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[Assistant] So I have been asked this question that then in that situation, what do we do?


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[Assistant] Because at least for our temples, if there's no farm nearby, we need, for the deities, we need milk for the various worship, from the worship and for offering the bhoga to the Lord.


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[Assistant] So among these two, which one to choose at an individual level, not at an institutional level?


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[Assistant] So my answer usually is that in spiritual life there are principles and there are preferences.


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[Assistant] With respect to this particular area, if some devotees, if they don't get


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[Assistant] Limes are free milk, they may feel that this is part of our culture. So let me take whatever is available.


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[Assistant] Let me offer it to Krishna. And through this, because I'm offering it to Krishna, at least that cow will be benefited by it.


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[Assistant] And it's not that my not drinking milk, this water is not necessarily going to stop.


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[Assistant] And the other is, no, I don't want to be any part of it. I don't have any part of it.


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[Assistant] If we don't have Ahimsa milk, then for functional purposes in that situation, we become like vegans. So what would be your thoughts on the situation?


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[Assistant] Yes, I also try to do the same thing in general.


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[Assistant] Now how could we explain why there is so much veneration of cows?


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[Assistant] In fact, in English there is a phrase itself called Holy Cow.


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[Assistant] And that is, that is used to signify


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[Assistant] In Indian culture, cows are venerated, that is sometimes been caricatured.


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[Assistant] So one thing of course we know and Prabhupada quoted quite often was that


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[Assistant] That uh, the children would take the milk of only their cow.


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[Assistant] They would not even take milk from a neighbor's cow or some other cow.


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[Assistant] So a child would take a mother's breast milk like that, they would take milk from their own cow.


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[Assistant] So there was a whole culture in which the cow was a integral part of the family. So it is, it is maybe a...


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[Assistant] More of a personal emotional bond that has to be experienced.


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[Assistant] Without that, it may seem, uh, it may seem quite difficult to understand. Just like maybe we Indians sometimes find it difficult why people are, in the West are so...


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[Assistant] So, maybe it is to some extent cultural but are there any other ways in which this could be explained?


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[Assistant] That's beautiful. If you want to deconstruct rationality.


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[Assistant] But maybe to lose everything for the sake of rationality is worse. To reduce everything to rationality.


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[Assistant] Could be terrible. In fact, many of the ideologies like Marxism or Communism


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[Assistant] At one level it seemed rational to people who were trying to implement it. They wanted to create a super race.


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[Assistant] So, but humans are not just governed by reason. So at a rational level, the idea that everybody should be equal, it appeals. And we will create a system of equality in society.


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[Assistant] That rationality actually led to probably the greatest catastrophe in human history.


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[Assistant] So now just to maybe we'll come toward the last concluding summary kind of thing.


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[Assistant] As devotees are to work with vegans.


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[Assistant] Even the devotees, the food that they prasad that they give is vegan.


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[Assistant] So, and they announced specifically that we are having vegan food.


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[Assistant] I just can't accept the idea of using animals. What you say sounds good hypothetically, but it doesn't work out like that.


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[Assistant] Once we humans start using animals, the human greed will come into the picture and boundaries will be crossed.


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[Assistant] So if somebody is a strong vegan and that's what in one sense comes first for them. So to what extent is it possible for


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[Assistant] And at a, maybe at a more of a social transformational level.


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[Assistant] That's a succinct statement. I was thinking from a vegan's perspective.


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[Assistant] Or you could say a broader worldview in which all of existence is infused with a higher purpose.


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[Assistant] This is, ultimately we are all looking for meaning and purpose in life.


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[Assistant] So we may have to talk about what is the ultimate meaning of life.


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[Assistant] And we humans are at a particular level in that spiritual evolution. The animals are at a particular level. And, you know, we all can cooperate. So, when we take honey from a honeybee, and we offer that honey to Krishna,


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[Assistant] And we don't kill them, but we use fire or something to drive them away.


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[Assistant] What is going to happen is those bees are going to be benefited because every soul is ultimately longing for the divine.


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[Assistant] So now we may say this is, I don't believe this, but then do we really believe that life has no meaning and that we are all just, we live according to principles that we hold sacred?


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[Assistant] So what about being open to a world view?


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[Assistant] That uh, infuses meaning into the existence of all living beings, even those living beings that don't consciously search for meaning.


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[Assistant] We humans consciously seek meaning and purpose.


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[Assistant] physical drives, but still we have this grand worldview.


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[Assistant] And this worldview also, so we can include the compassion of the vegan worldview within the bhakti worldview.


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[Assistant] But we also get an overall sense of meaning and purpose. So that's what, so the vegan might have to give up some ideas, but then what they gain could be much much more.


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[Assistant] If we have a spiritual worldview, which also is, there is a lot of rationality in it.


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[Assistant] Then it can add much more depth to our compassion and depth to our search for meaning.


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[Assistant] That would make it very acceptable that you have your space, but if you want to go out of your space, your comfort, your safe space or comfortable space, there is an option for that also in a reasonably. So you can come out of your comfort zone in a comfortable way, not in a, not in a disconcerting way. Yeah, that would be very nice if people do like that.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Should we just try to summarize before we conclude? Yes. We went over a lot of subjects but if I look at the structure, we started with the rise of veganism.


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[Assistant] It's a, as the industrialization.


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[Assistant] If we go further back, the Abrahamic or Christian worldview desacralized nature.


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[Assistant] By considering that spirit or soul is present only in humans.


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[Assistant] And then the scientific technological worldview removed moderation. If there is no other world we are supposed to go to, then for making this world into paradise, just exploit all the resources. So that's how this happened. Now in India, traditionally there has been vegetarianism for a long time.


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[Assistant] But now because of western influence, as well as a toss of rebellion against what is perceived as Brahminical authoritativeness,


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[Assistant] To some extent, non-vegetarianism has become quite, uh, it's become fashionable now.


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[Assistant] And Prabhupada also contributed significantly to the


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[Assistant] Then we talked about where veganism and bhakti diverge. And so I spoke about, veganism basically considers any use of animals for human consumption as bad, because that will lead to abuse. So there is compassion, but the idea of segregation is something which is not what is always seen in nature.


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[Assistant] So, there is an ideological, philosophical aspect and a practical aspect.


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[Assistant] So if practically somebody is vegan, we can also be vegans in certain situations. But ideologically we understand that


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[Assistant] Uh, God has created nature in a interdependent way.


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[Assistant] Correct. And we could live harmoniously, not just harmoniously, but symbiotically where both flourish.


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[Assistant] So you would like to repeat that? I think first you mentioned five points and then second time specifically with respect to cows.


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[Assistant] So this was broadly for any, any animal product that we may use. And specifically, I think for cows, you mentioned certain things that,


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[Assistant] The cow and calf shouldn't be separated. The calf should be fed adequately.


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[Assistant] And then they should be given land for grazing, for moving, not just stock. And of course they should, even if they stop giving milk, they shouldn't be slaughtered.


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[Assistant] Where these the five points or the anything else and you have also implemented this into mother cow dairy.


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[Assistant] When you mentioned this, I thought that maybe during the current lockdown,


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[Assistant] We get some sense of how cows have to live throughout their life.


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[Assistant] And to live lifelong like that would be terrible, actually. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yes, and then we discussed about


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[Assistant] If Ahimsa milk is not available, we try as much as possible to get it, to create systems so that it can be got.


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[Assistant] Uh, the vegan worldview. But what bhakti can offer to veganism is...


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[Assistant] And we see all living beings included and as the compassion can be expanded to beyond the physical level.


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[Assistant] So that's why the vegan compassion with, uh, with the bhakti vision.


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[Assistant] Could become like a very powerful social transformative force.


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[Assistant] We also discussed one point was, if somebody considers the...


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[Assistant] The Vedic veneration of cows as irrational.


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[Assistant] If we call it holy cows, you quite articulately said that we could also say holy dogs and holy cats.


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[Assistant] We cannot reduce relationships to soul rationality alone. So to lose rationality is bad but to


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[Assistant] The cows are a part of a harmonious ecosystem in the traditional Indian culture and actually humans


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[Assistant] Humans can protect them and provide them their needs and keep them safe. So.


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[Assistant] Then I'm sure many of them would become much more receptive to bhakti. In fact, they would feel empowered by bhakti to take the veganism to a, to take their compassion to a higher level.


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[Assistant] We have, we can take nothing from the animals. So the other extreme, the balance would be that we take in a harmonious way, take in a compassionate way that is kind and loving.


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[Assistant] Someone has any question, we'll be broadcasting this soon and if someone has some questions, probably we could take them in a future discussion also on this issue. And I would, I'm grateful that you were


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[Assistant] Spare your time today and I would be very grateful and look forward to it if we could continue such discussions in the future.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much. Apart from whatever I contribute, I think you have been on the ground a lot of


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[Assistant] Tangible practical points also you are able to give which I am sure many people would be benefited from it. So.


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[Assistant] I look forward to future discussions. Thank you very much for joining.


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[Assistant] Peasants! Allow us to talk!


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[Assistant] This ant is a fucking clown. Greenheim. The dead peasants weren't our responsibility.


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[Assistant] So I just wanna see what happens. In case they die, I could do, you know, it'd be my, you know, sinking of the boat song, the guy who did.


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[Assistant] That's a good idea, yeaah, he can be part of our, our gang. Fox, you just got that undeniable panache that I can't turn down.


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[Assistant] Why don't you come and be part of our inner circle and go on our quest with us? What do you say?


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[Assistant] And so with that, I want to use my charm and trickery and performance to play a tune to urge.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, you know, the aforementioned Fox and the rerolls, uhm, that I can give out too. I, mhm. But, I refuse. Hold on. Oh wow!


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[Assistant] I've learned a lot about my talents over the course of this adventure.


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[Assistant] And maybe that night I had too many meeds and maybe it was a little nasty trying to get the crowd on my side when you walked in that bar. But I think I know, humility now.


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[Assistant] How do you respond to her? Because you were just making a case that the Obama administration and the Democrats were in charge were being responsive. Elizabeth Warren is saying, no, the Democrats weren't. What did you say to her?


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[Assistant] Renesmee patted my face impatiently, demanding my attention. Another memory.


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[Assistant] Rosalie pulling a brush gently through each of her curls. It felt nice. Carl Allen is tape measure knowing she had to stretch and be still. It was not interesting to her.


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[Assistant] It looks like she's going to give you a rundown of everything you missed, Edward commented in my ear. My nose wrinkled as she dumped the next one on me. The smell coming from a strange metal cup, hard enough not to be bitten through easily, sent a flash burn through my throat. Ouch. And then Renesmee was out of my arms, which were pinned behind my back. I didn't struggle with Jasper, I just looked at Edward's frightened face.


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[Assistant] Part of my head noted that this wasn't particularly uncomfortable, let alone painful, as it would have been to a human. It was just annoying. I was sure I could break his hold, but I didn't fight it. Yes, I agreed. And? Edward frowned at me for a second more, and then his expression loosened. He laughed once. And nothing at all, it seems. The overreaction is mine this time. Jazz, let her go.


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[Assistant] The binding hands disappeared. I reached out for Renesmee as soon as I was free. Edward handed her to me without hesitation. I can't understand, Jasper said. I can't bear this.


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[Assistant] I watched in surprise as Jasper strode out the back door.


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[Assistant] Leah moved to give him a wide margin of space as he paced to the river and then launched himself over it in one bound. Renesmee touched my neck, repeating the scene of departure right back like an instant replay. I could feel the question in her thought, an echo of mine. I was already over the shock of her odd little gift. It seemed an entirely natural part of her, almost to be expected. Maybe now that I was part of the supernatural myself,


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[Assistant] I would never be a skeptic again. But what was wrong with Jasper? He'll be back, Edward said, whether to me or Renesmee, I wasn't sure.


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[Assistant] He just needs a moment alone to readjust his perspective on life. There was a grin threatening at the corners of his mouth. Another human memory. Edward telling me that Jasper would feel better about himself if I had a hard time adjusting to being a vampire. This was in the context of a discussion about how many people I would kill my first newborn year. Is he mad at me? I asked quietly. Edward's eyes widened. No, why would he be?


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[Assistant] What's the matter with him then? He's upset with himself, not you, Bella. He's worrying about self-fulfilling prophecy, I suppose you could say. How so? Carlisle asked before I could.


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[Assistant] He's wondering if the newborn madness is really as difficult as we've always thought. Or if, with the right focus and attitude, anyone could do as well as Bella. Even now.


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[Assistant] Perhaps he only has such difficulty because he believes it's natural and unavoidable. Maybe if he expected more of himself, he would rise to those expectations.


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[Assistant] You're making him question a lot of deep rooted assumptions, Bella. But that's unfair, Carlisle said. Everyone is different. Everyone has their own challenges. Perhaps what Bella is doing goes beyond the natural. Maybe this is her gift, so to speak. I froze with surprise. Renesmee felt the change and touched me. She remembered the last second of time and wondered why. That's an interesting theory and quite plausible.


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[Assistant] Edward said, for a tiny space I was disappointed. What? No magic visions? No formidable offensive abilities like-


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[Assistant] Oh, shooting lightning bolts from my eyes or something. Nothing helpful or cool at all. And then I realized what that might mean if my superpower was no more than exceptional self control. For one thing, at least I had a gift. It could have been nothing. But much more than that, if Edward was right,


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[Assistant] Then I could skip right over the part I'd feared the very most. What if I didn't have to be a newborn? Not in the crazed killing machine sense anyway.


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[Assistant] What if I could fit right in with the Cullens for my first day?


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[Assistant] Transportation is our biggest issue. And it's kind of a 50-50. Some have cars, some most don't. Uhm, a lot of them carpool.


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[Assistant] We're just transferring the risk of your premiums to our locks.


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[Assistant] Gee Bush, you love it? Man, I'ma tell you what, uh, I love that, but also I love this. I mean, check, check a look at this. He got that. You dug into the Mayor's wardrobe. That's one of the finest pieces of Cleveland.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm a D lineman at heart. D average, get off.


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[Assistant] For Miles Garrett is .76. Do you know that's less than a second? Now you look at Genevieve Conley, he's not as agile and he's not as quick as Miles, but his is under a second 2.96.


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[Assistant] When you look at the amount of hurries, the amount of tackles, the amount of sacks that you can get, when you got two guys like that, it unlocks a whole lot of different things you can do.


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[Assistant] Now, now look, you got Chase Winovich. Now you can put him on outside. You, you got a couple other guys like right, who, who might be a guy that can, you can kick these two down, these guys and, and then that Greyhound package. Now you get there to the three technique. You, you can get Clowney in a three technique. Now we can rush the quarterback.


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[Assistant] This is exactly why Genevieve and Claudia was essential because of that guy right there because he gets his money off too. See what happens when you throw in the young hungry dude. Oh, I didn't talk to my parents.


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[Assistant] Totally agree. I think going back to him taking less money. Hey, you know, when I was approached about his show, to even come do the show, I had a corporate job. I said, okay, this is Kushi. I work at home. I got my laptop. I don't do much.


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[Assistant] But sometimes the opportunity is better than the money. Because the opportunity can build something bigger than the money you're getting right now. You can be put in a position that you can elevate and that you can really do something


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[Assistant] Think about it, you get to a Super Bowl, possibly win something, or if he ends up with, right now, last year he had nine sacks, 41 total for his career. That's almost 10% of his production in one year.


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[Assistant] And angry Perry on Winfrey. He has anger issues. Just keep that on the field between the whistles big fella. But I like that anger. This like that is what we talking about. And guess what? Yeah, now I'm fully ready to say this. If Deshaun Watson does get four games.


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[Assistant] I'm completely cool with the first four games. I got a defense. I got a running game. I got play action. You know, I think we're going to be just fine. We're going to be just fine with them four games right there. It's an easy schedule too at the beginning.


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[Assistant] We kind of, uh, take for granted that we're supposed to just know the, you guys know the plays, right? You know, Deshaun Watson is going to come in, he has to learn the playbook.


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[Assistant] Can you tell me in layman's terms, like kind of put together your day of a quarterback who's trying to learn a brand new playbook? Like what, what are you doing in the morning, afternoon? How do you, how do you digest that information so you don't go to the huddle and look crazy?


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[Assistant] He just, he just said, you know, just reading what you just did right there is amazing. I'll take it a step further than that.


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[Assistant] Like back then, like the game has changed so much and one of the things that I heard that really blew my mind was quarterbacks calling their own plays, like Bernie Kozar or, or Jim Kelly or Warren Moon.


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[Assistant] Basically calling their own plays the entire game run pass. What would it take today to be able to for a guy to be able to call his own game like that? And did you ever have some of that maybe in your career in college high school or the pros where you got a chance to call your own place?


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[Assistant] Listen, here's the thing, man. I'm trying to let y'all know. This is just from one culture to another.


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[Assistant] As African Americans, we wear the hat cause it look good. Now you might see, I like the guardians. I love the guardians. If it was a hot Yankees hat, I might have it on. This guy, I know this guy on Twitter.


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[Assistant] There's only one color I don't wear. Like, I won't even, and I'm so sincere about this.


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[Assistant] I don't even, I don't even play with this team in Madden. I do not rock Steelers gear. I don't rock Steelers nothing. Good. So that's your only rule. Ravens? What about Ravens? Nah, I can't mess with the Ravens neither. But, but I don't outwardly, I don't outwardly just say that. But Bengals, Bengals is kind of cheap. Like cause I can wear it.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this, Tim. We talk about mean tweets really quickly. I was in a YouTube rabbit hole going down watching Brown's video and I came across something. We had a little issue with what people booing, right? I remember I watched the game. You got hurt and you there was booze man.


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[Assistant] And I remember, I was emotional because I remember watching the post game and I'm like, man, Tim was, Tim was, Tim tough.


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[Assistant] Because he was like, wow man, I done put a lot out here and, and, and when the bulls come, it's tough. How do you, how do you deal with that as a?


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[Assistant] How do you deal with that when, when you are getting booed? What do you do? And would you be on social media today because of all the toxicity a little bit?


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[Assistant] My favorite Cleveland sports moment would have to be the Kyrie Irving 2016 shot. It's the only time that I've ever cried over any sport event.


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[Assistant] Listen, I applaud. Listen, the city council, if they're not going to do nothing about it, and they're going to keep the name.


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[Assistant] I got all time of the day. I got all type of time. I can go to this meeting and then right after this meeting I can vote on roads or bridges or whatever I want. But symbolism does work. You can't let people get away with blatant corruption and nothing happens. So yeaah, take the rights to it.


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[Assistant] Only like, uh, like confetti and stuff, not like no batteries or batteries or nothing, but you come in here and you know it and the sponsor is pet supplies. So pet supplies.


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[Assistant] What did you think of that? But I understand him because if he goes and moves to run, like if they run a fake, he goes from on his knee with the ball to getting up running, which is, that's kind of illegal.


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[Assistant] The belt is yours for sure. Understand it. Wow. 15 and 7. Alright. When we go into Jack.


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[Assistant] My limit is if I lose, if I lose more, if I lose more or half of what I came with, we gotta go. So if I spent, if I spent, if I said I'm gonna spend a hundred dollars and we go in this 50 off bat, I gotta get up. I gotta take a 20 second timeout.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not feeling the tribe right now at all. Who'd think? Y'all gotta group. Y'all gotta go outside the box on these ones.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying, man. I got a couple game lead. I could throw these away.


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[Assistant] Cleveland sports to me is bigger than anything. It's bigger than some people's marriages. They say the Dallas Cowboys are America's team. No, no, no, no.


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[Assistant] Dallas is not America's team. Cleveland is America's team. And sports in Cleveland is a religion. Uh, it's a way of life. Uh, it doesn't matter where you're from. It doesn't matter how much money you make. It doesn't matter. Sports is a way for people in Cleveland to get together. And it's something that can't be replicated. In Cleveland, sports is a thing.


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[Assistant] He, he might be on the list. It's hard to put baseball guys there because they don't, it's not a contact sport, right? And so when you look at some of these other guys, they may make your list. You talk about basketball, basketball is just, it's just tough.


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[Assistant] Endurance rise, especially you playing all those games. You playing back-to-backs. And then if you're good, you're going what you basketball season starts when, uh, wait, uh, October, October. Yeah, but you got camp kind of in September. If you good, you playing all the way to June. Yeah, but baseball.


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[Assistant] Cal Ripken has one of the greatest, we're talking about Ironman. That record, there's records in baseball that will never be defeated.


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[Assistant] No one will ever come close to that. Every single day? That's crazy. No one will ever come close to that.


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[Assistant] It's kind of off the beaten path, but if he's durable, he's cheap, he works hard, he doesn't give you any problems.


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[Assistant] Well man, you know, I went with a couple of different dudes here.


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[Assistant] Tristan Thompson for me was a weird one, but Tristan Thompson played a lot of games. He had an Ironman list going on there a little bit. Joe Thomas, 10 years in a row.


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[Assistant] Uh, like, that's crazy. The fact that as an offensive lineman, you touch, I always speak and say, you touch somebody every single play as an offensive lineman. You gotta be physical. A receiver can run around and come back. Lineman is crazy. These other two, I'mma put on here.


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[Assistant] For different reasons. Ernest Biner was mentally tough.


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[Assistant] To be able to come back from that fumble and to have a respectable career and still be out here in the community. I mean, you gotta think he was, he was destroyed after that. People couldn't even come back.


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[Assistant] He came back, had a nice career, like you said, won a Super Bowl, got a Super Bowl ring, and Albert Bell, I would say, as far as tough, he was the most literally intimidating dude. You guys remember when he trucked Fernando Vina? He was in the baseline.


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[Assistant] That's nuts. That's crazy. Listen, he get the reward from me. Hey, if I see him in the streets, he get the belt. I'm trying to figure out logistically, how do you put something in this little area right here? Logistically, how does that work?


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[Assistant] There's an unprovoked attack. You ever be outside and you got a problem with somebody y'all be playing basketball, they may have beat you or something. Okay. You get back to the house and they be like, hey man, you know, we had a good day today. What'd you say?


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[Assistant] It's a nice day outside, man. And what you, you, you nice day. What you mean? You trying to allude to what you did yesterday? Yeah, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Cleveland sports to me is bigger than anything. It's bigger than some people's marriages. They say the Dallas Cowboys are a married team. No, no, no, no.


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[Assistant] Dallas is not America's team. Cleveland is America's team. And sports in Cleveland is a religion. Uh, it's a way of life. Uh, it doesn't matter where you're from. It doesn't matter how much money you make. It doesn't matter. Sports is a way for people in Cleveland to get together. And it's something that can't be replicated. In Cleveland, sports is a thing.


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[Assistant] I'ma show some love, man. Listen, I always take pride in this, man. See, sometimes you gotta go back to the old school. See, you might have some money in your pocket today, but tomorrow, oh ho ho, that machete can come at any second.


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[Assistant] I was looking around my house, you know. I'm like, man.


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[Assistant] So what we doing here? I looked in the back of my freezer. What was in there? Found me some of these pot pies.


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[Assistant] I put that, I put that boy on 450. I even mixed a turkey and a chicken. It all tastes like one bird. I'ma tell you what.


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[Assistant] It's like 450 calories or something. One Popeye, but as long as I stay under two, but I see you Popeye.


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[Assistant] And I hurried up and covered him with the towel and he said, oh you don't have to worry about the towel. And I said, yes I do. So then what happened? He requested that I work on his abdomen.


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[Assistant] But the moment I went above his navel, he told me he didn't want me to work there, he wanted me to work lower.


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[Assistant] A wave just took over my body. I felt so hot. I was sweating. Uhm, it was...


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[Assistant] As I'm working, he deliberately grabs himself and put his penis on my hand. And I put my hand away.


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[Assistant] Coolest podcast in the world. I'm here today with my, uh, new friend, Brayden Safranski. What's up guys? Really cool guy, uh,


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[Assistant] Skateboarder, uh, business owner, entrepreneur, I've been drunk as fuck millions of times at your establishment, Black in Hollywood.


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[Assistant] Uh, and overall just a cool ass dude. Swinging guy around Los Angeles is how I would put it.


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[Assistant] That you've done it all, seen it all, true or false? True. Or at least a lot of it.


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[Assistant] And you're at Coachella, which is the ultimate epicenter of your jaded...


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[Assistant] Was it just a big field? You're making it sound like it was fucking Woodstock or something. It was Woodstock back in the day. Right.


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[Assistant] Hang out at the Weedmaps house? Yep. We're trying to turn it into the PCP house. If anyone wants to hit us up with some hard drugs. I'm just kidding. For those who don't know, I'm just kidding.


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[Assistant] Maybe. Uhm, no, because you made one remark to me one time when we were, uh, posted up outside of Brooklyn Project. Shout out to our man Dom. And, uh, we were about to roll a blend. This is when I was brand new to the block. I've only been on the block for a week.


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[Assistant] I'm brand new. Brand fucking new. But downtown is a scarier block to survive, bro. Exactly, yeaah. I'm such a fake ass member of the fraternity. Like, are you gonna, you're revealing this to me now?


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[Assistant] Are you a knight or a jester? Me? I'm a knight. Oh, really? And what have you done to earn that? Have you been knighted? Who knighted you?


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[Assistant] I just want to say this is that we were about to light a blown on the street. I was like, is this cool for us to smoke outside Brooklyn projects? And you're like, bro, I've been doing this for 15 years since it was a felony.


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[Assistant] And I thought that was so funny, cause like, I don't have that perspective, like ever since I moved to LA, weed was already nothing.


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[Assistant] And we really take it for granted because it's not so kosher in the rest of the United States or world.


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[Assistant] So you would have rather have been homeless in LA than have a home in Vegas?


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[Assistant] But you can't be as focused on skateboarding now as you were when you were 17, right? What's changed? More.


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[Assistant] I mean, you move to LA because you have a passion, and you got something that you want to pursue, and then all of a sudden, you figure out about going to clubs, you figure out about coke, figure out about going out.


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[Assistant] So he was your entry point to the scene for the most part? Really? And what era muska was this? What year are we talking? Peak backpack muska?


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[Assistant] But do you have to do some tricks to have had the full skate experience for the day? No. So what is an average day out skating then?


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[Assistant] He kind of like proves to the extreme that skateboarding isn't just about skateboarding because he's so part of it and so on a different wavelength, but his contribution is so. He is a skateboarder. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Skateboarding is about going to the store. The 7-Eleven. It's like, that's like, in terms of just transportation, don't you feel like that's kind of the ideal length that you want to go is like a few blocks if you're not


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[Assistant] Do you feel completely in touch with like the skateboarding industry or scene or is that something that you've really kind of lost interest in to a certain extent?


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[Assistant] Well see, that's interesting because you're like a young kid, you come out, you go pro, that becomes your whole identity in a certain way, right? Like you're-


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[Assistant] One of those guys, you're making a good living off skateboarding, you're killing it, you have...


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[Assistant] Understood yourself better after that transition where you sort of had the falling out with Baker and everything. Was that a weird thing for you to figure out who you were without being a pro skater?


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[Assistant] What do you got? Look at that, dual, dual access. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause you do have a couple of different investments, different things you started. There's the happy hour sunglasses, there's black, the bar I mentioned before. Is there anything else significant that I should know about?


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[Assistant] I haven't got a pedicure ever to be honest with you. But so is that a big focus of yours right now, this comfort brand?


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[Assistant] So Alfredo got me this photo shoot, uh, back in the day for this shoe company or whatever. Atiba's shooting the photos. I didn't know he was going to be the one shooting the photos. Obviously I know who Atiba is. So I show up and I'm the only BMX guy. It's a bunch of skate pros. And Atiba is taking the photos and he asked me if I can like 180 over this like post on Venice Beach that's like, you know, that high or whatever. And I did it.


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[Assistant] I think it was in Venice. But it's like, I tried it, I did it.


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[Assistant] But his photo looked bad, like he didn't, you know, he doesn't really know like how it's supposed to look. DMX so much so he's, I was like, can I do that again? He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] In this case, it was a 180-row pull. You want your arms to be kind of straight. You want your knees to be tucked up nice. You know, it just didn't really look right, but from his perspective, he didn't really know. I was like, I'm gonna do it again. I do it again. I fucking crack my... I gave myself a concussion.


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[Assistant] When you knock yourself out, you're like a child, you know? Yea, I know. It's so embarrassing.


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[Assistant] Right. Well he pretty much lives there. That's his job is just to go to Hollywood High every weekend. I've seen him there once with like 40 dudes trying tricks at the same time and that just doesn't happen in BMX. I was just so blown away.


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[Assistant] Was there a time where you thought BMX was super wack? No. No? You weren't one of those guys? No. That's a lot of skaters who are like that. It's okay.


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[Assistant] Right. Could you ever live anywhere besides Southern California now? You stuck for life?


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[Assistant] Were you bad with the drugs, or was it always a distraction?


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[Assistant] Well that's the problem, is that then you become a pro skateboarder, all of a sudden you can afford as much blow as you want for a while.


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[Assistant] Okay, but with Black and with Happy Hour and all the things that have gone right with you business wise, like to what do you credit that? Do you feel like you have that?


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[Assistant] It's a funny bar because it's like Monday through Wednesday. Monday through Wednesday it's pretty, pretty chill. You can go in there, have a couple drinks, hang out with your friends, have a conversation. And then all of a sudden it's, it's a Thursday or Friday these days where it just becomes one of the most popular bars in Hollywood with a line out the friggin' door, out the window.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. You might be being a little optimistic there, but wax, you can do a lot with wax.


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[Assistant] That was always a thing in BMX is that dudes would be like, oh, it's so wack for you to wax a ledge or whatever. And I'm thinking, you don't realize that skateboarders waxing all these ledges is the only reason that any of these spots are already spots, like a rail doesn't need wax. But a lot of ledges, like, they are spots because somebody sat there and waxed the fuck out of it.


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[Assistant] They hit that wall, whether it's, you know, rap music, BMX, skateboarding, where...


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[Assistant] When they're 14, they love it so much that everything that they can see about it, they love it so much. And then they hit a wall where maybe they're...


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[Assistant] Twenty, twenty-five or whatever where all of a sudden it's just all this, all this new rap sucks, all this new rap sucks, all these new skateboarders are just doing the shit we already seen. You're not there.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? Like you're not at the point where you see a 16 year old kid and you're like, ah, it's boring, I've already seen all these tricks before. I have.


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[Assistant] Would you be bummed if you had a kid and they just ended up spending all their time on the computer? Like they weren't really experiencing life the way you got to?


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[Assistant] So it's funny though because the way that the media has changed, it used to be that you as a skater, you just went out and killed it. And then one day, hopefully you got acknowledged by a filmer or a magazine, they want to put you in there. It used to be that you just did your thing and then at some point somebody noticed you. But now it's you have to mark it yourself.


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[Assistant] You kinda fetishize that? The idea of dying young? You're a bit of a rockstar.


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[Assistant] If you died right now, would you feel like you left a lot of things undone?


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[Assistant] You have other magazine covers? Just not Thrasher? Yea, I got a few. Okay.


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[Assistant] Right. Okay, what is it about Thrasher that makes it such an eternally legendary brand, even in the eyes of somebody like you who's been around the block a million times?


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[Assistant] How the fuck do you straddle the line between being the most legendary skateboarding brand arguably of all time and then you're also like realistically one of the most popular t-shirts on non-skateboarders of all time right now?


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[Assistant] A couple weeks. Yeah. Geez. You're below. That's behind the times. I gotta look every day.


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[Assistant] I'm on that right now. I'm on the Reese's right now.


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[Assistant] And then you stay out late partying quite often or no? Not so much anymore?


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[Assistant] An hour of answering emails. You got it easy buddy. Oh my god, my life is fucking gold.


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[Assistant] So you're, you say you have such an obsessive personality. Is there gonna come a moment where you're just like, you know what?


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[Assistant] Skateboarding ain't doing it anymore. I'm a motherfucking stamp collector and you're 50 years old and you just completely do a 180.


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[Assistant] It's beautiful. Well put. Uh, you are a guy who I'm assuming throughout your life you've gotten a prolific amount of ass. Now you have a girlfriend, you're trying to chill out.


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[Assistant] How's that? You hit a wall where you're like, I just can't do this anymore, I can't just keep fucking shoving my dick in random people?


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[Assistant] Well, you know, I had an experience when I was maybe like 22, 23 where I hooked up with this girl. I wake up in the morning, she's already like dressed for work, but she worked at Staples. So she's got like the red long sleeve collared shirt.


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[Assistant] That was not easy for me to lay eyes upon, bro. We're almost done? Are we wrapping up? Are we in an hour? Oh my god, I can't believe that just flew by.


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[Assistant] I'm all of the above. Braden, they want us to wrap it up. Thank you so much for your no jumper appearance. I want to have you close.


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[Assistant] Think of somebody, and you can like co-host and we'll interview somebody together, one of your homies. Somebody you fuck with, you know?


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[Assistant] We fucks. Anyway, thank you very much to Weedmaps. Thank you very much to, uh, everybody who coached Coachella and allowed us to happen.


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[Assistant] We planned to go to dinner at a little Italian restaurant on the boardwalk, but the dress shopping hadn't taken as long as we'd expected. Jess and Angela were going to take their clothes back to the car and then walk down to the bay. I told them I would meet them at the restaurant in an hour. I wanted to look for a bookstore.


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[Assistant] They were both willing to come with me, but I encouraged them to go have fun.


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[Assistant] They didn't know how preoccupied I could get when surrounded by books. It was something I preferred to do alone.


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[Assistant] They walked off to the car chattering happily, and I headed in the direction Jess pointed out. I had no trouble finding the bookstore, but it wasn't what I was looking for. The windows were full of crystals, dream catchers, and books about spiritual healing. I didn't even go inside.


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[Assistant] I meandered through the streets, which were filling up with end of the workday traffic, and hoped I was headed toward downtown. I wasn't paying as much attention as I should to where I was going. I was wrestling with despair. I was trying so hard not to think about him and what Angela had said. More than anything trying to beat down my hopes for Saturday.


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[Assistant] Fearing a disappointment more painful than the rest, when I looked up to see someone's silver Volvo parked along the street, and it all came crashing down on me.


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[Assistant] Stupid, unreliable vampire, I thought to myself.


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[Assistant] I stomped along in a southerly direction, towards some glass-fronted shops that looked promising.


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[Assistant] But when I got to them, they were just a repair shop and a vacant space. I still had too much time to go looking for Jess and Angela yet.


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[Assistant] And I definitely needed to get my mood in hand before I met back up with them.


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[Assistant] I ran my fingers through my hair a couple of times and took some deep breaths before I continued around the corner. I started to realize as I crossed another road that I was going the wrong direction. The little foot traffic I had seen was going north, and it looked like the buildings here were mostly warehouses.


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[Assistant] I decided to turn east at the next corner and then loop around after a few blocks and try my luck on a different street on my way back to the boardwalk.


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[Assistant] A group of four men turned around the corner I was heading for, dressed too casually to be heading home from the office, but they were too grimy to be tourists.


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[Assistant] As they approached me, I realized they weren't too many years older than I was.


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[Assistant] They were joking loudly among themselves, laughing raucously and punching each other's arms.


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[Assistant] The closest, a heavy set, dark haired man in his early twenties, seemed to be the one who had spoken.


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[Assistant] He was wearing a flannel shirt open over a dirty t-shirt, cut off jeans and sandals. He took half a step toward me. Hello, I mumbled, a knee-jerk reaction. Then I quickly looked away and walked faster toward the corner. I could hear them laughing at full volume behind me. Hey, wait, one of them called after me again. But I kept my head down and rounded the corner with a sigh of relief. I could still hear them chortling behind me. I found myself on a sidewalk.


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[Assistant] Leading past the backs of several somber colored warehouses.


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[Assistant] Only a chain link fence, topped with barbed wire protecting some kind of engine parts storage yard.


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[Assistant] I'd wandered far past the part of Port Angeles that I, as a guest, was intended to see. It was getting dark I realized.


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[Assistant] The clouds finally returning, piling up on the western horizon, creating an early sunset. The eastern sky was still clear, but graying, shot through with streaks of pink and orange.


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[Assistant] I left my jacket in the car and a sudden shiver made me cross my arms tightly across my chest. A single van passed me, and then the road was empty. The sky suddenly darkened further, and as I looked over my shoulder to glare at the offending cloud, I realized with a shock that two men were walking quietly 20 feet behind me. They were from the same group I'd passed at the corner, though neither was the dark one who'd spoken to me.


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[Assistant] My purse was on a shoulder strap and I had it slung across my body, the way you were supposed to wear it so it wouldn't get snatched. I knew exactly where my pepper spray was, still in my duffel bag under the bed, never unpacked. I didn't have much money with me, just a twenty and some ones.


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[Assistant] Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Chapter 49. Putting Miss Havisham's note in my pocket.


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[Assistant] That it might serve as my credentials for so soon reappearing at Sarta's house,


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[Assistant] In case her waywardness should lead her to express any surprise at seeing me I went down again by the coach next day.


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[Assistant] But I alighted at the halfway house, and breakfasted there, and walked the rest of the distance, for I sought to get into the town quietly by the unfrequented ways, and to leave it in the same manner.


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[Assistant] The nooks of ruin, where the old monks had once had their refractories and gardens.


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[Assistant] The cathedral chimes had at once a sadder and a more remote sound to me, as I hurried on avoiding observation than they had ever had before.


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[Assistant] So the swell of the old organ was borne to my ears like funeral music, and the rooks, as they hovered about the grey tower,


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[Assistant] The lighted candle stood in the dark passage within, as of old, and I took it up and ascended the staircase alone. Miss Havisham was not in her own room, but was in the larger room across the landing, looking in at the door after knocking in vain.


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[Assistant] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair close before and lost in the contemplation of the ashy fire.


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[Assistant] Though she had willfully done me a deeper injury than I could charge her with. As I stood, compassionating her, and thinking how, in the progress of time, I too


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[Assistant] Mr. Jaggers gave me your note yesterday, and I've lost no time. Thank you. Thank you.


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[Assistant] As I brought another of the ragged chairs to the hearth, and sat down, I remarked a new expression on her face, as if she were afraid of me.


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[Assistant] To pursue that subject you mentioned to me when you were last here, and to show you that I am not all stone.


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[Assistant] But perhaps you can never believe now that there is anything human in my heart.


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[Assistant] When I said some reassuring words, she stretched out her tremulous right hand, as though she was going to touch me. But she recalled it again before I understood the action, or knew how to receive it.


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[Assistant] Something that you would like done, is it not? Something that I would like done very much. What is it?


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[Assistant] I began explaining to her that secret history of the partnership. I had not got far into it.


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[Assistant] When I judged from her looks that she was thinking in a discursive way of me, rather than of what I said.


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[Assistant] Many moments passed before she showed that she was conscious of the fact. Do you break off, she asked then, with her former air of being afraid of me, because you hate me too much to bear to speak to me? No, no, I answered. How can you think so, Miss Havisham? I stopped because I thought you were not following what I said. Perhaps I was not, she answered, putting a hand to her head.


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[Assistant] She set her hand upon her stick, in the resolute way that sometimes was habitual to her, and looked at the fire with a strong expression of forcing herself to attend. I went on with my explanation.


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[Assistant] So, said she, assenting with her head, but not looking at me.


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[Assistant] Will you keep my secret as you have kept your own? Quite as faithfully. And your mind will be more at rest? Much more at rest. Are you very unhappy now? She asked me this question, still without looking at me, but in an unwanted tone of sympathy.


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[Assistant] I cannot reply at the moment, for my voice failed me. She put her left arm across the head of her stick, and softly laid her forehead on it. I am far from happy, Miss Haversham.


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[Assistant] But I have other causes of disquiet than any you know of. They are the secrets I have mentioned. After a little while she raised her head and looked at the fire again.


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[Assistant] It is noble in you to tell me that you have other causes of unhappiness. Is it true? Too true. Can I only serve you, Pip, by serving your friend? Regarding that as done, is there nothing I can do for you yourself? Nothing. I thank you for the question.


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[Assistant] I thank you even more for the tone of the question, but there is nothing. She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing. There were none there. And she took from her pocket a yellow set of ivory tablets, mounted in tarnished gold.


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[Assistant] And wrote upon them with a pencil in a case of tarnished gold that hung from her neck.


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[Assistant] You are still on friendly terms with Mr. Jaggers? Quite. I dined with him yesterday. This is an authority to him, to pay you that money.


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[Assistant] But if you would rather Mr. Jaggers knew nothing of the matter, I will send it to you. Thank you, Miss Havisham. I'm not the least objection to receiving it from him. She read me what she had written, and it was direct and clear.


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[Assistant] I took the tablets from her hand, and it trembled again.


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[Assistant] There have been sore mistakes, and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.


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[Assistant] To see her, with her white hair, and her worn face, kneeling at my feet, gave me a shock through all my frame. I entreated her to rise, and got my arms about her to help her up. But she only pressed that hand of mine which was nearest to her grasp, and hung her head over it, and wept.


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[Assistant] Very little. I should have loved her under any circumstances. Is she married? Yes. It was a needless question, for a new desolation in the desolate house had told me so. What have I done? What have I done? She wrung her hands and crushed her white hair, and returned to this cry over and over again.


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[Assistant] What have I done? I knew not how to answer, or how to comfort her. That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in, I knew full well. But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more.


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[Assistant] And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world? Until you spoke to her the other day,


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[Assistant] You may dismiss me from your mind and conscience, but Astella is a different case.


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[Assistant] And if you can ever undo any scrap of what you have done amiss, and keeping a part of her right nature away from her, it will be better to do that than to bemoan the past through a hundred years. Yes, yes, I know it. But Pip, my dear.


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[Assistant] There was an earnest womanly compassion for me in her new affection. My dear, believe this, when she first came to me


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[Assistant] As she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did worse.


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[Assistant] I stole her heart away, and put ice in its place. Better, I could not help saying.


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[Assistant] To have left her a natural heart, even to be bruised or broken. With that, Miss Havisham looked distractedly at me for a while, and then burst out again. What had she done? If you knew all my story, she pleaded, you would have some compassion for me, and a better understanding of me. Miss Havisham, I answered as delicately as I could.


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[Assistant] I believe I may say that I do know your story, and I've known it ever since I first left this neighborhood.


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[Assistant] It has inspired me with great commiseration, and I hope I understand it and its influences.


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[Assistant] Does what has passed between us give me any excuse for asking you a question relative to Estella? Not as she is, but as she was when she first came here.


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[Assistant] She was seated on the ground, with her arms on the ragged chair, and her head leaning on them. She looked full at me when I said this, and replied, Go on. Whose child was Estella? She shook her head. You don't know? She shook her head again. But Mr. Jaggers brought her here, or sent her here? Brought her here. Will you tell me how that came about?


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[Assistant] She answered in a low whisper and with caution.


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[Assistant] I had been shut up in these rooms a long time. I don't know how long. You know what time the clocks keep here.


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[Assistant] When I told him that I wanted a little girl to rear and love and save from my fate, I had first seen him when I sent for him to lay this place waste for me, having read of him in the newspapers before I and the world parted. He told me that he would look about him for such an orphan child. One night he brought her here asleep, and I called her Estella.


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[Assistant] Might I ask her age then? Two or three. She herself knows nothing, but that she was left an orphan, and I adopted her.


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[Assistant] So convinced I was of that woman's being her mother, that I wanted no evidence to establish the fact in my own mind. But to any mind I thought the connection here was clear and straight. What more could I hope to do by prolonging the interview? I had succeeded on behalf of Herbert. Miss Havisham had told me all she knew of Estella.


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[Assistant] No matter with what other words we parted, we parted.


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[Assistant] Twilight was closing in when I went downstairs into the natural air.


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[Assistant] By the wilderness of casks that I had walked on long ago, and on which the rain of years had fallen since, rotting them in many places, and leaving miniature swamps and pools of water upon those that stood on end, I made my way to the ruined garden. I went all round it, round by the corner where Herbert and I had fought our battle, round by the paths where Estella and I had walked, so cold, so lonely, so dreary


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[Assistant] A childish association revived with wonderful force in the moment of the slight action, and I fancy that I saw Miss Havisham hanging to the beam. So strong was the impression.


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[Assistant] I stood under the beam shuddering from head to foot before I knew it was a fancy, though to be sure I was there in an instant. The mournfulness of the place and time, and the great terror of this illusion, though it was but momentary, caused me to feel an indescribable awe


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[Assistant] As I came out between the open wooden gates, where I had once wrung my hair, after Estella had wrung my heart. Passing on into the front courtyard.


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[Assistant] I hesitated whether to call the woman to let me out of the locked gate, of which she had the key.


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[Assistant] Or first to go upstairs and assure myself that Miss Havisham was as safe and well as I had left her. I took the latter course and went up. I looked into the room where I had left her.


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[Assistant] And I saw her seated in the ragged chair upon the hearth, close to the fire, with her back towards me.


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[Assistant] In the moment when I was withdrawing my head to go quietly away, I saw a great flaming light spring up


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[Assistant] In the same moment I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her.


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[Assistant] And with it dragged down the heap of rottenness in the midst, and all the ugly things that sheltered there. That we were on the ground struggling like desperate enemies. And at the closer I covered her, the more wildly she shrieked, and tried to free herself. That this occurred, I knew through the result, but not through anything I felt, or thought, or knew I did. I knew nothing, until I knew that we were on the floor, by the great table, and that patches of tinder yet alight.


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[Assistant] And saw the disturbed beetles and spiders running away over the floor, and the servants coming in with breathless cries at the door. I still held her forcibly down with all my strength, like a prisoner who might escape. And I doubt if I even knew who she was, or why we had struggled, or that she had been in flames, or that the flames were out, until I saw the patches of tinder that had been her garments, no longer alight, but falling in a black shower around us.


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[Assistant] When I got up, on the surgeon's coming to her with other aid, I was astonished to see that both my hands were burnt, for I had no knowledge of it through the sense of feeling. On examination, it was pronounced that she had received serious hurts, but that they of themselves were far from hopeless. The danger lay mainly in the nervous shock. By the surgeon's directions, her bed was carried into that room, and laid upon the great table.


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[Assistant] When I saw her again an hour afterwards, she lay indeed where I had seen her strike her stick, and had heard her say that she would lie one day.


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[Assistant] Though every vestige of her dress was burnt, as they told me, she still had something of her old ghastly bridal appearance.


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[Assistant] For they had covered head of the throat with white cotton wool.


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[Assistant] And as she lay with the white sheet loosely overlying that.


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[Assistant] And I got a promise from the surgeon that he would write to her by the next post. Miss Havisham's family, I took upon myself, intending to communicate with Mr. Matthew Pocket only, and leave him to do as he liked about informing the rest. This I did next day, through Herbert, as soon as I returned to town.


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[Assistant] There was a stage that evening when she spoke collectively of what had happened, though with a certain terrible vivacity. Towards midnight she began to wander in her speech, and after that it gradually set in that she said innumerable times in a low solemn voice, What have I done? and then, when she first came,


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[Assistant] She never changed the order of these three sentences, but she sometimes left out a word in one or other of them, never putting in another word, but always leaving a blank and going on to the next word.


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[Assistant] As I could do no service there, and as I had, near a home, that pressing reason for anxiety and fear, which even her wanderings could not drive out of my mind.


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[Assistant] I decided in the course of the night that I would return by the early morning coach.


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[Assistant] Walking on a mile or so, and being taken up clear of the town. At about six o'clock of the morning, therefore,


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[Assistant] We promise, we'll do everything we can to stop him. We'll all head to the world that Geargod is in.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's get into it here. Our last Strixhaven review of any kind. C21, the new commanders. There are two, two colored commanders per pre-con and then two mono colored commanders. So that leaves us four for Lorehold, four for Witherbloom, and then we out.


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[Assistant] Do you wanna read Oscar? Oscar! I'm just calling him Oscar. Oscar? I like Oscar. He looks kinda grouchy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's pretty clear like what's on the card, right? You can use Oscar to sacrifice an artifact, then you can use Oscar on the next turn or if you can untap him, uhm, to now exile that artifact from your graveyard and make two token copies of it on the battlefield. So, double your money there.


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[Assistant] Really the word attack is not anywhere on the card, which for most Boros cards is rare. So the fact that Lorehold's already kind of going in a value engine direction, I was very excited about when I saw Oscar. So, and this is definitely like an artifact value deck, right?


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[Assistant] And you, you do have to pay full price, but you get two for one, right? So you get two Sol Rings for the price of that one mana if you're bringing it back. So let's talk about the best stuff to bring back with Oscar. And to your point, I think the best stuff is the stuff you can do early and is going to be cheap because you're not going to want to spend or be able to spend a ton of extra mana to get really big impressive stuff out early.


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[Assistant] That's something you're gonna do later in the game.


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[Assistant] Imagine like, so we've got like ancient den, great furnace, dark seal, citadel, you can sacrifice them to oscar or sacrifice them to another effect after you've tapped them for mana. And then bring them right back onto the battlefield, uh, and that's not gonna cost you any mana, and you're gonna get two of them.


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[Assistant] So now Oscar literally cheated an extra land into play. So now it's a rampant growth for no mana on a card.


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[Assistant] Great. So next up we're gonna talk about mana rocks, uhm, like the soul ring. But of course we want them to be cheap or free, again to get them out early. Mox tantalite is a really good example of this. It's an artifact that you suspend three for zero.


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[Assistant] So for no mana, you just put it off with three suspend counters, and then after three upkeeps, it comes into play, and it taps for a mana of any color. But, if you use Oscar's ability,


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[Assistant] To copy it out of the, or double copy it out of the graveyard, it won't suspend or anything, it just comes into play. So it will make two Mox Tantalites, so you basically get two mana rocks for zero mana through Oscar.


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[Assistant] Uh, we put Jeweled Lotus down here, and I put a question mark, cause our two Jeweled Lotus is good. Obviously, like, Jeweled Lotus helps you get Oscar out on turn two. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I think, yeaah, I think it is good. You'd just be like, yeaah, I'll make two Jeweled Lotuses, and now, you just, basically, Oscar can never go away. And now you basically can recast Oscar anytime you want for the rest of the game. Right? Cause two Jeweled Lotuses just kinda guarantees the mana you'll ever need to play Commander Dex.


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[Assistant] Then let's talk about artifacts. I think one of the problems with this deck is gonna be getting the artifacts in the graveyard. Yeah, Oscar can do it, but it costs some mana.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I like artifacts that sacrifice themselves. So they kind of do a thing and then put themselves where you want them so that Oscar can make two copies of them. So the first three are all bobbles. The first three we're going to talk about here. It's Mishra's bobble, Urza's bobble, Wayfarer's bobble. Two of those draw you cards and one of those ramps you.


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[Assistant] I even think we're gonna play some cards that we normally wouldn't, except for maybe in CEDH that are like pretty low value, they're card disadvantage for what they do, like Lotus Petal, zero mana for an artifact, you sacrifice it and add one mana of any color.


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[Assistant] Like a card for one mana is like not something we generally want to do, but because this ends up being like a card for three mana, it becomes a lot lot better, right?


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[Assistant] Also getting Oscar out a turn early with your Lotus pedal I think is very important again because it has a tap ability, it's on a delay when you play it unless you give it haste. So just anything that's gonna get it out faster and get it


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[Assistant] Hopefully suspend this early, by the time it comes out you use it, and now that's nine mana on one card. Uh, an insane amount.


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[Assistant] And then I think like, you can get a lot of card draw out of your mana rocks and stuff too, so like Mind Stone, Commander Sphere, both of those allow you, they tap for mana, but then they also can sac themselves.


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[Assistant] So that's ramp and card draw on the same card, which is really, really good. Burnished heart is a card that sees a lot of play.


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[Assistant] But also allows you to sack all your other artifacts. And once that's out, now you're really


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[Assistant] I'm cooking with gas here because you can sack any of your artifacts to it for no mana, get them in the graveyard for Oscar to make two of. And it gives you mana that Oscar can then use. Cause remember, as we move up the chain and do wanna do more and more broken stuff, Oscar's gonna cost mana. It has to pay the CMC or the mana value of the thing that it's making two copies of.


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[Assistant] So far we've mostly mentioned things that are cheap, but you know, well I-


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[Assistant] I guess that's not the, um, the next, the next, uh, category. So I won't skip ahead here, but there's other ways to get things into the graveyard besides KCI though. I think you're going to want a number of sack outlets for artifacts, right? So a good one is Deredi, Scrap Savant, Three in a Red for Three Loyalty, Planeswalker.


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[Assistant] It's plus two is discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. Which can put artifacts into the graveyard, right? You don't have to sac them. You're literally just replacing them in your hand and you're like, I want this artifact in the graveyard.


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[Assistant] Sort of, with Oscar, because you could still like, it's at the beginning of the next n-step, so you have a window where you can make the two top copies of it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Goblin Engineers is another SAC outlet. It's uh, two mana one two. When it enters the battlefield, you can search your library for an artifact card. Put it into your graveyard, then shuffle your library. So it's an Entomb for artifacts. Just put something in there right away for Oscar.


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[Assistant] Take advantage of, you know, maybe you just play it and you immediately put the soul ring into the graveyard and make two of it. Like how good of a turn, like four or something, is that? Super good.


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[Assistant] But also Goblin Engineer is one red tapit sacking artifact and then you return target artifact card with converted mana cost three or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.


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[Assistant] Yep, I don't need the little ones anymore. I don't need a mistress bauble right now.


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[Assistant] And then like you said, rummaging slash looting is so good because you can choose which artifacts to put in there and swap them out for cards off the top of your library. So faithless looting. Quicksmith Genius is a cool one, two in a red for a three, two. When an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may discard a card if you do draw a card. So every time an artifact ETBs for you, so Oscar.


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[Assistant] Makes the two token copies of artifacts that come in and quicksmith genius says, Oh, do you want to discard two cards and draw two cards? And you're like, yes, I do. Cause I want more artifacts in my graveyard. Yeah. Uh, smuggler's copter is an artifact itself that Oscar can make copies of.


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[Assistant] But also when it attacks, you get to loot, you get to draw a card and then discard a card. Uhm, so, just a lot of cool ways to get artifacts integrated.


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[Assistant] And you also sack memory jar to use it. So now it's in your graveyard to make two copies of it. Oh, that's so good. Memory jar, really, really, really, really good. Uh, okay. And then let's talk about the fun stuff. The things that are good to sacrifice, you know, they want to be sacrificed and these tend to be a little bit bigger. So like warm coil engine.


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[Assistant] So it's hard to even board wipe and get out of this mess, right? Yeah. Triple kit titan's a cool one. This is one of the new cards from C21. Nine mana, but it's an artifact creature golem for a nine nine. Has flying vigilance and trample. And basically does the golem version of form coil engine here. So when it dies...


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[Assistant] You make a 3-3 with flying, a 3-3 with vigilance, and a 3-3 with trample. These are all golems. Uhm, so-


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[Assistant] This is so great if your deck is built around sacrificing artifacts, cause you're like, I have that from you now. You're never getting it back, because I'm gonna use it and then sack it.


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[Assistant] Just don't tap it, don't make that deal. Uh, alright, and then let's talk about Sacrifice Synergies, and this is another grouping of cards we're probably going to talk about a lot with the Lorehold stuff because it is so ubiquitous to artifacts. It's the Scrap Trawler, Junk Diver, Mirror Retriever,


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[Assistant] This is what I call Artifactocrats. Uh, Scrap Trawler is a 3-drop artifact for, uh, 3-2. When it or another artifact you control is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, you return to your hand target artifact card from your graveyard with lesser mana value. So it basically says, like, if a 4 CMC, a 4 mana value artifact dies,


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[Assistant] Then you can get something, an artifact, three CMC or less into your hand. So this is a way to just kind of continuously recur. A lot of people use this with sculpting steel because it is a lower CMC in your graveyard than it is on the battlefield often. So you can kind of get into loose with this. This stuff works really well with KCI.


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[Assistant] And if it's zero, you can usually play it right away and use it and just get your value right away too. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh, Goblin Welder's another one that allows you to kind of swap, uh, artifact and play for an artifact in the graveyard. But you can do that for other players too, so you can be like, oh hey, your soul ring's gone and I'll give you back your Wayfarer's Bobble or whatever. Which is like, you know, it's worse than your soul ring is all I'm saying.


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[Assistant] I think this deck is going to have a lot more artifacts in the graveyard than Oscar can realistically bring out. Oh yea. So you're gonna want to dump a lot of stuff in there and turn your graveyard into like this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you build your deck right, your graveyard will be overflowing and 1 to 5 cards or 10 cards that you exile out of there aren't gonna make a ton of difference. You'll get the value now. Uhm, and then let's talk about some more synergies with oscars. So there's anonia procession, oscar is making


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[Assistant] Uh, Rings of Breitharth allows you to copy an activated ability, so Oscar has an activated ability. Illusionist Bracers also copies an activated ability, it just equips rather than...


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[Assistant] Has a trigger like Rings of Breitharth, uhm, Lithoform Engine can also copy inactivated abilities, so, and those are all artifacts by the way, that Oscar can make two copies of. So good. Imagine like double illusionist bracers on Oscar.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh. Alright, let's talk about, finally we'll wrap up Oscar here with some combo potential. So there's a bunch of stuff that you can do, and I think in any deck that's gonna have a lot of artifacts and care about recurring artifacts, you're gonna want Microsynth Lattice.


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[Assistant] Which is six mana for an artifact that says all permanents are artifacts in addition to their other types. All cards that aren't on the battlefield spells and permanents are colorless. Players may spend mana as though are mana of any color. So given that you're going to have that in your deck, if you want to be mean and combo-y, you can get Karn, the Great Creator, which has activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.


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[Assistant] That's a mean thing you can do. Another combo that's very adjacent to the strategy we're doing, and I think would probably line up if you want to make this combo, is Heliod Suncrowned and Walking Ballista.


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[Assistant] Also, you know, with KCI and the stuff you're doing, you might get into a point where you can just make 50 mana, in which case, dump it into walking ballista and just kill somebody with it, cause you can go face.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and Heliod's Uncrowned goes infinite by giving Walking Bullets to Life Link and then when it pings something, that's you getting life which puts another counter on it and you can do that forever. So that's a combo that might go in there. There's some really interesting stuff I was reading on Reddit about Mirror of Fate. Do you see these ones?


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[Assistant] Okay, let me read Mirror of Fate because I don't think people, most people know it. It's five mana for an artifact.


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[Assistant] You can tap and sacrifice the Mirror of Fate, and then choose up to seven face-up exiled cards you own. Exile the cards from your library, then put the chosen cards on top of your library.


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[Assistant] Now this works because Oscar is exiling cards from your graveyard. So you can activate the Mirror of Fate and then take those exiled cards and put them back on your library. But here's the thing, the Mirror of Fate goes into your graveyard.


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[Assistant] If you activate Oscar, you make two mirror of fates and the current mirror of fate in your graveyard goes into exile. Now you activate the first mirror of fates and it's gonna basically exile your entire library.


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[Assistant] Well, you do it with the second one, right? So you activate the first Mirror of Fate, you only have a Mirror of Fate in Exile now.


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[Assistant] So anyway, Mirror of Fate, an interesting card. It might also just be good in the Oscar deck for those people who are worried about like, yeah, I do want to be able to get some things back from exile when they get exiled.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure how powerful it is. There's one category we didn't put on here, so I'm gonna add it. It's editors. Just put up on the graphic at the bottom. Untappers.


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[Assistant] And things like that are going to be very good with Oscar because you're going to want to use it multiple times. Mage Rites Stone, there's a few other colorless ways, uh, Staff of Domination. Staff of Domination, yeaah. And those are artifacts too, so, you know, you can sac them, make two of them, now be untapping it multiple times in a turn.


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[Assistant] It does mana, uh, Oscar can be mana intensive depending on what you're getting back, so you're gonna want a lot of the zero cast stuff to pull that off, or artifact lands in your graveyard and stuff like that, but imagine the turn where you go, okay, tap Oscar.


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[Assistant] Get my, you know, get two Ancient Dens into play, untap Oscar, tap him, get two Darksteel Cetadels into play, untap Oscar.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's talk about the next lower hold commander. It is Alibu, Ancient Witness, 3 red, white for a 4, 5, legendary creature Gollum. It says other artifact creatures you control have haste. And then whenever one or more artifact creatures you control attack, Alibu


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[Assistant] Also, if you have a bunch of creatures, you can attack with them all, and it will count the tapped creatures too, so, it can get pretty mean pretty fast, I think, considering a lot, like, mana rocks and artifact lands are not that hard to put in your deck.


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[Assistant] You're already, you're already gonna put mana rocks into your deck anyway. So I'd say on most turns somebody's attacking, it would have, like in a normal deck, it would be easy for them to have three or four artifacts tapped at that point.


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[Assistant] I like that it gives the artifact creatures haste too, so it just has a way that like, even if you killed it,


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[Assistant] You might be able to, or kill the creatures attacking. You might, you can probably play something and attack with it right away. So you can sort of keep this going easier. It's harder to just stop. So the first category is artifacts that tap without attacking.


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[Assistant] Uh, mana rocks we said, artifact lands. There's also like, Mishra's Factory and Ink Moth Nexus that turn into artifact creatures that can trigger both sides of Alibu, right? You could tap them for mana and then turn them into the creature, or you can use them as the artifact creature that's attacking to trigger Alibu.


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[Assistant] I love the, the mirror that, the mana dork mirror, so iron mirror, gold mirror, plague mirror specifically is pretty good too, uh, just cause it is scary cause it has infect but it taps for mana and so you can turn it into maybe a lethal threat at some point in the game, but it's a mana dork early on and the mana dorks, they don't need to attack, you just tap them for the mana and now they're counting towards that extra alibut damage.


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[Assistant] Uh, the next category is stuff that can tap your artifacts. So a lot of artifacts might be a little bit difficult to tap, and so having some ways in the deck that allow you to tap your artifacts, uh, can be very, very powerful. A lot of these are favorites of mine from that, uhm, Tago and Kodama deck I played on game nights.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you did the gear purr damage too, so it might be a ton plus like two or three. Yes, absolutely. I like that. Clock of Omens is another good card in the deck. It's four mana for an artifact, but you can tap two untapped artifacts you control to untap target artifact.


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[Assistant] Uh, loadstone mirror gets plus one plus one until end of turn. A way to get your artifacts tapped and it could be the thing that's swinging as well.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sahili's Directive you put on here, it's red, red, red and X.


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[Assistant] You can reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of artifact cards with converted mana cost mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. And then you put all the other cards revealed this way, uh, into, uh, into your graveyard. But Saheeli's Directive has Improvise. So Improvise says each artifact you tap after you've, uh,


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[Assistant] After you're done activating mana abilities, pays for one of this spell. So it's a way to tap your artifacts because when you cast a spell, all your artifacts become mana rocks for a second.


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[Assistant] Yeah, inspiring statuary is just a three mana artifact, and it says non-artifact spells you cast have improvise.


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[Assistant] So you do want to make sure you have enough non-artifact spells in your deck for this to be worth it, but in general, if you've got, you know, 30 or so, which you're likely to in the entirety of the deck, then this is going to be good because it will allow all your artifacts to tap to pay for, you know, all those non-artifact spells. If you're putting a bunch of stuff in your deck that's going to tap artifacts,


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[Assistant] There are a few artifacts you should consider. Howling Mind being the easy one. Uh, it's easy to not know this because


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[Assistant] Early on in Magic, Howling Mine was templated differently, and then later on, they sort of officially templated it, so it has some wording that isn't on, like, the alpha, beta, unlimited, revised version of the card. But Howling Mine is two mana for an artifact. It says, at the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped,


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[Assistant] That player draws an additional card. So with the ability to tap Howling Mind consistently, you can tap it during your turn


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[Assistant] So, Winter Orb says, as long as Winter Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untapped steps.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a good point actually. Alright, then let's talk about just stuff that makes a lot of artifacts, because you want Alibut to trigger for as much damage as possible. The first step to doing that is just having a ton of artifacts on the table, given that now we know how to tap them in a lot of different ways. Uh, Mere Battlespear makes a ton of artifacts. Hangarback Walker.


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[Assistant] This is kind of a new card, I'll read it. It's 4 mana for a 4-4 artifact creature construct. It has Kicker 3. So if uhm, it was kicked, it enters the battlefield with a 1-1 counter on it for each non-basic land your opponent's control. So 7 mana can often come in with like 8-10 counters on it.


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[Assistant] And then when it becomes the target of a spell, you sacrifice it and create a number of 1-1 colorless construct artifact creature tokens equal to its power. So...