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[Assistant] That's the shape that you're wanting in your pier. Yes, we do have a traceable, but it is a fun thing to practice and a good idea. I'm gonna take my half inch angle again and I'm going to paint in my pier.


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[Assistant] Now, boating people will come in and be like, what are you talking about? It cannot be any of those things. It's a...


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[Assistant] There it is for people with opinions to share them! So share your dock opinions with me. Cause I don't know and I won't mind.


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[Assistant] So when I have that there, another thing that I can do is I can come in and make a vertical line.


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[Assistant] And then I'm gonna come across here.


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[Assistant] I'm making little upward strokes. Now, if you are not, don't have an angle brush, or you're not a fan of the angle brush,


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[Assistant] And you would like to use the fan or the round to do your grass. Honestly, you could do that. They all make good grass.


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[Assistant] There really isn't a right or wrong way to make your grass. This is just how I am, but I'll tell you what I do think is important.


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[Assistant] Is to have some grass be thick, some grass be thin.


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[Assistant] Some grass to go different directions, some be long, some be short.


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[Assistant] Wild and unruly is my advice on your grass. Don't mow the lawn by your dock.


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[Assistant] Don't mow it! Let it be wild and free. Fireflies could hide in here during the heat of the day.


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[Assistant] Just flicking this upward. If you're not familiar with this brush, I'm using the shorthand


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[Assistant] Filament on the brush to the long filament so that it tapers the stroke on the way out.


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[Assistant] I have, uh, in my techniques video we talk about the grass stroke and different ways to get that and how to be effective at it. So if this is all giving you trouble, go ahead and


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[Assistant] Refer to that video, it is literally labeled as the brush strokes how to paint stuff.


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[Assistant] And one of them is tag grass so you can even, you don't have to watch the whole thing if you didn't want to. See the part that was relevant to you.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna do a little wood effect and make this feel like a dock. I've got a number four round, I've just got a round brush here. And I'm going to use a dry brushing method.


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[Assistant] To kind of create my wood texture. Notice that my brush is super dry, so it's like skipping.


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[Assistant] Skipping over the wood. I'm coming with a little bit of just white over that.


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[Assistant] I don't want to take away all the black because I want this to show.


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[Assistant] I'm going to add a little highlight to the front of my piers and we'll fix those up a bit once we get more of this in. So I'm going to come across here and create a bit of wood. I'm going to skip and leave kind of a black line. Can you see the black line?


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[Assistant] As I come back, the boards might get a little bigger than the ones up front.


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[Assistant] Just a little bit. That's a small amount of perspective. Not too much to handle there.


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[Assistant] Still dry, my brush is dry and that's gonna make it skip over the top of this. I can add little highlights of wood into it.


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[Assistant] Brush directionality does matter here. Cause like we're going with the grain of the wood.


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[Assistant] Right off the canvas. See how our dock has bigger planks going to smaller planks? Yeah.


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[Assistant] With like all dry brushing. An important technique, dry brushing.


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[Assistant] I'm going to rinse out thoroughly and I'm going to go ahead and load up some black.


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[Assistant] I want to make sure that the spaces between the boards are nice. And you can always even come back with a little bit of black if you feel like your wood got too white. Didn't have enough gray, didn't have enough value.


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[Assistant] Just touch up a little bit of the pure. I rinsed out and dried off on a paper towel so my brush isn't wet.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna come here and just make sure that these have a little bit of character and personality. They're a little kind of rotted and old, right? Yeah. When that's all done, I'll make a gray.


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[Assistant] Kinda thin my paint. I know this went real fast guys, I'm aware.


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[Assistant] And I want you guys to know that you can do the trees in any color that fits your life or any combination of colors that fits your life. So, you know, the rainbow is just the beginning of all the trees that you can do. This is a lot of fun, John. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's when we come back, I'm going to tell you what you should be doing next.


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[Assistant] That was really wonderful and I appreciate your time. Whether you were here for the live or you've come here for the replay, I really appreciate that you decided to do this project.


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[Assistant] If you're here for the live and you would like to see those extra demonstrations, come on over to Facebook.


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[Assistant] And we'll talk about a way to do this with a braid. If you need some more technique help,


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[Assistant] Definitely check out the fan brush videos and the technique video.


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[Assistant] The beginner acrylic painting series is free and can be done anytime, any year, any place. So if you're interested in learning how to paint and you'd like that to be a more fun experience for you as a beginner, that course really covers all those beginning questions. It's a really complete course.


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[Assistant] Coming to the end of it if you're here for the live of it, right? So if we missed your questions, leave a question in the comments down below.


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[Assistant] Or hop on over to the Facebook live. Either is fine. I check my YouTube channel all years, all the time, so I may.


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[Assistant] Catch a question on a little video. On the way out, we're going to show you what we're painting.


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[Assistant] Tomorrow or next time, what you should paint next. A very friendly one, a beginner painting that you will love.


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[Assistant] On the track reporting is what Shannon Spokes does best. Always in the middle of the action, she is known for weaving her way into the trickiest of interviews and shines as an RSM pit road reporter. She asks the tough questions and does in the moment interviews in the pits and on the track.


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[Assistant] If there is a big success or a big mess, just look for Shannon. She's the one in the stylish headset.


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[Assistant] She was a part of like the huge effort to get NASCAR people into the movie. Like for example,


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[Assistant] I saw him on the news the other day and now like he's voicing Danny in the movie and they did that a lot. I feel like they did that the best in this movie. Like same thing with Bob Cutlass. He's voiced by Bob Costas who's a real life commentator.


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[Assistant] It's really cool what they do there with the little easter eggs from NASCAR. It's just really awesome in my opinion. So that's pretty much it. I won't really get into her appearance in the movie because I don't want to spoil it for anybody but


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[Assistant] Like the bio said. So I do like the bio. It's very accurate to what I saw of her in the movie. So now let's get on to the review of her diecast. Of course, I'm not really going to talk about her release because like I said, she's only available in this pack as of yet.


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[Assistant] Of course I could not even see this in the pack because, you know, it's facing backwards. Like that is just disgusting right there. And even the paint around the fenders isn't the best. Like it just looks poorly applied. Now, Shannon's not even the only one that got bad.


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[Assistant] Like decals, like here on Brick Yardley there are like two paint globs. Where's my little pointer?


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[Assistant] There's like a white paint club. It does not come off. It is stuck on there, as you can see. Actually, I just kinda scraped some of it off with the T. And you can still see it on the T right there. There's that little white speck. Wow, interesting. Let's see if we can get this other one off. Where was it? It was somewhere here on the side. Did it already come off? Oh, there it is. Right there. See that white speck?


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[Assistant] That is not supposed to be there. Let's see if we can scrape it off. Oh, we did. Alright, so nevermind. Brick Yardley looks to be in good condition then for the most part, but just the decals are poorly applied sometimes. Like here on Danny Swerves, if you look around the gold foiling, it just looks a little messy. And of course,


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[Assistant] Height wise they're pretty much the same as well, but length wise McQueen is a lot longer, like definitely a solid like centimeter longer. I know that doesn't seem like much, but when you're comparing like cars like this, I mean it's a lot. So yea, it's quite a bit. She's pretty small there.


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[Assistant] But on the side here, she has the nice RSN headset, which is the same headset that Chick Hicks has. As you can see right here, they have like the yellow, I don't know, earbuds with the black RSN in the middle. And it makes sense because they both work for RSN. And the antenna is here on the right side, which is pretty cool.


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[Assistant] So on this side right here she has the press sticker, the piston cut press that gives her like the authentication to do what she needs to do. I like the signature of Shannon Spokes right there to identify herself. And now this is a really, really cool Easter egg.


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[Assistant] So you have kinda like a barcode beneath press there, and then it also says A113, which is the big easter egg in all the Pixar movies. It's an office number.


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[Assistant] For like some room in the Pixar headquarters where a lot of good ideas were brewed up. So it does say A113 in yellow right there. It's black leathering and then a yellow background.


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[Assistant] It's on both sides. It's just really hard to see even when I'm zooming in here, so I do apologize for that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think I might get a picture from the movie to put on here actually.


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[Assistant] Brown Silver. So it says RSM right there with the checkerboard logo. Racing Sports Network. So it's been a pretty big company in all the cars movies and even the planes movies as well. Same logo there on the headset.


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[Assistant] Very, very cool looking. We're just going to ignore that pink lip right there. On the back, I like her license plate. It reads RSN SPKS. So pretty much just straightforward there. RSN and then spokes for her last name. And it looks like, what does it say above? Let's see if I put this up to my


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[Assistant] Eyes, it says like Florita or something. It's like a carified version of Florida. And it definitely looks like the Florida license plate because it's that white with the orange in the background.


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[Assistant] But anyways, you can see the taillights there, the brake lights, a little bit of an antenna right there, or whatever that is. So that's pretty much it, guys. A really nice release. You know, the headset's actually not attached from the side. It's attached up here by the microphone and on the roof, so that's kind of interesting. You can like move it around and stuff.


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[Assistant] So a cool release, I just wish mine was better quality. I think what I'm going to do is just buy another multi-pack and then keep that one in the package and it'll make me feel better to know that I have one that's better condition.


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[Assistant] I'll try to look at the back, but I doubt that would happen again. So here's Bob Cutlass, who's an older version of her model, the Saxon GTSC. And now, he actually looks quite a bit different, just because, like, he's longer and larger.


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[Assistant] And now they both appeared in Kairos 3, as you guys probably know.


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[Assistant] And his license plate is just RSN, so that's pretty cool because hers is RSN Spokes. The backs are pretty similar with the taillights, the brake light, and the double exhaust pipes on either side there. Very cool. You also have this little nudge, the antenna, or whatever that is on both of them in pretty much the same spot.


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[Assistant] To give her the access to what she needs to do. It looks like the press sticker is a little bit updated now because they have the barcode and another code, which for her is A113, which I think is really cool. They're kind of similar in model, but not really. They're just kind of like coops, two door coops.


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[Assistant] Just maybe a little bit shorter and taller. And he has a little spoiler in the back. Kinda cool.


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[Assistant] Birds, Tim Rimmer, Butt Hooman, and Dash Boardman for example, do not. So, kind of interesting there.


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[Assistant] Casting molds and here are the other cars from the set just a quick little look


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[Assistant] The cat left us now and, well I, I won't have time.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid of Roy. He saw me that day and I know he suspects something. He may trail me again.


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[Assistant] Leave us alone, sis. I started this and I'm gonna finish it.


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[Assistant] You've already done too much talking to me.


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[Assistant] Roy? Well, you can't do that, Gene. You've gotta let Roy go. I'll take the blame for killing Captain. What's eating you, kid?


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[Assistant] I can't sleep nights thinking a cat lying out there with a bullet through him. Oh, I know it's partly my fault, but I'll take all the blame if you let Roy go. I don't want that to be on my conscience too.


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[Assistant] I'm uploading pretty much every weekday and at least once a weekend.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. I think it's also because we're, we're both polarizing individuals.


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[Assistant] So kinda seeing us collide over maybe some polarizing shit, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean of course people can say things that set me off, I guess I'm not like really


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[Assistant] School anybody or learn from a real conversation. I mean, if you are, you're a total fucking loser.


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[Assistant] And uh, yeah, exactly. Like future's fucking old, two chains is old, Kanye is old.


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[Assistant] I already had years of interning at radio under my belt, you know, so I kind of already kind of had the idea of like a show format in my head and sort of how to deliver, but still, I was really shitty, like my first year of reviews were like total shit.


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[Assistant] Youtube was a little more draconian about it back then. Yeaah, at the time it was more hands on. I was more in contact with people at Youtube at the time and they had, you know, they had recommended to me, you know, specifically not to do it. Does that hurt you?


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[Assistant] Honestly, I think it actually was to my benefit in the end because I think it sort of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Challenge me to better describe what I'm talking about because, you know, I could easily just be like, hey, there's a really cool guitar part at this thing and you know, it's significant because XYZ and blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] And, you know, whereas now I have to like actually specifically describe the intricacies of what makes it significant. And I think honestly again it's worked out for the better because even if at the end of the day I did kind of get away with, you know, using these music clips, uhm, there's still a chance that even if I'm not getting DMCA's thrown at me.


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[Assistant] That they, not even by hand, but they jump in and say, okay, we're gonna let the video stay up, but we're gonna get a cut of the money. Because our copyrighted content is in the video. Right. Uhm, which is also, you know, which is like an even worse situation that I wouldn't want to deal with.


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[Assistant] Back in the 80s or the 90s when, like, music critics and music journalists, sort of the major publications, a lot of which are still around now but are mostly digital, like, were literally the gatekeepers and, you know, you didn't hear about something, whether it was, you know, good, bad, or whatever, unless they covered it or said it was great or whatnot.


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[Assistant] You know, like, sure, I may have an opinion and a strong opinion about some album that you might like, but the thing is, at the end of the day,


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[Assistant] My opinion doesn't really affect whether or not anybody likes the new Lil Yachty record. My opinion, you know, I have more


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[Assistant] I loved the, for the most part, the latest Childish Gambino album.


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[Assistant] But nearly every review I've done of every album he's put out so far has been either


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[Assistant] A Brock Hampton or something, you know, not to say that I'm responsible for those artists being where they are today, but you know, there are a lot of people who tell me personally that they wouldn't have heard of them if I hadn't sort of reviewed them and recommended them.


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[Assistant] They're fucking feelings, because at the end of the day, like, honestly, like, you know, who are you to have an opinion on blah blah blah blah, like, in reality land?


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[Assistant] You know, certainly I can influence people to try out a new artist who maybe people haven't heard of. But if you're on, you're fucking on. I can't step in and ruin your career. It doesn't fucking work like that.


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[Assistant] I mean yes and no, like I like the little boat mix tape. Okay, me too. Which I got fucking crazy harassment for. What'd you give it? I gave it like a seven. Okay. And like even that, it's not like the most positive score, like I liked it, but the thing is like people were just like, I can't believe you fucking like that more than


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[Assistant] Blank face, I can't believe you fucking like that just as much as damn, I can't believe you fucking like that as much as, you know, or more than whatever thing, you know, and it's funny because like,


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[Assistant] People get bitter over that, but simultaneously, like the people who are in my audience who are in the know, like they take that bitterness and they turn it into a meme.


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[Assistant] You know, because now it's like every single video has comments under it like, I can't believe you gave this a 40 and then you gave this other fucking album an 11. You know, it's just like just making fun of that whole mentality of just being like bitter over these score comparisons.


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[Assistant] Uh, Good Kid Mad City is fantastic, but I think he can do better. I felt like my prediction was proven true on to Pippa Butterfly, which I gave a 10.


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[Assistant] So I mean, you know, whatever my opinion was gonna be, whether it was another ten or a two, I felt like at that point I had enough of a rapport where like, okay listen, I know this artist, I've listened to this artist, I love his albums, you know and I know that I have at least a base understanding of what he's about and what he's capable of.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I can capably analyze his music. So, you know, uhm, and, you know, that's just for you to just kinda take in and either agree with it or disagree with it.


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[Assistant] We were trying to see him. It was shortly after section 80 came out. Oh, so all the way back then. Okay. Yeah. And he kept fucking dipping on his sets. And I think I went to three sets trying to catch him and he didn't show up to any of them.


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[Assistant] And then the third one, I just like, you know, we stormed out the back and I was pissed. I'm like, when am I going to see this motherfucker? You know, and then we're in the back alleyway behind this venue on sixth street and then he's like needle drop section 80 review. And then I turned around and he's like, you know, this like short dudes like, Hey man, I watched the review. I loved it.


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[Assistant] And I said, oh cool. And some dude was taking pictures somewhere out there. There's pictures of me and him. And you know, I have no clue who the fuck was taking pictures or some dude was taking pictures. That's rare. I'm into that. And you know, he said, and again, remember this is shortly after section 80 and it was funny because at the time


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[Assistant] But he said to me like, hey man, this next record, I'm really gonna challenge you guys with this next record, you know, I'm doing something really ambitious with this next album. And, you know, at the time I wasn't really thinking about that as much as I was like, I just really wanted to see you live.


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[Assistant] But you know, like once Good Kid Mad City finally came out and I heard the whole thing, I was like, wow, you know, he like really, he really like, you know, really delivered on his promise.


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[Assistant] I think it depends on what kind of artists they are, you know, honestly I think Kendrick and Yachty are two totally different kinds of artists making very different styles of rap music. Because it's clearly on a


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[Assistant] Kendrick's a seven for him. Honestly, like, the scale is just an enjoyment scale.


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[Assistant] You know? Like, yeaah, you can compare them, but only in terms of like, am I enjoying them equally? You know? But I'm enjoying them for different reasons. You know what I mean? If you're going to throw a score on them in the sense that you're trying to objectively grade them, as opposed to just giving it a score, you know, based on how much you enjoy it,


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[Assistant] Then, you know, to me, it would be like comparing, let's say, a seven, if you gave a seven to a Converge album, versus if you gave a seven to a Nickelback album. You know, they're both obviously rock bands, but they're both playing two incredibly different styles of rock music. You know, and to me, that's like, how


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[Assistant] Almost how far the divide in hip-hop is right now, because you have artists that are


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's like, it's just getting more and more diverse every year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, even with trap, sort of, continually for, you know, almost a decade now, being this, like, ongoing, almost non-stop force, which, you know, when it gets 10 years old, I mean, there aren't too many music trends that last a whole, that last beyond a decade, you know what I mean? Or at least are as relevant beyond a decade.


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[Assistant] No, sure. I hear that. I mean, there's, that's definitely a point. I guess what I'm trying to say is there are a lot of, as far as uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, they played hard in the paint and it didn't sound weird back to back with, you know, all of the new trap stuff, you know, and that's because again, a lot of those same musical instrumentals are still at play, you know, much in the same way that


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[Assistant] A lot of the same musical instrumental, you know, a lot of the same musical fundamentals were at play through the whole hair metal era of the 80s. You know, and I think that's kind of the same thing that's going on right now. I think we're kind of on the cusp of, you know, what's going to be kind of a different


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[Assistant] I would say 21 is kind of a part of the alternative too. If we're talking like who's the mainstream of the mainstream, I would say future.


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[Assistant] If it could, if rock could sort of reach that trajectory, I think hip hop can reach that trajectory because I think right now hip hop is sort of carrying the torch of


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[Assistant] Viscera and rebellion that rock used to and has kind of in a way kind of given up on.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, it's again, it's like really rappers that are kind of carrying that torch with this new era of like very visceral, very like, it's not, it's very physical, it's not very mental.


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[Assistant] Right, uhm, you know, they're embodying that more than I think a lot of new rock bands are who are either kind of doing like the glazed over laid back like, hey, let's just try to be the next dream rock jangly Mac DeMarco band.


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[Assistant] No, it's true. I mean, I think uhm, I think part of that is...


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[Assistant] Due to uhm, due to the fact that the press has been kind of a little lenient on labeling things and just kind of like letting it all kind of sit under the hip hop window, you know, because I think the...


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[Assistant] Synthpop bands, the Ramones, you know, maybe like a reggae band or something, or you know, like a band like The Police all on like the same compilation, or bands similar to those bands all on the same compilation, and that's because early on it was all new wave. Right. You know? Uhm, uh, so uh,


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes like these terms and everything, they kinda take a while to develop. You know, certainly people have taken to the term industrial hip-hop, you know. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you know, like Death Grips, Clipping, uhm, you know, there's, there's certainly a track off the New Injury Reserve that I thought kinda fit that, fit that tone. You know, there are a lot of these, like, new noise rappers, you know, before even XXX was a thing, uhm, that, uh, you know, sort of fallen under this industrial hip-hop sort of, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh yea, absolutely. I also think in a way it kind of memes and force it too. Because you know, there kind of is that weird like base boost meme. Right, I love that. I don't know how they do that.


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[Assistant] I like the bass boost meme too. I was talking with some of my buddies about it because, you know, there are some memes that like,


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[Assistant] I think basically, uh, you know, I think honestly, I could make one, all you gotta do is just like, you know, go, go.


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[Assistant] Go into edit on Instagram and before you post it, just press the X, but when you're, you know, instead of discarding it, save it and then take that save and then feed it through Instagram again. And if you do that, like maybe four times, you'll get like a nice deep fried meme.


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[Assistant] It was a mix of different things. I mean, it's partially exactly what you said. I mean, that is the plan.


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[Assistant] No plan is, is what the plan is. So I mean, you know, I guess I kind of...


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[Assistant] Got into such a regimen with the needle drop and it's so methodical at this point, you know, that of course I need to think about reviews and put effort into reviews, but like, you know, when I go into a review, I know what it's going to be when I come out of it, you know, it's not like any question, you know, there's like a formula to it that seems to be working for me, seems to be working with my audience, you know, maybe if uhm,


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[Assistant] It seems like I need to change in the future, then I'll try to make that change the best that I can. But as of right now, it's not really anything I need to sort of change. If it's not broken, don't fix it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, you know, like that can be a little kind of mind-numbing and uninspiring to just kind of subject yourself to that same process of just like I'm doing the same thing every day for the rest of my life. Over and over. You think about that a lot.


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[Assistant] Not really. Well, I mean, of course I think about it, but then I find a way to sort of create an outlet for it. And you know, that is the plan is essentially that outlet to just be like, okay, let's like reset and just do something that


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[Assistant] As far as like writing or planning, there's like very little writing or planning in it at all. You know, it's just like, I just come up with a dumb idea. And if when I think of the idea and I tell the idea to a few friends of mine, like they laugh, like they think the idea, the concept of just itself is funny. Then I'm like, okay, let's just like do a weird.


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[Assistant] Improvisation based off of it and then just like, you know, get a buddy of mine to just like do a bunch of weird crazy fucked up edits that he and I sort of talk a little bit about.


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[Assistant] And you know, he'll send them my way. Maybe I'll add some more like afterwards in post.


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[Assistant] And uhm, you know, there's also a, uh, uh, this kid from Brazil, shout out to VaporRubBoy, who, uh, edits some videos on the channel too, and some of his edits are fucking insane. Like, between me and my buddy Austin, who edit a lot of the videos on the channel, and we've done some, like, some weird zany edits on the videos.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I have another buddy of mine named Jeremy who edits a lot of the videos on the Needle Drop channel. Shout out to Jeremy. Uhm. So at this point do you do almost none?


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[Assistant] Like he approached us and emailed me and was like, Hey man, I really love your YouTube channel. I'm from Brazil. You know, I edit too. And you know, here's some of like my meme videos. And I was like, you know, okay, you know, it seems like cool. Hand him a few videos and just kind of see what he does. And he came through with these fucking insane fucking videos. Like if you check out my meme channel.


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[Assistant] And look up these rapper videos, like I have these three videos, uh, Hopson is the greatest rapper, J Cole is the greatest rapper, and XXX is the greatest rapper.


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[Assistant] And like, they're like these weird psychedelic trippy fuckin' out there odysseys. Like in the J. Cole one, uhm, I...


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[Assistant] I'm talking about how in my previous video I claimed Hopson was the greatest rapper of all time, but I got a bunch of comments telling me, no, J Cole is. So, you know, I like begrudgingly and sort of, you know, very skeptically listen to some J Cole. And then all of a sudden my mind explodes and I'm all of a sudden very intelligent and I reach the seventh level of woke.


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[Assistant] You know, he has ideas that I would never think of. You know, I could sit there and tediously come up with insane fucking edits like every other thing, but the thing is I have reviews to do. You know, I can't just like sink my entire


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[Assistant] You know, day into doing that as much as I would because sometimes editing like that is really fun.


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[Assistant] It's so easy for me to do daily content on the needle drop because it's just informational. You know, it's not flashy editing or anything like that. Like, I kind of want these videos to be sort of perceived as like, you know, pieces of art in a way, you know, kind of be more slowly digested.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, and obviously there are some shitpost videos on there that, you know, are less edit intensive and are just me, like, trying to make an ass of myself. Like, and sometimes they blow up, like, for some reason. Like, I made a video where


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[Assistant] Uh, it was just kind of this straight, almost un, you know, very lightly edited shitpost where I talked about, uhm, uh, the reason I left Buzzfeed. You know, even I've never worked at Buzzfeed.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, you know, I think it would have been, that was kind of early on, you know, as well. So it's like, I think I've grown a lot as a content creator since then.


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[Assistant] A lot of, you know, and a lot of that growth probably would have either been inhibited or altered in some kind of way had it been under the guise of a boss, per se.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, and uh, also uh, Spectrum Pulse, also ARTV, uhm, you know, and there are others that I'm forgetting as well that, you know, I apologize, I'm uh, you know, it's late and I can't remember all of them.


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[Assistant] That I'm in the position that I am as far as views and I just broke a million subscribers. Why am I the only, you know, music reviewer with a million subscribers? I don't know, you know, honestly. Like I think it's, all I can say is like,


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[Assistant] What I'm doing and what makes what I'm doing work, you know, I can't really speak for


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, being sort of there when something drops, it's about being timely as well. You know, I do my best when a big record comes out to have my review out that week, you know, like once you


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[Assistant] You know, if a huge record comes out and you put out that review like two weeks, three weeks after the album's actually dropped, you're looking at like probably half the views that you would have gotten if you, you know, actually released the review the week it came out.


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[Assistant] You know, like maybe that's offset a little bit by the fact that the channel is as big as it is, so maybe when people who are fans of the band, you know, kinda goes through the grapevine, like, hey, that album's old at this point, but he just talked about it now, like, why not check it out?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the thing is like with the way people digest music now, it's like it's so fast that you need to be talking about things as they release, uh, almost, which is why like, you know, a lot of these reaction channels have taken off, because they can even talk about things faster than me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, some of them are, some of them aren't, you know? Some of them, like, do offer


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[Assistant] I don't want to spoil anything, number one. And number two, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes there are at, you know, sometimes within like the,


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[Assistant] The album that I either like or dislike, you know, and so much so that I can put it out there and explain it to my audience clearly.


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[Assistant] You know, I like that I've sort of put myself through it because I feel like I get more out of music than I used to because I really know what I'm looking for. I'm listening to things more attentively than I used to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, it's not just kind of like this passive thing for me at this point. You know, there are some records that, you know, I used to love that I re-listen to them now that I'm like, oh, why did I, why did I ever like that? You know, and not in the sense that like, oh, I used to like to listen to some shitty edgy music when I was a teenager. I just mean like, you know, some of the stuff that I might have liked in college or something that like now I think is like,


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[Assistant] It's not a huge traffic driver to the channel because it's kind of like, you know, I could review


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[Assistant] Like, let's say, I don't know, Prince's Sign of the Times, but there's not like a whole rush of people searching for that album, so I'm kind of like, you know, at the mercy of whether or not people just are kind of casually looking it up to maybe hear a song or just, you know, looking up a Prince interview or something and maybe see my review and like, oh, okay, sure, why not.


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[Assistant] An album release is an event. Right. And this is something that I didn't know I was doing or I didn't understand was a thing until like maybe years a- years later after it was, you know, working for me and I had read the YouTube playbook or whatever.


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[Assistant] So it's like, you know, it's tent pole programming, you know, as far as what they call it, you know, so it's like my reviews are centered around the album release, you know, that's essentially the event that what I'm talking about, you know.


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[Assistant] As of right now, uhm, you know, I have maybe five or four albums on the docket that


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[Assistant] I want to review and nobody's really asking me to review them other than me. It's just kind of out of my own personal interest. And over the next few weeks, fitting them in is definitely workable. You know, I mean, as of right now, the only kind of way that sort of manifests itself is that if Kodak Black drops a new album,


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[Assistant] Will I decide not to review an artist like, you know, shout out to Billy Woods, who is this sort of obscure New York rapper who's got a really kind of unique style.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that I like a lot. I mean, I'm definitely gonna review his album. Uhm, you know, but what might happen is that the Kodak Black album gets reviewed a day later. You know, I mean, the Billy Woods album gets reviewed a day later or a week later because honestly, once that album comes out,


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[Assistant] There's not a million people searching for it anyway. Right. You know, uhm, you know, and that's not to say that Billy doesn't have a fan base and that, you know, uhm, that he's not talented, you know, but the thing is, he doesn't, his fans don't need me to tell them to go check out the record. You know, really, when I put that review out, it's mostly gonna be for


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[Assistant] Hopefully, you know, some tens of thousands of people who watch me who aren't familiar with him click on it just out of curiosity that it's another review and uhm, you know, check him out, you know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, you know, I do fit in, uh, my opportunities to review more obscure stuff, review stuff like Injury Reserve, for example, because honestly, like, you know, while sure, you know, I have to review the Kodak Black record, I have to review the New Future record, I have to review, you know, whatever. Whether I like it or not, because honestly, there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I like.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, still I would go absolutely insane if I didn't give myself an opportunity and a chance to review something.


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[Assistant] Uh, more obscure and review something that I'm really passionate about. And honestly, you know, as much as it looks like on the surface,


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[Assistant] That, yeaah, obviously he reviews Kodak Black because that's gonna get a lot of traffic. When I review the obscure stuff, it's just as essential, if not more essential, because when I'm sort of going on that path, I'm curating, and I'm turning people onto


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[Assistant] Something that they hadn't heard before. And that actually creates, uhm, a sort of level of intimacy and devotion.


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[Assistant] Uh, a sound, a song, a piece of art that changes their minds or alters their world view. Like you're a part of that process, you're a part of that sort of life changing process that


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[Assistant] And, you know, that's very much, you know, the same thing. If I ask people, you know, it's like, you know, name all these albums I turned you on to or name my opinion on whatever, you know, and they'll tell me they follow me, you know, religiously, you know, sometimes people can't name stuff off their head, but they remember that they've had all these experiences watching my videos, you know, they remember that they've had these positive experiences being turned on to these artists and now look at music a different way than they used to before.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I, listen, I, I, I was just at that show with you, and I was listening to fucking stuff that, you know, and having a good time, that maybe if I had to review it, I'd be like super skeptical of it, and you know, have to like, dish out all these critiques, but that's just the position that I'm in, that's what I have to do, that's my job.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, it's really easy to kind of just turn it on and turn it off depending on what, you know, the context is. And you know, a lot of the stuff that I review, and I've said this in numerous reviews, I don't say in every review, but like, you know, I say explicitly like, this sounds like it would make way more sense in the fucking club. And lo and behold, it does. Right. You know, the thing is like some music,


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[Assistant] Just isn't like headphone music. Some music just isn't like, you know, when you're reviewing something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that playlist that Drake came out with not too long ago. Right. You know, the thing is like, it sounds like good sort of wallpaper kind of background kind of music, but like when you actually dive into it,


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[Assistant] The songs are kind of scant and skeletal. You know, there's not a whole lot of substance to what, you know, is going on there. At least not as much as he gave us on like previous projects like Take Care. Right. Or uhm, you know, if you're reading this it's too late.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, there's definitely not a whole lot of substance there. Lyrically and honestly, like, I find it kind of weird that it's considered a Drake project, even though there are a number of tracks on it that don't really have that much Drake presence, you know?


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[Assistant] And, you know, despite the fact that I didn't really care for it, again, in my review I said that, you know, he's almost, uh, in a way, geniusly acknowledging the way that a lot of people are listening to music now. You know, a lot of people are looking for like really passive music.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. You know, it sort of depends on kind of what that mood is that you're going for.


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[Assistant] Which is like a very dark conceptual album, which the lead singer came out with and wrote after he had like a bit of a bout with cancer.


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[Assistant] Was this obscure underground version of this genre that I liked, but it was like way cooler and way edgier and it seemed like the lyrics were really trying to say something and then it kinda, you know,


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[Assistant] And you know, at the time in the 90s, as you remember, like they played everything on the radio. You know, there was like a lot of great popular mainstream electronic music and rap music and rock music. Like there was no shortage of good music around.


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[Assistant] But, you know, just the fact that there was this sort of more obscure sort of take on this thing that I already knew that I liked, and it was like, in a way, some kind of just more potent, you know? Uhm, much in the same way, you know, hardcore is, like, when you first stumble upon it, when you first find it, because like, in that style of music,


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[Assistant] It's kind of incomparable in terms of like size of emotion, you know, in terms of like emotional presence or emotional delivery or aggression or like, you know, kind of what the, the, the lyrics are trying to say in terms of like self affirmation, you know, in a lot of those bands. Um, you know, you don't quite


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[Assistant] You know, I've always kind of like wanted to hear kind of obscure stuff. I've always wanted to hear like, you know, something new, something refreshing. And I feel like that is very much still the way that I listen to things. I'm definitely not, I definitely was not as analytical as I am now for sure.


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[Assistant] But you know, I was still picky though. I was still kinda picky. But maybe not as much as I am now because I've heard so much stuff. But still though, I feel like that sort of just drives me more to find something I do like.


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[Assistant] Actually, since I've started, I've only gotten better at finding more stuff that I like. Okay. You know, and actually like, you know, while uhm,


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[Assistant] It can sometimes feel like, you know, there's nothing new and who's going to come up with something new and you know, everything's been done.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, there's always like a moment when I find some kind of band camp that somebody throws me or I find some SoundCloud or, you know, miraculously somebody who I know at a label recommends something to me like, hey, we just signed this new artist who's doing something kind of cool and off the beaten path or,


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[Assistant] Flavors and the sounds of rock music and psychedelic music and even electronic music are just like


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[Assistant] Because again, they're sort of like separate off doing their own thing and like the way that their radio stations work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because they sort of have that support system, like there is some like really weird, cool stuff going on down there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, uh, you know, I'm always interested in hearing kind of weird, new,


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[Assistant] Cool things as I said, uhm, but again, definitely not as analytical as I am now.


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[Assistant] But so you weren't listening to Beyonce at that time? Like months ago, I had to at one point just like, you know, go into a external hard drive and just delete like hundreds and hundreds of like punk songs that I just randomly like, you know, downloaded and listened to. And you know, it's funny, like going back to a lot of them, like man, so many of this shit sounds the same.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, dude. You know, but the thing is at the time it was just all like so unique, you know what I mean? But now, but of course like, you know, I still love the stuff in that genre that stands out to me. If you picked up a copy


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[Assistant] You know, it's not, it's not like, you know, it's not a young thing anymore. Right. Uhm, you know, surely there are kids that, you know, still like rock music, you know, a lot of them watch my channel, uhm, but uh, you know, it's not the new trend, it's not the prevailing thing.


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[Assistant] You know, I like now though that it seems like there are less rules. I mean, surely there are trends, but it seems like if you do kind of want to be free to go off and do your own thing, you can. You know, it's really easy to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, while rock music again may not be the prevailing thing, there's still plenty of bands out there making rock music. So, you know, there's certainly a lot of new bands to listen to. If you want to hear a new band, there's certainly a, you know, a lot of older records to listen to as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I think a, you know, part of the problem with rock music kind of stagnating is that unlike hip-hop right now, and maybe rap will get to this point one day, uhm, but unlike hip-hop,


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[Assistant] Rock is really obsessed with its past. Really obsessed with its past.


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[Assistant] Hip-hop sorta wants to beat up its past. You know, but the thing is, it's not like there's not...


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[Assistant] Scratch that. A lot of rap music in this decade ignored sort of the rules and ignored the tradition and sort of broke with tradition in this decade much in the same way that punk and hair metal did in the 80s.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So it's not like rock has ever been beyond, you know, sort of being in a position where it ignored or it shut down or it threw away its past to create something new. You know, it's not like rock has never done that. I'm saying at this specific time in rock music history,


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[Assistant] There are very few musicians who aren't trying to do something purposefully that's already been done because they want to create some kind of nostalgia. Right. Whether that be a Jack White who wants to do a little bit of blues rock or, uhm, you know, uh, uh, slaves that wants to sound like some kind of reinvented version of the Sex Pistols.


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[Assistant] Or uhm, you know, another band that wants to sound like the umpteenth version of Joy Division that we've heard again and again and again.


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[Assistant] The audience isn't quite there for it because again, I think that rebelliousness and that drive to do something different and that drive to throw off the status quo, it's being manifested there.


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[Assistant] You know, the thing about EDM and a lot of that stuff is that, um,


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[Assistant] You know, while there are a lot of good artists and people, you know, in that community who watch my show, uhm, you know, ultimately, to the audience, a lot of it doesn't mean anything.


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[Assistant] If that's uh, if that's what you want to do, it's completely fine. You know, it's like there's nothing wrong with like, uh, an album or piece of music that serves a purpose, you know, or is functional.


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[Assistant] I would like to see it come up as well, you know, there are a few artists out there who are, but it's not a prevailing, it's not a big thing, you know, and I think it might, although actually I think a couple of the new Arcade Fire tracks, I mean, despite the fact that I think they're not good, are a little more political, uhm, so were the new LCD sound system tracks, but I didn't like those either, I thought those were terrible.


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[Assistant] I guess the, I guess the weird thing about it is, is that I feel like we had this, uh, after the 90s, when uhm, indie blew up in the 2000s, I feel like that almost kind of, uh, brought in a weird kind of apolitical era for rock music.


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[Assistant] And it was very pretty and it was very fun, but like, there wasn't a message behind it. You know, and then you had sort of like the late era punk bands and pop punk bands who were sort of doing the whole rock against bush thing.


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[Assistant] That narrative has to kind of be fresh in people's minds for it to like continue to be a thing, continue to be a trend.


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[Assistant] I feel like Chance's response to that is not so much to be political but kind of try to elicit kind of this general sense of positivity in the rap community. I feel like that's kind of his way of kind of combating that and it's not sort of the positive sound that's just like,


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[Assistant] It's positive by means of ignoring what's horrible, you know, it's like let's try to be positive in light of what's horrible.


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[Assistant] Or it just kind of gives people an understanding or a way of making sense of why things are shitty. Yea, yea. You know, which I think, you know, can have a positive outcome, can have a negative outcome depending on, you know, how you interpret, you know, sort of religious texts, you know, which I think kind of the, the,


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[Assistant] Frankly, just, you know, directly put, as long as God has us, we're going to be alright.


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[Assistant] This new record, there are so many themes of, hey, like I'm trying to be religious, I'm trying to do all this stuff in the name of God, why are things so shitty even so? You know, shouldn't God be having my back just like I said on that song from the last record because I don't feel like that's the case. And that's where you kind of see some of those narratives coming from.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. But that's the kind of thing, you can't expect like a gritty sort of, you know, kind of conversation with him. Although he had that conversation with like, uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] With Rick Rubin, that was kind of interesting. Was it? Kendrick. Oh, okay. He had a bit of a sit down with Rick Rubin and they, and they talked about a lot of stuff, which was pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Oh, absolutely. You know, or just like, just avoid talking about X or Y or Z. Because there are so many artists out there who can't seem to not put their foot in their mouth and, uh, you know, their careers like really suffer because of it.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, you know, honestly, like, at the end of the day, I feel like we need to, I feel like with musicians and artists that people praise, like, we kinda, it's a bit of a halo effect. You know, you assume that because they make great music and we really kinda like


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[Assistant] This girl hit me up once and said, Hey, this like really like huge anarcho capitalist guy who 3d prints guns is like a really big fan of you. And I'm like, Oh, that's nice. And then, you know, and then also it's like simultaneously when I make fun of, um, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, somebody, uh, like Anita Sarkeesian, for example, like all these SJWs will come out of the woodwork to be like, what the fuck is wrong with you, you sexist piece of shit. So uhm, uh, you know, I, I don't really vibe with, with either side of that spectrum.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I mean, well to some, and only with some people, you know, honestly, I think, I think the way to sort of look at it is...


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[Assistant] Uhm, left-wing sort of political points are very much click-bait online. Right. You know, they generate a lot of traffic, they generate a lot of money for websites, they generate a lot of conversation on social media, which only means more money in Twitter's pocket at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, so the, the thing is your average person probably isn't too deeply into any side, either side of the spectrum. Right. You know, so it's like when people are fucking pissed off at you about that shit, especially if, you know, I'm in a position where


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[Assistant] You know, somebody who, you know, is a liberal political writer who thinks I'm, you know, a sexist who writes for Buzzfeed, you know, literally has no impact whatsoever on whether or not I come out with a review tomorrow and it nets as many views as it's going to net, you know.


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[Assistant] Personally, I don't really feel like my politics are all that controversial in the grander scheme of things. I mean, you know, I'm a Bernie Sanders voter. Right. Uhm, you know, I mean obviously there are, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, economic issues that I'm very much to the left on, but as far as like, uhm, you know, social issues, I'm very much like, sort of more on the libertarian set in terms of just like, let people just fucking be and just like, chill, you don't need to like,


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[Assistant] Doctor or uhm, you know, sort of like micromanage other people's speech and expression, you know, how they want to conduct themselves as long as they're not, you know, hurting anybody or impeding on anybody else's rights or speech.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And, and let's, let me just put out there, Marx is trash. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Marx is trash. Um, you know, far left communism is garbage and it's for children who don't know how to function in the real world. It's for college students. And again, that's not to say that the world isn't fucked up and that capitalism is perfect. You know, I think that capitalism is something that, uh,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, to, to, I think just completely unreigned, uncontrolled, unregulated capitalism is just as destructive as, hey, let's have the government control every aspect of the economy. Both sides are totally retarded.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, and, and basically it's kind of an example of, uh, you know, political horseshoe theory. Like, you know, you talk about how the far, far, far left, you know, think of, think of the political spectrum, you know, not in terms of a straight line, but more of a horseshoe, and you have the far, far, far left,


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[Assistant] Despite every reason not to, he netted way more Latinos and way more black voters than Romney did.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the white people aspect of it is one part of it. You know, what really kind of, you know, boiled my blood about it is the part where they talk about Kanye.


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[Assistant] And uhm, you know, they just like threw this quick shot at Kanye where they're like, you can have Kanye white people. You know what you did, Kanye. Removing his blackness because of who he's voting for. It's terrible. You could say somebody's not black anymore just because he did something that you don't like or you don't agree with.


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[Assistant] And you know, that's also to say that, you know, because blackness is a political identity and it's not just, you know, sort of the race that you were born into, that whiteness is also a political identity. So because you're white, you must be conservative, you must be racist, you must be this, you must be that.


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[Assistant] You know, you must like have something in common with Richard Spencer, you know, like honestly, you know, to go back to the horseshoe theory thing.


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[Assistant] That's just like the most genius way to handle the situation. Like I would love to see like a Hunger Games type scenario where honestly like, and it's, I wouldn't even say it's inhumane because honestly you're giving them exactly what they want.


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[Assistant] Like all those alt-writer guys would want nothing more than like the opportunity to just like have a slugfest with like-


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[Assistant] That's exactly what they want. And that's exactly what the people on the opposite end of the spectrum too. They would love nothing more than just like being a cage match with like a bunch of KKK members. Right. So it's just like, just let them do it. And you know, whichever one wins, just like,


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[Assistant] Take all the wall money and just wall off like one state in America and just like, you know, pay to have everybody relocated and just have whoever wins just live there. Right. You know, and just like gate them off, like build the wall and they can only just like live there for the rest of their lives.


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[Assistant] Like listen, you know, honestly, like when I think about that, you know, it's like that, that whole idea.


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[Assistant] Has, has he ever, has he ever been to a place that's painfully white? Right. I would, like, I would never go to Portland because it's painfully white. Uh, I would never go to, uh, I would never go to fucking, I would never hang out or live in like Providence, Rhode Island because it's painfully white.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, black people should think X. You know, Richard Spencer's making this very same mistake. He's thinking if you get all the white people together in a place. They're all going to agree on everything. They're all going to agree on everything. You know, like, look at the fucking IRA. Right. You know, like how that was such a huge thing in the UK and that was like such a destructive, you know, sort of like, you know, really ugly part of their history. And it's like.


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[Assistant] You know, at the end of the day, it's like, what are you guys all fucking fighting about? You know, you're all fucking white. You're all Christian. You know, it's like, you know, and again, not to say that they didn't have their gripes and that they didn't have their reasons that, you know, that, that point of turmoil in history, you know, didn't sort of have a cause or, you know, a purpose, but, you know, just to blatantly assume that,


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[Assistant] Uh, that if, you know, you get rid of everybody who's not white and get all the people living, all the white people living under one roof, there's just gonna be peace and harmony. They're gonna sort shit out. Like, you know, white people, you know, during the mid, during medieval times, like, you know, kill each other, you know, by the sword, you know, mercilessly, like, for hundreds of years.


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[Assistant] Because there needs to be, there needs to be somebody to blame your problems on, whether it's a different race of people, or whether it's a different class of people, or whether it's somebody from another country, or you know, people who speak a different language, I mean, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, whether it's immigrants coming over or something, you know, and sort of, uh, uh, impacting things, you know, like at one point when my grandfather, uh, immigrated over here from Sicily, you know, like, uh,


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[Assistant] To be an Italian was not necessarily a bad thing, but you were an outsider. You were an American, you were a newbie, you know, and the thing is like, and now all those people who came over here.


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[Assistant] You know, many of whom, uh, you know, did their best to Americanize, like my father tells me that when he grew up, you know, they would avoid, you know, the family would avoid talking Italian to the kids because they just wanted them to speak English and be American because they remember coming over here and having a hard time, you know, sort of getting along because they were looked at, they were looked at as outsiders, you know, because they just came over here. So uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, I guess that point being, you know, it's, uh, now at this point, you know, it's like whether you're Italian or Irish or Polish or whatever, you know, uh, it's like you're just, you're just fucking white. You're not looked at as those separate labels, you know, but it's, uh, when I used to work at a pizza place, you know, my boss who was European, you know, would talk about,


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[Assistant] The French and talk about this and this and that was as if it's like, you know, these


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[Assistant] I didn't even know what it was until recently my wife and I did one of those 23andMe things. Right. And I found out that despite the fact that uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, grandfather Sicilian and we grew up in a very sort of Italian themed kind of household. My grandmother was French Canadian and I know my, on my mother's side it was very French as well. Uhm, but actually I had more


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[Assistant] I think British and Irish sort of lineage than, uhm, Italian, uh, and, uh, and even more than French. Sort of, they link together like a, a few different ones. And uhm, you know, I guess back in, far back in my mother's lineage, I had a little Native American, Middle Eastern, I don't know where that


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[Assistant] I mean, probably they lived up north in Canada, you know, and uhm, the, the,


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[Assistant] There's probably some, you know, Native American person in Canada far back in, uh, my lineage on my, on my mother's side. Right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] No, just like, you know, just say what I have to say and just like let it, let it go out there, you know, because honestly, I feel like at this point,


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[Assistant] I do have enough of a back catalog of reviews that people like know what I'm really about, but there certainly was a point when, you know, I started reviewing more hip hop on the channel and people were like,


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[Assistant] Not, not now because I have so many reviews. Now, you know, if I give a negative review to a hip hop album or a black artist, it's because, you know, somebody says, oh, well, he's just a Kendrick Dick rider. And, you know, it's just because Kendrick didn't come out with it, you know, and that's why, and that's why he gave it a, gave it a negative review. If Kendrick was on it, he would have given it a 10.


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[Assistant] Which was uh, which was really funny because like before, before I had given to Pimba Butterfly a 10, sort of the prevailing critique was that I didn't like any hip hop. And you know, now that I liked that hip hop, then it was like, oh well you only like...


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[Assistant] You know, but let's say hypothetically that did happen, you know, and there is kind of like this wave of like a, well, you know, you must either hate black people or you must hate women because you gave Beyonce a negative review.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, honestly, like, if somebody's critique is so wildly inaccurate that


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[Assistant] Make it about what I say. Like, if your first attack toward a review I did has nothing to do with something I said, I just instantly tune it out and don't take it seriously. You know, because as long as it's not based on anything that I said, then your claim is just a claim.


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[Assistant] You know, unless you have something funny or witty to kind of say as kind of like a response, you kind of give it like legitimacy. Oh yea. Because, you know, people would probably assume, and probably, you know, rightly so in some situations, that like, you know, if it wasn't true, it wouldn't get to you. You know, whereas like, you know, honestly it doesn't because it's...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's why you don't respond unless you have something funny to say or a way to mock.


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[Assistant] You know, like, if you respond in anger, or if you respond like, even trying to correct the person because it's like maybe sort of, uh, uh, inaccurate sort of what they're claiming, like, you, you do kind of give them like the attention that they're, that they're craving for.


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[Assistant] I don't know what we should end up discussing.


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[Assistant] We were talking about that earlier because I do think we are kind of the polar opposites of each other in a way. You're a straight edge. Straight edge. We've ended up on different coasts.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know what else separates us.


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[Assistant] Reviews versus reviews. I feel like you're a little bit, is he a little bit more of a free spirit? I would say he's like, I would say he's a little bit more of like, you know, down here, whereas I'm like a little more cerebral.


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[Assistant] So basically, you know, you were talking about how much you were practicing it. Like me, I'm such like, uh,


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[Assistant] Imagine being like a little pump for almost like high for two years straight and then, you know, you're, uh, and then maybe one day you just don't have access to it anymore and then you kind of have to be sober. Imagine just like how horrible the world, the world must look.


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[Assistant] That might be part of the reason I'm regimented, because sometimes I can't say no to stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's just like sometimes it's just like to not even have it on the table.


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[Assistant] Especially when like being at places and being social is a part of, a part of the, what your job and everything.


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[Assistant] And that's kind of another bit of a polar opposite thing because I hate showing up to things like that and networking and rubbing elbows. It's just so not me. So much more of like a lone wolf type.


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[Assistant] It's something, you know, I would go to and I have gone to in the past, but often with those things, I just like go by myself and it's just like, you know, it's funny. Like people hit me up. They're like, Hey man.


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[Assistant] Like, should I go to this show by myself and blah blah blah? It's like, I don't see a problem with that, I do that fucking shit all the time.


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[Assistant] You know, and in, you know, at a different time and in a different position, often I would go and, you know, meet other people and just link up and do other stuff afterwards. But you know, honestly, it's like I never really have had like a problem with just being by myself and just like, you know, just doing my own thing.


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[Assistant] We have the shared interest, you know, because it's like they're there because they're really passionate about music. If they weren't, they wouldn't be, you know, but it's like me going to a place and even, you know, the place that we just went to was great, but like going to an industry event, like I'd rather claw my fucking eyes out because it's just like, it's so boring.


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[Assistant] Uhm, everybody's just there to kind of jerk each other off.


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[Assistant] Everybody's there to like, you know, fuck each other, both figuratively and literally.


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[Assistant] Again, like watch the show and not because, you know, they're interested in me, but as much as like they're, I know they're there because they're passionate about music as much as I am, you know, so it's like when they're there, there's kind of like a,


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[Assistant] A realness to the reason that they're there and there's a realness to the reason that they like an album. They're not telling you an album's good because it's in their interest because of their paycheck to tell you an album is good.


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[Assistant] You know, or like hype up some artist to you or overblow some artist to you because you know, kind of their livelihood depends on it. You know, they're telling you that, you know, even if I disagree, uh, they're telling you that something is great because they truly found something, you know, sort of special in it that speaks to them.


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[Assistant] You know, and that to me is interesting. You know, that to me is what makes music great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's very person- that's very purposeful. I don't talk about my personal life at all. You know, and I guess maybe that's another kind of opposite sort of separate thing. Yeah, I'm way out here. Because, personally it's like- It's not bad.


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[Assistant] I just try to keep my personal life off of YouTube because it's like I don't want it to be about me, you know? It's like that's not the point, you know? And the thing is like honestly it's like I've been on YouTube long enough to sort of see so many people who sort of do the whole vlogging thing and then like maybe three or four years down the road like nobody cares about them anymore because that cult of personality fades away because you know it's like


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[Assistant] As a personality, you can only interest people so long, unless you have some kind of...


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[Assistant] Substance or talent or you're giving people some other kind of, you know, like, um, uh, sort of, uh,


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[Assistant] Something like what we're doing here, you know, to sort of supplement that, the fact that you're letting them in on your life. You know, there are so many people on YouTube especially that subsist.


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[Assistant] And, you know, we stop that because like people are really fucking nosy and just like, you know, searching us on Facebook and like trying to find out, you know, things about us and, you know, and also just kind of like the nastiness of the fact that, you know, we're an interracial couple, which like you'd figure in 2017 is not a big thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but you know, they were just like, it became a lot like what we were talking about earlier, kind of this weird, disgusting, and you know, kind of like,


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[Assistant] You know, sort of our relationship as much as, um, you know, the, uh, I mean, the sort of the interracial quality of it is just like, you know, I wonder what they're like as a couple and ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Right, people can't help it.


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[Assistant] You know, honestly, like when you let people in your life like that, you know, and this isn't uhm, anything against you because I think it seems like people sort of expect and you expect and you embrace a little bit of chaos in your life. But there's so many people on YouTube who...


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[Assistant] So the thing is, you know, that stuff is going to come out in the video eventually because like life isn't perfect like that, you know.


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[Assistant] So I mean, you know, when that happens, what do you do? You know, you're either faced with either letting that seep out and you know, potentially embarrass yourself and ruin your life and even maybe ruin your kids lives because there's like hours of footage out them, out there about them, which like, you know, maybe once they're 19, 20, 21, 22,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I watch like probably more Netflix than I watch TV. To me that's TV. Most of all videos that I watch is YouTube, you know, I still like,


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[Assistant] Living and dying by the platform, like most of all the videos that I watch are YouTube, but like,


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[Assistant] I'm really into oranges, the new black. Probably more than I should be.


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[Assistant] That's totally fine. Uhm, I'm not as into Comedy Central as I used to be. I'm not really as into, you know, watching the news as I used to be.


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[Assistant] Like pretty much if I want any and all of that stuff, like I'm usually going online for it because there's usually way more cool alternative comedy going online and in the meme community. Like, you know, instead of watching Comedy Central, I'd rather spend an hour looking at some motherfuckers Instagram meme page.


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[Assistant] And it's like edgier too in like a really authentic way. Like you know that it's, it's, it's edgy because that person felt like being that way as opposed to like, you know, they thought it would be acceptable for an advertiser for them to say that or, you know, it would be good for ratings.


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[Assistant] You know, honestly, it's like I've had to make the same kind of decisions and sacrifices and kind of go through those same kind of forks in the road too, but it just, you know, it's, it's really just more based on


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[Assistant] Oh, well, usually there is a response at this point. You know, it used to be back in the day when, you know, there was not a response at all, but now that, uhm,


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[Assistant] People see you in the verified tab and also like they feel like there's more of like, uh, I don't know. You're more of a real person. You're more of a real person and there's more of a chance for them to like kind of start.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. I mean, I feel like, ehh, I feel-


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[Assistant] I feel like once you start, like, resorting to, like, trying to get people to fight you on Instagram, you've lost. Since I came over here, I've gotten at least, like, uhm, three different people on Twitter just being like, hey dude, I know you're in Anaheim, where are you, let's fight.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess whether or not they're legitimate would depend on, you know, whether or not they would show up if I gave them my address and I haven't, I haven't tried that yet.


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[Assistant] When was the last time you were going to fight? When was the last time I was going to fight? Good question.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've been in a fight since like high school. Yeah, it was probably the last time I was in a fight. Yeah, I mean I haven't and honestly like I was never someone in high school who I was just always one of the bigger kids so there weren't a whole lot of people that would just come up and fuck with me.


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[Assistant] You know, taught me when I was growing up not to take any shit from anybody like about that sort of stuff when I was in school, you know, and I remember one day there was this kid who, uh, you know, this is, this is sort of the, the sort of vibe that he instilled in my, in my brother and I, there was this kid who was,


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[Assistant] So immediately my little brother who's riding the same bus as me, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, Anthony got in a fight and he's like, he did. What happened? He says, well, the kid was hitting him and then he jumped on him and he started punching him.


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[Assistant] And he was a powerlifter too, so he had me in the gym like pretty early. That was a powerlifter, okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I was never sort of into that whole thing. And honestly, like I never,


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[Assistant] That definitely breaks the, breaks the mold there. And I, and I think the fact that I'm just so regimented and I'm just so kind of like buy the book on a lot of things. However, it's not like my plan forever. It's a, I don't know. I've always kind of been like a very,


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[Assistant] Uhm, regimented and kind of like well behaved, sort of like young person, but I've always like, you know, but I'm actually like way, I'm a little looser than I used to be in high school.


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[Assistant] And uhm, you know, I'm probably going to just go insane when I'm old and just like, you know, become some kind of crazy hunter as Thompson. Well that would be great.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it'll be so much like a breaking point as much as there'll be like an aha, like sort of office space kind of moment where I just don't give a fuck anymore. And my dad's actually kind of at that point, like he worked at a company for a friend. He's actually, you know, he's actually been, um, uh, indulging in a little bit of a medical marijuana. So shout out to my father.


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[Assistant] But uhm, no, he's a, uh, uh, he worked for a, for like a buddy's company for a while and, um, you know, was like doing, uh, was working in sales over there and made a ton of money and just like did early retirement. He just like fishes every day for the rest of his fucking life.


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[Assistant] The idea of just like making a ton of money and then just like totally shutting off and, uh, you know, disengaging from any type of responsibility? Yes, absolutely.


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[Assistant] Uh, fell through after, uhm, uh, a steroid controversy. Uh, yeaah, absolutely. And, uh, you know, this was during a time when steroids weren't quite legal yet. So, you know, we're talking about a period of time between


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[Assistant] The biggest and you still want to be the best and you know, I've seen like a lot of him and his friends and it's like, you know, they're not in the best physical shape right now and not just in terms of like,


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[Assistant] Wait or anything like that, you know, a lot of them like literally just like, you know, beat themselves to death toward ligaments, you know, rip their shoulders apart just to be like the dude who's benching, you know, 1001 as opposed to the dude who's benching 1000.


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[Assistant] Oh absolutely, you know, it's like, I think uhm, you know, the thing is like, uh, the fact that I've kind of seen things play out the way that they did.


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[Assistant] For him, makes me very kind of afraid and uhm, you know, very conscious of everything that I'm doing with my personal brand and just trying to make sure that I don't do anything that's going to create some kind of overnight destruction of what I do in terms of like,


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[Assistant] Hey, let's like not say anything like really embarrassing or like, you know, life destroying on this podcast right now. Right. You know, not that uhm, I'm trying all that hard to do that right now because, uh, you know, it's, it's pretty much like second nature at this point.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, but the thing is like when there's, when there's hours upon hours upon hours of footage of you talking online, you know, you have to be especially careful to make sure that none of that footage is like, you know, career ending.


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[Assistant] Like, there were definitely some things that like, very, very early on in the channel, you know, where I didn't have the grips of how to review yet, and I didn't have all of the know-how as far as like the inner workings of every genre and the history of every genre.


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[Assistant] That uhm, you know, if I just came out early on and been like, hey guys, listen, I'm a music writer, I'm a music writer. But here, like...


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[Assistant] But like early on, like, you know, especially with that first year of videos, like I had almost no fucking clue what I was doing.


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[Assistant] During a live show once, I, you know, the, the, uh, the title of that Death Grips album, which shall remain unnamed,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I did say that, I did say the title live during a live show once, uh, in front of a bunch of fans, and it wasn't a thing or anything, but uhm, you know, part of the reason that is, is that I'm not trying to say it on camera because,


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[Assistant] There will be, you know, sort of the memes, you know, people just turn into a stupid meme and it's like, you know, that's like not really what I think, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Not that I think that the word can't be said.


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[Assistant] Instantaneously, that is going to be taken and turned into a disrespectful thing, in my opinion. You know, that's the thing. It's like, I don't think that word is a meme.


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[Assistant] You know, and I don't think what that word represents, at least for me, is a meme either. And, you know, I feel like even though, you know, just saying the word for no reason whatsoever, just like, if, just to say it with no context or no reasoning or anything,


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[Assistant] Yes and no. I mean, you know, honestly, it's like, I feel like the people who are really in the know and people who are not total morons understand it. You know, honestly, anybody who's ever had an audience as opposed to an echo chamber, uh, knows that when you have 100, 200,000, 300,000 people following you on Twitter,


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[Assistant] They're in an, they may have 11,000 followers, but they don't have a following. They have an echo chamber. Uhm, but uh, uh.


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[Assistant] I don't control anything that anybody does. I can only control it insofar as like what we were just saying in regards to the n-word. I can control that situation in that I'm not giving you that material to work with.


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[Assistant] You know, beyond that, I can't control what you say to me. I can't control what you say to somebody else who has interacted with me. I can't control any of that stuff. You know, I have had some people, uh, you know, in a very polite, in a very friendly way,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, hit me up in the DMs or take me aside and say, hey listen, you know, if you disagree with something I've said on Twitter,


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[Assistant] Can you just like, you know, maybe DM me about it or something because when you disagree with me publicly on Twitter, you know, even though it does come from like a real authentic place, I do get like maybe like five or 10 tweets or a bunch of people like tweeting at me being like, you know, Anthony Fantano's writer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, just as like a friendly gesture, I'm like,


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[Assistant] You know, it's like, if you don't want to be subject to that and you know, we're in the same industry or we're friendly or we're on good terms, uhm, you know, I'll pay you that respect. That's totally fine. You know, even if I do feel like I disagree with you and you know, if I do feel like it's, it's really worth discussing or talking about, I will just hit you up or discuss it with you in private.


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[Assistant] Um, you know, so, you know, there has kind of been that situation before where, you know, I've paid somebody that respect at their request, you know, and if anybody else listening to this wants to be paid that same respect to, you know, just let me know. I won't ever tweet at you ever again out of fear of, uh, somebody who follows me seeing it and responding to you.


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[Assistant] So uhm, so yeaah, you know, there are people out there who think that, you know, unfortunately like,


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[Assistant] I can control everything my audience says and you know, in fact I can't and you know, people who are living in reality do understand that. So at the end of the day, I don't really feel like it's a liability because honestly it's like, you know, while some people might find it offensive, you can't, you can't really pin it on me. You know, it's like, and the fact that


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[Assistant] Uhm, and if I respond to it in, you know, as if you can pin it on me, you only kind of give that more legitimacy. You know?


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's kind of also just like a bit of a guilt by association thing, because there are people who are sort of in the skeptic community on YouTube, you know, like Blair White for example, who we talked about earlier, who...


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[Assistant] You know, I've had discussions with and I've interacted with publicly on Twitter. Uhm, you know, I don't agree with her on everything. You know, it's like for one example, you know, this past election, so she claims, you know, she was a Trump supporter, you know, and that's very much like not my vibe at all.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, however, the fact that I have communicated with her publicly doesn't mean I agree with her on that stance.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, absolutely. You know, they're just like what, you know, instantaneously if I say anything or respond to anything that she's done, it's uh, why are you associating with these people? You know, is the first thing that, that people say. Uh, whereas like, you know, it's uhm, for me it's kinda like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm just doing what adults do, like handling disagreements, handling the fact that people don't see the world the way that I see it. Because honestly, if I conducted myself in the way that


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[Assistant] The destruction of the environment and the torture of sentient beings just because, you know, you feel like it's tasty to have some chicken.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, that I'm more passionate about than this other thing. So if, you know, but personally, I don't feel like that's an effective way to spread the message. I don't feel like that's an effective or an efficient way to be a human being. Uhm, I've turned-


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[Assistant] You know, the thing is like, I've caught way more people and sort of, um, uh, turned way more people onto veganism just by kind of casually bringing it up and saying like every once in a while like,


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[Assistant] You know, hey, you know, I've, I've written like this weird multi-paragraph like vegan primer just to like get people, you know, sort of educated on the whole thing, you know, just to like, uh, throw people some reading material of kind of my personal experience and what I do.


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[Assistant] And I just say like, Hey, you know, if, uh, you ever want to read it or you just kind of want to be more in the know, just like email me at Anthony at the needle drop.com and I just send it to you right away. And, um, you know, every single time I bring that up, I get dozens and dozens and dozens of people just like asking for it. And, um, you know, a lot of people write back and they're like, okay, cool. I'm going to try this stuff. It sounds cool.


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[Assistant] And you know, and that's the thing, like I feel like what a lot of people who are sort of on the more


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[Assistant] Authoritarian side of, you know, kind of the, the vegan ideology don't quite understand that your average person


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[Assistant] They don't want to hop onto veganism because it's going to be some kind of big significant life change. You know, if they, if they get into the lifestyle, what they want to know is,


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[Assistant] Can I be a vegan and still be a regular person and still like lead a normal life and still hang out with my friends and still be social and when we go out and eat and still like, you know, everything being reg- just like, just as they are now, but I'm maybe eating healthier and making a more conscious decision. Like that's what people want to know. Like they don't want-


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[Assistant] They don't want to, you know, join up with veganism or join up with the lifestyle or start changing the way that they eat, uh, by way of joining what, what, you know, could potentially be a cult. Right. You know, which like, uh, you know, there's some people who are on that side of the fence on YouTube who do almost treat veganism like a cult.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, but she's like kind of actually off of that whole train now. She's not promoting that lifestyle anymore.


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[Assistant] And the guy who she dated at the time who was kind of also kind of pushing that lifestyle too and pushing her to kind of like really kind of


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[Assistant] Uhm, push her to evangelize, evangelize that lifestyle. Uhm, you know, he got exposed for using steroids and uhm, you know, cheating on her and just generally being a total fucking scumbag. Wow. So now that whole scene of like, you know, like extreme vegans like totally like collapsed in on itself.


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[Assistant] And, you know, and that's the thing, you know, I feel like anybody


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[Assistant] of any political extreme shade should see that and sort of like, you know, learn from the example of that because like when you hold yourself to like this such high moral standard, you can't like continually live up to it all the time and eventually it's like gonna burn, burn you down, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely, but I feel like there hasn't been a full acknowledgement of that because I think some of her behavior sort of extends beyond the whole left-right SJW alt-right sort of dichotomy because in the past I've known her to


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[Assistant] You know, that's like kind of a very shady thing for me in the YouTube world.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, but still, you know, if, if I completely subtract that out of the, out of the mix, you know, it has been entertaining and funny. I was just at a party the other day with her boyfriend.