be boys, quote-unquote.


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[Assistant] Patriarchy both creates the rage in boys and then contains it for later use, making it a resource to exploit later on as boys become men.


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[Assistant] As a national product, this rage can be garnered to further imperialism, hatred, and oppression of women and men globally. This rage is needed if boys are to become men willing to travel around the world to fight wars without ever demanding that other ways of solving conflict be found.


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[Assistant] Ever since masses of American boys began in the wake of the civil rights struggle, sexual liberation and feminist movement demand their right to be psychologically whole and express those demands most visibly by refusing to fight in the Vietnam War.


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[Assistant] Mass media as a propaganda tool for imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy have targeted young males and engaged in heavy-handed brainwashing to reinforce psychological patriarchy.


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[Assistant] Today, small boys and young men are daily inundated with a poisonous pedagogy that supports male violence and male domination. That teaches boys that unchecked violence is acceptable. That teaches them to disrespect and to hate women.


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[Assistant] Given this reality and the concomitant emotional abandonment of boys, it should surprise no one that boys are violent, that they are willing to kill. It should surprise us that the killing is not yet widespread.


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[Assistant] Ruthless, patriarchal assault on the self-esteem of teenage boys has become an accepted norm.


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[Assistant] There's a grave silence about adult male tyranny in relation to teenage boys. Much of the adult male terrorism of and competition with little young boys and young males is conducted through mass media.


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[Assistant] Much of the mass media directed at young male consumers is created by self-hating, emotionally shut down adult men who have only the pornography of violence to share with younger men.


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[Assistant] To that end, they create images that make killing alluring, the sexual exploitation of females the seductive reward. In the wake of feminist, anti-racist, and post-colonial critiques of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the backlash that aims to re-inscribe patriarchy is fierce.


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[Assistant] While feminism may ignore boys and young males, capitalist, patriarchal men do not.


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[Assistant] It was adult, white, wealthy males in this country who first read and fell in love with the Harry Potter books.


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[Assistant] Though written by a British female initially described by the rich white American men who, quote unquote, discovered her as a working class single mom. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are clever modern reworkings of the English schoolboy novel.


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[Assistant] Harry, as our modern-day hero, is the super-smart, gifted, blessed, white-boy genius, a mini-patriarch, who quote-unquote rules over the equally smart kids, including an occasional girl and an occasional male of color. But these books also glorify war, depicted as killing on behalf of the quote-unquote good.


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[Assistant] The Harry Potter movies glorify the use of violence to maintain control over others.


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[Assistant] Anti-patriarchal parents express concern about the contents of these books, while praising them for drawing more boys to reading.


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[Assistant] Of course, American children were bombarded with an advertising blitz telling them they should read these books.


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[Assistant] Harry Potter began as national news sanctioned by mass media. Books that do not reinscribe patriarchal masculinity do not get the approval that the Harry Potter books have received.


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[Assistant] And children rarely have an opportunity to know that any books exist, which offer an alternative to patriarchal, masculinist visions.


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[Assistant] Literature for children is just as fixated on furthering patriarchal attitudes as television.


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[Assistant] There are just few books with male characters focusing on boys that challenge the patriarchal norm in any way.


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[Assistant] Since these books do not abound, there is no way to know what impact they might have in teaching boys alternative masculinities. Writing a series of children's books for boys, I was initially amazed by how difficult it was for me, a visionary feminist theorist, to imagine new images and texts for boys.


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[Assistant] It's a book aimed at little boys. This book strives to honor the holistic well-being of them, of those little boys and to express love of them whether they are laughing, whether they're acting out or just sitting still.


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[Assistant] The books I've written are aimed at offering boys ways to cope with their emotional selves. The point is to stimulate in boys emotional awareness and to affirm that awareness.


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[Assistant] To truly protect and honor the emotional lives of boys, we must challenge patriarchal culture. And until that culture changes, we must create the subcultures, the sanctuaries where boys can learn to be who they are uniquely without being forced to conform to patriarchal masculine visions.


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[Assistant] To love boys rightly, we must value their inner lives enough to construct worlds, both private and public, where their right to wholeness can be consistently celebrated and affirmed, where their need to love and be loved can be fulfilled.


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[Assistant] Okay, am I not supposed to know that? That's my guess. I think they're trapped, I think they're good people trapped in colossus bodies because they were like damned or something. And at the end I'm gonna have to fight the god.


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[Assistant] You're right. Could you say that in the god voice? Okay.


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[Assistant] So it became like a term of affection for him and his girlfriend. He was like, hey cunt, you know, and she'd be like, ha ha ha, cause she didn't, she was Israeli too, she didn't care. And then like we were in like a shop right or something.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, okay, no, I did beat this one. This is the one I beat by accident.


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[Assistant] Okay, there we go. Oh, he's much happier now.


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[Assistant] Yay, green! It has to do with these weird tunnel things. Yeah. Okay. Woo! Nice! Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh god, it's like a giraffe mantis with crazy ribs. Oh god.


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[Assistant] I-I remember this, I wanna like, fuckin'...


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[Assistant] He got here in a hurry. Oh yea, he's got spinny little legs. Okay, so I gotta get into these tunnels? Mhm. Uuuh-ho! Okay. Okay, and then I... How do I do this? I think I wait for him? Cause he's gonna start fucking shit up.


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[Assistant] Fuck, this is impossible! He was just destroying me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right, you want the shaking to stop. Shaky shakes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause it was different. It's different than like, when he, um,


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[Assistant] Like the one we just saw him doing, he was kinda like...


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[Assistant] Up, right? Like he gets his face right in there. If you've...


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[Assistant] Oh, that's his butt. Oh, that's his butt! Alright, cool. Yes. Mmm, okay. Just stay there, everything's cool!


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah, he just may have realized that something is wrong.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, he's not loving it. Not super loving this situation.


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[Assistant] Literally seconds of days. Okay. Okay, okay. Do I have to get him in the neck again?


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[Assistant] And, uh, this is a very interesting metaphor because the cherry blossom as it blooms with the first slight breeze is, uh, just blown away because the petals are so delicate.


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[Assistant] He thinks of seeing the next day, but uh, inevitably he realizes that he will eventually meet his end.


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[Assistant] And to make that end something noble and something pure and something beautiful for himself, I think this is very important.


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[Assistant] There is a popular saying among warriors, one's life is limited, but his name, his honor will last for generations to come, forever.


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[Assistant] For instance, Minamoto Yoshitsune, one of the great generals of the 12th century, was said to have worn makeup and was said to be so beautiful that some even mistook him for a female.


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[Assistant] Before the warrior, uh, set off for battle, he would burn incense inside his helmet to scent the helmet. In case he fell in battle and his head was taken as a trophy, the scent would be very pleasant for his victor. And this was a very important, uh,


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[Assistant] Matter for the samurai to, to have this nobility even within death and after death.


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[Assistant] I doubt if they were really concerned with samurai virtue as they were with their own military campaigns.


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[Assistant] It was normal, actually, in Japanese society at the time for these different forms of sexual relationships to take place. People didn't think in terms of sexual


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[Assistant] Uh, relational categories like bisexuality, homosexuality, heterosexuality. The vocabulary didn't exist and all were fine.


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[Assistant] Of course they fought sometimes and they did kill and all of that, but they were very cultured people who wrote and read and studied and so on.


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[Assistant] Well, I tell you what, for me, as I take that van, to be here now, in this car, is uh, is unreal for me.


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[Assistant] How has touring changed now to what it was like in the 90s?


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[Assistant] Real world. Right. But then the fans are different now. Like, you know, they're the same people but they're all older. So like, where they, you know, they used to throw like bras and underwear, now is it like just a mass of spanks?


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[Assistant] Dr. Warren and the staff of the Massachusetts General addressed a memorial to Congress. Daniel Webster supported it, and now they're going to vote me a hundred thousand dollars award.


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[Assistant] I hate to have it look as if I was trying to make the government pay to relieve wounded soldiers from pain. The government pays for the guns, don't it? Huh?


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[Assistant] Well, this is an ether inhaler, eh, guaranteed to work perfect, whether it's the same as Dr. What's-his-name's, or how I wouldn't know. Well, I would, because I happen to be Dr. What's-his-name, and I happen to have invented these.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm talking about. What's this hole for? To stick flowers in. Look, I sell bottles.


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[Assistant] I tell you, I can't afford it, doc. My practice has all gone to pieces.


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[Assistant] I'm so mad most of the time. I mean all those people saying I stole their ideas from them.


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[Assistant] You know I discovered the use of ether, don't you? Of course I know it.


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[Assistant] If I thought you'd wait for me, I'd work so hard that in almost no time at all, I venture to say I'd be in a position to support a, not luxury maybe, but to support a family of reasonable size.


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[Assistant] Open your mouth and keep your trap shut. Don't you try and show a little courage. This won't hurt a bit.


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[Assistant] You can't put in a nice inlay like you did in dental college with them screaming bloody murder in your face or trying to bite you. It's impossible.


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[Assistant] Your leg goes to sleep sometimes when you're resting your elbow on it. It must be pretty hard to put your head to sleep. There ought to be a way to desensitize a nerve.


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[Assistant] Didn't Dr. Jackson say something about that one night after supper?


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[Assistant] Some kind of drops or something was supposed to help some.


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[Assistant] Because I despise him so, the sarcastic old blowhard.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, W.T.G. Morton. I was a student of yours at Harvard Medical. His face was swollen out and you said that. Oh yes.


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[Assistant] Have you tried oil of cloves? I've tried oil of cloves, I've tried camper, I've tried peppermint, I've tried whiskey, I've tried brandy, I've tried


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[Assistant] Tell me something. Was I drunk when I came in here last night?


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[Assistant] What do you mean, not particularly? I had two drinks. Two with Professor Jackson down at Costello's.


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[Assistant] It was the stream of oblivion that banished all earthly sorrows. Lethean.


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[Assistant] What happens then? You will then sink into a gentle slumber, a sort of catnap, from which you will awake without pain and without the tooth. On the level? On the level. It's a little invention of my own. Hold that, please.


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[Assistant] Put that into your mouth and inhale deeply. No, no, not at me. Just suck it in. Now.


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[Assistant] I know it's just around the corner, but I'm stuck. Something went wrong. I want you to help me out and I'll pay you for your help.


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[Assistant] I haven't got $500, but I'll tell you what I'm prepared to do.


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[Assistant] I hereby assign to Dr. Charles T. Jackson one-tenth of my interest in this discovery for his assistance in its perfection.


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[Assistant] Where did you get this? Brewer Stevens & Cushing on Washington Street.


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[Assistant] You mean that was the trouble? That was the problem, Professor. Thank you, Doctor. You'll be a rich man for this. You wouldn't care to settle for $50 cash, would you? Thank you. Just the same, Doctor.


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[Assistant] There you are. It's easy as falling off the roof. I could have sawed his leg off without his feeling. Let's see.


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[Assistant] Now what is it? You've swindled me. I'd be a little more careful of my verbs if I were you.


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[Assistant] I could have gone to any chemist in the city to find out what I wanted to know. If it happened, I came to you.


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[Assistant] I'm going down to Massachusetts General to ask Professor Warren to try the leithian. You want to come along? You mean an assertion?


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[Assistant] I guess it was kind of dusty at the hospital. They're going to try it out Friday morning at 10 o'clock.


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[Assistant] Just think, Lizzie. It won't hurt anymore. Surgeons will be able to take their time. They'll be able to do things that have been impossible up to now.


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[Assistant] Will work. Anyway, that's the risk you have to take.


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[Assistant] You were? I'm sorry, but I've been so terribly busy. I came as a patient.


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[Assistant] You're just using it differently. Don't talk like a child, Horace. I'm using something entirely different. I'm sorry you feel this way. You'll be sorrier still.


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[Assistant] I'll never be sorrier than I am at this moment, Horace. Alright, let's get out of here.


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[Assistant] Just breathe in deeply. That's right. Keep on breathing.


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[Assistant] Doctor Warren, your patient is ready. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Can we hold his head? That will not be necessary. Velpo.


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[Assistant] But there's nothing to forgive, Lizzie. I'm the one who needs forgiveness. It can't have been much fun to have a husband who always reeks of chemicals or works all night and never comes home, forgets dinner parties and birthdays and everything else a husband ought to remember.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid it might be for me. You see, my patent hasn't been granted yet. It's still pending. Maybe if you'd used the lithium this way for a little while, why, later after my patent had been granted... You could sell it for more money. What?


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[Assistant] Don't be a hog, Daisy. Leave a few for the next fella. I thought you were the fairest of snakes. I am. But that ain't no sign I got the star of the deck, is it?


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[Assistant] Oh, Sam, the house don't seem like nothing extra.


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[Assistant] Without even talking about the money the planks and beams had cost.


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[Assistant] When you did the plow and I could lead the mules and, and, and when you cleared up this brush I could burn it for you. And in the summertime we could lie in the grass and watch the kids swimmin' in the river.


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[Assistant] Never you mind, Granny. For breakfast we'll have a nice big bowl of cornmeal mush.


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[Assistant] Look, I think I know where there's a nice swarm of wild bees. Maybe tomorrow I'll go out and get you some honey. Maybe. Wild bees.


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[Assistant] Vegetables. Couldn't grow vegetables in winter.


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[Assistant] Yes doctor, I got your two dollars and Sam's got a dollar and thirty-five cents more.


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[Assistant] Poor Sam. Nails in this here Tucker family just ain't strong.


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[Assistant] If he'd come wagging in one of these days to the boa constrictor, I wouldn't be one mite surprised.


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[Assistant] Of course, the worst thing of all was the stovepipe. But I gotta back up again and I think it'll work all right now. How do you like that, Sam?


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[Assistant] Tomorrow I guess we'll be through with the plowing. Heh, through with the plowing. I'll be jiggered. As if we'd ever get through with the plowing. I'm going back to the house and just sit and wait for my call to glory.


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[Assistant] American Airlines will soon charge $15 for the first checked bag. That's on top of a fee of $25 for your second one.


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[Assistant] You bought Oakley. They tried to compete and they lost and then you bought them.


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[Assistant] You're using the regular lithium the same as you use in your office? There is only one lithium. You anticipate any pain, doctor? Where there is lithium, there can be no pain. You expect a distinguished audience. Everybody


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[Assistant] It's, yes they do, and I usually correct them. Sometimes I don't, a couple of times I can think of it's been quite funny. Uhm, but yeaah, I remember one time actually I was at this fancy Hollywood party, you know the Vanity, I've seen you there, the Vanity Fair party.


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[Assistant] And I was there sort of excited or dressed up at the bar and you know, schmoozing with showbiz types and the crowds parted and there was Lady Gaga and she's heading right towards me and she says...


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[Assistant] Thank you. Your performance in American Hustle, Amy, was...


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[Assistant] And so I sat on one of those sofas where I thought no one could see me in a dusty corner of Ikea and I, you know, the baby latches on, I sort of close my eyes for a moment to rest and then this woman and her two kids appear and they're like, oh my god, it's Amy!


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[Assistant] Hello, I'm Isla Fisher and I'd like to clear something up. I am not Amy Adams.


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[Assistant] Hey, maybe it's a little hard to tell us apart, but the point is when you come up to any of us and say, I love you in Arrival, it hurts because we weren't in Arrival.


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[Assistant] I mean, unless you are Amy Adams, and she'd love to hear about her performance in Arrival, but I'm Isla Fisher. We have totally different names, hence we are totally different people. It's really not that confusing. Oh, and I'm also not Wendy from the hamburger commercials. Please, I'm Isla Fisher.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is so, this whole thing is messy and ugly and complicated, and I don't know if we will ever know exactly what happened X, Y, and Z, but I have spent months, literally months on this ever since the Browns acquired him, trying to get to the bottom of, okay, what happened, what didn't happen, we'll never know for sure, but I did obtain


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[Assistant] Uh, court testimonies pertaining to, uh, probably four accusers, uh, tied in some form or fashion to four of the accusers, text messages.


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[Assistant] So under oath, under oath testimony, uhm, some petitions that were filed, petitions are not sworn testimony, those are the allegations filed with the court.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing about Lebron. I would put Lebron and Tom Brady in the same category. These two guys of our generation spent more on their bodies than anybody else. And there's a reason that they can play it. That is the reason that they can play to the level that they play at the age that they're at.


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[Assistant] Jason. There's famous stories of Michael going into your point, going into the training room.


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[Assistant] Uh, the one year, I can't remember the year. You can, you can look it up and find it. Michael would go in the training room and guys would be sitting there getting taped up or whatever. You go, no out, out, go get dressed, go get dressed, go get dressed. You're playing tonight. Shut up, go get dressed. Wow. And it's, I don't care if you're hurt, go get dressed. What a chill guy.


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[Assistant] I was just going to say that. Like, okay, listen, I'm biased. I spent four years with LeBron.


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[Assistant] But here's the thing, like, Lebron gets killed for his three and six finals record and, and like the, his first, the, the Spurs series when he was swept with the Cavs, I don't know how you can hold that against him because that roster was awful.


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[Assistant] But history will show, Lebron took three franchises to a championship. Show me any other superstar that did that, that took three different franchises to a championship.


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[Assistant] But where does it fit in? For Cal Ripken, they're playing every single day. 162 games. To do that for over 2,000 games?


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[Assistant] Is a stunning testament to durability. What LeBron did is a stunning testament to greatness. Yes. And there's a durability and greatness. You can play every day. It doesn't mean you're any good. You can suck and get out there every day if your team's not any good.


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[Assistant] And if he stays in LA, no. I don't think he's gonna have a chance.


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[Assistant] So that, that to me, so this summer is going to tell us a lot.


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[Assistant] I think he is, I think he will. If he doesn't, buckle up. That's what I keep saying. If he doesn't sign that, buckle up because it's going to get crazy.


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[Assistant] If he leaves LA and can play for another championship, yes, he can be the best player still. Wow.


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[Assistant] Because he plays for April, May, and June. Like he doesn't care. He can drive an organization crazy for November, December, January, February, and March. I've seen it. April, May, and June, he pays the check and he makes it all worth it.


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[Assistant] Alright, All-Star Weekend. I will say no. But, yeaah. I do think that there's a possibility.


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[Assistant] When we were in New Orleans, his second to last year in Cleveland, coming off the championship, okay, we were down in New Orleans for a game and they lost to a bad Pelicans team.


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[Assistant] And in the locker room that night, he set the organization on fire and said they're top heavy, they need more playmakers, like he put Griff on notice, he put the entire organization on notice, and they did not take kindly to that.


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[Assistant] And, and, and he told us to write, like, he had been grumbling leading up to that. And after he did his formal availability that night, it was me, it was Joe Vard and Dave McMenamin standing there. And LeBron like saw us, caught eyes with us, he goes, hey,


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[Assistant] Write this. We're like, okay, it's on. What do you got? And that he just towards your organization.


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[Assistant] When he talks, it's news. So as he was leaving that night, as he was leaving the locker room, I'll never forget, he was standing in the mirror like adjusting his shirt. He goes, it would be different if I wasn't still in championship mode, but I'm still playing at an incredibly high level. And he left the locker room.


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[Assistant] So the question that I have that I don't know the answer to is he's still in championship mode because he's still playing at an incredibly high level. Does he want more championships? Is he going to hunt more titles?


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[Assistant] Then he's probably gonna stay there and retire there and make movies and his kids love living in LA, his wife loves LA, and he's just gonna ride it out in LA.


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[Assistant] He's never lived away from his family. He's never lived away from his family. And now Brani's getting ready to graduate. Bryce still has a couple years to go. If he wants another title, I believe, and people will disagree with this, I believe he's going to have to leave LA if he wants another title in his career. I don't disagree with that.


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[Assistant] And now here's the, here's the reason why I think that. And the Cavs are gonna push back on that and say, we don't want them. We've been through that before. We don't want them. Okay. Well guess what? You need a playmaking wing. Like that's what this team needs. You can't win championships in the NBA.


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[Assistant] And so here's the thing, like this is what I, so after our conversation at All-Star Weekend, when he said I wouldn't close the door on that, and by the way, he got himself in a lot of trouble with everything that he told me.


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[Assistant] So he goes back to LA and has to like put out some fires with Genie and Rob and everybody. Damage control. Immediately. So he irritated me. So he goes out when he gets back to LA and he said the media twisted his words. And I was like,


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[Assistant] Your words were not twisted. No. So they came back like two weeks later. The Lakers came back to Cleveland and I waited for him after he did his press availability and I said listen, I'm not writing anything else on this.


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[Assistant] He goes, I did not twist your words. And he said no, you didn't. And I said, but you went back and said that your words were twisted. He goes, he had to. And he goes, now you're twisting my words. I said the media twisted my words. I said I am the media.


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[Assistant] And he said, no, he said, we're good. You wrote exactly what I said. We're good. And I said, okay, I just want to hear you say that. And so like I said, good seeing you again. I'll see you when I see you.


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[Assistant] Putting LeBron in check. So, oh, he and I went at it, his four, we went at it big time. Like, oh, it was fun. It was a lot of fun. So, so that's where I guess I would leave it. And so when he said that,


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[Assistant] I thought the Cavs were going to make the playoffs and probably get bounced in the first round. And then next year they make the playoffs again and then he's a free agent. If he doesn't sign the extension, then he's a free agent. And now you've got a really good young team that's one piece away from getting over the top.


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[Assistant] And listen, LeBron and Dan have never had a good relationship. He came back in spite of Dan.


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[Assistant] We're good. Go our separate ways. The Cavs are not the Cavs of 2018. Dan is not as involved as he was. Look at the extensions they're handing out. They never handed out extensions. Ever. That's like Oprah's book club. You get an extension and you get an extension. Kobe and JB are going to outlast me and Cleaver.


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[Assistant] So the calves are not the calves anymore. And if, and listen, a lot of pieces have to align. And I just said, I think he finishes his career in L.A. I'm just laying out for you. But you say it.


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[Assistant] Now here's the thing, Lebron does not like playing with kids. But it's two years away. And they won't be that young. That's right. Two years from now, Garland will be


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[Assistant] Here's the thing with Lebron that drives me crazy sometimes. So when he left, he left


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[Assistant] Basically, if you remember the press conference he gave right before that finals ended, he basically laid out the reasons why he was going to go. He needed more help around him. He felt like he could never take time off. He had to play 48 minute games. He could not come out of the game. He needed more help around him. But then every situation he gets into, he becomes the guy and takes over the game and he's the ball in his hands.


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[Assistant] Is he an NBA talent? No, he needs college. I was talking to an NBA evaluator about that and I said, how close is he? And he said he really probably needs three years of college.


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[Assistant] I believe LeBron probably finishes his career in LA. I'm just laying out a path to you.


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[Assistant] of, of how it could go another way. And it all is predicated on this summer in August and whether or not


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[Assistant] And Kevin Stefanski sat down with an iPad with Deshawn for 45 minutes and went over and showed him, here's what you, here's what we did.


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[Assistant] And now here's what you did in Houston and this is how it's going to fit with what we're doing here. And that really I think had a lot to do with, I know everyone's going to say $230 million when I'm over, but I think that 45 minutes that Kevin and Deshawn spent chopping it up and talking X's and O's went a long way. $230 million didn't hurt.


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[Assistant] He's brilliant. It was one OTA practice. I know. But you saw if you were there, you saw why they're willing to go through this toxic mess that they're in right now. You saw why they feel like the payoff is worth it. And I think to your point,


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[Assistant] I thought they did a fantastic job. They asked everything it needed asked. All he has to do is say, guys, we covered this. I said everything I could say on it. We're moving on and playing football. That's all he has to do.


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[Assistant] Here's what I always say, and this is what I wrote when Kyrie went on his media blackout. If you don't talk,


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[Assistant] They are going on the attack more than they have in the past. Rusty Harden and his defense team have sat back. Well, that's because Busby is, right? Well, that's because of the HBO show, I think. Just within the last few days, there's been a pivot in their strategy and they're doing more media and they're getting out in front of this.


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[Assistant] I think they should have been doing it long ago. And Rusty Harden said we were never going to win the PR battle. I was focused on the criminal component and then the NFL and then we'll get to the PR battle. But I think that I, and listen, Rusty Harden has done this a lot more than I have. I think it was a mistake and they should have been on the attack earlier.


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[Assistant] That doesn't matter really at the end of the day. Here's why I think he did it.


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[Assistant] It's worth a lot for it to be over. So there's, there's, there's a scale and there's two things to weigh on it. Number one, I don't believe it's in his best interest to settle now because the NFL is just wrapping up its investigation. If you settle now, you're admitting guilt of some sort and they can use that in terms of their suspension.


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[Assistant] If you're paying them, it doesn't matter. If you settle, you're perceived guilty. But the other side to that is the NFL wants him to settle too. So the NFL can go to Deshaun and say, listen, clean this up and get rid of this.


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[Assistant] And it's three games or two games or four games or whatever the number is. If you take these to trial, all bets are off and the gloves are off and we'll see what happens. That's what I think is going to happen. And so, so that's why I don't think that, and both, listen, I talked to Rusty Harden, his defense attorney two days ago. I talked to Tony Busby, the attorney representing the 22 women yesterday.


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[Assistant] I think it will be one suspension. Unless new information comes out from a new witness. Like the Ray Rice situation.


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[Assistant] I believe, I've maintained this from the start. According to the NFL's code of conduct and sexual misconduct.


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[Assistant] I believe it will be six games. And I, and this is not source. This is just, I've tried. It's just your opinion. Yeah, just my opinion. I believe it will be six games with the potential to be four or five on appeal.


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[Assistant] That's what I believe. That's what Ben Roethlisberger got. Ben got six. And I understand, you know, Ben didn't have 22 cases. Now Rusty said...


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[Assistant] He believes only, and I disagree with this, but Rusty said,


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[Assistant] In his mind, only three of the 22 fall under the NFL sexual misconduct policy.


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[Assistant] I believe all 22 do. Because it's written so vaguely.


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[Assistant] They can just do whatever they want. But he believes only three of the 22 would even fall under that.


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[Assistant] I had been told basically since the trade went down that there are discrepancies between some of the testimonies given under oath and some of the allegations that are made.


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[Assistant] And so I've spent the better part of two months trying to get a hold of some of this court testimony. Well, I finally got it this week. I got some of the transcripts.


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[Assistant] Listen, I got, I think, as I said at the start of the show, 3 or 4. There's 22. I got 3 or 4. I haven't seen the other 18. So, let's make that perfectly clear. I don't know what's in the other 18. But from what I saw, one of the things that I saw, there was a counselor.


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[Assistant] From, it was not Rusty who, who, who.


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[Assistant] depositioned her, it was but under cross from the end of the, by the end she said, and I have the feel that she was not tru in the sessions when I saw


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and then also it just goes on that she didn't realize that this, the, the massage therapist that she was treating had reached out to Deshaun and responded to his text 19 times after the incident, after the alleged incident.


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[Assistant] I, I, I know, but there are names, but I, just for legal reasons, I'm not, I'm not giving names. And the, and the counselor testified, it certainly doesn't sound like trauma if she's able to talk to him and is willing to do another massage.


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[Assistant] Well, but she can only go off of the information that's told to her from the massage there. And it's worth noting that when she first took the stand, she said, I always believe.


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[Assistant] And, and Tony was not very happy with that and said like, basically, it's a really long quote, I don't want to read the whole quote, but basically he said he was aggravated that, uh,


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[Assistant] Rusty Harden, the defense attorney, was upset when there was leaked documents earlier on, and now here these are getting leaked. Well isn't that turnabout though? Well it kinda is, but he said that this was taken out of context, and he said you're only seeing a snippet of it, and I have the entire testimony. It wasn't a snippet, I read the entire testimony.


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[Assistant] And there were other inconsistencies with some of the other cases. There was a woman who said that she was forced to perform


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[Assistant] Coerce doesn't mean force, they have very different meanings. And Tony Busby's, when I asked him about it yesterday, Tony said, there's very different meaning between coerce and force. We never alleged force, we alleged coercion, yet the word force appears three times in her statement of the course.


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[Assistant] No, there was, not in what I reviewed, there, there's, I mean there's reports out there that there, there was a woman earlier on who was seeking a settlement early on. But in, in the documents that I reviewed, there was no,


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[Assistant] I don't think they're done yet because one of them just occurred three days ago. One of them that I got just happened this week. Just a few days ago. So it's still ongoing.


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[Assistant] Totally agree. Yeaah, I'm not, I don't have all of them. Right. And I don't know what's in the ones I don't have.


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[Assistant] I don't believe Deshaun is blameless. He can stand up there and maintain his innocence all he wants. I don't believe he's blameless in this. But I don't believe that


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[Assistant] He is what he has been portrayed to be in some circles.


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[Assistant] As it's been relayed to me, the Browns are cautiously optimistic that it's not going to be something that derails their season. Now what are they basing that on? I don't know. Right. But I've heard that over and over. Does it derail the season?


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[Assistant] Well, that's the thing. This is a supply and demand issue. There's just not a lot of very good tight ends.


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[Assistant] That's the tantalizing that you know is in there. And that's what we should see every time. But it's just not consistent.


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[Assistant] They're paying their quarterback 45. So they're going to have, starting next season, they're going to start having cap issues.


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[Assistant] Jason? I spent 18 minutes on my drive into downtown today thinking about this. Perfect.


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[Assistant] And you have them do a long drive contest in golf, have them do a home run Derby.


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[Assistant] And, and then you just make up the points as you go, and then you crown a winner and they send a check to charity.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. And I'll mention one more thing as a, somebody who has a minor in psychology from Kent State University. You're qualified on this show though. Uhm, I don't, and I know that you guys already know this, but the fact that she was in contact with her alleged assailant


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[Assistant] Afterwards doesn't necessarily mean that it didn't happen. That's very common in trauma victims. Just because you maintain a relationship with somebody afterwards doesn't necessarily mean that it didn't happen. The person's not a bad person. How many bad relationships do you know that your wish your friends would have gotten out of but they just couldn't get out of it?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Wow. I got, I got that, I got that journal from Back to the Future too.


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[Assistant] Okay, I have a few ideas. First of all, I was thinking, just for my own edification, I think it'd be funny to watch them do a spelling bee.


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[Assistant] Uh, that would be my first one I would like to see. Second one, I really think that we should consider doing an escape room situation. Wouldn't you like to watch those guys compete in like escape rooms and whoever gets out faster, like they get more money for their charity, something like that. Watching them plan and stuff like that would be interesting.


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[Assistant] There you go. Who also played, uh, he played Russian roulette.


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[Assistant] Set it up for us. Okay, so, uh, we talked about this the other day, uh, when I was a kid I used to go and obviously Bernie was one of the very formative in all of our lives as people growing up around here, sports fans. And my dad, uh, would go to these like dinners where you could meet Bernie Kozar and he'd just bother Bernie Kozar at these things.


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[Assistant] Here's what's so important about athletics in the community, and I'm so bored because I'm 11. But, you got Coca-Cola's and stuff, but I took a great picture with Bernie Kozar that I don't know if we still have it, we probably don't.


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[Assistant] But it's me, my dad, and Bernie Kozar at one of these. And, uh, Jay, you saw, I said, I showed you this picture at one point, and you suggested doing a reenactment, which were very popular at the time. Yes. Of, uhm, the, of that picture. Not only with us grown up, my dad.


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[Assistant] They say you can't live in the past, and that's true. But that doesn't mean you can't celebrate it and commemorate it by making it a part of the present. This is Mike Polk hanging with the posse through 3 News.


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[Assistant] No, I think it was like one of the six guys who was scamming Bernie at that time, probably. More than six! Yeah. You know, I really think that was it. And he's just like, so I think I probably brought on some bad stuff. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Just a reminder, my parents generation is the generation of the pet rock. Yeah, so we all did stupid things at some point. Yeah, that kind of stuck.


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[Assistant] What we learned today, uh, David and Joku a lot of drops. Kids need to cut their damn hair.


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[Assistant] Er ist der letzte Überlebende der Mercury 7 Crew gewesen. 1998 reiste Glenn nochmals ins All und war damit der älteste Mann im orbit unseres Planeten.


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[Assistant] Dann freue ich mich, dich auch das nächste Mal hier wieder begrüßen zu dürfen. Das Universum bist du. Fang bei dir an. Peace.


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[Assistant] You know, you really are extraordinary.


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[Assistant] From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table. One page is missing.


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[Assistant] But otherwise they are exactly as written, and show my feelings and suspicions of the moment more accurately than my memory.


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[Assistant] My previous letters and telegrams have kept you pretty well up to date as to all that has occurred in this most God-forsaken corner of the world.


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[Assistant] The longer one stays here, the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness and also its grim charm. When you are once out upon its bosom,


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[Assistant] You have left all traces of modern England behind you.


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[Assistant] But on the other hand you are conscious everywhere of the homes and the work of the prehistoric people. On all sides of you as you walk are the houses of these forgotten folk with their graves


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[Assistant] And the huge monoliths which are supposed to have marked their temples.


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[Assistant] As you look at their grey stone huts against the scarred hillsides, you leave your own age behind you.


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[Assistant] And if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow onto the string of his bow,


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[Assistant] You would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.


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[Assistant] I am no antiquarian, but I could imagine that they were some unwarlike and harried race who were forced to accept that which none other would occupy.


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[Assistant] All this however is foreign to the mission on which you sent me.


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[Assistant] And will probably be very uninteresting to your severely practical mind.


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[Assistant] I could still remember your complete indifference as to whether the sun moved round the earth or the earth round the sun.


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[Assistant] Let me therefore return to the facts concerning Sir Henry Baskerville.


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[Assistant] If you have not had any report within the last few days it is because up to today there was nothing of importance to relate.


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[Assistant] Then a very surprising circumstance occurred, which I shall tell you in due course.


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[Assistant] But first of all I must keep you in touch with some of the other factors in the situation.


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[Assistant] One of these concerning which I have said little is the escaped convict upon the moor.


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[Assistant] There is strong reason now to believe that he has got right away.


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[Assistant] During which he has not been seen and nothing has been heard of him.


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[Assistant] It is surely inconceivable that he could have held out upon the moor during all that time.


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[Assistant] Of course, so far as his concealment goes there is no difficulty at all.


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[Assistant] Any one of these stone huts would give him a hiding-place, but there is nothing to eat unless he were to catch and slaughter one of the more sheep. We think, therefore, that he is gone


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[Assistant] And the outlying farmers sleep the better in consequence.


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[Assistant] We are four able-bodied men in this household, so that we could take good care of ourselves, but I confess that I have had uneasy moments when I have thought of the Stapletons. They live miles from any help.


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[Assistant] There are one maid, an old manservant, the sister, and the brother. The latter not a very strong man.


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[Assistant] They would be helpless in the hands of a desperate fellow like this Notting Hill criminal if he could once affect an entrance. Both Sir Henry and I were concerned at their situation.


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[Assistant] And it was suggested that Perkins the Groom should go over to sleep there, but Stapleton would not hear of it.


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[Assistant] The fact is that our friend the Baronet begins to display a considerable interest in our fair neighbour.


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[Assistant] It is not to be wondered at, for time hangs heavily in this lonely spot to an active man like him


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[Assistant] He has certainly a very marked influence over her, for I have seen her continually glance at him as she talked, as if seeking approbation for what she said. I trust that he is kind to her.


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[Assistant] There is a dry glitter in his eyes and a firm set of his thin lips.


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[Assistant] Which goes with a positive and possibly a harsh nature. You would find him an interesting study.


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[Assistant] He came over to call upon Baskerville on that first day. The very next morning he took us both to show us the spot where the legend of the wicked Hugo is supposed to have had its origin.


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[Assistant] It was an excursion of some miles across the moor, to a place which is so dismal that it might have suggested the story.


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[Assistant] We found a short valley between rugged tors, which led to an open grassy space, flecked over with the white cotton grass.


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[Assistant] In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end, until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.


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[Assistant] In every way it corresponded with the scene of the old tragedy.


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[Assistant] Sir Henry was much interested and asked Stapleton more than once whether he did really believe in the possibility of the interference of the supernatural in the affairs of men. He spoke lightly, but it was evident that he was very much in earnest. Stapleton was guarded in his replies, but it was easy to see that he said less than he might.


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[Assistant] And that he would not express his whole opinion out of considerations for the feelings of the baronet.


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[Assistant] He told us of similar cases where families had suffered from some evil influence.


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[Assistant] And he left us with the impression that he shared the popular view upon the matter.


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[Assistant] On our way back we stayed for lunch at Mary Pitt House, and it was there that Sir Henry made the acquaintance of Miss Stapleton.


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[Assistant] From the first moment that he saw her he appeared to be strongly attracted by her, and I'm much mistaken if the feeling was not mutual. He referred to her again and again on our walk home.


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[Assistant] And since then hardly a day has passed that we have not seen something of the brother and sister. They dine here to-night, and there is some talk of our going to them next week.


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[Assistant] One would imagine that such a match would be very welcome to Stapleton.


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[Assistant] And yet I have more than once caught a look of the strongest disapprobation in his face when Sir Henry has been paying some attention to his sister. He is much attached to her, no doubt, and would lead a lonely life without her.


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[Assistant] But it would seem the height of selfishness if he were to stand in the way of her making so brilliant a marriage.


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[Assistant] Yet I'm certain that he does not wish their intimacy to ripen into love.


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[Assistant] And I have several times observed that he has taken pains to prevent them from being teta-tet.


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[Assistant] By the way, your instructions to me, never to allow Sir Henry to go out alone, will become very much more onerous if a love affair were to be added to our other difficulties.


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[Assistant] My popularity would soon suffer if I were to carry out your orders to the letter. The other day, Thursday to be more exact, Dr Mortimer lunched with us.


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[Assistant] He has been excavating a barrow at Long Down, and has got a prehistoric skull which fills him with great joy.


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[Assistant] Never was there such a single-minded enthusiast as he.


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[Assistant] The Stapletons came in afterwards, and the good doctor took us all to the Yew Alley at Sir Henry's request.


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[Assistant] At the far end is an old tumbledown summer house.


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[Assistant] Halfway down is the moor gate where the old gentleman left his cigar ash. It is a white wooden gate with a latch. Beyond it lies the wide moor.


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[Assistant] I remember your theory of the affair, and tried to picture all that had occurred.


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[Assistant] As the old man stood there he saw something coming across the moor.


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[Assistant] Something which terrified him so that he lost his wits.


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[Assistant] Did the pale watchful Barrymore know more than he cared to say? It was all dim and vague.


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[Assistant] But always there is the dark shadow of crime behind it.


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[Assistant] One other neighbour I have met since I wrote last, this is Mr. Franklin, of Lafter Hall, who lives some four miles to the south of us.


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[Assistant] He is an elderly man, red-faced, white-haired and choleric.


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[Assistant] His passion is for the British law, and he has spent a large fortune in litigation. He fights for the mere pleasure of fighting, and is equally ready to take up either side of a question.


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[Assistant] So that it is no wonder that he has found it a costly amusement.


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[Assistant] Sometimes he will shut up a right of way and defy the parish to make him open it.


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[Assistant] At others he will, with his own hands, tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has existed there from time immemorial, defying the owner to prosecute him for trespass.


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[Assistant] Is learned in old manorial and communal rites.


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[Assistant] And he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villagers of Fernworthy, and sometimes against them.


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[Assistant] So that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street,


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[Assistant] Or else burned in effigy, according to his latest exploit.


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[Assistant] He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune, and so draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future.


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[Assistant] Apart from the law he seems a kindly good-natured person.


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[Assistant] And I only mention him because you were particular that I should send some description of the people who surround it.


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[Assistant] He is curiously employed at present for being an amateur astronomer.


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[Assistant] He has an excellent telescope with which he lies upon the roof of his own house and sweeps the moor all day in the hope of catching a glimpse of the escaped convict.


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[Assistant] If he would confine his energies to this all would be well, but there are rumours that he intends to prosecute Dr. Mortimer for opening a grave without the consent of the next of kin.


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[Assistant] Because he dug up the Neolithic skull in the Barrow on Long Down.


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[Assistant] He helps to keep our lives from being monotonous, and gives a little comic relief where it is badly needed.


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[Assistant] And now, having brought you up to date in the escaped convict, the Stapletons, Dr. Mortimer and Franklin of Lafter Hall,


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[Assistant] Let me end on that which is most important and tell you more about the Barrymores and especially about the surprising development of last night.


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[Assistant] First of all about the test telegram, which you sent from London, in order to make sure that Barrymore was really here.


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[Assistant] I've already explained that the testimony of the postmaster shows that the test was worthless, and that we have no proof one way or the other.


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[Assistant] I told Sir Henry how the matter stood, and he at once in his downright fashion had Barrymore up and asked him whether he had received the telegram himself. Barrymore said that he had. Did the boy deliver it into your own hands? asked Sir Henry.


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[Assistant] Barrymore looked surprised and considered for a little time. No, said he. I was in the box-room at the time and my wife brought it up to me.


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[Assistant] Did you answer it yourself? No. I told my wife what to answer and she went down to write it.


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[Assistant] In the evening he recurred to the subject of his own accord. I could not quite understand the object of your questions this morning, Sir Henry, said he.


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[Assistant] I trust that they do not mean that I have done anything to forfeit your confidence.


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[Assistant] Sir Henry had to assure him that it was not so, and pacify him by giving him a considerable part of his old wardrobe, the London outfit having now all arrived. Mrs. Barrymore is of interest to me. She is a heavy, solid person, very limited


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[Assistant] Intensely respectable and inclined to be puritanical. You could hardly conceive a less emotional subject.


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[Assistant] Yet I have told you how, on the first night here, I heard her sobbing bitterly.


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[Assistant] And since then I have more than once observed traces of tears upon her face.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I wonder if she has a guilty memory which haunts her.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I suspect Barrymore of being a domestic tyrant.


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[Assistant] I've always felt that there was something singular and questionable in this man's character.


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[Assistant] But the adventure of last night brings all my suspicions to a head. And yet it may seem a small matter in itself. You are aware that I'm not a very sound sleeper.


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[Assistant] And since I have been on guard in this house my slumbers have been lighter than ever.


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[Assistant] Last night about two in the morning I was aroused by a stealthy step passing my room. I rose, opened my door, and peeped out.


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[Assistant] A long black shadow was trailing down the corridor.


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[Assistant] It was thrown by a man who walked softly down the passage with a candle held in his hand. He was in shirt and trousers, with no covering to his feet.


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[Assistant] I could merely see the outline, but his height told me that it was Barrymore.


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[Assistant] He walked very slowly and circumspectly, and there was something indescribably...


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[Assistant] Guilty and furtive in his whole appearance.


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[Assistant] I have told you that the corridor is broken by the balcony which runs round the hall, but that it is resumed upon the farther side. I waited until he had passed out of sight, and then I followed him.


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[Assistant] When I came round the balcony he had reached the end of the farther corridor, and I could see from the glimmer of the light through an open door that he had entered one of the rooms.


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[Assistant] Now all these rooms are unfurnished and unoccupied so that his expedition became more mysterious than ever. The lights shone steadily as if he were standing motionless.


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[Assistant] I crept down the passage as noiselessly as I could, and peeped round the corner of the door. Barrymore was crouching at the window, with the candle held against the glass.


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[Assistant] His profile was half turned towards me, and his face seemed to be rigid with expectation as he stared out into the blackness of the moor. For some minutes he stood watching intently. Then he gave a deep groan, and with an impatient gesture he put out the light.


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[Assistant] Instantly I made my way back to my room, and very shortly came the stealthy steps passing once more upon their return journey.


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[Assistant] Long afterwards, when I had fallen into a light sleep, I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock, but I could not tell whence the sound came. What it all means I cannot get.


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[Assistant] I do not trouble you with my theories, for you asked me to furnish you only with facts.


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[Assistant] I have had a long talk with Sir Henry this morning, and we have made a plan of campaign founded upon my observations of last night. I will not speak about it just now.


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[Assistant] But it should make my next report interesting reading.


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[Assistant] The Trump administration is dealing with crises both natural and of its own making, from hurricanes to a series of scandals involving cabinet members. So naturally, President Trump spent the weekend attacking athletes for peacefully protesting police brutality. For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.


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[Assistant] Tensions with North Korea over its nuclear program are escalating and there's currently an urgent humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico where more than 3 million American citizens are currently without power after Hurricane Maria. So President Trump decided what our nation needed most this past weekend was one more


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[Assistant] Donald Trump. Donald Trump is our first NC-17 president.


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[Assistant] Trump's presidential library is gonna be in the back of a video store where they keep all the pornos. You're gonna have to enter through a beaded curtain. You guys got the State of the Union back here?


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[Assistant] Trump's unhinged rant only got worse from there when he bizarrely suggested that NFL ratings were down because people would rather watch him


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[Assistant] Trump talks like he just got his bell rung. Someone should always be checking his eyes with a pen flashlight. How many fingers am I holding up? Three million illegal voters. This guy's done for the day. This guy's done for the day.


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[Assistant] Trump then doubled down on his claim about the ratings and attendance tweeting over the weekend, And by asking fans to boycott the league, Trump was attacking the pocketbook of many who would use their pocketbooks to help Trump.


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[Assistant] He gave Trump a Super Bowl ring and now Trump is attacking the NFL. This is a reminder that supporting Trump is a lot like robbing a bank. Just when you think you got away with it, the die pack explodes.


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[Assistant] It should be clear to everyone who Donald Trump is and what he represents. When black athletes peacefully protest racism and police brutality, Trump has no trouble summoning his outrage. But when white supremacists march with Nazi flags and Confederate flags through the streets of an American city, he equivocates and then defends them.


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[Assistant] But Trump wasn't content to feud with just one massively popular sports league this weekend. He decided to tangle with the NBA as well after seeing a Fox and Friends segment on Steph Curry's decision not to go to the White House with the Golden State Warriors.


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[Assistant] There were so many memorable responses to the President's comments this weekend, but if you were angry and frustrated, you might have found some catharsis in this tweet from Buffalo Bill's running back LaShawn McCoy who wrote,


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[Assistant] The most devastating part of that is the ellipsis.


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[Assistant] Only dug in after that obsessively tweeting over the weekend about sports despite tweeting not once about the crisis in Puerto Rico. On Saturday he wrote,


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[Assistant] Okay, first of all, it's not a privilege. The players are the sport. And without them, there is no league. There's a reason DirecTV has a red zone channel and not an owner's box channel.


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[Assistant] And second, it wasn't just athletes protesting police brutality who stood up against Trump this week, and he also earned harsh rebukes from football analysts who aren't exactly known as radicals.


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[Assistant] There was even this comment from Trump supporter, Rex Ryan.


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[Assistant] Oh, so you supported Trump and then he let you down? Better cover your eyes.


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[Assistant] These athletes aren't just speaking for themselves. They're using their platform to call attention to racial injustice and speak out for others. And here now to use her platform to do the same, late-night writer Amber Ruffin.


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[Assistant] But that it was necessary to send down for an old officer of the prison ship, from which he had once escaped, to speak to his identity. Nobody doubted it.


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[Assistant] I had gone direct to Mr. Jaggers at his private house, on my arrival overnight, to retain his assistance. And Mr. Jaggers, on the prisoner's behalf, would admit nothing.


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[Assistant] It was the sole resource, for he told me that the case must be over in five minutes when the witness was there, and that no power on earth could prevent its going against us.


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[Assistant] I imparted to Mr. Jaggers my design of keeping him in ignorance of the fate of his wealth. Mr. Jaggers was quarrelous and angry with me for having let it slip through my fingers, and said we must memorialize by and by


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[Assistant] I was not related to the outlaw, or connected with him by any recognizable tie. He had put his hand to no writing or settlement in my favor before his apprehension, and to do so now would be idle.


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[Assistant] I had no claim, and I finally resolved and ever afterwards abided by the resolution.


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[Assistant] That my heart should never be sickened with the hopeless task of attempting to establish one. There appeared to be reason for supposing that the drowned informer had hoped for a reward out of this forfeiture.


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[Assistant] Notes were still legible, folded in a case he carried. Among these were the name of a banking house in New South Wales.


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[Assistant] Where a sum of money was, and the designation of certain lands of considerable value.


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[Assistant] Both these heads of information were in a list that Magwitch, while in prison, gave to Mr. Jaggers, of the possessions he supposed I should inherit.


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[Assistant] His ignorance, poor fellow, at last served him. He never mistrusted, but that my inheritance was quite safe, with Mr. Jaggers's aid.


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[Assistant] After three days delay, during which the Crown Prosecution stood over the production of the witness from the prison ship.


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[Assistant] The witness came and completed the easy case.


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[Assistant] He was committed to take his trial at the next sessions, which would come on in a month.


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[Assistant] It was at this dark time of my life that Herbert returned home one evening, a good deal cast down, and said, My dear Handel, I fear I shall soon have to leave you. His partner having prepared me for that, I was less surprised than he thought. We shall lose a fine opportunity if I put off going to Cairo, and I'm very much afraid I must go, Handel, when you most need me.


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[Assistant] You know that I am always with him, to the full extent of the time allowed, and that I should be with him all day long if I could. And when I come away from him, you know that my thoughts are with him." The dreadful condition to which he was brought was so appalling to both of us that we could not refer to it in plainer words. "'My dear fellow,' said Herbert, "'let the near prospect of our separation, for it is very


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[Assistant] Be my justification for troubling you about yourself. Have you thought of your future? No, for I have been afraid to think of any future. But yours cannot be dismissed. Indeed, my dear, dear Handel, it must not be dismissed. I wish you would enter on it now, as far as a few friendly words go with me. I will, said I. In this branch-house of ours, Handel, we must have a


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[Assistant] I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said,


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[Assistant] A clerk, and I hope it is not at all unlikely that he may expand, as a clerk of your acquaintance has expanded, into a partner. Now, Handel, in short, my dear boy, will you come to me?


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[Assistant] There was something charmingly cordial and engaging, in the manner in which after saying,


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[Assistant] As if it were the grave beginning of a portentous business exordium, he had suddenly given up that tone, stretched out his honest hand, and spoke like a schoolboy. "'Clara and I have talked about it again and again,' Herbert pursued, and the dear little thing begged me only this evening, with tears in her eyes, to say to you that if you will live with us, when we come together, she will do her best to make you happy


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[Assistant] And to convince her husband's friend that he is her friend too. We should get on so well, Handel. I thanked her heartily and I thanked him heartily.


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[Assistant] But said I could not yet make sure of joining him, as he so kindly offered.


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[Assistant] Firstly, my mind was too preoccupied to be able to take in the subject clearly.


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[Assistant] Secondly, yes, secondly, there was a vague something lingering in my thoughts that will come out very near the end of this slight narrative.


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[Assistant] But if you thought, Herbert, that you could, without doing any injury to your business, leave the question open for a little while? For any while, cried Herbert, six months, a year? Not so long as that, said I, two or three months at most.


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[Assistant] Herbert was highly delighted when we shook hands on this arrangement, and said he could now take courage to tell me that he believed he must go away at the end of the week. And Clara, said I, the dear little thing, returned Herbert, holds dutifully to her father, as long as he lasts, but he won't last long.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Wimple confides to me that he is certainly going."—'Not to say an unfeeling thing,' said I,—'he cannot do better than go.'—'I am afraid that must be admitted,' said Herbert,—'and then I shall come back for the dear little thing, and the dear little thing and I will walk quietly into the nearest church. Remember, the blessed darling comes of no family, my dear Handel, and never looked into the Red Book, and hasn't a notion about her grandpapa.


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[Assistant] What a fortune for the son of my mother! On the Saturday in that same week, I took my leave of Herbert, full of bright hope, but sad and sorry to leave me, as he sat on one of the Seaport Mail coaches. I went into a coffee-house to write a little note to Clara, telling her he had gone off, sending his love to her over and over again, and then went to my lonely home, if it deserved the name, for it was now no home to me,


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[Assistant] Who is coming down after an unsuccessful application of his knuckles to my door.


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[Assistant] I had not seen him alone since the disastrous issue of the attempted flight, and he had come in his private and personal capacity to say a few words of explanation in reference to that failure.


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[Assistant] I can only suppose now that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments. You don't blame me, I hope, Mr. Pip. I'm sure I tried to serve you with all my heart. I'm as sure of that, Wemmick, as you can be.


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[Assistant] And I thank you most earnestly for all your interest and friendship. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's a bad job," said Wimmick, scratching his head. And I assure you I haven't been so cut up for a long time.


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[Assistant] What I look at is a sacrifice of so much portable property. Oh, dear me! What I think of, Remick, is the poor owner of the property. Yes, to be sure, said Remick.


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[Assistant] And I had put down a five pound note myself to get him out of it. But what I look at is this. The late compacing.


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[Assistant] I invited Wemmick to come upstairs and refresh himself with a glass of grog before walking to Walworth. He accepted the invitation.


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[Assistant] What do you think of my meaning to take holiday on Monday, Mr Pip?


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[Assistant] Why, I suppose you've not done such a thing these twelve months. These twelve years, more likely," said Remick. Yes. I'm going to take a holiday. More than that, I'm going to take a walk. More than that, I'm going to ask you to take a walk with me. I was about to excuse myself as being but a bad companion just then, when Remick anticipated me. I know your engagements.


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[Assistant] It ain't a long walk, and it's an early one. Say it might occupy you, including breakfast on the walk, from eight to twelve. Couldn't you stretch a point and manage it?


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[Assistant] I said I could manage it, would manage it, and he was so very much pleased by my acquiescence that I was pleased too.


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[Assistant] At his particular request, I appointed to call for him at the castle at half-past eight on Monday morning, and so we parted for the time. Punctual to my appointment, I rang at the castle gate on the Monday morning, and was received by Wemmick himself, who struck me as looking tighter than usual, and having a sleeker head on.