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[Assistant] Once we reach the point that we want to deploy, we have a heavy ballast that we can drop. This is a pyrotechnically severed device and we drop, uhm, this ballast which then shoots the vehicle up to land on the ice. We have these three compliant arms that basically, uh,


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[Assistant] Hold us steady. This is important because the science measurements that we're taking are measuring, uhm, it's basically sensing these small turbulent eddies. So as, uh, the ice is melting, you have cold water flowing down and creating these small eddies and you need to be very still to be able to actually sense those.


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[Assistant] After a period of months then, uhm, it's hard to transmit data from beneath, you know, a lot of ice.


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[Assistant] The approach there is then to be able to detach from those legs and from an extra set of flotation, return to a state of neutral buoyancy, and then when we're at that neutral buoyancy, again, we can control, uh, whether we're positive or negative through that variable buoyancy engine.


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[Assistant] Here you can see some of the system functions in a tank test that we did in San Diego.


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[Assistant] In this case, our vehicle was better than the camera used to take the video.


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[Assistant] So here we're just checking out, going through a range of set points for depth control.


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[Assistant] It is of course difficult to find natural ice in San Diego, especially in the summer, so we had to use a plywood proxy. Uhm, so here you see us basically severing this ballast and then launching up and landing on the ice.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we have again these compliant legs that are spring loaded to be able to react and absorb any of the differences in, uh, ice that we see.


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[Assistant] And if that flows over the vehicle, the vehicle might heat up just ever so slightly, um, relative to the ice that it's landed on. And then even no matter what steps we take to minimize thermal conductivity,


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[Assistant] If the vehicle is warmer than the ice, it's going to want to basically slowly melt up. So we actually basically included the legs in the part of the vehicle that we sever.


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[Assistant] Yes, we include the legs in the piece that we sever. Uh, we rely on the buoyancy of the foam to basically keep those pieces all separate. And we've simultaneously set the, uh, buoyancy engine to be, uh, for the vehicle to be heavy. So once we detach, again, pyrotechnically, uh, detach the top cap, uhm, you're gonna see the vehicle just, uh, sink down and, and drift out from the bottom. Uhm, this is again the landing and we'll see the next slide in just a minute.


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[Assistant] So again, the big focus here is on simplicity. We have one real degree of freedom and then two pyrotechnically severed devices and that's really the only control we need over the vehicle itself.


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[Assistant] Because plywood doesn't tell you a lot of scientific instrument or information, we still wanted to bring it out into the field and test there. Here we are doing a deployment up in the upper peninsula of Michigan. We drilled a borehole through


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[Assistant] Don't, so we would, uh, basically rise through the VBS to a, you know, standoff distance of 30 meters below the ice, at which point, if the ice looks good, you can sever the ballast and if not, you would keep drifting and then sever it a little bit later when you're on a friendlier landing terrain. This is actually a perfect transition because I'm, uh,


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[Assistant] At the end of my slides, I want to thank, uhm, most everyone who contributed to, uh, my work from my PhD and especially, uhm, my two projects at JPL had a huge number of collaborators, uhm, both of these were started before I joined, uh, so a lot of people to thank there.


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[Assistant] So thank you all for your time and attention. I'd be very happy to answer any questions.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think that the branching would have been that helpful for rock climbing, Jim.


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[Assistant] Because it really benefits from constrained spaces and then the friction that you get wrapping around an obstacle.


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[Assistant] That was really, so I, I do a little bit of rock climbing as a hobby on the side, and that was really the motivation for a standalone, um, pouch anchor, right? So, uh,


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[Assistant] If we, yeaah, basically right in rock climbing they use a lot of cams, so carefully placed, uh, you know.


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[Assistant] But if you're doing something like perching with a flying robot, it's potentially easier to just shove something inside of a cavity or empty space and then expand outwards to fill it rather than, you know, some of the more traditional approaches of looking for a place that you can carefully grip or


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[Assistant] It was really looking at, you know, in part a simple, uhm, simple anchoring approach.


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[Assistant] That's part of the reason we looked at anchoring, uh, with branching is because once you've deployed into that space, it's not easy to recover.


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[Assistant] All those different branches, uh, for the single, you know, vine robot, um, you are, you have, we basically maintain, uh, the extra material on the, the tether reel at the back and are able to retract that just by pulling. So a different answer for the two systems.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, for the main one, yeaah, you could.


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[Assistant] He was right, I decided. He didn't have any ear for music.


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[Assistant] I relaxed temporarily into a state of satisfied somnolence, but roused myself shortly to go down for breakfast.


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[Assistant] Most of the castle inhabitants had eaten and gone to their work already. Those still in the hall greeted me pleasantly enough.


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[Assistant] There were no sidelong looks, no expressions of veiled hostility, of someone wondering how well their nasty little trick had worked. But I watched the faces nonetheless.


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[Assistant] The morning was spent alone in the garden and fields with my basket and digging stick. I was running short of some of the most popular herbs.


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[Assistant] But there had been several patients from the village turning up of late in my dispensary, and the traffic in nostrums had been heavy.


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[Assistant] Only a case of persistent eczema, a dislocated thumb.


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[Assistant] And a kitchen boy who had spilled a pot of hot soup down one leg.


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[Assistant] Having dispensed ointment of your root and blue flag, and reset and bound the thumb, I settled down to the task of pounding some very aptly named stone root in one of the late beaten smaller mortars.


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[Assistant] It was tedious work, but well suited to this sort of lazy afternoon.


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[Assistant] And I could see blue shadows lengthening under the elms to the west when I stood on my table to peer out.


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[Assistant] Inside, the glass bottles gleamed in orderly ranks, neat stacks of bandages and compresses in the cupboards next to them.


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[Assistant] The apothecary's cabinet had been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.


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[Assistant] And now held stores of dried leaves, roots and fungi, neatly packed in cotton gauze bags.


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[Assistant] I took a deep breath of the sharp, spicy odours of my sanctum and let it out in a sigh of contentment. Then I stopped pounding and set the pestle down. I was contented, I realised with a shock. Despite the myriad uncertainties of life here, despite the unpleasantness of the ill-wish


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[Assistant] Despite the small, constant ache of missing Frank, I was in fact not unhappy. Quite the contrary. I felt immediately ashamed and disloyal.


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[Assistant] How could I bring myself to be happy when Frank must be demented with worry?


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[Assistant] Assuming that time was in fact continuing without me, and I couldn't see why it wouldn't, I must have gone missing for upwards of four months.


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[Assistant] I imagined him searching the Scottish countryside, calling the police, waiting for some sign, some word of me.


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[Assistant] By now, he must nearly have given up hope and be waiting instead. A word that my body had been found.


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[Assistant] I set down the mortar and paced up and down the length of my narrow room, rubbing my hands on my apron in a spasm of guilty sorrow and regret. I should have got away sooner. I should have tried harder to return. But I had.


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[Assistant] I reminded myself, I had tried repeatedly. And look what had happened. Yes, look. I was married to a Scottish outlaw.


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[Assistant] The both of us hunted by a sadistic captain of dragoons and living with a lot of barbarians who would have soon killed Jaime's look at him if they thought him a threat to their precious clan's succession. And the worst of it all was that I was happy.


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[Assistant] I think when I got released, yea, it was really, really hard. I mean, I was released at Arsenal but then I was released at another club after that as well. That was tricky and I think one of the things that I would help people to kind of understand with that is that it's okay to be angry or to be disappointed or to have that period where you're figuring things out.


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[Assistant] You go through that process and one day you have to accept it and I think that's what we're trying to help people to do sooner is can you accept it and then can you place your focus on where you want to go because


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[Assistant] The sooner you do that, and the sooner you have that moment, the sooner you kind of have that, that catalyst, that fire inside you, that, that is the response, and for me it was delayed, but for other people, people can do it a lot quicker.


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[Assistant] I've carried dark foreign looking gents in grey hats. I've carried dark foreign looking gents in light raglands. But I don't remember as if I've carried one as war boats.


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[Assistant] Now my dear, not if you gave me a stack of Bibles that I to kiss, one on top of the other, and me a gourd-fearing man to boot.


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[Assistant] I don't remember saying I took anybody. Hey, but me lad ab had another off point. Help yourself. I'm busy. Why don't...


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[Assistant] I can buy me own, thank ye. Now look here. You take my advice and leave gents alone. They're not for the likes of you. You'll only borrow trouble as you probably have already.


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[Assistant] You keep your place and make him keep theirs. You'd be better off, mark my words.


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[Assistant] In Piccadilly, why didn't you say so? What was his name? Pat Linton. Pat Linton? I never knew him, but I knew fellas are dead. Good friends of mine. He's dead now, eh? Paul Astor, that bloke in the cab, do you wrong?


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[Assistant] Hold on. I picked up a fare on the bounce, and on the way back here to eat this lovely dish of tripe, who should I see going into the Regency Hotel?


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[Assistant] What made Evander Holyfield such an amazing boxer is the fact that no matter who he fought, no matter what the challenge was, the fans were guaranteed an exciting fight.


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[Assistant] He reminds me of a true gladiator, a true warrior. Blood, sweat and tears. That's Evander Holyfield.


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[Assistant] I was always in trouble. I was a classroom clown. I wanted some attention. I wanted to be loved. But, you know, it's, but I was going by the wrong way to do it.


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[Assistant] My whole life I was inspired by men because my daddy wasn't there. So when I, when I went out and played sports, I played so hard for the coaches because I wanted them to pat me on my back.


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[Assistant] I remember telling my manager at the time that I don't think I want to be champion no more. He said, what you mean? I said, man, I almost doubted that dog gonna ring.


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[Assistant] This disrespected me because I didn't beat Tyson, but I didn't have nothing to do with Tyson losing this Buster Dunks. It was some kind of way they were trying to rob me of this, this, this 20 year gold.


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[Assistant] One thing in life I want you all to know, you can count me out, but I believe in Jesus. Because I believe in Jesus, I can get over things.


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[Assistant] As it turned out, the heart ailment that he


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[Assistant] Basically came home on a weekend while he was training for a fight in Houston and said, let's get married. And they ended up getting married by justice of the peace with Holyfield's son standing up as a best man and their wedding dinner was at Shoney's.


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[Assistant] And the piece of ear comes flying across the ring and lands nearby and you're just like, I cannot believe what I just saw.


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[Assistant] And about halfway through, I, I, I, I noticed, uhm, Donald, uhm, staring at my watch.


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[Assistant] So he says, but you know, I want to give you a, uh, an early wedding gift, uh, as a gesture from me and Melania. And she doesn't say a word. She's very sweet and very pretty, but just kind of sits there. You know? Anywho, so, uh, so he says, uh, these are, uh, these are platinum diamond Harry Winston. And he pulls off his cufflinks. And he gives them to me.


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[Assistant] And so I'm like, oh, gosh, Mr. Trump, you really shouldn't do this. He goes, no, no, it's the least I can do and, you know, have a great marriage and all that. Little did he know.


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[Assistant] And I said, oh, you know, there's another couple of pieces that I have that I'm very curious about. Would you mind appraising these? She said, no, what are they? I said, well, you know, I explain the dinner and this and that. These are from Donald Trump, Harry Winston, you know, Flawless D's, Platinum.


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[Assistant] What does this really say about the man? You know? Uhm, that he said here's like a great wedding gift and it's just, it's just a bag of dog shit, you know?


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome to KHM Today, your weekly resource for industry news and straight up fun. I am your host Carolyn Orff and I am very excited to bring you a very special bonus episode today of the show where we're going to show you or talk about the behind the scenes look of something that we've been working on.


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[Assistant] Creation goes into the content and a lot of time and energy as we're thinking about our guests and our topics that we should be sharing with you each week.


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[Assistant] And I have an amazing team that I work with and get to spend time with every week that we talk about these things. This is what we do. Every Tuesday morning, we talk about the content that we're going to bring to you, you know, every quarter, every year. So uhm,


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[Assistant] We were hoping to have a little conversation today with one of our own as we talk about this, uh, special episode that we're going to be releasing today. Please welcome our own, uh, video lead content specialist. I hope I got that right. Ashley Newton. Hi!


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[Assistant] Well, let's, let's just put it out there that you do a lot behind the camera, but you have been one of our best


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[Assistant] Sub-hosts, when I'm not there, you have a very natural way about you, and uhm, so it's, and I think that's sometimes hard to find when you've got someone who's so used to being behind the camera, who's equally as good being in front of the camera. So, well done!


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[Assistant] Creating, uh, what do you want to call it? What is it?


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[Assistant] So I showed up, I can't even remember what month it was at this point.


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[Assistant] I think it was before Christmas, who knows, January maybe? And we started filming some, some components of this. And as we were talking about this, the filming was one thing.


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[Assistant] The back end and everything that you did to prepare for a day of shooting was really incredible. Walk us through what that looks like because on the show, right, we, I kind of create my script and we have our content schedule so we know who's coming on and what we're talking about.


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[Assistant] But what you do on the back end for this particular production, and that's what it is, it's intense. There's a lot that goes on.


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[Assistant] And I think it needs to be said that so you are the lead person that does our travel agent tips and really anything that's video focused and you just don't like, you do show up with the camera, but you have thought.


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[Assistant] About what you're going to do and how you're going to shoot it and what you need to capture way before you ever just pack the camera bag.


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[Assistant] One of the things that was really fun for me is, you know, I'm not an actress. I've never done a play. I mean, maybe in seventh grade I did a play. Oh no, I was the red hen, like when I was in second grade. I do remember that. And, but this is not usually my skill set. And you guys are so funny and patient.


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[Assistant] Uhm, with just trying to like, get me to do what you want me to do.


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[Assistant] And, and it was really fun for me to kind of see it from your perspective and try and like.


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[Assistant] You know tap into this person that you guys were hoping I would be on camera.


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[Assistant] And it's a, it's a very funny look. I wouldn't say it's a serious or really a real look at any of us. It's just how can we, that's what I think it is. I love being able to laugh at myself. And, and I, cause I think that's important.


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[Assistant] For me it was really hard because I, the only thing I was trying to do was channel the office because it had that vibe to it. So I was trying to think back to those, those that like,


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[Assistant] The vibe that it has, the deadpan faces, uhm, of just like, really? Did they just say that? And just kind of channel some of that, uhm.


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[Assistant] That, yeah, because the, the camera, as much as I do this stuff and we, you know, we have our bootcamp events and I am in front of people.


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[Assistant] I, I share this with everyone. It's not my comfort zone.


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[Assistant] I have to go out of my comfort zone and really like be in the moment.


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[Assistant] But that's the thing that's also amazing is that when you have a team of people behind you.


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[Assistant] That are coaching you, cheering you on and just straight up laughing. You can make anything work.


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[Assistant] Even if it's outside your comfort zone. And that's what, that's what that day of filming was like for me. It just was hilarious and so different from anything I'd ever done before.


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[Assistant] I thought it was really cool to watch you in action when it was like, nope, we're going to do it one more time. This is what you need to do. This is what you're going to do over here. And, and just how you, um, you know, between the, the clapboard and writing things so that when you went back to look at the footage, you weren't like, now what part is this?


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[Assistant] Which is this, this is what I would do, right? This is what I do with all the videos that I have on my phone. Like you have no idea where it was taken or what's taken up because I have no frame of reference. So that was really interesting to watch you. It was very procedural for you.


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[Assistant] There was an absolute way that things needed to be done. And I can imagine when you were going through all of those hours of footage, that helped the process.


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[Assistant] How is this different from the other things that you create? I mean, obviously there are a lot more players. Right.


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[Assistant] But how does, I mean, it's clearly different from KHM today just because we're kind of a stagnant camera. But when you do travel agent tips, is there the same level of methodology?


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[Assistant] But I do get a very warm, oh, you're back or because a lot of times most people don't know I'm coming.


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[Assistant] So especially if there's an event going on, uhm, I'll be there on Monday, and I can probably guess that, uhm, no one knows that I'm gonna walk in the building. So I'll get that same like, Oh, you're here! reception, which is always a really fun thing to get when you, uhm, work remotely and you're not with the rest of the team every week. So.


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[Assistant] Uhm, actually it was so much fun. Uhm, what else do you want to share with us?


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[Assistant] I was on that, and that was a hilarious, I had no idea. I'd watched it, but I didn't know what it was like to produce that. And I'll never forget, Bill and I were doing Hawaii, and we sit down, and I just start having a conversation, and finally, cut!


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[Assistant] Do you guys think you could go along with the cute cards a little bit? I'm like, oh, I didn't realize that's what we were supposed to do. So this whole process and how it works with, with


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[Assistant] Putting content out there, uhm, socially and virally is so foreign to me. So it's hilarious when you guys are like, oh, no, no, no, dial it back, you know, or oh, nope, we need you to do this. So it's, it's been a really fun learning experience for me and so outside of my comfort zone.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I do think that the channel in general is, yes, it's called, it's KHM Travel Group. But if you are travel advisors, no matter where, there is so much on there for everyone.


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[Assistant] What I love about it is it just gives you a glimpse into the culture and the community that is KHM.


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[Assistant] And that's what I think really shines through. But for everyone out there, there is so much information to help you become a successful travel advisor.


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[Assistant] Best decision of your life, right? Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] And I think that's what it's all about. It's that relationship. And uhm, you know, we talk about it all the time on the show. We've talked about it in Travel Agent Tips. You know, it's not always about the dollar. It's about that relationship. So, alright, so when are we launching? We're launching May 3rd.


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[Assistant] And it's funny and my gosh, you know, sometimes you just need a laugh. So feel free to laugh at all of us.


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[Assistant] Uh, you guys, please join us on our YouTube channel. Don't forget to like and subscribe. We love seeing you. We love seeing your comments and we're here for all of you. So make sure you tune in on next Wednesday for, uh, to, to see our, uh, cage. What do we call it? The, the office visits, right?


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[Assistant] KJM Travel Group, the office visit. Yes. So thank you Ashley so much for being here. You're always a superstar and for sharing a little bit of behind the scenes when it comes to filming these things. So thank you.


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[Assistant] I, I feel the same way. I feel the absolute same way. It's been, it was a really fun experience.


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[Assistant] In central Japan, a spider weaves her web in a field of growing rice.


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[Assistant] Indeed, it has become so much a part of the Japanese landscape that it has created a unique environment essential to both the people who created it and the wild animals that now share it.


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[Assistant] Rice seedlings need shallow water in which to grow, and the neat meticulously constructed paddy fields provide just this.


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[Assistant] Some of them have been cultivated continuously for thousands of years.


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[Assistant] Alongside them stand patches of woodland, where for centuries the people have found their fuel and their food.


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[Assistant] This is a land that has been touched by people, yet the people tread lightly upon it.


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[Assistant] It's a land that has been ruled for centuries by the demands of the rice. Yet it's still dominated by the rhythmic cycle of the seasons as they change throughout the year.


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[Assistant] This is a landscape that the Japanese people hold so close to their hearts that they have a special word for it.


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[Assistant] They call these places where the forested mountains meet the terraces of rice, Satoyama.


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[Assistant] It's April now. The days are lengthening and it's getting warmer. Spring is on its way.


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[Assistant] As the progressing year brings changes to the country, there is also another rhythm which transforms a land as it has done for centuries.


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[Assistant] Early in the spring, the dry fields are turned into wetlands.


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[Assistant] As they slowly fill, the water once again links them both to the mountains above and to Lake Biwa below.


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[Assistant] Mountain water is rich in nutrients, so each year its return enhances the fertility of the rice fields.


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[Assistant] Early spring is a time of intense work for the farmers as they prepare their fields for the rice.


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[Assistant] Satoyama is an environment created by human beings, certainly, but it's also one that is in harmony with the natural world that surrounds it.


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[Assistant] Animals on all sides are awaiting the return of the water.


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[Assistant] Woken from her hibernation and attracted by the fresh scent of water, a pond turtle moves down into this new wetland.


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[Assistant] Tree frogs return to the flooded paddies to feed and to spawn.


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[Assistant] Over a thousand different species of them will eventually find what they need in the rice fields. A fire-bellied newt starts its search for food.


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[Assistant] Some creatures have come to the flooded fields from a considerable distance away. Others have been here all through the year.


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[Assistant] This water scorpion spent the winter months buried in the dry earth. It too has been aroused by the cold mountain water.


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[Assistant] Many of these small creatures become prey for water birds, which time their arrival to coincide with the flooding of the terraces.


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[Assistant] The rhythm of change from wet to dry and back again was imposed on this landscape by farmers so long ago that it has now become an integral part of the workings of the natural world.


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[Assistant] Irrigation canals lined with cement link these terraced fields to Lake Biwa. And on a spring night in May,


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[Assistant] The flooding of the terrace fields combined with seasonal rain has created many waterways that lead down to the lake. For the catfish, the timing is crucial.


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[Assistant] They have spent the winter in the deep waters of the lake, but now they need shallow water and mud in which to lay their eggs.


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[Assistant] Entwining his body around hers, he rubs her abdomen, stimulating her to lay her eggs, which she will then fertilize.


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[Assistant] Their coupling is sometimes so vigorous that they often damage the newly planted rice seedlings.


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[Assistant] But the farmers nonetheless gladly share their fields with such wild creatures as these.


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[Assistant] The adult fish then return down the waterways to the lake, leaving behind them countless tiny eggs in the flooded fields.


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[Assistant] Two days after spawning, the embryonic fish are moving inside the security of their tiny egg capsules.


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[Assistant] The emergence of the catfish has coincided miraculously with a sudden abundance of food.


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[Assistant] The earth of the paddy fields, when they were dry, contained millions of microscopic eggs, laid the previous year by water fleas.


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[Assistant] Now that the paddies are flooded once again, these eggs also hatch. So the waters have become rich with food.


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[Assistant] A dragonfly larva is hunting. The water fleas are an easy prey.


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[Assistant] The young catfish are also feeding on them and growing quickly.


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[Assistant] As the seedlings sprout, the land is transformed yet again and turns green.


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[Assistant] Beneath the surface of the water, the duels between the hunters and the hunted continue.


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[Assistant] A water stick insect sips, poised, waiting for its prey to come within range.


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[Assistant] And a dragonfly larva. Once a hunter, now itself becomes a victim.


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[Assistant] The young catfish seem totally unaware of the danger that threatens them.


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[Assistant] A bloodworm, the larva of a midge, is food for a fire-bellied newt.


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[Assistant] The giant water bug is a giant indeed. It's the largest insect in Japan and a formidable hunter.


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[Assistant] With grim persistence, the giant water bag sucked out the nutritious fluids from the frog's body.


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[Assistant] The empty husk will then be cast aside and be absorbed into the mud.


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[Assistant] A black kite hunts above one of the small patches of woodland that grow alongside the terraced fields.


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[Assistant] These woods are a vital element in the complex world of Satoyama.


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[Assistant] They act as water reservoirs, absorbing the falling rain and then gradually releasing it so that it can seep down through the soil to the plains there to evaporate and so to return to the atmosphere.


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[Assistant] The woods have been used for centuries by the local people who come here to forage for food, to gather firewood, and to make charcoal.


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[Assistant] Many of the oaks have strange multiple trunks.


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[Assistant] This is because they've been used by the people to grow a delicacy that is much relished by Japanese gourmets.


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[Assistant] When the sap is all gone, holes are bored into them.


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[Assistant] Plugs made of a mixture of sawdust and mushroom spawn are then hammered into each hole and sealed with a plug of wood.


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[Assistant] It will not be cropped again for 18 years or so.


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[Assistant] As the young branches grow, they attract new visitors. Longicorn beetles come to drink their sap.


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[Assistant] The larvae of the silkworm moth prefer more aged branches.


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[Assistant] Having fed on the leaves, they spin their cocoons.


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[Assistant] Silk from these provides another crop for the people and has done so for centuries.


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[Assistant] They use its thin delicate filaments spun together into a thread to weave the most sumptuous of fabrics.


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[Assistant] For the caterpillar, the silk will serve as a shroud, beneath which it will transform itself into a winged adult.


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[Assistant] So the long rhythms of the forest repeat themselves. After five years, the hodagi logs are exhausted and have no further use for growing mushrooms. So they're dumped. And left to rot.


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[Assistant] The humus produced by their decay seeps back into the ground where it is reclaimed by the roots of living trees and provides food for other creatures.


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[Assistant] Having spent half a year as a grub, feeding voraciously, it has now turned into a pupa. Its newly formed shell is still soft.


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[Assistant] In Japanese, this insect is called Kabutomushi, as the shape of its head reminds people of the war helmet worn by the samurai and the plates of its body of the armor.


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[Assistant] So the flooded fields become grasslands.


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[Assistant] This is the time when the giant water bug lays its eggs.


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[Assistant] The female produces as many as 80 in one patch. Having done so she abandons them.


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[Assistant] But the male remains on guard and stays with them for over a week.


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[Assistant] Every now and then he leaves them briefly to collect the water necessary to keep them moist.


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[Assistant] The young catfish are now about two months old. It's time for them to prepare to leave these warm shallows and to make their way down to the deeper, colder waters of the lake, where they will spend most of their adult lives.


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[Assistant] Once they reach the safety of the lake, they will stay for two or three years, feeding and growing, until the time comes for them, too, to swim back up the very same channels to spawn.


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[Assistant] Now, another small creature is preparing to leave the rice fields.


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[Assistant] It uses a different exit. The larva of the red dragonfly, after two months of feeding, crawls up the rice stems from which it will launch itself into the air.


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[Assistant] The draconfly will leave these terrace fields and fly away to the nearby mountains for the summer months. So it forms a link between the world of Satoyama, the cultivated land, and the wilderness that surrounds it.


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[Assistant] The end of June. It's midsummer. The days are long and warm.


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[Assistant] The people living in the small villages alongside the rice fields make their own special contributions to the living landscape of Satoyama.


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[Assistant] In a corner of a village garden, a large spider waits on its web.


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[Assistant] As in many parts of Japan, spiders are welcomed and encouraged to stay as a sign of good fortune.


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[Assistant] They do, after all, feed on insects which may be harmful to both people and crops.


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[Assistant] Another small life is about to take its place in the Satoyama community.


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[Assistant] During the warm summer nights, the rice paddies become alive with another insect much loved by the Japanese, fireflies.


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[Assistant] Using the language of light, they signal courtship messages to one another.


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[Assistant] Their adult lives are brief, a mere seven days or so.


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[Assistant] Japanese families by tradition come to watch the fireflies every year at this season, to marvel at the tiny lights winking over the rice fields, and to ponder on the fragility of the lives of those that produce them.


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[Assistant] Now it's emerging to spend the last few days of its life as a winged creature in urgent search of a mate.


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[Assistant] The farmers wade out into the shallow ponds that adjoin their rice fields. These man-made reservoirs hold water throughout the year, and the people stock them with carp. Now that harvest can also be gathered.


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[Assistant] They have their own special devices with which to collect it.


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[Assistant] Summer is a holiday time for the children, and while their parents work in the fields, they make the most of the long evenings.


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[Assistant] Stag beetles are particular favourites. The larger the better.


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[Assistant] A scarab beetle has emerged from under its pile of hodagi logs.


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[Assistant] As night begins to fall it climbs out to look for the sap it feeds on.


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[Assistant] Through the night, battles will be fought and lost, as each beetle strives for the control of the best places. And it's not just that they themselves want the sap.


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[Assistant] Good feeding spots also attract females. So, like the samurai they so resemble, they do battle.


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[Assistant] Summer is vanishing with the shortening days and the rice fields are about to change yet again. Soon it will be time for the harvest.


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[Assistant] 150 days ago, these terraced fields became wetlands as water from the mountains flowed into them.


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[Assistant] Different species arrived, some swimming, some flying, to take advantage of the changing scene.


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[Assistant] For the farmers and for the rice, this year has been a good one.


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[Assistant] The red dragonfly returns from the mountains to the land where it hatched.


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[Assistant] It's time for the people to collect the rewards of so many months of labour.


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[Assistant] As the rice dries in the autumn sun, the air is full of the scent of hay.


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[Assistant] Other insects are also abandoning the drying fields. They take to the wing and fly away in search of the water that they still need.


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[Assistant] The reservoirs provide a new home for those water creatures that once hunted through the rice paddies. Here, they will be able to spend the winter in safety.


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[Assistant] As the land changes color and the autumn leaves fall to the ground, the pace of life slows.


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[Assistant] Tree frogs that hatched out in the rice paddies have now returned to the nearby woodlands and prepare to hibernate under a blanket of fallen leaves.


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[Assistant] Before the very last puddles disappear from the harvested fields, there is one final act of creation.


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[Assistant] In a ritual courtship flight, the red dragonflies mate.


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[Assistant] The male clasps the female and she repeatedly dips the tip of her abdomen into the puddles, depositing her eggs.


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[Assistant] The eggs will remain dormant through the bitter cold of winter.


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[Assistant] When spring returns and the mountain water flows once again into these fields, they will hatch out, and a new generation of savage larvae will prowl through the waters of the paddies.


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[Assistant] For centuries, persimmon trees have been planted along the rice terraces.


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[Assistant] They are an autumn fruit, much loved by the Japanese.


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[Assistant] Like the dragonfly, the damsel too has changed its behaviour to take advantage of the landscape created by humanity.


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[Assistant] The damselflies lay on these branches, twisting their ovipositors so that their eggs will be placed in safety beneath the bark.


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[Assistant] When spring comes and the rice paddies fill once again, the damselfly larvae will drop directly into the waters.


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[Assistant] The skinned persimmon fruits are neatly hung by the farmer's houses.


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[Assistant] These, carefully dried, used to be a valuable winter food for the people of Satoyama, and also a source of much needed cash.


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[Assistant] Today, when food of one kind or another is easily available all the year round, fewer farmers bother with the persimmon crop.


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[Assistant] Even so, the appearance of the drying fruit so carefully placed on their racks is recognized by all Japanese as a sign that winter is fast approaching.


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[Assistant] As the land freezes, little life is visible in and around the rice fields, which are now covered by a blanket of snow.


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[Assistant] Yet there is life there, hidden and quietly waiting for the renewal that will come when the waters return once again with the sun.


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[Assistant] Winter is also a time of rest for the farmers.


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[Assistant] For their lives too are, perforce, attuned to the natural rhythms around them.


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[Assistant] At the edge of this rice field, a small natural spring bubbles out from the ground.


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[Assistant] It will remain unfrozen throughout the winter and at its edge, the local people place floral offerings to the gods for this gift.


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[Assistant] On the edge of a frozen rice paddy a farmer's hut stands deserted.


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[Assistant] But in a corner, there is a reminder of the spring that will come.


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[Assistant] The year has turned. The faint heat of the distant sun warms the land long enough for a cold mist to rise from the thawing fields. Winter is loosening its grip. Soon work in these fields will resume.


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[Assistant] Once again, the mountain water will flow, the rice will be planted, and visitors from the woods above and the lake below will come back. Once again, Satoyama will be filled with life.


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[Assistant] It goes like this, uh, Tom Cruise and Sidney Pollock have a dialogue about the many takes and how long it took to do a particular scene. And, uh, Sidney says, oh, and after three weeks, you know, we were still on this. And then Tom says, well, and Stanley said,


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[Assistant] That's absolutely true, he wanted to make films that mattered. That had not only good form, but also substance.


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[Assistant] They are not that different if you look very closely. Because there is something that connects them all. And that is a very serious look at, uh, human nature.


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[Assistant] That's interesting that he wanted to make a film about Napoleon. He read


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[Assistant] For two years about Napoleon, he was a great expert on Napoleon. What was it that interested him on Napoleon? That a man who was so talented, really one of the great talents of his time as a politician and as a military man, he ruined himself. It was, in the end, the, as Stanley always said, the emotions.


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[Assistant] To be a perfectionist. Yes, he was. And he was very demanding. It was very difficult. But so what?


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[Assistant] It's called a hothead. Forget the term. The camera is on remote. And you, Stanley was sitting outside and watched at the monitor.


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[Assistant] Control the movement of the camera. He was a good operator.


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[Assistant] So, so they were all alone, they didn't see anybody else, and they experimented, you see. What we could afford to do is take time.


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[Assistant] But they wouldn't have loved the association had he gone over budget 300%. He didn't. He always delivered. He delivered the goods. And even if he went 10% over budget or so, that doesn't really matter that much.


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[Assistant] And being loyal to him that I didn't break that loyalty after his death.


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[Assistant] I had very specific aims. I wanted to show the man as he was, comprehensively. Now you could ask who was he. Yeah.


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[Assistant] The first answer is he was one of the most important American film directors and one of the most important artists of his generation. He was also a real New Yorker.


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[Assistant] To contribute, I made myself an aim to specifically get four people who didn't work with him into this documentary. These were Ingmar Bergman, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Steven Spielberg.


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[Assistant] And Ingmar Bergman unfortunately couldn't do it. And I think this is very, very important, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, because they were also New Yorkers. And they were people he admired. He loved their films.


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[Assistant] It came to be that, that Steven Spielberg in fact did make AI.


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[Assistant] had the moral authority to take it on because they had already collaborated and but however really put his own handwriting on it which is also necessary.


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[Assistant] One of the cardinals gave a little speech saying why, why this is such a monumental film.


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[Assistant] And uhm, Stanley also received a prize from the Catholic Church at the time.


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[Assistant] For making 2001. He was actually very, very surprised because he had a bad time on Lolita with the Catholic Church. But they gave him a prize for 2001 and the reason is because it is a very reverential film. It makes a, it's a big bow.


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[Assistant] To the unknown creator. Stanley was not a religious man, but he was very, very respectful to the unknown and to the origin of what is.


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[Assistant] I don't think so, because the next in line was clearly for him Eyes Wide Shut and AI.


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[Assistant] Certainly. I mean, uh, the decision to use Tom Cruise came very, very quickly, actually. That may have been an exception. And he was very, very happy.


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[Assistant] Uh, who was good looking, successful, for this rather normal


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[Assistant] Which is an unusual way, maybe, of doing, but that's, was his choice. That's how he liked doing it.


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[Assistant] And sports was very important. Now this I could not, I couldn't get anything in my documentary. I mean certain things have to be leave out. He absolutely adored good sports.


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[Assistant] Yes, it was hard to leave things out.


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[Assistant] It requires an enormous discipline because it would have been much easier to make a four hour film.


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[Assistant] A fantastic material, art department material from 2001 that nobody has ever seen. I would have loved to bring this in. But you know, that was not the topic.


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[Assistant] I would have loved to have much more material, for example, with Martin Scorsese or Woody Allen or all the others. Many people I interviewed haven't used a single frame.


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[Assistant] Give the impression that actually you're not rushing. From time to time you have to come down and really be quiet and show a clip and let it run long enough because if the audience feels you're rushing, then the whole thing is destroyed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hey everyone, my name is Sushant. Uhm, I'm a current computer science student studying at Columbia University. Uhm, I'm gonna be joining Google as a product manager intern for the upcoming summer. Uhm, over the past years, I've had a good amount of product experience, worked at a startup called Health Tap in the Bay Area for three months, worked at Microsoft as a PM intern for three months, uhm,


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[Assistant] So have a good amount of experience in this space and interviewing and generally working across different product groups. I'm really excited to kind of share, uhm, participate in this live session right now. Awesome.


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[Assistant] Got it. Uhm, before we go ahead, I have a few clarifying questions I'd like to ask. Sure. Number one, are there any specific goals we're thinking about when it comes to improving WhatsApp? Like, are we thinking about improving user acquisition, user engagement, monetization, or is that something you'd like to define?


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[Assistant] Uhm, the second question I had was, is there any specific, uhm, customer segment that we're interested in targeting or is that something you'd like for me to define as well?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so to get started, the first thing I'd like to kind of think about is what are the possible goals we could, the goal that we're going to set here.


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[Assistant] So uhm, right now I'm thinking about a few things. One is like, how do we improve user


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[Assistant] Acquisition, like how do we onboard more new users onto the platform? Is there any customer segment that we're maybe not targeting? Is there something we can improve in our product to make it easier for users to get on?


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[Assistant] Second goal I'm thinking about is user engagement. That is, there's a lot of users that are already on WhatsApp. I think there's about a billion, roughly a billion users right now on the platform. The question is, how do we make sure those users are having a better user experience? How do we make sure they're spending more time on the platform, sending more of the, starting more of their conversations through WhatsApp? Uhm, so between these two,


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[Assistant] I think I am more interested in focusing on the user engagement piece just because I think WhatsApp already has such a big market share.


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[Assistant] I think the focus right now should be really to dial down and create a much more positive user experience, uhm, for people already in the platform. Like how do we think about specific customer segments that might not be using the platform as well as we'd like or they might not be spending as much time on the platform and how do we strengthen that user experience for them? Does that sound good? Yep, that sounds great.


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[Assistant] So the next thing I'd like to do is maybe think of a few potential customer segments. So if you could give me a moment or two to kind of list out my ideas and then go from there. Cool.


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[Assistant] Got it. Uhm, so I do have a few customer segments in mind right now. Uhm, the first one I'm thinking about are children, generally like elementary school to junior high children, uhm, where parents often want to restrict their child's usage so that they can only maybe message a few people from a specific designated period. Uhm, there's often a tendency for


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[Assistant] They want like a more like, essentially a child version of WhatsApp where they can kind of restrict the number of hours they could use it. They could restrict who they could send messages to while they're at school. Uhm, just to make sure that they're not getting distracted and spending too much time texting and not focusing on school. So I think that's one potential segment to think about.


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[Assistant] Second segment I'm thinking about is elderly people.


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[Assistant] So for them often the big issue with a lot of these messaging platforms is


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[Assistant] Like conversations are. So there's this gap that they currently face in terms of how they communicate and they want to overcome that barrier.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the third audience I'm thinking about is millennials. People typically, uhm,


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[Assistant] In your young, early twenties, uhm, what we noticed is that


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[Assistant] A lot of these people tend to use applications like Snap, Snapchat, Messenger, or iMessage, and they like that because they can kind of express themselves a lot better. There's more opportunities to send gifts, there's more opportunities to be more fun and creative with how you express yourself, and that kind of feature might be a bit lacking in WhatsApp compared to some of these other platforms.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the last segment I'm thinking about are like police officers. For them,


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[Assistant] Communicating with one another in a very secure way is very important. Ensuring your messages are encrypted. They want a quick and easy way to kind of alert each other about uhm.


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[Assistant] The segment that I'm kind of the most interested in right now is going to be elderly people. And uhm, the reason for that is I think that


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[Assistant] With a lot of these other target audiences, like millennials, I think that, uhm,


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[Assistant] They're already on an existing Facebook product. Uhm, a lot of them are already using WhatsApp now relatively.


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[Assistant] There's still this huge gap that prevents them from engaging with it properly because there's still this jump, like huge learning curve that exists between the generations, so they often don't know how to communicate and


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[Assistant] With that in mind, with our focus on elderly people, I'm gonna go ahead and maybe think about what are some of the big pain points that they face, uhm, and go from there, unless there's something you'd like to add or if you'd like to change my course of action.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so before I get started with the product vision, I think one of the things I'd like to do is kind of really kind of take a deeper look into kind of what are the most critical pain points, and I think that'll help us create a more informed vision.


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[Assistant] Okay, so uhm, from my understanding, the first pain point I'd like to think about is


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[Assistant] More often than not, a lot of elderly people struggle on how to interpret a message. Like, they struggle to understand what, what does the message tell and say about how the other person is feeling. For instance, if their child is emailing them, maybe they're concerned, but the person might, they might not be aware of that.


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[Assistant] So that's something that's very important, especially when there's all these emojis and then there's all these new, like, short form ways of communicating.


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[Assistant] Like, they might not understand a lot of these acronyms or the way that younger people, a younger audience communicates over text. So uhm, I think one of the things I'd like to think about is how do we help them understand these texts are getting better?


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[Assistant] Basically here what I mean is like they might have something that they intend to say, but they might not know what is the best way to express that. Uhm.


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[Assistant] The third pain point I'd like to think about is remembering important conversation details, uhm, and storing that information.


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[Assistant] Let's say that uhm, an elderly person gets a request from their uhm, kid that they should come over uhm, let's say the next upcoming week because they're having a house warming party or because they're uhm, having some kind of event.


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[Assistant] I'd like to kind of, the product vision I'm kind of thinking about here is building, uhm, a beautiful like,


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[Assistant] The goal of the product vision here is to break down the barrier that exists in textual communication for elderly people, so it feels as natural as having a conversation. Uhm, does that sound good?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, to sort of clarify, you're saying that, uhm, a lot of younger people like to use this kind of...


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[Assistant] Emojis and acronyms kind of to be a bit more ambiguous in the way they communicate.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, so with respect to that, the reason I kind of came with this more informed product vision was that because uhm,


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[Assistant] I felt that when you're thinking of WhatsApp, the kind of the intention behind it is not necessarily to kind of have those type of conversations where you're trying to, uhm,


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[Assistant] Basically, kind of communicate in that, in a way that you're


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[Assistant] Even a way you would in Messenger or Snapchat where you're trying to be ambiguous, I think.


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[Assistant] The whole intention is to kind of have like a more natural conversation. You're not going there to have like, it's not a place where you often have that same sort of playful conversation type that you have on Messenger. If you notice like that's not the emphasis that the company's trying to create there. And I think when you look at the broader goal of the platform, that's not what.


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[Assistant] What I felt was uhm, that the company was trying to advance. So kind of tying to the broader vision of WhatsApp, I felt that this would be in line. But in terms of answering your question heads on, like how would we kind of deal with that when children do want to be ambiguous and not reveal your intentions? I think in that case uhm, basically if, if uhm,


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[Assistant] We're kinda struggling to, basically, if the tone of the conversation maybe lacks a degree of seriousness, then in that case, uhm, we could kind of...


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[Assistant] Have a way of like, maybe in that case we could have the assistant, uhm, not, not like, proposed to like,


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[Assistant] Interpret a message in a certain way and maybe you could just propose some like fun responses back and maybe you could try to reciprocate that playfulness back. So in a way we could kind of look at the tone of the conversation and engage like.


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[Assistant] What sort of information we should lay out. So if it seems like they're deliberately trying to be ambiguous, instead of trying to interpret the message, we could be like, here are some fun responses back. So maybe you could like show them some gifts or maybe you could send some emojis back so they could bring some of that playfulness the young audience has and kind of communicate in the same way back and forth. So uhm, that's one way of approaching this issue.


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[Assistant] Then, they go into one of their conversations, and then, let's say they receive the text. They go into one of their new conversations where they receive the text, and then the text pops up. But this conversational interface would be like, this system would be like an overlay on top, so it'll be in the top right corner, and it'll be like, once they get the text, it'll look in and decipher the text and be like,


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[Assistant] Here are some suggestions on things you could say to cheer them up, and also keep them aware of what you're doing. So it'll be like, they'll have like a response like, yes I did, or like, I did eat and things are going well, and then maybe it'll give a suggestion for like a happy gif to send, or like a happy kind of emoji to send so that they can warm up the other person's mood.


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[Assistant] So in essence, uhm, that's the first piece. The second piece is also like,


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[Assistant] In that case, it'll be like the assistant will pop on the top right corner just as it always does. Uhm, it'll be like.


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[Assistant] It looks like, it looks like, should I store this event on your calendar? And the person could just simply click yes, accept it, and it gets integrated with your calendar and all those relevant details get synced. So when that event comes, all that information is saved.


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[Assistant] So basically how I envision this is it's not going to be, uhm, this assistant is kind of going to be like a pop-up on the top right corner of the, where it doesn't really like interfere with the text, uhm, it's going to be like a small segmented out area.


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[Assistant] So it doesn't interfere with reading the text, but it just kind of comes up with these interactive suggestions and also gives them recommendations on what text to send and sort of thinks, just ask them if there's any important information they'd like to store.


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[Assistant] I think basically the way we're thinking about it is we're going from having conversations with typing, let's say, before you'd have to type about like 20 to 30 characters to convey your message, to now what we're doing is we're essentially allowing them to get away with taps to communicate how they're feeling. So with smarter suggestions.


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[Assistant] So I think in theory, what we, the trade-off here is we're kind of decreasing a bit of the screen real estate for like understanding the messages, but the benefit we're giving to them is now they're able to communicate with tabs, they're able to communicate with fewer, uhm,


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[Assistant] So I think although we're adding another layer on top of it, and you might be decreasing the screen real estate from the actual messages, I think the gain here of being able to communicate in a few taps and being able to


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[Assistant] The additional feature kind of certainly does benefit the downside of having, uhm, another layer onto your product, but because I just think it greatly simplifies how much effort or the amount of user friction required, the amount of friction in communicating.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so the first thing is a lot of conversational interfaces are really clunky. Like, number one, they might not know how to give a good suggestion to a given textual response, which is, which often leads to, like, uhm,


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[Assistant] The person you're talking to is actually sad when they're not. Uhm, that completely changes the direction of the conversation.


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[Assistant] I think when it comes to like suggesting responses, uhm, maybe now people are starting to converse in a way that's like,


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[Assistant] Not very natural, or they might not be saying things that they might have not otherwise said just for the sake of convenience. Maybe your suggestions that are surfaced up are not things that...


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, so, so, let's go with the first one, right? When we can't come up with a good response to...


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[Assistant] A question, like uhm, when that's not happening, how might we kind of surface off better suggestions?


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[Assistant] In that case, I think one option might just be to literally be like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Literally, literally kind of maybe, maybe help, maybe like instead of in that case, instead of like coming up with responses or coming up with that, maybe we could like, maybe we could try to like come up with like a suggestion on like,


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[Assistant] I think we could do a few things. Number one is we could offer multiple potential interpretations of the message and let the uhm, person figure it out themselves. It's like, hey, here's what we think they might be seeing, here are two options uhm, and then let the person decipher for themselves. Or number two is uhm,


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[Assistant] In that case, we might just be better off just again nudging them and not really offering any kind of message there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that's kind of a weird addressing with those pitfalls heads on. Gotcha.


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[Assistant] So I think obviously the goal here is to improve engagement in that sense. We're thinking of how do we get people to send more messages, receive more messages, have more conversation. Uhm, I think the actions are really a messaging or the number of messages sent, number of messages that received, uhm, and the session time that the user is kind of like, how long is it?


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[Assistant] That means they should be having more conversations. That means there should be more messages being sent because they can understand conversations better. It's easier for them to send messages.


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[Assistant] Send messages, so I think that those two metrics would be pretty important to look at as far as the NARDS story goes.


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[Assistant] If we do focus on the number of messages sent, maybe because there's less ambiguity now, uhm, they can have quicker conversations, so that's just something to...


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, I think the natural response here is it should naturally adapt to


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[Assistant] Different people, because the type of conversations you have with a friend is very different to conversations you have with your son, which is very different to conversations you have with your grandchild. Like I naturally think it should be adaptive, and if her product is really doing uhm, a good job, I think


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[Assistant] The way it analyzes conversations for each one of those people should allow it to make more personalized recommendations.


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[Assistant] That might not be possible in the initial version, just cause uhm.


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[Assistant] I think the first point is to just get the basic functionality out there in MVP. So I think this is something that you want to bring out a couple months or in like V2 or a later iteration of the product.


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[Assistant] I could have definitely worked on is kind of understanding my target audience a bit better. I think it's something all PM interviewers should do, like when they kind of propose some, like just look and kind of look at what are some common characteristics? How do these people, what kind of products do they exist by? How do they react to different products? And I think it's something that not a lot of interviewers put enough time into.


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[Assistant] But if you ask them something very specific to the work they do or very specific, uhm, to them, I think that shows a degree of thoughtfulness in their questions. So that's something I'd really push on when you're asking these follow up questions at the end.


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[Assistant] You might not be able to cover all the areas you wanted to about that one product in a given, um, answer. So my suggestion would be not to really change the product or anything, but maybe change the type of insights you provide. Like maybe change, like what is something else that frustrates you about the product? Maybe change some more.


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[Assistant] Give different ideas on improvement. So maybe you could keep the product idea the same, but you could just deliver a new insight in each one of those answers. So that's how I think about that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was great, um, great talking to you Stephen, had a great time. I'm going to this interview and thanks so much everybody for chiming in. Cool. Alright, well thanks guys and I'm gonna end the broadcast now.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's, there's a lot of particular techniques. I, it's gonna, it's gonna sound trite, but, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, just time on task is probably as important as anything.


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[Assistant] You know, very technically sound group, so I know they were coached well. Uhm, you know that type of thing and.


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[Assistant] Was as avid of power and riches as a shipwrecked mariner of water. Kamar had seen the beauteous maid, and like many others, had fallen madly in love.


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[Assistant] It was great. And I'm surprised how many people run it. It's impressive.


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[Assistant] Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel with a new video. In this video, we're covering another nice, uh, question of a binary search tree, which is, uh, you're given a binary search tree and, uh, let me just bring up my iPad here. Okay. So you are given a binary search tree.


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[Assistant] Let's say you have five, seven, six,


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[Assistant] Let's say this is the binary search tree that is given to you. What the problem is that, uh,


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[Assistant] Two nodes in the binary search tree are swapped. It can be any two nodes. It can be any two nodes. So let's say this one, this one are swapped.


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[Assistant] Okay, so these two nodes are swap. Now, it can be any two nodes. We know that, uh,


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[Assistant] How are we going to solve this? One of the ways you can solve this is you can imagine that let's say if this is a binary search tree.


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[Assistant] And we do in order to reversal then we know that it will be sorted array. So,


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[Assistant] If it is a sorted array, so in order to reversal before the swapping, the sorted array would look something like this.


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[Assistant] Six, seven, eight. This is what it would look like.


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[Assistant] But what has now happened is 2 and 7 have been swapped.


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[Assistant] Two and seven have been swapped. So this question now becomes that okay in a sorted array which two elements are swapped. It can be very simple.


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[Assistant] You can just check the previous one, so there will be two violations, one violation is over here, one violation is over here. Seven is greater than its previous element, two is less than its previous element.


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[Assistant] So, that is what we have to find, these two violations we have to find.


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[Assistant] So what we are doing is we are going to take the first violation is equal to initially null, second violation in equal equal to null. Whenever we find the first violation, so the first violation will arrive when we say that the


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[Assistant] It means that first has been found which is equal to previous node because this is the previous one.


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[Assistant] And then we know that we will find the first one first because it comes first.


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[Assistant] So we will say if first is not equal to null means first has been found. If first not equal to null, first is equal to previous node. Then we will keep on going, we will now


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[Assistant] Go over here. This looks fine. We will come over here.


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[Assistant] Come over here, this looks fine, we will come over here, we will do the same condition if this not left, it is the current node, current.


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[Assistant] Current node that you are at. Now, we are at current node. If current node is less than the previous node, yes it is. In this case, we will say that the second node that is wrong is equal to what? Previous? No, previous is 6, the current, which is the current node, current.


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[Assistant] Because these are just pointers to these nodes, there are references to these nodes. That's it. Pretty simple.


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[Assistant] I told you when I was teaching, uh, like link list, when such questions are given, you don't have to think, you just have to do what the question is saying. And this is what the question is saying.


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[Assistant] Okay, you do understand how I am making these previous, right. So, first of all, I will have, whenever I choose this, this will be previous, then I evaluate this, this will be previous, then I evaluate this, I will do this, then this will become previous. Whenever you keep evaluating, make it previous. Okay, if a current node is evaluated, that is previous. Then I will go here, this will remain previous.


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[Assistant] This will become previous and I will go here, so on and so forth. Okay, very simple. Pause this video, think about it and, uh, by the way, what is the time complexity going to be for this solution? We are visiting every node only once.


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[Assistant] And, uh, there's the recursive space also. So, we are taking O of n time.


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[Assistant] Right, that's what we are doing and uh, for the tree we are only doing in-order traversal.


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[Assistant] So it's the height of the height of the tree. Okay. So here you can see on the screen, uh,


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[Assistant] And by the way, find the link in the description below as well for this code. So, the question was,


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[Assistant] So we're going to create two node swap dot Java. First of all, I'm going to say class


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[Assistant] Public node int val, this dot val is equal to val, the constructor is done, all good, looking nice. Now, public class toNode swap.


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[Assistant] Here, I'm going to create my node first.


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[Assistant] Okay, initially that is null, node second.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to create a node previous that is also initially equal to null. I'm going to say public void, I'm going to call this one helper. Okay, and I'm going to pass node, let's say


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[Assistant] For the naming convention root over here, I am going to call inorder traversal.


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[Assistant] On the root node, while, when I have done in order traversal, these two will be populated. So, I will just swap. So, I will say first, or I will just say, I want to swap it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's say, ideally I just swap the, let's say just the values are interchanged, okay, to make things simpler. But you can swap if the entire nodes are interchanged as well. So I can say first dot val.


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[Assistant] So okay, initially now we assumed that only the values are swapped. So, you can, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, swap the entire nodes as well, but you are pro experts in that, so you can do it yourself. Now, private void inorder traversal node node. Now, I will just do inorder traversal. If node is equal to equal to null.


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[Assistant] Return, let's say just return, in order to reversal, node dot left,


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[Assistant] The previous node dot value is actually greater than the current node dot value also so that we don't get null pointer exception.


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[Assistant] If previous node is not equal to null and then I will check if first node is equal to equal to null. In that case, I will say that I have found the first violation, this thing, first violation. So, I will say first is equal to previous. Otherwise, I will say second is equal to current, which is the node. Okay, then I will say previous is equal to current node.


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[Assistant] Very simple stuff, problem solved. Okay?


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[Assistant] Okay, that's pretty much about it. Very simple solution and we did a trial run as well. You can try running it if you want.


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[Assistant] Very easy just to create two trees and, uh, if you have any questions, let me know in the comment section below and, uh, we'll be continuing the bootcamp and introducing newer concepts, uh, you know, in the next new year.


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[Assistant] And, uh, wanna wish you all a Happy New Year as well and, uh, yeaah. See you next year. Bye.


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[Assistant] He just looks off in the middle distance, just, and his eyes are calculating constantly, he's like, why is he...


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[Assistant] Has an issue with Roman Reigns. Jay has an issue with Roman, notably.


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[Assistant] Jimmy has an issue with Roman, which was brought up again on this show because you had the dynamic of like, nothing hurts more than being a torn apart from a brother. And everyone's like, oh yeah, Roman did do that to him, didn't he? And then you have this bit with Solo at the end.


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[Assistant] See, the thing is, I'm really in two minds about the Bloodline stuff, because part of me just wants everything to end at WrestleMania.


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[Assistant] So it- but there's a- a degree of like, if J leaves, is the bloodline- does the bloodline still exist?


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[Assistant] And two, I think the stuff that was around the bloodline was actually good on this show. It wasn't just like, eh, whatever, it's throwaway, doesn't matter. Like I think a lot of this actually had a purpose. Yeah. So I, it was good.


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[Assistant] I'll also say, if you take out all context and all logic, and if you don't think about it for more than three seconds, you go like, it's got all taken a bump. Wild. That's cool.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go. That's fine, we'll back off this time. Like that framing. And also, maybe this is just me, it definitely is just me, but from how deeply I've dived into the Bloodline story, when they started brawling, I was like,


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[Assistant] That's the problem with this mania build is it feels like a lot of the mania builds have been a bit cack in that there's not much build for a lot of matches. However...


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[Assistant] I thought it was the good line of obnoxious, in that it was like, oh you're such a dick, rather than oh my god can we get to the-


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[Assistant] Every match by Damien Priest, never got anything done, and they constantly had to bail him out of every situation because he was a numpty.


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[Assistant] It's not about making her a heel, it's about making her feel important.


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[Assistant] I, I, but I do think it made Ria stronger because she beat Bailey, rather than, if she beat Dakota Kai everyone would have gone like, alright.


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[Assistant] It's really fun when they do that. It's Bianca Belair and Asuka versus Piper Niven and Chelsea Green.


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[Assistant] You know, but, but really, would I have rather had the commissioner got completed and get that power card, or would I have rather had medical bill? And honestly!


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[Assistant] Not wasted on Wrath of the Mania, because it's Wrath of the Mania, but I think you wouldn't want them to get physical again after that, like you have it a Mania, that's the Climactic thing, you don't need to repeat it the day after, just have the final shot


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[Assistant] Lesnar and Omos, uh, Lesnar and Omos, uh, ends up being my favorite match in Mania, something that's called Terrible.


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[Assistant] It's the one that I wore. It's very good. It's very, very good. And wholesome. That's so funny. Especially the, uh, the special cameo that we have in episode one, which is awesome, uh, she has a great reaction to that too.


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[Assistant] It's obviously important the fact that Reigns has held it for like two and a half years now.


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[Assistant] Is important in the story, but I don't think the actual number of like, oh it's 1,000. You know, if it was at 999 versus 1,000, I don't think it really changes.


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[Assistant] A time where if you dethrone Roman Reigns, people want it to happen. And I think people will not feel, uh,


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[Assistant] Let down or disappointed by Cody winning. I think there have been quite a few Roman Reigns opponents where if they won people have been like, oh, that's how the reigns gonna end. Okay.


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[Assistant] Whereas I think if it happens here, people are gonna be like, awesome, what a great story.


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[Assistant] Welcome back everybody to HBO's The Last of Us podcast. I am your host,


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[Assistant] Troy Baker, and I'm joined not only this week by the showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, but by one of the most cherished people in my life.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's that character Anna that I wanna talk about just off the very beginning. It's the top of our episode and I wanna kind of go around the room.


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[Assistant] And get everybody's perspective on it. Starting off with you, Neil, where did Anna come from?


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[Assistant] For you Ashley, having such a deep connection to this story and to Ellie.


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[Assistant] Walk us through what it's like for you to get that news and say here's what, here's an opportunity.


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[Assistant] Over a decade now, you've lived with this character, you've imbued a part of yourself into her and you've watched how it's not only been interpreted and put into a game, but now


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[Assistant] In a completely different medium by a completely different actor.


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[Assistant] What does seeing Bella as Ellie mean to you?


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[Assistant] The other dimension. I want to kind of focus on this, this opening scene for a little bit and Craig, for you, clearly everyone's excited to tell this story. How do you fight the temptation?


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[Assistant] To put that at the very end, why not put it on episode two? We get background of Joel, why not get background of Ellie earlier? Why stave that off to the very last episode? Hurts more.


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[Assistant] Elena kills the clicker by stabbing it in the brain with her switchblade. Ellie is born. And then Marlene arrives.


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[Assistant] Or employ even Marlene to do this. She says find someone.


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[Assistant] Do you think that Anna trusted Marlene? Or do you think that she knew that Marlene would be good to find someone? Why didn't she just ask Marlene to be the one?


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[Assistant] So let's move on from the cold open with Anna, baby Ellie, and Marlene. Now we're back with Joel and a 14 year old Ellie who is emotionally shut down in a way that we haven't seen before.


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[Assistant] Wanting to show her something that is pure and innocent. And to me, one of the most unsung, maybe even unnoticed lines of Ali. He introduces her to something pure and innocent and she meets it with a profane. She says, so fucking cool.


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[Assistant] But to me, it's, there's a sadness in Joel of realizing that the innocence is gone and that she is forever changed.


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[Assistant] That to me is why he says, we don't have to do this.


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[Assistant] What do you think Ellie knows is going to happen?


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[Assistant] In this moment, this was something that obviously, Neil, you helped craft in the game.


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[Assistant] To play an emotion is one challenge, to play crying, to play angry, whatever it is, whatever that looks like, however we play that emotion, to play empty is, is to truly mark what he is.


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[Assistant] There's a moment that going back to that episode where he talks with Tommy and Tommy says there were other ways we just weren't any good at him. And for me watching this, this is Joel, as you say, burning his own soul, realizing this is the one thing that I'm good at.


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[Assistant] Do you think that's true because you just come after her? As opposed to-


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[Assistant] There is the moment of doubt too when you just see Joel in the truck.


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[Assistant] It was something that I remember when we were shooting the game, coming to you Neil, and when we first saw the script for the last scene, I remember looking at you and saying, are you afraid that people are gonna hate this?


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[Assistant] And you said no, I'm just, I don't care if they hate it or if they love it, I just don't want them to be ambivalent.


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[Assistant] And to you that would have been the mark of failures if they didn't feel anything.


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[Assistant] But first, I don't think I've ever asked you this, Ashley. Do you believe that the okay


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[Assistant] Is it her believing the lie or is it her accepting the lie?


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[Assistant] Swear to me that everything you said is the moment before that, the beat before when in the game Joel says,


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[Assistant] I struggled for a long time with surviving, and what I learned is that no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.


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[Assistant] And he panics and throws the only thing he knows to be true, which is no matter what, you just keep finding something new to fight for. In this he goes, if you just keep going, you'll find something new to fight for. Tell me the differentiation. I'd love to know.


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[Assistant] I don't know how else to put it. It is a very bold way to do a season finale. But if you've taught us anything, both of you throughout this entire season is just because you've played the game doesn't necessarily mean you know what's coming. What...


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[Assistant] Are you most excited about at least hinting towards for season two with the story?


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[Assistant] You guys decide to go. With season two. Whether it be to the moon or to a sheep ranch. Uh, we will follow you. Wherever you go.


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[Assistant] And that's where we're going to leave the conversation for now. This has been the podcast for HBO's The Last of Us. Thank you again to Craig Mazin, to Neil Druckmann, and especially to Ashley Johnson.


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[Assistant] It has been my pleasure and thank you to everyone. You've been okay, Troy. I've been okay. Thank you very much. Thank you to everyone who has participated in these conversations with the podcast. Thank you for watching the show. We hope these stories and this conversation has moved you equally.


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[Assistant] Stream episodes of the HBO original series, The Last of Us, on HBO Max.


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[Assistant] Please like and follow HBO's The Last of Us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. And remember when you're lost in the darkness, look for the light.


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[Assistant] The thing that Conan wrote for you? Yeaah. No, I don't remember.


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[Assistant] Paul, do you like the band or not? It's a terrific band and we get to wear makeup and play music. We have it made up here. Yea. Do you? How do you think the old band feels seeing you up there with


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I was, I won that quiz, single-handedly. Every single time Tempest went, I dunno. And my reward is to do Roar for two weeks, so I'm glad I did that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it set up things at the start.


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[Assistant] Which then paid off several times, not just once. Like, you'd go, uh, with the Bailey stuff, and then it played off at the end. You'd go with the Champa stuff, and it played off at the end. Edge coming back, and that played off at the end. Everything had a...


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[Assistant] Ooh, here's something. And then we actually got the...


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[Assistant] Another part of that story later, rather than just segment segment segment segment segment segment segment.


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[Assistant] It was nice. And I watched the whole thing, because I don't watch role that often.


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[Assistant] And so when you were like, oh, you gotta watch Raw next week, I was like, oh crap. But actually, I'm quite excited now to watch next week's episode of Raw, which I can't imagine happens to you very often.


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[Assistant] This is the problem, is that are we just so excited about the possibility of something different? Yes! That...


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[Assistant] We're like, oh my god, this is the best. Like anything could have been on this show, it would have gone so much better.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, but what I'm saying is are we gonna be like this for a month and then go, oh.


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[Assistant] It actually is the same as it was before, and it was that one week where we were like, oh great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I genuinely sat down to watch it this morning thinking a bit, sort of, okay, here we go, I'll watch raw, and then it'll be whatever, but by sort of half-


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[Assistant] I was excited, like genuinely, and now this is, this hasn't happened in a long time. I turned off notifications for like WrestleTalk.com, great website, last night because I was so sure that something big was going to happen. And it didn't, but I was that excited or that interested that I didn't want to wake up, look at my phone and go, oh, Sasha and Naomi are back.


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[Assistant] And then basically watch the show going, any minute now.


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[Assistant] Oh, there they are. Yeah, I was actually excited to watch the show. And so, yeah, I wake up in the morning, I was tired, I was, but...


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[Assistant] Within 10-15 minutes I already was much happier. And the whole, pretty much the first hour, because we were watching it on a stream without...


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[Assistant] Adverts. I don't know whether they did this, but there was a report from, uh, Muscle Votes, which was like,


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[Assistant] USA was saying, you can have the first hour without adverts if you would like it.


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[Assistant] And that was great, because there are too many adverts, generally on television, but American television in particular. I don't know if you've ever watched an episode of Jeopardy!, but it is, here's a question and here's a five minute ad break.


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[Assistant] And so to have that was really pleasant, and there were three matches in the first hour of Raw, which probably has never happened before.


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[Assistant] Well, it's also on someone perfect right now because Bobby Lashley has been WWE champion twice in the last year. So to have him as the guy who's holding your belt as well, if it had been theory, I feel like this would have been much harder to play off. But because it's Bobby Lashley and because it actually now feels like that's going to be really hard to get off him.


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[Assistant] Why it is, but it seems to be that kind of those things.


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[Assistant] Because the other guys are so good, and they let-


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[Assistant] They didn't do anything, there were a couple of spots in there, especially the finish, which was so cool.