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[Assistant] Fuck it, like, I'ma drop this shit cause this is how I feel and like, if I die or some shit or my fucking laptop dies or some shit, like, you will never hear this shit. Like, the universe will never hear that shit.


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[Assistant] And also, it could be nice, you could meet weird people, you know, nice people.


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[Assistant] So, but like as far as clothes and shit goes, I'm like, you know what I'm saying? I'm just, I make that shit. You feel me? I make clothes. You know, I make t-shirts. I make that shit. Is it a brand? Like, yeah, it's like CSPG brand. You feel me? It's like, that's just what I'm always going to be repping. You feel me?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yo. I mean, I mean, to be honest, like clothes, it's not just clothes, you feel me? It could be like clothes, music, you know, producing physical items that people can like touch and shit, you feel me? People can represent, you know, they can, you know, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uh, this hat, yea, I actually made it, uh, in, uh, in the, in the store, but I didn't, I didn't make this design though, but I assembled the swagger though. Art directed.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know how many followers I have. I'm sure I have a Tumblr page. Metro Zoo one has a lot. Metro Zoo has a lot. And that's usually, like, that's me and Robbie's Instagram, yo. And then we just post everything from there. Right. Yo, like, I'm telling you, like, this shit is not, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yo. Then you just gotta lock it up, you know? Yeah. I feel like that's like, I don't know, that's like, that's like really cool 2016 shit.


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[Assistant] She got a big head. I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention to the diameter. No, it actually looked good. No, I think she looks super hot too. Maybe it's a wig though, yo.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can buy like a fucking, uh, like a gallon like ice cream pack of acai for like 12 bucks or some shit like that.


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[Assistant] That shit is so good to eat. Like, I'll be skating and just, you just eat that shit and just like, full energy, recharge. Anytime.


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[Assistant] Yo, he rapped on some of them, didn't you? Didn't you have some sample of your voice or some shit? Yea, that shit was cool. I forgot which one it was.


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[Assistant] Google his name every single day. Hey, is it okay for me to- Yo, actually you know what? You know what you can look out for? You can look out for Metro Zoo, Spoiled Trappin, the album, Coming Soon. You can look out for Imperial by Denzel Curry, Coming Soon.


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[Assistant] Who in the growing darkness has, however I hope, brought a glimmer of light.


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[Assistant] Uh, taking them all together. He wrote, first up, you ain't a snake, but they will make you. That's first up. And then it appears to be just a few moments later, the next tweet saying think what you want. I ain't trying to clear no rumors up.


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[Assistant] That was next up for him on that Twitter jaunt. And then later on, he retweeted somebody asking if he's healthy, please tell me you won't be sitting out the next game. That's either a Saints fan or somebody who drafted Mike Thomas in the first round of their fantasy draft. Uh, he quote tweeted that.


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[Assistant] And then responded, I was never healthy. I was just trying to help my team get a win and heal up during the buy.


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[Assistant] That's BET, uh, I don't know, is he insinuating here, if you don't mind me interpreting, if you don't mind interpreting all of them together and I'll give you the floor in a second, is he insinuating there that he wasn't suspended because of what happened in terms of a fight or insubordination or conduct detrimental that


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[Assistant] That they're making it seem that way and cause he's not yet healthy. I give you the floor on interpreting all this, Jeff Duncan.


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[Assistant] And now, I must be looking after things. The guests are very distinguished. And as the hostess, I must see that everything is perfect.


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[Assistant] Jimmy, Mr. Melton lost everything, home, family, reputation, over such a woman.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're going to put me on the broadcast tonight. Yeah, I'm going to sing.


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[Assistant] Would you call Madame Tanya and tell her, I've got to go practice. I mean, rehearse. Yeah, I'll come by and pick you up after it's over and we'll go celebrate.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I want you to tune in on W.R.C. at 7.30, New York time tonight. Yeaah, what? Oh no, mama, I don't need them. No, but mama, it's not cold enough for them.


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[Assistant] But mom, people don't wear them in New York. Yeaah. Now don't forget mom, 7.30 tonight. Yeaah. Goodbye mom.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm, I'm fine. I've been awful busy. I wanted to talk to you, but, uh, seems like I haven't had a minute.


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[Assistant] Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel. Today we're going to be going over the double AMC sample test CARS passage number four. If you're not sure on where to start with the CARS section of the exam, make sure to check out our three part strategy videos showing you what's important in a CARS passage and how to condense it in a timely fashion. Let's jump into this passage.


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[Assistant] Before we get started, make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel so we can keep cranking out more of these passage breakdowns and strategy videos for you all. Okay, passage number four, let's go ahead and look at it.


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[Assistant] It's actually a fairly interesting one. I'm going to read this passage to you and highlight some of the things that I think are important, show you my main idea for the passage, and then walk you how to answer all these questions correctly. I always start with the passage title and it's called Disturbing the Universe.


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[Assistant] It doesn't really tell me a whole lot there. Okay, this passage says, it stands to the everlasting credit. Alright.


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[Assistant] Already we can stop there. Everlasting credit. That means that the author is very pro whatever he's about to explain. Stands through the everlasting credit of the international fraternity of biologists that biologists with rare exceptions never push the development of biological weapons.


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[Assistant] Also biologists persuaded the governments of those countries that had started serious biological weapons programs to abandon their programs and to destroy their stockpiles of weapons.


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[Assistant] So what I'm getting here is that biologists were very instrumental in helping get rid of these biological weapons and because our author is giving them credit, that means that our author agrees with that. Dislikes bi- biological weapons.


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[Assistant] He moved freely in the world of biological agents and distribution systems. What he saw there appalled him.


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[Assistant] So if our author dislikes biological weapons and our author likes Messelson and Messelson dislikes what he saw, I imagine that what he saw was pro-biological weapons. So it seems like the army was for biological weapons when Messelson got there.


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[Assistant] That doesn't make our author very happy. Most frightening of all the things Messelson discovered was Army Field Manual 310. This was a booklet issued to combat units to instruct them in the details of biological warfare. Oh, our hunch was right.


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[Assistant] A series of graphs is presented that tell how many biological agent bomblets and aircraft should drop to cover a given area under given conditions, daytime or nighttime for various types of terrain and various types of human target. You want to make sure that you're accurate when you're bombing civilians.


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[Assistant] It said that the United States was equipped and prepared for biological warfare and that this was the way a modern army should be trained. That every country that should, that wanted to keep up with the Joneses


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[Assistant] Must have its own biologic or agents and bomblets too.


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[Assistant] So it's pretty obvious to me that our author is showing just kind of the gross horrors that were highlighted in this field manual and that our author disagrees with it and that Messelson is about to fight it. And we're probably about to read the rest of this passage of the heroic acts that Messelson took to fight it.


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[Assistant] But I want to point out this language right here, keeping up with the Joneses. This is kind of colloquially, colloquially.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a phrase that describes feeling like you need to


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[Assistant] Do a certain activity or in this case stockpile a certain amount of weapons, uhm, in order to keep up with the neighbors. The fact that our author chose to use such kind of like playful, uhm, language when describing something so serious tells me that the author is trying to show how ridiculous this idea is.


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[Assistant] This is exactly what we thought it was gonna be. Messelson doesn't like them. Here's what Messelson did to stop them. And so what we're probably gonna see is a list of things.


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[Assistant] And our author I imagine is going to expand a one or two of those. That's usually what they do. And then they'll probably ask you questions about which one of these is the most important or something like that. And the most important would be the one that had been explained the most. So see if you can pick it out.


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[Assistant] Second, the chief factors increasing the risks that other countries might acquire and use biological weapons are our own development of agents and our own propaganda as typified by Field Manual 310. That's really wordy.


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[Assistant] And I want you to take, I would want you to take the time and actually figure out what that's saying. What it's saying is we're forcing these small countries to get biological weapons so that they make sure that we don't run them over.


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe you would want them in case you had to use them, you know, fight fire with fire. But let's keep reading. Just make sure that you've got those kind of summarized in your head. They have great destructive power, kind of forces, other countries to build them, even having them or talking about them. And they're not, they're kind of irrational.


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[Assistant] We, we don't need them. Okay, so you know how I told you earlier that we're about to highlight one or two of them. It looks like we're gonna highlight this third one, which makes sense because it was the hardest sell for us, right?


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[Assistant] So how did Messelson sell this? The crucial question was the third one. Did there ever exist any realistic military requirement for United States biological weapons? Here there was a division of opinion between the biological warfare generals and the rest of the military establishment.


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[Assistant] If you nuke me, I will nuke you. That's what that's saying. They thought that was necessary. Messelson had to show that their belief was based on an illusion. Okay, so whether or not you agree with this statement, you're gonna answer questions like it's true. Okay, so Messelson disliked biological weapons and this is how he's gonna prove that they're irrational.


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[Assistant] Does this even make sense? The generals were never able to give him a clear answer. Okay, notice this is really strong language. Never able to give a clear answer. There was in fact no answer to these questions. So, this is kind of repetitive. So the author is trying to drive a point home that there is no answer.


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[Assistant] After listening to Messelson's questions and to the General's answers, the Congressman became convinced that his third point, the one about how the weapons were not rational even for retaliation, was valid. Even from the narrowest military point of view, our biological weapons policy made no sense.


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[Assistant] Our author's very passionate about this. Our author really dislikes biological weapons. The last paragraph says, in November 1969, President Nixon announced the unilateral abandonment of all developments of biological weapons. The destruction of our weapons stockpiles and the conversion of our biological warfare laboratories to open programs of medical research. So,


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[Assistant] So I want to take all these things and condense them down into a main idea. And again, if you don't know how to do that, then make sure to check out our strategy videos condensed to main idea. But this is what I ended up coming up with.


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[Assistant] That main, the main meat is that biologists like Messelson got rid of biological weapons and then I kind of answered the question, okay, why or how?


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[Assistant] They did this by arguing that they were destructive and that they were impractical. So let's see if we can take this main idea and answer all the questions with it.


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[Assistant] Question number one says that the author claims that on the question of developing biological weapons, biologists were a, generally supportive, uhm, no they did not like them, right? In our main idea we say biologists like Meselson.


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[Assistant] So, probably not to A. B says generally opposed. I like that. It's soft. It doesn't say that every single one of them is opposed because inevitably there were going to be some that were for it. But they were definitely against it. So I'll say maybe Dan's choice B. C says split nearly evenly. No, we don't get any support that they were kind of


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[Assistant] And then D says unanimously opposed. Uhm, and so now you're between B and D.


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[Assistant] And D is very strong language. It's saying that every single person was against them.


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[Assistant] Unanimously, you cannot take this lightly. Or if it said all, you cannot take that lightly. You have to be very literal with the MCAT when it comes to stuff like this.


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[Assistant] Um, and so where they're actually trying to pull this from, I believe is the first paragraph. Yeah. Biologists with rare exception never pushed the development of biological weapons, but there was rare exceptions. So that eliminates answer choice D.


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[Assistant] Going through, we're gonna say A, the military disapproved of the development and or the use of biological weapons by any nation. Nah, they obviously didn't care about using it for us, so maybe not A.


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[Assistant] B says they approved of the development of biological weapons but did not see the use of biological weapons as logical.


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[Assistant] That doesn't make any sense. Why would you, why would you think that it was irrational, but you still approve it being made? Uhm, plus, they thought it was rational in the cases of retaliation. That's why they had a whole manual on how to retaliate with it, so maybe not be.


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[Assistant] C says they saw the development and the use of biological weapons as logical.


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[Assistant] Probably so. I mean, they did like it. So I'll say maybe to see.


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[Assistant] Step by step guide, uhm, on WikiHow of how to use it. So maybe not D, and I'd stick with answer choice C as being correct here.


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[Assistant] Number three says, according to the passage, Messelson asked some generals about the details of the possible use of biological weapons in order to show what.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this is saying why did Messelson question the generals? What was he trying to get at? Remember, when Messelson was questioning the generals, that's whenever they were arguing over that third point, the one that was uhm, a hard sell, that they were impractical, that biological weapons were impractical.


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[Assistant] A says that they do little damage. Let's go up to our main idea. They have large destructive power. So no, it's not that they do little damage. So maybe not A. B says that biological weapons serve no reasonable purpose.


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[Assistant] Okay, that was kind of the whole point of asking those questions, right? Is to poke holes in the journals' arguments that we needed them by saying, you don't even have a game plan. You wouldn't even know how to use them if we had to use them. So they're not reasonable. So maybe to be,


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[Assistant] C says that biological weapons should only be used in retaliation. Now that's what the generals were arguing for, but Messelson and the other biologists argued against and kinda got abolished. So maybe not C.


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[Assistant] No, it's not saying that we need to get better at using this. It's saying that the whole premise behind biological weapons is sloppy and ineffective.


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[Assistant] And it has no use even whenever something like military force is deemed useful. So maybe not D, correct answer would be B.


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[Assistant] Uh, number four. So this is pretty much just asking what the main idea is. Uh, what did these bi, bi, uh, oof, these bi, bi, uh, oof. What did these biologists pull off?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so the way that you answer these Roman numeral questions, a lot of people will like look at answer choice, uh,


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[Assistant] We got the government to number one, destroy stockpiles of biological weapons. Yeah, that happened, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, two, to abandon programs of biological weapons development. Absolutely. Like, Nixon okayed that, right? And then three says, better utilize existing biological weapons rather than rely on old ones. No, we threw them away. We got rid of them. Converted the facilities to medical research centers and stuff like that. So, maybe not.


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[Assistant] Definitely not, this is a false statement. So now I'm looking for answer choice that says 1 and 2.


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[Assistant] Number five says the passage suggests that Messelson's opposition to the development of biological weapons was based in part on the claim that what? So what's Messelson's problem with biological weapons, aka


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[Assistant] What's the main idea? If you're noticing a trend, uh, yeaah, like all these questions are essentially asking what the main idea is. So, Messelson was opposed to them because Ace's biological weapons do not work. No, he thought that they were too strong.


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[Assistant] Uh, beast is biological weapons research is very expensive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is what we call a cop-out answer choice. If you're curious on these traps, uhm, you should check out our video called recognizing traps. It's one of our strategy videos. But what they're trying to do here is say a statement that is probably true and seems like realistic. Like, oh, we should stop because it's too expensive. Uhm, but this was not touched on in the passage.


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[Assistant] So even though it's probably a true statement, it was not elaborated on in the passage and so if it wasn't elaborated on in the passage, then it cannot answer a question that starts with the passage suggests, because the passage did not suggest it. So maybe not B.


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[Assistant] C says U.S. laboratories should be converted to medical research labs. Uhm, no, that was just kind of like an unintended consequence. That was not part of Meselson's argument. Remember, Meselson's argument had three tenants. Uhm, too dangerous, kind of spurs other people to use them, and it's illogical.


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[Assistant] Okay, so D is the correct answer here. It was in one of those three tenets, uh, ended up making it into our main idea, right? Because they have large destructive power. And even though our main idea


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[Assistant] That's a very loaded statement, right? Whenever I wrote that down, I was thinking, and you should have been thinking yourself, that it creates destructive power in the hands of just a few, or like a terrorist group, uhm, and that this destructive power


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[Assistant] The United States government eventually made the decision to abandon development of biological weapons. Why? How did Messelson pull off what he pulled off?


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[Assistant] Ace says they were too expensive to continue to develop, especially during a time of tightened defense budgets. This is another cop-out answer choice. A lot of times they'll stick with money because it's something that we're like, oh yeah, sure, it's reasonable. But they didn't talk about money.


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[Assistant] B says other nations would suspend development or use if the United States would. The decision never relied on other states, uhm, or other nations. Remember the decision came down to Meselson proving in court.


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[Assistant] This doesn't make any sense what we're doing. It's not rational. It's not logical. Uhm, so maybe not B. C says they would never be used except in retaliation for another country's using them against the United States first. Uhm, I feel like C is a tempting answer choice for a lot of people because that's kinda how the military viewed it.


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[Assistant] So remember, Messelson proved that even this was a bad idea. So maybe not C, and D said they could not be shown to serve a logical military purpose.


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[Assistant] They're not logical. They are irrational. They are, the usage of them is impractical. So notice, if you had gotten this, you would have, like, if that's all you knew, is that these biological materials were impractical, you could have answered like four out of these six questions correct.


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[Assistant] So whenever they come out with a list of arguments, and then they emphasize one of them, just note that that's going to be the big ticket argument that gets tested online.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching the video. Make sure to like and subscribe. And if you're studying for the MCAT yourself, then make sure to check out our channel where we've got tons of strategies and other passage breakdowns and even a full MCAT program coming soon and for free. I'll see you next time.


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[Assistant] Fat Rupert and the little lawyer Ned Gowan sat against the wall behind Dougal.


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[Assistant] Tankard's avail forgotten on the bench beside them as they listened intently. Jamie, frowning into his own tankard, leaned forward with his elbows on the table. Whatever Dougal was saying, he didn't seem to care for it.


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[Assistant] With no warning, Dougal stood, seized Jamie's collar and pulled.


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[Assistant] Old and shabbily made to begin with the shirt tore cleanly down the seams.


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[Assistant] Taken completely by surprise, Jamie froze.


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[Assistant] His eyes narrowed and I saw his jaws set tightly.


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[Assistant] But he didn't move as Dougal spread aside the ripped flaps of cloth to display his back to the onlookers.


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[Assistant] With a face like stone, stood and stepped back from the small crowd clustering around him.


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[Assistant] An elderly little woman who reached the level of his elbow was shaking her head and patting his back gingerly.


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[Assistant] Making what I assumed were comforting remarks in Gaelic.


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[Assistant] If so, they were clearly not having the hoped for effect.


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[Assistant] He replied tersely to a few questions from the men present.


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[Assistant] Whispering intently to each other with frequent big-eyed glances across the room.


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[Assistant] With a look at Dougal, that should by rights have turned the older man to stone.


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[Assistant] Though the bits I caught seem to be highly anti-English in nature.


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[Assistant] And kept my head down, studying my blurry, pale reflection in the surface of my tankard. The clink of metal made me look up.


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[Assistant] One of the men, a sturdy looking crafter in leather trues, had tossed a few coins on the table in front of Dougal and seemed to be making a short speech of his own.


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[Assistant] He stood back, thumbs braced in his belt as though daring the rest to something.


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[Assistant] After an uncertain pause, one or two bold souls followed suit and then a few more.


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[Assistant] Digging copper doits and pence out of purse and sporn.


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[Assistant] Dougal thanked them heartily, waving a hand at the landlord for another round of ale.


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[Assistant] I noticed that the lawyer Ned Gowan was tidily stowing the new contributions in a separate pouch from that used for the Mackenzie rents bound for Columns coffers.


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[Assistant] And I realized what the purpose of Dougal's little performance must be. Rebellions, like most other business propositions, require capital. The raising and provisioning of an army takes gold, as does the maintenance of its leaders.


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[Assistant] And from the little I remembered of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the young pretender to the throne, part of his support had come from France.


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[Assistant] Supporters of the young pretender against the lawful occupant of the throne of England, George II.


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[Assistant] It's the first time I've ever seen him fighting for Dragon World.


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[Assistant] You guys do realize that Grand Thieze has an effect that reduces all damage by two points, don't you?


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[Assistant] Right here? Is this really how our destiny's going to play out?


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[Assistant] You mean you don't want us to see you off at the airport, Gao?


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[Assistant] The kind that includes two brand new cars. Not just one, because yeaah, Mattel definitely likes to do that sometimes. And what makes this even better, is that I was able to find these two, Gabriel and Aidan Tupacs,


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[Assistant] In my local Target store for $8 each plus tax. And I have to say that's pretty exciting because around my area I really don't find that many new cars and I have to get them on eBay or Amazon. So I was so hyped to find these the other day.


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[Assistant] I'm even more hyped to review them for you guys and open them up.


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[Assistant] So, they are in the first case of 2018 Tupacs, although there is a little uncertainty with the cases because in the United States, people are finding the case with these guys. You know, you have Dexter Hoover, Charlie Chacker, The King and Chick Hicks.


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[Assistant] Pat Traxin, Chris Revstopski, Brick and Cal, and of course Raul and Jeff Gourvet. Now internationally for two packs, like Mexico and Australia, people are finding like Pat Traxin, Chris Revstopski, but instead of like Gabriel and Aiden, they're also finding


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[Assistant] That's why I definitely want to focus on them and review them. I love the art on the package there. They both are very happy with the nice desert horizon in the background. They are in the Rusty's Racing Center series with the 95 logo there, red stripe.


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[Assistant] Rusty's racer, the next gen for the company. But of course we know that doesn't really happen. McQueen is still the representative by the end of cars three.


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[Assistant] You can see a picture there of Sterling talking to Rusty and Dusty about, you know,


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[Assistant] Moving the company over into Sterling's possession. Rusty and Dusty, like I said, are out as a two pack in Mexico and Australia.


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[Assistant] The description reads, the new Rusty's Racing Center features the latest in racer training technology. And of course, you have that in three other languages to accommodate for, you know, the diversity, all the multi-language people going on across the world just makes it easier.


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[Assistant] To have multilingual packaging, so, you know.


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[Assistant] To, I don't know, eliminate confusion. Because they never used to do that for the United States. It's a new thing. And there you have a cool stock image of Gabriel and Aiden.


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[Assistant] It's actually really, really cool. But anyway, I'll be right back with these two out of the package.


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[Assistant] Although I don't know, I kind of doubt it because there are a lot of these Rusty's trainees and we will be king a bunch more by the end of the year. Like a pink one, I'll show that one on the screen there. He looks awesome and looks pretty cool because I love that vibrant color.


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[Assistant] But I think that these could get a little boring eventually. By the end of the year, they might just, you know, get a little dry because they're all gray and then you have two different models to choose from and then just some different color accents. So hopefully I'm wrong, but I think it's a possibility. So we're going to start here with Gabriel.


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[Assistant] Who has kind of like this worried expression that does not match the card art at all, but it does kind of match the movie since he was a little unsure of himself.


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[Assistant] But I do like the expression, it actually gives him a lot of character. He has like this more blocking model that matches Danny Suarez here, or Paul Conrad, and a bunch more, but I just chose these two to compare.


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[Assistant] Gabriel does have a unique expression though that does not match any of the other next gens. The only thing that does is the mouth. They just changed up the eyes though.


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[Assistant] That will be in the description below. But although it looks very similar, you can definitely tell in the spoilers that Tom W is a lot lighter blue. And Gabriel is more of a turquoise. Which is something nice to differentiate them.


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[Assistant] And then you can kinda see like his cool headlights there with some color, a little blue to them.


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[Assistant] Which is another point of accent like Gabriel or Aiden, my bad. See, I'm already getting them all mixed up as orange accents around the headlights. He has the grill. There are the vents in the bottom corners. Nice turquoise rims there to match all the other next-gens like, you know, Paul Conrad has red ones.


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[Assistant] And of course, he has the light year tires, which are very, very small, but you can kind of see the text there. It's very thin, but it does in fact say it.


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[Assistant] It says Rusty's Racing Center 049. That is his number, his code, I guess. The amount of trainees maybe.


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[Assistant] Rim again. Roof flaps on the top. I love the spoiler. Looks really nice. Nice vibrant color. And on the back, you have 49 once again, and then the color stripe there at the bottom. So not many details to him.


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[Assistant] And that's why I think that these could get a little redundant, a little boring after.


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[Assistant] Five or six of them, maybe even not that many, but like I said, I hope I'm wrong about that.


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[Assistant] And the expressions are insanely different, although I do like the Mattel expression more because they just do a better job with eyes. I like that the Disney Store version is happy.


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[Assistant] It is the same mouth, I think. Actually the mouth looks a little bit different than, you know, cars that are his same model like Tim Treadless here. Obviously the eyes are unique to him. But I also have Chase Racelove here.


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[Assistant] It just seems like the mouth isn't as long, so that's kinda nice.


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[Assistant] Makes him a new mold because the mouth is actually like carved into the metal there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, another reason to like Aiden Moore, I guess, even though he didn't speak in the movie. Of course, the vents there are a little bit smaller than on... Actually, they're about the same size, they're just different shapes.


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[Assistant] Got the exhaust pipes there, gas caps a little bit further back, roof flaps, orange spoiler.


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[Assistant] And of course on the back here you don't actually have the orange stripe on the bottom there like Gabriel had, but you do have the number 003. Comparing him to the Disney Store version.


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[Assistant] But that is not the case on the Mattel version. So, couple of small differences there. You have a black outline around the windshield. Mattel did not do that. You have the vents actually colored in on Mattel version.


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[Assistant] And other than that though, they are pretty much the same, with the biggest difference being the spoiler. That is completely different, so I don't know what happened there. I do not know which is accurate, but I'm gonna give it to Mattel. Give them the benefit of the doubt, because usually they are more accurate.


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[Assistant] Wow, I cannot believe they would do that. So close together too in their release times. But, oh well. What are you gonna do about it? It's not a huge deal, but just a little disappointing.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I was hoping that they would have different expressions, and I thought they did too, but I guess not. Oh well, let me know in the comment section below which trainee of the three that we've gotten so far, Gabriel Aiden or Tom W, is your favorite. I think my favorite is...


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[Assistant] Gabriel because he talked in the movie and he actually has a different expression and model from the two we've gotten. Yea, no, I said I like Gabriel or Aiden Moore. I'm getting them all mixed up, but I said I like


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[Assistant] Reviews just to kind of keep things fresh like of course a couple weeks ago I did the why you never find new cars in a store anymore video, which was very successful So I just wanted to say thank you guys for supporting that video and supporting me


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[Assistant] I know I would not be here without you guys and of course 30,000 subscribers. I just hit that milestone recently. Super excited and hopefully I can do a celebratory live stream soon as soon as my voice gets a little better because after talking for, it's been like 15 minutes or so.


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[Assistant] There was a mode of communication between Joel and Ellie that I didn't want to feel like I was repeating between Henry and Sam because as Neil points out in the game, you don't spend time with Henry and Sam on their own, ever.


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[Assistant] But if they are on their own and we knew we wanted to do that, well, what do those discussions sound like? And it could very easily fall into the trap of exasperated father figure and curious, concerned, scared child figure.


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[Assistant] And so I was looking for a way to change that mode of communication. We'd also talked a little bit about making Sam younger.


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[Assistant] Because we liked the idea that Ellie would have somebody that could look up to her, you know, the way that she looked up to Joel.


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[Assistant] It may have happened because it was sort of on my mind a little bit.


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[Assistant] So I'd been watching this show called This Close by a woman named Shoshana Stern and a guy named Josh Feldman.


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[Assistant] Who co-created it and wrote it and acted in it and they're both deaf and it is about


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[Assistant] Two best friends navigating the world and what it's like when you're both trying to find love in your own life and Josh is gay and plays a gay character, so there's no romance between them. It's about their friendship and how they navigate, but also how they navigate the world as deaf people when they're dealing with other people who aren't deaf.


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[Assistant] And I became friendly with Shoshana. So it was just sort of like banging around in my head.


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[Assistant] And then I was like, well. So this was one of those moments where I called up Neil and I'm like, I have a radical suggestion. So I said, what if Sam was deaf?


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[Assistant] It automatically brings a certain kind of intimacy to those scenes because they're quiet, which I love. This is a lot of talking, this is a very verbal show. And Ellie talks a lot. And it was interesting to sort of see what would it be like if it were just quieter.


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[Assistant] And also put Sam and Henry in this bubble that had to expand to include Joel and Ellie because it had been so...


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[Assistant] Quiet between the two of them since obviously they use sign language and Neil said, go fuck yourself.


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[Assistant] Oh, I wish I had done that. Then I'm like, okay, we're onto something. And it was, it was important for us. I just want to be clear, like as we went through it.


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[Assistant] I had my guesses as to how these things work, but I actually, then we hired Shoshana to review the scripts.


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[Assistant] And make sure that it worked correctly, that we weren't making mistakes. And it was the same thing I did with Chernobyl, you know, showed it to people that grew up in Soviet Ukraine and say,


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[Assistant] How does this all look? And it's almost like a cultural review.


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[Assistant] And she was incredibly helpful in that regard. And then we, um,


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[Assistant] Keep on, we'll just take a moment. I think it was eight?


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[Assistant] So incredibly young. Let's just talk about how we even found him. We were in trouble. I mean, we had created, it was one thing to say on the phone, Hey Neil, here's an idea. Why don't we cast this kid? And so now we're like, okay.


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[Assistant] Here's the casting call, what we said to Vicki Thomas, our casting director. We were looking for a black kid between the ages of eight and eleven.


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[Assistant] We'd like him to be shorter than Ellie who's, I mean, Bella is not a tall person.


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[Assistant] And he has to be deaf. And he has to be fluent in American Sign Language, which not all deaf kids necessarily are. Some of them have been trained more to read lips, but most of them are. Or BASL, by the way, because there's black American Sign Language, which is actually different than American Sign Language. And, uh,


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[Assistant] Guess what? Not a ton of people. And you're like, oh, this is frustrating because I know the problem is the pipeline. It's a pipeline problem. It's not a, are there kids out there who can do it problem.


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[Assistant] So, we're running out of time. The traditional methods are not working.


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[Assistant] Then they also have to be able to act and act really well. And so after a certain point, we were like really up against it. We needed to cast.


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[Assistant] Somebody and I just went, ah, fuck it. And made like a Google email for our casting and just went on Twitter.


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[Assistant] And I just said, here's what we're looking for. Open to the world. Send us stuff and.


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[Assistant] I thought we were gonna get 80 auditions and I think we got five. Wow. And one of them was Kevon. Now, Kevon wasn't just the best of the five.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is where you start to think maybe this is a simulation because I mean, I have never been in a circumstance where


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[Assistant] A kid who has never really acted on film before.


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[Assistant] Shows up and is so naturally good at it.


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[Assistant] When people watch this episode here in Hollywood in our business, that they don't just stop at the end of it and go, boy, that kid was really good playing the character of Sam. I hope that they go, that kid ought to be in a lot of things. The fact that he's deaf.


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[Assistant] Is a fascinating aspect of representation that is underrepresented on television. But, more importantly, his story in our show wasn't about him being deaf. In fact, the biggest factor to his character was that he had had leukemia.


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[Assistant] That was a bigger deal for Sam. And I hope that people in Hollywood think about casting


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[Assistant] Keevon again, and not in stories about being deaf, but just in stories about people, cause he's...


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[Assistant] He's one of the nicest people. Now, this is not, shouldn't come as a surprise because he's Canadian. Canadians are incredibly nice people, but he, Lamar has...


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[Assistant] This, uh, he's humanity forward, right? Like you can just, you feel his spirit. The moment you meet him, he's just, there's decency. That's what hits you first is just how obviously decent he is.


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[Assistant] He is also fiercely intelligent and he also just quickly learned sign language. Our first scene with Henry and Sam, I believe, was in their hiding space in the attic.


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[Assistant] And I believe it was a Monday and I'm pretty sure that he had learned it over the weekend. I shit you not. So.


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[Assistant] CJ Jones was working with us on set. He was sort of the head of ASL and I met him also through Shoshana. He's also deaf and is an acting teacher and so he served this interesting role of being


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[Assistant] Both a liaison, a communication liaison between us and Sam, but also coaching Keevan along and also


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[Assistant] Congratulate him or berate him for not getting the signs quite right or for not signing with the proper speed or fluidity. It was really important to Lamar that anyone watching this who was deaf and fluent in ASL or not deaf and fluent in ASL would not point their finger and go, nope, fake.


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[Assistant] And he just was that smart and that good. It was almost scary.


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[Assistant] My point of view is that you can lie to keep your children comfortable and happy.


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[Assistant] To a point, but then there comes a point where you need to tell them the truth in order to keep them safe. The reason that Henry tells Sam the truth that the doctor isn't coming back.


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[Assistant] They did probably kill him and we have to move because there is no more food is because if they stay there one more hour, they're going to get caught and then Sam's going to die anyway.


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[Assistant] So it's all about in the moment, what will keep this kid safe? It is never, and I wish that I had a more noble answer. It's never about feeling obligated to be super honest with your kid when you're in situations of stress. Obviously when you're not, you want to be honest with your children, but when there's danger afoot, you become, I think as a parent, very,


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[Assistant] Uh, utilitarian in your approach. What will work the best to keep my kids safe? And when Henry has to tell Sam the truth, it's because he has to tell him the truth.


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[Assistant] Which will ultimately get us to the most brutal repudiation of that by Melanie Linsky's.


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[Assistant] This scene is entirely new. Melanie Linsky was perfect because... I could describe her as like this like...


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[Assistant] What if a kindergarten teacher were in charge of the terror of the French revolution? It's this kind of.


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[Assistant] Just because you're sweet on the outside doesn't mean you don't have...


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[Assistant] The capacity for terrible anger and vengeance in your heart. The way she justifies it is love. Love. I mean, the theme of us versus them is always there. This notion of tribalism is always there. It was important for me and for Neil to not


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[Assistant] MPC eyes these people. We didn't want them to just be bad guys.


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[Assistant] Can you just define a little bit what you mean by that? So NPCs are non-player characters. If you play D&D like I do, and I know you do, uh, you run into those things from time to time and they're monsters. Bad guys. And in video games, NPCs are the enemies that typically aren't named. Uh, they don't have much in the way of dialogue.


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[Assistant] And they are there for you to kill, typically. Then the tough part is, if I'm playing Joel or Ellie,


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[Assistant] And I need to kill these people to get through this level. I can't-


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[Assistant] Connect with them too much as a player. I need to be able to sneak up behind them and kill them without feeling like, Oh God, I just killed Linda. You know, that would be really hard to deal with if I felt a lot for them. But when you're making television and there isn't the gameplay aspect, we want it as best we could.


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[Assistant] To give these people a sense of justification. And this is again, what happens when regimes fall, the retaliation that comes after can be terrifying.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there were areas where we knew we wanted to hew really closely and then there were areas where we thought, okay, actually we're gonna wander off a bit. Well, once you decide to wander off because you think it's gonna give us an opportunity to make a better show, then you do what you always do, which is to make the scenes interesting and to create a little bit of a sense of mystery.


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[Assistant] I mean, who is Henry? Why is he on the run? Why is Kathleen so interested in hunting this guy down to the point where even her right hand man, played by this guy you might know named Jeffrey Pierce,


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[Assistant] Is saying, hey, whoa, you know, we have other fish to fry.


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[Assistant] Including the possibility of something terrible underground that we are now responsible to hold back since Fedra's gone. And yet somehow Kathleen is just monomaniacally fixated on finding Henry. What did he do? And when Henry says I'm the most wanted man in Kansas city.


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[Assistant] Why? That mystery, that's just how you keep people engaged. I don't think we ever thought like, let's show them how different we can be. I think we were.


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[Assistant] Always scared to either be too close to the game or too far away from the game. And the only way to get around the fear was to ask what would make the best story in the best scene.


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[Assistant] They all do. I mean, he is questioning what she's doing in regard to Henry, but he understands it. And when he has this moment with her...


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[Assistant] He comes to see her and we've seen him be nervous about her course of action a couple of times.


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[Assistant] And she presumes that he's there to say, you gotta pull back here. We have other stuff to do. And she talks finally about her brother and what he meant for her.


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[Assistant] And what her brother meant for her was safety. Her brother was her Joel and her Joel died.


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[Assistant] And when her Joel died, she kind of lost it and needed to kill the people that killed her Joel. This sounds vaguely familiar to anybody and there might be a reason. So she.


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[Assistant] Is saying essentially my brother was rather Christ-like. He told me to forgive and she is not Christ-like. She has a darkness in her and her point of view is forgiveness is stupid.


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[Assistant] Punishment is how we are going to win the day and you expect Perry to say, well, and he doesn't, what he says is.


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[Assistant] And they are free because somebody with darkness in her said we're gonna do whatever it takes. And when somebody frees you like that.


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[Assistant] You tend to trust them and you tend to follow them all the way to the bitter end.


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[Assistant] So much of adaptation comes down to instinct and reasonable people can disagree, but.


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[Assistant] I remember being so surprised and delighted by discovering that underground colony, the abandoned underground colony in the tunnels.


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[Assistant] So there was no question that we needed to see it. It was important. The fact that Ellie and Sam can play soccer and, and that Joel and Henry have a chance to have a dad talk in this weird, brief respite of safety and sanity.


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[Assistant] Was, uh, incredibly important to me. I needed to see it. When it came to the story of Ish, which is awesome, there's something about the epistolary nature of that in the game. The way that you learn about it through letters.


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[Assistant] Communication, it makes it better. It's, we could absolutely do a standalone Ish episode, but I think where we landed was it's better to tip our hats to Ish and then have people play the game


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[Assistant] Or if they're not gamers, there are places on the internet where they can go and read every one of those letters. No, no, no. Buy the game. Don't, don't. Don't listen to Craig. You don't need to buy this game, guys. You don't need to spend a dime on it. They did okay.


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[Assistant] One thing I should mention since we've talked about how people literally tattoo the words, endure and survive on their skin, is that at one point, not in the game, but in the show, uh, Henry sort of makes fun of it.


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[Assistant] It's very meaningful and obviously has great thematic resonance.


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[Assistant] We're being cheeky about it, but I just, I don't want anybody to think that we.


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[Assistant] Neil and I are about to get a Last of Us tattoo. Can we talk about that on this show? I got two. So Neil and I made a deal early on in prep and the deal was if the show does well,


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[Assistant] And we sort of loosely define does well, then he and I will both get a tattoo of Ellie's switchblade. Yes.


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[Assistant] So in the game, the sniper is really good. Uh, and he's not alone. There are six or seven other guys with him that you have to clear out. At least. Yeah, at least. Um, so there's quite a good action sequence where you're sneaking behind houses and ducking and trying to.


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[Assistant] And this wasn't us going, Hey, we're going to subvert expectations. It was really more like, well.


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[Assistant] Because we understood, A, we weren't gonna get the same value from presenting the action the way that the gameplay did. That watching it on television, if there was a lot of ducking and shooting back and ducking and shooting back, it just sort of isn't...


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[Assistant] It's just not the show. But I'm obsessed with the cul-de-sac and I'm obsessed with the sniper. So then the thought was, well, what if he stinks?


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[Assistant] What if the sniper is really bad and all Joel has to do is just get around and get in there and then.


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[Assistant] The next question is, well, why is he bad? And the answer is he's really old. He can't see. And this is sad.


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[Assistant] Because when you are dealing with the Citizen Brigade.


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[Assistant] This is often what you're dealing with. It's not trained military soldiers. These are people and this guy one can imagine has seen a lot because let's say he's


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[Assistant] 80. That means 60 years of his life. He was living in a perfectly normal world and the last 20 went to shit. And the sadness there.


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[Assistant] God only knows what amount of grief he's gone through when Joel walks in there, I think.


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[Assistant] Joel can already see it in the guy's eyes.


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[Assistant] He's gonna commit suicide by cop here. This guy doesn't wanna be here anymore. Got it. And he's begging him not to. Cause he doesn't want to. He doesn't wanna kill this guy. He doesn't wanna hurt this guy. But this guy's had it. He's done.


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[Assistant] You built this. We built this. This was a massive undertaking. Uhm, there was this large empty lot next to the main stages where we were shooting, uhm, CFC Calgary Film Center. And,


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[Assistant] We knew we were going to be making this big cul de sac scene and we needed to control it completely. So we needed to be able to do gunfire. We needed to be able to do burns. We needed to do an explosion of a truck. We needed.


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[Assistant] Hundreds of extras running around, backlit by fire, lots of stunts, motor vehicles, racing and driving and all this.


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[Assistant] And it needs to be lit. There's no way to do that practically on a regular street. It's just not gonna work.


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[Assistant] We needed to build it. Also, we couldn't find a street that was going to be perfect the way that one was. So we turned to our beleaguered, overworked art department led by John Pano, our production designer, and Don McCauley, our art director.


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[Assistant] And just as important as those two guys in this case was a gentleman named Dino Centani, who is our head of construction.


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[Assistant] And we said we want to build a pretty big street and we want it to look roughly like this. We had some images for inspiration, both from the game and also from some actual neighborhoods in Kansas city.


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[Assistant] And they didn't have a lot of time and they worked at lightspeed. They didn't just bring in people who were really good at constructing for film and television. They brought in actual house builders, home builders.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and we used every inch of what we had going all the way back to the end of the lot. First of all, the sequence originally was going to take place during the day, just like it does in the game. Let's talk about that.


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[Assistant] And I, I said, oh shit, because I knew that the sequence was going to be about three weeks to shoot. Everybody now has to work at night. The nights were getting shorter.


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[Assistant] And yet because it was Calgary, it also occasionally would snow in the middle of the night. So we would lose some time to that, but mostly it's just working at night is hard on everybody. If you do it two or three nights in a row, you get over it.


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[Assistant] Three weeks, it starts to really get into you mentally. I mean, even as your schedule shifts, mentally you start to wear down the episode of Game of Thrones, the, you know, the famous one in the last season, they shot, I think, 11 weeks of night. And I remember Dan Weiss telling me that people were literally losing their minds.


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[Assistant] Obviously people can successfully work at night on night shifts and things, but we shoot long hours. So we would get there, we would rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, wait for Eben Bolter, our wonderful cinematographer to say.


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[Assistant] It is time. And then we shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. And this is not easy shooting. This is explosions, fire, stunts, gunfire.


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[Assistant] Safety is our most important priority and it's exhausting and yet everybody was there for it. I mean, we had a gazillion stunt actors, all of whom were running and crawling as fast as they could. With prosthetics. With prosthetics. It was an army.


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[Assistant] And we're also doing things like driving a truck into cars, for real. It was the most complicated thing I've ever done.


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[Assistant] So, backing up, Alex Wong, who's, uh, is our VFX supervisor, is, you know, becomes over the course of the production one of the most important people on the team.


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[Assistant] And that actually carried forth to his then bringing on vendors because


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[Assistant] Right now the world is kind of dealing with a visual effects shortage. Doesn't seem like it because everything has visual effects.


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[Assistant] Everybody is using more and more visual effects to help produce and tell stories to the point where there aren't enough artists on the planet to fulfill all the demand of content, especially as content has exploded on television.


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[Assistant] So when you reach out to these companies, you are not necessarily just haggling over price. At some point, you're just like.


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[Assistant] Do you want to work on this? Because they have their choice. And then there obviously are levels of expertise within companies. One of the great things for us is that all of these places we talked to were like, uh, the last of us.


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[Assistant] I mean, huge overlap, uh, in visual effects and gaming.


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[Assistant] And so we got the best of the best. And in this sequence, nobody, nobody does creature work the way what it does. Nobody. They are.


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[Assistant] The best and what they did here is so phenomenal. If you study it carefully, there will be maybe moments where you're like, okay, that one's VFX, but that one's real.


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[Assistant] But I guarantee you won't get it all right. It's really hard to tell. It's really beautifully blended. Got it.


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[Assistant] We definitely knew we wanted to have this massive set piece involving a lot of infected.


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[Assistant] So it was a bit of a challenge. We thought we have all the story we want to tell in Kansas city and we know that we.


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[Assistant] We have this big thing waiting for us at the end in the cul-de-sac, but...


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[Assistant] Prior to that, the story is really about Kathleen, about Henry and Sam, about Joel and Ellie, and the threat is humans here.


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[Assistant] So, we found this, it was really inspired by the tunnels from the game. That the infected seemed to be underground. Well, what if...


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[Assistant] We added this additional twist, which is that Fedra drove them underground here.


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[Assistant] And what was interesting about that is that we come to understand that even though Fedra was terrible,


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[Assistant] They were providing this one service and now that Kathleen has effectively eliminated them, it's Perry who is saying, this should probably be something we jump on right away.


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[Assistant] Someone needs to do this job, and here's an indication, and we see at the end of the fourth episode, here's an indication that...


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[Assistant] It's beginning to already be a problem. Just the fact that it's been...


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[Assistant] Two or three weeks since we overthrew Fedra and we're already seeing this. That's bad news. So we put it in the back of your head. Then Henry makes it explicit.


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[Assistant] We think when they go into that tunnel, uh-oh, they're, nope, there's nothing. And I was particularly fond of the way that in our show, Henry is like, told you, told you, told you every step of the way. He's like, my plan is great. And Joel's like, shut up. And then at the very, very end.


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[Assistant] Tying into that moment in the game when there's that crash and the infected come out of that house. Well, here we've set it up that they're all underground, not some of them.


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[Assistant] All of them. And we kind of imagine the idea of like an ant colony where there's these tunnels and things. And if you pop it open in one spot, they can all just start coming up.


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[Assistant] And it was terrifying to me. There was, um, a moment in the fellowship of the ring.


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[Assistant] The fellowship is in the minds of Moria and seemingly thousands of, I think they're goblins. I don't think they're orcs at that point. I think they're goblins. Anyway, come like skittering down these massive columns like spiders. And I thought it was so beautiful when I saw it and terrifying.


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[Assistant] So I was thinking a little bit about that of just what it would be like if they just came belching forth out of the earth. And particularly some of the larger infected that we deal with here, like the introduction of Senor Bloater.


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[Assistant] Let's do a bloater. And this is sort of one of those differences between television and games. When the bloater comes out in the game.


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[Assistant] You understand you have to kill it. So in the game, you meet a bloater in the school gymnasium with Bill and the point is you gotta kill it.


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[Assistant] With nail bombs. Nail bombs, and keep the shotgun, uh, ready, Casey Renout.


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[Assistant] We don't have those things at our disposal. We do not. And we also thought, look, whatever this thing is, and however it got that way,


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[Assistant] There was this notion that it might be scarier if at some point you realize you're not killing it.


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[Assistant] Where I wanted the bloater to pick Perry up and rip him in half. Right. Like, at the waist. You know? And Neil's like, well, okay, I mean, is that gonna be realistic? And I'm like, I think so. And then like, the more wet it tried to do, the more you realize like, people don't rip along the waist. So it's really hard to do.


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[Assistant] It got close. It came close, but ultimately Neil prevailed and was correct in suggesting that something that felt more grounded anatomically would be more effective. And then of course we were like, well, the bloater has this head rip that is, it's iconic and it's great and it's terrifying.


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[Assistant] Let me crib a line from Westworld these violent delights have violent ends.


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[Assistant] I think it's important to show that when you are dead set on using violence to settle the score and win the day, you are going to probably get subsumed by that yourself.


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[Assistant] And the fact is Kathleen is a moral criminal. She's done terrible things. Does she deserve to die? I don't really get into that.


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[Assistant] I just know that the odds that you are going to die by this sword go up dramatically if you live by it.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the thing he told her to run and she couldn't help, but chase the white whale to the very end. And this is where we, you know, in talking about this new.


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[Assistant] Variant of infected the child clicker.


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[Assistant] And so he just whips up a little illustration that makes us all go, Oh my God. And then it was a combination of this, actually this kid named Skye.


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[Assistant] It was a combination of her performance and then Weta kind of creating, taking drafting off of what Barry Gower had created with prosthetics and then making this little girl and I insisted that


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[Assistant] Our child clicker wear a Blue's Clues shirt because I'm, I'm really sick. Uh, and I just love the contrast of innocence and horror.


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[Assistant] But it was important for me also that Kathleen is killed by a child because what she says, it was one of my favorite lines in the series is when she's saying that Henry has to die and so does Sam and Henry says he's just a fucking kid.


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[Assistant] A lot of what we talk about when we're talking about the moral conundrum of the last of us is why does my kid's life matter more than yours?


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[Assistant] Does my kid's life matter more than your mother's? Does my kid's life matter more than an old man's life? And so the idea that she ultimately is killed by a kid.


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[Assistant] Felt sort of like a circular completion of that story. You're not supposed to feel good. You're not supposed to feel bad. If people struggle a little bit.


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[Assistant] With how they feel about that moment, then I think we probably did it correctly.


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[Assistant] It's easy to say, well, if you're deaf, your older brother is going to learn how to sign ASL.


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[Assistant] But Ellie doesn't know sign language other than endurance, survive and awesome and promise. And which she learns, which she learns in the scene. So then.


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[Assistant] The question is how do you communicate and...


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[Assistant] I love those things. Like, I just remember having them, you know, the little... Same. And it was that thought of like, well, in the post-apocalypse, it's the low-tech, ultimately, that is the most valuable. If you have to move through life as a deaf kid...


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[Assistant] And there isn't technology and there's limited resources. You don't have a thousand pencils and you don't have a thousand pads. That thing makes a lot of sense. It's just an endlessly renewable way to communicate with people that don't sign.


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[Assistant] And I really liked that it was the Woody Woodpecker version. It was so great. And so Justin Anofra Chuck, who's our prop master was, this is where he would just get so delighted and never disappointed. He would always bring these things and you'd go, it's perfect.


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[Assistant] I mean, that scene, that conversation they have is very close to what it is in the game.


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[Assistant] They have a conversation, what are you afraid of? Do you think that people who are infected are still them inside?


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[Assistant] Ellie does not reveal that she's immune. And Sam doesn't reveal that he's bitten. And Sam doesn't reveal that he's bitten. Now Sam is older in the game and it makes sense. In this context, we thought that because of the nature of the relationship between our Sam and our Ellie, which is that he looked up to her, that it made sense that he would trust her.


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[Assistant] Ellie starting to believe that she could do something special.


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[Assistant] Lying, and in this case, I think lying to herself as well because she has the same thing that Joel has, which is this desire to save the person you love.


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[Assistant] We are going to get into Ellie's past a little further as the season goes along.


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[Assistant] But we already know from a conversation she's had with Joel in the prior episode that when she killed that guy in the laundromat,


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[Assistant] That was not the first person she killed. There's something that's happened in her past, which means there is loss and.


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[Assistant] What Bella's is showing us there is this longing for redemption. Now that I know I can fix.


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[Assistant] Everybody can kind of create their own theory about what it must be like in there.


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[Assistant] And it's reasonable, I think to say, well, if you've been infected for a week, a month, five years, you're not, you're gone. And it's also people who also say, look, he's.


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[Assistant] Physically his ears, the eardrums, the nerves, they don't work the way that they do in people who can hear. So why would they work now?


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[Assistant] I think it's still him. I think in that moment where it's, it's just beginning, there's just confusion. It's a little bit like being on a bad trip. You can't stop yourself. You don't know what's happening and you're reacting like you're in a dream and you may even realize in moments like I'm trying to hurt somebody that I love, but I can't stop. Which by the way, um,


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[Assistant] He has every desire to keep his brother safe here. He knows that Joel will get the gun and shoot him. So he gets the gun first. He shoots at the ground to keep Joel from running over there and pulling Sam away.


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[Assistant] And then there's this thing in his mind that takes over that he, and it's, I think it's, it's almost a spinal reaction to say as a decent human being, I have to stop somebody from killing a kid. And in this case, the someone is his own brother and the kid is Ellie.


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[Assistant] So he doesn't even understand he's done it until after he's done it. And we had a long.


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[Assistant] Long conversation. I even wrote other versions where I was really nervous.


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[Assistant] About this ending in the game, it was so shocking and so brutal, but I also knew like.


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[Assistant] I remember the screen goes black and then we're, we move ahead and it's a different season and I go and I'm just breathing and I'm watching the two of them in a different moment, a different time and place and then I can keep kind of going.


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[Assistant] We don't let you keep going. We know we have to stop this episode. And so the question is should Henry kill himself or not?


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[Assistant] And there you see the end of something because just a couple of scenes earlier Joel was saying to Henry, it's easier for them. They don't have anybody relying on them. But there was somebody relying on Ellie. But even more profound, I think.


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[Assistant] And that's the thing that happened to me 20 years ago that I swore I would never allow happen to me again. And this is a warning from above.


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[Assistant] That whatever is connecting me to this kid.


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[Assistant] I am now in the most dire emotional danger possible.


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[Assistant] Watching the young man on the rock trying to disjoin his own fingers, I was forcibly reminded of the captain, facing some insoluble problem of supply. You need to hit something, I said.


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[Assistant] Headed decisively for a sturdy looking cherry tree and dealt it a solid blow.


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[Assistant] Apparently finding this some palliative to his feelings, he smashed the quivering trunks several times more.


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[Assistant] Causing a delirious shower of pale pink petals to rain down upon his head. Sucking a grazed knuckle, he came back a moment later. Thank you, he said, with a wry smile. Perhaps I'll sleep tonight, after all. Did you hurt your hand? I rose to examine it, but he shook his head, rubbing the knuckles gently with the palm of the other hand. Nee, that's nothing. We stood a moment in awkward silence.


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[Assistant] The schoolmaster used to tie that one to my belt behind my back to make me right with the other. Can you? Right with the other, I mean. He nodded, reapplying the injured hand to his mouth. Aye, makes my head ache to do it, though. Do you fight left-handed, too? I asked, wanting to distract him. With a sword, I mean.


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[Assistant] He was wearing no arms at the moment, except his dirk and ski and do.


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[Assistant] But during the day he customarily wore both sword and pistols, as did most of the men in the party. No. I use a sword well enough, in either hand.


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[Assistant] A left-handed swordsman's at a disadvantage, you can. We are Smallsword.


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[Assistant] For you fight with your left side turned to the enemy, and your heart's on that side. Do you see?


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[Assistant] Too filled with nervous energy to keep still, he had begun to stride about the grassy clearing.


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[Assistant] Making illustrative gestures with an imaginary sword. It makes little difference, we are broadsword, he said.


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[Assistant] Extended both arms straight out, hands together.


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[Assistant] And swept them in a flat graceful arc through the air. You use both hands usually, he explained.


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[Assistant] Or if you're close enough to use only one, doesn't matter much which.


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[Assistant] For you come down from above and cleave the man through the shoulder. Not the head, he added instructively, for the blade may slip off easy. Catch him clean in the notch though.


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[Assistant] He chopped the edge of his hand at the juncture of neck and shoulder. And he's dead.


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[Assistant] And if it's not a clean cut, still the man will no fight again that day, or ever. Likely, he added.


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[Assistant] I remember that I was very nervous and I was very sick and I, I was sick for like many years I feel like. Everything I did I was sick.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I, my voice was kind of messed up and I was just like really nervous and I just wanted to really...


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[Assistant] Do a good job. And I remember, you know, you came to meet us in the room and I remember it was like the first celebrity I'd ever been up close to.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I would have to, it would have to, I mean honestly, Swarm was kind of a dream role for me. That was a big, when that, when that was brought up to me I was like, oh this is uhm,


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[Assistant] This is the thing. This is what I want to do. I mean, you know, Donald Glover is like my all-time hero, like lifelong hero, so that was-


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[Assistant] Yeah man, it's hard. I mean, you can't really.


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[Assistant] I, I find that, you know, I love playing festivals. It's like one of my favorite types of shows to do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, cause it's just a sea. It's just, you stand there and it's just endless people and it's really...


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[Assistant] It's like a feeling that I don't get in any other like aspect of my life. It's really, really incredible. And it's hard to be present sometimes, but I would say festivals, I feel like, you know, it might not be all your, your fans or your crowd. And so I feel like I have to prove something in a way that makes me feel like I


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[Assistant] First you would think it hurts, but once you get the feel of the first...


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[Assistant] It's the same as getting a real tat with the machine and getting the hand taps. It's totally the same feeling. Of course it hurts, but you just have to take it.


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[Assistant] You don't look very well, Mr. Davies. Maybe you'd better stay home and rest up for the funeral.


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[Assistant] That's really too bad. Just too bad.


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[Assistant] We'll stop here for a minute, gentlemen, and breathe our horses. Winder, take one man with you, go up to the top of that ridge and see what you can see.


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[Assistant] Bartlett, take six men and work through those woods back at the cabin. Gerald, you and Farley and the rest will go with me.


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[Assistant] You loved it. That's why you kept them waiting so long. I saw your face. It was a face of a depraved, murderous beast. There are only two things that have ever meant anything to you. Power and cruelty. You can't feel pity. You can't even feel guilt. In your heart, you knew those men were innocent. You had your word pulled crazy to see them hanged. To make me watch.


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[Assistant] The story goes that a prince sat there with a shepherdess and she made a wish and he up and married her. Just like that? So when young people want to get married, they sit there and wish. Does it work? Well it did with me blasted.


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[Assistant] He asked us a question, he said, you guys are from Waterloo, right? And we said yeaah. And he said, oh, then I know it works.


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[Assistant] When we were going through the discussions with Google about, uhm, joining and being acquired, one of the things that came up pretty quickly was that they wanted us to move to Mountain View.


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[Assistant] And this was something that, as a team, we didn't want to do. Uh, we really love Kisterin Waterloo and wanted to remain here. It would have been such a great loss to have us grow here and consume all these resources and then leave.


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[Assistant] He said, hey, we should live together. We're both gonna be there. Uhm, he had lived there before. He said, yeaah, this is an awesome place to live.


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[Assistant] He was the first one who started, uhm, this path of going down to YC, raising money, and then bringing it all back.


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[Assistant] Uhm, talking to him at one point about us going to another accelerator program and he asked, he said, did you apply to YC?


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[Assistant] And I turned to him and I said, no, like we don't, we don't know if it's the right fit for us, we're hardware, uhm, this other accelerator that we're gonna go to or we're thinking of going to is a little bit more focused. I think it's the best fit for us. And he said, go over to your desk and apply to Y Combinator.


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[Assistant] He's always, uhm, willing to make that first step and really create a path. Uhm, and so we followed in that same path and went to YSC, had an awesome experience, raised some money there and then brought it back to Christian Wadley because we love this community. Uhm, and Thalmic Labs has done the same thing now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the recipient gets an email, uh, as soon as the package is ready for pickup, and then they can go and pick it up at a convenience store, grocery store, or any one of our other locations. We also have, uh, transit hubs. That was our final year design project when we were still, the three of us, founders all in engineering.


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[Assistant] Happened to be chatting with a couple of my, uh, batch mates from when we went to Y Combinator, and I've had several of them reach out to me asking about how they can get connected to the University of Waterloo.


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[Assistant] And we were really lucky to have the support of not only University of Waterloo, but also just the Waterloo community.


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[Assistant] And so I look at the next day that's available in the calendar and be like, yeah, sure. Does this day work at 8.30? And that allows me to know whether that founder is really for real or not, because it's 8.30 in the morning and it's early. And it also allows me to get up early and get a good meeting in before the day. And I usually really enjoy those days.


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[Assistant] Being able to come out here allows that bridge to be connected between Waterloo and Silicon Valley and I think that's where the power is and I think that's where Waterloo really needs to focus their energy on making those right connections but not trying to imitate the valley and not trying to, uh, do what has already been built here.


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[Assistant] I mean, having someone come to you, uhm, and start a discussion, uh, that ultimately ends in, uh, having to turn down, uhm, a product that, and a service that you created, uhm, from nothing, uh, and got to, to a significant stage is never going to be an easy, uh, conversation.


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[Assistant] I think, uhm, we learned a lot from it, uhm, that's for sure. And it gave us a lot of new perspective on how a bigger organization needs to think about difficult decisions like that.


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[Assistant] I think when I think back to when I was going through school and the things that I would have appreciated people telling me and I think that we can share now is the world is such a different place now with this magical thing called the internet.


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[Assistant] I specifically moved to Waterloo because our company was accepted into Hyperdrive, Communitech's accelerator program. So for a year we had been operating our business with next to no overhead like most startups do.


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[Assistant] I started to laugh but converted it into a tactful coughing fit.


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[Assistant] Given the exigencies of road travel, the crowded state of the inns and the crudity or complete lack of sanitary facilities,


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[Assistant] I was on terms of such physical intimacy with these men, Jamie included.


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[Assistant] That I found the idea of such prudery hilarious. You've slept in the same room with me before, I pointed out when I had recovered a bit. You and twenty other men. He spattered a bit. That is near to all the same thing. I mean, it was a quite public room and... He paused as an awful thought struck him.


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[Assistant] You didn't think I meant that you were suggesting anything improper? He asked anxiously. I assure you I... No, no. Not at all.


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[Assistant] I made haste to reassure him that I'd taken no offense.


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[Assistant] Seeing that he couldn't be persuaded, I insisted that at the least he must take the blankets from my bed to lie upon.


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[Assistant] He agreed to this reluctantly, and only upon my repeated assurances that I wouldn't use them myself in any case.


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[Assistant] But intended to sleep as usual in the cover of my thick travelling cloak.


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[Assistant] I tried to thank him again as I paused by the makeshift pallet before returning to my fetid sanctuary, but he waved away my appreciation with a gracious hand.


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[Assistant] It is an entirely disinterested kindness on my part, you can, he observed. I'd as soon avoid notice myself.


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[Assistant] I had forgotten that he had his own reasons for keeping away from English soldiery.


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[Assistant] It didn't escape me, however, that this could have been much better accomplished


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[Assistant] Not to say more comfortably, by his sleeping in the warm and airy stables, rather than on the floor before my door.


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[Assistant] But if anyone does come up here, I protested, they'll find you then.


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[Assistant] He reached a long arm out to grasp the swinging shutter and pulled it too.


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[Assistant] The hall was plunged in blackness, and Jamie appeared as no more than a shapeless bulk. They cannot see my face, he pointed out.


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[Assistant] I could see nothing of his face, but the tone of his voice told me he was smiling. Not at all, Sassenach. They just think I'm weak in my tongue. I laughed and went in then.


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[Assistant] I curled myself on the bed and went to sleep, marveling at the mind that could make such ribald jokes, even as it recoiled at the thought of sleeping in the same room with me.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. But happy and high, probably. Like, they're just, you know.


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[Assistant] They're very precocious and growing very well. They're climbing, they're, you know, playing, they're still bonded very much with mom.


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[Assistant] My name is Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish. I think it's October 18th, 2017. It's October 18th, 2018. October 18th, 2019. October 18th, 2020. October 18th, 2020.


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[Assistant] 0.1 million followers. 106 million followers on Instagram. Alright. Billies.


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[Assistant] Shoo, alright. Speaking of Instagram, I got some ideas. We're gonna do something.


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[Assistant] As we wait for these little questions to come in, let's get to what we're here for. I am feeling...


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[Assistant] Really good. It's just so cool to get to do this every year. I don't know, I feel like sometimes people are like,


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[Assistant] And I just, I love, I just like it. It's just like a really cool, ugh, I just, they mean so much to me. Every year I watch these and I'm just like...


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[Assistant] Really, it makes me really happy. I feel hopeful and I feel happy and I feel in a good, a good spot in my life. Right now. Nothing like that second year.


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[Assistant] Didn't miss one date, which was really exciting. I headlined Coachella, which was...


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[Assistant] So surreal and insane. I headlined Glastonbury. I got an Oscar.


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[Assistant] Don't let something current ruin the


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[Assistant] Don't let something current ruin the


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[Assistant] The future, uhm, or the past. Girl, don't let something current ruin the future or the past.


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[Assistant] What's the most important thing to me right now? Maintaining uhm, my happiness. Which I've been experiencing for like the first time.


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[Assistant] I was really scared too, I was like, you know, I had been really bummed out for a minute and I just...


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[Assistant] That's so weird that that's me, but that me doesn't know this me. I don't know, life is weird. The most important thing to me now...


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[Assistant] Is being in touch with myself.


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[Assistant] Feelings towards it. And honestly, like, I don't know if I ever know. Because pressure is not something you can see. You can't touch it or anything, like it's just there. Yeah, I would say... I feel that there's pressure on me.


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[Assistant] I don't feel debilitated by it. I don't feel controlled by it. But there's a lot of pressure that goes with all this stuff. So yeah, there's pressure for sure. There's a line in everything I wanted that I think about a lot. It feels like yesterday was a year ago, but I don't want to let anybody know.


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[Assistant] Cause everybody wants something from me now and I don't want to let them down.


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[Assistant] I just love that line and it kind of like breaks my heart every time I sing it and hear it, cause...


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[Assistant] That's really the truth, is I don't want to let people down. I really don't want to let people down.


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[Assistant] Stuff. Some cheese, some fake cheese, some fake bread, some fake potatoes. Fake potatoes? What? I had a burrito with a gluten-free tortilla, and then hummus with a gluten-free tortilla.


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[Assistant] And I came here, and I had a bagel with cream cheese. A gluten-free bagel with vegan cream cheese. Bagel. So, guess what I ate?


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[Assistant] I have a big Louis Vuitton blanket above my bed. And then above the other side of my bed, it's a big poster that has all my fans' signatures on it. And I have, like, lights above my bed and a canopy. Uh, that's true.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like hell. It looks like hell. Like, really like, dope hell though. It's like, there's just red lighting everywhere. I have a bunch of, uh, Gucci fabric hanging from one side. So high-beast, I can't even believe myself. It's like, spooky and sexy is dope.


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[Assistant] Bless my little heart though. There's so much of me from that age.


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[Assistant] That is out there that exists for people to go and look at and see.


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[Assistant] And then there's footage like this that nobody's ever seen before. And I'm like, fuck yeah, nobody's seen that.


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[Assistant] But now, now it's gonna be out too. Just more footage of me being a little idiot at 16. My bedroom now is a different bedroom in a different house.


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[Assistant] I had a show in New Zealand pretty recently. Kind of all of the walls were glass and it was like so outside you could see everybody outside and I was like I don't care so I like ran away from


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[Assistant] That was a really amazing moment. Look at my little snaggletooth. Yeah, that was one of my favorites. That was a, that was a good one. I felt, I think about that one a lot actually to this day. Right now, in this period of time, I feel so connected to


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[Assistant] The fans. Whatever you wanna call them. In a way that I just...


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[Assistant] I just feel solid. Sometimes people say things that really mean a lot to me. Like at one point I was out there and somebody grabbed me really hard and it hurt.


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[Assistant] Someone else that was nearby kind of like literally like someone in the crowd and it was so loud but this person just kind of was looking at me in this way and I was like looked at them and they were like, are you okay? And I was like


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[Assistant] I'm good. And it was just like such a small moment, but it was really, it was really nice, made me feel good.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm in control. I'm in control. I'm in charge. I know what I'm doing. I'm okay. I'm, I'm... Like, you can trust me. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not gonna be gone, you know? Uhm, unless I die.


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[Assistant] Then I'm gonna be gone. So you're gonna have to deal with that, if that happens. But, we'll see.


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[Assistant] Yes, like my whole everything. All of the clothes I have are free. All the shoes I have are free. I get socks for free. Clothing, shoes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, rings, jewelry. I was just so, like, I can't. You know, it's so funny that...