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[Assistant] And then we go to the slightly darker bank, we'll get into an orange, like a yellow orange, and then when we get into this bank, we'll get into a red orange. So in a way, we are following that sunset rule.


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[Assistant] Uh, cause that's my, uh, my right is my dominant hand and by doing that I am not bringing my hand through wet paint.


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[Assistant] If you were left handed you could do an opposing strategy to keep your hand out of the wet paint.


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[Assistant] Or as I'm gonna come across like this. I've been asked recently to like, where I can, sprinkle in some tips for that.


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[Assistant] For me, it was maybe I really was into the dragonfly. But this, I'm glad I did this. I've tried some hot air balloons in the past.


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[Assistant] I think the one I liked before this was probably the Valentine's Day one.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I think like I'll go back and repaint paintings where I'm like not satisfied with them.


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[Assistant] There we go. Got some yellow going. Look at those yellow. Yellow bright.


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[Assistant] And things. Now here we've got to do yellow orange. So yellow orange I'm gonna take a little red out so I've got no blue in it. And I'll take the red to my yellow.


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[Assistant] And as you can see, it doesn't take very much red does it?


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[Assistant] She starts tinting the yellow, and so I'm gonna make a nice amount of


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[Assistant] An orange that's a little more yellow than red. Yellow, orange.


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[Assistant] Kind of see some of that glazing in some of these areas when you're painting and you'll go, oh yeaah, it does go pretty transparent.


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[Assistant] You know, and that way I'm not relying on a pyrrole or cadmium red or orange to get it.


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[Assistant] Alright, feeling really good. This front one, as we mentioned, now it's gonna be a red orange. See how we go?


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[Assistant] Wait, it is, it is, right, orange, but it's now much more biased to the red.


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[Assistant] Brush over the top, you've got this. And what you've got to be is patient.


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[Assistant] Patient with your painting. Be patient with your painting. Alright, don't rush it. Don't push it along before it's ready. And don't push yourself. I would push you guys if it would help you paint better. I would be like, You will paint this painting! You will do it! But it doesn't. It just makes everybody stressed.


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[Assistant] And it doesn't improve the artwork in any way. So I don't do it. No.


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[Assistant] No, it's not that I don't have it in me, ask my kids, I do.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean I don't give advice. That I don't give actionable things that you can do to work on your art.


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[Assistant] But I don't specifically critique because all that can do at this stage is demoralize you. And pointlessly. Just, just.


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[Assistant] That is, I'd be a tough teacher to have.


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[Assistant] Okay, so there's this one little finishing moment after all this, but guess what? What's the secret word of the day? Draw.


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[Assistant] So let's dry it and I'll come back and show you that last little highlight that makes this go woooo.


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[Assistant] So now that we have this, we know that we're gonna have a little bit of sunlight happening. And what I can do is I can come down and actually create another little corridor of white. So I'm gonna take my yellow and a lot of white.


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[Assistant] This is probably actually not a good analogy cause you want to use a lot less ghost pepper than I'm using color.


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[Assistant] But these are just little highlights. Now, here's what's an interesting thing. When you do a more two hoot, more complicated painting,


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[Assistant] With me, you'll find we do a lot of these same things. We just do them in a more focused, intensive little way. Skills are not intrinsically different.


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[Assistant] Rinsing out, rinsing out. Now I'm gonna come here and get a lot more yellow into that mix. Okay, if there's a little white into it, but I want a lot more yellow.


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[Assistant] Kind of very distinctive sunset values. We also have hot spots.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like if you go look at my acrylic April 2021 and you see the drama sunsets, guys. It's a basic thought process that we're using.


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[Assistant] Spending a little more time on them. Using a few extra tools.


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[Assistant] Now I've got to sketch in my hot air balloon. And at home you might want to use a kids chalk.


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[Assistant] So if you have something you want to change, you can change your mind. I'm also gonna show you another trick.


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[Assistant] If I tried to draw the hot air balloon in the furthest position from where I'm sitting, it would be very hard to create symmetry.


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[Assistant] So I'm actually going to turn my canvas upside down for a second. Right?


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[Assistant] I'll go ahead and use my, I think you can see my watercolor pencil. I'm gonna make a line.


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[Assistant] That's gonna help me see my hot air balloon.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna come across the top and I'm gonna try to make a line that's about the same curve. It'll be like a smile.


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[Assistant] Make this little pull down. It's like a teardrop.


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[Assistant] Sometimes getting a slightly different viewpoint on something, a different perspective, is really all you need to see it better.


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[Assistant] There's going to be little ropes coming in. Hold the basket. Once I have all that in, and you can use the traceable if this drawing is like.


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[Assistant] Not your favorite. I might round my top a little bit more than I did. See how it's nice?


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[Assistant] Now my watercolor pencil isn't going to bleed through my paint. It's not going to stay, it's removable with water and so that gives me a nice, nice kind of, I change my mind moment.


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[Assistant] It's a little harder to change your mind with black paint. I'm not saying it's not doable, and again,


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[Assistant] In my technique videos and brush stroke videos we talk about fixing mistakes. This is one of them in the technique videos.


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[Assistant] How to fix that kind of mistake. But let's not do it today.


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[Assistant] That's just, what is it they say, uh, measure twice, cut once.


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[Assistant] I measure no times, because I'm not cutting anything. I'm afraid of the saw.


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[Assistant] We had a stop saw, I wouldn't be afraid, but I'm afraid of like the regular saws.


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[Assistant] Now, when we have that all shaped in the way we like it, we're gonna take our black paint with our half inch angle and just paint it in.


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[Assistant] And I need to chalk some lines so I can get the highlights that make the kind of rainbow balloon effect. Which I really, really liked on this one. I just love a rainbow balloon. Everybody from Santa Fe is like, yeah!


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're pretty good. They're pretty in the sky. I like it too. All right, I'm gonna dry this thoroughly.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna use my chalk tool on this and that's just so that you guys can kind of see what I'm thinking. I'm going to make a little bit of a segment. I think this is like a segment of an orange. You know, it's wider in the center and it tapers at the end. And that's gonna help me divide my balloon.


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[Assistant] Take my, I think I'll take my round. It'll give me some control. And much like the clouds, guess what we have to do?


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[Assistant] Add a little bit of a white line. The white line becomes thickest at the bend of the balloon and lightest at the top and bottom.


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[Assistant] If you can't quite get that, don't stress on it. It's just a goal.


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[Assistant] It's just going to help the ribs of the cloud seem more ribby. That cloud, the lamp.


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[Assistant] That's, and that's weird. I have a fear of heights, as some of you guys know.


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[Assistant] But I don't, the hot air balloons don't trigger it.


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[Assistant] I have no idea what about them is somehow different than the stepladder in my kitchen, but it is.


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[Assistant] And just make sure that one side of the basket is light and can come back.


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[Assistant] So this is going really well and we're going to do a similar thing that we did to our clouds, which is to take our balloon for a sunset range of rainbow. I'm going to begin with my yellow.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna come over and I'm gonna glaze over the white. It's okay if it goes into the dark.


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[Assistant] Right, and the dark is going to show a little bit because that's going to create kind of the shape of the blunt.


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[Assistant] Finger blending is only okay if you're not using cadmium pigment. Like, not hue, but the real pigment.


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[Assistant] You don't want to be finger blending with your CAD, but regular paints like what I'm using now, it's okay to do.


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[Assistant] Finger painting, finger blending. I'm coming in and doing that orange. Remember our orange?


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[Assistant] I love it. It's like what's in the clouds is popping up on the balloon. Super fun.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna take a little bit of my red and some blue.


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[Assistant] And we're gonna start doing some purple. And remember this purple is more red biased, right?


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[Assistant] It can take a second to find it, but once you find it, you'll know it.


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[Assistant] Not bad. We could say we were done. But we did that extra step on the clouds. So it could be nice to do that extra step on our balloon.


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[Assistant] I'm going to take a little bit of my white and go into my yellow and make that lighter yellow white. Right, that ducky yellow.


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[Assistant] Let's come in the center here and add a little bit of that highlight.


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[Assistant] Just a little bit at the bend. Then I'm gonna come and get some pure yellow.


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[Assistant] And just at the bend, add a little bit of that. Then I'm gonna come in and get some yellow orange.


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[Assistant] Get some red, and I might let this be a little bit of a, I'm gonna add a little yellow to it just so it kinda pops in the purple.


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[Assistant] Now sometimes on this back side I've got to add a little white to it to get it to happen here too.


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[Assistant] That's how we get the highlight across the expanse of the belay. It's just a pretty little patch that you can do.


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[Assistant] I enjoyed spending this time with you too, and you. I was originally saying that, but I also met you. Also, my husband.


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[Assistant] When I come in, I'm going to make a little bit of kind of like a starburst coming out the side of the blend.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna take a little bit of my white and yellow and I'm gonna come on the lower half of the balloon there and make a little dot.


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[Assistant] Radial stroke. Now how this stroke works, guys, is I have my greatest pressure at the beginning and I release. Right? There's a dry brush on it.


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[Assistant] I don't have a lot of water on there so then it breaks open and dry brushes at the end of the stroke.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna try to make sure I always kind of come from the same starting point when I'm making this. So that, uh.


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[Assistant] It really has that sunburst feel. Now I'm gonna come in with some pure yellow a couple places. And add that pure yellow.


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[Assistant] I'm like, looking for assurances. I'm like, was I crazy when I did this? Okay.


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[Assistant] So it's coming out, it's bursting off the side. The sun's peeking out. Oh, it's just so pretty.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna take my brush and we'll wipe it off, I'll rinse it out, wipe it off, and then I'm gonna come right in the center.


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[Assistant] Now it's, I'm not trying to make a big dot and it's kind of like, what it is is that when you see the sun out there, a lot of times it has a very kind of almost white hot center. Light. Alright, I'm gonna rinse out.


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[Assistant] Now as long as this is dry to the touch, I can come back and do the black. If it's not dry, you will have to dry it at home. Mine is dry.


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[Assistant] So I don't have to. But if you have to, you should. I'm gonna get my black paint.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna load a little bit on the tip of my brush here. A little bit, little bit, little bit. I'm gonna make sure there's no hidden water drops, and I'm gonna come up here.


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[Assistant] And the brush stroke comes down. There's a bend to the point. Back up and curl.


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[Assistant] I'm going to do one that's maybe a little more flattened out and far away.


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[Assistant] A little more flattened out and far away. If they're smaller than they're further.


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[Assistant] This one I'll kind of flatten out. That's how I get the different bird.


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[Assistant] Flying positions with a little V. It's a little bit different than the M you grew up with. That same, same kind of concept.


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[Assistant] Like you're not unfamiliar with it, it just might have been a minute since you were like, I'm making M's for birds.


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[Assistant] This is the, this is the slightly more refined ems for birds.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna add a little bit of white to that red mix over there so that I can sign.


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[Assistant] I want to sign in a color that is in my painting so that the signature shows but doesn't take away or detract.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't want to sign with a color that wasn't even present, like a lime green.


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[Assistant] When we come back, I'm gonna tell you what you should be doing next. That was a very good painting session. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you feel a little bit restored and


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[Assistant] I would like to invite you to the next lesson. So stay till the end of the videos. I'll give you a peek to the next lesson in the series that you could do. And it's gonna be pretty.


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[Assistant] Hopefully, if you just came here because you love hot air balloons and you did this painting with me, you're kind of interested in that beginner acrylic painting course. It's free.


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[Assistant] It's up all year, you can do it any time. If you're here part of that, congratulations.


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[Assistant] You've done another project and you're one step closer to being a certified One Hoop painter.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean there's a pass or fail. It just means that you've completed the journey to understand some basic things about painting. You can have a better time in your own studio.


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[Assistant] Make, you know, share on social media. Tag us in. I'd love to see your paintings in group and online.


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[Assistant] Well of course you will learn, Harriet, that the exchanging of riddles and verses is a very fair way for a shy young man to express his feelings without the embarrassment of an open declaration.


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[Assistant] But are united, what reverse we have. Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown. Lord of the earth and sea, he bends, a slave and woman. Lovely woman.


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[Assistant] Thy ready wit, the word will soon supply. May its approval beam in that song.


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[Assistant] Very clever man, must he not, Miss Woodhouse? Yes, very clever. Now, my first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, lords of the earth, their luxury and ease. Well, that should be court, I would imagine. Oh yes, of course that must be it, court.


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[Assistant] And if he is the man that I suspect him to be, he will come in search of us. We should not present him with too much difficulty, because Williams knows that this is my day for visiting old Mrs. Penny.


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[Assistant] My being charming, as you're kind enough to call me, has really nothing to do with it. I must find other people charming. One other at least. No, I'm afraid I have very little intention of marrying.


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[Assistant] I believe few married women are as much mistresses of their husband's houses as I am of my father's. And if I cannot make a change for the better, I certainly have no intention of doing so for the worse.


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[Assistant] Oh, we should be delighted to see you at any time, Mr Elton, you know.


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[Assistant] In fact, Harriet would like to transcribe it into her book, would you not, Harriet? Oh yes, Miss Woodhouse.


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[Assistant] Not at all. But if you will be so very good as to stroll on, it is smooth.


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[Assistant] So our disagreements must always arise from my being in the wrong, I see, Miss Knightley. Is that so?


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[Assistant] I have no doubt as to your being very much my superior in judgment then, Mr. Knightley, I grant you. But that was 21 years ago, remember?


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[Assistant] Well I am quite sure I do not know why Mr. John should give the impression that I do not care for Ms. Fairfax. I have always maintained that she has great beauty.


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[Assistant] Yes, I think perhaps I do prefer a more open nature. Yes, I think that is quite true.


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[Assistant] I believe Mrs. Goddard has sent for him. But thank you for your concern, Mr. Elton, it's most kind.


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[Assistant] I would take this opportunity to excuse myself and stay indoors.


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[Assistant] Really, I can scarcely imagine how he manages to find his way, poor man. It is fortunate the journey is so sh-


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[Assistant] I quite understand that when a gentleman has had a glass or two of wine, he is not quite himself. Very well. I am not one to tell tales.


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[Assistant] Mr. Elton? I have no thoughts of matrimony at present.


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[Assistant] So imagine you come across a crime scene, you may have a pool of blood, but it may not just be one person's blood, right? Uhm, the more contributors to that, that mixture of DNA, the more difficult it is to determine whose DNA it was, whose blood it was.


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[Assistant] By asphyxiating him or drowning him or hitting him on the head with a dornik. That's no discovery. Henry Hill Hickman went all through that. Priestley Found Laughing Gas and Humphry Davy tried all that stuff fifty years ago. Faraday experimented with every type of inhalant he could lay his hands on.


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[Assistant] The idea, do you expect to succeed where the greatest scientists in the world have failed?


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[Assistant] There goes my five hundred dollars. Have you a sample of your ether?


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[Assistant] Oh no, no, simply that he has a great many engagements these days. But he's quite positive that he will make the journey in the new year.


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[Assistant] Ah, there you are then, my dear. You won't have to go alone, you have an escort.


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[Assistant] So, Mike said, looking at the floor, Jessica asked me to the spring dance. That's great. I made my voice bright and enthusiastic. You'll have a lot of fun with Jessica. Well.


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[Assistant] He floundered as he examined my smile, clearly not happy with my response. I told her I had to think about it. Why would you do that? I let disapproval color my tone, though I was relieved he hadn't given her an absolute no. His face was bright red as he looked down again. Pity shook my resolve. I was wondering if, well, if you might be planning to ask me. I paused for a moment.


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[Assistant] But I saw from the corner of my eye, Edward's head tilt reflexively in my direction. Mike, I think you should tell her yes, I said. Did you already ask someone? Did Edward notice how Mike's eyes flickered in his direction? No, I assured him, I'm not going to the dance at all. Why not? Mike demanded.


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[Assistant] I didn't want to get into the safety hazards that dancing presented, so I quickly made new plans. I'm going to Seattle that Saturday, I explained. I needed to get out of town anyway. It was suddenly the perfect time to go. Can't you go some other weekend? Sorry, no, I said.


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[Assistant] So you shouldn't make Jess wait any longer. It's rude. Yeah, you're right.


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[Assistant] He mumbled and turned dejected to walk back to his seat. I closed my eyes and pressed my fingers to my temples, trying to push the guilt and sympathy out of my head. Mr. Banner began talking, I sighed and opened my eyes. And Edward was staring at me curiously, that same familiar edge of frustration, even more distinct now in his black eyes. I stared back, surprised, expecting him to look quickly away.


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[Assistant] But instead he continued to gaze with probing intensity into my eyes. There was no question of me looking away. My hands started to shake. Mr. Cullen, the teacher called, seeking the answer to a question that I hadn't heard. The Krebs cycle, Edward answered, seeming reluctant as he turned to look at Mr. Banner.


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[Assistant] I look down at my book as soon as his eyes released me, trying to find my place.


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[Assistant] Just because he happened to look at me for the first time in half a dozen weeks.


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[Assistant] Donald Trump. The only president who combines the sordid extramarital affairs of a young JFK with the dead-eyed puffiness of a post-Watergate Richard Nixon.


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[Assistant] That's right. He said that. He absolutely said that. Except, to be fair to him, it actually worse, because he reportedly called Africa, Haiti, and El Salvador shitholes, which is just not okay, and I do acknowledge that I personally have called Belgium a shithole multiple times, but...


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[Assistant] And look, you probably saw people on US TV being justifiably appalled by those remarks, but what you may not have seen is the response from the countries he insulted.


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[Assistant] The rest of the world continues to exist whether Trump acknowledges it or not. So tonight, let's try and answer a few basic questions. First, what is Donald Trump's foreign policy? Because it seems to be little more than repeating a single phrase.


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[Assistant] A recent Gallup poll shows that the world's approval rating of US leadership has dropped to 30% after being at nearly 50% just two years ago. That is a precipitous drop in popularity. It's the equivalent of replacing Gal Gadot in the Wonder Woman franchise with Matt Lauer.


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[Assistant] Well basically, basically it refers to the ability to get others to do what you want them to do without using carrots or sticks. It's kind of a country's brand.


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[Assistant] Trump's own Secretary of Defense, Jim Mad Dog Mattis, supports the soft power work that's done by the State Department. That is why a few years back, he gave a full-throated defense of properly funding it.


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[Assistant] And as for the ambassadors that Trump has appointed, some of them are frankly not great. When Trump appointed Pete Hoekstra, ambassador to the Netherlands, they were a little upset over there, as this interview shows.


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[Assistant] In the whole world that would make him not correct is if it's a video of him saying that cars and politicians are being bird and that yes, there are no go zones in the Netherlands.


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[Assistant] But, when Trump was asked about his understaffed state department, he claimed that it didn't really matter for one key reason.


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[Assistant] I'm the only one that matters. The only one that matters is me. It's hard to tell if Donald Trump is laying out a diplomatic strategy or demanding that daddy buy him an umpa-lumpa now!


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[Assistant] But okay, okay. If Trump is the only one that matters, then his actions are critical to our nation's foreign policy. And that brings us to our next question. How is his approach to the world going? And the answer, surprisingly, is great. And now, this.


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[Assistant] And after witnessing Trump's erratic behavior for just three days, Angela Merkel was so shell-shocked she made this statement.


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[Assistant] And this brings us to our final question. What are the consequences of this? Well, one big one of them could be that there is a leadership vacuum in the world. So who will fill that? Well, in Europe, the obvious candidate is Germany. But even they know that there may be an issue with that.


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[Assistant] It's true. The US is absent at many important meetings, and that doesn't even include meetings that Jared Kushner was supposed to attend, but he couldn't find a room, and he was too shy to ask someone, and then he realized it was too late anyway, so he just killed an hour wandering around the lobby, pretending to be on the phone.


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[Assistant] China's increased influence should be alarming because they are an autocratic country. You don't necessarily want China setting global priorities on things like human rights and democracy. And yet, Trump's reckless behavior is opening the door to exactly that happening.


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[Assistant] Not to mention the fact that what he's doing is going to make it harder for him to accomplish his own goals. He wants to contain North Korea? Well to do that, you might want to appoint an ambassador to South Korea.


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[Assistant] Trump can say that he doesn't care because his approach is America first, but you need allies to get anything done. Foreign affairs is like sex. If you loudly announce that you will always come first, you're going to have trouble finding partners.


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[Assistant] I know that all of this is depressing because it seems like America's reputation overseas is under attack from its own president. Which is just ridiculous. Soft power is an act of salesmanship. It's selling your brand. It is the one thing that Trump is supposed to be good at and he's fucking blowing it. So as an immigrant who has fallen in love with this country for what it's worth


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[Assistant] Please allow me to speak to the rest of the world in America's defense for a moment, because Donald Trump does not reflect America. I mean, to be, to be completely honest. To be completely honest.


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[Assistant] Well, whenever I talk to people in our neighbor countries, they mostly expected sort of a leadership of Germany. But on the other side, whenever I talk to the people in these countries with a very good memory what happened in the first half of the 20th century, they are very reluctant talking about a German leadership.


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[Assistant] Not at all, not at all. Well, in great pleasure I assure you.


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[Assistant] Yes sir, he did. You told him? Yes sir. You see, knowing he was an old friend, I thought...


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[Assistant] But he's from the Lonely Mountain, one of Dain's trusty people, and friendly to Elrond.


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[Assistant] Back to the matter, Muley. After what them dusters done to the land, the tenant system don't work no more. They don't even break even, much less show a profit.


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[Assistant] By one man and a tractor can handle twelve or fourteen of these places. You just pay him a wage and take all the crops.


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[Assistant] And he's half crazy as self trying to keep up with his orders from the east. Then who do we shoot? Brother, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Oh, we gotta go, Tommy. But it's gonna be all right. I seen the handbills about how much work they is and high wages too.


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[Assistant] Something I gotta find out first, Tommy. Did they hurt you, son? Did they hurt you and make you mean mad? Mad?


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[Assistant] Sometimes they do something to you. They hurt you and you get mad and then you get mean.


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[Assistant] I swear we ain't got anything, I swear it. Grandma's awful sick. Look.


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[Assistant] I told her when she was dying, I told her the family had to get across.


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[Assistant] So it's all right. She'll get buried where it's nice and green and trees and flowers all around.


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[Assistant] Wanna gallon of gas? Let's set up the tent and maybe I can fix some stool.


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[Assistant] Give this to Ruthie. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well Tom, he's gone. He lit out this evening. Said he didn't know it was going to be like this.


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[Assistant] There was a time we was on the land. There was a boundary to us then. Old folks died off and little fellers come. We was always one thing. We was the family. Kind of whole and clear. But now we ain't clear no more. Ain't nothing that keeps us clear.


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[Assistant] Al, he's a hankering and gibbiting to be off on his own. Uncle John's just dragging around. Her pa's lost his place. He ain't the head no more.


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[Assistant] I guess it had to come. Sooner or later.


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[Assistant] All right, Tommy. But what do you figure you're gonna do?


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[Assistant] Tommy, you're not even to kill nobody.


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[Assistant] How am I gonna know about you, Tommy? Why, they could kill you and I'd never know. They could hurt you. How am I gonna know?


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[Assistant] Bye. Goodbye, Tommy. Later, when this is blowed over, you'll come back. Sure, Ma.


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[Assistant] Well pa, a woman can change better than man.


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[Assistant] A man lives sorta, well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk.


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[Assistant] With a woman it's all in one flow like a stream. The ladies and waterfalls, but the river it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.


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[Assistant] I know. That's what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up and they die and their kids ain't no good and they die out. But we keep a coming. We're the people that live. That can't wipe us out, that can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, cause we're the people.


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[Assistant] Them LePitcher postcards, they was real pretty.


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[Assistant] Maybe kind of go and get some books to study up with. He can be a radio expert, you know. Maybe he figured two surprises.


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[Assistant] Might be a little more, might be a little less. All right, Mr. Elgo. You just charge your license to contract. Then you make out an order. Where and when and how much you're gonna pay.


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[Assistant] If not, just sit here, that's all. Twice now I fell for that line. Maybe he needs a thousand men. So he gets five thousand there and he'll pay fifteen cents an hour. And you guys will have to take it because you'll be hungry. If he wants to hire men, let him write it out and say what he's gonna pay. Ask to see his license. He ain't allowed by law to contract men without a license.


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[Assistant] I get out and read it every day. I read it to remind me of a guy I grew up with, got shoved around with. We used to take a lot of raps together. Some people would call a guy like that a loyal friend. He was.


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[Assistant] I ought to kill you, Eddie. But you're not worth taking another rap for. In 24 hours, disappear! Otherwise, I might be tempted to change my mind! Give him some air!


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[Assistant] Get going. Spread the news I got a personal interest in Eddie Riccardi. I don't want anything to happen to him. Until I get there. Unless the cops get him first. You're through with him, Doc?


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[Assistant] I have to be honest, I grounded out twice. I mean, I made solid contact. I didn't have any errors in the field. Bud Dupree saved me on one. Bud Dupree was playing first base. I played second. One of my grounders I threw a little bit. One of the grounders I fielded, I threw a little bit high, but Bud Dupree saved me.


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[Assistant] Okay, so can I, uh, 15 years, 20 years, something?


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[Assistant] Can I tell you how this went down actually? So it was Team Berg, which was all Steelers. I mean, fully loaded. We're talking Najee Harris, Mitch Trubisky, Kenny Pickett, Alex Highsmith, Cam Hayward. They're all on that team.


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[Assistant] I hit the ball to Kenny Pickett. Kenny Pickett, who I love, does me the biggest solid, throws a circus throw behind his back to Cam Hayward trying to help me out.


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[Assistant] Mitch Trubisky hit the b I will say that KM played


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[Assistant] All this rose, uhm, and obviously Adam Scherer, as you see, is like the hugest man I've ever seen in my life. He hit, he rocketed a ball out of the park. He was the only one that did that. They set up cones. Gene Steritor. I mean, I'm a little person, but I'm not that little. Like, there's muscle on me.


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[Assistant] The Steelers very much fit Mike Tomlin's personality. And as I see it, the Browns fit Kevin Stefanski's personality. And so I don't know...


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[Assistant] I don't know that that's an easy swap. I think it's easier for me to sit here and say, okay, well right now I like the brown offensive line more than I do the Steelers offensive line. That's because I don't know much about the Steelers line just yet. They've completely rebuilt it. Let's see how they gel and let's see how good these guys are. At the moment,


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[Assistant] As much as I like Najee Harris as a person, and quick little aside, I think you all know that my son has been a diehard Bills fan since he was two years old. He was wearing his Bills hat in my dugout, and Najee Harris walks over and spends ten minutes asking him, what can we do to change your mind? He asks him about his Bills fandom.


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[Assistant] He asks him about his favorite player. Nico told him why number 17, Josh Allen, is his favorite player. And Najee at one point turns to me and he says, the kid makes a lot of good points.


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[Assistant] Naji is great. He's got I think that he did more wi I mean that line, he got line of scrimmage more th


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[Assistant] I don't know, almost 20 years at this point, we used to cover women's basketball in the Big East. He was at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, I was at the Bergen Record in New Jersey, and we spent an amazing Final Four in Cleveland together.


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[Assistant] You'd like to think, you know? Although, I shouldn't be talking so much smack. As I said, I grounded out twice.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, probably a good thing for Deshaun Watson. I mean, imagine if those 30 cases had gone to trial and Deshaun Watson had to be deposed 30 times, deal with...


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[Assistant] You know, could the Texans have attached him as a defendant in some way? Or could the Texans have tried to pin the blame on him in some way? All of those things are sort of...


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[Assistant] Do we know what John Watson's fate for this season is?


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[Assistant] I think Sue Robinson gives us a judgment, but then what if the league appeals commissioner? I don't actually, I wish I knew the answer to this and I'm sorry I don't. I don't know how much time the commissioner has to decide the appeal.


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[Assistant] You know, I wonder, I wonder guys though, does it, everything that we have heard about the proceedings, do you think that Deshaun Watson is feeling good about his chances right now? We go back to...


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[Assistant] The fact that the NFL did not report


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[Assistant] Any instances or do not offer as evidence any instances of force or coercion or implied coercion


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[Assistant] For a long period of time now, that...


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[Assistant] He has not, what is the word that he used? He has not disrespected.


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[Assistant] And again, obviously, I'm just repeating what he has said when I say that, but he's spoken multiple times about wanting to clear his name, clear his image, clear his reputation. We've all talked very frankly that that ship has probably sailed, that the way that we are all wired, it's sort of,


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[Assistant] But knowing that Deshaun Watson feels so strongly about that, he may not want, even though he's had, he may not want


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[Assistant] Let's just think about the other piece of this to Jay's point.


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[Assistant] And to what Brad is saying about whether you can clear your name or not, I think that sometimes you hit a point of exhaustion.


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[Assistant] Because obviously we're all acknowledging that whether there was violence or not, Tashawn Watson is definitely guilty of some very bad judgment and of some very, very bad decisions at a baseline, at a minimum.


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[Assistant] And it's true because you know what, we're forgetting in all this, it's been a long time since we've seen Deshaun Watson play. A year off, a year off didn't serve Levion Bell well, and obviously different positions, different times, different situations, but we haven't seen him.


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[Assistant] I actually had this conversation with a general manager with an NFL general manager this weekend. We were talking about a variety of different things and eventually came around to Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] And he told me it's been his opinion for a long time that Deshaun Watson is overrated. Now I can tell you this, I know the Cleveland Browns think that he's a top five quarterback. And many months ago, I asked a member of the Browns organization, you know, why?


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[Assistant] Why blow up everything with Baker Mayfield when Kevin Stefanski was clearly comfortable with him? Why chase a guy who seemingly had baggage, regardless of what that baggage actually is, it's not, you know, you're not


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[Assistant] You're trading for Joe Burrow. You're trading for somebody that is carrying some baggage. And the response I got from the member of the Browns organization was how often


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[Assistant] And, uh, there are a lot of people who don't think that he is a elite.


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[Assistant] there's money to win now roster is constructed. Thi is not a club right now th a year or two of growing po to win. This is a team t win right now. You're not that if you think this qu


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[Assistant] No, the only thing I would say back to Brad is that there was a lot of talk about the way that the contract was structured and how there was almost no money in the first year salary. So if he is suspended, he's barely giving money back. I've actually talked to a contract guy on another team who said this is fairly common. The Browns have done this with other players and there are other teams that do indeed structure contracts this way.


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[Assistant] Hey look, I'm doing my best, I'm doing, I will always go the extra mile. That's what that picture says.


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[Assistant] Pulled his gun and fired. Now do what I told you. Just that.


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[Assistant] Uncle, shall we start now? Okay. Where shall we start?


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[Assistant] And so they were very, very interested in the Europeans.


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[Assistant] The missionaries thought that the Japanese were such a remarkable race.


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[Assistant] Their culture was so developed that it was worthwhile writing back to Europe about the culture which they found, the language the Japanese spoke, and a very complex political system.


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[Assistant] And so I think this is a thing which one should bear in mind. This was the first time Europeans dealt with Asians on equal terms and not as conquerors and conquered people.


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[Assistant] They called them the southern barbarians, which is not a very flattering term. Their eating habits were rather different.


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[Assistant] Whereas in those days Europeans normally had with just a knife and, uh, with their fingers.


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[Assistant] These men were very, very zealous, and the conditions were rather good for the conversion of people to Christianity.


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[Assistant] When a Japanese lord or Japanese daimyo changed his religion, he would bring pressure on his people because he had absolute power of life and death on the people below him. And so you got in a relatively short, short period of time, large scale conversions.


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[Assistant] But there was another factor that some of the Daimyo-


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[Assistant] When they became Christian, they had certain considerations of commerce in the back of their mind. Because where the missionaries went, the Portuguese merchants went. And the Portuguese merchants offered very profitable trade, vis-a-vis Japanese.


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[Assistant] Now, the Tohoku girls had no divine right to rule Japan. They ruled Japan because they were the most powerful.


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[Assistant] If there were any philosophy, any political,


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[Assistant] movement that would bring these Daimyo together as a coalition against the Tofugawa family, that was very dangerous.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu wanted to clear the board of all these foreign influences which were just muddying the waters, making life more complicated.


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[Assistant] And the many, many, many samurai in their thousands. And these were hard-bitten warriors.


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[Assistant] They still owed loyalty to Hideyoshi's family. And of course they owed just as much loyalty to his son.


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[Assistant] So they gathered in Osaka Castle, and Osaka Castle was a very, very, very strong castle. It was considered impregnable.


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[Assistant] At the time William Adams arrived, there had been religious wars in Europe, and the Catholic missionaries were not at all happy when they heard that an Englishman and an English Protestant had been washed up in Japan.


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[Assistant] You can't deny that William Adams did have a certain amount of influence


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[Assistant] When he was told to build these two ships, they were the first foreign ships, first European ships to be built in Japan.


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[Assistant] Life was complicated enough without these pesky foreigners, uh, interfering. And so that probably was the reason why he did not want Christians in Japan.


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[Assistant] He was a Protestant of course. Ieyasu knew that he had no interest in helping the missionaries. And so he was rather a valuable man to have around.


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[Assistant] And he was given an estate with about 70 or 80 servants, which is pretty good, far better than his standard of living in England would have been of course.


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[Assistant] And I think towards the end he lost his desire to go back to England because he knew he would just be a working class man in England where back in Japan he has 80 servants to wait and handle foot on him.


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[Assistant] It was a rigid society with lots of rules and regulations. Everybody must know their place in society and stick to it.


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[Assistant] That was the theory, didn't always work out in practice of course, but that at least was the theory.


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[Assistant] What makes this man interesting is that he wrote a report about Japan after he left Japan.


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[Assistant] And he was a very discerning man. He saw various aspects of Japanese life which other people had not seen.


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[Assistant] Well, Vivero y Velasco was in the castle being received in audience by Ieyasu.


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[Assistant] He saw a powerful Daimyo come into the castle to pay homage to Ieyasu.


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[Assistant] And then finally somebody clapped. End of audience. Not a word had been said. End of audience. And he goes out backwards on his knees.


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[Assistant] Because he realized the power Ieyasu had. Here was a powerful Daimyo who had power of life and death in his own region. But when he comes to pay tribute to the Shogun, what a lowly position he adopts.


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[Assistant] One has to bear in mind in this period of Japanese history that there was repression and that the Tokugawa authorities, the shogun, wanted to keep Japanese society as it was.


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[Assistant] And that did lead some people to believe that Christianity was subversive and was upsetting the social framework, the social pattern of Japan.


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[Assistant] For many of the Japanese Christians, the faith ran very, very deep indeed, especially in those areas where Christianity had really set down roots for three or four generations.


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[Assistant] I think became morbidly pathological, pathologically fearful of Christianity.


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[Assistant] Eradicate Christianity. Christianity was said to be evil or wicked religion. Subversive religion. And so, that is why they took such extreme steps to eliminate the religion.


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[Assistant] So what began as a social upheaval, a social revolt against the tremendously harsh


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[Assistant] Taxation against the peasants, leaving the peasants almost starving. What began as that?


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[Assistant] This was very upsetting. The peasants were the lowest of the low, the poor people. They had no right to rebel. They had, and not only had they rebelled and revolted, but they were doing darned well militarily.


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[Assistant] The Dutch were reluctant to take part in this campaign, but nevertheless they desperately wanted to hold on to this toe hole which they had in trade with Japan.


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[Assistant] We will cut off Japan from all Christian influence. Now how can you do that? We will isolate Japan.


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[Assistant] These foreigners, of course, so much trouble, I suppose he was thinking. They are an unnecessary complication to our life.


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[Assistant] So why not try to preserve Japanese society as is now? We don't want changes.


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[Assistant] The Dutch ship would have the latest news from Europe and that news would be given to the Dutch authorities in Nagasaki and then that news would be


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[Assistant] As ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment,


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[Assistant] Why you may not lawfully be joined in matrimony, ye do now confess it.


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[Assistant] For be well assured that if any persons are joined together otherwise than as the word of God doth allow, then are they not joined by God, nor is their matrimony lawful. Edward Rochester.


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[Assistant] To the first westerners in Japan, it was a mysterious world.


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[Assistant] The land of riches that Christopher Columbus set out to find.


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[Assistant] When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543,


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[Assistant] Out of this chaos, one samurai warrior would emerge.


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[Assistant] He would create a regime so strong it endured for over 250 years.


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[Assistant] Witnesses to this world, both Western observers and Japanese, wrote of these changing times.


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[Assistant] Theirs is a story of flowering culture, of poetic ritual, and of rigid power struggles.


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[Assistant] Samurai guards were quickly dispatched to warn their master.


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[Assistant] There were strangers on board these ships, unlike anyone the Japanese had ever seen.


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[Assistant] The local warlord called a daimyo summoned these strangers.


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[Assistant] The first Europeans to ever set foot on Japanese shores. It was the year 1543.


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[Assistant] When these Portuguese merchants arrived, the Daimyo was intrigued by their peculiar unknown weapons.


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[Assistant] These first Europeans, their guns and their religion would have unforeseeable consequences.


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[Assistant] As an elite member of the samurai class, the boy inherited a world of tradition.


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[Assistant] A feudal realm of samurai warriors who ruled by birthright and sword.


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[Assistant] The son of a Daimyo lord, Ieyasu would soon have to give up children's games for the politics of war.


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[Assistant] When Ieyasu was still a child, the ruling daimyo demanded that Ieyasu's father send the young boy to him as a hostage.


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[Assistant] As a hostage, the young samurai boy traveled in the style befitting his daimyo rank.


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[Assistant] He would grow up a hostage his life captive to the turmoil of civil war.


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[Assistant] João Rodrigues, an eyewitness to these perilous times, was one of the first Portuguese to arrive in Japan.


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[Assistant] As Portuguese merchants traversed the oceans in search of new ports for trade, Jesuit missionaries accompanied them searching for souls to save.


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[Assistant] Braving the hardships of the dangerous two-year voyage to reach Japan, a country which they considered ripe for conversion.


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[Assistant] They sent home tantalizing reports of an alien world.


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[Assistant] In his more than 30 years in Japan, João Rodrigues became so fluent in Japanese, he became known as the interpreter.


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[Assistant] His work allowed him to observe all levels of society. From the highest Daimyo warlords, to the lowest Japanese farmer.


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[Assistant] The Japanese, João Rodrigues observed, regarded the Europeans with equal fascination.


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[Assistant] But however they were regarded, the missionaries were determined to stay in Japan.


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[Assistant] In little more than 50 years, these missionaries established over 200 Catholic churches, primarily in southern Japan, and converted up to a quarter million Japanese.


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[Assistant] Commerce and religion intertwined. Some Japanese profited.


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[Assistant] To endure the rigors of never-ending training, to remain clear-minded in the face of grave danger, to face death matter-of-factly, this is the art of kendo, the way of the sword.


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[Assistant] Master Swordsman taught young samurai the skills of sword fighting and the traditions of a samurai code of honor.


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[Assistant] This was the education the young Ieyasu would receive, even as a hostage.


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[Assistant] Would preserve the way of the samurai in a classic book, The Five Rings.


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[Assistant] It was a guide to strategy, its philosophy embraced in Japan even to this day.


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[Assistant] While the samurai class comprised less than 10% of the population, their presence loomed larger than life.


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[Assistant] Samurai women were also trained to protect their family.


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[Assistant] The samurai defended his home and family, but his true glory came on the battlefield, defending his lord against enemies.


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[Assistant] The finely stitched fabric and leather appeared elegant, even fragile.


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[Assistant] Unseen were the tightly woven plates of steel.


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[Assistant] Much like his protective armor, a warrior's refined appearance concealed his impenetrable inner core. This ethic, preserved in writings of the samurai, would prepare the warrior to meet life and death with honor.


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[Assistant] For samurai, as important as knowing how to kill, was knowing how and when to die.


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[Assistant] Sepuku, or Harakiri, is the ritual of suicide as practiced by samurai.


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[Assistant] From the death poem to the final thrust of the dagger, seppuku is a ceremonial ritual of suicide ensuring an honorable death.


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[Assistant] Joao Rodriguez wrote of a man who committed the ritual of seppuku.


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[Assistant] The samurai, dressed in the customary white kimono, solemnly and with great dignity, mounted a raised platform.


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[Assistant] For Tokugawa Ieyasu, patient strategizing would become his most powerful weapon.


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[Assistant] He was now of age, 18 years old and married with two children.


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[Assistant] As time passed, Ieyasu strengthened his skills as a warrior, fighting alongside his Daimyo master.


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[Assistant] When his master was killed in battle, Ieyasu was finally free to determine his own destiny.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu reclaimed his title as an independent lord. A daimyo.


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[Assistant] In a crucial move, Ieyasu allied himself with the man who killed his Daimyo master, Oda Nobunaga.


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[Assistant] Nobunaga had become the most powerful warlord in Japan, feared and ruthless.


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[Assistant] As 10,000 enemy warriors charged, Nobunaga's musketeers fired in succession, decimating the opposing army.


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[Assistant] Until one night, treachery within his inner circle caught him off guard.


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[Assistant] Would he subordinate himself to Hideyoshi's command? Or was it time to fight for control?


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[Assistant] Nobunaga Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.


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[Assistant] After Nobunaga's death, Ieyasu and Hideyoshi faced off in a measured game of strategy, each in his own way trying to outsmart the other.


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[Assistant] While Ieyasu practiced restraint and careful strategizing, Hideyoshi acted quickly and decisively.


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[Assistant] The son of a lowly foot soldier, he worked his way up through the ranks.


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[Assistant] Shortly after Hideyoshi took control, Ieyasu challenged him.


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[Assistant] But Ieyasu soon realized there was more to be gained as Hideyoshi's ally than as his enemy.


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[Assistant] Hideyoshi rewarded Ieyasu for his loyalty with a vast domain of land.


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[Assistant] And ordered him to make his headquarters in the remote fishing village of Edo, 300 miles east of Hideyoshi's castle in Osaka.


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[Assistant] But in Edo, the village that would later become Tokyo,


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[Assistant] Reputed to be the most impregnable fortress of its time, it was also one of the most ostentatious.


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[Assistant] Osaka Castle had a strategic location close to the Emperor's Palace in nearby Kyoto.


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[Assistant] For centuries, the Emperor had remained a ruler in name only, ignored by those who truly held power.


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[Assistant] He wild away his days with court gossip, calligraphy, and poetry.


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[Assistant] Hideyoshi courried the Emperor's favor, inviting him to know plays and musical performances.


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[Assistant] But the emperor would not grant this warrior of peasant stock the title of shogun.


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[Assistant] Finally he adopted a nephew and groomed him as his successor.


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[Assistant] He called him Hideyori, and he was the jewel of his life.


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[Assistant] As Hideyoshi obsessed over his own son, his adopted son, now an adult, was in peril.


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[Assistant] Hideyoshi then ordered his adopted son's entire family put to death.


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[Assistant] Soon after, Hideyoshi's health began to fail. He wrote his death poem.


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[Assistant] Hideyoshi then called Ieyasu and four of the most powerful daimyo to his deathbed.


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[Assistant] He appointed them legal protectors of his five-year-old son Hideyori, his heir and the future ruler of Japan.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu pledged to protect the boy with his own life.


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[Assistant] Those Daimyo who feared his growing power began to plot against him.


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[Assistant] He was determined to maintain his holdings and expand his base of power.


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[Assistant] When the battle began, women and children rushed to safety.


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[Assistant] One of the young girls at the castle later told her family of the terrifying experience.


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[Assistant] As the battle wore on, heads of slain warriors were brought to the castle to be prepared for the ritual presentation to the victor.


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[Assistant] It was believed that even in death, the samurai should be viewed as a worthy opponent.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu's troops now pursued the rebellious Daimyo and their armies.


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[Assistant] This would be the battle that changed the course of Japanese history.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu set up his command post atop a hill overlooking the valley.


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[Assistant] Waiting through the night for the rest of his armies to arrive.


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[Assistant] At dawn, Ieyasu's attendant physician hastily noted in his journal,


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[Assistant] With only fifty thousand troops challenging his enemies eighty thousand. He waited for his son to arrive with reinforcements.


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[Assistant] But at eight in the morning the fog suddenly lifted and the two opposing armies found themselves within striking distance.


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[Assistant] Rallying his troops it was said he sent them forward with his famous


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[Assistant] Several enemy Daimyo and their armies, convinced of Ieyasu's ultimate victory, defected and joined Ieyasu's forces.


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[Assistant] In recognition of Ieyasu's power, the Emperor awarded him the title of Shogun, the barbarian subduing Generalissimo.


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[Assistant] Tokugawa Ieyasu now had the authority to rule Japan in all military matters.


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[Assistant] But always there was the specter of Hideyoshi's young son Hideori growing up in Osaka Castle.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu had sworn with his life to protect the boy. The boy who could someday lay claim to all Ieyasu had won.


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[Assistant] As the young boy Hideori approached manhood, a daimyo warned.


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[Assistant] He expelled many of the foreign missionaries, including João Rodrigues.


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[Assistant] But still he faced the only true threat to his power, the young Hideyori.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu came to but one conclusion. He could no longer honor his pledge to a dead ally to protect his son. Ieyasu decided to go into battle once more.


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[Assistant] In the winter of 1614, Ieyasu accused Hideyori of subversion and ordered his troops to advance against Osaka Castle.


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[Assistant] He sent a woman samurai to negotiate a truce with Hideori's mother.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu offered a safe haven for Hideyori's garrison, if in return he agreed not to mount further rebellion against Ieyasu's rule.


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[Assistant] To prove his intentions, Ieyasu signed the pledge in blood.


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[Assistant] Thousands of defeated soldiers, women and children fled the castle compound.


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[Assistant] Tokugawa Ieyasu had wiped out the last threats to his power. Or so it seemed. But not everyone was under his control.


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[Assistant] In the early 17th century, the ruler of Japan, the shogun, was told this story.


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[Assistant] Eyewitnesses wrote of these remarkable times. These are their memoirs of Japan's secret empire.


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[Assistant] William Adams, the first Englishman in Japan, had good reason for concern.


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[Assistant] It was the year 1600, and Portuguese Catholics had long held a monopoly on trade in Japan.


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[Assistant] Rather than ordering his execution, he wanted to know more about this stranger.


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[Assistant] As only the highest ranking officials were ever received by the great man himself.


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[Assistant] It appeared that Ieyasu was interested in more than friendship.


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[Assistant] As the meeting came to an end Adams dared to make a parting request on behalf of his Dutch employers.


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[Assistant] EA also valued trade with the Portuguese and Spanish merchants.


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[Assistant] But was wary of their Catholic missionaries, who preached obedience to a God more powerful than he.


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[Assistant] To avoid those he considered a threat to his own authority. EA also wanted his own fleet of trading ships.


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[Assistant] When the Catholic missionaries continued to gain converts and create problems, he expelled them.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu replaced his Catholic interpreter with William Adams, who had been quick to learn Japanese.


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[Assistant] And was awarded the right to wear the two swords of the samurai.


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[Assistant] It was possible that Adams visited Ieyasu at his tea house for intimate conversation away from the politics of the court.


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[Assistant] The tea ceremony was much admired by a western observer.


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[Assistant] If Adams and Ieyasu had private political discussions...


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[Assistant] The Tea House was also a retreat where they could replenish their souls.


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[Assistant] For Ieyasu, unsettling foreign influences could jeopardize the peace he worked so hard to forge.


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[Assistant] And united Japan after generations of civil war.


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[Assistant] But as a court chronicler documented, the task ahead would not be easy.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu allowed the daimyo to rule their own domains.


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[Assistant] But he prohibited them from doing anything that might enhance their power or status relative to each other.


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[Assistant] In Tokugawa, Japan, a daimyo was restricted to only one castle. And to enlarge it, he had to receive permission. A new ship? Ask the shogun. Arrange a new alliance through marriage. Only if the shogun approves.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu would maintain the peace through this ordered control, and it extended through all levels of society.


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[Assistant] All samurai were members of the elite class, whether he be a daimyo warlord or a lowly foot soldier.


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[Assistant] At the very bottom were the tradesmen, considered the parasites of society.


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[Assistant] But for the daimyo at least, there were still ways to earn special privileges.


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[Assistant] Ieyasu decreed that the lords must help build his castle and the surrounding city of Edo.


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[Assistant] The construction became a grand competition, as each daimyo vied for the shogun's favor.


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[Assistant] Soon they transformed the small castle and backwater village of Edo into a magnificent domain.


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[Assistant] The emerging splendors of Edo were recorded by Rodrigo de Vivero Ivalasco, the governor of the Philippines, who had been shipwrecked off the coast of Japan.


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[Assistant] He spent several months in the capital as a guest of the Shogun.


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[Assistant] Those daimyo who had gained most favor lived closest to the castle and were granted more audiences with the great ruler himself.


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[Assistant] The great ruler had realized his vision. All of Japan was under his control.


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[Assistant] At 72, he was still remarkably vigorous. Then, on one of his regular hawking expeditions, he fell seriously ill.


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[Assistant] As he lay dying, he planned the details of his funeral.


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[Assistant] His ashes taken to the top of a mountain overlooking the land where he so often went with his hawks.


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[Assistant] Among the family members was a young grandson, destined to become Shogun.


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[Assistant] The child, Iemitsu, would grow up determined to carry on in the footsteps of his famous grandfather.


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[Assistant] Iemitsu, the third shogun, would keep Japan under Tokugawa rule, using any means necessary.


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[Assistant] The third Tokugawa Shogun, Iemitsu, worshipped his late grandfather.


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[Assistant] But though Iemitsu tried to emulate his grandfather, his tactics were much more severe.


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[Assistant] It was reported after he became Shogun, Iemitsu summoned the Daimyo to his palace.


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[Assistant] Until at last, they were called into Irimitsu's inner sanctum, where he delivered his ultimatum.


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[Assistant] He listened to few and spared no one. He would not tolerate competition, not even sibling rivalry. He ordered his younger brother to commit suicide.


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[Assistant] A European merchant who once tutored Iemitsu observed the Shogun's court.


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[Assistant] They were commanded to appear at Iemitsu's court in Edo.


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[Assistant] They were part of a system known as alternate attendance.


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[Assistant] It was reported that a daimyo could spend more than three quarters of his income maintaining the processions and supporting his army of samurai once they reached Edo.


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[Assistant] For the samurai warrior, life in peacetime Edo was the catalyst that changed the very nature of their existence.


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[Assistant] They were paid a small stipend to perform their official duties such as they were.


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[Assistant] It was a life that the once proud warrior could never have imagined.


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[Assistant] Edo was becoming a city of samurai whose job description was rapidly changing from soldier to bureaucrat.


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[Assistant] Five government highways led to the Shogun's capital of Edo.


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[Assistant] All with inspection barriers to enforce Iemitsu's laws.


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[Assistant] These roads also made it easier for the Daimyo and their samurai warriors to travel to Edo.


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[Assistant] A multitude of rules and regulations monitored who came in and who went out of the city of Edo.


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[Assistant] Or sumo wrestlers, whose girth was ample proof of their profession.


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[Assistant] Farmers were routinely denied permission to travel from village to village. The government preferred to keep them working in the fields.


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[Assistant] Those without the proper papers often try to avoid the inspection posts by slipping by on side roads.


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[Assistant] For a woman, enslavement, or enforced servitude.


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[Assistant] Despite the uncertainty against all odds, travel grew in popularity.


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[Assistant] Now that the roads were safer, more and more Japanese began to journey from village to village.


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[Assistant] The most traveled road was the Tokaido, which ran for 300 miles from Kyoto to Edo.


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[Assistant] Inoue Tsujo was a young samurai woman writer who kept a diary as she traveled the Tokaido road.


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[Assistant] Inns along the way offered welcome respite to travelers like Tsu-Jou.


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[Assistant] Although Tsu-jo traveled on official business accompanied by her brother, she still encountered disturbing difficulties.


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[Assistant] All travelers faced strict regulations, but women had an especially hard time.


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[Assistant] Officials were always on the lookout for women who disguised themselves as boys.


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[Assistant] When Sujou arrived at the barrier station, she was ordered to appear before an older woman guard.


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[Assistant] At another post, she experienced difficulties due to the wording of her permit.


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[Assistant] Under Iimitsu's reign, anybody who did not follow his rules could be punished.


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[Assistant] But there was one group persecuted simply because of their beliefs. The Christians.


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[Assistant] The Shogun Iyamitsu offered rewards for the arrest of any Japanese who preached or practiced the Christian faith.


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[Assistant] By Iemitsu's time, all foreign missionaries had been deported.


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[Assistant] But the converts they left behind, the Japanese Christians, remained devout.


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[Assistant] A European merchant observed the growing persecutions.


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[Assistant] Despite the persecutions, Christianity had struck a chord amongst many disaffected Japanese.


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[Assistant] Iemitsu was increasingly disturbed by the Christian situation, especially in the South, where a large number lived.


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[Assistant] But they were samurai in their hearts and well-versed in the use of weapons.


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[Assistant] There were taxes on windows and shelves, a head tax on each newborn child, and a whole tax to bury the dead.


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[Assistant] The farmers were taxed in rice, the currency of the day.


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[Assistant] Ironically, farmers were not allowed to eat the rice they grew.


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[Assistant] And to pay the stipends which supported the samurai class.


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[Assistant] The farmers were in dire straits, as the Japanese writer lamented.


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[Assistant] In the Shimabara Peninsula in the far south of Japan.


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[Assistant] Drought and famine further depleted the meager harvest.


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[Assistant] A single event ignited the long smoldering fuse.


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[Assistant] And the whole village, samurai, peasants and Christians, rose in revolt.


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[Assistant] Feeling protected, they brought in their wives and children and barricaded themselves inside.


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[Assistant] The shogun didn't tolerate dissidents, especially any who looked to Jesus for help. He sent his troops to Shimabara to quell the rebellion.


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[Assistant] But for four bloody months, even as food ran out, the rebels managed to hold off the government attacks.


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[Assistant] The shogun was so incensed at the continuing rebellion.


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[Assistant] That he asked the Dutch to send a ship with cannons against the besieged castle.


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[Assistant] The Shimabara Rebellion was the excuse the shogun needed to finally eradicate Christianity from Japan.


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[Assistant] On penalty of death, no Japanese could leave Japan. And those who were already abroad could not return.


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[Assistant] To ensure his edicts were obeyed, he destroyed all ships of seagoing capacity.


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[Assistant] Only the Dutch were allowed to stay and trade, but with severe restrictions.


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[Assistant] Two years later, in defiance of the Shogun's ban, an official Portuguese trade delegation arrived in Japan.


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[Assistant] The shogun showed no mercy and ordered the execution of 57 of those aboard, ambassadors and their crew. He ordered the ship burned. The few survivors were sent back with this warning.


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[Assistant] And were not opened again to the West for 200 years.


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[Assistant] But many wondered how this isolated empire would survive in a rapidly changing world.


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[Assistant] Steamships, like most western innovations, were unknown in Japan. Now there were four in the harbor.


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[Assistant] The American squadron, armed with cannons and almost a thousand men, was ready to force its way onto Japanese shores.


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[Assistant] Japan was a land shrouded in mystery. A warrior society ruled by the powerful Tokugawa Shogunate.


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[Assistant] They had successfully kept the West at bay for over 200 years.


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[Assistant] Could the samurai nation repel the industrial might of a determined west?


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[Assistant] The Japanese were determined to keep their doors closed to the West for as long as they could.


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[Assistant] He was also asked to gather information about the everyday life of the Japanese It would not be an easy task


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[Assistant] Dejima was tiny. Kemper counted 236 steps across and 82 wide.


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[Assistant] There were never more than 19 men allowed on the island at a time, and never any western women.


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[Assistant] Far from home, the men did what they could to transform the unfamiliar Japanese-style buildings into a little touch of Holland.


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[Assistant] They placed chairs and high tables on the woven grass mats, replaced futons with poster beds, and insisted on being served Dutch food rather than eating Japanese.


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[Assistant] No Japanese except for prostitutes were allowed unsupervised contact with the Dutch.


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[Assistant] The Dutch settlement was their window to the exotic world of the West.


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[Assistant] But the trickle of information that arrived from overseas was carefully guarded.


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[Assistant] The ruler of Japan, the shogun, hungered for news of the outside world.


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[Assistant] He commanded the westerners to present themselves at his castle once a year.


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[Assistant] The road trip to Edo gave Kemper revealing glimpses into the world of the Japanese. He recorded every detail of his month-long trip.


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[Assistant] As the road traffic grew, so did the number of merchants who catered to the traveler's needs.


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[Assistant] Tradesmen, once considered social parasites, were beginning to improve their position in Japanese society.


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[Assistant] Successful street peddlers became roadside merchants who would eventually build bigger stores and even move to the cities.


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[Assistant] The samurai were the elite ruling class, less than 10% of the population.


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[Assistant] In Tokugawa, Japan, one was born a samurai.


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[Assistant] And only a samurai had the right to carry two swords.


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[Assistant] Obligation and loyalty to one's Daimyo master form the basis of their warrior code.


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[Assistant] There were no wars to fight, and many daimyo found it difficult to keep a full army on staff.


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[Assistant] Other samurai were not allowed to work in occupations considered beneath their class.


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[Assistant] An increasing number of unemployed samurai called ronin wandered the countryside looking for a new master.


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[Assistant] The search for new opportunities led many to the cities.


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[Assistant] Edo was the capital of the Tokugawa shogunate and Dr. Kemper's destination.


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[Assistant] Here he would finally come face to face with the shogun, the most powerful person in Japan.


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[Assistant] When Dr. Kemper arrived in Edo, he was sequestered in guarded quarters for two weeks.


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[Assistant] Finally he was summoned to appear at the castle of the fifth shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.


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[Assistant] You're born into being a samurai, it's a responsibility. Amongst the responsibilities of being a samurai was always carrying one's sword, uh, to use to enact justice. If somebody were rude to you, it was your duty to kill them.


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[Assistant] The life of a samurai, they aren't allowed to work. They're given enough money to live on.


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[Assistant] And mostly what they do is they spend every day at the house of a friend drinking and talking and studying and doing tea and reading books of old war tales and imagining what it would have been like to live in the 1500s.


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[Assistant] Some ruler might decide that morals are going to hell in a handbasket and suddenly grab one person and punish them severely.


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[Assistant] On horseback, Lord Ieyasu made out their positions. Estimate distance at two and a half miles.


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[Assistant] She's a lovely child. Well brought up. You know Conway, with all the best intentions in the world, men like you make their wives idle. Useless. You give them servants to clean their houses. Nurses to take care of their children. And then you say to them, now you have everything you want. Sit there and enjoy it. Naturally, I try to give my wife everything she wants.


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[Assistant] But in doing so, you have taken all responsibility away from her. Left her life with no values.


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[Assistant] In despair, feeling she has lost you to your career in exchange for nothing she desired. Your wife turned to this.


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[Assistant] What will you tell her, that doctor? Do you think you can make her realize that? I'll speak to her, but she may not be ready yet.


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[Assistant] Fluttering our papers, the spring winds blow. When through the open barriers, how gratefully we go.


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[Assistant] How could they sustain life itself under those circumstances?


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[Assistant] Okay guys, so bad news. First off, we lost the video for this podcast. I'm super sorry, but basically the cable that goes into the camera was hanging loose a little bit, so we don't have the video.


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[Assistant] It's still a pretty good interview, so if you want to listen to it, here it is. Before we get into that, I just want to say that if you want to support Nojumper, if you're a fan of Nojumper, the place to go is Nojumper.com. We have a thriving web store, we got all kinds of crazy ass t-shirts, we got hats, we got kendamas, we got our own Nojumper branded apparel, we got all kinds of weird


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[Assistant] Logo shit, we got stuff from other clothing brands. It's basically just a dope place if you want to go and support us and also rock some creative different shit. So, with that being said, please enjoy this interview and smash that fucking like button. Thanks.


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[Assistant] No Denver, coolest podcast in the world. And today I'm very, very happy to be joined by international YouTube icon, uh, Keemstar, as well as his little buddy, Andy Milonakis.


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[Assistant] Really? What stood out to you about it? Because you seemed like a person who has a lot of feelings about everything going on in the YouTube world.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so you've seen this like really dramatic change that's taken place with YouTube over the past couple years where it seems like they really sort of are uniformly turning their back against


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[Assistant] A lot of the people who made the platform so vibrant in the beginning and anybody who was willing to sort of step over the line content wise, so, uh, has that been a strange change for you to see?


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[Assistant] That's kind of a complicated concept to shove down people's throats too because you see that a lot with the news and especially with the YouTube demonetization stuff is that people just aren't very inclined to feel bad for a guy like you who


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[Assistant] They assume probably he's doing alright money wise. It's like, okay, now you're not getting paid fairly for your videos. And the attitude is very much like, well, you fucking dork. You should be happy that you ever made any money from YouTube.


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[Assistant] Now we're sort of seeing a change where if, if there were a, you know, an edgy Jake Paul that were to pop up right now, if there was a, a drama alert competitor that were to pop up right now and be very, very edgy, wouldn't you sort of have to give it more respect because you would think that they probably have to know that they're not going to make a whole bunch of money from it?


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[Assistant] I heard Phil DeFranco, I believe, say that he felt, or actually it might have been you said it though, we're sort of at the tail end of like the vlogging hysteria. Do you still feel like that? Like the Jake Paul thing is almost like peak vlogging and that maybe there's nowhere for it to go from here that is going to be as intense as like the tidal wave of popularity that he's experienced.


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[Assistant] I always tell people that like, rap is just where everything


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[Assistant] Is gonna take place, uh, socially for the, the,


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[Assistant] And it's smart on their part because, you know, a song like Everyday Bro, if that was a vlog, it's not gonna do, you know, songs require repeat listening.


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[Assistant] Right. We all notice that trend is that rap videos have huge number of views because people watch them over and over and over. And it's funny to see somebody like, well, who do you consider to be sort of the, sort of the forefather of the, of the diss track rap, YouTube rap genre?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be honest, when I'm in these conversations with labels, sometimes I bring up RiceGum, and they sort of...


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[Assistant] Tend to think that Ricegum, out of the overall YouTube crop, might have the best chance of being an actual rapper.


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[Assistant] I think there's a weird effect where an Asian dude is judged differently than other dudes because you have somebody like Rich Chigga. He's sort of a nerdy guy and he's like a popular rapper. But then you take KSI and like KSI has to compete with like 21 Savage. You're not as savage as him.


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[Assistant] I kinda liked him as a vlogger just cause he was so rich and just going around and like spending all his money and just acting like a total asshole like...


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[Assistant] Alright guys, so today's podcast is brought to you by a repeat advertiser of ours, and that is Tracker. If you want to check out Tracker, it's


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[Assistant] T H E T R A C K R dot com. That's VTracker dot com minus the E. Basically, it's a tiny little aluminum disc that you can put in your wallet. You can attach it to your keys on your keychain. You can even attach it to your phone and then you hook it up with Bluetooth.


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[Assistant] Who would lose your phone because maybe you've had a few too many drinks or something like that, but it's definitely a good way to make sure that you can stay on top of all your possessions. It's super, super easy. And if you want to get one, it's super cheap and easy too. All you have to do is head on over to THETRACKR.COM and enter the promo code NOJUMPER.


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[Assistant] Get 20% off your order. So by messing with us, by supporting tracker,


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[Assistant] You're supporting the Rope Gang, you're supporting this podcast and we'll get more ads from them and everybody will be happy. So head on over to thetracker-the.com and get yourself one. Let's go. Alright, so there's that ad.


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[Assistant] And, uh, oh, okay, so I'm gonna do one... Well, I think, alright, the Bill Saver, the Bill, uh, Bill Ratchet one's already done.


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[Assistant] So here we go. That's it, Chris. Thank you very much. Appreciate you, bro.


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[Assistant] I hate when people talk shit about DramaAlert because DramaAlert, like, saves me a lot of time. Like, I'm not gonna watch a Jake Paul video. Like, I just don't want to, but I am interested in knowing about the most interesting 30 seconds of today's Jake Paul video. Like, that is the service that you provide, and that's what I appreciate.


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[Assistant] But let me ask you this, there's always a thing that happens if somebody gets involved in the gossip world or if they're sort of in a position where their business is to talk about other people, they start to form friendships. Do you feel like you end up sort of compromised because you end up having, you know, friendships to whatever extent?


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[Assistant] Do you think that he's scared of sort of giving Drama Alert too much light because it's sort of a competitor?


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[Assistant] That's one thing I really like about you is that you have no shame about highlighting the fact that you're happy when you, you know, cross scarce subscribers or whatever, which, you know, I've been in that position where there's been somebody that I felt like I was in competition with and I would never say it publicly, but I would be in the back of my mind thinking like,


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[Assistant] Haha, I'm doing better than you know. I like that you just bring it to the forefront.


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[Assistant] But, so can you really sincerely say that there's no financial motivation for you in making YouTube videos because you already have?


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[Assistant] I think it'd be cool. Uhm, so, do you, do you feel fully vindicated from that?


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[Assistant] Do you feel like you are past it? Do you feel like in any way damaged from having to go through that? Because I'm sure it was, it was intense. It was one of the biggest, uh, you know, attacks on someone's character we've ever seen in YouTube history.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it's really a testament to just consistency. We always talk on YouTube. If you were to talk to some little kid, what are you going to, what do you do? Be consistent, stick to your schedule, whether it's once a week, once a day, whatever. And I mean, your whole thing is a real testament to that because you, you weathered that storm and you weathered this adpocalypse over the last like six months.


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[Assistant] Cause he's talking about it and he's like, you know, we got like 40 guys in the game, only like four of them don't have a million subscribers. I'm like, Oh God, I'm on that list.


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[Assistant] Well, once you've been through enough stuff, it sort of, yeaah, like, it sort of cements it into people's head, like, oh, he's not gonna just go away, so maybe, you know, we can complain about him, but we're not gonna think that he's about to die.


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[Assistant] I've kind of been through that too, you know. But did you slow down a little bit with the whole apocalypse in the beginning? Like, do you feel like, it was hard, for me it was hard to like, sort of get that through my head, is like, oh, you're not really going to make much money now, but you need to keep doing this because it's important anyway, and it'll probably figure itself out.