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[Assistant] Uh, trade, foreign direct investment, um, also down. So in a way, this thing that we could call deglobalisation, states and regions becoming more important.


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[Assistant] Your local economy, if you like, to the global economy, that's already happening. And this was happening prior to the crisis of 2020.


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[Assistant] And so now in the course of this crisis, we get these huge interventions, unprecedented in peacetime. And what's the actor doing those interventions? Well, the actor is a nation states primarily, although that's more complicated in the special case of the European Union.


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[Assistant] So that creates a very clear choice, I think. We can have a progressive retrenchment away from the hyper globalisation of the last four decades. We can protect international organisations.


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[Assistant] And have, by having a managed de-globalisation, what we call in the report a multilateralist de-globalisation. And that's really important because that will allow us to have more democracy over our economy because it will come closer to the states and regions where people live.


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[Assistant] Likely outcome is that we have a kind of nationalistic and authoritarian deglobalisation, one characterised by trade wars, we get an indication of what that looks like already with the conflict between China and the United States, beggar thy neighbour economic policies and a deepening


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[Assistant] Domestically and internationally of ethnic, uh, nationalism. So a kind of nationalistic.


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[Assistant] Unraveling of the global economy. I believe broadly that that's the choice that coronavirus poses to everyone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, great. Uhm, should I go first and then say, alright.


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[Assistant] So, uh, yeah, so I'll go to Shalini first. I thank you for the ideas, as you commented. Uhm, I, I agree with, you know, the pitch of soft authoritarianism. I think the direction I would like to take this concept


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[Assistant] And this idea will find a heuristic that captures the link between climate change.


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[Assistant] Uh, social inequality and the new authoritarianism because I think it's on those issues where


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[Assistant] Which is so epochal in this century to deal with, so significant. I think it's there where the authoritarianism, not in...


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[Assistant] Is an obstacle to tackling climate change.


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[Assistant] I haven't read the ECFR report you've mentioned yet, but I certainly will do, and I think that this question of who is the constituency to address social inequality is clearly the critical one. I think we definitely need a modern conception of what labour is, so labour is


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[Assistant] I have talked about it in another report, uhm, with this idea of our LSE colleague, uh, Andres Rodriguez-Pose's idea of, uhm, geographies of discontent. I find this very as an explanation for the rise of populism in Europe.


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[Assistant] I find this a very persuasive, uh, it's economic geography and it's quite quantitative based, but I find the argument very persuasive.


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[Assistant] Because he points out it is the places that don't matter, as he puts it, not the people that don't matter, i.e. in many of the towns and small cities across Europe where authoritarian populism has really taken root, it's often middle class.


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[Assistant] A caveat or another way of putting at it as well that's quite influenced by, uh, David Edgerton. He's got a Guardian article out, uh, this week where he makes this point, but it's also in his book, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation. And I find his argument quite persuasive too.


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[Assistant] And he says, well, yes, there is. Uhm, the role of colonialism is so important as a lineage.


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[Assistant] He's talking about things like, um, the, uh, sweeping spirit of 1945 nationalizations, uh, the way in which these were racialized and the way in which


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[Assistant] But then in other ways, uhm, it's also about and what has been historically about a rejection of the presence of colonial subjects from the Empire in Britain and this was really important to the National Front and so on.


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[Assistant] In, in the 1980s. So I think there's parts of that contradiction that are present in the Brexit project. You know, what is it? Like, is it a project of national


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[Assistant] Yes, look, I agree that there are profound tendencies to cultural globalisation and there have been for a very long time and indeed that these will not go away. I think my hesitancy around


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[Assistant] The question when talking about the rise of authoritarianism is that I feel that cultural globalisation does not offer much protection from authoritarian, ehm, globalisation.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think, so sorry to use positivist language, but I think it's like kind of what you could call a second order consideration when it comes to the rise of the contemporary authoritarianism, because we have


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[Assistant] You know, I'm thinking here, I have, you know, a colleague of mine from an institution I used to work at once commented to me at the time,


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[Assistant] Of the last French presidential elections that her daughter's, um, school, many of the parents who are living in London and in her words, enjoyed the cosmopolitan lifestyle that London offered, saw no contradiction between that cultural globalisation and voting for Marine Le Pen.


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[Assistant] To, to, to, to backing the politics of America first, uhm, in the United States. And if we can go, you know, further back, I think this has some resonances, say, with the Belle Epoque of the late 18th


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[Assistant] And 19th, late 19th and early 20th centuries, you know, a profound moment of cultural globalisation, the European festivals, the festival of the infamous colonial festival in Paris in 1902, you know, these were


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[Assistant] These were clearly great events for European cosmopolitanism in quite a colonial basis.


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[Assistant] And I suppose finally what's interesting about China and contemporary Chinese authoritarianism is that unlike Donald Trump and his brand of


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[Assistant] China supports an integrated, multilateral global order. It wants to keep the show on the road as much as possible.


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[Assistant] Sorry, sorry Mary, I was muted. Uhm, I think the question from, excuse my pronunciation, Abhidhya Subramanian, an incoming LSE student would be interesting. And yeah, I agree with asking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is. Shall I just read it out? Given the nature of our capital captured democracy, that means the alternative to these nationalist politicians are liberal laissez-faire globalists. Oh, it's just disappeared.


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[Assistant] Uhm, politicians that continue to perpetuate the sort of economic and educational inequality that leads to people voting for nationalists. How do we escape from this cycle of centre-ground liberals, authoritarian centre-ground liberals? I think that's worth talking about.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel terrible to come to the defence of Keir Starmer on this, but I feel I have to because that specific comment that has been attributed to him was about the net 2030


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[Assistant] So given that the next general election, uhm, is likely to take place in 2024,


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[Assistant] Like that would mean, uhm, an extraordinary, uh, six years to achieve.


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[Assistant] I'm totally, uhm, cautious, uhm, around the new Labour leadership. I hope very much that they don't move away from the Green New Deal and a host of other policies. But I mean, Ed Miliband, the Business Secretary, Shadow Business Secretary, is a big supporter.


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[Assistant] And I think that links to this centre ground liberals authoritarianism cycle, because, question, because here, I think we can be a little bit more, afford to be a little bit more optimistic, uhm, not, uhm, around, in my, to my view,


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[Assistant] The, uh, reduced threat from authoritarianism, as Shalini just outlined, but I think that there is limited


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[Assistant] Really, uh, answer around, well, political authority in the European Union.


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[Assistant] And I think this links to the points that Mary made at the beginning too, and apologies if I misinterpreted the argument around cultural globalisation. But, you know, I think it is easier for citizens to


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[Assistant] relate to points of authority that are closer.


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[Assistant] And its hybridity is both a source of strength and a source of weakness, because particularly as we've seen over recent years, if an authoritarian nationalist, you know, like Orban, has a continued, you know, point of antagonism to use the European Union as a whipping, uhm,


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[Assistant] So there are positive signs, like clearly on austerity, and I think again that relates to the centre-ground liberal


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[Assistant] Position having less political room


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the 750 billion Euro, um, program, et cetera. You know, that's a huge, potentially exciting.


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[Assistant] Uh, political shift by, you know, I agree with Mary that that also has to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, be connected to new forms of democratization too that link that institution, uh, to, uh, European citizens at the same time and, you know, deals with not just, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, economic question, but political injustices and here, as we've discussed today, the most obvious one being the complete abysmal, murderous border regime that exists in, uh, in the Mediterranean energy and seas. And the final point, I think there was a question around


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[Assistant] How bad the Greek government is. You will not find it in the Guardian newspaper, unfortunately.


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[Assistant] But Google the name of what is not defamatory to say, a very close family friend of the Mitsotakis family, the Marinakis family. He is a big ship builder. You can find out what a colorful character he is from his Wikipedia page.


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[Assistant] Round and around and around. Now open your eyes. What do you see?


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[Assistant] We didn't make it strong enough. Then let's try again.


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[Assistant] Oh, but it's still not quite strong enough. Then let's try again!


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[Assistant] But no good for us. Ohhh. Then let's give it to someone else.


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[Assistant] I wish we had a nest of our own to play in. But we do!


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[Assistant] Guess how much I love you.


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[Assistant] More than all the different nests in the, uh, world.


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[Assistant] My question has to do with unintended consequences. I, uh, I think that, uhm, if you talk about


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[Assistant] But it has, despite all of the power of Azure, uh, incalculable consequences perhaps for the food chain.


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[Assistant] And even with MOOCs, again, wonderful opportunities, but also the potential for homogenizing education and information and controlling what, what education, uh, what shape education takes. So the question is, how do you think about those unintended and incalculable consequences?


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[Assistant] And they're getting into your picnic basket. All healthy, all healthy stuff.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy. I am in a really good mood today. So I decided to make a video about expressions, English expressions, related to happiness.


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[Assistant] Now if you're wondering why I'm so happy, honestly there's no single reason. It's just life is really fun right now. The channel's going well. I think we're just about to hit 300,000 subscribers, which is amazing. Uhm, I'm moving house soon.


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[Assistant] The sun is coming out, the days are gonna start getting longer.


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[Assistant] Just really happy. So those are the reasons I'm happy. When you've finished watching this video, please do comment below and tell me something that's made you happy recently. And if you want to use one of these expressions, you are more than welcome. Now, a lot of you have been asking, where is your 250,000 subscriber Q&A video with your dad?


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[Assistant] That was a mouthful. And the answer is, my dad is an extremely busy man. I didn't realise how busy he was. And so it's been hard to pin him down. It's been hard to get him and make him stay in one place. So hopefully this week I'll be able to film it with him. So it should be uploaded quite soon.


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[Assistant] So look forward to that. Quickly before we get started, this video is going to help your speaking and your listening. It's going to help your speaking because I'm going to teach you new phrases or new expressions to use and it will improve your listening because you'll be able to understand what natives mean when they use these expressions.


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[Assistant] But if you want to take your listening to the next level, don't forget to sign up to audible.com. I can offer you a free audiobook and a free 30 day trial. All you have to do is click on the link in the description box and I've just found out that you can listen to Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry.


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[Assistant] And if you don't know who Stephen Fry is, I'll see if I can get a picture here.


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[Assistant] Steven Fry, he's a comedian, and he speaks with received pronunciation, so that could be a really good one to download if you want to practice your received pronunciation. Right!


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[Assistant] Let's get started with the video. The first expression relating to happiness is to be over the moon.


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[Assistant] So, I can say that last Thursday I passed my driving test and I was over the moon because I had to try three times. Yes, that was my third test. Yeah, I was completely over the moon because driving is not something that has come naturally to me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it really bothered me for a long time that I couldn't drive, but now I can. So, I'm over the moon. The next expression related to happiness is to have a whale of a time.


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[Assistant] And to have a whale of a time, well, you guess what this one means. Let me use this one in an example and see if you can guess what it means. Just a clue, it has nothing to do with whales.


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[Assistant] So I went to a ball on Saturday and a ball is like a posh party. You normally have dinner and then you can dance. I went to a ball on Saturday with a group of friends and I had a whale of a time.


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[Assistant] Now the next one, number three, is actually a slang expression, but I think it's really important that you guys know this one. We definitely use it a lot in England. It is to be buzzing.


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[Assistant] Now, if you say, oh, I'm buzzing, it means I'm really exhilarated.


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[Assistant] Really enthusiastic, really happy, really excited about something. So it means I've got positive emotions in my body and it is a good feeling, okay?


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[Assistant] So I could say I've just booked my tickets for La Feria de Sevilla, which I seem to mention all the time, but I am buzzing! I cannot wait to go! So that is a perfect situation, a perfect example of the word buzzing, because I literally am buzzing.


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[Assistant] Okay, number four is to be happy as Larry.


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[Assistant] Who is Larry? It doesn't matter because it's not relevant. I don't know who Larry is. I'm sure one of you will Google the etymology of happy is Larry and find out.


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[Assistant] But to be happy as Larry means to be really, really happy. So I might ask, you know, does John like his new job?


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[Assistant] And you could reply saying, yes, he is happy as Larry. He is as happy as Larry, meaning he is as happy as can be. The final expression relating to happiness is to be on top of the world.


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[Assistant] To be on top of the world, and to be on top of the world means, you guessed it guys, it means to be really really happy, to be just elated.


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[Assistant] So delighted, so happy. Uhm, yeaah. So I would say, when I found out that I graduated from university with a first class degree, I was on top of the world.


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[Assistant] I was really, really amazed, happy and just buzzing.


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[Assistant] Right guys, that is it for today's lesson. I hope it brought a little bit of happiness into your life. And as I said before, I would love to hear about something that made you happy recently. Maybe using one of the expressions that we discussed today. Put it in the comments, I really am keen to hear about that.


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[Assistant] And don't forget to sign up for your free trial of audible.com. The link is in the description and you can connect with me on all of my social media. I have my Facebook page and my Instagram.


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[Assistant] I will see you soon for another lesson. Muah!


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[Assistant] And I built a snow cave to keep the food safe until tomorrow.


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[Assistant] You know, my little nut brown hair, this was the best day I've ever had.


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[Assistant] That was nice, yes. All very nice. But more important to me was that I spent the day with you. Yesterday when you were lost, I was so worried.


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[Assistant] So now it's my honor to introduce an individual whose imprint literally has touched our world and has become very much a part of our community here through the Bush Presidential Center.


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[Assistant] You will hear more about her achievements when we read the citation for her honorary degree.


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[Assistant] She also inherited a love of music, starting piano lessons at age three, taught by her maternal grandmother.


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[Assistant] When she told her parents she was changing her major to international relations, they wondered whether she would ever find a job.


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[Assistant] Her varied interests have taken her to the highest levels of public service and personal achievement. And we're delighted that her journey has brought her to our commencement ceremony today.


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[Assistant] I probably look a little bit different today, and that is because...


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[Assistant] Right, so it's around 27, 28 degrees outside, which, for England, is really really hot.


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[Assistant] Inside my flat, it's like a damn rainforest. It's humid muggy. That's a really good word. Muggy is when it's like heavy, hot, sticky air. Humidity.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I have a whole wall of windows which is great because it lets in loads of light, but it also contributes to a greenhouse effect in my flat and so I'm absolutely boiling. So.


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[Assistant] Couldn't bring myself to do my hair, because it would just, I'd put it in and then it would fall out again. And also, no turtlenecks today.


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[Assistant] We've got my Coca-Cola t-shirt instead, which, not sponsored, wish it was sponsored. Imagine having Coca-Cola sponsor you. Awesome.


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[Assistant] So today it's a really, really, really important video. Today I'm going to give you some advice on how to stop translating into your native language. Because a lot of people have this problem. I've asked lots of English learners and learners of other languages and they say,


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[Assistant] I would be able to speak so much more fluently if I could stop translating.


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[Assistant] Now, most of you probably already know this. If you're new to this channel, then I speak fluent Spanish and I'm actively learning Italian and I remember at the beginning of my Spanish learning journey,


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[Assistant] I really found it hard not to translate. And translating between English and Spanish can be really, really difficult and annoying because the word order is so different.


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[Assistant] Speaking from my own experience as a language learner and speaking from my experience as an English language teacher, I'm going to give you some advice and hopefully help you get over this massive, massive hurdle that's preventing you from improving.


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[Assistant] Firstly, before we get started, I'd just like to thank the sponsor of today's video, Lingoda. This is a company I've been working with for a while. I really, really believe in what they have on offer. They are an online language academy. They teach English, French, Spanish, and German.


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[Assistant] And you sign up on a monthly basis and you get a combination of group and private lessons taught via video chat.


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[Assistant] They have really, really great materials taught to you and delivered to you by real, native, qualified teachers.


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[Assistant] And if you look at the prices, it's actually very, very reasonable. It's often much more affordable to study with Lingoda than it is to go to a like an in-person language school. They've given me a discount for you. You can get 50 euros or dollars off your first month subscription at Lingoda by clicking on the link in the description box.


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[Assistant] Actually, let's do something fun. Tell me where you live and what temperature it is where you are right now, because I bet some of you are in like 40 degree heat. I know my friends in Seville are really suffering with the heat and I'm here with 27 degrees, dying. I'm very sensitive.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I've been thinking about this question for a long time and I have actually made some notes on my phone just because I want to get it in the right order for you.


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[Assistant] So bear with me. So, how to avoid translating into a native language.


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[Assistant] Well, the first tip I can give you and this will not apply to everyone,


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[Assistant] Don't start in the first place. If you're at like a beginner level of English,


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[Assistant] However, think back to when you were a baby, how did you acquire your first ever language? Your mother tongue?


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[Assistant] You learnt through observing, seeing, watching, hearing, smelling, tasting.


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[Assistant] Watching actions. You didn't learn through translation.


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[Assistant] Because you had nothing to base your translation on, because you had no mother tongue.


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[Assistant] So babies are capable of learning a language without any other language as reference, yet we find it incredibly difficult.


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[Assistant] So what you need to think is simplification.


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[Assistant] Babies start small and then over years and years and years they build their vocabulary. And you need to apply this to yourself as well. It's much more effective to learn vocabulary by observing and taking things in than it is to just, you know, look at something in the dictionary. And that brings me on to my next point. Oh my god, I'm so hot!


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[Assistant] And that brings me on to my next point, which is grab your bilingual dictionary and throb it


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[Assistant] Out of the window, don't do that, okay? It might land on somebody's head. Just place it to one side, very carefully, and then pick up your monolingual dictionary. Is that the word for it?


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[Assistant] And then pick up the dictionary in the language that you are learning. In many of your cases, it will be English. And start letting the language define itself.


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[Assistant] So with words like nouns and verbs, it can be a little difficult to understand, but that's where you need to learn through observation.


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[Assistant] When you're looking at adjectives, adverbs and other things like that, try to understand the definition in that same language first.


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[Assistant] Because what you're going to be doing is training yourself to think in the language that you're learning.


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[Assistant] Which brings me on to my third point. Oh my god, what a beautifully well planned out video this is. So my next two points are about thinking and speaking to yourself in that language. Now I actually recommend that you start by speaking out loud to yourself in the other language.


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[Assistant] I think I mentioned that in a video about conversation, improving your conversation and communication. If you're interested in that, then you can watch that video just up there.


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[Assistant] However, speaking to yourself in that other language is a really, really key factor in learning to think in the language.


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[Assistant] So, for example with Spanish, I'll be driving.


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[Assistant] And I'll describe the movements that I'm going to be making with the car. So I'll be like...


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[Assistant] That is what I do. Or I'll be pottering around my kitchen, cooking, and talking to myself about what I'm doing. And


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[Assistant] You will start to notice your own errors, especially when you hear yourself speaking out loud. Once you're comfortable speaking out loud to yourself in private, in that additional language, move on to starting to think.


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[Assistant] Now I think speaking should come before thinking, but that's just my opinion. Everybody learns in different ways. I personally think it's easier to spot errors and get comfortable when you're speaking out loud. Now the speaking out loud you should do in private.


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[Assistant] But the thinking, I want you to do it everywhere. On the bus, seeing what goes past.


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[Assistant] It can relate to the video I made on how to learn and remember vocabulary, which you can watch up here. It's a useful method where you observe everything around you and you check to see if you know it in your chosen language. The full explanation is in the video and some people have found that really, really useful.


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[Assistant] I know I found it useful. See if you can apply using a monolingual dictionary to that video. I think I recommend using a bilingual one. See if you can do it with an English dictionary.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so by thinking in English, and I'm talking about, you know, describing people, if you see someone walking, think to yourself, that man is walking. He is walking down the street.


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[Assistant] Or just going through your motions. I am getting off the bus. I am going to go to the shops. In your head, you're just starting to immerse yourself in the language.


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[Assistant] Ah, that beautiful word, immerse, to immerse yourself, brings me on to point number five, which is immersion.


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[Assistant] And that's actually one of my favourite words. I know I have a lot of favourite words, but immersion. Immersion. Mmm.


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[Assistant] That's nice. That's a nice word. So immersion is something that you should be doing throughout your learning experience. And it's something you can do whilst multitasking, which is one of my favourite things. So when I'm doing something that doesn't require 100% concentration, like cooking or cleaning, I


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[Assistant] Whatever, any task that allows you to listen to something else at the same time as doing something else, have something on in that language in the background. I know I'm saying it as if it's revolutionary.


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[Assistant] But really, don't forget to do it. I know you couldn't, you can waste so much time and miss out on so much learning. By, by having it on in the background and not even listening, you will be getting used to pronunciation and accents and by listening and concentrating on what they're saying,


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[Assistant] You will be familiarising yourself with certain grammar lexi, different vocabulary, but also you will notice where you are lacking. So if you listen to a radio program about... I always say photography, what can I...


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[Assistant] So if you listen to a radio program about politics, for example,


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[Assistant] My last point is make it daily. Focus on frequency and consistency. Okay? I always say to my students that 20 minutes a day of high quality, not even studying, just language acquisition,


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[Assistant] I sometimes surprise myself with the words that come out of my mouth. 20 minutes a day of high quality.


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[Assistant] English time, there we are, that sounds more like something Lucy would say, is much, much, much more valuable than 140 minutes all in one day.


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[Assistant] Make the general immersion and the thinking and the speaking to yourself something that you do throughout your day. Make it part of your routine. Make it, make it become automatic to you.


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[Assistant] You know I sometimes now go, you know, go for an hour thinking in Spanish.


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[Assistant] Uh, or, you know, thinking out loud in my head in Spanish, and then I, I realise and I go, God.


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[Assistant] You know, I just said something and I've just been speaking in Spanish the whole time and it's because I do it so often it becomes automatic. Then...


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[Assistant] The little tweaks and the little kind of self-help part that you're doing at the end which is


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[Assistant] You know, searching definitions for words, working on the grammar that you've identified that you're lacking in, or attempting to expand your vocabulary, that should be short and it should be daily. Right guys.


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[Assistant] As always, I want to know your opinions. Uhm, you guys are a bunch of extremely intelligent minds and I love, I love hearing your recommendations and I apply them to my daily life as well. So I'd love to know something that helps you stop translating into your native language.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm sure you've got lots to share. In my other video where I asked you how many languages you speak, some of you speak like seven languages, which is unbelievable. Uhm, really awesome, really impressive. Honoured to have a group of students like you guys. But yea, so please share your recommendations and your experience.


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[Assistant] In the comments below, and also constructive criticism is completely welcome. So if you don't agree with something I say, say it. Say it in a nice way, because I like everyone to be respectful here, but I'm not the goddess of English.


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[Assistant] What I say doesn't go, but I really do hope that I help you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's it for the video today. Don't forget to check out Lingoda and see if it's for you. The link is in the description box with my code INGLUCY6.


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[Assistant] And don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media. I've got my Facebook, my Instagram, and my Twitter. I will see you soon for another lesson. Mwah!


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[Assistant] My question is about Sophia and wisdom.


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[Assistant] In some of the other writings, these aeons and the many levels of heaven and creation and the beings that come from each other.


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[Assistant] I noticed in your, uhm, one of the lectures I heard online that you were giving


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[Assistant] In many of these Gnostic writings. So my question is


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[Assistant] Have you seen a parallel, uh, in particular with Sophia and the twelve that came?


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[Assistant] Described by Zechariah Sitchin and that are on the Sumerian tablets.


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[Assistant] And those gods that are written about in the Sumerian tablets, and in particular I'm thinking of Enki and Lil and those that came with him.


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[Assistant] Infinite in mystery is the gift of the goddess.


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[Assistant] We seek it thus and take to the sky.


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[Assistant] Ripples form on the water's surface. The wandering soul knows no rest.


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[Assistant] Settle down, Zack the puppy.


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[Assistant] It didn't take much to have them send false reports, just some mild threats.


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[Assistant] They had always betrayed me from the very beginning.


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[Assistant] I see. You finally made your decision. I'll respect your wishes, old friend. However...


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[Assistant] Can you really live on that side?


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[Assistant] I told you. You can't live on that side anymore.


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[Assistant] My friend, do you fly away now? To a world that abhors you and I?


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[Assistant] I don't see Sephiroth today, but are you gay?


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, my name is Dennis Lee, uh, from South Korea, especially Seoul.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then I study about transportation engineering as a bachelor's and urban planning as a master's in South Korea and finally attended, uh, real estate finance at NYU at Shatt. So first I want to talk about why I chose real estate. So, uh,


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[Assistant] Back to the time when I was in Seoul, uh, while I was studying about, uh, like urban planning, uh, my research was related to smart city, such as potentially gentrifying area, uh, and then build the environment affecting the walk satisfaction or like traffic accidents.


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[Assistant] So in this period, I was thinking to, okay, then I want to apply this analytics skill set into real estate investment by analyzing tons of big data.


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[Assistant] Uh, NYU, because NYU, you know, first of all, first of all, like the locational, the strengths, because, uh, so NYU is located in like Manhattan.


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[Assistant] That's all because it's really easy to meet people here. And then there are a lot of the part-time professor and students.


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[Assistant] Who are working and then studying at the same time. So for me is that, okay, then it will be great time to meet like professional people and then, you know, meet anybody on the street. So that's why I finally chose Shaq and then I'm currently working as a senior analyst at research and


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[Assistant] Analytic division in Lionstone Investments, uhm, in Houston, Texas. And then my role is identifying the potential investment area in the U.S. with a data driven analytics, including, uhm, macro and micro economy analysis too. That's it.


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[Assistant] Alright, so because I think that, like, both are good, like undergrad and grad, but I think I'm more weight on, uh, masters because, uh, this is because we can meet more, uh, more experienced real estate professional, you know, inside a class. And yeah, that's, I think, really good strengths.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then, uh, I think for me, uh, since I, you know, study about transportation engineering and then urban planning, which is far from the finance field.


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[Assistant] And so for me, actually, it was really hard to catch up to all the terminologies, uh, using in VRS state. And then actually it was really hard for me to catch up, but I, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, the study more than anybody and then I tried to work outside and then, uh, wanted to get...


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[Assistant] You know, experience. Uhm, so that's why I finally catch up. Not 100%, but almost, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think for me is that it was not really easy, but it was interesting.


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[Assistant] So I think overall it's really good and then there will be no problem. Yep.


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[Assistant] So for the easy understanding, I think that like the finance track is more focused on the financial modeling and the financial terminology.


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[Assistant] But like development track is more focused on the full process of the development. So it's very detailed program.


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[Assistant] Oh, and then I want to add one more thing because I think the shag is expanding to the prop tech world.


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[Assistant] There's the professor teamacy, right? Because I'm really interested in the proptech and then I'm in some kind of the proptech world right now. So I think that is amazing part, right?


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[Assistant] Well, well, like, there is a like, uh, CUSB department, like, under NYU.


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[Assistant] Well, uhm, I think actually I love networking. And then, uh, the first of all, I want to share my experience. So while I was working as a bartender in Manhattan,


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[Assistant] I met two big guys, like one of them forwarded my resume to his friend in Las Vegas, uh, who is a Catalyst Castro, CFO of Area Resort, and then Joan Unwin, uh, former CEO of Cosmopolitan Hotel.


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[Assistant] And then they just forwarded my, uh, like he forwarded my resume to him. So I think that represents NYC because we can meet amazing people on the street, inside the subway, inside the elevator. So don't hesitate. Just, you know, just reach out to them and then catch the opportunity. And then like, and then another, uh, my, my methodology is that


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[Assistant] Maybe this sounds a little bit silly, but uh, I'm a party guy, and then I love going club, and then Julian and Demija Lovac.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so uhm, uhm, actually I love going club and met tons of finance friends inside a club and then one of them is working for a development company in Connecticut and his uncle's 40 years friend is EVP at Pushman in Wakefield.


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[Assistant] So I think, yeaah, that was a very interesting experience. And then the other guy introduced me construction job in Manhattan. Name is, uhm, a Seneca construction management company, uh, in Manhattan. And then they actually build LC.


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[Assistant] Like, you guys know LC Rooftop, right? Like, which is at, uh, yeah, off of Bryant Park.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right, right, right. So, like, usually, like, the, the Shack Happy Hour is held over there. So, uhm, and then, uhm, yeah, the Seneca build there. So, that's why I got some opportunities, yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, so like, we have a website named the HeyKorean.com.


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[Assistant] So, once you go there, that's like a Korean craiglist. So, it's really easy to explore. And then, yeaah, it's really easy to rent a house, like the one room, like the without contract or something like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then I want to add one more thing because I want to share my experience because actually I live, uh, in a very, very nice, very, very wealthy place. Uh, and then like the people, like, you know, like whenever people hear my location, they all say that, oh, you're a rich guy. And then, but I pay only $900 per month.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I just share with my roommates and then I live at 54th street and then Park Avenue.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is amazing. Uh, like, you know, like within 10 minutes from the Trump Tower and then, uh, right behind the Blackstone.


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[Assistant] So I live there, but the apartment overall is not bad, but you know, too much separation. So I, I use very small, tiny square footage, but I still like it because I was in Manhattan. So that's it.


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[Assistant] You know, there are a lot of Asian population over there, and there are a lot of Koreans, Chinese, and Indians.


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[Assistant] So it's like, you need to take a New Jersey train, and then, uh, you need to pay extra. And, uh, I heard that like the last train, and then, uh,


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah. So like the CPT has, you know, uh, normally we need to complete one year.


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[Assistant] Oh, and then I want to add one more thing, because I think, uhm, so for CPT, it's like, we have to apply for S.H.A.C. and then S.H.A.C. needs to confirm that, but for OPT, it's for government work, it's not S.H.A.C. work.


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[Assistant] So we are using the Shaq, but like we need to apply to government. So it's a little bit different. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry. Yeah, sorry. Yeah. So and then I want to add one more thing that I think the most important like the one of the most important thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, is that uh, prepare marketing yourself, I think. So for me, actually, like Minja too, and then whenever I meet people, then I always introduce them. Hey, uh, yeah, my name is Dennis, like Dennis the Menace. And then it's really, you know, easier than to remember for me, right? And then Minja is always introduce yourself.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, first of all, I focus on building my unique skill set, which is a little bit different from like, you know, the finance people or real estate people, which is a combination of urban planning and real estate and then computer science.


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[Assistant] So, and then I always prepare my portfolio. So I analyze that, uh, potentially gentrifying area in NYC. I just analyze myself and then I, I just walk around the whole Brooklyn area myself. And then once I find the vacant land that has a huge potential based on my knowledge, and then I just wrote down that address.


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[Assistant] Why not? That's my knowledge, not just normal knowledge out there. That's a unique skill set, right? So I think the most important thing is building your unique skill set. Right? Yeah, I think. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. Yeah, so I think that's a really, uh, uh, for, for Korean people, I think that's a really great point. I think the Korean institutional investor is the, uh, like the one of the biggest Mizani lenders in the US. So I think if you want to get into a mortgage broker side, then I think.


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[Assistant] That would be really, really, uh, you know, stress and then also private equity side and then.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I think like one of the, uh, the good things, uhm, to go Shag is the Shag Happy Hour.


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[Assistant] So, and then I think, I think there are a lot of good people at Shag. So like the Julien and Minja and then you guys, I, I just met you guys, but like you guys are good. And then the Minja and Julien and then like the Julien, like we had a party a lot. And then I think that's the, that's the most important thing, you know, like the meet good friends.


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[Assistant] So I think that's a, that's a very important thing. And then, uh, and then I want to emphasize again that I think


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[Assistant] Uh, so, uh, the most important thing is that marketing yourself, uh, you know, like whenever you meet new people and then just never give up. So for example, uh, and then I usually, uh, prepare like, um,


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[Assistant] Like the one or two sentence, uh, for the interview. So the last time I had an interview with an investment sales company, the CEO up there, he just asked me that, Hey, so Dennis, how you aggressive?


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[Assistant] And then, and then I said, well, someone said the impossible that I always go after. So this is quotes from, uh, on our short Janager.


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[Assistant] But I love that sentence and then I use it, uh, you know, like a little bit different from, yeah, from him, but like, yeah, convert it to my version.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then all of different departments, like inside our company. So uhm, I think, yeaah, this is a really great experience.


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[Assistant] You know, I think it's all same like the private equity or death side or I think all like, you know, just on their real estate. So uhm, uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Summons aren't meant to be used like this. What happened to dreams and honor?


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[Assistant] So, the war is over. That it is. I'm sure you heard. I ruled. No, I didn't hear. The company reports don't mention you at all.


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[Assistant] On TV, they only talk about Sephiroth's bravery. But Sephiroth was in B unit! Well, our heroes are chosen by the media. Dreams crushed.


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[Assistant] As soldier first class, you are now authorized to use materia fusion. Woah! So what do I do?


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[Assistant] First, open the main menu. You should now be able to select Materia Fusion. Now, try fusing these two materia. That should give you a general idea of how the process works.


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[Assistant] Hey now, are you sure you know enough about materia fusion?


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[Assistant] Some combinations and results have not been tried or discovered yet. That's why we want you to experiment. And if you make a new discovery, let us know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I picked up Materia Fusion too. Then return to my office. I'll brief you on the mission. Yes, sir.


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[Assistant] Thank you, that was close. Did that mech injure you? Yea, pathetic, right? A soldier member getting bested by that thing. Hey, even soldier members have their bad days. Well, this is actually one of my better days.


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[Assistant] You're a soldier. Suck it up. If you're bad at something, train harder.


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[Assistant] Why are Shinra weapons attacking the Shinra building?


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[Assistant] Let's ever opt. The intruders are Genesis copies.


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[Assistant] So petty. And Genesis is supporting the stupid cause?


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[Assistant] Hold on, I'm a coming.


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[Assistant] There's a manpower shortage. Duck. You're a turt too?


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[Assistant] Same objective. Need some help here?


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[Assistant] It was shortly before Genesis left.


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[Assistant] The wound was superficial, but for some reason Genesis wasn't healing.


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[Assistant] These are highly classified research documents, taken from the science department. Project G, degradation, and ancients. Hmm, interesting. You should take a look.


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[Assistant] It was Hollander's experiment. The result was a normal child, which meant he failed. However,


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[Assistant] Project G gave birth to the man we know as Genesis. Project G. Project. Genesis.


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[Assistant] Angel's dream of one thing.


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[Assistant] I just saw a boy running frantically by the accessory shop.


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[Assistant] Oh, come on! You saw, I've been here the whole time. Oh, yeah, you're right. I'm sorry. It's fine. You got pickpocketed, right? If you're looking for the guy, I'll help you out.


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[Assistant] Well, I have some leads I can give you, but you have to give me a potion in exchange. You're a broker? You can't get something for nothing, mister. But trust me, my information's good.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Oh, hey, he's right behind you, mister. Huh? What gives? He's gone.


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[Assistant] Ayyy, you catch on fast! Are you ready to buy some more?


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[Assistant] Ayyy, you catch on fast! Are you ready to buy some more?


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[Assistant] Oh, Aerith. Here with your boyfriend today?


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[Assistant] Weren't you chasing a kid around here earlier? I heard about you from the local townsfolk. I thought you were some shady outsider, but it looks like you're a decent guy. Sorry I misjudged you. Here, take this olive branch. I have to say though, Aerith, you found yourself a pretty nice fella.


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[Assistant] At times I feel as if my mind is mired in fog. But Zack, no matter what happens, I have to protect my honor. As long as I hold the Buster Sword. Zack, join my battle. Our enemy is all that creates suffering.


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[Assistant] You're late. Sephaloth, you look thin.


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[Assistant] On to business. I'm certain Hollander has ordered Genesis to eliminate Hojo.


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[Assistant] Yes, the director of the Shinra Science Department.


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[Assistant] Hollander believes Hojo robbed him of his rightful position.


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[Assistant] Same old Sephiroth. Fine. Then you take the lower levels. I'll go outside. Zack, go up. I leave Hojo to you.


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[Assistant] Genesis and Hollander are in Modeohan now.


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[Assistant] I'm still a soldier member in Spirits. I've informed Lizard. They'll pick you up.


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[Assistant] Flower, flower. Forest, forest. Grass, grass. Jungle, jungle. Lake, lake. Leaf, leaf. Moon, moon.


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[Assistant] Pond, pond, rain, rain, rainbow, rainbow, river.


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[Assistant] River. Sky. Sky. Snow. Snow. Star. Star. Storm. Storm. Sun. Sun. Tree. Tree. Wind. Wind.


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[Assistant] Intriguing. Most intriguing. He'll make a fine test subject.


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[Assistant] Being an actor is the first thing that I remember wanting to do in life. I remember it 14, 15 years old.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Uhm, so you know, I think abortion is uhm, I th-


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[Assistant] Here's what I think. Here's what I, this is what I think.


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[Assistant] That's not, not getting an abortion that you need is like not taking a shit. That's how bad that is. It's like not taking a shit. That's what I think.


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[Assistant] I think abortion is exactly like taking a shit. I think it is 100% the exact same thing as taking a shit. Or it isn't!


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[Assistant] So if you didn't like hearing that it's like taking a shit, you think it's killing a baby. That's the only other one you get to have. Which means you should be holding a sign in front of the


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's not cool. I don't wanna be a dick about it though.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's killing a baby, I don't. I mean it is, it's a, it's a little bit, it's a little bit killing a baby. It's a little bit.


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[Assistant] But, I think that women should be allowed to kill babies. That's what I think. They should be allowed to kill babies.


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[Assistant] I killed like four babies last night, it was fucking retarded.


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[Assistant] Life is okay, I like life. I like it, I don't need it. I'd be fine without it.


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[Assistant] I like life though, I do. You know how much I like life? I have never killed myself. That's how much I like it.


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[Assistant] That's exactly how much I like it. With a razor thin margin. I like it precisely enough.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm 49, I have two kids. I've flipped through the brochure a few times.


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[Assistant] You're not supposed to talk about suicide. Even to your shrink. You ever go to a shrink and they're like, have you had thoughts?


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[Assistant] Cause it's an interesting thing about life. Life can get very difficult, very sad, very upsetting, but you don't have to do it. You really don't have to do it. You don't have to do anything.


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[Assistant] You never have to do anything because you can kill yourself.


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[Assistant] And it's interesting because even when life gets bad, people generally choose it over nothing. Even the worst versions of life. Even a shitty, shitty life is worth living, apparently. Yes, folks are living the fuck out of them.


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[Assistant] That was difficult to glance at. Let alone being it. Just a guy in a tan car.


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[Assistant] Is that mine? Yeah, it's yours, fucking loser, made it tan. They shouldn't even make tan cars, it's mean to make them.


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[Assistant] You look over, you see a guy in a tan car with his dents all over it and a garbage bag for a window.


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[Assistant] Eh, what about ISIS? Kill yourself. Then they'll never get you.


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[Assistant] I don't think they like beheading bald people because they can't do this thing. That's the best part. They gotta go like this.


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[Assistant] That's the first reason I think, uh, women should be allowed to kill babies.


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[Assistant] Women have to decide who lives and dies. That's because they're the female of the species in the, in the reproductive arena. That's what the female does. They are the selectors. They have to decide this. We give them this responsibility when we fuck them. We go, here, you decide what to do with this shit. See you later.


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[Assistant] I don't think that face needs to repeat. I've seen your father and it's not getting better.


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[Assistant] I try to be a better person around my kids. I really do. I try to, uh, change my behavior around them. Like, I have rules in my house. They all apply to me.


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes you have a stressful moment and you're with your kids, so you say something by mistake. Like one time I was making dinner for my kids, and I gave my daughter a bowl of soup, and I said, uh, here's your fucking soup.


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[Assistant] You can see how that was a tough situation.


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[Assistant] You're supposed to teach your kids right from wrong, I don't know, it's confusing, you know? Some people raise their kids religiously, and that kinda covers it, they kinda go, all this, do that. I'm not raising my kids religiously, because I don't feel like it. Let's get up on a Sunday, fuck that.


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[Assistant] But my kids, you know, they're living in the world, and there's a lot of religion in the world, so you do have to teach your kids, if you're not raising them religiously, you do have to teach them about religion. You know? I always tell my kids the same thing. I tell them that there are many religions in the world, and they're all equal. But the Christians are the main one. That's what I tell them. The Christians won. They're the winners. So act accordingly. Congratulate Christians when you meet them.


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[Assistant] Jesus, plus two thousand seventeen years, four months and three days, is when your license expires.


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[Assistant] Before Jesus! And the whole world's like, okay, sure. And then somebody was like, what about the years before him? There were billions, I mean, infinite


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[Assistant] Alright, next time you're doing your taxes, just write monkey where the year goes.


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[Assistant] No, it's 2017, YEAR OF OUR LORD! Jesus, the o'clock on the nose.


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[Assistant] And they made it up. That's the weirdest part is they got to rename years that had already taken place. Cause you know that's not what those years were. You know that right? That the year three wasn't the year three. During the year three.


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[Assistant] Nobody was walking around back then. Hey, what year is it? It's three.


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[Assistant] Ah well, so you were born in BC 24 and there's a zero. Remember it went backwards? Oh shit, that was stressful. I hated those years. What was that like? What year is it? Ten. What year is it now? Nine.


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[Assistant] My kids are, uh, they wanted a dog, so I got them a dog. I got them a dog this year, which was a mistake. I shouldn't have gotten the dog.


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[Assistant] From those horrible people who professionally raise dogs carefully. No! You need to just get a mystery dog.


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[Assistant] My daughter goes to pet the dog, the dog goes like this, she's like, should I pet her? I don't think you should ever pet our dog, honey.


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[Assistant] So I took her to the vet. I took the dog to the vet to ask her what to do. And the vet said, listen, I think there's something you should seriously consider.


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[Assistant] I was like, please be saying to kill this dog. Please be a doctor that says the dog dies now.


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[Assistant] She said, yeah, it works. Calms the dog right down. But it's a big decision and you should think about it. I said, put four in her asshole right now.


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[Assistant] Why your dog is really chill. Yeaah. Only cost $400 a day to keep her like that.


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[Assistant] You ever seen that PSA where they show you a really sad man? He's very upset. Very sad man. He's holding a little sign and it says, yeah, sure. And he says, this is the text that killed my daughter.


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[Assistant] Because somebody texted, yeah sure, and ran over his kid, which is awful. Although maybe they were responding to a text that said, can you please kill that kid? And so they just wrote back and did it.


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[Assistant] So we're listening to NPR at breakfast the other morning, and there's this one story where they kept using this phrase. They kept saying, 9-11 deniers. They kept saying that. 9-11 deniers. My daughter was like, what is that?


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[Assistant] And I said, well, it's a group of people that think September 11th was a conspiracy. And she said, oh, I thought they were saying 9-11 deniers.


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[Assistant] My kids go to, uh, public school in New York City and, uh, they, alright, uhm, send your kids there then.


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[Assistant] The teachers amaze me, because, I don't know, this is the worst, this is the worst thing about this country to me, is that there's, there's no more noble profession than to be a public school teacher. It's easily, please, please don't, you're not gonna like it. You're not gonna like where it's going. I don't recommend clapping at any things. You'll regret it at the end of the thing.


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[Assistant] What if I get really good at it? What happens? Nothing. Nothing happens. Nobody notices and you get fired and you die alone.


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[Assistant] And she was asking me questions about it. She was like, daddy, who's Achilles' mother? I said, I don't fucking know. Don't ask me that shit.


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[Assistant] I don't know who Achilles' mother is. Don't yell it out if you know it, please. It gets camp amputees. Nobody cares what you know.


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[Assistant] A greek baby. His mother who was a goddess.


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[Assistant] But she held him by the heel. That's the important detail. Held him by the heel. Which is an awkward way to hold a baby.


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[Assistant] You'll never see that baby again. That's how to get rid of a baby.


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[Assistant] It's Achilles' mother's Mexican nanny. It's a lesser known character in The Iliad. Anyway.


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[Assistant] She was the goddess of grip or whatever. I don't know. And she held on and then he was protected except on his heel. His heel was not protected. And so that's what we call your Achilles heel. Your one vulnerable place. Everybody's got their Achilles heel. Achilles's Achilles heel was his heel. Like literally.


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[Assistant] Smart kid. I-I-I was proud of her. But at the same time, I thought, who the fuck are you to judge this woman?


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[Assistant] I was watching a football game one time, and this guy scored a bunch of his shit, whatever, and they were excited.


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[Assistant] You know like an old, when you see an old couple and they've been married for like 60 years, you know that kind of story? Everybody always loves that. The kind of people that always get applause based on the math of their lives. How long you been married?


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[Assistant] Isn't that automatically wonderful? How do you know? You just know how long it's been.


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[Assistant] That's longer than most people really want to be alive and they've been together that long and now they're just an old couple and they just walk.


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[Assistant] So now it's just her. Just Rose.


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[Assistant] And she's alone. Now she just stands in their house.


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[Assistant] Once in a while somebody goes to get Rose because there's a wedding. Come on Rose, Nadine's getting married. You, Nadine, it doesn't matter, just fucking, come on.


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[Assistant] No religion teaches that when you die you get to ruin heaven for your dead spouse.


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[Assistant] They just gotta hose her down and tape the wings on. And then you're gonna be together forever.


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[Assistant] I went to a gay wedding. I've been to a lot of gay weddings, which is not true. It's not true at all, but I did go to one.


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[Assistant] I don't go to weddings generally because, uh, I don't like them. I hate it. Don't invite me. Really. I think it's rude to invite people to your wedding. I really do. Nobody's happy to get that shit. You make it all pretty and they're like, aw fuck! This is gonna suck!


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[Assistant] It's like, it's like going to a horror movie and in the first minute you're like, I think they're all gonna be fine. No, they're all gonna die. And you're gonna hate the person you love right now.


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[Assistant] It's a little thing you get to catch. And then it rots and dies. It's just the way it goes.


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[Assistant] All the little intricate parts, like I was in an email fight recently. You ever been in an email fight? Some of you are in an email fight right now.


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[Assistant] There should be credits at the end of this fucking email. Approved by mother and sister.


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[Assistant] It's worth it. It is. I mean, I've always been, uh, I've always pursued love my whole life. You know, even when I was a kid, I loved girls. I loved them. And it was all, when I was 12, I discovered that girls are the greatest thing. And I would ask them out. That's what I did. I just walked up and asked them out. I had no fear.


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[Assistant] To ask her what she would say.


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[Assistant] They always said no. Girls said no to me. Till Rachel.


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[Assistant] And she was the first girl who said yes. I asked her to do the dance in 8th grade and she said yes. Happiest moment of my life. Even to now. I never beat it.


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[Assistant] So we went to the dance. It was thirteen. It was my first time with a girl. And about five minutes into the dance, she comes up to me and she says, do you mind if I dance with Jeff?


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[Assistant] I was like, okay. Cause what are the moves that I have at 13? What else are you gonna say?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I do. I mind very much. What the fuck do you think this is, Rachel?


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[Assistant] And I read that, and I thought, why don't you take my fucking date then?


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[Assistant] I really, I get new feelings and they upset me. I don't like new feelings. I wanna know what I like and get it and just die. That's what I wanna do at this point.


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[Assistant] Like, I have a weird relationship with this movie that's on cable sometimes. It's called Magic Mike. You ever seen this movie? Magic Mike.


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[Assistant] Magic Mike was a movie about male strippers, starring Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum.


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[Assistant] You're watching it on a dusty thing and it's all rubble. And you're watching this. I don't know why you're watching this out of everything.


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[Assistant] And, uh, everytime I'm flipping around and it comes on, I always stop.


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[Assistant] I stop because it's a good movie, it's well made, directed by Stephen Soderbergh, good director. And so I get into it, I get into the story, and then they start stripping. And then I start having all these feelings. My face gets a little hot.


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[Assistant] I just really like that. I like it!


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[Assistant] And when the movie comes on, I'm always like, alright, that's where he says that. And then he says it and I'm like, fucking good, that's really good.


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[Assistant] I'm just starting to get like a feeling. It's not a boner. It's not a boner.


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[Assistant] Anyway, I've never watched the whole movie. I've never seen Magic Mike in its entirety. Because I don't want to see it.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna see the end of Magic Mike. I know what the end of Magic Mike is. I'm pretty sure that the end of Magic Mike is that I'm gay.


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[Assistant] I don't want to see the ending. I want to stay like this. You know why? Because I'm 49 years old. I don't want to enter the gay community now.


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[Assistant] This is not the version of me that's gonna have an awesome time as the new gay guy.


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[Assistant] So fuck that. And that's my right, by the way, because that's about me.


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[Assistant] Matthew with his like leathery skin, he's like ahhh. Just...


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[Assistant] I'm not retail gay, you know what I mean? I'm not off the rack gay.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't like cognac. I would never buy a bottle of Hennessy and keep it in my house. But I had never tried the best cognac if somebody was like,


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[Assistant] I think at that point you put it in your mouth, right? If you're looking at the best dick ever and you're not sure, you wanna suck it, just put it in your mouth. And then decide. Just for like 20 seconds.


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[Assistant] If you go to a restaurant with your family, when it's time to pee, you go pee with your dad if you're a little boy. If you go to a ball game with your dad, I remember there was just, there was never urinals, it was just a trough.


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[Assistant] And my dad's life is, my dad's had a weird life. Two.


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[Assistant] I really hate penises. That's really my problem with being gay. That's why I'm not gay. Men are fine. I'd like to have a boyfriend. That would be nice. I would!


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[Assistant] Every time I hear somebody say my boyfriend, I'm always like, I want a boyfriend.


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[Assistant] Why can't I have a boyfriend? I like to have a big tall boyfriend.


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[Assistant] I get to wear his jacket, it's all big on me, I'm like, it's my boyfriend's jacket.


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[Assistant] I know I would like it. I would like to have a big dude in my life. Comes up behind me like this and I'm like, hi.


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[Assistant] I'm wrong about all of the things!


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[Assistant] We met next day as he had arranged and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting.


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[Assistant] They consisted of a couple of comfortable bedrooms and a single large airy sitting room, cheerfully furnished and illuminated by two broad windows.


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[Assistant] So desirable in every way were the apartments, and so moderate did the term seem when divided between us, that the bargain was concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into possession.


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[Assistant] That very evening I moved my things round from the hotel, and on the following morning Sherlock Holmes followed me with several boxes and Portmanteau.


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[Assistant] For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage. That done, we gradually began to settle down, and to accommodate ourselves to our new surroundings. Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with.


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[Assistant] He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were regular.


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[Assistant] It was rare for him to be up after ten at night, and he had invariably breakfasted and gone out before I rose in the morning.


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[Assistant] Sometimes he spent his day at the chemical laboratory, sometimes in the dissecting rooms, and occasionally in long walks which appeared to take him into the lowest portions of the city.


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[Assistant] Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him.


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[Assistant] But now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting-room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night.


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[Assistant] On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.


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[Assistant] As the weeks went by my interest in him and my curiosity as to his aims in life gradually deepened and increased.


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[Assistant] His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer. In height he was rather over six foot.


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[Assistant] And so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller.


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[Assistant] His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor which I have alluded.


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[Assistant] And his thin hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision.


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[Assistant] His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.


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[Assistant] His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments.


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[Assistant] The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity.


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[Assistant] And how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.


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[Assistant] Before pronouncing judgment, however, be it remembered how objectless was my life, and how little there was to engage my attention.


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[Assistant] My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.


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[Assistant] Under these circumstances I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion.


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[Assistant] And spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it.


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[Assistant] He was not studying medicine. He had himself, in reply to a question, confirmed Stamford's


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[Assistant] Neither did he appear to have pursued any course of reading which might fit him for a degree in science, or any other recognized portal which would give him an entrance into the learned world.


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[Assistant] Yet his zeal for certain studies was remarkable, and within eccentric limits his knowledge was so extraordinarily ample and minute that his observations have fairly astounded me.


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[Assistant] Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.


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[Assistant] Dissultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.


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[Assistant] No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge


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[Assistant] Of contemporary literature, philosophy, and politics, he appeared to know next to nothing.


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[Assistant] Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.


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[Assistant] My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican theory, and of the composition of the solar system.


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[Assistant] That any civilized human being in his nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled around the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. You appear to be astonished, he said, smiling at my expression of surprise.


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[Assistant] I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.


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[Assistant] A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.


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[Assistant] Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes in to his brain attic.


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[Assistant] He will have nothing but the tools which may help him doing his work.


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[Assistant] That the little room has elastic walls and can descend to any extent.


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[Assistant] Depend upon it. There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. But the solar system, I protested.


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[Assistant] What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently. You say that we go round the sun.


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[Assistant] If we went round the moon, it would not make a penny-worth of difference to me or to my work.


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[Assistant] I was on the point of asking him what that work might be, but something in his manner showed me that the question would be an unwelcome one.


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[Assistant] I pondered over our short conversation, however, and endeavour to draw my deductions from it.


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[Assistant] He said that he would acquire no knowledge which did not bear upon his object.


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[Assistant] Therefore all the knowledge which he possessed was such as would be useful to him.


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[Assistant] I enumerated in my own mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well informed.


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[Assistant] I even took a pencil and jotted them down.


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[Assistant] 6. Geology. Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other, after he walked shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistency in what part of London he had received them. 7. Chemistry. Profound.


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[Assistant] Twelve has a good practical knowledge of British law.


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[Assistant] When I got so far in my list I threw it into the fire in despair.


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[Assistant] If I can only find out what the fellow is driving at by reconciling all these accomplishments and discovering a calling which needs them all, I said to myself, I may as well give up the attempt at once.


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[Assistant] I see that I have alluded above to his powers upon the violin.


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[Assistant] These were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments.


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[Assistant] That he could play pieces, and difficult pieces, I knew well because at my request he has played me some of Mendelssohn's Lieder and other favourites.


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[Assistant] When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any music or attempt any recognised air.


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[Assistant] Leaning back in his armchair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee. Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy, occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him,


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[Assistant] But whether the music aided those thoughts, or whether the playing was simply the result of a whim or fancy, was more than I could determine.


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[Assistant] I might have rebelled against these exasperating solos.


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[Assistant] Had it not been that he usually terminated them by playing in quick succession a whole series of my favourite airs as a slight compensation for the trial upon my patience.


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[Assistant] During the first week or so we had no callers.


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[Assistant] And I had begun to think that my companion was as friendless a man as I was myself.


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[Assistant] Presently, however, I found that he had many acquaintances, and those in the most different classes of society.


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[Assistant] There was one little sallow, rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow who was introduced to me as Mr. Lestrade, and who came three or four times in a single week.


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[Assistant] One morning a young girl called, fashionably dressed, and stayed for half an hour or more.


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[Assistant] The same afternoon brought a grey-headed, seedy visitor, looking like a Jew peddler who appeared to me to be much excited, and who was closely followed by a slipshod elderly woman.


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[Assistant] On another occasion an old white-haired gentleman had an interview with my companion.


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[Assistant] And on another a railway porter in his velveteen uniform.


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[Assistant] When any of these nondescript individuals put in an appearance, Sherlock Holmes used to beg for the use of the sitting-room, and I would retire to my bedroom.


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[Assistant] He always apologised to me for putting me to this inconvenience.


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[Assistant] I have to use this room as a place of business, he said, and these people are my clients.


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[Assistant] Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.


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[Assistant] I imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to it.


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[Assistant] But he soon dispelled the idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord.


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[Assistant] It was upon the fourth of March, as I have good reason to remember, that I rose somewhat earlier than usual, and found that Sherlock Holmes had not yet finished his breakfast.


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[Assistant] The landlady had become so accustomed to my late habits that my place had not been laid nor my coffee prepared. With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.


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[Assistant] Then I picked up a magazine from the table, and attempted to while away the time with it, while my companion munched silently at his toast.


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[Assistant] One of the articles had a pencil mark at the heading, and I naturally began to run my eye through it.


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[Assistant] Its somewhat ambitious title was The Book of Life.


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[Assistant] And it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.


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[Assistant] It struck me as being a remarkable mixture of shrewdness and of absurdity.


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[Assistant] The reasoning was close and intense, but the deductions appeared to me to be far-fetched and exaggerated.


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[Assistant] The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man's inmost thoughts.


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[Assistant] Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.


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[Assistant] His conclusions were as infallible as so many propositions of Euclid.


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[Assistant] So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated, that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them, they might well consider him as a necromancer.


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[Assistant] From a drop of water," said the writer, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain.


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[Assistant] The nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.


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[Assistant] Like all other arts, the science of deduction and analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study


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[Assistant] Nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it.


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[Assistant] Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties,


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[Assistant] Let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.


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[Assistant] Let him on meeting a fellow mortal learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man and the trade or profession to which he belongs.


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[Assistant] A puerile, as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation and teaches one where to look and what to look for. By a man's fingernails, by his coat sleeve, by his boot, by his trouser knees, by the colossities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs—by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed.


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[Assistant] That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable.


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[Assistant] What ineffable twaddle! I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table. I never read such rubbish in my life.


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[Assistant] What is it?" asked Sherlock Holmes. Why, this article, I said, pointing at it with my egg-spoon as I sat down to my breakfast.


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[Assistant] I see that you've read it, since you've marked it. I don't deny that it's smartly written. It irritates me, though. It's evidently the theory of some armchair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study. It is not practical.


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[Assistant] I should like to see him clap down in a third-class carriage on the underground, and ask to give the trades of all his fellow travellers. I would lay a thousand to one against him.


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[Assistant] You would lose your money, Sherlock Holmes remarked calmly.


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[Assistant] Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical.


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[Assistant] So practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese. And how? I asked involuntarily.


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[Assistant] Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I am a consulting detective.


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[Assistant] If you can understand what that is. Here in London we have lots of government detectives and lots of private ones.


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[Assistant] When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent.


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[Assistant] They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight.


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[Assistant] There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.


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[Assistant] Lestrade is a well-known detective. He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, and that was what brought him here. And these other people?


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[Assistant] They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.


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[Assistant] They are all people who are in trouble about something and want a little enlightening.


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[Assistant] I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and then I pocket my fee.


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[Assistant] But do you mean to say," I said, "'that without leaving your room you can unravel some knot which other men can make nothing of, although they have seen every detail for themselves?'


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[Assistant] Quite so. I have a kind of intuition that way. Now and again a case turns up which is a little more complex. Then I have to bustle about and see things with my own eyes. You see, I have a lot of special knowledge which I apply to the problem, and which facilitates matters wonderfully.


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[Assistant] Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your scorn are invaluable to me in practical work. Observation with me is second nature.


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[Assistant] You appeared to be surprised when I told you on our first meeting that you had come from Afghanistan. You were told, no doubt. Nothing of the sort.


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[Assistant] I knew you came from Afghanistan. From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps. There were such steps, however.


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[Assistant] The train of reasoning ran. Here is a gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man.


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[Assistant] Clearly an army doctor, then. He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, or his wrists are fair. He has undergone hardships and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly. His left arm has been injured. He holds it in a stiff and unnatural manner.


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[Assistant] Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded? Clearly in Afghanistan.


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[Assistant] The whole train of thought did not occupy a second. I then remarked that you came from Afghanistan, and you were astonished.


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[Assistant] It's simple enough as you explain it," I said, smiling. He reminded me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories. Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe.


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[Assistant] No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Japan, he observed.


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[Assistant] Now in my opinion Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friend's thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial.


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[Assistant] He had some analytical genius, no doubt, but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.


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[Assistant] Have you read Gaboriot's works?" I asked. Does Lecoq come up to your idea of a detective? Sherlock Holmes sniffed sardonically.


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[Assistant] The cock was a miserable bungler, he said in an angry voice. He had only one thing to recommend him, and that was his energy.


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[Assistant] That book made me positively ill. The question was how to identify an unknown prisoner. I could have done it in twenty-four hours.


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[Assistant] The cock took six months or so. Might be made a textbook for detectives to teach them what to avoid.


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[Assistant] I felt rather indignant at having two characters whom I had admired treated in this cavalier style.


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[Assistant] I walked over to the window and stood looking out into the busy street.


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[Assistant] This fellow may be very clever, I said to myself, but he's certainly very conceited.


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[Assistant] There are no crimes and no criminals in these days, he said querulously. What is the use of having brains in our profession?


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[Assistant] I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous.


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[Assistant] No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result?


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[Assistant] There is no crime to detect, or at most some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it. I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation. I thought it best to change the topic.