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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. I think I said this before, but it's in my notes, so I'll say it again. Ame never showed annoyance. Is that a word?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah. I've hanged her so many times. I love her so much. Yeah.


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[Assistant] She did so much for me. And, you know, she's the best. You know. You know, she's the best.


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[Assistant] Now, we basically have something like a studio over there. We don't have to go to America, but the thing is from- eh, to America, to Japan. The thing is for me though, living in Austria, going to America and going to, uh, Japan, for me, is basically- it takes the same amount of time, basically? And the same amount of money? So...


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[Assistant] Well, you know, if I go to America, then okay, I have- I have the extra of meeting Ame. That's great. But if I go to Japan...


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[Assistant] I also have the extra of meeting other, like, whole life Japan members and all that. And, uh...


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[Assistant] So, maybe not as much trouble as...


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[Assistant] Yeah, but she- it was still great and, you know, both- both options are definitely an option for me. It's just like, both ways, it takes a lot of time. It's not something I can just do like, oh, tomorrow I wanna record something. Yeah. But I am kind of considering, bulky considering, getting the same setup.


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[Assistant] I'm not too sure about it yet. It kind of, I guess, depends on how soon we can go to Japan easily.


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[Assistant] A-Ama ain't no amateur. No, but maybe I could get Ama to, like, help me set it up and all that. Sure, sure, sure, but...


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[Assistant] Like handling all- it all on my own, like when I- when we're done setting it up, and then in the future, you know, when she's gone, like using it, I feel like-


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[Assistant] I would definitely run into some problems and then, you know, being alone.


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[Assistant] At least I don't always have to travel so far when I wanna have some proper, high quality 3D, you know?


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm still like at some point getting that suit that Aimee uses every now and then. Could I use it too?


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[Assistant] For, you know, a little bit of a scuffed 3D.


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[Assistant] Which I first thought was great, but now that I have the comparison to what we did at Ames Studio,


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[Assistant] Now that I have the comparisons, like such a obvious difference, world, world big, world size difference. Like now that I know.


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[Assistant] How much it like, changes your movements and all that? The scuffed one? I'm like-


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't think I would be able to do a concert in that- even though that was the original plan. When I went to Ame's place, we weren't originally planning to use such a professional setup. I was gonna use her, you know, the low quality suit. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I thought, you know, cause I didn't ever wear it before, I didn't ever test it before, I thought it would be good enough. But I did test it out, and I have to say, that is definitely not good enough for a proper concert.


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[Assistant] Only if I'm like, doing a, a scuffed, scuffed concert, yeaah. Mmm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so anyway, that's something to think about, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] On, on my way back after that final recording day, mmm, you know, we said goodbye to Fauna, and Ina wasn't there, so it was just me and Gura. So, uh, yeaah, we had a lot of chill talks, we talked about like, uh, like food.


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[Assistant] And hair salons, et cetera. Talked a lot about a lot of stuff. And then, uhm, we had...


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[Assistant] Yeah, we ate pizza together, kind of a bonding moment. Late night munchies. No, I was not in the bathtub!


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[Assistant] Yeah, in that evening we had some good talks, I would say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we discussed things.


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[Assistant] While we are eating pizza like future possibilities with the Ame studio. Mmm.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then the following day, we went our own ways for a little bit, so uhm, I checked into a hotel, and uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, then I met my friend, and so, you wanna know, these, it was, I think two days, that I had.


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[Assistant] Uh, where I was able to do some, some sightseeing. Not much though. So, on one day,


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[Assistant] So little Tokyo, little Tokyo in LA. You guys have little Tokyo and it was so cool. You guys have so much stuff there.


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[Assistant] I went to a Daiso. I love Daiso! I got a lot of cool stuff in Daiso. And uhm, uh, we went to an izakaya. And had some yummy food there. How is it compared to this? More spread out?


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[Assistant] And, uh, I guess it had a bit more stuff than Dusseldorf.


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[Assistant] And, uh, went to Japanese supermarket.


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[Assistant] Where something funny happened. But yea, went to Japanese supermarket, got some yummy yummy breakfast for the next day. And, uh, what else?


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[Assistant] Taiyaki. Uhm. There was like a nice fancy taiyaki place. Mm.


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[Assistant] I got, I got taiyaki. And they had funny taiyaki because it wasn't, uh, the normal shape. It was like a taiyaki with a big, big open mouth. And inside that mouth was all the ice cream.


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[Assistant] I went to Izakaya, I went to a Japanese supermarket, and there was a Donki at Donki Hotel. I ate Tan-yaki.


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[Assistant] So, uhm, Izakaya, Taiyaki Daiso, something like- DON'T KEEP HOPING! And then...


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[Assistant] Okay, so, uh, the first day that I had off with my friend was basically, like, checking out Little Tokyo. And then the other day... hee.


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[Assistant] We went to, uh, an LA beach. I think it was probably somewhere close to like, Malibu area.


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[Assistant] So, we were like getting nervous, but whatever, we brought a lot of food, we brought a- we brought a cooler, my friend brought the beach towels and all that, uhm, so we were like, well, we're here, so I guess let's go. And we walked all the way to the beach, it was pretty far, after we parked the car.


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[Assistant] Uh, and uhm, we finally made it to a good spot. We put down our stuff. It was still kinda weirdly cold.


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[Assistant] You know, like a beach episode, we ran and we're like, yay! And then, my friend screams. Right before we touch the water.


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[Assistant] Already, was like, the, the tail, the sticky part, uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, of, of the bee. The bee was just like without its tail on the ground. And... It was in her toe, like...


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[Assistant] The whole tail thing, I had it in my hands.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got it out properly, but it still ended up being swollen and she wasn't pain for quite some time, but thankfully it seems like she wasn't allergic or anything, so she was okay.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, uh, oh my god, but that kind of ruined!


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[Assistant] The whole magical moment of running to the water and having fun. Then she was like, uhm, jumping back to the beach towel, sat down, and thankfully we had an ice pack because we brought the cooling box. And she, yeaah, she was trying to...


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[Assistant] You know, cool her fuck, and oh man, I didn't know what to do.


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[Assistant] Uh, she wasn't pained for pretty long, and then... You know...


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[Assistant] You know, I pulled out the- the tail, right? And I think, uhm, I-


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[Assistant] May or may not have just like wiped it off on the sand, on the ground. And uhm, a few minutes later, I see this group of


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[Assistant] I see this group of people that were like sitting close to us, uhm, going into the water, like they were like four people or so, and then I- I look at them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it seems like he stepped on something, and his friends were like helping him, like holding him, and trying to help him, and I'm like,


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[Assistant] Because they were like basically sitting right next to me, and if they would walk back to, you know, try to help themselves, uhm, they would see that my friend was currently also suffering by something on her foot.


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[Assistant] Even though we were so close to one another. And he had it literally on the same foot at- on the same spot.


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[Assistant] It seems like he stepped on a stone or whatever, something else, and was suffering from that for the next couple of hours.


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[Assistant] Stupidness of leaving the thing on the floor, on the ground, maybe-


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[Assistant] I got another person stung by a- by a bee.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so that was a day at the beach. I also got, uh, elotes. Not elitos. I kept on saying elitos, but it was elotes, but apparently it was not elotes. When it's not on the club, then it's not elotes. I forgot what it was. Uhm, escritos or something like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's greatest. There we go. That was it. Oh fuck, I'm getting so fucking hungry. I wanna eat pizza.


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[Assistant] You know, that was at the beach. You guys were wondering where I got it from. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, and then, mm, yeah, my friend was like, oh, you gotta try this, you gotta try this, it's so yummy. And I'm like, what are you getting? And then I watched the dude.


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[Assistant] It was pretty good, and later on she got me, like, uh, the dude came by again, and well, I think it was a different dude, and this dude had ice cream, and my friend got me, like, her favorite ice cream from when she was younger, with some kind of strawberry... cheesecake?


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[Assistant] So anyway, let's just stop talking about the beach. We had some fun at the beach. It wasn't the hottest, but I'm glad I went. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Because that made it more like a vacation. Well anyway, we drove back and on the way I got Baskin Robbins, so that was also a great success. I really wanted to get Baskin Robbins. They didn't have my favorite flavor though, which I already knew beforehand. Because that is a Jap- Japanese only flavor. That's not what I'm angry about though, it was still yummy.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, parking, fucking pain in the ass, so...


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[Assistant] And I'm like, okay, don't worry. I'll cover it. So...


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[Assistant] And she'll come later when she gets the gas and she'll give the car to the valet. So I pay the dude, the valet dude. And then I walk over to the restaurant.


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[Assistant] And I go in and I'm like, yeah, we have a reservation under this name. Now. And she's like,


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[Assistant] No, can't find your name here. So I walked back, cause my friend was still there.


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[Assistant] And, I'm like, yo girl, they don't have the reservation on this name, are you sure? And then she checks her phone, and she's like,


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[Assistant] And this is not what I'm angry about though. She's like, oh shit, I made it for tomorrow.


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[Assistant] And then like, okay, that's okay. I guess let's just go somewhere else then.


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[Assistant] Cause she's, he's still there and he has had yet to touch the fucking car.


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[Assistant] I'm like, dude, we made a reservation for the wrong day, so we're not gonna make use of the parking. We're gonna go somewhere else. And he's like, he smiles at me.


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[Assistant] And he's like, oh, yeah, sorry, but can't refund it.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, what, but you didn't even like park our car or touch our car. And he's like, yeah, but you're already in the system and look here, it says no refunds. And I'm like, what the fuck do you mean, what system?


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[Assistant] That the moment he said, sorry no refunds, I- I-


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[Assistant] And I'm like, okay, whatever, I'm not going to discuss this. I really wanted to swear at him, but I'm not that type of person. I was inside of my brain, I was swearing, and, and just, this can't be fucking real, you're not fucking serious. Did I really just pay $13?


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[Assistant] I was all, oh my god. I did not give a shit about the restaurant being booked on the wrong day. I only gave a shit about this fucking valet. So I go in, I get into the car and I'm like, yo, girl, you won't give me back the money, cause


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[Assistant] We're in the system, he says. There's no refund. And she's like, yeaah. That's LA.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, what do you mean? She says, yeah, everybody wants your money in LA. Everybody. They just want the money. They're so greedy.


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[Assistant] His stupid ass smile made everything so much more worse. Stupid smile. His stupid fucking grin like, haha.


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[Assistant] Anger! Like, meanwhile while I was like venting and just gasping in the car, how this really just happened.


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[Assistant] I could've gone full Karen. On his ass.


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[Assistant] But, you know, even though I get mad on stream, I can't do it in reality. I'm pretty polite in reality. I can't.


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[Assistant] It took me a while to calm down from that experience. That fucking belay.


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[Assistant] I will never forget. I will never fucking forget. One day, I'll come back.


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[Assistant] One day, if I ever go back to LA, I'll come back and I'll find, I will find that valet. And I will just walk by and say nothing.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I wanna fight him. I wanna fucking fight him. Oh man. Anyway.


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[Assistant] One more thing I noticed. Maybe it's just like...


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[Assistant] Maybe, uhm, I'm not sure if this is an L.A. thing. Because I noticed that in L.A., uhm...


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[Assistant] On the street. Uhm, yea, that seems to be an LA thing, my friend told me. I was like, holy shit, you guys are so fashionable in America. And she was like, yea, no, that's just LA. Mmm.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then, another thing I noticed is like, cause they were all dressed like, pretty nicely. Not all of them, but a lot of them. Uhm, and my friend and me, we were also dressed nicely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they were very supportive. We were supportive of them, they were supportive of us, looking cute. Like, everybody's so supportive of each other's cuteness and prettiness and all that. Oh, there was this one thing that was really cute. Like, we were at that, uhm, we were at a restaurant, and uhm,


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[Assistant] Now maybe I was a little bit jealous about the situation, but I still thought it was really cute. So we were like done eating, we were leaving, and the girl who like gave us our table, who brought us to our table,


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[Assistant] She was really cute, and we were like saying that to each other. Oh, she was so cute, isn't she? And then when we left though, she would... Yes, scratch that. Scratch it real good.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I keep on interrupting because she's so cute. She came up to us and


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[Assistant] She specifically asked my friend, so that was kind of sad, but uhm, she asked like, yo, I'm kind of new here in LA, I just moved here, I have no friends, and you're really cute, so here's my number, maybe we can like hang. And I'm like looking at the situation, and I'm like,


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[Assistant] Okay, so I was being a little bit like, like Tsun Tsun in my mind, but I still thought it was really cute how she was like giving my friend her number, and you know, that was such a cute moment, like, once again, I'm like, everybody's so supportive of each other's cuteness, and- Oh, hi Choki, you just jumped on the table. Okay, well now you're mine, I will cuddle you, hi. Yeah, it was really- no!


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[Assistant] I cared a little bit, but I tried to, in my mind, be like, oh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but my cute friend, she got like, talked to so often. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Maybe especially girls are like, so open.


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[Assistant] All about networking. Mm, mm, mm, mm. Yeah, my friend told me that, like, so often you see, like, famous people in L.A. randomly, because that's where everybody is for the music industry and all that. Mm.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. You may know who it was.


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[Assistant] Had a good time. Uhm, yeaah. Saw some cool places. I wish I had a bit more time to see a bit more. Uhm, but it was also really nice because, like, she drove me everywhere, so it was really comfy mostly, except for the parts where I walked too much.


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[Assistant] It was nice, yeaah. And then on that night, uhm, after my friend dropped me off at the hotel,


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[Assistant] She came to join me in the hotel and she slept over, uh, with me. And, and, and I had a one double bed, but with enough space. And, uh, I, I was like, maybe we should watch something. So I pulled out my iPad.


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[Assistant] And I- I showed her, cause I thought, you know, Ame would be interested in that, cause we both like to think of, like, some projects for, you know, project streams, exciting project streams. Uh, hi from Alaska. Hello! Thank you for watching. Need to go to Alaska someday. And, uhm...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I- I dozed off for like, at least five minutes. I didn't want Ama to notice though. I don't think she noticed. But yeah, we were cuddling.


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[Assistant] I had the breakfast buffet.


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[Assistant] For the breakfast buffet, which wasn't even that big.


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[Assistant] It was pretty small. I've been to cheaper buffets that are much bigger. Yeah! So...


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[Assistant] She's, she wants to get on the, on the top of the shell.


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[Assistant] Neko ga ne kamatte chan da yo na, kawaii.


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[Assistant] Mm, kawaii kedo, kamatte agetaino. Jikan ga nai.


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[Assistant] Uh, at Cali's place. And you know, I already met- At that point, I already met everyone. So, uh, it was just like the other girls met Cali for the first time. I guess.


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[Assistant] Ah, yeaah, sooo, yeaah. Yeaah, but it was nice finally, like seeing everybody again. Yes, I did. And, I- meow! I'm so amazed.


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[Assistant] Yes, I did! So many unexpected meetups. Yeaah. I didn't expect to meet, like, Mamamori and Auntie Watson and Bay. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I might kind of just, uh, recommended that we should eat in and out, and I was like, yo, I'm, I'm so fucking in because I... I am... Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, so, Ima, Ima told me that, you know, you can't, uh, you can't uber eats or anything, uh, in and out. And, um...


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[Assistant] Especially nice, so fucking nice, and holy shit she bought like a million burgers, a million fries. And then we sat down to eat it together, and I must say, the burger was really good. Uhm, I originally,


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[Assistant] Didn't go for a double-double, because I thought it would be pretty big, even though Aime told me they're relatively small. So I got a single, uhm, but then...


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[Assistant] After I ate the single and some of the fries, I was like, shit, this was good, I want more. It was relatively small. The burger was relatively small. So...


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[Assistant] Uh, there were still burgers left because some people didn't end up eating their burger. And like mama money.


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[Assistant] So, there was a leftover burger, and...


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[Assistant] I was like, ah, it's another single. This is good. Single plus single, I can do. Single plus double, I can't. So, I ate another single then, thankfully. Happy, happy. It was yummy! Like, the patty is like, kind of a little bit crispy. Which, uhm, I thought, you know, maybe that's, uh,


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[Assistant] That would be something, that would be something that you wouldn't like in a burger, but yeah, uh, it's actually...


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[Assistant] Actually really good. I like the crispiness. And uhm, the sauce? Really good. They gave us a million sauce packets though. I don't know if anybody even used them.


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[Assistant] And the cheese was already so...


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[Assistant] Maybe they're better, like, completely fresh and not, like, delivered by car or so, buuuuut yeah, they were not okay. They were not good.


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[Assistant] But the, the, the, the burger was really good, yeah. I'm gonna get the fries well done.


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[Assistant] And, uh, uh, oh yeaah. I didn't, uh, uh, yeaah. So, so, so, because Ame was sitting next to me, and, uh, Auntie Ame, Ame Auntie, was sitting right next to Ame, so I was like, uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you did such a great job with Ame, like she turned out so well. She was, she's such a, you raised her with the right values and all that. Yeah, you did such a great job. She's amazing. This is how you embarrassed it? Nah, she was really happy about it at the same time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, make conversation, cause like, you know, uhm, oh, I stopped moving. Oh, shit. Oh my gosh, shit. Battery.


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[Assistant] I'm having problems with battery, even though it's charging. Hmm. Oh well. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, because like, Auntie Watson, I had a, you know, I, I observed the whole situation, like, you know, Callie was in the corner having fun, and then, uh, Ame, me and so on, we were in the corner, and not in the corner, we were at the table eating, so, uhm, I noticed because,


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[Assistant] I'm a good observer that Auntie Watson was kind of-


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[Assistant] Just quietly sitting there, not really having any conversation with anyone. So I felt like I wanted to include her in the conversation. So I told her, you know, the whole thing about uhm, Ame. I wanted to, you know, make her feel kind of, you know, appreciated and involved.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I also told her I really liked her t-shirt. She had a really nice t-shirt on with a cat.


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[Assistant] Uh, I wanted that t-shirt. I really liked her cat t-shirt. She seems to be a cat person.


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[Assistant] I like her. And Manamoni was, uhm, wow, so sweet, like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, she like, worried so much about us, and then she, she would like, say,


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[Assistant] You're so amazing, you girls are just so amazing for like going through these things and you know, wow, I really respect you girls. She was so sweet and, and, and, ah. Charming, sweet. Like a, wow, such a doting.


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[Assistant] Maybe doting is the right word, doting mom. And when I was listening to Callie talk to her,


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[Assistant] Either like on the phone or like when she was actually in person there. There was like so much like love there.


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[Assistant] Wow, I was, I was fascinated. I was really fascinated. They were so, so sweet to one another. Mmm. Really cute.


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[Assistant] Really, really cute, yeaah. And Mamamoonie was also very... Fancy and fashionable. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] She had like, nice makeup, nice clothes, nice hair. Very fresh looking.


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[Assistant] But I hap- I'm happy for Callie that she has such a sweet, loving mom. Mmm.


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[Assistant] You may not have heard me so well, but I, I started singing along like after a couple of songs. I stayed quiet cause I was really tired and not in the mood for singing. But then I was like, ah.


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[Assistant] You guys probably wanna hear me. So I guess I'll sing a little bit. And then I started joining in, uh, I don't know what song was that. What song was that? What was that song I joined in?


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[Assistant] You guys thought it was Ame. That was me!


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[Assistant] But the thing is, me and Ina, uhm, we were sitting on the couch and cuddling in a blanket. Like, uh, piggies in a blanket. Sooo, uh, we actually didn't hear the music. Like, they all had, like, headphones on.


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[Assistant] We didn't hear the music, we just heard them singing and then tried to follow along accordingly and just feel the music in our imaginations.


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[Assistant] Ina was actually singing along the whole time. Except for maybe two songs or so that she didn't know well. And the models were almost on point.


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[Assistant] It was uhm, actually the other way around. My head resting on her. But I thought that looked so cute.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then she put, uh, Ina there as well.


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[Assistant] What's Ina- Ina clinging to you? Clingy. Uhh...


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[Assistant] Ina was the most receptive, I guess.


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[Assistant] Of cuddles. Like at some point we had like, before the unarchived karaoke, we had this like, kind of like, almost like a business meeting. And uh, me and Ina were cuddling in a blanket at that point too. The whole time. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] But most of us were fucking freezing the whole time. And I didn't bring any like warm clothes because I thought it would be fucking hot. People told me it would be fucking hot in LA. It wasn't that hot.


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[Assistant] And especially inside with the AC BLASTING. Mmm. It was probably Cali, yea.


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[Assistant] Ah, oh my god. It's freaking hot. Eh, cold.


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[Assistant] Oh, actually uhm, I'm a- cause you know, she said that uhm, she was like sleeping on the couch, right? Cause I think we didn't have quite enough beds for everyone to get a single bed. Uhm, but...


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[Assistant] You know, when I heard that Ame was gonna stay on the couch in the evening, I was like, okay, I'm gonna be mommy again, so...


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[Assistant] I took like, uhm, I took off a blanket off of my bed and, uh, a few pillows and I put it on the couch for her and I'm like, here, there you go, you can use my bedding.


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[Assistant] I brought out all the plates, it was like 10 plates or so, and lined them up on the- on the table because we were like sitting outside. I lined them all up nicely, I set the table.


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[Assistant] And then afterwards, like, uh, everybody, like, slowly scattered and sat somewhere else after they were done eating. So I brought everything back inside slowly. I was like, are you done eating? And I take this, and I take that. I brought everything back inside. Mommy Kiwamo! Uh!


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, that was when it was only myth members on the first night, but we still had like a shit ton of plates of food, like unnecessary amounts of food. I was like, how, how are we ever going to eat all of that? So I ate some more for breakfast. Yeah. Mmm.


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[Assistant] No, no, I had my own room. I was like, uhm, close to, close to Amedel.


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[Assistant] So, I am on the, when I, when I was about to leave, uhm, it was like, it was really fucking early. And I got like, maybe like, maximum one and a half hours of sleep.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, afterwards they still were like talking and chilling and hanging and having fun. Nobody seemed really tired for some reason except me and Ina.


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[Assistant] But, yeaah, so I was like, okay, girls, I can't stay up anymore, I need to sleep, so I said goodbye early to uhm, gudah.


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[Assistant] And Kali and Ina, I was like, I'm not gonna wake you up when I leave, so uhm, just gonna say goodbye now.


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[Assistant] But then for Ame, since she was like relatively close to and in the living room, which I was gonna, you know, she was gonna hear me probably, I was like, okay Ame, you okay if I wake you up when, when I leave? And she was like, yeah, yeah, you can wake me up. But then, when I, when I was about to leave,


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[Assistant] I walked over and I looked at her sleeping so peacefully again, and I'm like, I wanna say goodbye, but uh...


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[Assistant] And I'm like, uh, oh wait, I'm not leaving because my Uber apparently takes 20 minutes to get here, what the fuck.


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[Assistant] She just fell asleep again while I was sitting next to her waiting for my Uber.


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[Assistant] I'm leaving for real. But then she didn't wake up anymore, and she was back asleep, so I was like, okay, I'm not gonna-


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[Assistant] So, then I left quietly. Mm. Can't wake up. WAKE ME UP INSIDE! Uh. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] But, but uhm, I left her some money for like, some foods that she ordered for me. And uhm...


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[Assistant] And, uh, then, yeaah, later, later she messaged me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, when I was like, I saw it when I was waiting in Chicago. And she, she wrote to me. She apologized. If...


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[Assistant] I, uh, uh, for, for maybe bullying and teasing me. And I'm like, huh? What do you mean? I never felt!


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[Assistant] You know, bullied or teased or anything by Ame. If anything, I felt the most supported and loved by Ame and accepted. And I love her and I'm gonna cry.


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[Assistant] Why are you trolling me about the chip?


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[Assistant] Is that what you meant with teasing?


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[Assistant] I feel like it made me and Ame bond very much. We talked more than ever before. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Nooo. Yeah, you guys, you guys missed me very much. Cause, well, you're fans, so obviously you're gonna miss me. Obviously. Thank you.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I'm gonna be streaming the next days too. Uh, we're gonna do Wind Waker last episode.


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[Assistant] And so on. For next week, I'll put up a schedule again. For now, for now there won't be a schedule, I guess, because I'm not so sure what to do, besides Wind Waker. Uhm, but here comes an announcement!


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got permission from Deco-san and Deco-nina-san to translate it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, as we have to do everything very properly in, uhm, Hololive.


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[Assistant] We- I just- I can't just, you know, cover, uh, any song randomly in English. Uh, we need permission beforehand, so thank you Nina, eh, Nina, Deco Nina-san, for giving us permission to do this. Yeah, I might do it more often now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I didn't even realize. Who's that cover artist? Uh, Mono-san! Yeah, I chose the artist. I chose everything. Uh, I organized the cover. Uh, that's why it's gonna be on my channel. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, Reina, lean back. I'll take care of it. You just do the singing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I feel like, in this case...


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[Assistant] Dana takes the position of Suisei because, uh, they both, you know, have like the more mature voice. And I kind of took the position of Miku-senpai, because I- I didn't even try to sound too cute, but it just ended up sounding really cute.


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[Assistant] I guess I'll upload it tomorrow. I didn't decide on the time. I kind of wanted to upload it and then give it some time. But I also want to stream every day the rest of the week. I don't know what to do. Maybe stream first and then upload. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Do I have a lot of super chats to read? Where are the people who monitor that? You guys know? Maybe I could do a super chat reading tomorrow.


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[Assistant] For like a couple hours and then, and then upload the cover? I don't have that much. Is it not worth doing a super chat reading? A lot? A lot, really?


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[Assistant] I don't wanna give it a try. People have been like, ego-searching in Japanese, and a lot of Japanese people have been tweeting that Kiara is very strong and easy to use.


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[Assistant] They say it's easy to use when you search in English. Really?


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[Assistant] Yeah, nice, good to hear. I- I might try it out, maybe next week, maybe. I don't know, like...


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[Assistant] It's kind of intimidating by the looks of it, it's just like, but I guess you don't really do much.


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[Assistant] I guess it's- it looks really stressful, but you don't have to do much, right? You just, like, blast. Blast. Blast. Blast. Blast.


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[Assistant] You just walk around, right? Yeaah. And then fancy things pop up on the screen.


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[Assistant] Uh-huh. No, I didn't play Vampire Survivors, that's the thing.


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[Assistant] Okay, we have the chill talk ones, which are not that many.


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[Assistant] And uhm, the KFP 101 and Pop-Tart, High Challenge of Zelda, Stanley. Ehh! It does look like quite a bit.


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[Assistant] But how, where is the number of how many super chats it is? That's like, nothing. Stanley, Stanley Parable had.


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[Assistant] Hmm, if I'm gonna do a super chat reading tomorrow, then I might as well just do nothing today, but... And then Zelda... Zelda... huh? What the fuck?


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[Assistant] I see. Okay, uhm, but uh, uhm. It's not that, uh, but I guess the Pop Tart Stream had.


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[Assistant] Chilling in USA and Stanley mostly. And today, I guess.


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[Assistant] What p.m.? We do super chat reading. And then at, uhm, 10 p.m.? I release animal?


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[Assistant] Want to talk about the song? Yeah, normally I like to do it that way, but... Nah, it's okay. I'll talk about it beforehand. Or in the Wind Waker stream.


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[Assistant] No trailer? Oh, there's a trailer. There is. Thanks for asking.


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[Assistant] I will upload it as the trailer for the music video. I guess I can show you.


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[Assistant] Okay, it might be loud. Uh, it's gonna be loud, I'm gonna try to lower it immediately, okay?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess then we'll do super chat reading tomorrow, and then on the weekend we do Wind Waker. Probably only one episode, I think that should be enough to finish it. Uh, Sunday, I don't know, we'll do something. I have no plans right now.


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[Assistant] Maybe we could do a collab, I don't know. Uh, but you guys want solo streams, right? Because you missed me. Understandable. Okay, let's do solo streams. I'm going solo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo. Mmm.


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[Assistant] I had a fever when I was practicing the songs. I had like a week to learn it all while I was sick. And now finally you will see


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[Assistant] You will see how my hard work paid off. Mine and Ame's and Ina's especially.


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[Assistant] The hard work of setting up everything. And yeaah, dancing all day. Yeaah. You will see it. Kinda ooze.


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[Assistant] But the stage looks so cool. I didn't know that Kana Ufu can make stages too. Uhm, yeaah. He can create stages. Pretty amazing. Sorry, I'm so excited.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, now you know! Surprise! The GOAT!


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[Assistant] So, I'm very excited to show you guys this, uhm, this whole concert created by basically a couple of girls and Kana Uvu. Created by us, the amateurs.


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[Assistant] The amateurs! We should give ourself- If we make- We should make a company, and the company name will be... The amateurs, but with A-M-E. The amatures.


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[Assistant] I missed you guys too! And I missed my cats, so I will, uh, chill and hang with my cats cause they're like really fucking needy right now.


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[Assistant] So cute, I feel like they're fluffier than before, like when I saw them.


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[Assistant] Holy shit, it felt like I didn't see them for months! It was crazy!


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[Assistant] I had this before, when I met on a vacation, when I met, uhm, different cats and then came back to my cat at home, but that was like when I still lived with my mom, uhm, we had a cat there, uhm,


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[Assistant] My actual cat looked so different to me. That was such a weird phenomenon.


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[Assistant] And my conclusion is, uhm, it was worth it. Worth it going that far for a recording of a birthday. I'm glad I didn't give up on the plan. I'm glad I went through with it, even though it was insanely stressful. Uhm...


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[Assistant] One of the most stressful times in uh, 2022.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or since I joined Hololive. Uhm, but I think it was worth it and it will pay off because the result will be so amazing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but now I'm glad that everything's back to normal and that we can, we can stream like normal again and chill. I just wanna chill.


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[Assistant] It was too much, but yeaah, uhm, I'm really proud of myself. Definitely. So!


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[Assistant] Thank you very much for waiting for me, for being so patient. I know you guys, you know, missed me. Uhm, but, you know, we had some great collaborations that just...


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[Assistant] You know, normally, normally, we don't have the opportunity to all meet up together. That was a special occasion, so it had to be celebrated with as many collabs as possible. Yeah. So thank you for waiting, and supporting, and welcoming me back.


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[Assistant] Uh, at 4pm, Kiwa was standard time for super chat reading and then the release. Oh, I guess I'm dying. Yeah. Yeah, there she goes. Nice. I feel like I need to buy a cable for tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Don't go. You're too quiet. Doesn't pick you up, baby.


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[Assistant] Now, I'm a meteorologist by degree. I have a bachelor's, master's and PhD in physical meteorology. So I'm a meteorologist, card carrying. And so with that,


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[Assistant] And those questions are, Marshall, what channel are you on?


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[Assistant] Query scientists and the public on different science topics. Here are some of them. Genetically modified foods, animal research, human evolution.


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[Assistant] That scientists in public are so far apart on these science issues.


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[Assistant] Take a look at this. I'm on Twitter. And often when it snows, I'll get this tweet back to me.


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[Assistant] I often say weather is your mood and climate is your personality.


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[Assistant] Cognitive dissonance is interesting. We just recently had Groundhog Day, right?


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[Assistant] So confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger and cognitive dissonance, I think those shape biases and perceptions that people have about science.


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[Assistant] But people were tweeting and sharing this, it went viral. It didn't come from the National Hurricane Center at all.


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[Assistant] Look at the wildfires up in Northwest U.S. and in Western Canada. There comes Hurricane Irma. This is fascinating to me. But admittedly, I'm a weather geek.


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[Assistant] Houston gets about 34 inches of rainfall for the entire year. They got 50 inches in three days. That's an anomaly event. That's outside of the norm.


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[Assistant] Well, we don't even have to go to Houston. We can come very close to home. Remember Snowpocalypse? Snowmageddon? Snowzilla? Whatever you want to call it? All two inches of it.


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[Assistant] Area of a circle is pi r squared. We increase the radius, we increase the area. How do we expand our radius of understanding about science? Here are my thoughts.


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[Assistant] It's critical for Athens, Georgia, for Atlanta, Georgia, for the state of Georgia and for the world. So expand your radius. Thank you.


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[Assistant] That Chef Yomo makes is like an omelette on steroids. Omelette in omelette, wrapped in omelette. How many loads? Five. It is omelette.


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[Assistant] I'm still searching. It's gotta be, gotta be here somewhere.


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[Assistant] Please make sure you fasten your safety belts. We are now leaving for Mars!


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[Assistant] Mars is known as the red planet. Rocks and soil here contain rusting iron materials. Storms blow the soil into the air.


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[Assistant] On the planet, many other colors can be seen, such as brown and green.


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[Assistant] Unlike the Earth, seasons of Mars only change between summer and winter. The atmosphere on Mars is very thin. It cannot hold much heat. Even at noon in the hottest areas, air temperatures are rather low.


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[Assistant] Robots have been sent to Mars. They can help us explore and learn more about the planet. Unfortunately, scientists haven't found life there yet. Well young explorers, thanks for listening. See you next time.


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[Assistant] Diana of Themyscira, I crown you Princess of the Amazons once again, and charge you with the education of these young heroes. It falls to you to show them the moderation and wisdom you have learned in your time in man's world. You have made me proud, daughter.


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[Assistant] Stage an invention. She'd come across a few snippets of my memoir, which wasn't even out yet. And she was concerned.


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[Assistant] I have been so many things along my curious journey. A poor boy, a nigger, a Yale man,


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[Assistant] You are intelligent. You dress well. You know how to speak. People like you. You don't walk around doing your hand like a punk. You're not a vagabond on the street.


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[Assistant] You are an upstanding person who just happens to be gay. Don't put yourself over there when you are over here. She thought she had done me a favor. And in a way she had, her call had clarified


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[Assistant] What I am trying to do with my life and in my work as a writer, which is to send one simple message that the way we're taught to live has got to change. I learned this the hard way.


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[Assistant] I was born not on the wrong side of the tracks, but on the wrong side of a whole river, uh, the Trinity down in Oak Cliff, Texas. I was raised there in part by my grandmother who worked as domestic and by my sister, uh, who adopted me a few years after our mother, who struggled with mental illness, disappeared.


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[Assistant] And it was that disappearance that began when I was 13 and lasted for five years that shaped the person I became, the person I later had to unbecome.


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[Assistant] Before she left, my mother had been my human hiding place. She was the only other person who seemed as strange as me. Beautifully strange. Some mix of Blanche Dubois from A Streetcar Named Desire and the 1980s Whitney Houston.


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[Assistant] Just that I sure benefited from her imperfections. And maybe that's what magic is, after all. A useful mistake.


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[Assistant] So when she began to disappear for days at a time, I turned to some magic of my own. It struck me as from above that I could conjure up my mother just by walking perfectly.


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[Assistant] From my elementary school at the top of a steep hill, all the way down to my grandmother's house, placing one foot and one foot only in each sidewalk square.


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[Assistant] I couldn't let any part of any foot touch the line between the square. I couldn't skip a square. All the way to the last square at the last blade of grass that separated our lawn from our driveway. And I bullshit you not, it worked. Just once, though.


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[Assistant] But if my perfect walk could not bring my mother back, I found that this approach had other uses.


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[Assistant] A bargain that won me praise of teachers and kin, strangers. A bargain that paid off big time. It seemed when one day at 17, a man from Yale showed up at my high school to recruit me for Yale's football team. Felt as out of the blue to me then as it made you now.


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[Assistant] The Yale man said, everybody said, that this was the best thing that could ever happen to me. The best thing that could happen to the whole community. Take this ticket, boy, they told me. I was not so sure.


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[Assistant] Yale seemed another world entire, a cold, foreign, hostile place. On the first day of my recruiting visit, I texted my sister an excuse for not going. These people are so weird. She replied, you'll fit right in.


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[Assistant] I took the ticket and worked damn hard to fit right in when my freshman advisor warned me not to wear my fitted hats on campus. She said, you're at Yale now. You don't have to do that anymore. She said.


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[Assistant] I figured this was just one of the small prices that must be paid to make it.


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[Assistant] I paid them all. Or tried. And sure enough, they seemed to pay me.


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[Assistant] Made me a leader on the varsity football team. Got me into a not-so-secret society and a job on Wall Street and later in Washington. Things were going so well that I figured naturally I should be President of the United States.


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[Assistant] Now this was in the afterglow of that great 2008 election, the election during which, uh, serious, moderate senators stressed, the message you've got to send, more than any other message, is that Barack Obama is just like us.


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[Assistant] They sent that message so well that their campaign became the gold standard of modern politics, if not modern life, which also seems to demand that we each do whatever it takes to be able to say at the end of our days with peace and satisfaction, I was just like everybody else. This will be my message, too.


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[Assistant] So one night, I made one final call to my prospective campaign manager.


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[Assistant] We do the things that take to win, but first he hit one question. Is there anything I need to know?


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[Assistant] I held the phone, and finally said, well, you should probably know I'm gay.


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[Assistant] You do understand that somebody might want to physically harm you. I just want to know. Are you really ready for this? I wasn't.


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[Assistant] But to be clear, the boy that I was at that time would have leapt at the chance to be harmed, to sacrifice everything, even life, for a cause. There was something shocking, though. Not that there should have been, but there was.


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[Assistant] And the notion that he might be harmed for nothing more than being himself, which he had not even tried to do in the first place. All that he, all that I,


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[Assistant] But the bargain I'd accepted could not save me. After all, nor can it save you.


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[Assistant] You may have already learned this lesson, or you will, regardless of your sexuality. The queer receives a concentrated dose, no doubt, but repression is a bitter pill that's offered to us all.


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[Assistant] We're taught to hide so many parts of who we are and what we've been through. Our love, our pain, for some our faith. So while coming out to the world can be hard,


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[Assistant] Coming into all the raw, strange magic of ourselves can be much harder, as Miles Davis said. It takes a long time to sound like yourself. That surely was the case for me.


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[Assistant] I had my private revelation that night at 24, but mostly went on with my life, went on to Harvard Business School, started a successful nonprofit, wound up on the cover of a magazine on the stage at 10.


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[Assistant] I had achieved by my late twenties about everything a kid is supposed to achieve. But I was real cracked up.


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[Assistant] But the book business is about the only industry that will pay you to investigate your own problems.


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[Assistant] So I decided to give it a try. To trace those cracks with words.


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[Assistant] Now, what came out on the page was about as strange as I felt at that time, which alarmed some people at first. A respected writer called to stage his own intervention after reading a few early chapters. And he began, much like my mother. Hey. Listen.


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[Assistant] You've been hired to write an autobiography. It's a straightforward exercise. It's got a beginning, middle and end, and it's grounded in the facts of your life.


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[Assistant] And by the way, there's a great tradition of autobiography in this country, led by people on the margins of society who write to assert their existence. Go buy some of those books and learn from them. You're going in the wrong direction. But I no longer believe what we are taught.


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[Assistant] That the right direction is the safe direction. I no longer believed what we were taught, that queer lives or black lives or poor lives are marginal lives. I believed what Kendrick Lamar says on Section 80.


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[Assistant] I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on the inside looking out, I'm in the dead fucking center looking around. That was the place.


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[Assistant] From which I hoped to work, headed in the only direction worth going, the direction of myself. Trying to help us all refuse the awful bargains we've been taught to take.


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[Assistant] We're taught to turn ourselves and our work into little nuggets that are easily digestible. Taught to mutilate ourselves so that we make sense to others.


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[Assistant] To be a stranger to ourselves so the right people might befriend us and the right schools might accept us and the right jobs might hire us and the right parties might invite us and someday the right God might invite us to the right heaven and close his pearly gates behind us so we can bow down to him forever and ever. These are the rewards, they say, for our obedience. To be a well-liked, holy nugget. To be dead.


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[Assistant] I cannot accept her bargain either. No, she's you.


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[Assistant] We speak well, we dress decent, we're intelligent. People like us, or act like they do.


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[Assistant] But instead, I say that we should remember Lot's wife.


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[Assistant] Lot, in case you haven't read the Bible recently, was a man who set his family down in Sodom in the midst of a wicked society that God decided he had to destroy.


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[Assistant] But God, being cruel, yet still a sap in part, rushed two angels out to Sodom to warn Lot to gather up his folks and get out of Dodge.


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[Assistant] Lot heard the angels' warning, but delayed. They didn't have all day to wait, so they grabbed Lot's hands, and his two daughters' hands, and his wife's hands, and hurried them out of Sodom. And the angels shout, escape to the mountain.


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[Assistant] Did she look back because she didn't want to miss the mayhem? Wanted one last glimpse of a city on fire?


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[Assistant] Did she look back because she wanted to be sure that her people were far enough from danger to breathe a little easy? I'm so nosy and selfish, sometimes those likely would have been my reasons if I'd been in her shoes.


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[Assistant] But what if something else was going on with this woman? Lot's wife.


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[Assistant] What if she could not bear the thought of leaving those people all alone to burn alive, even for righteousness' sake? Ain't that possible? If it is.


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[Assistant] Then this backward glance of a disobedient woman may not be a cautionary tale after all. It may be the bravest act in all the Bible. Even braver than the act that holds the whole book together. Crucifixion.


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[Assistant] We're told that up on Calvary, on an old rugged cross, Jesus gave his life to save everybody. Billions and billions of strangers for all time to come. It's a nice thing to do. Made him famous, that's for sure. But Lot's wife was killed, turned into a pillar of salt,


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[Assistant] All because she could not turn her back on her friends. The wicked men of Sodom. And nobody even wrote the woman's name down.


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[Assistant] Oh, to have the courage of Lot's wife. That's the kind of courage we need today. The courage to put ourselves over there.


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[Assistant] Courage that says that either all of us have to be faggots or none of us can be faggots. For any of us to be free.


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[Assistant] The courage to stand with other vagabonds in the street, with all the wretched of the earth, to form an army of the least of these, with the faith that from the naked crust of all we are, we can build a better world. Thank you.


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[Assistant] The Emperor is really taking over. I say it too, Luz. I'm trying to stay civil.


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[Assistant] We gotta keep a low profile while my powers are weakened. And we need fast cash. How about this guy?


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[Assistant] The abominable cutie pie. No, no, no, I hear it's very dangerous. And look, there he is!


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[Assistant] Uuuh. Things aren't looking great, Lily.


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[Assistant] This bounty hunting stuff isn't putting food on the table. Oh I'm sure Luz could handle bigger bounties, but if we want to eat, we don't have the luxury to mess up even once.


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[Assistant] No apple blood. I spent the money on griffon eggs for loose.


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[Assistant] There's not a lot she can digest here, so I make sure to have her favorites around.


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[Assistant] Getting scammed at the market was such a bummer, but it gave me an idea on how to earn a little more cash. You wanna come? I may not be at full power, but I can still make potions!


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[Assistant] It's called disguising your tracks. Now why were you on that ship to begin with? You could have gotten killed.


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[Assistant] You think throwing your life away is gonna help me? Well, it won't.


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[Assistant] My life is pretty great because I'm friends with Loose the Human.


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[Assistant] Hot dang! It gave you the treasure of the sea. Gold?


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[Assistant] Now our spaceship is sailing to Jupiter, a brand new world.


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[Assistant] Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is more than 1300 times larger than the Earth.


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[Assistant] Yet, this giant planet has the shortest day among the 8 planets in the solar system. A day on Jupiter is less than 10 hours.


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[Assistant] Jupiter is made up of gas, such as hydrogen. You won't find any solid surface to explore here.


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[Assistant] On Jupiter, there is strong airflow. Often cloud bands whiz by at more than 480 kilometers an hour.


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[Assistant] About as many as 70 moons move around Jupiter. On one of them, volcanoes can spew clouds of sulfur 480 kilometers high. On another, a liquid ocean is thought to hide beneath ice cover. It might reveal signs of life in the future.


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[Assistant] Well, young explorers, thanks for listening! See you next time!


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[Assistant] In 1969, I was standing behind the Sylvania black and white television set.


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[Assistant] Hearing about these things happening on the set in the front, I was the guy, you know, living the rabbit ears for my dad and my sister, my mom.


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[Assistant] No, move over here, turn over here, move this way, we can't see the screen. And what they were watching was one small step for a man.


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[Assistant] One giant leap for mankind. Neil and Buzz Aldrin were walking on the moon. And I was five years old in Lynchburg, Virginia. A skinny black kid in a kind of somewhat racist town. And


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[Assistant] I was trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life.


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[Assistant] And my parents, you know, they were educators. They said that, you know, you can do anything.


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[Assistant] I don't want a buzz cut, and I don't see someone who looks like me, because representation does matter. And I knew that there was a guy five blocks down the street on Peer Street who was training to play tennis, and it was Arthur Ashe.


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[Assistant] And my dad talked about his character, his discipline, his intelligence, his athleticism. I wanted to be Arthur Ashe. I don't want to be one of those moon guys. And as I went on and through this journey, my dad was a schoolteacher,


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[Assistant] He played in a band, he did all these things to make money for my sister and I to take piano lessons and do these different things with education.


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[Assistant] And he one day decides to drive up into the driveway with this bread truck. And I'm thinking, okay, bread truck.


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[Assistant] Me, delivering bread while my dad's driving the truck. I'm like, okay, I'm a good bread guy now. But he says, this is our camper.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, dude, come on, I can read. Merida bread and rolls on the side of this truck. And he says, no, we're going to build this into our camper.


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[Assistant] And over that summer, we rewired the entire electrical system. We plumbed a propane tank into a Coleman stove. We built bunk beds and flipped down. We were turning this into our summer vacation launch pad, escape pod, this thing that could take us out of Lynchburg. And before that,


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[Assistant] I didn't tell anyone because I had friends that didn't have fathers.


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[Assistant] Got in this bread truck and escaped from Lynchburg. It was my time with my dad and we went to the Smoky Mountains and looked at the Purple Mountains majesty and we, we walked along the beach in Myrtle Beach and this thing was, was transformative.


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[Assistant] And a little bit later, my mother gave me an age-inappropriate, non-OSHA-certified chemistry set.


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[Assistant] And so I knew I could be a chemist, so as I went on this journey through high school and I went to college and I got a football scholarship to play football in college, and I knew that I could be a chemist because I'd already blown stuff out.


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[Assistant] When I graduated, I got drafted to the Detroit Lions. But I pulled a hamstring in training camp, and so what every former NFL player does, they go work for NASA, right? So I went to work for NASA.


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[Assistant] And this friend of mine said, Leland, you'd be a great astronaut. And I just laughed at him. I was like, yea, me an astronaut? You know that Neil and Buzz thing from back in 69?


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[Assistant] What it meant to be an astronaut. The training, the simulations, all these things to get you ready for this countdown. Three, two, one, liftoff.


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[Assistant] And in 2007, I was in space shuttle Atlantis careening off the planet, traveling at 17,500 miles per hour.


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[Assistant] And eight and a half minutes later, the main engines cut off and we're now floating in space.


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[Assistant] And I push off and float over to the window, and I can see the Caribbean.


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[Assistant] And I need new definitions of blue to describe the colors that I see. Azure, indigo, navy blue, medium navy blue, turquoise don't do any justice to what I see with my eyes.


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[Assistant] And my job on this mission was to install this two billion dollar Columbus laboratory.


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[Assistant] It was a research laboratory for materials research for human research.


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[Assistant] And I reached into the payload bay of the space shuttle, grabbed out this big module, and I used the robotic arm and I attached it to the space station.


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[Assistant] And so this moment happened, this was our primary mission objective, it was done, and I had this big sigh of relief. But then Peggy Whitson, the first female commander,


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[Assistant] She invited us over to the Russian segment, and the space station is about the size of a football field with solar panels and trusses and all of these modules.


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[Assistant] And she says, Leland, you go get the rehydrated vegetables, we'll have the meat.


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[Assistant] So we float over with a bag of vegetables, all rehydrated, and we get there. And there's this moment where ...


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[Assistant] You can smell the beef and barley heating up. You can smell the food, the colors. And there are people there from all around the world.


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[Assistant] And my perspective changes at that moment because I'm flying over Lynchburg, Virginia, my hometown, and my family's probably breaking bread.


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[Assistant] And five minutes later, we're flying over Paris, where Leo Ihearts is looking down at his parents, probably having some wine and cheese, and Yuri's looking off to Moscow, and they're probably eating borscht or something else. But we're all having this moment where we see our respective families.


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[Assistant] Working together as one civilization at 17,500 miles per hour.


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[Assistant] My perspective shifted cognitively. It changed me. And when I think about being that little skinny boy from sometimes racist Lynchburg, Virginia,


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[Assistant] I would never have had that, that perspective to think about myself of being an astronaut.


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[Assistant] If my father hadn't taken us on a journey in this radical craft that we built with our own two hands, when I came home,


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[Assistant] I realized that perspective is something that we all get and we all have.


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[Assistant] It's just how far do we open up our blinders to see that shift and that change.


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[Assistant] And going back to the space station, I think of, you know, Germans and Russians fighting Americans. We have these people living and working together.


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[Assistant] White folks, black folks, Russian folks, French folks, you know, all these different people coexisting in harmony as one race.


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[Assistant] And I think about the colors that I saw, the design of the modules, the way that things fit together, the way that it made us a community, our home.


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[Assistant] And so when I look up to space now and I have this newfound perspective on the space station going overhead and looking there and then looking back at my community and seeing the people that I'm living and working with and coexisting with,


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[Assistant] I think it's something that we all can do now, especially in these times, to make sure that we have the right perspective. Thank you.


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[Assistant] But I do know that, I mean, in the 135 shuttle flights that we've had, that, you know, the shuttle that I flew on,


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[Assistant] We had two accidents that, you know, killed everyone on that, on that mission.


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[Assistant] And we all know the perils and the risks that go along with this, but we're doing something that's much bigger than ourselves and helping advance civilization. So the risk is worth the reward. And we all feel that way when we get in that vehicle and strap into those million pounds of, of, you know, rocket fuel.


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[Assistant] Affordable, like anything, like home appliances, any of that stuff.


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[Assistant] I have some sausages here. These are andouille sausages. Pretty much, uh, pork sausages.


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[Assistant] I'm taking you out on date tonight, so this is yours, baby. Sip up, sip up, sip up.


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[Assistant] Alright, and this step is the most important part. This here is spanner satin.


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[Assistant] Okay. And lastly, we're going to put some chicken stock.


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[Assistant] Heads or tails? Ready? Yep. Tails.


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[Assistant] So the ingredients we have, capsicum, peanuts, pomegranate, lemongrass, cherries, olives, Jerusalem artichoke, dill,


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[Assistant] And that means we flip back to the contestants. You obviously have your chosen course, which is dessert. What's it gonna be ingredient-wise? We're picking kumquat. Kumquat for dessert.


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[Assistant] You have two and a half hours until your entrees have to be living fast. You've got an open pantry. You can cook whatever you like as long as you hero those ingredients in the chosen courses. Green team.


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[Assistant] If you're in two or more courses today, you win immunity from Sunday night's elimination. Good luck everyone!


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[Assistant] Moveda. Wood fire, roasted quail, and Jerusalem artichoke.


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[Assistant] My pork was beautiful, beautiful crispy pork belly skin, which you know everyone loves.


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[Assistant] This is Brendan Anderson, senior sous chef, and our group pastry chef, Ash Smith.


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[Assistant] Alright Ash, let's go brother. Ashley Smith, his skills in pastry are definitely technique focused.


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[Assistant] We have yellow as the main, so we're gonna theme the blue eye with Vichy Swat. Uh, so I'm just quickly gonna break this down. So we'll use up all the trim and the bones. Try not to waste anything for the smoked Vichy Swat. So Vichy Swat is a take on the potato socks. And a bit of saffron to give the yellow color. So that'll be nice bright yellow. I've done everything great. And then Ash of course is on the dirt.


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[Assistant] Not gonna hit the brief. So we need to change up the dish pretty quickly here.


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[Assistant] Capsicum kind of beef tartare, it's not classic flavors, but I think it can work. I think I'll go red pepper, brown butter. I'm gonna need a push.


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[Assistant] So the plating will be red capsicum emulsion underneath, and then we built the beef tartare over the top. I think it should be enough bread on the plate. If not, we'll find something more.


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[Assistant] Uh, pick it up please. The main at this point is looking great. Pick it up. Gorgeous looking fish, sauce is tasty, and it's nice bright yellow. Press this, Amigo. Put the home kick, they did well.


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[Assistant] And then now we're focusing on dessert. Finishing garnish for the dessert. Little bit of green. Most kitchens, pastry areas, it's a very separate kitchen.


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[Assistant] I'll pay with it. Now we're just waiting. But team Turquoise at this point is looking fairly stressed.


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[Assistant] Today Zach is going to do the main course. He is probably fastest at all the big prep jobs. I have Khan doing the entrée sauce. Jane is going to do the


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[Assistant] Ssam style, like Korean style. We're going to make misangchae, bulgogi sauce, pickled cucumber. Feel it and eat it with your hands.


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[Assistant] Okay, I need a pot. We're gonna boil the condensed milk in the tin.


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[Assistant] My caramelized condensed milk is similar to a dolce de leche.


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[Assistant] In the restaurant, we would boil them for three hours. I don't have that much time today, so I'm hoping two hours is enough.


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[Assistant] So the chocolate and the condensed milk is really rich and the biscuit is just there for crunch.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Entree and main have gone out. Just dessert left. My caramelised condensed milk is in the blast chiller.


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[Assistant] But, flavor-wise, it tastes delicious. Mmm, delicious. We're plating up dessert.


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[Assistant] Fine, don't help. Revenge will taste all the sweeter if they fall by my hand alone. Ah, do it!


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[Assistant] Now, don't be put off by the complicated premise. I'll break it down for you in small pieces. Huh?


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[Assistant] Oh, this is an interesting development. Ida's only partially transformed, which means she's totally suggestible. Yes, yes! I think this will do nicely! Forget fire, I've got a greater force to unleash. You! You're going to help me regain my throne! I mean, if that's okay with you, right?


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[Assistant] I'll take that weird grumble as a yes. I'm just gonna grab a little bottle of elixir in case you go rogue on me.


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[Assistant] Listen carefully! You all have two choices! Gravel or-


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[Assistant] And then I woke up here! One second before you did! Uh huh.


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[Assistant] Hello everybody, welcome back to American Textbook Reading. I'm Brian Stewart and we're looking at Science Book Number 3, Lesson 9. Okay, how's the weather there?


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[Assistant] Are you having a good day? Well that's what this lesson is about. Lesson 9 is about parts of weather. Did you know weather has different parts? Well in this unit we will discover about the different parts of the weather.


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[Assistant] As usual, we will start with the vocabulary. Now, there are many words that are related to weather because weather is very important for our lives. One interesting word about weather is hail. Have you seen hail before?


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[Assistant] It can be big, and it can be dangerous, right? In some places in America, I remember seeing news reports.


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[Assistant] A big pieces of ice falling down. Now that can be dangerous and it can damage, usually it damages cars or homes.


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[Assistant] Don't remember, and I hope it never happens that somebody is hurt or injured or killed by hail, but it's possible, so you gotta be careful. But hail is just ice falling from the sky, right? So it's kinda crazy when you see hail. Actually, we have a video showing hail, and this is, this is not, uh, really


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[Assistant] Strong hail. These are small pieces of ice. And you can't really see them in the air because, you know, it's kind of a white sky so it's hard to see the hail. But you can see it bouncing on the ground as it lands. And this is small hail. This is not a big deal. This is not dangerous.


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[Assistant] But if hail gets big, it can be dangerous. And usually people, the weather forecasters will say, be careful, there's a warning for hail.


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[Assistant] And as soon as it starts hitting people run inside, right? So yeaah, be careful. But I don't mean to scare you. Hail is not that common and it's not really dangerous, but it's really strange to see sometimes. When it does happen, it is interesting to see. Okay.


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[Assistant] Precipitation. Wow, what a big word. Pre-ci-pi-tation. One, two, three, four, five.


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[Assistant] Five syllables. Precipitation.


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[Assistant] Precipitation. Precipitation is water that falls from the clouds to the ground. And guess what? The word we just learned, hail, it's ice, that's frozen water.


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[Assistant] When we talk about precipitation, we're talking about rain. But when it's wintertime, the rain of course is liquid water. In the winter, uh, the water freezes and, you know, it could come down as hail, but usually it comes down as snow.


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[Assistant] So there are many different types of precipitation.


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[Assistant] It's just water that falls from the clouds to the ground. Uh, okay, so good. Yeah, precipitation, big word, but it covers many different types. Okay, good.


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[Assistant] Now a gauge is an instrument that measures something, usually how much or how many of something


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[Assistant] There is. In this case, a rain gauge is an instrument for measuring how much, how much rain falls. So you know, weather forecasters, people who talk about the weather, they need numbers, right? They need to know exactly how much. So they might say, okay, tomorrow we expect


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[Assistant] Two inches of rain. That's a lot of rain, right? Uhm, so, how did they measure that? Well, they have a rain gauge that tells them how much water will fall during a certain, uh, time and in a certain area. So they measure that. And they say, okay, we expect, you know, uh, three centimeters of rain tomorrow, for example.


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[Assistant] Okay, so a rain gauge. Remember, a gauge, there are many kinds of gauges. Not just a rain gauge. There's a speed gauge in your car. It tells you how fast you're going. It's called a speedometer. Not a speed gauge. It's called a speedometer. But it is a gauge. A gauge is any instrument that tells you the quantity. How much or how many of something there is. Okay, good. Next.


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[Assistant] Thermometer, now a thermometer is another type of gauge, right? It tells us how hot it is, what is the temperature, what degree, how many degrees, uh, is


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[Assistant] Thermometers, uh, all over the world there's two types of thermometers in use, in use in the world. Of course, most of the world uses a thermometer in Celsius. Americans, for some reason, still use the old Fahrenheit. Did I spell that right? I think so. Uh, height.


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[Assistant] Nope, that's wrong. Height. Americans still use Fahrenheit. Why? They're old fashioned.


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[Assistant] The rest of the world uses Celsius. When I came to Korea, I had to get used to Celsius because I was used to Fahrenheit. And so, you know, I was used to, oh, it's 78 degrees out. That's great. But my Korean friend would say, 78 degrees? That's crazy. Right? You can't live in 78 degrees. That's Celsius, right? 78 degrees. Fahrenheit is a very nice day. Very, very great day.


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[Assistant] You know, 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeaah, that's a nice day. But 80 degrees Celsius? You don't want to be there. Okay. So anyway. Thermometer. Thermometer is your device used to measure temperature. Okay, good. Next.


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[Assistant] Okay, our next word is weathervane. A weathervane is another instrument that weather people use to talk about the weather. And a weathervane basically tells people which direction the wind is blowing. If you look at the picture here, it's kind of interesting, right? Because we see north, south,


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[Assistant] So if we look at the weathervane,


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[Assistant] And these are usually on the tops of tall buildings, right? It's made of metal. It's a metal object that blows around.


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[Assistant] Blows around means it moves. It moves around. And it can move, you know, 360 degrees to show which way the wind is coming from. So in this picture, we can see the wind


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[Assistant] So it looks like here, the weather is, well the weather is blowing in the direction of, looks like east, maybe a little bit north, okay? So it's coming from the south, or it's coming from the west, maybe a little bit south.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's, that tells you which direction the wind is coming from. This is important to weather people, people who predict the weather, because, you know, they, they, they study weather patterns. Okay? And it's also important for farmers because they need to know, you know, which way the weather wind is blowing.


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[Assistant] That might help them plan for their, uh, for the weather in the next few days. Okay, next.


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[Assistant] We have meteorologist, a meteorologist, uh, ologist. If you ever see this ending, that means someone who studies something. Someone who studies


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[Assistant] Something. So for example, I think I said before, my dad


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[Assistant] Something. My dad, in his career, he was a geologist.


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[Assistant] Geo means earth. So geologist is someone who studies the earth. So what is a meteorologist? A meteorologist is someone who studies meteors, right? No, I'm sorry. That's, that's not true. Meteors of course are like Halley's Comet or you know those objects that


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[Assistant] Well, those are comets, but meteors are those things that fall to earth.


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[Assistant] Now, meteorologists don't study those things. It's an interesting word. Uh, you know, why does meteorologist mean weather?


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[Assistant] So, a biologist is someone who studies life. Okay? So interesting.


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[Assistant] So, but this one is a bit weird. It's not weatherologist, it's meteorologist. Okay, so be careful with that word. So it's a scientist who studies weather conditions. And usually a meteorologist, uh, meteorologists are important because


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[Assistant] They can predict the weather. And when you watch the news, uh, probably a meteorologist comes on and explains what the weather will be like tomorrow, the next day, next week.


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[Assistant] It's hard to predict two weeks in the future, but they try to. But usually it's an important, obviously an important job because we need to know whether it's going to rain, whether it's going to snow, if there's a flood coming, if there's a hurricane coming. So we need to know these things, and that's what meteorologists do. Okay, and those are our words for this lesson.


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[Assistant] One of the ideas in this lesson is parts of weather.


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[Assistant] What are the different parts of weather? Interesting idea, right? Well first of all, as we saw from the vocabulary, we have precipitation. And as I said before, it can fall as rain,


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[Assistant] Hail or snow. Precipitation, remember, is just water falling from the sky. Okay, it's a natural process.


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[Assistant] of evaporation and condensation, right? The water evaporates, goes up into the cool air, condenses, gathers together and then falls down as rain, hail or snow. That's precipitation.


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[Assistant] Another part of temperature that meteorologists will talk about is temperature.


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[Assistant] And of course, when we talk about temperature, say, uh, what's the weather like?


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[Assistant] What is the weather like or how is the weather, right? Don't say how is the weather like, that is not correct. What is the weather like or how is the weather? Okay, good. So it can be warm, it can be hot, right? 80 degrees Celsius is crazy hot.


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[Assistant] Okay, usually if it gets up 30 degrees, 35 degrees celsius, too hot, too hot.


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[Assistant] Okay, and 40 degrees celsius. I've seen 40 degrees celsius. I've never been in 40 degrees celsius.


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[Assistant] But I've seen it on the news, right, when you watch like CNN weather report, 40 degrees in Dubai. Oh, so hot, right? That's really hot. Okay, so I've never been in that, thank goodness. Okay, so any warm, hot, cool, or cold, right? Cold.


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[Assistant] Uh, temperatures. Again, that's the other extreme. Okay, so that's temperature. Now wind of course is another part of the weather. And wind can be, uh,


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[Assistant] Slow, gentle, it can be refreshing, or it can be strong and furious, right, like a hurricane.


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[Assistant] So wind is very important part of, uh, the weather. It moves from warm areas. Wind moves from a warm area


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[Assistant] Right? Warm areas are high pressure, right? Warm, of course, makes things expand, so it creates pressure. And a cool area, things are, uh, if the temperature is cool, things tend to contract.


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[Assistant] So if you have hot area next to a cool area, the hot area wants to invade the cool area. So wind, of course, if it's hot air and cold air, the hot air wants to invade the cold air because it's under pressure. So that creates wind. As the wind, as the air moves, that creates wind.


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[Assistant] So, when the warm air comes into the cool air, the, it carries the air and the water with it. And what happens to the water when it comes into a cool area? It gathers together again, it condense, and then it falls down as rain.


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[Assistant] And that's why a lot of weather, uh, people, meteorologists, will talk about warm areas, cool areas, high pressure zone, low pressure zone, because they're talking about which direction the wind is moving in, which direction the weather is moving in, and possibly bringing rain, hail, or snow with it.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's maybe a little too complicated. But anyway, those are the parts of the weather. Okay, next.


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[Assistant] Weather instruments. Of course we saw in the vocabulary, we saw there are many instruments for measuring the weather.


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[Assistant] Okay, first we have a rain gauge, and remember there are many types of gauges. A rain gauge just measures the depth.


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[Assistant] How much, right? You can measure it. How deep is it? Is it one centimeter? Two centimeters? Three centimeters? How deep is the water that fell from the sky? That is a rain gauge. Used to measure the depth of the precipitation.


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[Assistant] A thermometer, of course, is used to measure the temperature of the air when you want to know how hot it is.


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[Assistant] Whether it's in Fahrenheit or Celsius, you look at a temperature, uh, you look at a thermometer and that will tell you what the temperature is. Okay? Whichever, and this thermometer of course has the two, uh, systems. It has Celsius on the left side and it has Fahrenheit on the right side. Okay?


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, interesting. Okay, it's used to measure the temperature of the air.


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[Assistant] Next we talked about weathervane. Remember a weathervane shows which way the wind is blowing. And the top part will move, not the bottom part, right? The bottom part moved.


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[Assistant] We have no idea which way the wind is moving. So the bottom part is fixed, right? That doesn't move. The top part moves around. Okay, I should have made that clear before. But of course the bottom part doesn't move. It's fixed. North is always north, right? But the top part will move.


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[Assistant] And then you can see which way the wind is blowing.


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[Assistant] The next picture shows a wind gauge. Ah, we have gauge again, remember? Gauge is a type of instrument that measures, uh, the quantity of something. And a wind gauge will


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[Assistant] Measure the quantity of the wind, the quantity of the speed of the wind. So measure the wind's speed. How fast is it going? It's like, remember in your car I told you about a speedometer. How fast is your car moving? But this instrument tells you how fast the wind is moving.


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[Assistant] Okay, so gauge, there are many types of gauges. Okay, good.


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[Assistant] Okay, the reading passage is about parts of the weather and we're taking a look at meteorologists. Remember, meteorologists, they don't study meteors, they study the weather. Okay, so be careful with that word. Okay, a meteorologist, meteorologist,


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[Assistant] A little bit difficult to pronounce, right? Meteorologist. A meteorologist is a scientist who studies the weather.


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[Assistant] Two weeks from now? That's a little difficult. Okay, so, but later on means tomorrow, the next day or next week. Okay, moving on.


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[Assistant] Precipitation, lots of big words. Precipitation is part of the weather. It can fall as rain, hail, or snow.


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[Assistant] A rain gauge is used to measure the amount of rain that falls in one spot.


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[Assistant] The temperature is an important part of the weather.


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[Assistant] A thermometer, another big word, a thermometer measures temperature. When it is warm precipitation will fall as rain. When it is cold


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[Assistant] Wind is another important part of the weather.


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[Assistant] Wind can carry moisture into or away from an area.


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[Assistant] Wind can also change the temperature of the air in an area. A weathervane shows which direction the wind is blowing.


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[Assistant] Alright, so yeaah, okay, just to summarize here, of course, not to summarize, but this last part, I just want to make a point. Wind can also change the temperature of the air in an area. That's very true, isn't it? If it's hot during the summertime, your sweating's really humid,


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[Assistant] Wouldn't it be great if you had a nice wind blowing through? It cools everything down. That's why we use fans, right? Fans blow the air. It creates wind for us to carry that moisture away from our bodies and cool us down a little bit. So, it doesn't always work, but hopefully it works. Okay, good.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's our reading passage. Next we're going to take a look at how this information is organized.


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[Assistant] Okay, we're looking at the organization of the reading passage and as we can see we have


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[Assistant] Classify as our reading skill. Classify means to put things into different categories. And this is a very good reading passage for that type of organization. Because we can see there are different kinds of weather instruments, right? And in the reading passage they talked about different kinds of instruments


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[Assistant] So, what are the different instruments? We can, there are three main instruments and we can classify them, right? So the first instrument is a rain gauge. So we talked about rain gauges, right?


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[Assistant] So what does a rain gauge do? Well first we have a blank. A is a blank. So it starts a sentence with a blank. Beep can fall as rain, hail, or snow.


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[Assistant] So, what can fall as rain, hail, or snow? What one word do we use to describe rain, hail, and snow? Do you remember that word? It's a long word, has five syllables. It's, of course, precipitation.


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[Assistant] Precipitation. Precipitation, it can fall as rain, hail or snow. Precipitation is just water that falls from the sky.


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[Assistant] So, a rain gauge is used to measure the amount of what? Well of course, the amount of rain.


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[Assistant] Of the thermometer, what does it do? The beep of the air is an important part of the weather. What did we talk about? The thermometer measures, well, temperature, right here. It's the next sentence, right? So that's actually what we have here. Temperature, temm.


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[Assistant] Don't pronounce it like that, temperature. Sometimes when you have a big word you can


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[Assistant] Temperature, temperature. Okay, good. So yeaah, a lot of these things go, uh, side by side. Okay.


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[Assistant] Weather vane is our third instrument, weather instrument. What does a weather vane do? Well, a weather vane shows the direction the what is blowing.


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[Assistant] Right? When air moves, we call that wind. So, shows us which direction


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[Assistant] The wind is blowing. And the wind blows, okay? So you can say, which way is the wind blowing? You could say, which way is the wind moving? Yeaah, that's possible. But it's much, much more common to say, which way is the wind blowing? Or the wind is blowing strong today. The wind is blowing fiercely.


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[Assistant] Today. Or the wind is blowing gently today. So the wind blows.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that is our lesson for today. Interesting. Weather, of course, is a very important part of our lives. It helps us plan our days. What are we gonna do, right? If it's a sunny, warm day, let's go out and have fun. If it's a cold, snowy day,