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[Assistant] I think I hope to see the concept of uh, of seeing your parents and grandparents die just slowly disappear from the public consciousness as an experience that happens over the course of half a century, the same way that getting lost in a city slowly disappeared over the public consciousness over the last 50 now that we have smartphones. The thing you have,


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[Assistant] I'd say absolutely, and I'd say a battle where we really have started over the last five years in particular to see the first cracks of humanity starting to make things that look like they'll turn into victories.


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[Assistant] We'll have, we'll have 10, 16 years to figure it out.


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[Assistant] I definitely think that we can get there. Uhm, I definitely think that it's the sort of thing that's going to take an insanely huge amount of work. And I definitely think it's the sort of thing where, you know, once we figure out the first crop of problems and


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[Assistant] People start living to 150 will just realize that there's like 10 other problems that kill you half as slowly and will have to do more work. But you know, the good news is that


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[Assistant] This is Aubrey's longevity escape velocity argument that if you get everyone to lift to 150 now, then you know, you have half a century to fix all those other problems as well. So, I'm optimistic for that reason, I think.


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[Assistant] You definitely do not want to underestimate human ingenuity, especially over the long term. Just to look at what happens to computers between, you know, the ENIAC in 1950 and where we are in 2020, right? Like that's...


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[Assistant] A span of 70 years, uhm, so like, you know, both of us, I think, with, uh, you know, even just present day technology, you know, I have, I get at least 70 more years to live. So just like imagine what kind of sea change will happen in biomedicine during that time.


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[Assistant] And the other thing that made me optimistic is that I actually think COVID has been this, um, kind of event that's really, uh, kind of pushed, um, biomedicine and especially like activist approaches to biomedicine really into the public consciousness, right? Like it basically it's,


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[Assistant] Put people into this mindset that, you know, wait, but like, you know, it's not just like, you know, the bits and tweets that are going to save the world, but you know, the bio is actually like super important and huge and uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, ultimately what's ending the, ending COVID basically, you know, is the vaccines and the vaccines have just been, you know, amazing and, uh, if,


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[Assistant] You can take that energy and also like this I think philosophical attitude that I've noticed. Like I think the way that I would describe the philosophical attitude here, this is going more depth first, is that I think


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[Assistant] The way that I kind of interpret part of what I would call late 20th century ideology is that there is this mentality that, you know, nature is good and disruptions from nature are bad and generally you want to minimize disruptions from nature.


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[Assistant] And like this exists everywhere in the political spectrum, right? So there's nature as in literal nature, and my view is that like the right-wing version of that is markets as nature.


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[Assistant] Um, yeah, like, you know, they, the way that, that like,


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[Assistant] That kind of philosophy talks about, you know, markets and like the goal of not interfering with them. Like, you know, it's very, it is very kind of like nature styled. And then of course, you know, the, the, the conservative one, which is like traditional culture that existed before the activists started controlling everything as also being a kind of nature.


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[Assistant] Um, but the 21st century attitude and like really COVID, you know, has


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[Assistant] I flipped a lot of minds because with COVID, what's happened is that, well, no, like it's not, nature is not safe, right? The default is that is like, you know, untold misery and suffering and tens of millions of people dying. The only way out for us is through like basically, um, human ingenuity.


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[Assistant] And that frame of mind is one that's like much more friendly to one, uh, the, this other change of minds that I want to see, which is like basically treating aging as an engineering problem, right?


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[Assistant] The default is all 7.8 billion human beings that are currently on this earth are gonna die and they're gonna live their last decade of life in debilitating pain. And the only way to stop that is human ingenuity. And we don't have that solution yet, but if we work hard we will.


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[Assistant] That stuff's interesting too, I agree. I think, you know, we have enough resources and we should just try all the parallel tracks, you know, it's great that we have, uh,


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[Assistant] Hopefully sometime in the future, you know, Hal Finney's gonna be able to wake up, uhm, all of this, uhm, you know, anyone who, uh, gets, uh, cryochronically frozen today will be able to wake up. But, you know, that's all, that's a bet, right? That's the last resort.


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[Assistant] And then the other interesting thing about, uhm, the, like, extreme uploading approach, right, is, uhm,


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[Assistant] We're excited about space, and one of the points that a lot of science, or like hard science fiction types make is that, you know, if you want to explore space, that's a lot easier if you're not a human.


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[Assistant] Like one example of this is that, you know, in the context of humans, we're talking about like, oh, we're going to be able to go to the moon. Oh, we're going to be able to go to Mars.


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[Assistant] But there's this project called Starshot, I believe, right? That's basically trying to send spacecrafts, mini spacecrafts to Alpha Centauri. And they literally believe that they're going to be able to get spacecraft over to Alpha Centauri like four light years away by like the 2060s.


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[Assistant] And the laser is insanely strong, quickly accelerated at 100 G's for, no, I think it was 10,000 G's, uhm, until it gets to 20% of the speed of light and then, you know, it goes on your merry way, right? So, if you want to be in, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like personally explore the Alpha Centauri system within like two centuries or once or one century, then, you know.


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[Assistant] Being a robot is like by far the most practical way to do it because there's no way that a human being can survive 10,000 years. So it's definitely interesting long term, but at the same time, there's definitely a lot of psychological hangups and a lot of deep philosophy that we'll just have to grapple with to get there.


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[Assistant] I agree with that, I'm definitely in the camp that consciousness is a property of the algorithm and not a property of brain structure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the other fun, like, the kinds of philosophical things we'd have to grapple with is like, once you upload yourself, like, you can hit control C, you know, like, uh, it would be, wouldn't it be lovely to have like 10 copies of Alex Friedman and then, like, we could just interview everyone. So this is, I mean, this is,


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[Assistant] I guess like the one historical parallel and like this might be a bit unfair is that, you know, there have been philosophers that say, that have said things like, you know, war gives like meaning to human collectives and the struggle for supremacy between, you know, nations and races as this like big driver of progress that, that


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[Assistant] Have that, but yet, life still feels meaningful, we've still found other ways to, uh,


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[Assistant] The, like, there's still a striving for technological progress. There's still, uhm.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, striving for self-improvement in general. And it turns out that, you know, you don't actually need to have existential conflicts in order to, in order to have that. Now, maybe you need conflict, but we have other kinds of conflicts, right? Look, we have, you know, competition between businesses, competition between political ideologies, competition between projects. And so, you know, these are.


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[Assistant] Like whatever the psychological needs are, like there just are substitutes for it. So I guess like, yeah, so if we, yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to say, I feel like once we start living to the age of 200 then, like, I'm just intuitively expecting that we'll see, like, substitutes emerge in the same way.


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[Assistant] Interesting enough, as I've just like personally spent more time in this world, I've started realizing that, you know, there is a concept of like


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[Assistant] Exactly, it drops a lot, right? And so, like, there's a lot of these, just, like, relationships that end up being very finite. Uhm, a person changes their, I feel like a person changes enough of their worldview after 25 years. Wasn't there even a study about this? Something like,


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[Assistant] A person and themselves 25 years later are about as different as like two different people, uh, people or something like this. Um, so yeah, like, I mean, just like you can have conflict without bloodshed. I think, um, you know, you can, you can have.


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[Assistant] Finiteness and even, you know, the necessary sorrows of finiteness that give meaning without, like, literally anyone having to end their life.


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[Assistant] There's definitely benefits, I think, to be able to, like, speak multiple languages, and, like, once you can, right, like, you, eh, eh, eh.


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[Assistant] You discover that, like, even your mindset changes while you're speaking in one language versus the other. Like, people have told me this, like, when I speak Russian, I sound more, like, I guess, like, to the point and pragmatic. When I speak Chinese, I sound more cute. When I speak English, I'm something else. Uhm, I guess, uh,


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[Assistant] There's definitely like a richness that you're missing if you're only like in one of these language bubbles, but I guess.


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[Assistant] The arguments on the other side would be that, you know, if everyone spoke the same language, then like, there would just be one bubble. This is the challenge, I think. Like, there are actually benefits to having cultural diversity and you definitely don't want the entire world to be too conformist.


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[Assistant] Well, one of the interesting things about crypto is that it's just a culture that actually like manages to


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think like, yeah, it's definitely sad whenever these groups are fighting each other, uhm, and like, it's definitely good for them to, like, if people can cooperate more, uhm, but, you know, at the same time, like, just,


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[Assistant] Having, like, groups of people that have, you know, different kinds of life experiences, like, you know, there's definitely something to benefit from that.


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[Assistant] The thing that I've realized with money as I have experienced both having a little of it and having a lot of it is that uhm,


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[Assistant] The benefit of, like, you can get the most out of money if you think of it not as something that lets you do and have more things, but as something that lets you worry about fewer things.


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[Assistant] Right, like, if you have, if your savings are just, you know, non-zero at all, then you don't have to worry as much about losing your job.


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[Assistant] And uh, you know, if you feel like you're, you have a job that just like really conflicts with your values, then like if you have even six months saved up, that just makes it easier for you to say bye bye, I'm going to do something else. Uhm, if you have more money than you can,


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[Assistant] This aspect of just like reducing troubles and like opening up room for other things I think is a big part of it. Like if you just


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[Assistant] If you instead think of money as being like this positive or this thing that like gives you stuff and you try to derive meaning from the stuff, I think that's uh, much more likely to be like a road to basically squandering that opportunity.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, and I guess my philosophy on that is definitely more subtractive than additive there.


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[Assistant] Think of, think back to like how you thought about life when you were in school, right? In school this act is interesting to think about, right? Because in a lot of ways like it's...


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[Assistant] Just totally outside of bounds of the, you know, the kinds of systems that are like social systems that we live in as, uhm, as adults.


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[Assistant] Or maybe not, like maybe things like academia are intended to replicate parts of school. Like, first of all, school is very totalitarian, right? Like, you know, you have to follow the teacher's instructions, the bulk of your schedule is like forced to be in particular areas, and you know, you can control, uhm,


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[Assistant] In one thing of uhm, aspects obviously is that in,


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[Assistant] It does, like, there's definitely an easiness to living life if all of your decisions are made for you. And one of the challenges of adulthood, I guess, is moving to this, uh, world where, like, all your choices are much more self-directed and you just have to, like, learn to live and deal with that.


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[Assistant] In some sense. Actually interesting because, uh,


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[Assistant] I, in some ways I feel like even my first like five years of doing Ethereum things, uh, yeaah, my life was not even all that self-directed because...


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[Assistant] A lot of it was just, you know, responding to obligations, right? Like someone said, oh, you know, come to speak at this event in Korea. Okay. You know, come to speak at this thing in Taiwan. Okay. Uhm, oh, like we need...


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[Assistant] For Ethereum to launch, we need, uhm, you know, this particular piece to be done and tested. Okay, work on that. Right? We need some, uhm, proof of stake algorithm. Work on that.


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[Assistant] Like basically I was holed up in Singapore for much of it, right? And it gave me a lot more alone time, you know, I had much less travel and that was definitely a very new and interesting experience for me.


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[Assistant] Some of all five, uhm, definitely some self-discovery. Uhm, I definitely did, like, take, uh, make this very deliberate decision that, like, okay, I have this time and I'm going to, like,


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[Assistant] After that, I also got into, uhm, audiobooks. Uhm, oh, I listened to the entire, uhm, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, the whole thing, 45 hours. That was fascinating.


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[Assistant] I feel like the 1930s and 40s are fascinating because they force you to really grapple with the question of where does evil come from, right? The sort of mental puzzle that I've always had in my head is like,


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[Assistant] On the one hand, uhm, you know, things like the Holocaust happened, but on the other hand, if you just go and like have a coffee with, with, uh, people, then like a hundred times out of a hundred, everyone just seems so nice. Yeah. So, like, yeah, like how do you kind of reconcile the macro and the micro there, right?


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[Assistant] That's the sort of thing that's very difficult if you don't have, uhm,


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[Assistant] Definitely made it harder to understand things. I remember actually being pretty blindsided when I started Ethereum and then within six months there started being fights over like who would get more shares if Ethereum turned out to be a company and then I suggested we should just make it a be a non-profit and somehow that ended up upsetting people.


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[Assistant] So the fascinating thing for me is that like I've been, you know, obviously reading and listening to the history and then at the same time just like observing things happening in the crypto space.


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[Assistant] So one of my interesting, uhm, like, mental intuitions that I've gotten is that I think, like, most evil doesn't come out of greed, it comes out of fear.


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[Assistant] And, like, one example of this in Ethereum land, right, is uhm, like I think,


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[Assistant] The part of Ethereum history where I thought that the Ethereum community was at its lowest and even when I personally was at my lowest. Now if you go back to the, uh, DAO fork in, uh, 2016, right? So, you know, the DAO hack happens and then we made this controversial decision to change the Ethereum protocol, uh, and we, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, then there was that Ethereum Classic split, and as soon as that Ethereum Classic split, uhm, happened, you know, there was like a lot of anger everywhere, and there started, there started especially being anger when the price of ETC started like ticking up, right? So this was the time when,


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[Assistant] Ether started off being $13 and Ethereum Classic started at zero, but then suddenly there's this one day when like, ETH dropped to 12.5, ETC went up to 0.5, and then they dropped more.


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[Assistant] And people were saying things like, uhm, you know, oh, this whole thing, Ethereum Classic is just a, like, a psyop by, you know, the Bitcoin community and just the wealthy Bitcoiners trying to destroy Ethereum. And, like, in the back of my mind, I knew that that wasn't entirely true. Like, there definitely were Bitcoiners, but at the same time, like, I think,


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[Assistant] Blaming political, like internal dis- or blaming disagreements on foreign interference, right? Like this is the sort of thing that, you know, like countries, uh, governments do all the time. Like it's-


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[Assistant] A very convenient excuse, right? Because it allows you to just like blame these things that are happening on the foreigners and avoid like actually grappling with the facts that like, well no, actually you have people in your very own community who just disagree with you and have a different belief.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, I feel like the Ethereum community, like during that time, did not do a very good job of grappling with that. And I feel like I, during that time, did not do a very good job of grappling with that. And so there was a lot of like blaming the Bitcoiners.


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[Assistant] There were also even a lot of people calling for us to use trademark law and like basically sue exchanges and like try to prevent them from a listing Ethereum classic. And like to me that was very unethical, right? Like this, uh,


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[Assistant] Using, like basically using the government as a weapon to try to attack the other cryptocurrency and like destroy it as like goes completely against them, you know, the ideals of freedom and you know, like things that at least in theory we're supposed to stand for.


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[Assistant] In that particular time, like basically what was happening was that the ETC price was rising and at the same time the ETH price was dropping in lockstep. And there were a lot of Bitcoin people basically saying this is the end of Ethereum. And I think a lot of people really were afraid that Ethereum would be just like completely destroyed as a result of this.


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[Assistant] Like, that's where the anger came from. Exactly. That's yeah, exactly. It came from the fear and like, that's what I like allowed people to rationalize, like in abandonments of principles that I think they would not have.


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[Assistant] Accepted in other circumstances. And I definitely, to some extent, played along with this myself. I definitely regret that to some extent. Well, I definitely regret the excesses completely.


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[Assistant] So that, and then obviously, you know, Bitcoin block size war, similar sort of stuff happened. Uh, so, like that, that insight was...


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[Assistant] Interesting, uhm, because like, it does mentally make a lot of sense, right? Like when you're actually afraid that, you know, unless you act in some way that, you know, your entire world is going to collapse, like it's much easier to just rationalize, you know, forgetting your principles and doing whatever you have to, to just save the specific thing that you care about. It feels like the right thing


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[Assistant] This one was a lot tougher, like creative wise, you know, she, her lucky number is 13, so her decision was that do anything you want creative with the number 13.


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[Assistant] So, we, we're like, okay, let's do 13 things with the number 13.


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[Assistant] We, we spent about a week and a half working on that video, cause we just, we did it from as small as, you know, giving roses to our little old lady actually.


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[Assistant] And we did it, you know, like picking up trash, just, you know, giving donuts to a friend, different things.


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[Assistant] We had to get in contact with a lot of different people because we helped a little kid meet his favorite baseball player who honestly happened to be the number 13.


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[Assistant] And we're just like, this is perfect. He always wears a number 13 jersey.


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[Assistant] I'm on my phone and I get a text, challenge 3 is up. I'm like, yes, so this is awesome. So we watched it and we were just pumped because it didn't really tell us anything and that was kind of exciting.


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[Assistant] We started off, the two of us, just this dumb little idea basically, and here we are, we've gathered hundreds of people in a matter of two hours, or less than two hours.


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[Assistant] All my, all I wanted to happen was for her to say...


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[Assistant] I mean, to have fans here, to have her band here, to have, you know, her wearing a shirt with our names on it, it's just...


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[Assistant] How did your Russian roots help you?


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[Assistant] Interesting question. What can you say in Russian about it?


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[Assistant] We've just had the most amazing 15 months of the Fearless Tour. It's been amazing. And what better way than at CMA Fest to open up


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[Assistant] And basically take the entire backstage experience that normally is just


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[Assistant] So, uh, limits to everybody and here we are, we present it in its entirety on the floor of the arena.


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[Assistant] I think we're all holding up fine. I'd like to think Taylor, she always holds up better than all of us. And she does twice as much of the rest of us.


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[Assistant] Tire Town School. Episode 69. A Talent.


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[Assistant] Watch this, Jeb said. Jeb rolled to the dirt area.


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[Assistant] He lifted a big rock. Wow! Everyone said. I will lift big things. Jeb said. I can tell jokes. Poppy said.


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[Assistant] And I can do balloon tricks. Poppy's trunk popped open. Balloons floated out.


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[Assistant] Cool! Gasser said. I will drive over things.


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[Assistant] In this English lesson, we're going to show you some sentence patterns that you can use in everyday life. Let's get started. I almost forgot.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I've never enjoyed doing that.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I've never enjoyed doing that.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I really love that movie.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I really love that movie.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I really love that movie.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that at first I didn't believe you.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I wasn't looking forward to this.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I wasn't looking forward to this.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that I wasn't looking forward to this.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that when I first met Kevin, I didn't like him.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that when I first met Kevin, I didn't like him.


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[Assistant] I have to admit that when I first met Kevin I didn't like him.


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[Assistant] I don't see anything wrong with what Kevin is doing.


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[Assistant] I don't see anything wrong with what Kevin is doing.


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[Assistant] I don't see anything wrong with the way Tom is living his life.


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[Assistant] I don't see anything wrong with the way Tom is living his life.


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[Assistant] I don't see anything wrong with the way Tom is living his life.


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I accepted Jack's invitation?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I accepted Jack's invitation?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I accepted Jack's invitation?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I continued doing this my own way?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I continued doing this my own way?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I continued doing this my own way?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I threw these empty boxes away?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I threw these empty boxes away?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I asked your daughter to the dance?


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[Assistant] Would it be okay if I asked your daughter to the dance?


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[Assistant] It would be wise not to underestimate Peter.


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[Assistant] It would be wise not to underestimate Peter.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to get Kevin to do that for you.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to get Kevin to do that for you.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to leave the decision up to Jason.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to leave the decision up to Jason.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to leave the decision up to Jason.


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[Assistant] It would be wise not to carry so much money on you.


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[Assistant] It would be wise not to carry so much money on you.


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[Assistant] It would be wise not to carry so much money on you.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to focus on one problem at a time.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to focus on one problem at a time.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to focus on one problem at a time.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to wait a few days and see what happens.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to wait a few days and see what happens.


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[Assistant] It would be wise to wait a few days and see what happens.


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[Assistant] Quite honestly, I couldn't care less what they do.


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[Assistant] Quite honestly, I couldn't care less what they do.


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[Assistant] Quite honestly, I couldn't care less what they do.


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[Assistant] Frankly, I couldn't care less what happens to him.


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[Assistant] Frankly, I couldn't care less what happens to him.


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[Assistant] Frankly, I couldn't care less what happens to him.


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[Assistant] At this point I couldn't care less what you decide to do.


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[Assistant] At this point I couldn't care less what you decide to do.


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[Assistant] At this point I couldn't care less what you decide to do.


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[Assistant] There are many benefits of this new technology.


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[Assistant] There are many benefits of this new technology.


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[Assistant] There are many benefits of this kind of therapy.


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[Assistant] There are many benefits of this kind of therapy.


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[Assistant] There is no guarantee that we will succeed every time.


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[Assistant] There is no guarantee that we will succeed every time.


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[Assistant] There is no guarantee that we will succeed every time.


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[Assistant] There is no guarantee that they won't turn against her.


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[Assistant] There is no guarantee that they won't turn against her.


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[Assistant] There is no guarantee that they won't turn against her.


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[Assistant] The file tab is the only pull down menu in Patrel. It is way over to the left of Patrel and it contains tools to open, save the project, open a new project.


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[Assistant] This is easy access to recently opened projects. If you click on file to start with and this is the last project you worked on.


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[Assistant] Come up here to file, come down here and say exit and you will leave the program.


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[Assistant] It will ask you before it exits whether you want to save them and assuming you say yes, it will save the changes. This is an incremental save so it doesn't take a long time. It just does the save.


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[Assistant] If you go to file, project setup, and then project settings over here, it brings up the project settings menu. This is where you set things like


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[Assistant] Coordinates and units. Your coordinate reference system. Whether your project is in feet or in meters.


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[Assistant] Down here, whether you want output for, for example, area to be in square meters in a meters project or acres and where you want volumes to be cubic meters in a meters project or you want barrels. This is where you set all that information.


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[Assistant] You can also set system tools by coming to file, system, coming to the right, and saying system settings. If you go to the effects tab on the system settings menu,


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[Assistant] This is where you can turn on and off tabbed windows. You can use this rename node directly mouse to let you use a slow double click to rename a file inside the Petrel Explorer. New Petrel users often have a problem in a 3D window with stopping the display from spinning. You can also come in here, click this


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[Assistant] Option. When you hit the okay button, then the patrol will not.


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[Assistant] Spin anymore. Also over here, you can free unused


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[Assistant] So the way that my career really started out from the very beginning was playing acoustically because I could be anywhere. I could get my guitar and I could go play at a coffee shop or a Boy Scout meeting or a, I don't know, like a


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[Assistant] And then the groups started getting bigger and bigger as the years went on.


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[Assistant] This toolbar is located at the very upper left corner of Petrel. It can be moved below the ribbons, but normally it is found up here at the top.


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[Assistant] It has nine tools that Petrel supplies which are very commonly used. You can click on them up here instead of searching for them through the ribbons. Also, any tool available anywhere on a ribbon or that you can right click on something can be added to the QAT.


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[Assistant] It's always available. It's independent of any perspective or tab. It's also machine dependent, meaning that if you change the QAT and exit the project you're in and open up another project on the same computer, you'll have the QAT set up the same way as you did before.


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[Assistant] These are the default QAT tools. You can see the icons here in the QAT and what they do over here on the left side.


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[Assistant] On the very far right of the QAT is a little black arrow with a line through it. If you click on that, it brings up the menu down here where you can turn on or off any of the Petrel supplied tools in the QAT.


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[Assistant] You can also add anything to that's on a ribbon to the QAT. You bring up the ribbon, you right click on the item you want to add to the QAT and you can say add to quick access toolbar. Then the icon representing whatever we chose in this case settings appears up here on the quick access toolbar.


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[Assistant] You can right click on the icon in the quick access toolbar and say remove from quick access toolbar.


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[Assistant] One thing I would like to mention, there is an undo up here on the quick access toolbar. Some tools have their own undo and this undo still stays grayed out. So you have to use the undo for any specific tool that might have one.


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[Assistant] You can also add things to the quick access toolbar by right clicking on an object and then right clicking on whatever you want to add to the QAT. So here we have a folder called mapping data. We right click on that folder. Down here is import on selection. We can right click on that and say add to quick access toolbar.


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[Assistant] If the tools you add to the QAT are fairly generic, like settings or import, they are context sensitive.


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[Assistant] So if we have highlighted here a line file, GF model boundary, and we click on the settings in the quick access toolbar, it brings us the settings for this GF model boundary.


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[Assistant] If we have a surface like Top Tarbert right here highlighted and we click up in the quick access toolbar, it brings up the settings for the Top Tarbert.


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[Assistant] Same thing with any other thing that you will find in the Petrel Explorer Windows.


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[Assistant] Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson where we're going to talk about words and phrases you can use in English.


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[Assistant] When something goes wrong in life, life has a funny way of going sideways. Sometimes we sometimes say, um, usually life is smooth. Usually you have a good day, you have a good night, you have a good day, but every once in a while things go wrong.


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[Assistant] So in this English lesson, I'll help you learn those English words and phrases. Please listen to each word as I teach it and also listen to the phrases I use.


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[Assistant] When I talk about each individual word because I sometimes add quite a bit more information as I'm talking about it. So once again, welcome to this English lesson about words and phrases to use when things go wrong.


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[Assistant] So the first word I have is crash. This is an interesting word because


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[Assistant] You can crash into someone, like if you're driving your car and you hit someone else, you can crash into them.


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[Assistant] But then we also say that you are in a crash.


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[Assistant] So we kind of use it as a verb and a noun. When you crash into someone, it means you hit them.


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[Assistant] Sometimes at the grocery store, I'm driving my grocery cart and I accidentally crash into something because sometimes I'm looking at food when I should be looking at where I'm going. Uh, I actually crashed into someone else's cart a couple of weeks ago. It was a little bit embarrassing, but to crash


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[Assistant] When you crash into something, it means that usually you're driving a car or something else and you


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[Assistant] Uh, lose control. That's another phrase we use. You lose control and then maybe you crash. Hopefully you don't get hurt.


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[Assistant] And then this is one that any of you who have children or hang around with children would know and it's, uh, to spill. When you spill something, like if I take this cup and if I accidentally bumped into the cup, the water would spill out of the cup. And interestingly enough,


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[Assistant] We use this the same way. We use it as a verb. Like you can spill the water. The water spilled out of the cup. And then you have a spill. So this little guy here, he spilled his milk and now there is a spill on the table and he is wiping up that spill. Never fun.


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[Assistant] When we had little kids, it's never fun in the morning when you're trying to get out the door to go to work and suddenly something goes wrong. One of your kids spill something and you have to clean it up.


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[Assistant] Uh, topple. If you've ever played this game, it's called Jenga. It's a game where you stack blocks and eventually the blocks will topple. Uh, you can also topple something over, like if you push a stack of things. But a good example would be if you stack a whole bunch of boxes up.


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[Assistant] Like if they kinda move back and forth, eventually the boxes will topple over.


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[Assistant] So it's similar to fall, it's similar to fall down, uh, but it does have kind of a unique case. When I was, uhm, walking in from the barn a few months ago, I was carrying a whole bunch of buckets, uh, and then they ended up, they toppled over, uhm, which means they kind of ended up falling.


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[Assistant] Uhm, never fun. When something topples over, it's good that, it's good if nothing breaks.


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[Assistant] When you talk about things going wrong, when it's winter, one of the things that can go wrong is that you get stuck.


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[Assistant] This guy is driving in really deep snow and eventually


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[Assistant] He might get stuck. He might be stuck right now. When you're stuck, you can't move forward or backwards. Your wheels spin. It makes this sound.


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[Assistant] That's literally the sound you'll hear when you are stuck in the snow. Maybe in your country you can be stuck in the mud. Maybe it rains a lot and the soil gets really wet and you can end up getting stuck in the mud.


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[Assistant] But it's never fun to get stuck. I cleaned my driveway already this morning because there is a truck coming today to deliver something and I don't want the truck to get stuck in the snow. That rhymes doesn't it? I don't want the truck to get stuck in the snow.


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[Assistant] Or a tear. These are very similar. Uhm, you might be familiar with ripped jeans. Sometimes, uh, people buy their jeans like this for someone old like me. That doesn't make sense. But when you, the other day I was walking and my pants got caught on a nail and I ripped my pants. So my pants ended up having a rip in them.


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[Assistant] Notice once again, I ripped my pants and I ended up with a rip in it.


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[Assistant] We use the word tear as well, but I think when you're talking about jeans and clothing, we usually talk about rip. It's when there, something happens that makes a hole in the clothing that you are wearing. You could use the word tear as well, like, oh, I have a tear.


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[Assistant] There's a tear in the sleeve of my shirt. That would be totally appropriate as well.


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[Assistant] When something breaks, we then say it is broken, okay? So when you break something, it then becomes broken. Uhm, all of my windows in my house are in perfect shape.


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[Assistant] I have not, I don't have any broken windows. Although when I use the snowblower, it shot snow at the house. Um, and when it does that, it sometimes shoots little stones. So I have to be careful because I don't want to break a window.


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[Assistant] So sometimes your tire goes flat and sometimes your tire goes flat because it is punctured. When something is punctured it means it gets a hole in it.


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[Assistant] Never a good day when you walk out to the parking lot and see that somehow you drove on a nail and it punctured your tire. And then again, we would call this a flat tire.


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[Assistant] So the puncture is what caused the air to come out, but now we would simply call it a flat tire.


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[Assistant] Fracture. So has Bob the Canadian ever broken any bones? Yes, I fractured my wrist once when I was really young.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think that's it. I think that's the only time I've had a cast on. I fractured


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[Assistant] When you fracture something, it's another way to say that it is broken. Okay. When you break a bone, like if you do something crazy, like you go skiing and you break your leg, we would also say that the bone is fractured, that you fractured a bone. Never a good time when that happens.


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[Assistant] Definitely would be a good example, uhm, of something going wrong.


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[Assistant] Hey, outside we have some places on our farm where there is concrete.


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[Assistant] Where they have poured concrete and then it gets hard and you have this nice hard surface. But sometimes it will crack.


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[Assistant] When you look at buildings in your town, sometimes on the wall of the building, you'll see that the wall has cracked. Uhm, when something cracks, it means it breaks. And we usually use this to describe, like,


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[Assistant] With some snow on it and this flower I think is frozen.


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[Assistant] Uh, sometimes things go wrong because of the weather. Sometimes the temperature...


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[Assistant] Uh, when a pipe freezes, the water turns to ice inside of it and the pipe can burst. So sometimes one of the things, uh, in life where things go wrong is when the temperature goes really low.


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[Assistant] And things become frozen or things freeze. Notice the difference in use between frozen and freeze.


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[Assistant] Uh, this has happened to me before. When something splits, it means it comes apart. Uhm, when you put a nut in a nutcracker, it splits the nut open.


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[Assistant] This man, uh, bent over and his pants have split. He has split his pants. This actually happened to me once where I was working on something and I bent it down and my pants split at the back. Very embarrassing. It happened at work.


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[Assistant] Uh, I quickly went and changed into some shorts that I found. But, uh, never, uh, never a dull moment when, uh, when something like this happens to someone. When you split your pants. Uhm, and be careful. It can happen to anybody. On fire!


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I'm not, I don't know why I'm laughing about this one, but if this happens, something is definitely going wrong. If your car is on fire, that is definitely a bad day for you. So one of the things that can go wrong in life is something might be on fire. Hopefully not.


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[Assistant] But your house might be on fire. Your car might be on fire. This is very rare. This does not happen very often, but, uh, definitely this would be something going wrong. And of course, when something's on fire, it means that someone has taken a lighter or a match, or maybe something has malfunction.


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[Assistant] Causes a fire to start and then something is on fire. Never a good, never a good day when something's on fire that's not supposed to be.


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[Assistant] And then of course sometimes things are just busted. This is an interesting word and it's very, very common. People will say, ah, my phone's busted. My computer's busted.


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[Assistant] Ah, the light that I normally use is busted. Uhm, oh, that fan doesn't work. It's busted. Uhm, I think it's probably the most common way to describe something that is broken.


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[Assistant] So you can use broken as well, but uhm, I hear this word a lot. Like students in class will say, ah, my computer's busted. Or uhm, yeaah, I'm trying to think of another example.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely broken and busted, but, uh, you can see this phone is busted. Definitely the screen's all cracked.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then broken, as I said. So this car is broken. Sometimes with vehicles, we also say broken down, but uh, you could just use broken. This car is definitely broken.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my van was actually broken a couple of weeks ago, but it seems to be fine now, so that's good. And again, when something is broken, it means that uhm, something has gone wrong with it, and it's not doing


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[Assistant] What it's normally supposed to do. If your computer is broken or your car is broken, it's not working properly.


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[Assistant] So there's also, uhm, things can go wrong when you forget things. Sometimes Jen and I are shopping.


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[Assistant] And Jen will say, did you turn the stove off? Or did you turn the oven off? Uhm, sometimes you forget things. Humans forget things. Uhm, your day can go wrong if you


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[Assistant] Go to work and you forget to take your briefcase or you forget to take your computer. I've actually a few times in my life.


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[Assistant] Gone to work, realized that I forgot my computer at home and had to go back home to get it. So sometimes you forget things and that can be another thing that goes wrong.


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[Assistant] Sometimes things just fall over. Uhm, uh, this doesn't happen very often around me, but we did have a windstorm a few months ago and then things definitely fall over. Trees fall over, uhm, telephone poles fall over. Sometimes when you're going somewhere, uhm,


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[Assistant] Rarely, but sometimes when you're going somewhere after a big storm, you'll notice that a lot of things have fallen over and then, uh, road crews need to come and clean them up.


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[Assistant] And sometimes things fall down. So people have asked, why do we have the word down? Like, why don't you just say the hot air balloon fell?


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[Assistant] Things can fall down. You could even use this with the tree. You could see that, say that the tree fell down or the tree fell over. Uh, notice fall becomes fell in the past tense. Um, but yes, sometimes things fall down and, uh, that can be,


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[Assistant] Something going wrong in your day as well.


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[Assistant] So a broken heart. Sometimes you're heartbroken. Uh, sometimes you find someone and you fall in love and then...


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[Assistant] The relationship just doesn't work and then you end up breaking up and then maybe your heart is broken. When you have a broken heart, it means you're sad. It means maybe you still love the person.


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[Assistant] Now you can also use heartbroken to describe sadness in general.


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[Assistant] But we usually use heartbroken or a broken heart to talk more about romantic stuff, I think. I'm trying to think, like, if a loved one passes away, if someone in your family that you love dies, you would be heartbroken. We would say that. But I think broken heart


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[Assistant] refers to romantic love and heartbroken can be romantic love or just love for a family member.


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[Assistant] I see modags in the chat say, yes, I've been waiting for this one. And then the emoji of a broken heart. Yes. Always, uh, definitely not a happy time when that happens.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I talked about forgetting things. You can also say that, uh, you can, something was left on, okay? So when you use the stove, when you turn on the burner, and then maybe you end up


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[Assistant] Uh, forgetting and it's left on and you go out and then when you come home, there's a fire in your house. So this is a good one. It's like you forgot something, something was left on and now something's on fire. But definitely when you use machines,


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[Assistant] When you're done with certain machines, you should turn off the machine. And sometimes things can go wrong if a machine is left on. That, uh, a machine that should be turned off.


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[Assistant] And then there's always of course a leak. Uhm, we have pipes in our house. The pipes are used for water. Water is moved from one part of the house to the other through pipes. And sometimes a pipe will get a hole in it. And we usually say that the pipe, uh, springs a leak.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you could just say the pipe has a leak, but you could also say, uhm, oh,


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[Assistant] Uh, it got really cold, the pipe's frozen, now this pipe has sprung a leak. There's a leak in the pipe. This is never fun when there's a leak, especially in the winter because it's kind of cold and it's hard to fix pipes when they break in the winter and wind.


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[Assistant] Sometimes there's no electricity. Sometimes there's a power outage. And that can be, uh, something that goes wrong. Right now in Canada,


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[Assistant] Uh, if we had a power outage, it's very bad because people aren't able to keep their houses warm. Uh, a power outage is when, uhm, the lights go off, everything in your house turns off, and then you have to wait for them to fix something, uhm, because the power isn't working. Uhm, so we also in English would say, uhm, so we would say,


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[Assistant] We're having a power outage or we have no electricity right now or the power is out. Those are ways to say it, at least in my part of Ontario, Canada.


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[Assistant] Sometimes something is missing. Maybe your keys are missing. Maybe you're doing a puzzle and a piece is missing. Uhm, maybe you went


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[Assistant] That's a bad example, but, uh, this can be, uh, an example of something going wrong. Sometimes things are missing or people are missing. Uhm, we once at the mall couldn't fi- our son walked around the corner.


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[Assistant] And for a brief minute, our son was missing for like 30 seconds and Jen and I were like, where'd he go? Where'd he go? And then we quickly found him back. But definitely, um, when something is missing. So again, when something is missing, it means you can't see it. It's not there. You're not sure where it is.


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[Assistant] And then here's another thing. Sometimes things get canceled. Um, so I have the word cancel here. When you cancel something.


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[Assistant] Let's just pretend someone was planning a trip and then they found out that they had COVID. They did a test and they found out they had COVID. They would need to cancel their trip. Okay. Uh, or they could rebook their trip.


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[Assistant] Uhm, not to say too much, but if you want to hear a story similar to that, go to Brent's channel, American English with this guy, and uh, watch his latest video. I think it's still his latest, I didn't check this morning, but uh, Brent had to cancel something, and I feel bad for him, so.


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[Assistant] So sickness can certainly be something that goes wrong. For me, a few weeks ago when


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[Assistant] My family and when I myself had COVID, having a sickness or being sick is not fun. It changes all your plans. Uh, and then you have to cancel thing. There's things that you can't do. Sickness is definitely an example of something going wrong in your life.


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[Assistant] Never fun to be sick, but always fun to get better. I always feel really good after.


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[Assistant] I get better when I am 100% again. I love that.


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[Assistant] Brent in the chat says, yeah, I have experience in cancelling plates. I'm sure you do. I'm not laughing at you, Brent. I just think, uh, that it did seem, um, it was like, uh, a coincidence that I was


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[Assistant] So, I was planning a lesson about when things go wrong when you emailed me. So, I was planning a lesson about when things go wrong and then like within an hour or two, Brent emailed me and said, ah, my wife and I just tested positive and then I went and watched uh his video later that day. So, it was uh yeah, coincidence. Two things happening at the same time. Bad weather. So, bad weather can be uh


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[Assistant] If you're planning something that's going to be outdoors, maybe you're going to an outdoor wedding. Maybe you're planning to go to a restaurant that has outdoor seating. And then if there's bad weather, if there's rain or snow or sleet or hail, any of the weather that we consider bad weather, it can be


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[Assistant] Something, it can definitely be described as something going wrong in your day. It's never fun when it rains on a day when you're planning to do something outside.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you run out of stuff. You might not know what this is, but this is an empty bag of milk. In Canada, at least in Ontario, Canada, we buy milk in bags. And sometimes you run out of milk. And this can be a problem. My children love to drink milk.


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[Assistant] And sometimes we run out of milk. When you run out of something, it means you don't have anymore.


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[Assistant] And you have to buy some more. So I still remember one of my kids, um, wanted milk when they were really little.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I said, we don't have any. And they said, well, you need to buy some more. And I s- I thought, well.


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[Assistant] Here's how it goes. This is where kids start telling parents what they need to buy. But when you run out of something, it means you don't have it. You can run out of bread. You can run out of milk. You can run out of water. It's pretty, pretty common.


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[Assistant] Uh, Dave in the chat says, we run out of milk all the time. Yeah, it's a pretty common pro- it's a small problem, but it is a problem. Uh, of course there's traffic. Sometimes you end up in a traffic jam. Sometimes you are trying.


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[Assistant] To get somewhere very quickly and you end up in a traffic jam. Never fun, uh, to be stuck in traffic. In fact, in Ontario, Canada right now,


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[Assistant] Driving to protest some of the uh, vaccine mandates and other mandates that we have in Canada, so.


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[Assistant] And sometimes you trip, sometimes you're walking and when you trip, this is me tripping, I walk and then, oh, and then maybe you fall down. Maybe you catch yourself and you don't fall down, but certainly when you trip,


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[Assistant] It is not an enjoyable experience at all.


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[Assistant] In the commercial. The commercial was a lie. Okay, well, uh, you got the commercial down.


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[Assistant] I'm never gonna forget my first Vogue shoot. It was just outside Nashville, middle of this field.


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[Assistant] And basically, Annie Leibowitz who shot the photos wanted me to just like dance around.


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[Assistant] It is a freezing cold day in Franklin, Tennessee, and we're out in the middle of nowhere, pretty much. This is Vogue, the Nashville edition.


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[Assistant] I met her like 15 minutes ago and she was really, really awesome and really laid back. And uhm, this is my first Vogue shoot, so.


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[Assistant] It's, it's going really, really well so far. Like, they told me that I can keep this on my hand. Like, they want me to keep this. Uhm, and I thought they would for sure, like, want me to take that off because


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[Assistant] Like where I'll just like throw my hair around on stage, she would pause it and go, that's the kind of photo I want to get.


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[Assistant] We went outside to this field, it was pretty cold, and uhm, we're outside and the weather was really cloudy and just kind of looked terrible. But Annie was saying


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[Assistant] Uhm, I literally just put on a couple songs and was dan- dancing around, moshing.


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[Assistant] Uh, in a field and then within minutes we were done. I was, well that's cool.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was open before I knew it. We did two...


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[Assistant] And, uh, I like to think of phase one as photo shoot phase.


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[Assistant] The whole promotion process with a bunch of fun photo shoots where they make you look different for every single cover.


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[Assistant] In a sense you're dancing in front of a whole bunch of people because for a cover they need your body to be in like, kind of curved or a different shape than it.


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[Assistant] than every other cover. Uhm, so they're always trying to get you to


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[Assistant] Look if they're a different way or like a different, just kind of different formation or whatever. So for me the best way to do that is just dance a bunch. And uh, it just kind of turns into posing slash dancing.


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[Assistant] I had a few really hectic weeks of photo shoots almost every day, and uhm,


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[Assistant] And then after, it'll probably, I'll have better posture and sort of be cover ready. Maybe cover, we'll hope. We're hoping for cover ready. But I come in kind of, I'll scrabbly like this.


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[Assistant] So I'm fully 17'd up, and uhm, they relaxed my hair.


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[Assistant] They made it a lot less curly. This is what ends up being the after effect of two hours of hair and makeup. So I'm gonna go do a cover try. And then a red dress. It's all looking very promising.


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[Assistant] But now I just go in and I'm like, put whatever you want on me.


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[Assistant] Uh oh, we got a dead person. We got a dead person. Worst.


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[Assistant] Where's the dead person? Shit! Ah, should I just...


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[Assistant] And I was just sitting there like, aw man, I wonder who forgot to do-


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[Assistant] Oh, that's how you unlock doors? What. The. Fuck?


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[Assistant] Welcome to day 27. Today, you're gonna continue with case working and refine your skills. This time, I'm gonna give you another level of refinement.


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[Assistant] If you've been doing this right, you should be at around 6 cases minimum. Maybe you're at 10 or beyond.


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[Assistant] Does the approach change when you get beyond 10 cases? Well, what Silva found is that case working is such a powerful way of training the mind that as you get to 10 and beyond, it seems to activate abilities in you where you can get to the alpha and theta level of mind faster and increase your accuracy.


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[Assistant] Now, what this means is that the more cases you do, the faster you can get to alpha and the more waking psychic ability you can generate. Here are the rules. For the first 10 cases when you're working with your partner, count down using the 3 to 1 method than the 10 to 1 deepening exercise.


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[Assistant] By the time you finish 10 cases and you're on case 11, you can streamline the approach. Your body and mind are getting used to this. So now you can go straight to alpha simply by doing the deepening countdown.


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[Assistant] You've again fine-tuned your ability. You should be able to get to alpha even faster. So this time you don't even have to go ten to one. You could simply count down from three to one. I mean like this. Three. Two. One.


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[Assistant] And you're there. That's how fast it can be. When you've done 30 cases, you can enter your clavium level by simply closing your eyes, taking a deep breath and exhaling.


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[Assistant] You're training your mind to dip into altered states in faster and faster amounts of time. Now, when you've done 40 cases and you're onto the 41st case, once again, you're going to shift the process. At that point, you don't even need to take a deep breath, nor do you even need to close your eyes. You can enter your center by simply defocusing your eyes. I'm doing that right now. And instantly access your intuitive ability.


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[Assistant] This can be useful if you're in a business meeting and you're trying to tap into intuition to create and generate an idea, but you don't want people who are used to be always a functioning of the world to think that you might be taking a quick nap, you know?


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[Assistant] This is the path to waking psychic ability. And when you unleash this gift, your whole world starts to change. You become one of those rare individuals who is not just blindly setting goals, blindly pushing through in life.


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[Assistant] You have an inner guidance mechanism, a compass that ensures that you're always working on things which are moving you towards what your soul needs you to do. And that is an incredible gift to unlock within yourself.


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[Assistant] The Inspector is a new and very useful tool in Petrel. It was put into Petrel 2012. Very rudimentary, could not do much in it. They added more in Petrel 2013.


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[Assistant] X, Y, Z values that you have clicked on here. You can also do, as I said before, some limited editing, also changing the way it looks. In this case, if you want the bore holes to be thicker, come down here to the style area. Here it has the path name and the slider bar controls the thickness. Narrow over here to the left with the 50, you can change it.


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[Assistant] Under general it will tell you information about the exact location you click on. And down here under the operations area.


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[Assistant] We have smoothing and elevate as different types of operations that you can do. Elevate.


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[Assistant] Again, change these numbers. The smoother will be click on that icon to do the smooth.


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[Assistant] So you can see quite a bit of difference between this surface and this surface.


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[Assistant] Again, open the inspector, get into select mode. This is in an intersection window. Click on the seismic. It gives you some information about this seismic cue.


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[Assistant] Up here under colors, you can use these slider bars to change what the color looks like. You can get a new vintage, you can get an entire new color table.


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[Assistant] And change it to whatever you want it to be. You can come down here and manipulate the pain. Go to a different inline or crossline.


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[Assistant] Click on the little camera and it copies the values out and you can paste them into Excel so you can see the information around where you clicked.


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[Assistant] The inspector can be used on virtually any type of data.


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[Assistant] We can see the color table is called general continuous. Same for a porosity log. General continuous.


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[Assistant] The same color table here. General continuous.


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[Assistant] Same thing, except now we're in the petrophysical templates folder.


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[Assistant] So anything that is over 150 in gamma, as long as we have this use limits from property template set, anything over 150 will be this red, our top limit. As far as porosity goes, anything above 0.5 will be also that red top limit. If we want to set it smaller,


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[Assistant] And you get a list that looks like this. All the color tables in your patrol project in alphabetical order will be listed here. You can have them grouped by folders if you want. You can filter them by putting a name in here or a few letters in here and anything that contains those letters will come up.


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[Assistant] Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine. My name is Nate the Great. I am a detective. I have a dog, Sludge. He is a detective too. He helps me with my cases.


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[Assistant] But one day, I had to help Sludge with his case.


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[Assistant] It was Valentine's Day. Sludge was napping in his doghouse. I tiptoed up to it.


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[Assistant] I saw a big red paper heart taped to the outside of the house. Something was printed on the heart.


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[Assistant] I love you, sludge. More than fudge.


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[Assistant] Someone had given Sludge a Valentine.


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[Assistant] I was glad that no one had given me a valentine. I, Nate the Great, do not like mushy words or slushy words. I, Nate the Great, do not want to be anyone's valentine. Sludge came out of his doghouse. I showed him his valentine. It was signed with initials A, B, H.


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[Assistant] Who is ABH? I asked Sludge. Sludge sniffed the valentine. And sniffed it. He did not know who it was from either. He looked at me.


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[Assistant] You want me to help you find out who sent you this valentine I asked?


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[Assistant] This is not my kind of case, but Sludge is my kind of dog. I wrote a note to my mother. Dear mother, I am on a Valentine case.


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[Assistant] Somebody loves sludge more than fudge. When I find out who, I will be back. Love, Nate the Great.


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[Assistant] Sludge and I looked for footprints around his doghouse. Sludge carried his valentine in his mouth while he looked. He liked it. We did not see any footprints. I was thinking, what clues do I have?


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[Assistant] The printing on the valentine was made with stencils. Anybody could have done it.


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[Assistant] And anybody could have stuck the valentine on the doghouse. Who do Sludge and I know? We know Rosamond, Oliver, Claude, Annie, Annie's little brother Harry, Esmeralda, Pip, and Finley.


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[Assistant] None of them have the initials ABH.


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[Assistant] I saw Annie and her dog Fang coming toward us. Fang will never be anybody's Valentine. I have a case for you, Annie said. I can't find a Valentine that I made. Please look for it.


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[Assistant] I already have a Valentine case, I said. Somebody gave Sludge a Valentine, but we don't know who.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, take only one case at a time. I must find my Valentine, Annie said. Please. I wrote another note to my mother. Dear Mother,


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[Assistant] Two Valentine cases. I will be back. Love, Nate the Great. Tell me about your missing Valentine, I said to Annie.


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[Assistant] This morning, Rosamond and I each made a valentine at my house, Annie said.


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[Assistant] Rosamond called them Valin Twins. Valin Twins?


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[Assistant] Yes, because her valentine and my valentine looked exactly alike. We each cut out a big red paper heart. We each printed, I love you on our hearts. Then what happened? I asked. Rosamond went home with her valentine and he said, I began to sign my name on mine. I was going to give it to my little brother, Harry, but Fang came into my room. He looked hungry.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, knew that look very well. Fang and I went to the kitchen, Annie said. I gave him some kibbles. When I got back to my room, my Valentine was gone.


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[Assistant] Did Rosamond tell you who she was making her valentine for? I asked. No, Annie said. What does that have to do with my case? Nothing, I said.


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[Assistant] But I am on two cases at the same time. Remember? I pointed to sludge.


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[Assistant] Please, look at the Valentine's sludge is carrying. Does that look like the ones that you and Rosamond made? Yes, Annie said, except that there's more printed on this one. And this one also has initials.


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[Assistant] Rosamond's Valentine and my Valentine just said, I love you.


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[Assistant] But then, you started to sign yours, I said.


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[Assistant] Yes, but I didn't get very far, Annie said.


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[Assistant] Say that Rosamond made her Valentine for sludge. Why would she do that? Annie asked. Only Rosamond knows, I said.


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[Assistant] Last year she made a valentine for the man in the moon. So, you've solved your case, Annie said. Not quite, I said.


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[Assistant] Sludge's Valentine was signed with the initials ABH. Those are not Rosamond's initials. Why would she print them on her valentine?


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[Assistant] Before I solve a case, all the pieces have to fit.


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[Assistant] Do you have any clues in my case? Annie asked. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Show me where your Valentine was the last time you saw it. We all walked to Annie's house. We went to her room. She pointed to her desk. The Valentine was right here, she said. I looked at Annie's desk.


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[Assistant] There were pencils and stencils and paste and red paper on it. No Valentine. Sludge was sniffing the desk. There are no clues on this desk, I said to him. But Sludge kept sniffing.


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[Assistant] I peered over and under and back of, in front of, and inside of things. I could not find Annie's Valentine.


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[Assistant] Your valentine is not in this room, I said. Tell me.


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[Assistant] He could have gone to your room while you were in the kitchen. I suppose, Annie said, but he wouldn't have taken the valentine.


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[Assistant] So, you like to give, but Harry doesn't like to get, I said. That could be important. Then again, it might not be important. I must talk to Harry. Where is he? And he shrugged. He disappeared when the valentine disappeared. Aha! I said. That could be a big clue. Where does Harry like to go?


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[Assistant] He likes to go to Rosamond's house to play with her hexes, Annie said. Her hexes? You know, Rosamond's cats.


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[Assistant] She has a super hex, a big hex, a plain hex, and a little hex. Yes, I said. Rosamond has a hex for all occasions. Suddenly, I, Nate the Great, thought of something. I have just solved the case, I said. Oh, great, Annie said.


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[Assistant] Where's my valentine? No, not your case, Sludge's case.


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[Assistant] I have not been thinking strange enough. If I had, I would have known that the pieces fit. I must speak to Rosamond. And look for Harry, Annie said.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, do not like to go to Rosamond's house. But now, I had two reasons to go there.


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[Assistant] Annie, Sludge, Fang and I rushed to Rosamond's house. Rosamond was sitting on her floor.


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[Assistant] Making a strange squishy brown valentine. Her four cats were crawling all over her.


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[Assistant] I am on two cases, I said. I need Harry for one, and you for the other.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, say that you made this valentine for sludge and signed it A-B-H. Those are the initials for A Big Hex.


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[Assistant] This valentine was from big hex to sludge, right? Wrong, Rosamond said.


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[Assistant] This valentine looks like the one I made except for the sludge part and the initials.


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[Assistant] You didn't add words or initials to yours, I asked. I added words, Rosamond said. But these are not the words.


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[Assistant] Besides, I would never do a strange thing like make a valentine for a cat to give to a dog.


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[Assistant] Rosamond would do even stranger things, but I did not want to go into that.


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[Assistant] I made my valentine for a person, Rosamond said, but it's a secret who? Right now, I am making a valentine out of liver for my cats. They haven't been eating their liver lately.


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[Assistant] It's too good to throw away, so I am changing it into something different. Want to watch my cats eat their Valentine? It was time to leave. I said to Annie,


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[Assistant] Go to your house and wait there, in case Harry comes back. Sludge and I went home.


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[Assistant] I have to eat pancakes, I said to Sludge. I have to think.


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[Assistant] I have to think twice as hard as I would if I had only one case to solve.


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[Assistant] I made some pancakes. I gave Sludge a bone. I thought about Sludge's case. Sludge is a great dog. Everybody loves him. Anybody could have given him the valentine. That was no help to me. I thought about Annie's case.


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[Assistant] The only person who could have taken the valentine meant for Harry was Harry.


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[Assistant] But Annie said that Harry doesn't like Valentines. I made more pancakes. What had I learned at Rosamond's house? I learned what she did with liver that her cats didn't want. If that was a clue, it was a strange one. What had I learned at Annie's house? Sludge had kept sniffing at Annie's desk, where her Valentine had been. Was that a clue? Perhaps.


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[Assistant] But what case was it a clue for? Sludge's case? Or Annie's case? Or both? Did it matter?


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[Assistant] Perhaps I could use a clue from one case to help solve another case.


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[Assistant] I picked up Sludge's Valentine, where he dropped it while he chewed his bone.


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[Assistant] There had to be a reason why Sludge's Valentine looked like Annie's and Rosamond's.


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[Assistant] But Rosamond said she had made hers for a secret person.


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[Assistant] And Annie said she had made hers for her brother, Harry.


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[Assistant] I stared at the initials, A B H. I now knew they didn't mean a big hex. But they had to be somebody's initials. Who would sign A B H?


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[Assistant] Suddenly I, Nate the Great, had a lot of pieces that fit. We must go back to Annie's house, I said.


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[Assistant] Sludge dropped his bone and picked up his valentine. We went to Annie's house. Sludge sniffed Annie's desk again.


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[Assistant] I have solved your case, I said to Annie. See how sludge is sniffing your desk? That's because his valentine was once on your desk. His valentine was your valentine. What? Annie said.


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[Assistant] How much of your name did you print on your valentine before you had to stop? I asked. Just A, Annie said.


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[Assistant] I was going to finish with N N I E.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, say that your brother Harry saw the valentine you made for him.


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[Assistant] He didn't want it, so he added the words sludge more than fudge.


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[Assistant] Then he added B and H to the A you had signed. ABH stands for Annie's Brother Harry.


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[Assistant] Then he took the valentine to sludge's doghouse and stuck it there. But...


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[Assistant] Why didn't he just throw away the valentine instead of doing all of that? Annie asked.


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[Assistant] For the same reason Rosamond could not throw away the liver, I said.


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[Assistant] Remember when she told us it was too good to throw away? So she changed it into something different? Harry did not want to throw away something good either. The valentine you made for him.


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[Assistant] So he changed it into something different, a valentine for sludge. But why sludge? Annie asked. Look how much sludge likes it, I said. Harry had a very good idea. I will never make another valentine for Harry, Annie said. Harry will be glad to hear that, I said. I turned to go.


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[Assistant] I had solved Annie's case. I had solved Sludge's case. They were the same case. Sludge and I walked home. I saw something stuck to my front door.


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[Assistant] I had gotten a Valentine after all. I knew who it was from. I knew what I did not want to know. I was Rosamond's secret person. I walked up to the door.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, was about to read that Rosamond loves me. I was not ready for that. I would never be ready for that. But I had to face it. I read, I love you, Nate, because you're great. I had to take this valentine off my door. But if I touched it, it would be mine.


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[Assistant] Perhaps the valentine would fall off by itself, or blow away, rot, die. I, Nate the Great, could wait. I stepped backward. I knew another house where I could wait. Sludge was very glad to have me.


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[Assistant] Nate the Great and the Big Sniff. Chapter 1 The Long Wait


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[Assistant] My name is Nate the Great. I am a detective. My dog, Sludge, is a detective too.


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[Assistant] Today, I had my biggest case ever. But Sludge couldn't help me.


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[Assistant] Because looking for Sludge was the case. Sludge was missing. Lost. Gone. I had to find him.


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[Assistant] This morning, Sludge and I went out to shop. We went to my favorite store.


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[Assistant] Weinman Brothers. Sludge isn't allowed in stores.


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[Assistant] I go in and Sludge waits outside. Sludge is great at waiting. He likes to watch people go by. He always finds a few he likes to sniff.


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[Assistant] I am going to buy one thing, I said to Sludge. I will be right back.


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[Assistant] Sludge wagged his tail and sat down. I walked into the store.


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[Assistant] I was looking for a present for sludge. I went straight to the pet department. I found a nice dog bowl. And a long line of people.


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[Assistant] They were all waiting to buy things. I went to the end of the line. Then I, Nate the Great, counted. I was waiter number 21. I could grow old waiting in this line. The seasons could change. The world could change. Pancakes could disappear. And Sludge would still be waiting. I put down the bowl. I walked away. I went outside.


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[Assistant] I looked for Sludge. I saw big puddles. The air smelled of rain. Sludge! I called. Woof! I heard a dog's bark. I turned around. Annie and her dog, Fang, were standing there. Fang is big and scary. Today his teeth were wet and gleaming. Are you looking for Sludge? Annie asked. I saw him sitting out here. It started to rain.


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[Assistant] He sat down on the thing that opens the store door, she said. The door opened. Sludge looked surprised. He walked into the store. He walked in? I asked. Then what? Sludge shook himself off. He sat down and waited. For you, I guess. A sales lady came over with a towel. She started to wipe him off. Then another sales lady yelled at him.


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[Assistant] You're not a shopper. You have no money. Leave. She grabbed Sludge, but he slipped away. You slippy, sloppy dog, she yelled after him. Then what happened, I asked. Sludge ran into the hat department. I couldn't see him anymore, so Fang and I went after him.


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[Assistant] But the mean lady stopped us. She looked at Fang and said, Too many teeth!


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[Assistant] Bad breath and no money. Out? Then what? Fang growled at her. She screamed and stepped back.


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[Assistant] I took Fang outside. A minute later, you came along. You missed sludge.


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[Assistant] I must go to the hat department, I said.


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[Assistant] Fang and I will wait here, Annie said, in case Ludge comes back outside.


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[Assistant] Thing is, he can go back in and get sludge past that lady. He and I will guard the door. If we get sludge, we will find you.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, rushed back into the store. And he called after me.


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[Assistant] Don't forget, sludge looks slippy, sloppy. It could be a clue. I went to the hat department. There were hats of every size and shape.


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[Assistant] But I did not see sludge. I looked for wet paw prints. Perhaps there was a trail. Nothing. I went up to a salesman. There was a wet dog, I began.


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[Assistant] The man pointed to the left. That way, he said. I rushed to the underwear department. No sludge. Could he be hiding from that mean lady? But where could he hide? I saw a sign. Dressing rooms.


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[Assistant] I did not want to peek into those rooms. I did not want to look at underwear with anyone inside it. But, I had to find sludge. I went to the dressing rooms.


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[Assistant] Sludge, I called. Somebody peeked out from a dressing room.


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[Assistant] Somebody who looked strange. Very strange.


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[Assistant] It was Rosamond. She was wearing a night shirt that had meow printed across the front. It was much too small for her.


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[Assistant] I'm shopping, she said. This is for my cat, Big Hex. I buy all my cat's clothes here.


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[Assistant] Have you seen Sludge? I asked. Yes, she said. I saw him run in and out of this department. I don't blame him. There's not a thing here for dogs. Thank you for that information, I said. I left. Where could Sludge have gone? Chapter 4 Lost. My best friend. I needed clues.


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[Assistant] I always eat pancakes when I can't solve a case. They help me think.


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[Assistant] I knew there was a cafeteria at the back of the store. They serve great pancakes. But I did not want to go there. I was not hungry. I was sad. I was thinking about Sludge. How I had first met him in a field. How he had become my dog and my best friend. And now he was lost. I went to a payphone.


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[Assistant] I called home. The answering machine came on. I left a message for my mother.


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[Assistant] Dear mother, I am on my biggest case. Sludge is lost. I will be back. I hope Sludge will be too. Love, Nate the Great. I hung up. Where should I look next?


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[Assistant] In this big store, who would know where sludge might be?


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[Assistant] Of course, I, Nate the Great, rushed to the lost and found department. Chapter five. On the run. I saw somebody I knew.


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[Assistant] It was not sludge. It was Claude. Claude spends a big part of his life in lost and found. The lost part.


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[Assistant] Claude is always losing things. I went up to him. I have lost sludge, I said. I saw him, Claude said. Where? At your house on Sunday, Claude said. He wasn't lost then, I said. Oh, right, Claude said. Claude pointed to a man sitting at a desk.


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[Assistant] He knows what's lost and what's found. Talk to him.


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[Assistant] He's been spotted all over the place.


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[Assistant] Nobody who sees him will ever forget him. I'll tell you that.


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[Assistant] But we can't catch him. He just runs and runs. I haven't had a report for five minutes. He could be anywhere. Runs and runs, I said. Hmm. Hmm, what? The man asked. A clue, I said. I walked away. Chapter 6 The Tip of a Tale


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[Assistant] Sludge could be tired by now, I thought. Nobody has seen him run for five minutes. I rushed to the bed department. It was full of beds. A great place to rest.


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[Assistant] I looked on the beds and under them. I looked for dog hairs and paw prints and a dog. Suddenly.


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[Assistant] I saw what looked like the tip of a tail. It was under a bed. Was I dreaming? Was I hoping too hard? I got closer. It was a dog's tail!


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[Assistant] Fang crawled out from under the bed, and he came running. There you are, Fang, she yelled. What's Fang doing in the store? I asked.


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[Assistant] I thought I saw a sludge, Annie said. So I ran inside. Fang followed me. You saw a sludge? I asked. No, it was a mistake.


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[Assistant] Yes, she said every guard should have one. I sat down on a bed.


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[Assistant] So Fang is the dog who's been running around the store, I said. And scaring the customers, Annie said. I, Nate the Great, was sunk.


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[Assistant] I should have guessed that the running dog was Fang. The man said that nobody who saw him would ever forget him. I should have known that was a clue. The kind of clue I did not want to hear. Chapter 7 Think like a dog. Annie and Fang left. I, Nate the Great, lay down on the bed. I was tired.


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[Assistant] I had used my feet too much and my head too little. I had to think. Where would a dog go in the store? Suddenly, I had the answer.


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[Assistant] Kibbles, leashes, bowls, dog houses, bones. Where the good stuff was. I rushed back to the pet department. I counted 11 people still in line. But Sludge wasn't one of them. I went to the dog food.


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[Assistant] No sludge. I went to the dog toys. No sludge. I went to the dog houses. Maybe sludge would be asleep inside. I looked in every one of them. No sludge. Maybe sludge had been here and left. I walked up to the head of the line. Excuse me, I said to the man behind the counter.


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[Assistant] I am in a hurry. I am on a big case. I am looking for a wet dog. A slippy, sloppy dog.


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[Assistant] A slippy sloppy dog? He said. And it has a tail, right? I nodded. A fur? Of course! And it barks? Yes! The man chuckled. Nice try. He said.


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[Assistant] But if you want to buy something, you have to go to the end of the line.


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[Assistant] I remember you when you were number 21. I, Nate the Great, walked away. I sat down on a dog mat. This was my most important case and I could not solve it.


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[Assistant] Sludge always helped me with my cases. But now he was the case. He could not help me. Or could he? Sludge was a great detective. Was he trying to find me? Was he sniffing all over the store? No. He was afraid the mean lady would get him. He had to hide. But he had to find me too.


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[Assistant] I rushed to the back of the store, to the cafeteria, where the pancakes are. People were sitting and eating. There was a room behind the cafeteria.


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[Assistant] There was a trail of flower going in and out of the room.


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[Assistant] They were boxes and cans and jars and sacks.


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[Assistant] Sitting on a torn sack of flour was SLUDGE. He was sniffing. He rushed toward me. He gave me a big sniff, then he wagged his tail and licked me all over.


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[Assistant] Sludge, you are a great detective, I said. You knew I had a case to solve. You knew I always eat pancakes to help solve a case. So you sniffed out this pancake place, and you sat and waited.


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[Assistant] You knew you could sniff me from your hiding place when I showed up. And that's what you did. Sludge looked proud. This had been his biggest case too. I looked at the trail of flower paw prints. Did Sludge leave it on purpose? Or did it just happen to happen? I would never know. But I didn't care.


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[Assistant] I only cared that I had found Sludge. Or he had found me. Whatever. I said, we both deserve a treat. Wait here. I went back to the cafeteria.


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[Assistant] Five pancakes to go, I said. And a bone.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great and Sludge sat on the torn sack of flour and ate the best meal we had ever had.


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[Assistant] Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson where we're going to talk about English words.


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[Assistant] That just nicely go together in the English language.


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[Assistant] We sometimes will say one word and then there's another word that just naturally goes along with it. These aren't co-locations. That's not what this lesson's about. This lesson is about things like hammer and nails.


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[Assistant] Or coffee and a donut. That's a very North American thing to say. But these are words that


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[Assistant] When I'm speaking English, when I say one word, I almost always naturally in the same conversation use the other word at the same time. So I think you'll enjoy this. You'll enjoy seeing how these words go together. And something interesting Jen and I noticed as we were brainstorming these words.


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[Assistant] We usually say them, most of these, in the order I will give them to you.