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[Assistant] But I can't really prove it yet, so we're just gonna keep him in the hate category. This is James, right? I'm pretty sure this guy is James, and he was a bitch in swordplay. I despise him.


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[Assistant] There's no, there's no questions asked there, Elise is going into living nuisance. Eva. Blocky McBlockbuck. Now, Eva's given me a lot of trouble. Or gave me a lot of trouble.


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[Assistant] in Wii Sports Resort Basketball. In Tomodachi life, she just gets rejected by everybody. So she has kind of a rough life there. So I should give her a little bit more sympathy because of that.


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[Assistant] So we're just gonna go with dislike. We just dislike her.


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[Assistant] I don't know who this girl is, but she's kinda cute. She's gonna get a like.


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[Assistant] This is, this is effectively becoming Tinder. Gabby, Gabby, Gabby, you have a big mouth. If I'm remembering right, I must hate you. Despised. Well, you are one ugly motherfucker. I don't know this guy's name. I have never seen him before. But he is an abomination looking person.


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[Assistant] So we're just gonna have, we're just gonna give you a slight dislike cause we, I kinda feel bad about how you look. Wow, there are, there are a ton of me's that I don't know.


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[Assistant] Wait, that wasn't even- this isn't even James. This is James. Who are you? Now I despise him for no reason, even though I don't know who he is. But whatever.


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[Assistant] Lisa's better than liking him. Well, you're mean, Helen, so I can't like you, so I hate you.


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[Assistant] Hermosa. Hermosa has way too big of a mouth.


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[Assistant] It almost puts him in the living nuisance category, but putting him on the same level as Elisa is harsh, so we're just gonna despise him. This girl, this girl, she has problems.


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[Assistant] She has gone through too many plastic surgery. Ian! This man uses a shoe.


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[Assistant] In ping pong, and that's respectable, we're gonna neutral him. She catches my balls way too frequently in the outfield on baseball. We despise her. Julie.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know what you do of significance, but you kinda look like some fucked up bug. So we're gonna hate you. Kintaro. You just have that face. He has that face where he's just, he's just a softy and a big ol' nice guy.


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[Assistant] So for that, Kentaro, you get the neutral. I'm not gonna hate on Kentaro today. Luka, you're annoying. I hate you.


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[Assistant] Lucia, I fucking hate you so much. Although I did beat you in Wii Sports Resort Ping Pong finally, but you're still a living nuisance. You're a pain in my butt. You know, I just don't think you have enough significance to go under living nuisance.


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[Assistant] So, you're gonna get put in the despise category simply because you're sucking the life and soul out of my me on Tomodachi Life. Everyone knows Matt. Matt is known as the greatest. But Matt...


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[Assistant] I have, I feel like I've conquered Matt pretty well.


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[Assistant] And I've really had no issues with Matt, and since I've been ranking these Miis mainly based upon how I just feel about them and how I've competed against them,


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[Assistant] Matt is gonna get a neutral. Which means, ehh, well.


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[Assistant] You know, I gave Kentaro a neutral and Ian a neutral and this girl a like just cause she's pretty.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna adore Matt, we're gonna give Matt a little leverage there. Of course he's not a living legend because I probably wouldn't have sex with Matt. Well.


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[Assistant] Maybe. But definitely Abby. He honestly looks like a Florida man.


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[Assistant] I don't like you. I hate you. Pierre is definitely close to the living nuisance category, but I just...


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[Assistant] I don't know if I have it in me to put Pierre on that level.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna despise Pierre, I think that's where he belongs. Subaru. I can't say I like him either, so we're just gonna say slightly dislike. Sakura, honestly, I beat Sakura really easily.


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[Assistant] On Wii Sports Baseball. And she's the champion. So for that, Sekira, you get the neutral status. Really surprised face, girl. I don't know who you are.


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[Assistant] And I don't really remember what sports you're involved with, but...


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[Assistant] You seem really surprised, so I'm gonna surprise everyone and put you as a neutral.


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[Assistant] I just don't know what Shinasuki does other than be in Tomodachi life. Shouta, shouta, shouta, his lips are fatter than fat.


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[Assistant] And for that reason, I never really liked them. Seems like a little bit of a Botox guy. We're just gonna hate you, Shauna.


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[Assistant] Silk, I hate you too. Something about those big lips, I just don't like it. Makes me think you're fake. This girl looks like a cat. And I can't remember her name.


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[Assistant] But I like cats. Alright, I'm gonna like you cause I like cats.


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[Assistant] And cause you kinda look like a cat. This guy's name is like Salami or something like that.


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[Assistant] S-s-sala or something? I don't even know. I'm gonna throw you a good ol' slightly dislike. Slightly dislike is a compliment. Like these memes should feel good about themselves. Steph is a rather big-faced...


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[Assistant] Uh, manly female. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But she seems like she's good hearted.


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[Assistant] I don't really like you. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, you took so long to beat on Wii Sports Resort Baseball. Basketball.


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[Assistant] So long, and if I was still in the mix of that, I would definitely say you're a living nuisance.


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[Assistant] But for some reason, over time, since the day I beat you,


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[Assistant] I have reminded you, and now you're dating my grandma on Tomodachi Life.


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[Assistant] I can't say I adore her. I like her. I just like her. And then Yoshi. Yoshi...


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[Assistant] I couldn't have liked you, so here, there's a, there's a good old dislike for you. So...


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[Assistant] Is this really how this is gonna turn out? So this is, this is how things have turned out. For all the Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort Me's that there are.


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[Assistant] My official ranking of them, and I'm gonna look through this here in a second. I'm gonna see if I would change anything. Okay, I think this guy right here I accidentally put in the despise group because I thought he was James.


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[Assistant] So because of that, I'm going to move him back to hate. I think that sums things up quite nicely. I think this is a grade A.


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[Assistant] And I really have to say that I don't know a lot of these people. Surprisingly, I thought I'd know more.


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[Assistant] So, I really need to start playing Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort more again.


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[Assistant] And figuring out who the hell some of these people are, and probably some of them I just forgot that I've actually played them already. So.


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[Assistant] This is the list. Let me know what you think about my list. I hope you guys enjoyed this and I hope to see you all again soon on my next video.


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[Assistant] No, we hear it, man. That's all I got to say is we hear it.


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[Assistant] Man, that's a, you might have to run that one. Alright, go ahead. Alright, so let me think.


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[Assistant] Fuckin', when I moved up to Coma.


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[Assistant] I started linking up with, uh, Swings right in here. I started linking up with some cats out there. You know what I mean? Working on music, whatever. Bees working. Just Asher, whatever.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, so I linked up with a bunch of guys, whatever, started working on music and everything. Uhm, we started a group, everything, a little collective. We go to this show, and uh, one of the homies is like, uh, this nigga, Glenn.


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[Assistant] Moving here and starting to collect it. Yeah, whatever. We do the group, a little collective, everything. I'm not going to talk about all the extra, extra, but shout out to everybody saying like, uhm, we go to the show at like Bleach. There's a little, it's like a little. That place.


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[Assistant] Nah, nah, my brother is Reggie. Reggie, he still live back in St. Louis.


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[Assistant] Nah, bro. Like that, that nigga I was sitting next to on a plane, bro, on the way here. When he, he was fucking, we get up, we're on a plane, I'm sitting next to this dude, whatever. Pause.


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[Assistant] Eight in the morning. Whatever, we on a plane. And she's like, you want something to drink? He's like, yeah, can I have a, um, a shot of Crown?


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[Assistant] He takes it and he's like, you know what? Can you charge me for two more shots of crown? And she looks at him and she's like,


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[Assistant] Alright, cool. Pours em up, pours em up, boom. He takes em real quick, right?


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[Assistant] Hey, big time, big time, shoutouts to uhm, you already know what I'm saying, like, so that's Swanks up in this motherfucker, Frank up in this motherfucker, Glenn in this motherfucker, Chris in this motherfucker, Diggy in this motherfucker, Chase in this motherfucker, them niggas over here in this motherfucker, 30 out there, ETC. 30 clips with the dick.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but we're sitting here talking, everything's fine, and then I, I, and because I'm me, I think I've said something that's pissed you off. I just thought, oh, she's fed up with me.


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[Assistant] What's interesting I think for fans of the game, especially part two, is it shows you can survive if you find like a quiet corner. There are still safe areas. It's not just all doom and gloom and danger at like around every corner. It does exist, but you can survive there on your own. I think there's also.


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[Assistant] We would talk a lot about not exhausting our audience and we just traumatized them with the end of the last episode. So this was a moment of...


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[Assistant] Levity, uh, a moment to show how Joel and Ellie have progressed in their relationship. They're much more comfortable with each other. And a lot of our conversations about this episode were like, what is the impact on Joel?


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[Assistant] He's convincing himself that what's best for Ellie is to let her go. And it's really to protect himself.


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[Assistant] And when you're playing the game, you know, the camera's quite far back, you swing it around the character, so there's no way to, like, see a lot of what's going on with the character's face, so a lot of it has to be conveyed with dialogue. So the way we did it in the game, as I'm sure you remember, Troy, we just made him that much more distant. Like, it's almost like the relationship has gone backwards.


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[Assistant] You know, when you look at your parents that have been protecting your entire life, you don't want to accept that they have any sort of weakness. So she's getting angry with him, which I've felt this as well, you know, sometimes as my parents get older, I was like, I don't know why that's the reaction, but you get angry that they're not invincible.


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[Assistant] To go even further back and talk about the origins of, uh, why Ellie likes space so much, you know, these things are massive collaborations and everybody puts a part of them into this thing. And over the course of making the game, I've gotten to know you, Troy, and Ashley Johnson who played Ellie.


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[Assistant] And Ashley loves space and astronauts and knows everything about it. And I'm like, I want to make Ellie even more like Ashley. And likewise, Joel or Troy, I should say, I knew your start was with music and you play the guitar and you sing. And that's why Joel says, I would have wanted to be a musician, a singer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's just something I get a little emotional about, but like, we've all put like so much of ourselves in this, and the combination of all that makes for something greater.


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[Assistant] That's also interesting. Where is his mind at? Right? And it's like, he would like to be at a place where he would just be alone because that's, that would be the easiest way for him to survive. Right. No threat to his heart. No body that he


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[Assistant] Not necessarily Joel, but her idea of Joel, which again, she believes is this invincible man that can never get hurt.


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[Assistant] There's a massive difference here from the game that we can talk about. In the game, all the interaction with Tommy, interaction with Maria, everything happens in the dam. They're there fixing the dam for Jackson. And last was part one, we never go into Jackson and that was mostly


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[Assistant] What's at stake? Here's where you could settle down and actually live.


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[Assistant] What happened to you? He goes, what happened to you? Right. When they sit down to eat after they get the tour of the place, there's some really nice stuff that's happening there. Ellie's just like, has a sailor mouth and, uh, you know, Joel being like a good old Texan is like, uh, apologizing for her manners.


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[Assistant] But then, you know, when he starts getting this pushback from Maria, all of a sudden, he's like, he gets very protective of his tribe, his family, he's like, and he's trying to push her out, and then realizing, no, no, this is someone Tommy has led into the circle, without his permission.


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[Assistant] So he has just a weird kind of reaction to it. And then there's like a nice kind of uhm, would you call it an Easter egg? I don't know if I'd call it an Easter egg.


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[Assistant] Because in part two, there is a story about the first time Dina met Ellie that is very similar to what happens here. That doesn't mean that that's Dina.


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[Assistant] I think Ellie can smell what's happening here, which is there's something going on with Maria where she doesn't like Joel. Ellie can sense it.


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[Assistant] He won't say like, it was you. Like he's trying to find blame outside of his tribe, outside of this little circle he's trying to protect.


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[Assistant] I think beautiful scores and scores that are used well, it's a way into the subconscious. So it's a way to trigger certain memories or feelings without being explicit about it. So that's where like in the game and similar in the show, we use that theme again to hark back to that moment when he lost his daughter. And it's a way to tap into that.


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[Assistant] Yep. This was a fun scene in that you don't get to see it in the game.


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[Assistant] In the game, it's like Ellie and Joel part ways. So Joel can have a conversation with Tommy. Ellie goes with Maria so she can feed her and take care of her. And then you just see the aftermath of that conversation where like somehow Ellie learned about Joel's daughter. And here we got to brainstorm and flush that out. And I think where we ended up was really cool.


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[Assistant] And the nice thing about these two characters is they're both extremely smart. Like now Ellie is like being challenged by someone that's as smart


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[Assistant] Like earlier we were talking about like, is there a temptation to have more action? This is our action sequence right here. Like these two characters are like, and we're going to have more like later on, but to me this is as captivating


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[Assistant] As the color sack beat in the previous episode. But we also get to see how loyal Ellie is because what does she do? She defends Joel all the way to the end, including insulting Maria and her husband, uh, all to justify who Joel is because this is her dad.


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[Assistant] That one is mine. And again, Ellie's smarter than she realizes. She has probably already sensed something since the Henry and Sam moment. Something is off.


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[Assistant] Which in the game, right, they're on the outskirts of Jackson and Tommy says they'll be watching movies tonight. Exactly. And here we get to see it.


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[Assistant] In the game, Tommy comes to the realization when he sees how much Joel cares for Ellie after an action sequence. Here, it's like Joel has to plead. Joel has to like show, it's the most vulnerable we've seen him yet.


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[Assistant] There was no fear. We had talked about it quite a bit beforehand.


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[Assistant] So I was excited to see the execution of it more than anything because I knew it would give us more insight into who this character is and what drives him and what scares him.


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[Assistant] For the game as well, it was kind of a similar thing of, you know, we made what we call a character action adventure game. But this episode has one of the most memorable moments from the game, which has no action, quote unquote, which is the moment where Ellie confronts Joel about wanting to leave her.


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[Assistant] Right. I can answer that because this Joel's a little bit different. His dialect is a little bit different. If that line stayed in there, I think it would have stood out in a way that would have taken away from this version of the scene.


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[Assistant] Well, the other thing, I guess, that, again, I have to give credit is, uh, uh, the scene wasn't written with that shove. No. We were, we were struggling to get the emotion out of that scene. And I remember we had to like,


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[Assistant] We tried it a few times and like, let's take a break. I think you, you asked, can we take five? I'm like, let's take fifteen. Yeah. And then we came back and did it and then Ashley just on her own shoved you across the stage and that was the take.


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[Assistant] Again, for me as someone that obviously has a lot of attachment to that scene, I would like...


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[Assistant] It's equally moving. It's like you're looking into another dimension. It's the best way I can describe it. And what I would say to our fans is like, don't do the comparison thing because like appreciate it for what it is. It's like another group of artists taking a crack at it and creating something beautiful.


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[Assistant] But once again, he is lying. Yeah, he's lying.


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[Assistant] Which by the way, I don't know how to say this without spoiling something, but it's like that line specifically is very interesting to where the story goes. Yes, I agree.


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[Assistant] Again, it's the fantasy we all have of like, okay, we're gonna all be fine. We're gonna all end up well and healthy and we're gonna come back here and it's all gonna turn out okay.


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[Assistant] It's the calm before the storm, where we get to see him, you know, when I was working on the original game, I, I, you know, when you, sometimes when you write genre, you dive as deeply as you can into the genre. You study like every single story in that genre. One of my favorite movies is Road to Perdition.


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[Assistant] And it's a little different from the comic book that it's based on, in that Tom Hanks does everything he can to protect his son from ever getting corrupted by violence.


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[Assistant] I knew for the story you wanted to tell here, uh, back when we did it in the game, it was like...


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[Assistant] I think as a dad in that world, if I'm really trying to protect my kid, I'm not going to protect him from violence. I'm going to teach him how to use violence as a tool so they will be safe.


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[Assistant] You know, Joel's been trying to protect her from that. They've like never given her a gun. Then slowly trusting her, but only for emergencies. And now he's slowly teaching her to become more and more of a violent person like him.


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[Assistant] That I love, uh, and I've never said this to you, Craig, but I'll say it here, which is how personal the end of this episode is to you, because there's a part of your daughter in this episode.


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[Assistant] Saint Anthony, send us back an honest soul.


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[Assistant] There's trouble coming. I got him into this.


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[Assistant] Now what is a photo shoot? Photo shoot allows you to plan a month


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[Assistant] That's the reason why having and scheduling a photoshoot is so important because it allows you to create everything in just one day.


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[Assistant] It also allows you to set up the best version for your pictures because


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[Assistant] High quality photos would definitely capture more people's attention. And when people are scrolling through the feed, and if your photos are not engaging or appealing, people can just scroll through.


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[Assistant] That's the reason why having a photoshoot is so important.


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[Assistant] Why is it important? Once again, we covered this a little bit. It saves you a ton of time. Having a photo shoot allows you to create content, a month of content all at once. And that's what we do for all our businesses. We create a photo shoot and just do it one day. We batch everything and.


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[Assistant] We create it all in one day for a month of content. You don't need to schedule multiple shoots and also it just is way more efficient when you have a photo shoot created because by you planning what photos you want to take, you prepare all your props, your equipment to showcase your product.


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[Assistant] And that allows you to do one time of job and to create 30 days of content and that's what we like to do. Much more efficient and on top of that it just saves you a ton of money hiring a professional photographer


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[Assistant] To do it, or your friends and family to help you do it, that way you can save a ton of money.


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[Assistant] Now, the six steps of a successful photoshoot. First up, define your goal. Ask yourself, why are you shooting this? Is this for a new product? Is it for a new campaign? Because you're gonna come back to this photoshoot


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[Assistant] Regardless of what you're doing, you need to define your goal. Why are you doing it? Okay. Define it right from the get go. Understand ahead of time what types of content you want to create. Whether it's a holiday theme, let's say I'm shooting something for Christmas or I'm shooting something for a brand new launch. I need to know that because everything else is dictated.


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[Assistant] And we schedule our shoot to create content for our launch and we're doing 15 photos for our initial post for Instagram feed. That's our goal.


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[Assistant] Inspo board. What is an inspo board? It is basically collection of inspiration of other photos that other people have taken, uh, from different brands, different photos, and this helps you with your photo shoot because it gets you, uh, being able to visualize.


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[Assistant] This creates a lot of action dynamic on your picture and you enjoyed that. This is a great way to get your creative juices.


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[Assistant] That's the reason why every time we have a shoot, we always go back to creating an inspo board. Pinterest is the perfect place for you to be able to create this inspiration board. Create a board each time for your photo shoot. So for example, if you're doing something for Christmas,


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[Assistant] The looks and the feels might be completely different. It might be something with a little bit more of a holiday theme.


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[Assistant] Type in the food item in the search bar and any specific feeling, adjectives or ideas you have. And like what I was saying, I would type in bubble tea and then Christmas to see what kind of inspiration I have for my Christmas lunch. Add this into your inspo board. So then that way you can start compiling a bunch of ideas for your own photo shoot.


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[Assistant] How are you going to be able to create that and how are we going to add that? That's the reason why we created


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[Assistant] Develop a shot list. What is a shot list? Basically it is after, in the previous lesson we talked about the different content you're creating and that you're shooting. So now we need to be able to have an idea of


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[Assistant] Hey, if we're creating this specific content, a lifestyle content, what would the shot list be looking like?


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[Assistant] What kind of shot do we need to take with our product in order for it to be a lifestyle shot? This acts as a great photo reference that you can always click into. So then that way when you're on the day of the shot, you already have a shot list in front of you. You're not doing any thinking. You're just following this process that you created for yourself.


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[Assistant] Right? Uhm, it could be different posts for the month. You will need different types of items. So for example, your friend enjoying a bu- a cup of bubble tea, and a hero shot of the item, or someone pouring, uh, tea into the cup. Whatever the pictures are, this acts as a great photo reference for you to replicate the same.


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[Assistant] The last thing you want is for you to miss a shot during a photoshoot and think about what shots to do next. Because you want to focus on creating and executing the best shot. Because on the day of photoshoot, it is a lot of work.


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[Assistant] You're gonna be able, you need to think about how the product looks, whether it's melting or not. Is the ice melting? Uhm, and is the lighting okay? You're thinking about a lot of logistical and execution problems.


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[Assistant] So you do not want to think about what shot you need to take. You need to have a shot list just tells you, hey, this is what I need to do next. And this becomes a really great way for you to prepare for a successful photo shoot.


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[Assistant] Pro tip here is that don't be too rigid on the shot list. As much as I preach having a shot list is essential for the success of your shot, do not be too rigid because some of the best shots are taken spontaneously, right? So as long as you're following that as a guide, as a reference, that shot list, it is good. Follow that, create that.


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[Assistant] But don't be too rigid in terms of the whole process. You're okay to actually go off.


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[Assistant] Script, because this is just to guide you along the way.


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[Assistant] Putting your product on the grass, you and your friend interacting with your product, is this just an example of whatever is coming to mind on the day of the shoot?


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[Assistant] You can be creative with this whole thing. Don't forget to have fun because when you're having fun, creative juices keeps flowing and you're going to be able to have one of the best shots for the photoshoots that you didn't plan for when you're not too rigid.


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[Assistant] Next up, use props. I can't emphasize how important it is to use props because using props helps enhance your product. It helps enhance everything else. So for example, if you're doing a strawberry muffin, having strawberries in the back just allows people to actually see and feel what you're trying to create, right? Emphasize the shots.


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[Assistant] It's either products, seasonality, or holiday specific props. So for example,


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[Assistant] You can have ingredients, you can have utensils, you can have Christmas decorations, depending on what you're shooting, depending on if you're shooting something that is a holiday themed, you can add those items in there so then that way it can make it more festive. You can add in, let's say, Christmas lights, whatever the case may be, create a list of props that you have on hand, and


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[Assistant] If you don't have those, ask your friends and family if they have specific props so then that way you can save money. Because a lot of these props could be lying around in your home, believe it or not. Because a lot of our props


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[Assistant] We have lying around in our home already. These are things that we, we already have. We already have the milk jug. It just makes this whole shoot much more, uh, dynamic and much more engaging when you do all this, okay?


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[Assistant] After you identify the different props you would need, create a list on it on Excel. So then that way you can check off all the different props and you're not going to forget which props to bring and which props are for whichever shot you're looking for.


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[Assistant] Next up, prepare your equipment. It doesn't have to be the best camera that you have. It could be an entry-level DSLR, or mirrorless, or even just a smartphone. Uhm, because for us, we started off using just...


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[Assistant] An iPhone. And then we upgraded to a mirrorless, uh, camera and then we upgraded to a DSLR.


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[Assistant] All the phones nowadays does an exceptional job as long as it's a somewhat updated smart cam, okay? Make sure all your equipment is ready, your battery is charged. Don't forget to bring your equipment. Have a checklist of all your equipment the day before the shoot.


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[Assistant] Because actually something that happened to us when we did our ice cream shoot is that we've wasted the full day. We coordinated with our shop, we coordinated with our, uh, team to help with the photo shoot, and we coordinated basically with two other individuals as our models for our shoot.


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[Assistant] But on the day of, I forgot to bring my tripod. I forgot to charge my battery and in turn wasted two to three hours.


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[Assistant] of time and that's our model needed to leave and basically we just need to reschedule the whole photoshoot and just waste a ton of time because I forgot to bring my equipment. So make sure you guys have all your equipment ready, have it as a checklist and make sure you charge your phone and your battery.


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[Assistant] Make your product, make sure to prepare more units than you need of your specific product because a lot of times you might need to use it as props on the background or you might need to stack it up or you just might just need multiple different units of your product.


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[Assistant] Bring extra ingredients, so for example if you're selling a cake, then bring extra icing, extra chocolate drizzle, espresso powder, because on the day of the shoot, you're trying to be creative, you're gonna be


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[Assistant] The characteristics of your product. Let's say if you're selling a tiramisu, right? Then amplify it by sprinkling lots of espresso powder on the top. When people see that espresso flakes coming down, it gives them a feeling of, wow, this looks really great. It has a really good coffee taste to it. And it just really amplifies the characteristics.


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[Assistant] Definitely be creative with this whole process. Now that you've figured out your six steps, set a date for your shoot


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[Assistant] Get a friend to help you out and don't forget to have fun guys. During this photo shoot, make sure you guys have fun. The first time you're doing it, it's going to be hectic, it's going to be busy, and it's not going to come out as perfect as you want. However, practice makes perfect. So set a date and then get prepared and go to your photo shoot. Now,


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[Assistant] If you want to learn more, you can continue on this lesson on the food photography tips. There's five of them. First up, lighting.


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[Assistant] Take photos near a window with natural lighting that is a little bit softer and it is definitely


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[Assistant] Natural lighting is always the best choice when it comes to lighting. Avoid using flash or harsh over lights because it's just going to have these reflections that's not going to look nice and natural. Use natural lighting. Gives you this kind of effect, okay? And also, this is actually studio lighting but


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[Assistant] Natural lighting does give you this kind of effect as well, okay? So definitely natural lighting is always the way to go.


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[Assistant] Next up, create action with your props. A lot of people just put their props on the table and that's that.


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[Assistant] Using your props and actually utilizing it actually allows your picture to be much more dynamic. You see this because now you can see yourself pouring the tea into the cup and it just makes your


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[Assistant] Photo, that much more interactive and it appears much more inviting and much more realistic. For example, stirring a bubble tea, whisking eggs or drizzling sauces. These are all great ways to add action with your props in your photo shoot.


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[Assistant] Next up, use neutral backgrounds. Don't have messy backgrounds lying around because what do we want to do? We don't want the attention away from what we're selling. We want the attention to be at the pearls. We want the attention to be looking at, wow, this looks


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[Assistant] Really, really great, right? So if it's a really messy background, then people are much more drawn to a messy background and the focus would be away from the bulb up from the pearls right here, which is the whole point of this picture.


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[Assistant] Next up, rule of thirds. Avoid taking photos straight front and center because when you're having a photo that's fixed, fixated at the lock, like, like, let's see right here, front and center, then this image becomes quite boring. It becomes very, very static. It becomes really one dimensional. You're just focusing on the lock.


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[Assistant] There's really no room for any exploration, whereas if you're having this lock and this image on, uh, as a third, sided on the third right here,


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[Assistant] Then your eye travels around the image to the lock, but it also has room to explore.


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[Assistant] The background right here, which makes this whole image much more dynamic, much more appealing, much more space for your customers to actually wander off and have much more imaginations. And that's the reason why rule of thirds is so important. It allows you to create very engaging and intriguing images as well.


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[Assistant] So as you can see here, this is the rule of third. And when there is a grid, just imagine there's a grid and eight, sorry, nine different boxes, right?


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[Assistant] You want to be able to have your subject, the item that you're trying to shoot.


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[Assistant] In between the intersections of these lines.


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[Assistant] And once you're able to position it right here, take that photo, you can see automatically this photo looks already a lot more engaging than if we were to shoot front and center because now you can actually, your eyes has room to kind of go around here, much more engaging when you choose to shoot in thirds. Now,


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[Assistant] Most cameras already have the feature of showing grid options. So just turn it on and point at your product and then make sure you find these intersection points and take pictures and have fun and be creative with this whole process. Practice makes perfect once again.


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[Assistant] Lastly, it's not always about your food only, right? Be creative with this whole process. Don't just show off your food. Take photos of your surrounding, your staff working, or just someone enjoying the product and be creative. Don't be too rigid when you're taking photos. That's part of the fun, okay?


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[Assistant] Now it is your turn. Open up your Instagram content planning document in the link below. Write down your goals. Your first goal is to create your first 15 posts.


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[Assistant] Create an inspo board using Pinterest and then drag 15 of your photos from your Pinterest board onto your shot list and add in the props and equipment. Take photos using the five tips provided and there you go. Your photo shoot created all for you.


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[Assistant] And then, we were looking to differentiate Redwoods Media a little bit, so we said, uh, how can we offer, uh, video content with a guarantee? So we're gonna produce a video for your business, uh, and then we're gonna guarantee that a certain part of the audience will make it all the way through. And, and being able to offer that kind of, uh, a contract was really attractive to clients, so it helped us close some deals. And then, based on that,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and uh, and we got it. Uhm, and so from there, uhm, you know, it was, from our first meeting with PG, it was, stop working on this other thing and, and uh, you know, let's focus on video art.


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[Assistant] You know, we hit that revenue goal on Christmas Eve. Uhm, the goal was by Christmas and we hit it on Christmas Eve and, and, uh, you know, from there it was, let's go for it.


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[Assistant] That was the place to work. That was uhm, you know, that was the hot thing for, for a number of years. Uhm, back in the early 2000s, late 90s. Uhm, and, and that made it, you know, I think as a, another startup coming up at that time, it would have been awful tough to get talent.


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[Assistant] You know, Blackberry went through and he tra- and trained him up and he's, you know, it's incredible to have talent like that, uhm, that's very hard to find, uh, be local.


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[Assistant] What'd you do for your co-op? I did some management consulting, I did some pure engineering software development type stuff, uh, and project management stuff as well. So I was, uh, at RIM locally, which is obviously a big part of the local community here, uhm, and then I spent some time in Toronto and in St. Louis as well.


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[Assistant] You know, nothing really changed from co-op to full time and I think that's the huge benefit of a co-op experience is that you can come in being a very uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, ready to go employee. Like I'd already worked there for a year in basically the same job. Uhm, and that's why we hire co-ops at Vidyard today too is, is, you know, they're the ultimate goal is to recruit them after they graduate.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, you know, it's hard to imagine, but, uh, you know, I think we're going to build a really great technology powerhouse. Uhm, and, uh, you know, I think that we do it for the team members, we do it for Kitcher Waterloo, we do it for Canada, and, and we do it for, uh, you know, just being really passionate about what we're building.


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[Assistant] Oh, absolutely. Uhm, you know, we're, this is our headquarters, this is our home. Uhm, and again, there's so much great talent, whether it be coming out of companies like Blackberry or whether it be straight out of school or, or folks we have to import. Uhm, and I think we're at the scale now where, you know, we can attract folks from, from the bigger cities, from Silicon Valley, from Toronto.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and Waterloo's got a great brand and it's a very exciting place. So, you know, it's, uh, you know, we're going to grow into it.


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[Assistant] Do whatever it takes to stomp, to feed him, gut him.


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[Assistant] I'd say, Reg, I was, I went to get a coffee this morning at a great place over the road and, eh, guess the song, guess what song I heard playing on the radio?


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[Assistant] Love it, love it. I was just like, this is, it's a sensual song, do you know what I mean? But I feel like, I feel like there aren't male artists out there doing sensual, soulful vocals anymore, you know?


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[Assistant] Like no, it's not sexy anymore, you know? Like I've done my part, I'm bringing sexy back.


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[Assistant] A sexy, sensual singer. I'm just saying, I think I'm sexier and sensulier.


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[Assistant] If I'm hearing this right, it sounds like you're challenging me to a sexier male vocals riff off.


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[Assistant] Look, look, I like you, you're a friend, okay, but you need to stay out of this. This beef is strictly between me and Usher.


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[Assistant] Well, well, well. Okay, okay, I guess what they say is true. No one sings like Gaston. That's right.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna walk away with what little dignity I have intact and I will get back to the searing political comedy that I do every night here on this show. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have started this. I'm not a sexy singer and I'm fine.


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[Assistant] Hang on, are you saying you think that there's a world where we can all work together and stay together?


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[Assistant] Always happy to engage in dialogue with you, Chaitanya Charanji.


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[Assistant] Uh, it wasn't even called yoga until, you know, some of the Upanishads, the later Upanishads, uh, like the, uh, Sri Tashwatar Upanishad and Katha Upanishad and so on.


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[Assistant] It does not begin in China. Some people have this concept that yoga begins in China. No, it doesn't. It comes from India.


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[Assistant] It is concurrent with Tantra and the Vedas.


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[Assistant] So they seem to be a little separate, but the Vedas speak about meditating yogis, long haired, bearded, meditating yogis who are sitting in certain


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[Assistant] So, it's, it's uhm, it's something that goes way back, but yoga was essentially meditation. And that is ultimately what yoga is. That question is, on what are we meditating?


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[Assistant] And that can be many different levels of things. Uhm, we could be meditating on something that


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[Assistant] Uh, is, is focusing on the unitive sort of, um, uh, being of, of all reality. Or we could be meditating on a particular supreme being.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, you know, there are many different levels of yoga perfection and there are many different levels.


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[Assistant] Uh, spiritual traditions and practices such as yoga are limited because


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[Assistant] At the same time, it gives us a little bit of perspective. Yeah. Relatively speaking.


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[Assistant] Uh, and 16, I think, so 14, 15, 16, somewhere in there. So, uh, and then there's mention of yoga throughout here and there. So yoga is something that permeates the spiritual traditions of India.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you can take a toolbox and build a house or you can take a toolbox and build a shed. And you know, there are different things you can build with the toolbox. So yoga is found in.


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[Assistant] So many traditions in India, and now it's found, you know, then it went east to Daoism and Buddhism.


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[Assistant] But as Buddhism spread to the east, uh, it took yoga with it and revised it and made it its own.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'd heard of Christian yoga, but I didn't know about Muslims also. Absolutely. There are select Muslims that practice yoga.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, if one reads the Yoga Sutra carefully, if one reads the Bhagavad Gita correctly, you know, carefully, one finds that the ultimate yoga is a perfection, is an end.


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[Assistant] Now union means bringing one thing together with another in a harmonious whole. So that union can take place at different levels. My aching back, oh my aching back with the rest of my healthy body.


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[Assistant] Into a union with the rest of my body, my healthy body in a harmonious whole. That's one kind of union.


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[Assistant] Uhm, another kind of union is, now typically people come to fix their back problems in a yoga studio.


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[Assistant] They don't stop. They go, wow, this is something special here. I feel, I feel something extra here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, sometimes, so after the back is fixed, then one can balance more the internal psychical energies, uh, the psychophysical


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[Assistant] So, so it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a machine and it has wheels. It has seven wheels. The seven chakras.


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[Assistant] Um, energize. These are psycho-energenic centers.


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[Assistant] Uh, the heart area, the, the throat, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, the, the, the forehead, middle of the forehead, and then of course the brahmarundra, and then, and so there are the seven wheels. Now,


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[Assistant] If something traumatic happens, like you said, Chittanyacharanji, if something happens, a pothole of life comes along, then our wheel gets a bit damaged and doesn't work as well. Now, of course we've got the other six wheels working, you know, but is no such thing as a spare tire.


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[Assistant] So yoga is very much a toolbox to repair the tires. Beautiful. Okay. But what's the purpose of these seven tires? Where do the wheels take us? Where are we going with those seven wheels?


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[Assistant] The toolbox is for the whole human being and the development and elevation of consciousness and ultimately the cultivation of the heart.


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[Assistant] I can use, you know, a hammer to hurt people.


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[Assistant] But, so, so that's why tools need to be in the hands of the right people.


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[Assistant] Make mistakes. They can end up cutting themselves. They can end up cutting others. Not meaning to. This is why the guru is so important ultimately. The teacher, the guide.


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[Assistant] Well generally, you know, uhm, uh, asana, asana yoga, asana for instance is only one eighth the practice of yoga. Yes, that's true. Only one eighth.


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[Assistant] Not one of the ladders, the steps. It's not really a ladder. It's a limb. And you may start on this arm.


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[Assistant] You know, heal this arm, get this arm strong, and that'll help the rest of the body.


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[Assistant] I mean the arm is attached to my, the rest of my body. That's a limb. So every limb of yoga begins to lead one to other limbs of yoga.


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[Assistant] Okay. So, but the whole body of yoga should ultimately not be neglected. Imagine if I went to the gym and only worked out this arm, you know, what about the rest? What about the other arm? Uh, what about your legs? You know, it's incomplete. It's people would think you're crazy.


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[Assistant] You're only going to the gym to workout one arm? What is this?


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[Assistant] I've received a registration and certification with the Yoga Alliance at the highest level.


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[Assistant] As well as a teacher at the highest level of the yoga community. It's called Yoga Alliance. And uhm,


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[Assistant] Enough academic initials after my name, but I ended up getting more of these with Yoga Alliance, with RYTE, RYT 500, and so on.


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[Assistant] Because yoga can also be dangerous.


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[Assistant] Uh, that kind of, you know, education, yoga education is very important for teacher trainees. So that's going on. That's very good. That's very good.


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[Assistant] I would say that it moves in that direction generally, yes. Okay.


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[Assistant] And, and so there we find many different yoga practices.


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[Assistant] You know, the funny thing is, Chaitanya Charanji, now I'm coming out with the translation of the Yoga Sutra to be published by Yale University Press.


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[Assistant] Would you like me to demonstrate? Yeah, please. That's fascinating.


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[Assistant] Partial yoga, yeah, partial, practical, and perfect, the three P's I call it. Beautiful, okay. Okay. Uhm, now, partial yoga means you're a human being.


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[Assistant] Which Patanjali outlines beautifully in the shtanga, a shtanga system, a shtanga, a shtanga, eight limbs, right? So the first limb, what is it? The yamas. Yama has to do with, uh, perfect ethical practices.


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[Assistant] The ideal ways that you and I interact with each other and others.


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[Assistant] What's human being is not concerned about how they act, interact with others. Everyone is to a greater or lesser degree. Human beings are social creatures. We all want to interact with some other human beings.


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[Assistant] But the fact is, we are interactive, socially interactive creatures, and therefore the ethical dimension of the human existence is there.


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[Assistant] But when I move from partial yoga, unconscious yoga to practical, deliberate practice of yoga, then I take up, I elevate what it means to interact with other people. I start practicing the ideal yogic ethics, but we're already ethical creatures.


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[Assistant] So those are the Yamas. The Niyamas come afterwards and those are the personal practices.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you why. So, so the don'ts, yamas, okay, what they call the don'ts, uhm,


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[Assistant] The first one is ahimsa, so that's a don't. Don't harm anyone. The second one is satya, truth. Don't be truthful.


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[Assistant] Of course they take it as implying don't be untruthful, but that's not what it says. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, that are not rightfully yours. And this could be done on subtle levels or gross levels, whatever. It gets very rich. It's a rich discussion. So that can be considered a don't.


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[Assistant] But what about the, the, the, the fourth one? Brahmacharya. Brahmacharya is a do. Be, be a student of Brahman.


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[Assistant] You know, be one who is absorbed in spirit, in spiritual matters. That's not a don't, that's a do. Now connotatively it can mean


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[Assistant] Yeah, now the, the, the, the implication is if you're engaged in all kinds of worldly, you know, interactions, uh, uh, bodily interactions with others, then you're, it's very difficult to live in the divine if you're, uh, you know, engaged on a bodily level of things. Excellent. Okay.


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[Assistant] But don't and do's is simplistic and not really, uhm, uh, accurate.


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[Assistant] So yama means discipline. It doesn't mean don't. It means discipline.


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[Assistant] Okay, so now I'm practicing the second, the second aspect of yama.


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[Assistant] That's exactly right. And in fact, even the word ahimsa, non-harm, non-violent.


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[Assistant] I mean, I came to a yoga workshop one time and I, I told everyone, I said, look, on the way here, I promise you, I didn't kill anyone.


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[Assistant] But a hymn goes so much deeper than that. It doesn't mean, and okay, so non-harm. I wasn't harming anyone say with nasty speech. Hmm. You know, I didn't like if I call you a goat. Okay. This could be very insulting, right? This, this could be harmful. You know, you're just a goat.


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[Assistant] Well, but this is all of the kleshas and the sanskaras coming out.


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[Assistant] Just sort of releasing the endless, you know, machinations of sanskaras and, and uh, kleshas, but.


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[Assistant] So, so it's, so being practicing a hypsa is not merely, not calling you nasty names, like go.


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[Assistant] Empathy. Appreciation of your thoughts and feelings. So.


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[Assistant] Even though it's put in the negative, ah, himsa, non-harm. It's also a positive.


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[Assistant] So I didn't, you know, when I went to the store the other day, I promise you, I did not steal any bananas.


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[Assistant] That's kind of a stealing. Subtle. Very subtle.


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[Assistant] We all have bodies and we're all positioning our bodies. Right now you're sitting, I'm sitting. In fact, asana means literally sitting.


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[Assistant] So all asana practices, you know, whether it be, uh, Tadasana, Vrishasana, you know, uh, uh, you know, uh, Padmasana, all of these.


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[Assistant] And now the asana is, is the border, the border between the outer and the inner. And now I go to the fourth one, pranayama.


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[Assistant] The natural breathing process, the respirational process, uhm, whereas in, in partial yoga, we may not take the opportunity to really


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[Assistant] Focus on the breath and oxygenate the body fully. Of course that happens somewhat naturally. Sometimes I go, ahhh. Okay, so.


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[Assistant] So I might take a deep breath or I might stretch, right? There's asana, right? Stretching.


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[Assistant] Sometimes people say, uh, do you practice yoga, Dr. Schweig? And I say, well, you do, but you just don't know it.


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[Assistant] That's beautiful. It's a little bit of an obnoxious, uh, response, but I'll say why are you asking? You practice yoga. Perhaps you don't know it though.


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[Assistant] Every human being at different times wants to sort of retreat from the world of sense, sensate imagery and just go inside. Pratyahara literally means to, to draw from the resources that are within. So that goes deeper. So not to take from without, but to take from within.


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[Assistant] Prati, to reverse the ahara, the taking, to reverse the taking.


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[Assistant] To be elevated. Human beings love this feeling of levity.


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[Assistant] I remember, uh, when my daughter was a miniature human, uh, uh, like a baby human, like a little thing like this, right?


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[Assistant] But sometimes it's more subtle and even more powerful. Sometimes they view art and the music can be so elevating and transporting.


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[Assistant] Standing even more deeply within oneself.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, one I think that came from, uh, a professor of mine at the University of Chicago, way back, not Harvard, but University of Chicago, uhm, Mircea Eliade. I believe he writes about end stasis, as well as ecstasis, yeaah.


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[Assistant] To go beyond the normal limits of human existence and to experience something greater.


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[Assistant] So yoga ultimately can take us to the greatest level of existence.


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[Assistant] And the Yoga Sutra speaks of this. The Bhagavad Gita speaks of this. But they're different levels for different folks.


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[Assistant] Yes, in fact, it's not just I that put it that way, or you.


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[Assistant] But the Bhakti Sutra says that and the Bhagavad Gita ultimately says that, that the, in the ultimate sense, all our interactive, um, levels, um, of being a human, all our cognitive, um, levels of being a human,


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[Assistant] Uhm, there is at the deepest level.


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[Assistant] Emotion, and I would like to now make a, uhm, a neologism.


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[Assistant] Well, well, we have to learn how to be nourished by other hearts and maybe the supreme heart. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Yoga is the return embrace of a divine embrace that's already been there, but we're not returning it.


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[Assistant] My family used to go up and visit my grandparents in New York City. They lived on Fifth Avenue. They lived in an apartment.


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[Assistant] With wide eyes and attack arms.


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[Assistant] And she would come and squee- I would hide behind my mother, you know, grabbing onto her skirt. And she would come and squeeze me like a boa constrictor.


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[Assistant] Help, right? Okay, now, divinity is not as aggressive as my grandmother.


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[Assistant] It's far more thorough than my grandmother's embrace because it's everywhere. We just don't appreciate it yet.


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[Assistant] Yoga is about evolving greater and greater levels of sensitivity.


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[Assistant] Sensitivity ultimately to the very thing from which all reality comes and emanates. Sensitivity to the inner life. The inner life of God.


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[Assistant] But, but let's talk about it even more ontologically. What is an embrace? An embrace is something that engulfs us.


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[Assistant] How is it all working? Are you doing anything to help it?


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[Assistant] If we could comprehend the miraculousness of all this.


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[Assistant] Within each of those 37 trillion cells, Chetanacharanji.


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[Assistant] There are a million working parts. Are you doing anything to help? Just kind of breathing calmly, right? You're not doing much.


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[Assistant] We are supported. We are embraced. Everything.


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[Assistant] We're being embraced, supported, nourished all the time without much effort on our part.


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[Assistant] Upholding us, sustaining us, nourishing us, giving so much to us.


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[Assistant] You know, a new, a new curta, I send you a watch, I send you rings, I send you hats.


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[Assistant] We are not grateful. We're not appreciative.


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[Assistant] We have so many gifts, more gifts than we can even conceive of.


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[Assistant] Yoga is about being increasingly more grateful and appreciative and sensitive to all the gifts.


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[Assistant] Okay, it does talk about Krishna, but it talks about Krishna or divinity.


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[Assistant] In more neutral terms, in more epithetical descriptive terms. So, for example, Ishvara,


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[Assistant] Typically people will translate it as God. What does that mean?


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[Assistant] To deal with cosmic creation, cosmic dissolution. That's just, that's, look, hey, you do that and you do that, you know. No. Divinity. Ishwaram.


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[Assistant] The way I'm currently translating is the divine source of all reality.


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[Assistant] It breaks down morphologically to mean that quite easily. Isha Vara.


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[Assistant] Dedication to God or devotion to God. But what does that, what does that mean?


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[Assistant] Take the word morphologically apart, pra-nidhana, moving, pra, deeply, nid, into the space within the heart, dhana.


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[Assistant] Have you noticed in the Bhagavad Gita that suddenly we find out that Ishwara is present within the heart?


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[Assistant] But whenever we talk about the whole human being, we talk about Atman, we talk about Ahankar, we talk about Budhi, we talk about Manas, we talk about the Indriyani, we talk about the Deha or the Sharira, right? From subtle to gross. So where's the heart?


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[Assistant] You know, the Gita says that you can stop the mind from within the heart.


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[Assistant] One of the reasons I love our talks, Jitendra Charan, is I love seeing what happens when I load all these


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[Assistant] Unusual ways of understanding these depths of philosophy.


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[Assistant] Even deeper than the soul or the Atman or the self because it is, because it is within the heart that the Atman resides.


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[Assistant] According to the Upanishads. I have loads of quotes from the Upanishads.


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[Assistant] The heart, the, the atman resides within the heart.


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[Assistant] Not only that, it is within the heart and through the heart that the city of Brahman exists. Okay.


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[Assistant] And this brings together everything Chaitanya Charanji. The 13th chapter, the Chaitanya.


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[Assistant] Is sort of like a parallel to the respiratory system.


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[Assistant] Okay. And the respiratory system's very, very important to the body, right? Hmm. But what is it a servant of?


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[Assistant] It becomes purified. It then goes back into, uh, uh, the exposure to the lungs, to the, to the respiratory system and gets rejuvenated and then goes around the body again.


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[Assistant] But if I were to have my heart, if I could have my heart withhold the beating, I would die.


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[Assistant] The heart even biologically is more fundamental than even the breath.


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[Assistant] There's no way to refer to the whole human being when we speak about the kshetragya. We're talking about the knower of the sphere.


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[Assistant] Of interaction, the sphere of awareness.


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[Assistant] The heart is ultimately more of a knower than the manas, than the indriyani, than manas and the buddhi.


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[Assistant] They see through their hearts, what?


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[Assistant] We can know that which is practically unknowable.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, it's the heart that knows, not the buti, not the mind, not the senses.


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[Assistant] And when we attain a spiritual body, which by the way, the yoga Sutra talks about, Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Bodyless beings, bodyless beings. Now, why did they become, why do embody beings become bodyless? Because their hearts become so full of purest love that it can no longer be contained.


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[Assistant] A fullness, it's a tat purusha samasa. So it's a fullness of heart.


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[Assistant] Well, heartful sounds, yeaah, fullness, I like fullness of heart, or, or, or full heartedness. As I say in my Gita translation, uh, introduction, I believe, or, uh, somewhere in there, I talk about full heartedness.


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[Assistant] That's more complete. Just heart full is, is a bit simplistic. I, or if I, if I truncated further than I'd say the whole heart.


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[Assistant] It's, it's more of a kind of outline of practice and perfection as well as the conditioned state of partial, right? Partial application of the limbs.


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[Assistant] It's more of an outline and you're supposed to fill in the outline.


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[Assistant] Now if you want to, you can practice yoga.


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[Assistant] In a way that takes advantage of the facility of yoga, greater health,


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[Assistant] Intellect, uh, intellectual capacity, um, greater awareness. It's kind of like this. Hmm.


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[Assistant] Have you ever seen those bicycles that you ride on and they're in place? They don't go anywhere. Exercise bikes. Exercise bikes, that's it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so you're riding on it now. There's nothing wrong with an exercise bike, but you're not going anywhere.


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[Assistant] So, you know, you can, you know, you can gain strength and you can, you know, be exceptional.


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[Assistant] In terms of your mind, in terms of your health.


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[Assistant] But where does all of that go? Where's it all going? Now it just so happens.


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[Assistant] My external vision started needing some supplementation.


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[Assistant] Okay. That there's a greater vision within that no longer depends on so much vision without.


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[Assistant] Things are arranged for us to either ignore


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[Assistant] As one is deteriorating, as one's body is slowly fading, as the sunlight of our bodily existence begins to reach sunset.


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[Assistant] Are we prepared enough to where we can raise the full moon of spiritual existence?


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[Assistant] That needs to cycle around again and again and again until we arrive at the full moon. Purnachandra.


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[Assistant] But when it's very, you know, hardly, when it's a new moon, it doesn't reciprocate very well.


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[Assistant] How is it that someone can rise so high in the practice of yoga and fall from that into worldly treachery?


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[Assistant] There's something called Sabija Samadhi. Sampragyata Samadhi.


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[Assistant] Now, some forget the Samadhi is the positive way of talking about it, but, and there's no such thing as a some forgetta.


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[Assistant] The seeds of our samskaras? And seeds are, yes, seeds are little traces of imperfection that if not addressed and not taken care of, you know what seeds can do? They can grow into full-fledged plants and grow one right out of saman.


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[Assistant] And grow us right back into the conditioned world.


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[Assistant] The problem is we don't realize that, you see. So, uh, the divine realizes that.


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[Assistant] So we see it separate from the divine, even though we see it maybe as in an ultimate sense.


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[Assistant] And that's why we're in the conditioned world. We're here to find out what it means.


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[Assistant] Is a strengthened form in Sanskrit of Ishvara, right?


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[Assistant] The circumference is the all embracing, you know, it's all of reality. But the Isha is at the center, and if one is connected deeply with Isha, then Isha turns into Bhagavan.


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[Assistant] But when one is feeling isolated or separate and, and is missing the, the, the beloved, uh, deity, divinity, uh, as in viraha or vipralambhaseva,


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[Assistant] But in that feeling of viraha, you see that the Vrajagopikas, they acknowledge Krishna's divine, as Prabhupada would put it, opulence, or his majesty, his powerful, uh, Prakash.


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[Assistant] Talks about the intimate dimensions of divinity. And in talking about both, you see the Aishwarya cultivates feelings of humility and daimya. Whereas talking about the intimate aspects, uh, develops, uh, ragatmika sentiments. Hmm.


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[Assistant] So this humility and passion, as you know, I never talk about humility without talking about divine passion, because you cannot have one without the other. And this is exhibited in the behavior of the vrchigopikas. So this is yoga. It's the yoga of the yoga of the yoga.


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[Assistant] Reaches the horizon of being. But if it goes higher, it can reach.


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[Assistant] So in the Gita, really, when we talk about satta, we talk about existence in the sort of, shall we say, uhm,


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say impersonal sense, it's just non-personal, it's not very personal. So in other words, that means the kind of interconnectedness of all things resting in the divine as Krishna.


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[Assistant] Okay. I mean, you know, if I come to your house, I'm not going to see it as a kind of empty nothing. No, it's still your house, but it's not you, Chitinichan.


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[Assistant] It's that all they can comprehend at that time, and it's beautiful, is the house. Wow. It can be wowed by the mansion of existence.


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[Assistant] And you know, we talked about Shukadev being an impersonalist, or the four Kumaras being impersonalists. They're not impersonalists in the Mayavadi sense.


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[Assistant] They understand that there's something more to it, but they prefer to stay at this more peaceful,


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[Assistant] This comes from the Upanishads. Upanishads, which are, you know, I mean, the Gita is considered Gita Upanishad.


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[Assistant] Okay, so it's an Upanishad and this teaching is not unaligned with the other Upanishads, no.


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[Assistant] It's all right there. And when we talk about the city of Brahman, a city is not a nothing place. A city is very active. It's very full. Very beautiful. If it's a beautiful city, of course. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] You know, the idea here is that no, we're not talking about emptiness. We're talking about the opposite. We're talking about fullness of being. Now, fullness of being at that point is more passive.


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[Assistant] Is a supreme, is the supreme being. So sometimes people need to.


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[Assistant] See the mansion of existence first and say, who lives there? Who lives in that house?


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[Assistant] Of course you're amazed at the whole house, but you don't focus on the whole house. You focus on the loving relationship within the house.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, the mansion recedes.


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[Assistant] And the, the, the, the loving exchange is everything.


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[Assistant] I mean, even in human relationships, uh, I have a very wonderful relationship with my wife. She's a real partner in life and everything in my devotional, yogic life, everything.


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[Assistant] And that is the yoga of bhakti, which ultimately translates as rasa.


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[Assistant] This is why, Prabhupada, you'll see yoga in the verse in the Gita, in the word for word.


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[Assistant] Even though some people can't read Devanagari, so it's in the transliteration and it's in the word for word. Then Prabhupada


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[Assistant] Has the audacity to put devotional service.


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[Assistant] Prabhupada is seeing the ultimate, ultimate achievement of yoga as rasa.


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[Assistant] And devotional service is the human response to that divine embrace. But you don't see that.


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[Assistant] So Prabhupada is fast tracking the reader in the Gita.


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[Assistant] They're, they're, they're not interpreting the whole Yoga Sutra.


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[Assistant] In text, in the Samadhi Pada, first part, text, uh, uh, aphorism 41, it speaks about how the meditator is grasping the divine and how the divine, um, uh, is, is anointing and effectively anointing the meditator. It's a raw concept of grace.


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[Assistant] The meditator is described as, as, as grahitra.


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[Assistant] And this, you could translate it even as embracing. So the embracer, the embracing, and then that which is to be grasped, grahya.


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[Assistant] The one most powerful word in Sanskrit for grace is anubraha.


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[Assistant] So when we go to the divine to grasp and embrace, the divine returns the grasp, anugraha, that's called grace. Now,


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[Assistant] Anugra has not the word mentioned there, rather.


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[Assistant] What is talked about there is there is a process of anjanatha. Anjana means ointment.


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[Assistant] And ta is the abstract suffix. So ointment, it means a massage. The meditator is massaged by the divine.


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[Assistant] It's right there in the direct literal translation. Now you know how many people translate the Yoga Sutra?


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[Assistant] In, you know, remote, kind of, you know, metaphorical, they try to, you know, twist it around.


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[Assistant] Well, if you don't want to take the Yoga Sutra seriously, just do whatever you want with the text. I translate it literally and deliberately for what it says.


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[Assistant] And there is a raw concept of grace.


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[Assistant] And the whole first pada builds up in the first 22 aphorisms, builds up to this idea of, of, of the purusha, the human purusha, uhm, ultimately arriving at the perfection of Ishvara.


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[Assistant] There's something beyond the Samprayata state of Samadhi.


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[Assistant] And usually what they all say is there's the state of asam pragyata, but that's not there. They're doing that and diverting one away from Ishvara.


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[Assistant] Ishvara is what Patanjali presents as the state beyond the, he calls it the other state beyond Sampragata is Ishvara Pranidana.


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[Assistant] Everyone speculates and says, oh, it's the asapragyata. There's no asapragyata. There is no asapragyata.


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[Assistant] When you've gone beyond sampragyata, the other, anya, anya, the other state beyond sampragyata is Ishwara pranidana. It's right there. Wait till you read my translation.


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[Assistant] Impersonalist Adwaitin yogis.


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[Assistant] All these different translators think that the vibhuti is the vibhuti of the yogi. No. The word vibhuti is not used in relation to the yogi. It is only divinity that has vibhuti.


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[Assistant] These miraculous things can happen only because of the yogi's close proximity to divinity and the vibhuti of divinity. But the yogis do not have vibhuti. Oh, okay. Vibhuti is singular. Siddhis is plural.


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[Assistant] Patanjali is talking about vibhuti paddha. Why does he even bother with the vibhuti paddha? Because he wants to show the glories of divinity, not the glories of the power of the, of the yogi. Beautiful. That's why. And you know what's funny, Chaitanya Charanji?


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[Assistant] Because under the vibhuti part of the texts, because they're embarrassed about how powerful, you know,


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[Assistant] Well that, that could be a whole other, because I do not translate. Yogas chitta vritti narodaha.


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[Assistant] Yoga is a transformation of the whole heart.


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[Assistant] Nirodha, vritti, turnings. What kind of turnings? They're either conditioned turnings or they're pure turnings. Nirodha is either uprooting or taking root and flowering.


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[Assistant] This is supported by


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, Pani Nama, the transformational process of Narodha.


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[Assistant] I can't get everything in one talk, so we should probably wind up now.


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[Assistant] I think you summarized everything beautifully as usual, Chaitanya Charanji.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I feel like I might have known how to answer that question like a couple years ago. I don't know anymore. Cause I don't look at myself in that way. I don't look at myself like I'm


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm just in awe of the time we're in right now because of...


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[Assistant] Top of all the charts, it's women, women, women. I mean, it's like the most incredible thing for me to see. There was a specific period of time where I was just like, in this like,


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[Assistant] This is like pit of just like hopelessness about myself because I didn't have much to look up to in terms of girls like me.


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[Assistant] Because I was, I was thinking about the kind of show that I would want to put on, and I would just feel so like hopeless because I was like,


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[Assistant] Free up there and wild and like not, you know, not have this and this going on and like.


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[Assistant] When you're in love with someone, you don't think about how you might be affecting them because they're affecting you so much. And that's kinda how I feel about them.


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[Assistant] Like, committed to them. You know what I mean? It's like, it's like I feel like I'm like in a relationship with them. So any friendship or relationship, romantic, whatever.


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[Assistant] They're like one of the first things I say, I'm like, just so you know, you're getting me, but you're also getting them. That's like what I say to people. Do you say that to your boyfriend as well? Yeah, oh yeah. Just FYI, they come first. So, you know, if you wanna get with me, you gotta get with my fans.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for a lot of reasons. And so it was, it was hard for me and I was, I just didn't really know what to do. And so I was just grasping at straws and like, yeaah. Just like things, things were,


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[Assistant] I just didn't know what I was doing. I mean, I just had such severe, uh, imposter syndrome. I've had that so many times in my life. And really, just like, some parts of last year and the year before, just like, phew.


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[Assistant] Was just in a downward spiral of imposter syndrome and just grasping at whatever I could to make me feel like myself again, but I didn't know.


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[Assistant] You know, when you see yourself in the public eye.


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[Assistant] Especially after me, I'm an internet kid. Like I see, I saw everybody else in the public eye when they were, and then suddenly it's me. And I'm like, I'm on the internet just as much as anybody else is. But then it's like, oh, I'm part of the discussion now instead of just in the comments, which is like a very strange little thing. And when you see yourself and your name,


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[Assistant] 15. Mainly, that was when, that was when it kind of started, really. Even though I started at 13, like 15 was when people decided that that was who I was.


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[Assistant] So it's really hard to change and grow and grow up and mature and like become a human when people decided that you were one thing.


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[Assistant] Videos that come up are things I said when I was 15. Like almost, almost nothing I said before two months ago, I still believe. So it's like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I feel the most powerful when I feel masculine, um, in my life and I...


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[Assistant] Depending on how I walk and stand and my clothes and my face and my jewelry and my fingers and my like,


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[Assistant] I like to feel more, more masculine than feminine. It just makes me feel better.


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[Assistant] Which I struggled with for a long time, because I wanted to feel feminine and like it, but I just didn't really, and so, uhm.


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[Assistant] But then it's like finding moments where you can have that and it feels good still, you know?


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[Assistant] Like right now, I'm wearing a tighter shirt, and I'm wearing a more low-cut shirt, and like, you know, the older me would have been like,


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[Assistant] Please don't. But I like it. It makes me feel good now. And it's just the balance of the two, you know?


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[Assistant] No, I never called her. I should call her up. I mean, but it's so funny thinking about that now because at the time, I just didn't believe her. Like, I just didn't, I just didn't think it would keep going, you know? I mean, I think that


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[Assistant] It's really hard to see your future like that, you know? When your future is so, uhm, kind of in the hands of not just you. Uhm, cause I would hear that a lot. I would hear, and not only is it hard to believe, but it's hard to


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[Assistant] Process, you know, and like, know what the hell to do at all. And when somebody says like, you know, it's about to get crazy, it's about to...


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[Assistant] Crazier. Yeah, it's, yeah, it was already so crazy. I couldn't imagine it being crazier. And also, I was just like...


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[Assistant] You just can't possibly imagine, it's like, you know, trying to explain a color that doesn't exist. You just, you don't know. You don't know.


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[Assistant] You know, I was excited with the idea of this being about progress because I feel that there has been a lot, and there's been a lot of backpedaling also, you know.


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[Assistant] And looking different and acting different and having different styles and different, just like,


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[Assistant] Hello, welcome to Life and Death, Twilight Reimagined by Stephanie Meyer. We're gonna be on chapter six today.


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[Assistant] I don't own any of the rights to this, this is strictly for entertainment purposes and this is all Steph Meyers. Chapter 6, Scary Stories.


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[Assistant] While I tried to concentrate on the third act of Macbeth, I was listening for my truck. I would have thought I'd hear the engines roar even over the pounding rain, but when I went to look out the window again, it was suddenly there. I wasn't super excited to get up on Friday, and it more than lived up to my negative expectations. Of course, there were all the fainting comments. Jeremy especially seemed to get a kick out of that story.


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[Assistant] He laughed till he choked when Logan pretended to swoon at the lunch table.


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[Assistant] Luckily, Michaela had kept her mouth shut, and no one seemed to know about Edith's involvement. Jeremy did have a lot of questions about yesterday's lunch, though. What did Edith Cullen want? he'd asked in trig. Not sure. It was the truth. She never really got to the point. She looked kinda mad. I'd shrugged. Did she?


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[Assistant] I've never seen her sit with anyone but her family before. It was weird. Yeah, weird, I'd agree. He seemed kind of irritated that I didn't have any better answers.


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[Assistant] The worst part about Friday was that even though I knew she wasn't gonna be there, I still hoped.


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[Assistant] When I walked into the cafeteria with Jeremy and Michaela, I couldn't keep from looking at her table.


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[Assistant] Where Royal, Archie, and Jessamine sat, talking with their heads close together. I wondered if Archie had been the one to drive my truck home last night, and what he thought about the chore. At my normal table, everyone was full of our plans for the next day.


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[Assistant] Michaela was animated again, putting a lot more trust in the local weatherman than I thought he deserved. I'd have to see his promised son before I believed it.


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[Assistant] At least it was warmer today, almost 60, though it was still wet. Maybe the trip wouldn't be totally miserable. I caught a few unfriendly glances from Logan during lunch, which I didn't really understand. Just like everyone else I'd laughed along with his fainting stunt. But I got some clarification as we walked out of the room. I guess he didn't realize how close I was behind him.


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[Assistant] He ran a hand over his slicked back, silver blonde hair. I don't know why Beaufort, he said my name with a sneer, doesn't just sit with the Cullens now. I heard him mutter to Michaela.


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[Assistant] I'd never noticed before what a nasal voice he had, and I was surprised now by the malice in it. I really didn't know him well, not well enough for him to dislike me, or so I would have thought.


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[Assistant] He's my friend. He sits with us. Michaela snapped back. Loyal, but also territorial. I paused to let Jeremy and Alan pass. I didn't want to hear anymore.


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[Assistant] Later at dinner, Charlie seemed excited about my trip to La Pushe in the morning, because he felt guilty for leaving me home alone on the weekends, but he'd spent too many years building his habits to break them now, and I never minded the alone time.


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[Assistant] Of course he knew all the names of the kids going, and their parents, and their great-grandparents too probably. He obviously approved.


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[Assistant] I wondered if he would approve of my plan to ride to Seattle with Edith. He seemed to like the Collins a lot. There was no real reason to tell him about it.


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[Assistant] Dad, do you know a place called Goat Rocks or something like that? I think it's south of Mount Rainier. Yeah, why? I shrugged. Some kids were talking about going camping there.


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[Assistant] Not a very good place for camping, he sounded surprised. Too many bears. Most people go there during hunting season. Maybe I got it wrong. I meant to sleep in, but the light woke me.


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[Assistant] Instead of the same gloomy half-light I'd gotten up to for the past two months, there was a bright, clear yellow streaming through my window. I couldn't believe it, but there it was, finally, the sun.


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[Assistant] It was in the wrong place. Too low and not as close as it should be. But it was definitely the sun.


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[Assistant] I'd seen the store, but never stopped there, not having much desire for the supplies needed to intentionally stay outdoors for an extended period of time. In the parking lot, I saw Makayla Suburban and Taylor Sentra.


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[Assistant] As I pulled up next to their vehicles, I saw the kids standing around in front of the suburban. Erica was there, and two other girls I knew from class. I was pretty sure their names were Becca and Colleen. Jeremy was there, flanked by Alan and Logan.


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[Assistant] Three other guys stood with them, including one I remembered falling over in gym on Friday.


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[Assistant] That one gave me a dirty look as I climbed out of the truck and then said something to Logan. They laughed loudly and Logan pretended he was passing out.


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[Assistant] The other guy caught him at first, then let him fall. They both busted up again. Logan just lying there on the pavement with his hands behind his head. So it was going to be like that. At least Michaela was happy to see me. You came, she called, sounding thrilled. And I promised it would be sunny, didn't I? I told you I was coming.


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[Assistant] We're just waiting for Leanne and Sean, unless you invited someone, she added.


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[Assistant] The numbers worked out though. Leanne brought two extra people, so every space was necessary.


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[Assistant] I made Jeremy climb in before me so that he was wedged between Michaela and me in the front seat of the Suburban.


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[Assistant] We'd roll the windows down. The suburban was claustrophobic with nine people in it, and I tried to absorb as much sunlight as possible.


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[Assistant] I'd been to the beaches around the push lots of times during my fork summers with Charlie, so the mile-long crescent of First Beach was familiar. Still breathtaking, though. The water was dark gray, even in the sunlight, white-capped and heaving onto the rocky shore.


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[Assistant] Islands rose out of the steel harbor waters with sheer cliff sides, each with a spiky crown of black furs.


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[Assistant] Some piled together against the forest's edge and some lying alone just outside of the reach of the waves. There was a strong breeze coming off the waves, cool and briny.


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[Assistant] Pelicans floated on the swells while seagulls and a lone eagle circled above them. The clouds still crowded the edges of the sky.


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[Assistant] But for now, the sun shone warmly in its backdrop of blue.


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[Assistant] Gathered broken branches of driftwood from the driest piles against the forest edge.


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[Assistant] Michaela knocked by the fire, holding a cigarette lighter to one of the smaller pieces of kindling. No.


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[Assistant] After a half hour of talk, some of the girls wanted to hike up to the nearby tide pools, but most of the guys wanted to head up to the one shop in the village for food. I wasn't sure which side to join. I wasn't hungry, and I loved the tide pools. I'd loved them since I was a kid.


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[Assistant] The group splintered into three pieces, food, hiking, and staying put, with most people following Logan.


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[Assistant] I waited until Taylor and Erica had committed to going with him before I got up to quietly join the pro hiking group. Michaela smiled wide when she saw that I was coming.


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[Assistant] The hike was short, but I hated to lose the sun in the trees. The green light of the forest was a strange setting for the teenage laughter. Too murky and menacing to be in harmony with the joking around me.


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[Assistant] I had to concentrate on my feet and head, avoiding roots below and branches above, and I fell behind.


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[Assistant] I broke through the dark edge of the forest and found the rocky shore again. I was the last one. It was a low tide. And the tidal river flowed past us on its way to the sea. Along its rocky banks.