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[Assistant] I see. Doug Johnson or no other officer when they're on duty will lend their car. I think you and I better go in there and check this up.


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[Assistant] Oh, no you don't. You've got a lot of packing to do. I'll be down at the station tomorrow morning to see you all. Good night, darling.


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[Assistant] Yes. I thought he was sweet and kind. He wasn't very bright.


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[Assistant] But I didn't care. I loved him and I was gonna marry him. So I came to New York.


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[Assistant] But there was a picture about it in the paper. Cut that out.


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[Assistant] You know, come to think about it, maybe you're right.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think so. But I don't remember exactly. They were going in up to his apartment, presumably. That's what I assumed, of course. When I was about ten o'clock? Around ten.


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[Assistant] Well, I hope you'll remember that. Don't you remember me?


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[Assistant] Uh, I forgot to tell you lieutenant. Yeaah. It's two of them. Two twins. Did you get that?


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[Assistant] Look, very much alike the fellow was telling me. Some people can't even tell him a part he said. Can't they really? Well, that's the way twins are, you know.


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[Assistant] Well, I try to keep on my toes as much as possible, Lieutenant. And don't think we don't appreciate it either. Good night. Good night, Lieutenant. Thank you, sir.


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[Assistant] One of the side gates had been left welcomingly ajar.


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[Assistant] And a lantern perched atop the stone ledge next to it shed a yellow glow on the path. We had almost reached this beacon.


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[Assistant] When a hand suddenly descended on my mouth from behind and I was jerked abruptly off my feet. I struggled and bit.


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[Assistant] But my cap toe was heavily gloved, and as Jamie had said, a good deal larger than I.


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[Assistant] The grunting and muffled cursing ceased abruptly with a thud and a rich Gaelic expletive. The struggle in the dark stopped, and there was an unfamiliar laugh.


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[Assistant] God's eyes, if it's no other young lad column's nephew. Come late to the oath-taking, are you not lad? And who's that with you? It's a lassie.


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[Assistant] Replied the man holding me, and a sweet juicy one too by the heft of her.


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[Assistant] The hand left my mouth and administered a hearty squeeze elsewhere. I squeaked in indignation, reached over my shoulder, got hold of his nose, and yanked.


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[Assistant] The man set me down with a quick oath of his own, less formal than those about to be taken within the hall.


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[Assistant] I stepped back from the blast of whiskey fumes, feeling a sudden surge of appreciation for Jamie's presence. Perhaps his accompanying me had been prudent after all.


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[Assistant] He appeared to be thinking otherwise, as he made a vain attempt to remove the clinging grip of the two men at arms who had attached themselves to him.


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[Assistant] There was nothing hostile about their actions, but there was a considerable amount of firmness.


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[Assistant] Don't worry yourself about that, laddie, he said surveying Jamie with a gleaming eye. We'll outfit you proper. Inside. He jerked his head toward the gate, and Jamie disappeared within, under compulsion.


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[Assistant] A meaty hand gripped my own elbow, and I followed willy-nilly.


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[Assistant] Rupert appeared to be in very high spirits, as did the other men I saw inside the castle.


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[Assistant] There were perhaps sixty or seventy men all dressed in their best, festooned with dirks, swords, pistols and sparrows, milling about in the courtyard nearest the entrance to the Great Hall.


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[Assistant] Rupert gestured to a door set in the wall and the men hustled Jamie into a small lighted room. It was one apparently used for storage.


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[Assistant] Odds and ends of all kinds littered the tables and shelves with which it was furnished.


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[Assistant] Rupert surveyed Jamie critically, with an eye to the oats drawers in his hair and the stains on his shirt. I saw his glance flicker to the oats drawers in my own hair, and a cynical grin split his face.


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[Assistant] No wonder you're late laddie. He said digging Jamie in the ribs didn't blame you a bit. Willy!


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[Assistant] He called to one of the men outside. We need some clothes here.


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[Assistant] Something suitable for the lad's nephew. See to it, man. And hurry.


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[Assistant] Welcome to Season 2 of Small Empires in Atlanta.


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[Assistant] Now this is an awesome startup called PartPic, which is at a really pivotal moment that most people never get to see. They're right in the middle of raising their seed round of funding.


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[Assistant] So we're talking about physical, like, like widgets. Like my widget is broken. I need a new one. I don't know what it is. I'm holding it here.


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[Assistant] And this is a way to instantly take a photo of it and find out.


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[Assistant] Wow. You've been running for the last year based pretty much entirely off the funding you got from that accelerator and then prizes here and there.


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[Assistant] Every time. Because the investor needs to believe in you. And founders are going to hear no more often than yes. But it could be a matter of tens of meetings with angel investors or I've seen as many as over a hundred before a round gets done.


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[Assistant] We're in a nondescript office park about 20 minutes outside of Atlanta. We're visiting National Builder Supply, which is going to be the first pilot customer of Part Pick. And I hear there are a lot of toilets inside.


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[Assistant] I'm very familiar with Toto Toilets. I've got a couple. Very big fans.


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[Assistant] So I'm at home, something's broken. If you're at the house, I just, let's pretend I'm handy and I'm trying to fix this myself. Sure. So this is broken. It is a copper macaroni.


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[Assistant] Alright, those are investors who lack conviction. I can use another word, but it's, it's so incredibly frustrating as a founder, because it's like, if you believe in me now, what should it matter? You shouldn't need to wait. This is the, and it's the classic because they're the same investors who are like, I'm not a herd investor. No, I don't. I, you know, but they, it's, it's infuriating as a founder.


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[Assistant] So Silicon Valley investors, what do they risk by sleeping on secondary markets?


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[Assistant] Unfortunately for all of us, there are founders like Jewel who will stop at nothing in order to see their businesses become successful.


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[Assistant] And she will no doubt inspire many more founders just like her to take up the charge and become entrepreneurs. And look, after spending some time with her and being here in Atlanta, I certainly would not bet against Jewel.


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[Assistant] And, for that matter, I wouldn't bet against Atlanta either.


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[Assistant] What have I to lose? Good luck, my friend. In my newspaper, Freedom, I shall tell proudly of a German whose brains could not be bought. Thank you, but I should not advise you. Oh, I am quite safe. I am a Pole. My country is not at war yet. Goodbye. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] We'll never get through, never. We don't stand a chance. We'll all get through. We are in good hands.


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[Assistant] I always use Dory. Do you? Always. I have some of that. You won't regret it. Watch it.


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[Assistant] Taking care to tread heavily on the toes of the woman behind me, who yipped in anguish as my boot heel crushed her metatarsals. I beg your pardon, I gasp. I'm so dizzy. Please.


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[Assistant] I turned away from the pillory and took two or three steps, staggering artfully and clutching at the sleeves of those nearby. The edge of the plinth was only six inches away.


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[Assistant] I took a firm hold on a slightly built girl I had marked out for the purpose and pitched head first over the edge, taking her with me.


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[Assistant] We rolled on the wet grass in a tangle of skirts and squeals.


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[Assistant] Letting go of her blouse at last, I relaxed into a dramatically spread eagle heap, rain pattering down on my upturned face.


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[Assistant] I was in truth a trifle winded by the impact. The girl had fallen on top of me.


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[Assistant] And I fought for breath, listening to the babble of concerned voices gathered round me.


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[Assistant] Speculations, suggestions, and shocked interjections rained on me, thicker than the drops of water from the sky.


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[Assistant] But it was a pair of familiar arms that raised me to a sitting position.


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[Assistant] And a pair of gravely concerned blue eyes that I saw when I opened my own.


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[Assistant] A faint flicker of the eyelids told me that the mission had been accomplished.


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[Assistant] And in fact, I could see the tanner's lad, napkin clutched to his ear, making off at speed in the direction of his loft.


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[Assistant] So lately calling for the lad's blood were kindness itself to me.


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[Assistant] I was tenderly gathered up and carried back to the Duncan's house where I was plied with brandy, tea, warm blankets and sympathy.


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[Assistant] I was only allowed to depart at last by Jamie's stating bluntly that we must go.


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[Assistant] Then lifting me bodily off the couch and heading for the door, disregarding the ex postulations of my hosts.


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[Assistant] Mounted once more in front of him, my own horse led by the rain, I tried to thank him for his help. No trouble, lass, he said, dismissing my thanks. But it was a risk to you, I said persisting. I didn't realize you'd be in danger when I asked you. Ah, he said, non-committally. And a moment later, with a hint of amusement,


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[Assistant] You wouldn't expect me to be less bald than a wee sassanach lassie now, would you?


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[Assistant] He urged the horses into a trot as the shadows of dusk gathered by the roadside. We didn't speak much on the rest of the journey home.


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[Assistant] But I felt as though a friendship had been begun that ran a bit deeper than shared gossip under the apple trees.


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[Assistant] I'm sure there's probably kids that- I fuck with Unico. Yeah, not- yeah, Elvin. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So actually I found out about Dirtbag, I didn't even find out about Dirtbag until after I left Connecticut, but I found out about this brand, Freedmines, who's the shit. They're also a good company in New York.


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[Assistant] And then Phil came down for Art Basel in 2004?


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[Assistant] 13, 13. Yea. It was fun, yo. We turned. We met in person, we had mad fun and shit. We met, linked up. Linked up, and then, they done mad shit since that, together. Yea, yea.


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[Assistant] That sounds dope as fuck. I had like the art like cave pretty much everyone would just come through and meet up and just do mad shit there. Like arcade is like basically had these tight ass.


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[Assistant] That was a really good era. I don't know, we just make shit. That thing is like, if you ever got us together, that's all we'd be doing. I say the big difference in like Miami to LA is that like LA, there's mad events. Yeaah, there's always something to do. You don't have to make your own fun, you know? They have those two in Miami, but they're not really tight, so like,


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[Assistant] We would never really go out that much unless it was one of our homie shows, you know? So we would, like every night was just like link up, do some shit, get some food, do some more shit.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have to do anything, he's just building his brand, that's the way he wants to do it. He's always been like, you know, very much like a visionary and about like a complete album and he really puts like, like a year of work into an album.


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[Assistant] Man, it doesn't feel any different. It's always so anti-climatic. It's so anti-climatic. Are you a drinker? No. So then there you go. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. He's very mature beyond his years, I feel like. Yeah, I have like an old soul, people tell me it's weird.


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[Assistant] Salt and vinegar as one, but you can't have that as the only one. Get sick of it.


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[Assistant] Pringles are funny. Pringles are fire. Doritos are nice. Nah, not really man.


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[Assistant] And Neil Druckmann. Hey Troy. And today we'll be talking through episode 6 titled, Kin.


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[Assistant] Just a brief setup, we're now three months after the last episode. It's cold, the landscape is different, we've...


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[Assistant] Left behind the crumbling buildings of the city and we've traded them now for the stark desolation of the wilderness. Let's talk about it.


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[Assistant] Meet some new characters, the inimitable Graham Greene, uhm, and also his wife played by Elaine Miles. And Graham's character gives us some great advice.


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[Assistant] Just the cold air. Just the cold air.


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[Assistant] Episode, this panic attack. We then transition into Ellie staring up.


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[Assistant] Joel doesn't admit that he wants to be a singer first. He says he wants to be a shepherd.


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[Assistant] We move into one another, one of those moments of threats and failure as we're surrounded by this group who has a dog.


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[Assistant] And they say, what's your name? He says Joel. And we smash cut to now we are just outside the gates of Jackson.


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[Assistant] One of the other differences is, the version that's in the game is when there's this opening of the gates and...


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[Assistant] And that's what you're talking about, the return of the resentment.


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[Assistant] The scene you're talking about is interrupted in the game by gameplay.


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[Assistant] A disadvantage. So that's, that's my question is like how much does that affect the story knowing you're not going to have infected that are now attacking because you are within the safety of Jackson. So how does that affect


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[Assistant] Speaking to their history that there's a totem of the honoring of that on the mantle when Ellie walks into the house and we see this chalkboard with distressed chalk. So it's been there for a while that has two names and two dates. We see Kevin and Sarah and I noticed something and it's not a nitpick, but I was just curious. The date.


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[Assistant] That Sarah died is the 27th. Historically, we know outbreak day was the 26th. I'm curious. After midnight. It's after midnight.


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[Assistant] In stark contrast to that, Joel could have been in there watching the movie as well, but what he decided to do instead was go off and kind of like a dad, put himself in a shed and tool around.


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[Assistant] And he says it in a very compelling way.


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[Assistant] And for people who are fans of the game, there is what would be considered an iconic line.


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[Assistant] Well, when we originally did it, I don't know if you know this or not, but it wasn't mighty thin ice. It was your treading on thin ice.


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[Assistant] In Petro's, in what it was, it wasn't a threat again. He's pleading. It's almost the same, please don't, that he gave to the sniper.


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[Assistant] And if I'm not mistaken, also, everyone has left me except for you, was the original line.


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[Assistant] For me, in that moment, in that performance, what I got is I am rejecting the dream, the ideal.


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[Assistant] Right, wonderfully masked by the way in democracy, and as a noble gesture.


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[Assistant] Goodbye, between Tommy and Joel.


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[Assistant] And it's a long embrace and one could almost interpret it as final, but then we have Tommy's offer.


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[Assistant] There's a place here for you, which again is that one last chance and Joel's response that I didn't catch the first time. I'm counting on it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] To me shows that there is hope and that they will make it back from what he calls a suicide mission. And the request, can I borrow the rifle? Not can I have the rifle, but can I borrow the rifle? What does that moment mean to both of you?


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[Assistant] Do you feel that Joel looks at this as a fresh start?


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[Assistant] And Joel gets injured. Well, let's talk a little bit about the difference here in this fight.


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[Assistant] I don't know where we're going, or what we're going to do.


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[Assistant] These are the words that Ellie ends the episode with and the answer to those questions next week. Well, thank you Craig for joining us. My pleasure. And thank you Neil for being with us as well. Thank you.


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[Assistant] And Neil Druckmann. You can stream new episodes of the HBO original series, The Last of Us, Sundays on HBO Max. The podcast episodes are available after episodes of The Last of Us air on HBO. You can find this show wherever you listen to podcasts. Like and follow HBO's The Last of Us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. And as always, when you're lost in the darkness, look for the light.


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[Assistant] Behind you there's ocean and ahead of you there's a wall. Where else to look but up? I read everything I could in the school library.


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[Assistant] Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell. But you know who my favorite is?


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[Assistant] Sally fucking Ride. Best astronaut name ever.


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[Assistant] Therefore, Christian men, be sure, rank or wealth possessing, ye who would now bless the poor, shall yourselves be blessed.


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[Assistant] Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour. Many were the blithe birds that warbled their moor.


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[Assistant] So why should we run? Let's get drenched in moonbeams. The blossoms of romance need showers to start.


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[Assistant] I saw the lightning flash.


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[Assistant] It gives me great pleasure to announce, ladies and gentlemen, that we have with us this evening two very distinguished Broadway personalities, Miss Arlene Terry and Mr. James Houston.


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[Assistant] We reach the first stopping place near noon of the second day.


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[Assistant] It was no more than a cluster of three or four huts set off the road at the foot of a small glen.


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[Assistant] A stool was brought out from one of the cottages for Dougal's use, and a plank, thoughtfully brought along in one of the wagons, laid across two others to serve as a writing surface for Mr. Gowen.


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[Assistant] He withdrew an enormous square of starched linen from the tail pocket of his coat and laid it neatly over a stump.


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[Assistant] And began to lay out ink-horn, ledgers, and receipt books, as composed in his manner as though he were still behind his lace curtains in Edinburgh.


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[Assistant] One by one the men from the nearby Crofts appeared to conduct their annual business with the Laird's representative. This was a leisurely affair.


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[Assistant] And drawing up a vacant stool sat alongside Dougal in apparent equality explaining, complaining, or merely chatting.


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[Assistant] Some were accompanied by a sturdy son or two bearing bags of grain or wool. At the conclusion of each conversation.


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[Assistant] The indefatigable Ned Gowan would write out a receipt for the payment of the year's rent, record the transaction neatly in his ledger,


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[Assistant] A small heap of coins would disappear into the depths of his leather bag with a faint chinking sound.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, the men at arms lounged beneath the trees or disappeared up the wooded bank. To hunt, I suppose.


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[Assistant] Variations of this scene were repeated over the next few days.


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[Assistant] Now and then I would be invited into a cottage for cider or milk.


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[Assistant] And all of the women would crowd into the small single room to talk with me.


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[Assistant] Sometimes a cluster of rude huts would be large enough to support a tavern or even an inn, which became Dougal's headquarters for the day.


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[Assistant] Once in a while, the rents would include a horse, a sheep or other livestock.


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[Assistant] These were generally traded to someone in the neighborhood for something more portable.


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[Assistant] Or if Jamie declared a horse fit for inclusion in the castle stables, it would be added to our string. I wondered about Jamie's presence in the party.


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[Assistant] While the young man clearly knew horses well, so did most of the men in the party, including Dougal himself.


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[Assistant] Considering also that horses were both a rare sort of payment, and usually nothing special in the way of breeding,


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[Assistant] The village, though small, was large enough to boast a tavern with two or three tables and several rickety stools.


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[Assistant] Here, Dougal held his hearings and collected his rents.


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[Assistant] And after a rather indigestible luncheon of salt beef and turnips, he held court, buying ale for the tenants and cotters who had lingered after their transactions,


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[Assistant] And a few villagers who drifted in when their daily work was completed to gawk at the strangers and hear such news as we carried.


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[Assistant] I sat quietly on a settle in the corner, sipping sour ale and enjoying the respite from horseback.


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[Assistant] I was paying little attention to Dougal's talk which shifted back and forth between Gaelic and English.


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[Assistant] Ranging from bits of gossip and farming talk to what sounded like vulgar jokes and meandering stories.


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[Assistant] I was wondering idly how long at this rate it might take to reach Fort William.


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[Assistant] And once there, exactly how I might best part company with the Scots of Castle Leoch.


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[Assistant] His hearers were following him intently with occasional brief interjections and exclamations.


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[Assistant] Coming gradually back to an awareness of my surroundings, I realized that he was skillfully rousing his audience to a high pitch of excitement about something.


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[Assistant] My name is Wes Alkin. I'm the marketing manager here at Athena Software. We've developed a web-based application that's used by social service agencies throughout the world. So for example, groups like United Way would be using a system like ours. Vidyard allows us basically to take somebody who knows nothing about our company


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[Assistant] They click on our video, they watch it. They now know who we are, where we're from, where we're at, and where we're going.


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[Assistant] Within two minutes. Then, the next part of the journey is Vidyard delivers them at our case studies page. Now they can read about clients that are similar to themselves and how they've used our software and system to really transform their organization.


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[Assistant] Ah, cool. So, with that type of video for example.


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[Assistant] How much of the video is being digest and at what point? And when people start dropping off, we can go back, re-edit that video, see where they're dropping off and make the corrections and ultimately get a higher completion rate through the video.


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[Assistant] Then Gao should do a Link attack and take the most points he can. And what if Tasuku uses a Counterspell?


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[Assistant] Not quite. I think Yao has him exactly where he wants him.


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[Assistant] Okay, are you sure? What do you want to do? What do you want to do about it, huh?


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[Assistant] It's a mindset, James, you know, as long as you feel like sexy when you're singing, then, you know, they'll buy into it, you know.


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[Assistant] We are also connecting with those who are practicing yoga and then we are also trying to say elevate them to bhakti. So there are some people who say that this is just opportunism, that yoga and bhakti are two separate traditions.


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[Assistant] What is the historical and philosophical background for these two traditions?


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[Assistant] Are they entirely separate or are they part of a one whole, one larger tradition, the strands of schools within a tradition? Can you talk about the historical philosophical background too?


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[Assistant] Okay, just before we go into the yoga practices, when you talk about the dates, sometimes


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[Assistant] The devotees are a little uncomfortable because there is this constant dichotomy between how the scriptures are dated


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[Assistant] So essentially we can say that when the academic scholars look about the dating, they are looking based on more on the historical evidence that we have of the particular existence of a particular text.


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[Assistant] Okay, do I like this metaphor of the toolbox? That's beautiful. That means it's, as you said, a set of practices, different people can take whatever they want and it may not necessarily, uh,


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[Assistant] All adhere to one theology or one philosophy or one worldview.


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[Assistant] So that they meditate and they try to distance themselves from their, the material elements that make their body. So that would also be an example of a toolbox thing.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we could put it this way, this is a tool box, which, and the tools can be used for various purposes. But the tool box has an original purpose.


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[Assistant] So you could say that's a more mundane use of that toolbox, but that toolbox had original purpose. Yes.


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[Assistant] So similarly, life's traumas can damage us.


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[Assistant] So then yoga is like fixing the tires, so it's like fixing the car. Sorry, it's like fixing the chakras.


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[Assistant] That's what you said that the tool toolbox was meant for a particular purpose. You used it for various purposes. That's right. And these various purposes needed necessarily be


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[Assistant] So that is a part of a functioning human being then who can actually ultimately fulfill the purpose of life. So the purpose we use it for


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[Assistant] But can that be, can it be used for purposes that is contradictory also? Say for example some people may just use yoga to mint money.


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[Assistant] I've seen when I search for yoga on Amazon, there are books like Yoga for Sex. Now, while we could say that, uh,


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[Assistant] Kama is also one of the purposes of life. Dharmartha, kama, moksha.


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[Assistant] Will we consider them violations of the original purpose of yoga?


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[Assistant] So even in the area of physical postures or that part of yoga also traditionally, the idea of a guru and disciple was also there. It was not just in spiritual knowledge. The guru-shishya tradition was also there in the, in the aspect of postural yoga.


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[Assistant] One of the well known Bollywood stars, he did heavy workout for the upper body so that he could look very good.


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[Assistant] But then that damn, that heavy workout damaged his body and then he has to take heavy steroids just to function now.


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[Assistant] It's almost like there is this concept of spiritual bypassing where people use God to stay away from God. That's, there you go. Happens all the time. The same way you can use yoga to actually defeat the purpose of yoga, to do as you say. Exactly. Exactly. True.


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[Assistant] So in general you are saying that at least those who get yoga teaching certifications from the yoga, from authorized places or respected sources, they do get a holistic understanding.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. So even in the mainstream yoga world, Gita is considered that important as a yoga text also.


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[Assistant] So I just, sometimes the yamas and nyamas are translated as dos and don'ts. Is that also a valid translation? No.


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[Assistant] And people may feel it that way, oh I can't do this, I can't do this. But discipline itself can also be affirmative, not necessarily restrictive or regulative.


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[Assistant] That's a, that's a, you're talking partial, practical and perfective.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. I had heard this opposite. It is that we keep taking an aahar from the outside. And what is outside? We keep it outside.


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[Assistant] Everyone says everybody wants these experiences that break the routine and the monotony of life.


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[Assistant] So, it is, you could say, when somebody does some external activities, like when they're going to go for a party and they dance. So in a sense, dance also gives you experience something different from what we normally get. That's right.


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[Assistant] But, uh, these are all you could say partial ways of doing it. That's right. That's right.


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[Assistant] I think maybe now we are coming to slowly the link between Yoga and Bhakti.


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[Assistant] Talked about yoga quite a bit.


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[Assistant] So when you say if it takes us to the experience of the highest reality, that is where, so there's an organic, you could say like a culmination of yoga and bhakti. Can you put it that way?


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[Assistant] Because emotive is related to emotions, they can be at various levels.


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[Assistant] But emotion means what is coming from, we also need nourishment from outside. We learn from others, we learn from nature, we are social creatures. That's what you are referring to?


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[Assistant] We talk about yoga as harmony, but I never connected the idea of harmony with embrace.


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[Assistant] Moving and loving imagery. Harmony is also very sweet or connection is also very sweet, but embrace has that affective part within it.


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[Assistant] So when you said yoga is increasing sensitivity,


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[Assistant] It is becoming aware of how much something beyond us is sustaining us.


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[Assistant] This is such a beautiful explanation of yoga from a conceptual perspective. It just broadens one's consciousness. How much of it is


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[Assistant] You could say explicated in the core yoga texts or its implicit and then we.


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[Assistant] It is not a very big text, first of all, smaller than the Bhagavad Gita also and also its sutras are very, very terse. I shouldn't really talk much about the nature of the ultimate reality. So it seems to fall.


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[Assistant] Okay, when I say it doesn't talk much, it doesn't explicitly talk about a personal divinity like Krishna or anyone in the, in the way he is talking about in the Bhagavatam or somewhere else. But you can, I am saying in that sense, but you can explain.


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[Assistant] Is that referred to the same as the center of our emotions? Ultimately it's the soul.


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[Assistant] Presently wherever our emotions are in the mind or wherever that's where it will be located. Something like that.


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[Assistant] So are we considering here the heart to be the thing that radiates out awareness of consciousness? Yes, yes.


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[Assistant] You're going quite deep here into the discussion about the heart. It's beautiful.


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[Assistant] So it's not so much as I could say a state of disembodiment which talks about like a deprivation of the body. It's more a state of


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[Assistant] Freedom from that which is insufficient for expressing the hearts love. That's it.


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[Assistant] You could coin a word like we are mindful, you can have heart full.


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[Assistant] Now when you say it's up to you who you discover there, that means there is both, there is an objective and subjective aspect to it. Objectively the Lord is there in the heart.


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[Assistant] But subjectively depending on our samskaras, our vasanas,


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[Assistant] We may find something else over there. Something that has been placed over there by our own past actions.


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[Assistant] Everyone has a God, everyone has something that is the center of their being.


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[Assistant] And in their worldview, that is the ultimate. For some people, it might be money.


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[Assistant] For some people it might be their health, for some people it might be their family, some people it might be their country. So, you're saying that


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[Assistant] If, if those people go deep into their being, it's up to them what they will find.


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[Assistant] That's right. And this is how we can also understand Krishna when he says, yeh tha maam prapadyanti.


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[Assistant] So Krishna also said, Naham Prakasha Sarvasya. That's right.


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[Assistant] Give a understanding of what the Ishwara is. You said that the Ishwara Panidhan comes several times.


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[Assistant] The fabric of reality pushes us towards the practice of yoga or the fabric of reality is arranged in a way as to inspire us or even assumes that we will move towards yoga. That's right.


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[Assistant] So we could say the full moon is rising, that's when one has, uh, you could say fully returned the embrace and fully envisioned the reality to whom we are embracing. Yes.


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[Assistant] So going back to the embrace metaphor that we are embracing.


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[Assistant] Depends on which bija is growing.


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[Assistant] If some unwanted bija is growing, then that embrace gets misdirected towards something else. So instead of, we are about to, yeah, we are about to embrace the divine, but we end up embracing something else.


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[Assistant] This ultimacy, first you understand the ultimacy and then there is intimacy.


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[Assistant] So the majestic Lord reveals himself to be the intimate Lord, you could say. Yes.


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[Assistant] Why the triple? Yoga of the yoga of the yoga.


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[Assistant] One level of aware perfection of yoga is also to realize the such aspect that there is eternal and pure existence. Okay.


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[Assistant] Here I was thinking sometimes we really should discuss the Gopi Gita and the Ras Leela.


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[Assistant] In detail, we have, we have mentioned it in many beautiful ways in our various podcasts, but we could need to have a devoted discussion to that. Coming back to this point about Satchitananda, so is it when the yogis realize that aspect and if they consider that to be the ultimate,


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[Assistant] Ishvara has the perfection as contentless or objectless consciousness and he talks about


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[Assistant] So is this based on scripture? The two things, and maybe these are the two things which we will need to conclude because this will take some time. One is the idea of what is the perfect state of consciousness? Is it contentless, objectless and why is it thought like that?


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[Assistant] Is it because of say the Advaithic tradition superimposing or something? And the other is that, that the conception of Ishvara,


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[Assistant] So is that something which came from Jainism or Buddhism that they are, that they are also the ultimate, the Tirthankars are more like models than, than Lords who reciprocate?


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[Assistant] Because I like this word non-personal as compared to impersonal. Because impersonal conveys a rejection of the personal.


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[Assistant] Correct. Whereas non-personal is, you could say maybe lack of awareness, lack of realization, lack of perception. That's right.


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[Assistant] And I also like this, wowed by the mansion of existence.


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[Assistant] Beautiful phrasing. Before I was introduced to Bhakti, I had read some spiritual teachers and their descriptions of Brahman were actually very moving.


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[Assistant] We could, we could say that there is no Krishna in that sense it's, it's not personal.


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[Assistant] But there is, there is the affective aspect also involved. It's not just like a cognitive aspect. The description is very beautiful and moving for them. Yes.


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[Assistant] We are, we are aware of the house, but the house in one sense,


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[Assistant] We don't see the disconnected, the appreciation, like in the 10th canto there the verses were


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[Assistant] That's that Brahman whom the Jnanis seek, that Paramatma whom the Yogis seek, that He's playing as a boy in the courtyard of Nanda Maharaj. How fortunate is Nanda Maharaj?


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[Assistant] When you know the mansion, you appreciate the owner of the mansion more.


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[Assistant] So if you consider yoga as connection, then what connects the human and the divine is actually rasa. There it is. Beautiful.


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[Assistant] Beautiful, fast tracking. Such a nice word. I also feel the same thing that Prabhupada's compassion makes him impatient.


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[Assistant] It's like he wants to give throughout the Gita what Krishna has given at the conclusion of the Gita. That's right. That's right.


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[Assistant] Is a progression, it's like seeing the vision, seeing the mansion before we come to see the person. Now, so then where is the idea that


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[Assistant] The, okay, I'm seeing the mansion and I see the person also, but why should, why would I think the person to be more exemplar than a reciprocator? Is that, where does that idea come from?


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[Assistant] Rather than the, as a reciprocator, how did it happen and I mean is it, uh,


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[Assistant] There is no explicit reference to Asapparagya Samadhi at all in the


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[Assistant] So that's where the idea comes up that Sampradgyanth, you are having an object for your meditation, but you go beyond, that means there is no object. That's where the, that's the influence that is being drawn over there. That's why the idea.


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[Assistant] It's going to be groundbreaking when this insight comes out because just like-


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[Assistant] The love, the love aspect in the Bhagavad Gita, I think you have to break it out in the Yoga Sutras.


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[Assistant] That's beautiful. When you said that spillover, I was thinking of 1041 in the Gita, Krishna says,


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[Assistant] Everything opulent manifests a spark of my splendour.


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[Assistant] Then, does the Sutra also talk about something beyond say Chitta Vritti Nirodha? Because that is given as one definition of Yoga and that also seems to indicate some kind of stasis, that the consciousness has become Nirodha. So, can you talk this or do we need to have another session to talk about this?


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[Assistant] So that expression is also there. So we cannot, so Nirod cannot be reduced to one thing.


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[Assistant] This is such a beautiful translation. So I thought, how would you do that?


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[Assistant] Should I try to summarize quickly? Please.


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[Assistant] This was a thrilling discussion. We discussed about broadly the topic of from Yoga to Bhakti. So, we started about our Yoga and Bhakti


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[Assistant] Two distinct traditions that originated, so we talked about how yoga is almost pre-historical in the inter, beyond our human history to know.


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[Assistant] Historical eye can only see so much and see so deep. But the reality is much bigger. So,


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[Assistant] But even in whatever text you do have, uh, wherever it's available,


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[Assistant] You know, yoga is not just talk, you give one metaphor which I think we use a lot of, like a toolbox. So yoga is difficult to define because it involves various kinds of practices and various conceptions of perfection also. But even Rigveda mentions about people who resemble yogis.


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[Assistant] So there is that description and then of course the Bhagavatam.


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[Assistant] has the philosophical description of yoga in the 3rd and 11th cantos and also the practice of


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[Assistant] How yoga is described historically, we came to today. You talk about how yoga spread.


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[Assistant] You know in India also Buddha, Buddha, it is not that it's come from China, it's very much from India and Buddha practiced in India.


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[Assistant] Each tool has its value, but the toolkit has its original purpose.


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[Assistant] So if somebody wants to fix their back is aching and they want to fix their, get the, say if you consider yoga as harmony or connection, then get the back to work in harmony with the rest of the body. That's also what yoga offers.


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[Assistant] So yoga can connect us, connect union or connection. Union means to bring various parts together in a whole, in a harmonious way. That can happen at various levels. And this is, this is good at one level, whatever people are benefiting. It becomes, yoga however can do v-yoga.


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[Assistant] When we make that part as the absolute, when we do that alone and reject everything else.


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[Assistant] Strengthens their one arm or just upper part of the body and neglects everything else.


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[Assistant] In seeking the health of one part, they may damage the rest of the body. So like that.


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[Assistant] Like that yoga can lead to be yoga, but if people want to use it as a toolkit,


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[Assistant] Then within yoga, yoga itself, there is something which uplifts. So a person practices yoga and then they feel some kind of, there is something special, something more over here.


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[Assistant] And to some extent, even the yoga teaching is moving toward that holistic understanding by talking about not just the physical postures but also the philosophy and the broader world view.


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[Assistant] And then we talk about how yoga is meant to heal. It's like a car that has been damaged. The wheels have been damaged because of a pothole. So like our, our inner being


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[Assistant] Becomes damaged. By the chakras get, this get, you see, what is it? Within the chakras get buried the vasanas, the samskaras and the kleshas.


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[Assistant] And we can function at a more wholesome level. And then from that point


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[Assistant] We move forward to the whole, I think the metaphor of the embrace. So as we move forward, we talk about yoga and so we connect, we


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[Assistant] Bring the part together with the whole. So there can be different conceptions of the whole as a person moves forward.


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[Assistant] And there is the, so there can be yoga at the level of Sat.


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[Assistant] There was a significant discussion about


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[Assistant] The point that when, when people are practicing yoga, at that time it is


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[Assistant] It is, the Lord reveals Himself the way they conceive. So Ishwara is, to translate as God is, these people think of Him as a creator, but in the Bhakti tradition, creation is outsourced, subcontracted as you said.


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[Assistant] And uh, there is, with the description of Ishvara, Ishvara Pranidhana comes several times, so we talk about going deep within the heart. So with respect to that, we talked about


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[Assistant] The yoga practices, the angas of yoga can be understood at a


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[Assistant] At a practical level, at a partial level, at a partial, practical and then at a perfective level. So at a partial level, they are universal.


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[Assistant] We talked about this, all of the Yamas and Niyamas, all of them are universal. And Yamas and Niyamas are not do's and don'ts, but they are more of social interaction rules, guidelines for social interaction and guidelines for individual discipline.


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[Assistant] Not taking aahar from outside. Not just doing the opposite of taking aahar from outside in a complete sense. Taking aahar, taking food from inside. Getting nourishment by drawing out what is within.


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[Assistant] But the deepest level of freedom from the limitations of our being, when we go, that's when we go deep into our heart. And so then we talk about the heart.


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[Assistant] Heart is not just a biological heart, it is actually, it's not even mentioned from the, in the, in the,


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[Assistant] Anatomy of our being from the atma to the, from the ahanka to the...


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[Assistant] So, it is actually within the, within the Atma, the deepest level of our being, where, so when we, there is the outflow emotion and then we said in motion, was it? They go out and go in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in motion. So that reciprocation, so when the deepest we go into the heart.


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[Assistant] That's when, depending on what kind of samskaras are there within the person, they will perceive the ultimate reality accordingly.


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[Assistant] So bhakti yoga is, so that ultimate being is always embracing us. So bhakti, so yoga is also increasing awareness and then increasing gratefulness toward all the gifts that we have, to how our existence depends on so many things which are


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[Assistant] Beyond our comprehension also, level of control.


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[Assistant] What can we control in that? What can we even know? So that is, and then as we become grateful,


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[Assistant] There is, when it is thought that the ultimate reality is


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[Assistant] So somebody may be attracted more to the magnificence of the mansion.


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[Assistant] Then the actual resident owner of the mansion. So they are not being impersonal, they are more non-personal.


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[Assistant] So, Shukadeva Goswami and the Kumaras were more non-personal, so that's something like Brahmavadis.


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[Assistant] And then from there, once you see the person, then you fall in love with the person completely.


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[Assistant] So the Sat level of realization is also one valid level of realization. However, there is more in that also.


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[Assistant] Then we talked about the idea that Ishwara is non, the Ishwara is not a reciprocator.


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[Assistant] So that the word graha is very much there and when the ultimate Ishwara that is so.


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[Assistant] There is some asapragyat samadhi but beyond that, it's not asapragyat, it's beyond that is Ishwara.


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[Assistant] In our meditation. And then Yogesh Chittavarti wrote that that was, you could say,


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[Assistant] In cricket, India cricket is very popular, so they say the match winning sixer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the climactic moment, yeah. The climactic moment. So, let me see if I get the translation. So, Yogas Chittartinrodha is that the conditioned


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[Assistant] That the perfect, there is the transformation of consciousness by which the conditioned turning becomes uprooted.


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[Assistant] So Nirodha is both ways. Yes. Negative and positive, yes.


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[Assistant] Magnificent. Thank you very much. Did I miss out anything you want to add?


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[Assistant] His left hand dropped to his belt, and he drew the dirk in a motion like water pouring from a glass. Now, to fight we sword and dirk together, he said.


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[Assistant] If you have no targe to shelter your Dirk hand, then you fever the right side with the small sword in that hand, and come up from underneath with the Dirk if you're fighting close. But if the Dirk hand is well shielded,


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[Assistant] You can come from either side and twist your body about. He ducked and weaved, illustrating. To keep the enemy's blade away. And use the duck only if you lose the sword. Or the use of the sword arm.


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[Assistant] He dropped low and brought the blade up in a swift, murderous jab that stopped an inch short of my breast. I stepped back involuntarily, and at once he stood upright, sheathing the dirt with an apologetic smile. I'm sorry. I'm shooing off. I didn't mean to startle you. You're awfully good, I said with sincerity. Who taught you to fight? I asked. I'd think you'd need another left-handed fighter to show you.


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[Assistant] It was a left-handed fighter. The best I've ever seen. He smiled briefly, without humor. Doogal Mackenzie.


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[Assistant] Most of the cherry blossoms had fallen from his head by now.


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[Assistant] Only a few pink petals clung to his shoulders and I reached out to brush them away.


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[Assistant] The seam of his shirt had been mended neatly, I saw, if without artistry.


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[Assistant] Even a rip through the fabric had been catch stitched together. He'll do it again, I said abruptly, unable to stop myself.


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[Assistant] He paused before answering, but there was no pretense of not understanding what I meant. Oh aye, he said at last, nodding. Gets him what he wants, you see. And you'll let him do it? Let him use you that way?


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[Assistant] He looked past me, down the hill toward the tavern, where a single light still showed through the chinks in the timbers. His face was smooth and blank as a wall. For now.


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[Assistant] We found accommodation for the night at a crofter's cottage. Or I should say I did.


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[Assistant] The men slept outside, disposed in various haystacks, wagon beds, and patches of bracken.


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[Assistant] In deference to my sex or my status as semi-captive, I was provided with a pallet on the floor inside, near the half.


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[Assistant] While my palette seemed vastly preferable to the single bedstead in which the entire family of six were sleeping,


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[Assistant] I rather envy the men their open air sleeping arrangements.


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[Assistant] The fire wasn't put out, only damped for the night and the air in the cottage was stifling with warmth.


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[Assistant] And the scents and sounds of the tossing, turning, groaning, snoring, sweating, farting inhabitants.


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[Assistant] After some time I gave up any thought of sleeping in that smothered atmosphere. I rose and stole quietly outside, taking a blanket with me.


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[Assistant] But I leaned against the stone wall gulping in enormous lungfuls of the delicious cool stuff.


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[Assistant] There was a guard sitting in quiet watchfulness under a tree by the path, but he merely glanced at me. Apparently, deciding I wasn't going far in my shift, he went back to whittling at a small object in his hands.


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[Assistant] And the blade of the tiny skeendoo flickered in the leafy shadows.


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[Assistant] I walked around the cottage and a little way up the hill behind it, careful to watch for slumbering forms in the grass.


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[Assistant] I found a pleasant private spot between two large boulders.


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[Assistant] Just so had I watched the moon rise from the window of Castle Leoch on my first night as Colum's unwilling guest.


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[Assistant] A month, then, since my calamitous passage to the circle of standing stones. At least, I now thought I knew why the stones had been placed there. Likely of no particular importance in themselves, they were markers.


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[Assistant] Just as a signpost warns of rock falls near a cliff edge.


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[Assistant] The standing stones were meant to mark a spot of danger. A spot where? What? Where the crust of time was thin? Where a gate of some sort stood ajar?


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[Assistant] Not that the makers of the circle would have known what it was they were marking. To them.


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[Assistant] The spot would have been one of terrible mystery and powerful magic. A spot where people disappeared without warning. Or appeared, perhaps, out of thin air. That was a thought.


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[Assistant] What would have happened, I wondered, had anyone been present on the hill of Craigneddon when I made my abrupt appearance?


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[Assistant] I supposed, it might depend on the time one entered.


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[Assistant] Here, had a cotter encountered me under such circumstances, I would doubtless have been thought a witch or a fairy. More likely a fairy.


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[Assistant] Popping into existence on that particular hill with its reputation.


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[Assistant] That might well be where its reputation came from, I thought. If people through the years had suddenly disappeared,


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[Assistant] Or just as suddenly appeared from nowhere at a certain spot.


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[Assistant] It might with good reason acquire a name for enchantment.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it surprises me. Obviously, with today being the premiere and what not, there are a lot of texts and emails going back and forth. Congratulations. Yeah, sure. Good luck. And it's still sort of...


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[Assistant] Jensen Ackles and I are the, are the two brothers in the show. And we're both Texas boys. He was born and raised in Dallas. And I was, yeaah. I saw my Houston buddies over there. Yeaah, that's right, yeaah. Uhm, I was born and raised in San Antonio. We both actually live in Austin. Uh, we're both married to actresses. The same woman? Yes, yes. We're on a commute.


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[Assistant] So, my wife was on the show season 4, and it was great. We met, we went out, fell in love, all that. Uhm, but at the end of season 4, uhm, Daddy and Uncle Jensen killed my wife. So, they don't watch the show yet, but that's gonna be a very...


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[Assistant] Dear Emma bares everything so well, but she will mispromise Taylor Morgan she


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[Assistant] Oh, it's very pretty. Very prettily done, indeed. The only criticism I have to make is that she appears to be sitting out of doors.


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[Assistant] In my opinion, it is never wise to sit outside so lightly clad. It's very prettily drawn, but then your drawings always are.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, it's me, Dilly Sims. Welcome back to my channel. Today is Let's Play The Sims 4 Soap Opera Legacy Challenge, episode 34. Last episode we just hung out with Diamond


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[Assistant] In the big city, in her apartment, saw what her life was like, she's, she's making it nice, she's getting, she's making it her own little home.


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[Assistant] In this episode, we're gonna touch base with Devon and Robert, see where they are.


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[Assistant] And I think something might happen today. Teehee, finger pyramid of doom.


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[Assistant] And maybe a few promotions because I realized they're both on like love or promotion number three.


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[Assistant] And Diamond is on number 5. So, you know, it's okay if your younger sibling is doing better than you, but I also want them to make more money. And since the house burnt down,


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[Assistant] I don't even know if he's an adult yet. We should check up on him today. All three kids got fifty thousand dollars.


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[Assistant] Since Goldie McDickerson burnt and killed Juliette. Burnt down the house and killed Juliette, so. $50,000 for you guys too. Now they got some, some cash. Not bad. Sweetie, you need to write your column. Come on. Be Carrie Bradshaw. I wanna give her some curly hair like Carrie Bradshaw. I love Carrie Bradshaw. Robert, sorry. How are you doing? You're doing good?


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[Assistant] How's the laundry situation? I'm always like very s-


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[Assistant] Particular about the laundry, I'm like, did the laundry get done? I probably get it from my mom. No, I know I get it from my mom.


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[Assistant] Let's stop this, come on. And let's get some gardening done. Evolve, let's evolve all of our plants. Honey, your tins.


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[Assistant] Don't be tense. Be enticing to your woman. You're feeling very flirty for some reason.


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[Assistant] A stereo? No we don't, let's purchase a stereo really quick. There we go, we'll just keep it there.


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[Assistant] I'm thinking next episode, we'll purchase a house. Yea. We can continue listening to music.


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[Assistant] I wanna get this little thing out of the way cause it's like super easy to do.


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[Assistant] Let's go back to sleep, it's like 2 o'clock in the morning. Maybe next time she sleeps, or she pees, she'll take a pregnancy test. She's like, hm, what's the harm? What's the worst that could happen? Her being pregnant, that's literally the worst that could happen.


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[Assistant] Do you go to work? Do you go to work? Oh, you go to work in four hours. You need to- oh, you'll be fine. You need to eat, but that'll be fine. You don't have to work, but you can go back to sleep.


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[Assistant] Diamond. I can't, I'm going to work right now. Sorry, but I would talk to you.


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[Assistant] A deadline looms. Devon has a major deadline approaching and needs to find a way to knock it out. What should she do? Hide in a closet? Ask for help. Oh my god, obviously ask for help.


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[Assistant] You're hungry again? You just ate right before you went to bed. Let's take a thoughtful shower and then DJ.


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[Assistant] He played an instrument for a whole hour. I thought this counts as an instrument. I'm gonna purchase you a guitar so you can play it.


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[Assistant] Let's have some lunch. Upgrade, or do we have leftovers? No. A quick BLT. Oh, that said fish tacos, it's fine.


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[Assistant] He used to be a butler, so you're well rounded when it comes to food and making different meals. Oh, he's eating it outside, that's nice. He's enjoying the day.


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[Assistant] You have to write four songs? Do you get money? How do you write songs? Click on a musical instrument and select write song. Wait, what? Wait, what do you like the best at though? Maybe I should be putting your focus on something else other than d-chain. You're, uh...


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[Assistant] Go to Kano. Maybe he can write a piano solo thing. But there's no room inside the house so the piano has to be outside. They are so trashy.


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[Assistant] It's sad to think Devin went from class to trash, from Prada to NATO. I thought you write songs on a computer.


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[Assistant] Ooh, this is where Jeffrey died, right in front of the door. You guys should take care of this. There you go. Are you an adult now? You're still a teen, that's fine. That's like your brother.


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[Assistant] Okay, I said hang out with me. Where did Devon go? Or Diamond?


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[Assistant] Again guys, let me know if you have any ideas for Blake and his story. He's like a complete fresh face, sort of. He's a teenager, but who knows where his story could go. If you want to create any Sims for him, for his character to like socialize with, feel free to do so. Oh wait, we can help him fix a bad relationship. Wait, like do you have a bad relationship or does he? Oh he does, let's help him fix a bad relationship. So that's what sisters do.


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[Assistant] Honey, there are guests in your house. I feel like she's gonna be a great mom after it happens. Looks good.


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[Assistant] You're, you're gonna be pregnant. Have a quick meal. Cereal. You're going to work? Okay, bye! Have a fun day at work! Hopefully, please get me a promotion.


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[Assistant] Impress the boss. Devon wants to impress the boss for a promotion. How should she go about doing this? Work extra hours? Performance gains small.


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[Assistant] Aw, she's getting home from work as you're leaving to work. That's okay though. It's like real life, actually. I got my girlfriend pregnant. You know what, let's work out. I feel like you're getting a little chubby.


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[Assistant] Oh, can you not work out like this? Uh, you need like an actual workout equipment? I don't like that. I don't like it at all.


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[Assistant] The punching bag? No, I feel like they need one of these.


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[Assistant] There we go, and you know what? I'll let you keep your glasses. You're adorkable, I guess. He's like between kinda chubby and kinda fit.


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[Assistant] I guess it is time that they start like, actually settling into a real house.


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[Assistant] Okay Devon, what are you gonna be, a food critic or an art critic? Art critic. For sure.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna flip a coin because I have no idea. Okay, so, heads art critic, tails food critic.


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[Assistant] Okay, you're done with your column, beautiful. Let's browse the web. She's like...


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[Assistant] House is online. Ooh, that's a nice house. And there's a car.


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[Assistant] And then some Craigslist personal ads. They have a good amount of money, I think. Cause this trailer was like a starter trailer.


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[Assistant] And then they got $10,000 after the dad died. And then they got $50,000 after Juliet died. So they're like, at least close to $100,000, right? Let me see. Let's see, how much is this trailer actually worth? $28,000.


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[Assistant] 28 plus 61, I'm not even talking about like the extra hundred. I'm just talking about the thousand, so 28.


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[Assistant] Robert, when you come home in two hours, okay. You do not smell good, Robert. At least they're earning some decent money. I wish it was more, but you know, whatever, everybody wishes it was more money.


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[Assistant] I heard it's night night at the bar, wanna check it out? Morgan, I'm pregnant, uh, no.


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[Assistant] She's like, pregnant. Everyone knew that. Duh. Duh, Dilly.


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[Assistant] Robert, are you gonna get a promotion tonight? No. I don't feel it. I don't feel it in the cards for you. Robert's home and did not get a promotion.


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[Assistant] Oh honey, you need to take a shower. I'm sorry I made you work out before going to work. Probably not a good idea. Take a bubble bath.


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[Assistant] Well guys, I think I'm gonna leave this part off here. Next episode, we'll be moving into their new house.


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[Assistant] I have to pack up everything that I want to take. So.


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[Assistant] Feel free to let me know in the comment section below if you want to create any characters or lots. Feel free to do so and tag it in the gallery with the hashtag Dilly Sims. Like, subscribe, comment, do all those fun YouTube things and I will catch all of you guys next time. Bye everybody!


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[Assistant] That's your business. Decide to go with your looks. So it'll be too much.


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[Assistant] The mask has nothing in his own name except his birth certificate. Not even a snuff box.


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[Assistant] An orderly woman shouldn't become involved with a man like the captain. What can he offer you?


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[Assistant] It's up to you. But there are safe methods and unsafe ones. The death of that squirrel should be a warning to you.


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[Assistant] Yes, but not in public. Neither Madame nor I would approve of that.


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[Assistant] Don't be afraid of me. You and I are alike.


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[Assistant] Maybe not in looks, but down underneath we are the same.


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[Assistant] I don't know what you mean. You sit behind the bar and count the money. You laugh and talk with the soldiers.


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[Assistant] They won't dare to insult you because everybody will know that you are my wife. Yes, Celestine, I, I'm going to marry you. I want you.


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[Assistant] No, I won't. I tell you we are like you and I.


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[Assistant] For ten years I had the unpleasant job of working my way into Madame's good graces. Ten years of service, of devotion, until I had her confidence and the proper set of keys.


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[Assistant] Having been your confidential steward for so long, this hurts me very deeply.


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[Assistant] You want all the keys to all the rooms?


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[Assistant] Yes, he'll buy you things and it'll keep him amused for a while.


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[Assistant] I've served you faithfully for ten years. Ten years, three months and three days to be exact. But...


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[Assistant] Like so many other people of my class, I always had the ambition that one day I'd be my own master. That day has come.


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[Assistant] Perhaps I should also announce that I am going to be married. I found myself a wife. Celestine? Yes, Celestine.


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[Assistant] No, I must have it as you had it for my peace of mind. It represents to me as it has to you, my new position in life, my new security.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't harm Mr. George, not if you come with me.


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[Assistant] Are you coming with me now or do I have to kill him too?


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[Assistant] Your luggage is in the carriage. Everything is prepared. Look.


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[Assistant] I was about to ask when a raspy cough from behind announced a visitor to the shed. It was the stringy little man named Murta. He eyed Jamie's strapped up ribs for some amusement and lobbed a small washed leather bag through the air.


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[Assistant] Jamie put up a large hand and caught it easily with a small clinking sound. And what's this? He asked. Murta raised one sketchy brow. Your share of the wagers, what else? Jamie shook his head and made to toss the bag back. I didn't a wager anything.


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[Assistant] Murtaugh raised a hand to stop him. You did the work. You're a very popular fellow at the moment, at least with those that backed you.


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[Assistant] But not with Dougal, I don't suppose, I interjected.


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[Assistant] Murtaugh was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women had voices. But he nodded politely enough.


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[Assistant] Aye, that's true. Still I didn't see as that should trouble you. He said to Jamie. No.


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[Assistant] A glance passed between the two men with a message I didn't understand. Jamie blew his breath out softly through his teeth, nodding slowly to himself. When? he asked. A week.


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[Assistant] Ten days, perhaps, near a place called Lagroom. You'll know it. Jamie nodded again, looking more content than I had seen him in some time. I knew it.


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[Assistant] Whatever the cause, it appeared that Jamie's days as an exhibition were over. I suppose Dougal can always tap-dance instead, I said. Eh? The secretive looks changed to looks of startlement. Never mind. Sleep well. I picked up my box of medical supplies, and went to find my own rest.


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[Assistant] There was a cluster of small companies that had maybe half a dozen people in them, uh, and there were probably about half a dozen of us and, uh, folks like Jim Balsley, uh, Randall Howard, uh, Jim Estol, uh, and a variety of others that were all part of the original, uh, group of companies.


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[Assistant] Well, OpenText is one of the first startups, uh, a spinoff of the University of Waterloo, and I joined up with some of the professors, uh, that had already started the company a few years earlier, uh, and we decided to grow it.


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[Assistant] Is it started to create, working together with the accelerator center, places where entrepreneurs could go and have a lawyer, have an accountant, have a marketing expert, all within walking distance.


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[Assistant] Waterloo has had a remarkable history of entrepreneurship, and as each cycle comes to an end, a new cycle begins. But in that intervening period, it's very difficult for the new cycle, in this case tech, to start attracting people to come to what was in effect a textile and automotive area.


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[Assistant] Uh, here in Waterloo, it's the entrepreneurs. They are the celebrated group in town. So if you're an entrepreneur, you really want to come to Waterloo Region because quite frankly, you've come home.


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[Assistant] Today is going to be a monumental day because I found out you can play Wii Sports Club online. And I have signed BFoss up.


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[Assistant] For Nintendo Online on the Wii U here, so I'm excited for this opportunity. I wanted to be BeefBoss as my online name, but that was taken. Then I wanted to be BeefBoss69, and that was taken. Then I wanted to be BeefBoss with all the vowels being numbers, and that was taken. So...


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[Assistant] My name ended up being BeefBossEatsAss. So if you ever see BeefBossEatsAss on, uh, your Wii U console,


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[Assistant] That's me. Oh, I get to, I get to choose it. Now that I'm a Florida man, I'm gonna proudly be a member of the Florida club. Setup is now complete. Let the games begin. Alright, here we go. So I wanna play bowling against other people.


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[Assistant] I want an online game. Alright, let's just play against anyone, cause I can't imagine there's a whole lot of people playing this online. Am I playing with anyone or am I playing... Searching for players, alright.


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[Assistant] I've never played Wii U bowling before. The ball didn't curve, believe it or not. Come on, someone in the world be playing Wii U bowling right now.


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[Assistant] No opponents found. Alright, well, no one in the world.


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[Assistant] He's playing Wii U sports bowling online right now. Alright, let's try a different sport. Let's try baseball. Edit online banter. What is online banter?


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[Assistant] Oh, look at this, you can change what your things say. I did it. Oh, you can only, you can only pick.


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[Assistant] Oh man, this is dumb, come on. Okay, well I edited my online banter, so I better find somebody to play against this time. No opponents found, okay.


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[Assistant] Well apparently no one in the entire world is playing Wii Sports Club right now.


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[Assistant] Well, let's try tennis. Tennis is the top one here. Tennis on Wii Club U Sports is frickin' hard as hell.


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[Assistant] Samantha is ready to play! HERE WE GO! WE GOT AN OPPONENT! I'm gonna play!


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[Assistant] Wee Sports Club against Samantha. Wait, can I smack talk? Can I smack talk yet? So close. Alright, yes, that's great smack talk.


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[Assistant] Jesus! Samantha! So close! I thought I changed my catchphrases, but obviously not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, baby. I should give her some points. I don't want to feel bad. Okay. I actually didn't mean to do that.


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[Assistant] You just got served. Little does she know.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh, shit. I needed to calm out with those. Frickin' Samantha. Yeah, baby.


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[Assistant] No, no way! She was frickin' sandbagging!


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[Assistant] Frickin' BeefBoss wins his first online game in Wii Sports history.


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[Assistant] What a day this is. Samantha hangs her head in shame.


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[Assistant] You just got served! See, the thing is, there could be, people could be playing a hundred pin games, instead of ten pin games, and I don't know. MUNSON!


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[Assistant] My man! We got people playing online on the Wii U here. We got, we got one other. Okay, it might just be a 1v1, but that's better than a- than a 1v none. Alright, now I actually have to like-


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[Assistant] Get in the zone. There ain't no way I'm losing to frickin Monson in bowling. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] We're gonna have a full freaking game here. Tina Turnup is ready to play.


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[Assistant] Apparently there's more than just me and Samantha. Playing Wii U Sports. Wii U Club Sports Club Sports Wii U. And let me, let me, let me shit talk. Nope.


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[Assistant] Shit talk. So close. Oh, come on. My banter isn't correct. Wait, do they gotta wait for me? Oh, I'm the first. Oh, I'm getting a spare. Yes!


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[Assistant] It's so close! Come on, are these people gonna talk to me? I did it. Come on.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's Lionel in the back. Oh no, this guy's looking like a guy. Look at this guy! Look at- Oh, fuck you!


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[Assistant] Fuck you! Nah, it's the frickin' Tina turn up givin' him the nice. I gotta change all these to be smack talk.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is, this is serious cause Munson's gonna be a frickin' stick in the mud here and be some frickin' PGA tour bowler. And I'm gonna be out here an ass eating bowler.


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[Assistant] Oh, now Munson wants to be AFK. Zero pins. Munson.


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[Assistant] Aw, you asshole. You made us wait and you're still bowling. Lookit, there's Beef Boss on the screen up there. Oh my god. This guy sucks ass. I hate you. Yikes, wild ball. Bummer.


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[Assistant] I need to keep on editing my banter here. Frickin Munson. If Munson gets a perfect game against me, it's over.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's it. God bless America. I'm having an ass game in front of Monson.


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[Assistant] I figured that one pin on the left would hit it. Let me hit him with the gutter ball comment.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna freeze the game because I keep on spam, spam messaging here. I wish you could, on the freaking case for this game, it looked like you could, like, write your own messages to them. I wonder if that used to be a thing and they had to change it.


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[Assistant] What? That was wild. That was like out of control wild.


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[Assistant] And then that sucks. Hohoho, nice split Munson.


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[Assistant] I don't know if Monson purposely did that. I don't know if he realizes that he's going against like complete amateurs.


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[Assistant] I probably, this is like what one of my games looks like in real life bowling. I wish there were some better messages in here. Like, the smack talk, there's not that much. Wait, ooh, from Miiverse.


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[Assistant] No usable online banter messages will find. Post online banter from your profile to get them approved for further use. Oh, I'd have to get my smack talk approved. Who approves it? Can I approve it myself? Look at, look at beefbots up there jumping. And I can make them twist.


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[Assistant] Playing Wii Sports Online, an experience I never thought I would have. But here we are. Man, she is, she's falling apart here. I just wish I could send some more.


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[Assistant] Unique messages to my opponents.


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[Assistant] All he can do is a frickin' banana down the, down the alley.


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[Assistant] So if he doesn't strike, he frickin' messes everything up. I might catch up on this one. Beef Boss may prevail.


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[Assistant] Honestly, this is a pretty embarrassing bowling game on any level.


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[Assistant] Ah, ah, she's gonna be up there now too.


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[Assistant] All right, beef boss. We need a strike. We need a strike here.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, not, oh look it. Tina turn up giving me the nice. It's on. Bummer.


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[Assistant] Tina is supporting me. Monson, he doesn't talk at all. Monson, you better hope you at least spare here, otherwise...


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[Assistant] Uh oh. Oh, thank god. Although he might-


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[Assistant] Munson almost blew the hat. I think I am still in the lead though. I think I am going to prevail on this one.


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[Assistant] We were tied on that frame, which means that


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[Assistant] All I needed to do was spare so I'd get one more throw. Monson, I swear to frickin' god. Monson.


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[Assistant] You better not, you can't even, you can't strike or and you can't spare Munson. I gotta get my smack talk re-ready.


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[Assistant] What is Munson doing? Now there, there's his, he's gotta get his banana technique going. Ooh, gutter ball. Ooh, gutter ball.


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[Assistant] Missed that pin! Missed that pin! Gutterball! Gutterball! Gutterball!


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[Assistant] Oh my god, game, come on, why do you give him so much time? You give him 30 more seconds? Come on. No. That's bull. That's bulloni.


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[Assistant] I am the man. Alright, let's, let's see if we can find an online game of baseball now. Oh look it, I already got an opponent. That was quick.


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[Assistant] Oh, if I had, if I had some me's on my council, I think they'd play on my team.


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[Assistant] But I don't have any me's on my council other than Beef Boss. And, uh, my own me. YES!


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[Assistant] Zero! You get nothing on me, man, nothing! That's what I'm talking about. I'm gonna be able to do hey, better, better, swing.


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[Assistant] What's that guy's name? Garrett Cole sitting at home right now doing this.


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[Assistant] Like it's already hard enough, like playing against a computer. But then when you actually play against somebody...


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[Assistant] You're a fucking dickhead. Yeah, don't mess me with that. I'm watching this time.


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[Assistant] We needed, we needed a homer there. Cause I don't know if I can ever hit it again.


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[Assistant] Come on, we needed that!


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[Assistant] Now we're fucked in the ass, aren't we? I think th- those were our opportunities. Don't! Ugh.


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[Assistant] Come on, we cannot lose. I don't know who this guy is, but he cannot let us down.


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[Assistant] Are you kidding me? Lose. Then we're just gonna blankly stare. Fuck, fuck this guy. Yea, negative 10 XP for that. Thank you game. That negative 10 XP really did a lot for me.


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[Assistant] And you're gonna tell me, oh that's negative ten. Oh wow, we actually have someone.


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[Assistant] Who are we playing against? Oh, a girl? A girl thinks she can take on a guy? Oh, and it's from Michigan!


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[Assistant] My former state. This is the rivalry of the century here. I don't think there's been a rivalry this big on the Wii U yet. To this day. So close. I did it. Nice. Beep boss, we're getting beat by a girl! SHOOT! AHHHH! Beep boss, why do you suck? Oh, hit her in the face. We need- Beep boss, you suck. Beep boss, we need a- we need some jive in here. Up, up.


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[Assistant] I think we lost that round. Beef? Beefers! Fuck!


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[Assistant] Dude, we're gonna lose to a girl from Michigan as a Florida man. Come on, we're Florida men now.


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[Assistant] No, we don't say nice. We need to edit this frickin' online banter. Nice is not... Eat this.


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[Assistant] Eat this beef. Oh, the connection with your po- AHH! That's an automatic win!


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[Assistant] She couldn't handle my smack talk. Come on, you're not gonna give me- That's not a win for me, since she left?


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[Assistant] Really, the Wii U is way too much about sportsmanship. And that's, that's embarrassing to me. Creating personalized online banter. Hold up. How do I do that? But Miiverse services ended. So what, you can't edit, you can't edit any,


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[Assistant] I'm confused how, how do you edit any of your Miis on the Wii if you can't edit them? Well, I don't know if we can do it now since the Miiverse doesn't exist. I don't know if I can edit my smack talk.


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[Assistant] Oh well, nothing's available anymore. Nintendo's shutting everything down. Alright, I'm done.


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[Assistant] I told you before we started rolling that, uh, the world's a little blurry. I really love that documentary because it's about the process. And I love anything that shows both sides of


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[Assistant] Uh, bickering, you prodding, having arguments, you know, arguing with your mom in the kitchen, uhm, and man are you intimidating.


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[Assistant] When you're, Billy, when you're mad, I have, you know, uh, a teenage daughter, I get terrified. So when I'm watching the documentary, it's as scary to me as any horror movie, cause you'll just shoot those eyes at someone, and you're not even trying, you're just staring at them, and if I were your mom, I would jump out the window.


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[Assistant] What about you, I mean, Phineas, you seem, and this is, again, this is just from, uh, the documentary and, and performances, you seem like someone who doesn't lose his shit, but do you sometimes? Oh my god. Yeah. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, my team will disagree. I have no anger issues. Are you an asshole? You're a total asshole. You know what I am?


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't think I'm, well you guys can back me up. No, I am not an asshole, I don't think.


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[Assistant] Because the way I grew up, yep, the way I grew up is I do have, I relate to Phineas because I have a lot of anger, I have a temper.


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[Assistant] And no one was around saying, well, how do you feel about what just happened? There's none of that. So uhm, there was nobody expressing any of that. So what happened was there's a lot of pent up anger. And what I learned is,


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[Assistant] And I mastered this thing of being able to talk to somebody for a bit who I was really mad at and we had a pleasant conversation and then I'd leave and they'd think, I think we had a pleasant conversation. Oh my God, I'm bleeding.


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[Assistant] He stabbed me with words nine times, but I didn't feel it. So, it's an issue, yea. It's an issue that I have to work on. But I don't think you can have creativity without some, you have to, you have to have.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you have to be some great quote, and I'm misquoting it, but it was like a lot of the world's great work has been done by people who didn't feel quite well.


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[Assistant] I feel bad that I interrupted your great creative flow and you had to come here and do the podcast. It was yesterday. What if it was going really great and he said, you got to do that Conan podcast. We'd do it. Thank you. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] You're in a tent and like what I noticed with your fans is they love to get their hands on you and you're very generous about hugging people. I'm the same way. I don't mind hugging people. Huge mistake at Bonnaroo.


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[Assistant] I am going to talk about machine learning for creativity, interaction, and inclusion. And I'm not going to assume any particular machine learning expertise or creative technology expertise here, so I'm gonna start out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, examining how machine learning can be useful to human creators and why and how to make it more usable and useful. Uhm, and then I'm going to finish up with some current work which is also a bit more speculative around, uhm, using machine learning for promoting inclusion and also, uhm, improving inclusion within machine learning.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so let's get going. So machine learning, uhm, most of you probably know, you know, it's cool and fun and important. Uhm, but if you don't know more than that, here's a good starting point.


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[Assistant] So you should think about machine learning algorithms really as tools for finding patterns in data. And an easy way to talk about this might be, well, I've got a web store and I've got customers and I collect demographic information about these customers.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or maybe I also, uh, collect information about what they buy in my store and I can use machine learning algorithms to make predictions that help me, you know, make more money in the future. So I might see that some customers buy one particular type of, uhm, music album for instance and others buy another type of album.


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[Assistant] And when I see a new customer coming to my store, of course I know lots about them because I've been tracking them on the internet, I can say, oh, you're gonna like this artist, please buy this thing and they're gonna buy it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this interestingly is not that useful for selling things to customers in this way, right? I'm not gonna generate new virtual customers usually, but it is really fun with pictures of cats. So these are now just cats.


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[Assistant] Uhm, of course you can do this with other types of content and this starts to become really fun. Uhm, one of my favorites is using the same type of algorithm to generate music album covers.


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[Assistant] Uhm, algorithmic approach, roughly speaking, but applied to a dataset which is a big collection of classical piano music. And so I'll play you the results of what this generative model produces.


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[Assistant] So it sounds like a piano, that's great. Uhm, you can do this with text. One of my favorite people on the internet right now is Janelle Shane.


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[Assistant] Follow her on Twitter if you don't, because she's amazing. And she does a lot of creative projects, finding text corpora.


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[Assistant] And you're laughing, right? You're laughing, hopefully many of you are HCI people and you might realize that this is a little bit limiting and short-sighted. Uhm, you'll notice first of all my button has a couple asterisks there. The first caveat is that


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[Assistant] This works really well if you have lots of data, right? So this, these algorithms don't.


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[Assistant] So problematically, uhm, if you don't like what things spit out, your option in many cases is to kind of hit the button again. Uhm, and so the interaction model here, if you think about,