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[Assistant] You know, a lot of times people talk about must-win games and things of that nature, and so I would never say that this is a must-win game.


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[Assistant] You know, I think getting off to a good start is important. But yet it's not the end all be all in terms of


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[Assistant] Where you finish the season, uh, but yeah, I think I think anytime you get it, you get a chance to start off fast and.


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[Assistant] You know, hopefully stack some wins together early on in the season. When you know you're going to face some adversity, you know you're going to face some injury issues as the season wears on. Banking a few wins is always good.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's unique to any other season. You know, uhm, you know, you got to start the season at some point. And so uhm.


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[Assistant] You know, we'll start this thing on Sunday and go out against a really good team.


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[Assistant] We'll have a good game plan. We'll play well in this game and, uh, you know, we'll see how it goes.


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[Assistant] He's a big powerful guy inside. Uhm, I think a lot of good, good guys up front.


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[Assistant] They were, uh, number one in the league last year and stopping the run. You know, so that presents a challenge. Uhm, and then, uhm, they probably do as good a job or, uhm, as most in terms of just being able to get pressure on the quarterback with a four-man rush. It hadn't been a, you know, heavy pressure team. So,


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[Assistant] I think, I think the line of scrimmage in this game, really on both sides of the ball is going to be a big factor.


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[Assistant] You know, we expect probably to see four new starters.


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[Assistant] And then the fifth, you know, was moving from center to guard. So uhm, in essence, I got five new guys, you know, playing in different spots on their offensive line. So uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, look, I feel good about the matchups. You know, like I said before, I mean, I think, you know, the team that controls the line of scrimmage is probably going to have.


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[Assistant] Pretty good chance of success in this game. And so I think that's going to be a big factor.


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[Assistant] This is the 2009 memo, and then,


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[Assistant] This one is the, I've got the 13 here as well, or the 2017 rather, right here. Uhm, with respect to, uhm,


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[Assistant] Moving on, I think it's pretty clear that if you look at all three of these, that's what it does.


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[Assistant] It's not just about me, it's about you. The answer is continues to be no.


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[Assistant] See if you can take it out without my feeling it. Just as you saw them doing it when we were playing.


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[Assistant] You're a clever boy, my dear, said the old gentleman, putting his hand on Oliver's head. I've never seen a quicker boy. If you go on like this, you'll be the greatest man in London.


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[Assistant] Now come here and I'll show you how to take the marks out of handkerchiefs.


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[Assistant] Oliver wondered what the connection was between playing at stealing from the old gentleman's pocket and becoming a great man.


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[Assistant] But he followed him quietly to the table and was soon deeply involved in his new study.


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[Assistant] Oliver remained in Fagin's room for many days, picking the marks and names out of the handkerchiefs and sometimes playing the same game as before.


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[Assistant] One evening, two young ladies came to visit and a very cheerful party followed. Oliver thought they were very nice, friendly girls.


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[Assistant] The president had a call, uh, earlier with the king, uh, a couple weeks back.


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[Assistant] And I think the sooner that we can get all those problems out there, the better. I agree with you.


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[Assistant] But if you could choose anyone, who would your dream date be? The Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


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[Assistant] What? What happened? The snowstorm kinda shifted a bunch of stuff up.


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[Assistant] Vienna. He a medical student, you the landlady's daughter.


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[Assistant] The name is Qualini, Ottavio Qualini, Rome, Paris, New York.


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[Assistant] It's just that, well, after all we've been through together, you might have at least offered me a drink.


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[Assistant] There I was, at a moment of supreme ecstasy, at the very point of painting a masterpiece.


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[Assistant] He just pretended he did. That's how he wormed his way into my confidence.


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[Assistant] I live out my life in the loneliness of my love for you. There is no other way. In this world, joy and misery can only be separated if someone takes unto himself the misery, leaving happiness behind for the other.


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[Assistant] But I know how you feel. We're in the same boat now. I'm really in love with her.


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[Assistant] And Doc, the next time you're privileged to look at the work of an artist, think twice before you speak. In this imperfect world of ours, not everybody is an art critic.


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[Assistant] Today we're going to review this. It's the Precision Brewer from Sage. Or Breville, depending where you are in the world. For me it's Sage. And I'm going to tell you


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[Assistant] This review has been two years in the making. It's because about two years ago,


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[Assistant] Sage got in touch and said, can we send you a machine? That is not what you think. And I said, sure, that would be good. And I, and I got it, took it home and it was kind of like a.


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[Assistant] US version, but with UK power through it. It wasn't the dedicated UK machine, that was gonna come a couple months later. Two years later?


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[Assistant] Well, here we are. They've finally released the machine and I gather they had some issues. The UK, London in particular has very hard water and they found that a challenge in testing for this brewer in this market. So they've gone away, changed a few things, added some upgrades.


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[Assistant] I'll talk about that in a second, and it is now available. So it's a kind of odd one for me. Most of my reviews are powered by Patreon. It means I go and buy products and I don't owe anyone anything.


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[Assistant] This is different because this was sent to me originally, or the first one, before I had a Patreon. And I said I would review it, and I will honor my commitment. But know that unlike other Patreon reviews, this was


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[Assistant] Uh, sent to me by the manufacturer. I'm not being paid to make the video. They don't get any influence or input into the video.


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[Assistant] But you should know, I didn't pay for this, and I've had one for two years.


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[Assistant] So let's dive into some just quick overview specs of this whole thing. It's an interesting approach to homebrewers.


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[Assistant] It's £250 in the UK, which puts it at the upper end of the sort of small batch brewer market for the home, but not at the very top, which I think is interesting.


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[Assistant] It's a very sage product. It looks like a sage product. It feels like a sage product. The brush metals they use, the kind of plastics, uh, the whole design aesthetic is very sage. And if you like that, you'll like this. If you hate that, you'll hate this.


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[Assistant] But I like it. I've got a couple sage things at home and it kind of fits for me. Unusually, this thing can brew up to 1.8 litres, which is a lot of coffee, certainly for the home. That's a lot of cups of coffee in the morning for a family. But it doesn't have to brew at that kind of volume. It does a kind of clever thing. Inside the brew basket.


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[Assistant] You've got two brew sort of cones. You've got one cone like this, which is designed to use the kind of Melitta style papers. I really like the Filtropa papers myself.


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[Assistant] But if you take that out, you've actually got a kind of flat-bottomed brewer, and it does come with papers for it, so you can brew larger volumes in this. With the Cone Brewer, which is my preferred brewer, you can brew up to 1.2 litres, which frankly,


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[Assistant] There's a lot, it's enough, it's more than I would need, but the extra is kind of interesting.


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[Assistant] More than that, you don't even have to use this brew basket. There is an adapter set that lets you put in a V60 or a Kalita or something.


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[Assistant] That's kind of cool. It does also come with a metal filter basket if you want to do that. If you want to go zero waste and not use paper whatsoever, this is an option.


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[Assistant] I'm generally not a huge fan of these things. I like them in principle. I just personally always prefer the taste of paper-filtered coffee. Underneath you've got a carafe. It is a thermal carafe, which is good. They do, I think, a version that is glass with the heating plate that nobody should buy.


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[Assistant] Heather, just get the thermal carafe. Just get the thermal carafe. And then the tanks at the back.


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[Assistant] Pretty simple, pretty obvious so far. In the tank in the UK now, they've added one extra thing, which is this. It's a, it's a water softener, it's a little filter, uh, it lasts about three months, and so you just set it and it will soften your water. When you turn on the machine for the first time, it will ask you how hard your water is, there's a test strip and stuff.


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[Assistant] That basically tells the machine how often to prompt you to descale it. While this is nice, I would still strongly recommend just putting good, soft, clean water into your machine and not letting this do the softening. But if you have no option, then this is a good thing.


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[Assistant] So now we need to talk about why this is called the precision brewer, why it's a sort of smarter than average brewer and, and how the features inside might stack up to other brewers in the market. So in the control panel.


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[Assistant] Day to day, there are three settings that you can use as kind of pre-programmed settings for brewing. They are fast, gold, and strong.


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[Assistant] A fast brew is designed to just pump more water into the basket quicker, allowing your brew to happen in a quicker way in the morning. I've never really wanted to use that, nothing about fast appeals to me, but it's a function and it's available. And again, strong.


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[Assistant] And then you can control your brew temperature. And that gives you a single degree Celsius increment to change your brew temperature, which is...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it really does. So beyond that, there's a couple more things to talk about in the menu. One of which I'm not super interested in, which is the cold brew functionality.


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[Assistant] You don't put the lid on the carafe. It steeps it for a long time and then eventually drains it. I don't really like the taste of coffee brewed that way. That's just me. So I've had no interest whatsoever in using it. I don't use it. There's one more thing though that I do use on this, but I'm a little bit ashamed of in a way. This machine has an auto start and sometimes, sometimes I might grind my coffee before going to bed.


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[Assistant] And put it in the brew basket and have the machine come on at like 6 in the morning if I have to get up early. And I kind of love getting up to fresh made coffee. It's a wonderful thing. I'm aware that grinding fresh is best, but I'm also aware that if it's an 8 hour window, yea I'm losing something.


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[Assistant] I'm not the world's most perceptive coffee taster at six in the morning. I just want it to taste really good.


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[Assistant] In exchange for someone having me a fresh pot of coffee ready at 6am.


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[Assistant] That's the deal. So I use that more than I suspect I should tell people I do?


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[Assistant] So, so far, I've had nothing really bad to say about this brewer. And in fairness, I have really enjoyed using it for the last two years. It's been a...


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean that I have no complaints or quibbles or things that I should highlight along the way. So firstly, the water tank in the UK version


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[Assistant] They've done a kind of annoying thing to me. They've converted it from imperial to metric. Thank you very much. But they have left the lines in the same place, which were, I think, 20, 30, 40 ounces.


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[Assistant] And then I think 60 ounces for the larger size. So on here, you've got like a, like a 900 mil mark.


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[Assistant] You know? Now, when it comes to the two brewers in here, I think the cone-shaped brewer brews significantly better than the flat-bottomed brewer. My theory is it's the showerhead that's really optimized for that kind of cone shape in terms of coverage, in terms of, um, agitation disruption as it's brewing.


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[Assistant] It brews really nicely. I just struggled to match the quality on the 1.8 litre, brews on the flat bottomed brews. Even with a thicker bed depth, it just, I've just struggled to really, really, really get the same quality in the cup.


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[Assistant] It's not particularly difficult to do. I don't think this has to be mounted on here with the carafe. I do like the design, but it suffers the same frustrations that every


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[Assistant] If you just rinse out the cone and don't remove this, you will not rinse out all the coffee that's under here. So it's easy to have a little bit of accumulation here, you know, and you pull this out now and again and be like, ugh.


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[Assistant] And it needs a clean. So uhm, I was a bit lazier to start with until I opened this up one day and was slightly disgusted with myself. But just be aware, you need to pull this out every time to clean it properly.


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[Assistant] And so there it is. There is the Sage Precision Brewer. It's a brewer that I have enjoyed using for two years. At £250, it's not cheap, but I think it's actually a pretty great investment in your morning brews.


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[Assistant] I think if you need something to do larger volumes, something like one and a half to two liters often, then I would buy a small commercial brewer. They're not much more expensive, but the shower head and basket combo is usually a little bit more effective at brewing that way.


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[Assistant] That said, I can't think of many cheaper commercial brewers that have the level of control.


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[Assistant] Uh, and programmability that this thing has. So I could see these in small offices.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a batch brew in cafes that don't sell much batch brew. I have no idea on commercial warranties, but at home.


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[Assistant] It's good. It's big, no question, and you know, that's a-


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[Assistant] So in comparison to other brewers, in the past I've had both a Technoform and also the sort of high-end Wilfa brewer as well. I like both of those brewers, I enjoyed the coffee that they made.


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[Assistant] What did I miss? What didn't I talk about? I'd really be interested to hear your thoughts. And maybe there's another brewer at the price point that I'm just not seeing that I should check out. Leave me a comment down below. I'm going to say thank you so much for watching. I hope you have a great day.


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[Assistant] From the time of infancy one should encourage bravery. If a person is affected by cowardice as a child, it remains a lifetime scar.


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[Assistant] Being a retainer is nothing other than being a supporter of one's lord, entrusting matters of good and evil to him, and renouncing self-interest.


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[Assistant] Every swing of the sledge, every plunge into water, every friction on the grindstone, was a religious act.


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[Assistant] The way of the samurai is found in death. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace.


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[Assistant] It is said that on the battlefield, if he wills himself and day and night hopes to strike down a powerful enemy, he will grow indefatigable and fierce of heart and will manifest his courage.


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[Assistant] Some of the horses broke their legs and fell. Others descended in safety. Three of them reached the roof and stood there trembling.


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[Assistant] That the rear rider's stirrups touch the front rider's helmets.


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[Assistant] The tense riders went down with their eyes closed, encouraging their horses in muffled voices.


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[Assistant] There is but one resolute path for the warrior to take. It is that of death.


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[Assistant] The sound of the Gion Shoja bells echoes the impermanence of all things. The color of the Sala flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline.


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[Assistant] Is there anyone in there? I don't know. I just know that's a house.


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[Assistant] Yes! And we play Alisa. I've seen quite a few people suggesting that I play Wii Sports Baseball and try to get the max score, which is 99 to 0.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so let me firmly grasp my Wii Remote with two hands. Alisa is just the person I want to do the uh, oh no, Abby's on her team though. Oh yes, great start.


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[Assistant] Great start, thanks Kentaro. Wow, I am really gonna get that score, aren't I? Yeah, this is... Fuck, I might lose this game at this rate. Yup. Look at Kentaro!


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's exactly how I wanted my first game of trying to get max score to go. Oh, come on, you-


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[Assistant] You know I just restarted, you don't have to give me the tutorial again. Their team is just too OP for a beginners team. They have Abby, Matt, Alisa,


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[Assistant] NO ABBY! Oh, thank you for not getting me out.


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[Assistant] No, please, somehow don't catch that. No one gets it. Oh, yes. Poor communication was the cause. That was a double? Oh, man, would I be pissed if I was Elisa. No, no, no, no. Oh my god, I'm getting so lucky.


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[Assistant] This is great! This is great! I have never had such fortunate luck! It is so nice to see someone else take it off the bot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I bet you're so proud of that double, Alisa.


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[Assistant] You can take that double, and shove it so far up your ass, that it's a triple! I'm pretty sure I gotta restart now, I'm pretty sure this is, this has gotta be Mercy Rule.


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[Assistant] I gotta score all my points right off the, right off the bat. I gotta go through a tutorial. I just scored 10 runs. And I gotta go through the how to bat tutorial.


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[Assistant] He just comes blistering into Mad's glove at 100 miles an hour.


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[Assistant] Yeah, eat my ass. Your entire team, Alisa. Now that's usually what happens. Is I struggle.


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[Assistant] Man, if it wasn't for this freaking tutorial, I wouldn't lose my mind.


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[Assistant] That's not gonna go far enough. Silky, I swear to god, if your fat lips catch this, I hate you. Go get some lipstick. Go to Macy's, please. Get out of my game.


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[Assistant] So lemme just lightly tap it. I pass it over to frickin' glass ass. Frick, now I gotta go through this tutorial again.


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[Assistant] Getting two outs like that was not, oh my god, this is skill level 75 Alisa. This is pretty much the dumbest Alisa you can ever get. So if I don't max score here.


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[Assistant] How possible is it to actually get max score? At this point, I feel like we're screwed. If we don't have like 10 runs by the first out, I don't know how you, how you can all do it all on one out. Nice catch, Abby. Yeah. I love being a supportive boyfriend.


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[Assistant] If we don't, uh, if this isn't, uh, out. Yeah, of course. I am the only one to get screwed with a bunt single. Yes, this is all out. Oh my god, Abby got hops! No, don't catch that, please. Oh, that's gonna, no, Abby!


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[Assistant] Oh thank god she, she decided to just not catch it.


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[Assistant] Oh come on, grandma. I hope you put enough pepper on that, grandma. Come on, grandma. I know you got this, grandma!


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[Assistant] Imagine being Alisa right now. Just like, you're fucking up so-


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[Assistant] The second I wanna talk some shit. We're good, yah?


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[Assistant] Oh no, I was too busy freaking making DJ Keemstar nod his head back and forth. No, Gurr, Gurr, Gurr, I hate you. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. Seventeen to nothing! In vain! Means nothing! This is going, this is going swell. Kentaro has a magnet in his ass this game. So we can't get the ball past him. Fuck this game sometimes.


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[Assistant] I know this game, I swear to god, I don't know if it's Kintaro or what's going on, but this time I just cannot hit balls. This fucking sucks.


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[Assistant] This game, we're gonna go into the third inning, either tied 0-0 or losing. I hate all of you. I hate all of you so much.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, it's all of a sudden now, we fall apart every time.


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[Assistant] Now we only have one out to get 93 runs. Yea, I don't think that's happening. But you know what, I'm gonna try.


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[Assistant] Yeah, fuck you, Abby. Why don't you crush my hopes and dreams along with my heart?


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[Assistant] 52 skill level Alisa! Beef Boss, I swear to God!


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[Assistant] You can get 99 runs on skill level 52 Elisa!


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[Assistant] No, that's not going far enough. I'm sure it's going right- OH THANK YOU THOUGH! Right, watch this. Right into her glove again. How the-


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[Assistant] I'm making perfect contact, and now it's just going right into their gloves every time!


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[Assistant] Abby, I, I really, really swear to God here.


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[Assistant] No, Abby. Abby, please. Oh, thank you, Abby.


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[Assistant] I don't know why all my frickin' balls go over to Abby. It's starting to become way more than a coincidence. Oh no. No no no no.


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[Assistant] Until it comes, like, a time where I really need them to drop so I don't get in out, then they're probably gonna actually catch it. Like this. I swear to god, please have another girl in you. Please, please. NO! I TOLD YOU!


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[Assistant] It's like a strategic girr for the game to make me feel better, but in reality I'm just gonna get screwed on the deal. Doody dude.


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[Assistant] The meme man himself, how good is he at baseball? Yeah, he's ass. He's terrible. I think there's just too much pressure on him there.


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[Assistant] That he just, he just could not perform. And he got us our first out. Since I broke a couple Wii remotes playing basketball,


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[Assistant] A couple days ago, I just got a new Wii Remote in that I just fired up here. So I'm gonna try this new Wii Remote to see if maybe, maybe this Wii Remote is the perfect bat. Alright, this Wii Remote might not be that bad. So far, so good. No! Why did I swing at that? That was such a ball.


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[Assistant] NO! Are you kidding me? We're doing soap?


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[Assistant] Beatbox, you suck ass lately. I think this Wii remote is broken.


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[Assistant] This is literally the shittiest Wii Remote I've ever used. Yep. This Wii Remote sucks. I've never, ever, ever used a controller that screws me this much.


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[Assistant] Yep, of course, I load the bases, just to fly a pop ball into Abby's big ass hands.


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[Assistant] Jesus, my Wii Remote wasn't responding! You're still throwing balls at me, Alisa, like you're, like you're something special! Maybe if my shit worked, I wouldn't have to break it. Does that even make sense? I hate this remote. There's obviously something wrong with this remote.


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[Assistant] Yeah, once again, it does not hit the balls out of the park or out of the field.


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[Assistant] Yep, Kintaro. Kintaro, screw you. Screw all of you. I'm too hungry for this right now.


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[Assistant] And your father? Sure, voted the Republican ticket all his life. Did they shoot him for


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[Assistant] In a way it is undignified for a foreigner to teach Spanish. I mean nothing against you, English.


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[Assistant] Fernando. Don't forget, Inglés, that he's smart. And he knows the way to the Gredos. Foo.


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[Assistant] We should reason with him and point out that his conduct... Stop it!


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[Assistant] I believe you. But, take a note.


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[Assistant] Are you with us now and in favor of the bridge? Yes, yes, man.


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[Assistant] And you think it can be successful in spite of the snow? There will be no snow at the bridge. You have confidence?


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[Assistant] Should I, should I go back and guard the horses?


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[Assistant] Remember one thing, Inglis. He wasn't always like this. When the war broke out, he wasn't the man you see now.


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[Assistant] You are if you wish. For the fighting, yes. I suppose when a man has something once, always something remains.


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[Assistant] I care for you very much, Inglis. Remember that and don't worry. Everything will go well.


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[Assistant] What about that? Yeah, we killed him. Yeah. I caught him twenty bodies laying there.


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[Assistant] He walked into the Friars Club, he said he was stuck for an act, and he sent me for two weeks at 500.


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[Assistant] Who is the bandit? No bandit.


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[Assistant] Who are you to ask so many questions?


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[Assistant] I am Captain Gummers of the 65th Brigade and I ask what is the headquarters of General Galtz.


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[Assistant] Maybe he'll do good. After all, Fritzln knows talent. Uh, 320.


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[Assistant] Anyway, it's the first time a guy ever started and finished a career in one night. Helen, Fritzl's secretary, she tipped me off on a deal. He didn't want fields.


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[Assistant] But Celie promised them fields lays an egg. She'll play the rest of the date for the same money. So Fritz will get Celie for a measly 500. Pass. But some dames won't do for a pair of pants. I pass. Pass. 350.


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[Assistant] Perhaps you have read the figures wrong. It may be two thousand.


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[Assistant] Throughout the years, we've spoken to you at length about your triumphs and your problems in football, but we want to delve into your experiences playing alongside some of the biggest characters in the game throughout your career. Now, if we go back to the start, where it all began for you, the mid-80s, your breakthrough at Arsenal,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you don't have to look too far for proof that he was one of the biggest characters and personalities of his age as the manager. As an 18 year old, was that baptism fire working under him?


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[Assistant] As a kid, learning your trade, was he a player you idolised and what was it like? Like you said, to get that call, Brian Robson putting that faith in you and your games are very similar in certain aspects, did he?


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[Assistant] So after that season at Middlesbrough, you were named in the England squad for the 98 World Cup and brings us on nicely to one of your other managers now, Ian Glenn Hoddle. Many at the time thought his methods were unorthodox, but you've been quite vocal about how good a coach he was. Would you say he was ahead of his time?


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[Assistant] Characters and personalities, obviously there was lots of disappointment and some big profile players that weren't taken and then the squad arrives in France.


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[Assistant] On to Portsmouth now and Harry Redknapp who, towards the latter years of your career, was able to get some brilliant performances out of you. What was his secret to man management? Was it purely a man management sort of thing?


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[Assistant] Oh, I imagine that would be absolutely incredible. Hopefully people will be doing the same after this interview I've done with you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just talk us through that promotion season then. You'd obviously done that before with Middlesbrough. What was different second time round? Did you learn anything from the first experience?


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[Assistant] Final question on how all of these managers, characters, how did they impact you when you made that transition into management yourself at Warsaw? They didn't.


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[Assistant] Lovely stuff, Merce. Thank you very much for your time. And your first of... Pleasure, Jack.


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[Assistant] You can review content from Crash Course Organic Chemistry with the Crash Course app, available now for Android and iOS devices.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Deboki Chakravarti, and welcome to Crash Course Organic Chemistry. The term organic chemistry was first used to describe molecules isolated from living things. This was back in the 1800s, when some scientists thought that organic compounds


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[Assistant] But in the past 47 episodes, we've seen plenty of examples of human-made chemicals, like polymers and medicines. We explored some of the lab techniques and equipment that let us make new chemicals.


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[Assistant] And even worked through multi-step organic syntheses. Despite all that, living things are arguably the best synthetic chemists.


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[Assistant] Carrying out countless simultaneous organic reactions at mind-boggling speeds. So in this episode, we'll return to organic chemistry's origins to explore the chemical building blocks of life.


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[Assistant] And the number of carbon atoms, the M subscript, ranges from 3 to 9. One way to refer to carbohydrates is by the number of carbons they contain.


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[Assistant] A carbohydrate with three carbon atoms is a triose, four a tetrose, five a pentose, six a hexose, and so on. We can also classify carbohydrates based on their functional group, because they're either aldehydes or ketones.


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[Assistant] Of the trioses, glyceraldehyde is an aldose because it contains an aldehyde.


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[Assistant] And dihydroxyacetone is a ketose with that ketone on the central carbon. 5-carbon pentoses and 6-carbon hexoses mainly exist as cyclic hemiacetols in solution. As a reminder, hemiacetols form when one alcohol group adds to an aldehyde or ketone.


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[Assistant] 5- and 6-membered ring hemiacetols are often more stable than the open chain forms. We saw this with glucose in episode 29. This 6-membered ring form of a sugar is called a purinose, named after the pyrin ring, which looks like this. Sugars can also form 5-membered furinose rings.


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[Assistant] We met titrahydrofuran in episode 28 as a good solvent for Grignard reactions. A really important carbohydrate that forms a furanose as its cyclic form is ribose, which we'll see again in nucleic acids. These linear representations of carbohydrates are called Fischer projections.


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[Assistant] Sometimes all the carbon atoms are drawn out, and sometimes carbons are just shown as crossing lines. And you can also show stereochemistry if you want. See, all of the horizontal bonds are coming out of the screen toward us. Fischer projections are drawn so the highest priority group is closest to the top of the diagram.


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[Assistant] The aldehyde of an aldose or the ketone of a ketose.


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[Assistant] Then the H and OH groups are placed on specific sides of the chiral carbons. If I build this with a model kit and point all of the horizontal bonds toward me, the carbon backbone starts to curl around to form a ring. The structure isn't actually linear.


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[Assistant] So even though it's a linear representation, we can use the Fischer projection to draw cyclic structures, too. Before we start drawing rings, though, there's one more nomenclature thing to learn. If the OH group on the bottom-most chiral carbon of the Fischer projection is on the right, it's a D sugar with a capital D. And if it's on the left, it's an L sugar.


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[Assistant] This D and L designation is named for the Latin Dexter and Labis, right and left. So to sum all this nomenclature up, this ribose molecule is a pentose, because it has a 5-carbon chain. An aldose, because there's an aldehyde on the top.


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[Assistant] And a D sugar, because the OH group on the bottom-most chiral carbon is on the right.


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[Assistant] Sweet! To really understand carbohydrate rings, let's do a quick chirality review.


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[Assistant] When a nucleophile attacks an aldehyde and a chiral carbon forms, it can attack either face of the trigonal planar aldehyde. In this simple example, if methoxide attacks from the front face,


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[Assistant] The alcohol gets pushed back into the screen. But if methoxide attacks the back face coming from behind the screen,


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[Assistant] When the linear carbohydrate closes to form a ring, we can show the ring closure on a Fischer projection by drawing a long bond from the highest number chiral carbon to the anomeric carbon. Our new OH group can be on either side of the Fischer projection. A stable 5-membered ribose ring forms


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[Assistant] When the D or L-determining hydroxyl group forms a hemiacetal


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[Assistant] The one that makes it a D sugar or L sugar.


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[Assistant] This is the OH group that ends up in the ring, and it'll determine where the CH2OH group points on the Hayworth. If it's a D sugar and the OH is on the right, the CH2OH points up. That's what we have here.


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[Assistant] If it's the less common L sugar and OH is on the left, the CH2OH points down. And remember, we don't have to write CH2OH every time.


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[Assistant] We can represent the carbon as a bent line, draw the hydroxyl group, and leave the two hydrogens off because they're implied. Much neater. Now we've got to sprinkle in the rest of the OH groups. The groups on the right in the Fischer projection point down, below the ring, on the Hayworth projection.


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[Assistant] And in a beta ribose, the groups are on the same side of the ring, or by each other. And we're done. Ribose is an important pentose, but these four carbohydrates are the most abundant hexoses in nature.


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[Assistant] Glucose, galactose, and mannose all form 6-membered furanose rings as their most stable structure, while fructose usually forms a 5-membered furanose ring. Let's practice by drawing a Haworth projection of alpha-D-glucose. We need to start with a 6-membered ring this time, and we place the oxygen atom in the upper right.


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[Assistant] And let's number our carbons. As before, the highest number chiral carbon determines if the carbohydrate is D or L. It's on the right, so this is another D sugar. And the CH2OH group points above the ring.


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[Assistant] Let's put it there and simplify the drawing. Let's begin with carbon 2 to add the hydroxyl groups.


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[Assistant] Those on the right of the Fischer projection point down on the Haworth, and vice versa. Lastly, we just have to make sure it's the alpha form. So we'll make the hydroxyl on carbon 1 point away from this group coming off of carbon 5.


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[Assistant] And that's it. Since the Hayworth shows groups that are above and below the ring, it maps really well onto the chair form.


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[Assistant] We place the substituents that point up on the Haworth in the positions on the chair that point above the ring. Like I mentioned, this is the D form of glucose, but let's look at alpha-L glucose for practice. The CH2OH group points below the ring on the Haworth projection, and the stereochemistry of all the carbons are flipped.


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[Assistant] Alglucose is the enantiomer of Dglucose. And here's what its Fischer projection looks like.


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[Assistant] That's all for carbohydrates for now. On to nucleic acids. We briefly mentioned these structures in episode 42, the two DNA bases that link up because of a sun-caused paracyclic reaction.


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[Assistant] Both DNA and the closely related RNA are nucleic acids. One building block is a nitrogenous base, which is a nitrogen heterocycle.


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[Assistant] Remember, tautomers have different positions for double bonds and hydrogen atoms. As we saw way, way back in episode 4,


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[Assistant] These tautomeric forms are what made it so hard to initially figure out DNA structure. In DNA, the NH groups of these bases link up with the anomeric carbon of a 2-deoxyribose sugar in a dehydration reaction.


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[Assistant] The deoxy in the name means there's no hydroxyl group on carbon 2 of ribose. A nitrogenous base connected to a carbohydrate is called a nucleoside. I remember this has an S because it's just the sugar. Add a phosphate group and we get a nucleotide. I remember this has a T for total.


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[Assistant] This unit is the whole building block for DNA and RNA too. Like we mentioned, DNA uses deoxyribose as its sugar. That's why it's called DNA, for deoxyribonucleic acid. But in RNA, the sugar is just ribose, with the OH at the 2-position of the carbohydrate. It's short for ribonucleic acid.


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[Assistant] We've met a few examples in the series, like cholesterol, the sex hormone progesterone, and vitamin D. In episode 31, we touched on fatty acids, which are carboxylic acids attached to long hydrocarbon chains.


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[Assistant] Pretty straightforward to draw, especially compared to some of the rings we've been dealing with. They can be saturated, which means they have no double bonds, or unsaturated, with double bonds. When fatty acids link up to a molecule of glycerol, we get triacylglycerols or triglycerides.


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[Assistant] These are the main form of fat we consume, and also how we store it in our bodies. We can replace one of the fatty acid chains in a triglyceride with a phosphate group to get a phospholipid.


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[Assistant] Which is a component of cell membranes. This phosphate, at an end carbon of the glycerol, can be attached to a whole variety of R groups, depending on what types of cell the membrane belongs to.


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[Assistant] Really briefly, we've got one final building block to go.


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[Assistant] Amino acids contain an amine and a carboxylic acid, both connected to a central carbon atom, the alpha carbon. The alpha carbon also has a variable R group sticking out called a side chain.


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[Assistant] Each of the 20 standard amino acids has its own unique side chain. There's some interesting stuff going on within an amino acid molecule.


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[Assistant] Our blood and cells are slightly basic environments.


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[Assistant] Above the pKa of a carboxylic acid, but below the pKa of the protonated amine. This causes the carboxylic acid to lose a proton.


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[Assistant] Which the amine generously accepts because of its basicity. This proton exchange creates both a positive and negative charge in the amino acid molecule, called a zwitterion. This whole becoming charged thing can also happen with side chains that contain carboxylic acids, or amines.


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[Assistant] In fact, we can classify the amino acids into four major groups based on their sidechain properties. As we'll see in the next two episodes, amino acids determine the shape of a protein, and some sidechains even let proteins cause chemical reactions.


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[Assistant] That's it for now. In this episode, we converted between Fischer and Hayworth projections of carbohydrates, linked nitrogenous bases, sugars, and phosphate groups to form the building blocks of DNA and RNA,


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[Assistant] Robert Jam Jones is like the coolest name ever. I can't think of a name better than that one, at least right now. I'm very, very impressed. And yet again, like we've talked about this before on my channel, who names the cars? It's probably Pixar because it's after


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[Assistant] Their employees, I don't really know who this guy is named after, I'm sure there's somebody,


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[Assistant] Please let me know in the comments below, but nonetheless, Robert Jam Jones, that's such a cool name. He's jammin'.


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[Assistant] Name. But anyways guys, welcome back to another Disney Docket presentation. Today of course we'll be reviewing the first band member, or I guess yea, this is the band member of Sweet T's Band.


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[Assistant] Robert James Jones. He came out of 2021 singles case F which I unboxed recently and I'll leave that link in the description below along with the card suggestion pop up in the top right hand corner if you want to check it out. It's really the best case of the year. So many new cars, so many new variants. Really blessed to have that case.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, this is one of my favorites just because of the fact that I love accessories, so you know, you have the boombox there, the guitar, kind of like an accessory, and I just love the pitties.


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[Assistant] Obviously new for 2021. This guy hasn't been too hard to find.


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[Assistant] Of course he's in Cars 3. They put a weird assortment of cars here on the back. Like these are all from Case A. Smokey, Jackson Storm, Jambalaya Chimichanga, Highrod Jr. Moon, and Sheldon Shifter. Uhm, I wish they put stuff from his case on the back. I'll be right back with this guy all opened up.


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[Assistant] And he himself looks pretty cool as well. A very dark teal slash turquoise color.


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[Assistant] And there he is in the movie along with the rest of the band members, Rich Hurrie.


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[Assistant] Who's the slide guitar guy? Pam Wieldaro is on the drum set and then Sweetie, of course, is the vocalist and we already got her released and she'll be re-released later this year as well. So if you missed her a couple of years ago, we'll be able to get her again.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's start with the boombox. I really like this, actually. And I'm pretty sure Rich Hurry has one as well. So first of all, the corners are like...


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[Assistant] These silver pieces that are raised off of the main kind of square, so, you know, they kinda, I don't wanna say sharp, but they definitely protrude off and I like that.


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[Assistant] Give him a black box. Put some silver on and call it a day. No, this is really nicely detailed. You have even the handle up here. You have all the buttons and the dials. It's kinda like two sided here. So you can see there's like a divide down the middle.


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[Assistant] Of course, the nice texture for where the speaker itself is, that's rubber. No way. That feels like rubber.


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[Assistant] Like the fingerprint of your hand and run across it. It feels rubber, but I guess when you like, tap it with your fingernail, it's plastic. But yea, cool stuff.


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[Assistant] I'm surprised they didn't have to put a code on here. Usually they even have to put the codes on the accessories. So that's cool. Good.


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[Assistant] Here's Robert. Can't even see his mouth. That's pretty interesting. So his eyes look cool, he's kinda...


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[Assistant] Forks just kind of articulate around the guitar. Looks really cool. They're all bending around.


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[Assistant] It's kind of just interesting to see, you know, cars having such dexterity, being able to play it so well.


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[Assistant] Still looks pretty cool, kinda bends up where it was more straight. It did a pretty good job. Again, you have some little prongs coming off of the end there, but everything else is just a decal.


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[Assistant] It's plastic, but it's not a sticker, like the decal is not a sticker, it's actually painted on there.


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[Assistant] He's got these turquoise rims too, turquoise base. Does he have a date stamp? Hmm, it appears not.


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[Assistant] Interesting though. Usually they would even try and cram it on the base of a pitty.


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[Assistant] Now this hat up here is plastic, I like how far it extends off, like it just gives him so much shade, like look at that, such a long bill. I like it though.


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[Assistant] Little grainy along the window there, that's okay. Pretty basic pity.


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[Assistant] Not a whole lot going on with him, but obviously we love the guitar, we love the boombox, and it is now time to compare him to a bunch of other fellow guitarists.


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[Assistant] I guess this isn't technically a guitar, but this is one of the members of Uncle Topolino's band. If you guys don't know who that is or what it is,


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[Assistant] It was a two pack released in 2013. One of the best two packs ever because you literally got all four of these in a two pack.


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[Assistant] And you think Mattel would do that nowadays? No, they wouldn't. We know that. Why? Because they released Sweet Tea and Guido. Just them two in a two pack together. Like what? You couldn't release thoroughly like all the band members and just gotten it over with aside from maybe like one. Like why don't you just release Sweet Tea


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[Assistant] Robert Jam Jones, Rich Hurrie, and Pam Wildera call today, maybe.


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[Assistant] Don't include these accessories and then BAM. I don't know. I do like the accessories though.


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[Assistant] Pam weird arrow has like three accessories, so I guess we probably wouldn't have gotten those if they put them all into one set. But either way,


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[Assistant] Just kind of shows you what Mattel was capable of in the past. So yea, this guy is really neat. He's got like a banjo. I think there's a better word for this. I think it starts with a C. Gosh, I wish I could remember. I wish I was smart enough with.


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[Assistant] Music and instruments to know what this is called. I think it starts with a C though.


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[Assistant] So yeah, this is more of like an electric guitar and then this is something different, although they're obviously under the same breed in terms of instruments. So yeah.


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[Assistant] I'd have to say Robert Jam Jones is definitely gripping this thing a little bit better. It's kind of interesting to see how they are holding it very differently. Robert Jam Jones has some thick prongs, whereas this guy over here is very, he's got some


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[Assistant] Very frail looking prongs. Even Guido has thicker ones, which technically they're supposed to be the same model.


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[Assistant] I was hoping that this band was underrated. Like, people loved it, you know, when it first came out.


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[Assistant] And, and then now it's just like kind of overrated, I mean underrated. No one really talks about it. It's not super rare, but don't worry guys. I will probably be doing a review on them again soon and I will be showing them all again when


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[Assistant] And now we gotta bring in two other guitarists, Rocky and Eddie. So these both have electric guitars and this allows us to take a look at the decals a little bit better.


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[Assistant] So I have to say, yeah, China did a much better job on the decal of the guitar than Thailand did here. Like it just looks so dark. Like see that white right there? That's like just gray. It's grainy. That's pure white. Looks good. You can also see the mater there. Looks so good.


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[Assistant] Now granted, you see how they just made this one piece and then they kind of put the decals of those prongs? Thailand actually made those.


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[Assistant] You know, individual pieces, like they didn't make this all one little stick. You know what I'm saying? Like you could see the difference there. So, you know, I guess there's the pros and cons.


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[Assistant] These guys are gripping it more like how Robert is instead of the Uncle Topolino band member. Cool stuff. I wonder if cars ever get jealous. Like they're like, dang, I wish I could play a guitar, but only forklifts. Now for some reason over here, Rocky has these, I don't know, he's got like


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[Assistant] Gloves on almost. I don't know what these things are. You can see that Eddie has nothing like that on his forks, but Rocky does. I don't know. But they look cool. He also has a very nice looking guitar. And they made that up there one piece, so Tyler has got you beat there, buddy.


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[Assistant] Although for the costume though, I think Robert loses big time cause he's just in his basic little turquoise paint job and the other guys are decked out and what do they call them? Like studs and.


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[Assistant] Top hats and bandanas, like look at these guys, these guys are absolutely ready to rock. They're ready to jam. Robert Jam Jones' name might be a little bit more than he can...


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[Assistant] Shoot, like he might have bit off, his parents might have bit off a little bit more than he could chew because he doesn't look like he's jamming as hard as Rocky and Eddie. But anyways, yeah, that's pretty much it for the guitarist. I did want to show like a pissing cup pity just to give you like a size comparison. So he's a little smaller.


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[Assistant] Doesn't have the little baggage on the back. I don't know what these little boxes are called. I never have known what they are called, so I just call it like baggage.


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[Assistant] Tried to get ones that colors, that their colors were kind of similar. Royal Grand Prix pitties don't usually have any baggage.


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[Assistant] And here's Guido, last but not least. They look pretty good together. They're chillin'. Alright guys.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much for watching this video, I hope you enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] Love this case. Absolutely love Case app because it's given me a ton of new cars to review and they're all very unique in their own ways. So, I hope you guys have been enjoying it too.


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[Assistant] Let me know in the comment section below who's your favorite guitarist of the four I have shown. We have Robert.


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[Assistant] This is uh, how many avatars now?


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[Assistant] That's what we thought of. Yes, of course.


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[Assistant] You can't really separate Balaram from Krishna, can you? Yes.


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[Assistant] But we can focus on Balaram and let's see what happens. I think we should start with the Dasavatar verse.


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[Assistant] Vahasivapusivishare vasanam jaladabam hala hati vithi milita jamunabam keshavadrita hala dara rupa jaya jagadishahare jaya jagadishahare


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[Assistant] And a translation that I have here goes like this.


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[Assistant] You wear dark robes of the color of the clouds that match frightened Yamuna, which was dragged near by the furrow made by your plow. Okay, Shiva, who took the form of Balaram.


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[Assistant] So we can talk about this pastime maybe a little later. I have, I have one.


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[Assistant] Reflection about the dragging of the Yamuna, uh, that may be interesting. But, uh, you mentioned that,


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[Assistant] There are different versions of the 10 avatars and I found one source which mentions this. So to be a little more specific in the Linga Purana.


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[Assistant] Uh, 10 avatars are listed, including as eighth avatar, Krishna.


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[Assistant] Whereas in the Garuda Purana, it also lists 10 avatars and Krishna is included and Vamana is replaced by Balaram or Baladeva.


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[Assistant] The Bhagavatam lists in the first canto several more than 10. It's uhm, well, 20 some. And then there are other lists with more avatars. Uh, the Mahabharata.


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[Assistant] Uhm, let's see, critical edition.


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[Assistant] That's the, that's Mahabharata.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mahabharata is listing only six and it's


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[Assistant] Referring to them as avatars, apparently, but not, not as a collection of, certainly not of 10 because, uh, only six are mentioned.


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[Assistant] There's also a purport, Prabhupada discusses in Chaitanya Chaitamrita that there are


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[Assistant] For each class of persons, there are different sorts of Mahajans. He says the demons also have their Mahajans.


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[Assistant] Which, uh, is interesting because I've always, I've always wondered on the one side we say,


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[Assistant] We say that avatars have to, to be a bona fide avatar. Uhm, the avatar has to be mentioned in Shastra.


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[Assistant] Again, so many claims that this or that person is an avatar. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And on the other side, we understand.


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[Assistant] There are many different sorts of avatars and one of them is Shakti Avesha avatar.


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[Assistant] Uh, one who is invested with special Shakti and in the broadest sense, one might be tempted to say that.


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[Assistant] A sports person or a, you know, a movie star or a politician or anything.


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[Assistant] If they're especially prominent, that must mean that they're so to say empowered.


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[Assistant] And then at what point, at what point can you say, all right, so we can say this person is Shakti of Asia.


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[Assistant] And if we do that, then it seems easier to go along with the idea of the number of avatars being countless.


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[Assistant] Of course, with Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and, say, Chaitanya Chaitamrita, uh, you have the issue of where is a particular text


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[Assistant] Recognized as Shastra, so amongst the Gaudiya Vaishnavas.


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[Assistant] We accept Chaitanya Jayatamrita as, as Shastra, as authoritative.


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[Assistant] Uh, but uh, followers of other Vaishnava sampradayas.


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[Assistant] And then we point to Chaitanya Charita Amrita. That's fine for the Gaudiya Vaishnavas, but outside of our circle, we may not get very far.


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[Assistant] Which may be the reason that, uhm, how to say, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur manifested the Chaitanya Upanishad.


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[Assistant] There's this genre, there's this sense that if it's an Upanishad, it must be universally, uh, recognized. And so, you know, we don't want to, we may not want to say that actually Bhaktananda Thakur just wrote the Chaitanya Upanishad.


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[Assistant] Maybe he revealed it, which is also the tradition that's this, the rishis are


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[Assistant] And we can say he felt the need for that revelation to come and Krishna fulfilled it. I guess this would be the devotional way to see that.


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[Assistant] So shall we talk about Lord Balaram? Yes.


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[Assistant] Yes, of course, the Bhagavatam in many respects is, uh,


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[Assistant] Why Balaram appears as the older brother, excuse me, in relation to or in contrast to Lakshman, uh, in relation to Rama.


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[Assistant] Now I won't be able to identify the source of this, but at least tradition has it that


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[Assistant] Uh, several times in Ramlila because


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[Assistant] And as the younger brother, it was.


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[Assistant] Necessary for him to be obedient to Lord Rama.


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[Assistant] Sometimes being obedient to Lord Rama was extremely uncomfortable situation.


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[Assistant] And there's I think one more, uh, incident that the Agni Pariksha


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[Assistant] Ram ordered Lakshmana to prepare the fire.


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[Assistant] And Lakshman was, he was agonized by this. How could he possibly do this? But he was the younger brother. So all of these activities as the younger brother brought Lakshman to the conclusion next time.


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[Assistant] Next time I appear, I'm gonna be the older brother.


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[Assistant] And so Lord Balarama appears.


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[Assistant] Now, another point though with Balaram's appearing as the older brother, and we understand this from the 10th Kanto, and I believe it's explained by


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[Assistant] Uh, Srila Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakur.


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[Assistant] As we know, Balaram in a sense had two mothers, uh, his initial


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[Assistant] And why was this, uh, Vishwanath Chakravarti says he was


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[Assistant] In the womb of Devaki in order to prepare the place, uh, for the appearance of Lord Krishna.


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[Assistant] He prepared the womb of Devotee for the appearance of Krishna.


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[Assistant] And consider Balaram in terms of Tattva as the first expansion of Lord Krishna.


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[Assistant] Here, my first re-reflection is


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[Assistant] How do we understand this notion of expansion? The idea of God expanding.


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[Assistant] Of course we know he expands as the living entities in order to, uh, in, in order to


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[Assistant] I have pastimes in order to enjoy.


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[Assistant] But that he is expanding also as himself.


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[Assistant] As equivalent to himself because Balaram is understood to be.


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[Assistant] Well, since you mentioned Vrindavan,


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[Assistant] Uh, to show of Christian Balaram in Christian Balaram Mandir.


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[Assistant] Well, keeping with this more abstract reflection, uh,


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[Assistant] How is it that the Lord who is complete in himself decides to expand himself?


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[Assistant] Into a form which is exactly the same as him, except for his complexion.


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[Assistant] Then again, not exactly the same as you just said. Uhm, what is going on?


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[Assistant] With this general notion of expansion and I think the understanding from


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[Assistant] That's an interesting picture because, uh, they are without garlands.


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[Assistant] The general principle we understand is that the Lord reciprocates with his devotees and his devotees according to their desire.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Lord appears in specific forms. Uh, there's a verse in the third canto, I think it's chapter nine.


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[Assistant] Um, that the, the Lord appears precisely in that form, which the devotee wants, wants to reciprocate with. So that's emphasizing the principle of reciprocation. And so.


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[Assistant] That's the devotional side, but the Pancharatra side of the understanding is


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[Assistant] You mentioned before in the Abrahamic traditions, there's this


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[Assistant] Sense of a huge gap. There's God and there's, uh, there's living beings or there's human beings and, um, and there's nothing in between. Pancha Rathra on the other hand is closing that gap in very elaborate ways.


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[Assistant] And then expansions of expansions and portions of portions of the Lord and then eventually


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's Pada, there's Vyuha, uh,


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[Assistant] There's Vibhava. Vibhava means avatar.


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[Assistant] Then it comes to Antaryami, the Lord in the heart. So that's, that's the, in a sense, the closest, closest connection, uh,


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[Assistant] And Archavigraha is the most accessible, uh, because the Lord is, He's always accessible in that form. Any day you can go and see the Lord in, in the temple.


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[Assistant] Uh, but the other reflection I had was if we take Balaram as the counterpart of Krishna,


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[Assistant] One is tempted to say that we are not monotheistic.


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[Assistant] We are duo-theistic, I don't know how to put it.


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[Assistant] Keeping aside Srimati Radharani for the moment, just Krishna and Balaram, it seems we have two gods and this is in, well, in comparison, but also marked contrast to


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[Assistant] Uh, one religious movement that, uh, developed in the West, I think it originated in ancient Iran in Persia. Uh, it was called Manichaeism.


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[Assistant] And the Manicheists, uh, it was founded by someone named Money.


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[Assistant] Had the idea that there is an, there is a kind of absolute good and an absolute evil and they are somehow equal in power and they're


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[Assistant] Uh, forever competing with each other.


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[Assistant] Obviously this is very, this is not at all what Krishna and Balaram are about. In fact, Krishna and Balaram are quite the opposite. Krishna and Balaram are complimenting each other and the compliment is


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[Assistant] Uh, thee, we can say paradigmatic friendship.


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[Assistant] Well, you go ahead and then I have a point about Trinity.


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[Assistant] My, my father is bigger than your father.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's interesting how the limitations of the terminology limits the thinking, uh, the thinking, uh, and therefore the limitation on the understanding of the, the possibility that God is one who is, um,


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[Assistant] Forever, in all respects, unlimited.


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[Assistant] And not confined to our limited understanding.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but aside from that, you mentioned the trinity, and I was just gonna say a few.


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[Assistant] Uh, days ago, uh, yeah, it was this last Sunday was Shiva's Thakur's appearance day. So we.


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[Assistant] Got a little bit into discussion of Pancha Tata and


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[Assistant] I dared to make a comparison to the trinity of the Christian tradition and I pointed out that in Christian theology


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[Assistant] They came up with the term because they wanted to avoid, they wanted to avoid this idea of,


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[Assistant] Of three being indicating polytheism which is the accusation of Islam against the Christians.


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[Assistant] Uh, they wanted to avoid this, so they're saying, you know, there are three persona, three persons of the same, the same God, but they have, but then how are they related?


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[Assistant] So then they came up with the term perichoresis, which is, um, a Greek term, which literally means dancing around.


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[Assistant] And dancing around, what did the pancha tatva do?


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[Assistant] So I thought perichoresis applies in a sense, uh, more


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[Assistant] I don't want to say more, but, uh, in a very nice way to the Pancha Tattva.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're basically discussing, they're basically seeing the Trinity, they speak about


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[Assistant] Uh, they use the word economy, the economy of salvation that the three together are sort of working together, uh, to save what we would call conditioned souls. Um, that's my, that's my very minimal understanding.


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[Assistant] I mean, they write, you know, the subject of Trinity in Christianity is such that they've been writing


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[Assistant] Point out in relation to the idea of divine expansion, uhm,


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[Assistant] And this ties in with thinking about the Pancha Tattva. And that is, uh,


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[Assistant] And it takes me back to the lila of, uhm, Lord Balaram calling Yamuna.


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[Assistant] So Balaram is a little bit, uh, shall we say intoxicated on Varanee and he decides he wants to enjoy


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[Assistant] Uh, the company of Yamuna and Yamuna.


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[Assistant] Initially refuses to come because she doesn't want to have anything to do with Balaram because he's in this.


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[Assistant] Uh, this condition of intoxication.


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[Assistant] Which I would not want to tell in the presence of present day feminists.


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[Assistant] So, but here is my point is, uhm,


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[Assistant] Okay, I have to give a little background before I make this point.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but in our meetings, something that I came to notice, uhm,


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[Assistant] I mean, we have many discussions. Sometimes we spend half an hour or an hour discussing one single verse.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it can be quite enlivening, but it can also be quite agonizing.


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[Assistant] And sometimes the issue comes up that, uh,


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[Assistant] Will be, uh, will be different from the translation, the translated sentence.


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[Assistant] And, and then sometimes something will be explained by Srila Prabhupada in the purport which we may have thought should be


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[Assistant] In the word for word or in the translation, but it's not there. So here, my point is what we came to appreciate is that in Prabhupada's books,


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[Assistant] You need the whole thing. There's the word, there's the verse, there's the word for word, there's the translation, the Sanskrit verse, the word for word, the trans- translation and the perp word. All of that is one package.


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[Assistant] And you need to look at the whole thing and you can extend that out and say, we need the whole package of all of Srila Prabhupada's books. You need the Gita, you need the Bhagavatam, you need Chaitanya Charitamrita.


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[Assistant] And nectar of devotion, all of these together give the full picture. Now back to Balaram and this pastime, the fuller picture


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[Assistant] Of Balaram dragging Yamuna is hinted.


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[Assistant] In the song by Lowchandas Thakur, Nithai Gunamani.


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[Assistant] He's glorifying Nityananda who is of course Balaram. So Balaram is we can say filling out or completing the avatar


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[Assistant] Sorry, Nityananda is filling, he's completing the avatar of Balaram.


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[Assistant] Whenever Krishna appears at the, in Dvapara Yuga,


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[Assistant] In the many cycles, he appears only once in the 28th, uh, cycle.


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[Assistant] Uh, of, uh, days in one day of Brahman, right?


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[Assistant] So similarly when Balaram appears, Nityananda appears. And when Nityananda appears, and this is Lochan Das Thakur's song,


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[Assistant] Nithai Gunamani, Amar. Nithai Gunamani.


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[Assistant] Anya premer banya vasai lo abani.


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[Assistant] Nityananda Prabhu creates a canal to each and every door. Gare Gare Bule Prema Prema Amiyarman. He creates a canal to each and every door. So he's, he's dragging, so to say, he's continuing that pastime or he's realizing the real purport.


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[Assistant] If you like, of the yamuna dragging past, past time. So in this way, I felt.


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[Assistant] Uh, I can understand the pastime of Krishna dragging the Yamuna.


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[Assistant] So we need the whole picture, otherwise we don't get it.


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[Assistant] Try to apply this to all of Christians pastimes.


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[Assistant] Uh, to get the full understanding of them, uh, we want to get the full picture and we do that with the help, especially


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[Assistant] In particular, as followers of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, we get the full picture, uh, through


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[Assistant] Uh, the appearance of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His


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[Assistant] Teachings given to us in Chaitanya Chaitami.


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[Assistant] And again, the Pancha Tattva are giving the full picture of what it means that the Lord is expanding into so many different forms.


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[Assistant] Well, the Christianity is not. Yes, the Christians.


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[Assistant] Valeram only wants to serve.


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[Assistant] He only wants to serve Krishna and so he will take an opposing position to, uh, give Krishna pleasure.


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[Assistant] There may be mystical traditions that we're not aware of.


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[Assistant] Krishna of course would say that he didn't eat dirt, right?


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[Assistant] But then when he opens his mouth, he's showing so much dirt.


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[Assistant] In Vrindavan, uhm, Krishna is praising Balaram. Oh yes. And that's a famous verse that they're walking in the forest and Krishna is admiring the forest and


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[Assistant] He points to, he points out the trees, how they're bending down, offering respects to Balaram.


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[Assistant] And I just read, I think it's in the commentary that,


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[Assistant] That Krishna wanted to praise all the, all the


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, the trees and the birds and everything of Vrindavan.


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[Assistant] He realized if he's only praising them as such, then Balaram will think that he's kind of actually praising himself because they're doing this for, uh,


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[Assistant] For him, or they are the way they are for him.


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[Assistant] Don't know where I saw this. Uhm, and so Krishna praises Balaram.


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[Assistant] By saying they're doing all of this for you. They're bending their branches and they're offering their flowers and fruits, uh, in worship of you.


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[Assistant] Because it's Balaram who is the first expansion of Krishna.


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[Assistant] And it's Balaram who is creating, who is manifesting the Dhamma so that, uhm,


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[Assistant] All these pastimes can take place, the playful pastimes, the fighting pastimes, everything. So Balaram is facilitating.


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[Assistant] Everything Krishna does in, uh, in, in by creating the Dharma, manifesting the Dharma.


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[Assistant] To aid, to support Krishna's pastimes and


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[Assistant] From him is also expanding all of the gopas. So the, the friendship, the playful friendship with the gopas.


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[Assistant] That's all happening through Balaram. So he's the primordial friend.


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[Assistant] You know, Krishna's, Krishna is always accomplishing many things simultaneously. Uhm, but certainly somewhere in the


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[Assistant] The forefront of, of the story is the increase of, uh,


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[Assistant] Enjoyment. There's some relish there. There's some kshatriya, you know, there's, there's this, uh,


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[Assistant] The whole kshatriya spirit in the Mahabharata is, uhm, I'm a tough guy. I'm, you know, he-man. I'm, I'm strong. So it's all these kshatriyas who are


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[Assistant] Especially on Duryodhana and his side.


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[Assistant] Uh, Yudhishthira is very different. He's, you know, he's Dharma, uhm, personified. He is, he is Dharma himself. And Arjuna, Arjuna is,


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[Assistant] They're all noble warriors on the side, the Pandavas. They're, they each show different aspects of, of nobility, but how it is that Balaram


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[Assistant] Is on the side of Duryodhana is a, I don't know, to me a bit of a minute mystery, except of course, the fact that, uh, they, they just, they get, when you get to know someone through some common service, naturally you become friends.


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[Assistant] So somehow or other, uhm, Balaram,


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[Assistant] Which way was it? Who was teaching whom, uh, to fight with a club?


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[Assistant] Okay. So Balarama is teaching Duryodhana to fight with the club. Naturally they're interacting so much.


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[Assistant] And, uh, when they're not having their lessons, they're sitting down and resting and chatting and, and Duryodhana is certainly telling his side of the story.


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[Assistant] Of why he feels the way he does about the Pandavas.


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[Assistant] We can, we can guess that sometime he confessed to Balaram.


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[Assistant] How crushed he felt when he was embarrassed in the palace of the Pandavas, uh, by the, uh, the interior design tricks, you know, that embarrassed him when Draupadi and the other women laughed at him.


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[Assistant] Which is all, this is all Kshatriya mentality.


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[Assistant] Dharma becomes more and more obscure.


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[Assistant] And so they can't work it out except by fighting.


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[Assistant] But speaking of Balaram taking sides, I think here we need to remember that during the war, what does he do? He leaves and he goes on pilgrimage.


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[Assistant] And in this way, he actually takes a neutral position.


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[Assistant] But Balarama is completely absent. He's a bhava.


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[Assistant] And I have sometimes thought that Balaram is there for


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[Assistant] A very nice model for devotees whenever we...


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[Assistant] Whenever we encounter conflict amongst devotees or any kind of conflict opposing, opposing parties,


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[Assistant] That's when we do well to remember and take shelter of Balaram who goes on pilgrimage when the fight comes.


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[Assistant] The, the Bhagavatam essentially functions as a kind of sequel to


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[Assistant] Uh, the, the Mahabharata in many ways.


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[Assistant] A sequel and a kind of commentary in some respects, but it's uhm,


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[Assistant] It's also positioned after the Mahabharata war, of course, because Maharaj Pariksit and so on.


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[Assistant] And then it's answering the question what to do now that Krishna has gone.


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[Assistant] Krishna, Shraddhama, Bhagat, Dharma, Jnana, Divya, Sahad.


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[Assistant] Well, if you want to say more on that point, otherwise at some point maybe we can say a bit about iconography of Balaram.


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[Assistant] With Nityananda who is Balarama, stopping Chaitanya who is Krishna.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know how far you can take the parallels, but, uh, some, some interesting interaction is going on there.


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[Assistant] Which has a certain parallel to what you just described.


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[Assistant] Well, just very briefly, uhm, nothing so specific except


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[Assistant] Uhm, thinking back again to deities, we see


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[Assistant] Uhm, we see Balaram with Krishna in Krishna Balaram Mandir.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Balaram with his shoulder, his arm, his hand on Krishna's shoulder. And in the other hand.


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[Assistant] In that photo that you showed, he's holding a flute, which is interesting. Normally he's holding a plow.


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[Assistant] But we generally see him either with a plow or with a club. And these, uh, two,


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[Assistant] Uh, items seem to also distinguish.


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[Assistant] Balaram's pastimes in Vrindavan and outside of Vrindavan. In Vrindavan he has a plough which indicates that


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[Assistant] He is sort of the primordial farmer.


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[Assistant] He is the primordial agriculturalist, whereas Krishna is the primordial cowherd. Uh, and his, what Krishna holds is simply a flute, but also a cowherding stick and a rope and so on. And Balaram has the plow because what do farmers do? They plow the field.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's one thing. And, uh, also I wanted to ask you most probably I've never had opportunity or I never got around to it. Maybe I have no excuse to visit, uh, Dao Ji in, uh, in Brudge.


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[Assistant] Of Daljee. You have certainly had Darshan of Daljee. Maybe there's a photo on the internet we can see.


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[Assistant] And there's another, there is one temple I have visited, uh, very near Udupi.


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[Assistant] There's Udupi Krishna and then maybe five kilometers away, uh, very next to the ocean is a very small Balaram temple. And there's some stories, some pastime.


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[Assistant] This isn't, and that Balarama deity looks very old, similar to Ulupi Krishna.


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[Assistant] Specifically, as I understand with Krishan Balaramandir, he wanted to demonstrate that, uh, Gordni Tai are Krishan Balaramandir.


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[Assistant] Why not both? For all reasons. So many reasons.


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[Assistant] I always understood it was specifically connected with, uh, it being Raman Reddy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there can be, there can be multiple reasons. And I think it's interesting that, uh, it's Krishna and Balaram, but Srila Prabhupada


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[Assistant] Uh, by no means excluded Radha Krishna. So we have Sri Sri Radha Shamasundar, uh, in, in the temple as well. And I don't know, my,


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[Assistant] Very limited observation when I'm in Krishna Balaram Mandir. It seems like


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[Assistant] And the largest crowd, uh, having Darshan is with, uh, Radha Shamasundar. They seem to be the most popular.


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[Assistant] But, but they will spend more time. Oh. With, with.


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[Assistant] Radha Shamasundar, and you see bigger, I don't know, seems like bigger crowd there. That's a beautiful observation.


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[Assistant] And, uh, they're especially attracted to Radha Shamasundar. I don't know.


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[Assistant] But he is, he's associated with Udupi Krishna. Oh.


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[Assistant] But, but he is maybe five kilometers or so distant, but there's some, you know, some stories, some connection there.


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[Assistant] I think the name of that place is Malpa, if I remember right. It was so many years ago I was there, uh, and we just visited very briefly.


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[Assistant] Very small temple and, you know, nobody there. Practically there was, as I remember, there was one priest.


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[Assistant] But no, Christian Balaram in the Gaudiya tradition, worship of Christian Balaram.


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[Assistant] That's an interesting question, and uhm, I wouldn't be able to say definitely, maybe.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, we can say, Srila Prabhupada has made a transcendental innovation.


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[Assistant] Not to my knowledge, there's one Balaram Revati temple in Jaipur that I know of.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, how to say it's within one of the, one of those sort of shopping con complexes.


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[Assistant] Upstairs, it's up on the second floor. Something like, uhm, you know, Radhavi Nodilal in Jaipur.


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[Assistant] That sort of situation, there's, uh, I remember there's a, a Balaram, Revati Balaram temple.


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[Assistant] There's probably some literature, some, some, uh, book maybe there about.


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[Assistant] That would give us more information about Balaram, uh, deities.


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[Assistant] Speaking of prayers and speaking of, uh, Gaudiya tradition, when I was researching in Vrindavan,


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[Assistant] I wanted to, I wanted to know if they have songs specifically, uh, for, you know, praising Radaraman.


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[Assistant] And it took quite some time, but I finally was able to, I was given access to one of the.


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[Assistant] Uh, Goswami's private libraries and I was able to find, uh, two or three small, uh, printed, uh, texts, uh, uh, with several songs dedicated to, um, to Radharaman.


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[Assistant] And, but I also found out, and this was, I can't remember how, it was quite indirectly that I found out that one lady,


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[Assistant] Had done a doctoral research project on Gaudiya Vaishnava songs in Brajabhasa language. Gaudiya Vaishnava, Brajabhasa


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[Assistant] And we had a nice conversation, uhm, on many topics and


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[Assistant] Uh, she, I was eager to get a copy of her doctoral dissertation and she said, well, it's been printed, uh, published as a book and, um,


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[Assistant] You may be able to find, she said, I'm sorry, I don't have any copies, extra copies to give you.


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[Assistant] You may be able to find a copy in such and such bookstore.


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[Assistant] In downtown Jaipur. So I went to this bookstore and I showed the shopkeeper the title and I asked him, do you have this book?


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[Assistant] And he just kind of shrugged his shoulders and said, you know, like maybe.


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[Assistant] And he, he sort of motioned to, to the books and this was a,


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[Assistant] Uh, not a modern style, but still quite large. It was a, you know, quite large wall of books. And he just sort of gestured like, you can go and look, you know, good luck.


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[Assistant] So he just gestured, but then the funny thing was that I thought, okay, well, let me look, maybe I'll find it. And within.


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[Assistant] Within like, as I remember, it was like within two or three minutes, I spotted the book. It jumped out at me.


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[Assistant] Uh, yet to be researched, and that's what we're doing with the Bhagavata Purana research project. That's one thing we're doing. Uhm, is, you know, sort of digging up, uhm,


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[Assistant] Now comes my little plug for Bhaktivedanta Research Centre.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's also what, uh, is going on in the, in the BRC in


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[Assistant] Both now Kolkata and we have also, uh, in Mumbai.


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[Assistant] And as I understand, it's also opening a branch in Pune.


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[Assistant] Yes, this is the latest news.


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[Assistant] And uh, it looks like we may be having some research, uh, developing, uh, in Puri.


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[Assistant] It'll, it'll be connect, yes, Madhavananda will, will certainly be involved, Madhavananda Prabhu, uh, but there's some, some new potential connections. I don't have any specifics, but, uh, connections with, uh, the temple.


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[Assistant] The temple management proper, the, the Jagannath temple. Oh.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna have to kind of come to an end.


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[Assistant] I think that we should not, uhm, we should not end without mentioning the very important,


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[Assistant] Statement in the Upanishads, which I won't be able to quote completely, but it's, uh, Nayambala Hinayana Labiya.


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[Assistant] We understand that Bala not just as material power, but spiritual power, that without the mercy of Balaram, there is no spiritual power.


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[Assistant] Uh, we cannot, we will not have spiritual power and therefore...


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[Assistant] Our prayer to Bala Rahman, I think this is always nice to remember in remembering


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[Assistant] Lord Jagannath, Jagannath Subhadra Balaram. And of course in the Maha Mantra, there was that debate.


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[Assistant] Some devotees had, does Rama refer to Ramachandra or to Balarama? And, uh,


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[Assistant] So chanting Hare Rama, Hare Rama, we are praying also for that strength, uh, spiritual strength by which we can go on serving the Lord.


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[Assistant] Ananta Gauti Vaishnavinda Ki Jai. Kaur Premanande.


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[Assistant] There's more film, Miss Reed. Maybe one of them be your little buckaroo.


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[Assistant] Yo, were you, were you doing the, were you and B doing the, the SS mix tapes, uh, before Wolfhack Music came out or that was like?


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[Assistant] Yo, I got a fucking question that I feel like nobody else can answer this except for y'all niggas. What the fuck happened to Gata? Cause it was Tiger and Gata.


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[Assistant] That's good. That's probably good. Yeah, that's a fuckin' slippery slope to get down.


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[Assistant] Stop wearing Supreme so much because like.


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[Assistant] It was just giving out free promo, like rapping about this shit and like wearing it and like all the like, once you have that strong of an influence, like I said, like you guys made it cool to be from the hood and wear vans. Like Tyler made it cool to like wear Supreme and like not even be a skateboarder really. And like, it gets to a point to where like your influence is so strong and like,


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[Assistant] You just giving niggas free promo and like you said, like, like you're fucking, y'all collab didn't even come out. You feel me?


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[Assistant] Yup, no that's real shit. Cause like even like, with like the whole ground root of, of Pink Dolphin,


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[Assistant] Like, even the original logo was just like the fat kinda like, almost like a, like an ambulance cross, almost, you feel me? Like, like the fat cross with the, with like the-


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[Assistant] Okay. You know what I just noticed about sitting here right now? Like a lot of the names that you like didn't say like OT, even your


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[Assistant] Elliott, or whatever, like the last one we just said, even like your brother, those are like names that you've like said during songs and like, um, just like put it together right now. Like, you know, like you really put like actual meaning in like your actual like upbringing into your music.


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[Assistant] I could fuck with you on ten, but damn, twenty? Okay, so who is this? Is this a challenge?


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[Assistant] Good luck for all y'all. Uh, just, just to like interject back real quick was like, the time where like,


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[Assistant] Things started falling off, like, between all you guys together? Was this like, after like, like the Bass Boys album? Or like, maybe like-