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[Assistant] Uhm, well I think this concludes our time together but I just want to share a quick message. Thank you so much for joining me today and if you find yourself in a new country, sure, check out the cities and all the really popular sites but it's also really important and I think


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[Assistant] Very interesting to learn about the history and the cultures in certain countries. So I really valued our time together today and I hope you learn about different cultures where you live or in other places you might go. Thanks so much. Have a good one.


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[Assistant] Sounds like we're on the right track already. How long have boomerangs been around? It's just totally ingrained in the culture.


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[Assistant] I was wondering if you could give me some information about membership and facilities?


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[Assistant] I was wondering if you could give me some information about membership and facilities?


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[Assistant] Oh, right. I know it. I played badminton there.


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[Assistant] What about relaxing after exercise? I assume you have a restaurant or something?


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[Assistant] Uhm, not really sure. What are the options?


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[Assistant] So I couldn't use the pool at eight in the morning or evening then.


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[Assistant] Okay, and the price for that? Is the joining fee the same as for gold?


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[Assistant] I'm a student here in England, and I'm only here for six months.


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[Assistant] Oh, that should be alright. I could come in my free periods. What do I have to do if I want to join?


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[Assistant] And here on Radio Rivenden, we have Lynn Raleigh, the public relations officer of our own Rivenden City Theatre. Hello, Lynn.


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[Assistant] Now, the theater is reopening soon after its three-year redevelopment program, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Okay, so what's the first play that audiences can see when the theater reopens?


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[Assistant] Okay Len, now if you'd like to give the contact details for the theaters...


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[Assistant] Uhm, my family and I are staying here in Treberch for a week or two, and we wanted to know about the train services. We're hoping to do a few local trips.


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[Assistant] What about trains to London? I'll need to go there on business for one day.


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[Assistant] Ah, right. Uhm, and have you got any information on different ticket types?


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[Assistant] Thanks, and are there lots of places to go to around here?


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[Assistant] Alright people, we're holding this meeting today because we've got to do something about our sales and we need to do it now. I want concrete solutions. How do you plan to drive sales? Roger!


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[Assistant] Lower our prices. Not very creative. It'll never fly with swan. What kind of thinking is that? Geez. Anyone have a better plan? Natalie!


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[Assistant] God, that's the same thing. Bad idea. Really bad idea. Damn it, people! Come on! Think! The CEO will be here any minute.


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[Assistant] Exactly! That's just what I was thinking. In fact, it's a brilliant idea. I'm glad we thought of that. Very creative.


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[Assistant] Alright, people. We're holding this meeting today because we've got to do something about our sales. And we need to do it now. I want concrete solutions. How do you plan to drive sales, Roger?


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[Assistant] Damn it, people, come on. Think! The CEO will be here any minute.


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[Assistant] Honestly, that's just what I was thinking. In fact, that's a brilliant idea. I'm glad we thought of that very creative.


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[Assistant] The CEO will be here any minutes.


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[Assistant] Alright people, we're holding this meeting today because we've got to do something about our sales and we need to do it now. I want concrete solutions. How do you plan to drive sales? Roger.


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[Assistant] Lower our prices. Not very creative. It'll never fly with swan. What kind of thinking is that? Geez. Anyone have a better plan? Natalie!


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[Assistant] God, that's the same thing. Bad idea. Really bad idea. Damn it, people, come on. Think! The CEO will be here any minute.


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[Assistant] Exactly! That's just what I was thinking. In fact, it's a brilliant idea. I'm glad we thought of that. Very creative.


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[Assistant] Well, I can give you lots of details about all the trains going from Treberch in the southwest.


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[Assistant] This leaflet will be very helpful, but I can tell you some of the main things. We've got two main train stations in the town.


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[Assistant] Then you need to go to Central Station. That's for all the national services.


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[Assistant] There are regular trains to London. They leave Treberch every half hour on weekdays and every hour at weekends.


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[Assistant] You've got a choice of first and second class, and there's a buffy car.


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[Assistant] Yes, there's a range of ticket prices depending on when you travel and when you buy your ticket.


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[Assistant] This can be bought in advance or on the day.


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[Assistant] You can also get various discounted tickets. A popular one is called the Super Save. And, uh, this is okay for travel after 8.45. Then there is the special ticket, which is valid for travel after 10.15.


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[Assistant] The special tickets are also valid for travel at weekends.


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[Assistant] The cheapest tickets are called advance.


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[Assistant] Only a certain number are available and you have to make seat reservations for these.


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[Assistant] Which is only half an hour from to birth by train.


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[Assistant] There are special excursion tickets which include entrance fees.


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[Assistant] Mainline trains also offer direct services to Bristol, where you can visit the docks or spend a great day out with the children in the zoo, which is set in the parkland that used to surround the old castle.


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[Assistant] We will also be running a special service to Newport when the new Science Museum opens next year as we anticipate a lot of visitors in the opening weeks. I'd advise you to call early to book your tickets. Is that okay?


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[Assistant] Great. Well the main issue here, as you can see, is that our expenses are through the roof.


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[Assistant] The list goes on and on. Here, this is a bill for $5,000 for spa treatment.


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[Assistant] $8,000 were expensed in one night at a place called Wild Thing?


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[Assistant] We really need to control our travel expenditure. From now on, all managers will fly economy class.


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[Assistant] Well, the main issue here as you can see is that our expenses are through the roof.


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[Assistant] Well, uhm, sir, the company expenditures on entertainment and travel are out of control. Look at these bills, for example. Just this month, we've paid over $20,000 for hotel charges.


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[Assistant] Look at this one, sir. $8,000 were expensed in one night at a place called Wild Things?


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[Assistant] Great. Well the main issue here, as you can see, is that our expenses are through the roof.


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[Assistant] The list goes on and on. Here, this is a bill for $5,000 for spa treatment.


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[Assistant] $8,000 were expensed in one night at a place called Wild Things?


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[Assistant] I'm doing great and I'm really looking forward to our lesson because we're going to the eye doctor today.


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[Assistant] It means it's difficult. It means that you have a hard time, so you can't really do it very quickly.


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[Assistant] Right, a little paper that says all the medicine that you need and then you can go to the drugstore and buy


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[Assistant] The first word on our language takeaway for today is 2020 vision.


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[Assistant] So if you're far sighted, you can see things that are near.


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[Assistant] Okay, so basically make out is to see clearly. Exactly. Make out. To see. Okay. And our last word for language takeaway today is blind as a bat. Blind as a bat. Blind as a bat.


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[Assistant] But this time it's gonna be slower so we can pick up all these great words that we just talked about.


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[Assistant] Right, uhm, the first one that we have today is what seems to be.


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[Assistant] Okay, so with these examples we can see how we can use the phrase, what seems to be, in many different ways.


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[Assistant] Right. And with this phrase head on, we can combine it with other prepositions to indicate another place.


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[Assistant] Okay so for example we can say, head on into the house, it's gonna rain soon. Or we can


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[Assistant] Or, I can also say, head on up to my room, I'll be there in a second.


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[Assistant] Okay, so talking about going to the eye doctor today, I have a question for our listeners.


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[Assistant] A challenge for the listeners. What's it called when you can't distinguish colors?


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[Assistant] So what is that condition called? There's like a technical term. We want the technical term. We want the technical term. So we'll be looking for it on our comments page and be sure to, if you know the answer, post it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we hope to see you there, but until then, it's goodbye.


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[Assistant] The city mouse looks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's about time. He's been living with his parents for 40 years.


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[Assistant] I just hope the priest makes it quick. I'm starving! I hope the food's good at the reception.


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[Assistant] So great. Does this mean that the reception is cancelled?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's about time. He's been living with his parents for 40 years.


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[Assistant] I just hope the priest makes it quick. I'm starving. I hope the food's good at the reception.


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[Assistant] Oh, great. Does this mean that the reception is cancelled?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's about time. He's been living with his parents for 40 years.


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[Assistant] I just hope the priest makes it quick. I'm starving! I hope the food's good at the reception.


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[Assistant] So great. Does this mean that the reception is cancelled?


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[Assistant] Hello English learners, welcome back to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erica.


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[Assistant] Right, so it's kind of a business topic, it's kind of a world topic as well.


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[Assistant] Right, so if you're listening and you don't understand everything, please don't get discouraged. Don't, uh, worry about it because we're here to learn.


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[Assistant] So, let's get started with this. I'm really excited about this lesson.


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[Assistant] An emerging market is a market that is starting to develop.


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[Assistant] Well for example, China is an emerging market. Yeaah. In the last years it's been growing rapidly.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we have some great words that we want to look at here. Why don't we start with the first one? Turmoil. Turmoil. Turmoil. Turmoil. So we have some great examples of how turmoil is used in different sentences, so let's listen.


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[Assistant] Good word. Alright, and we also saw something really interesting in the dialogue about a proposed stimulus package.


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[Assistant] So a proposed stimulus package is something that's going on now.


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[Assistant] A stimulus package, uh, something to stimulate the economy, right?


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[Assistant] It means that it hasn't been approved yet.


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[Assistant] So the proposed stimulus package for the US economy, for example, is 150 billion dollars.


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[Assistant] Where cities like in Shanghai or cities like Beijing


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[Assistant] Where more and more people are accumulating wealth, the aggregate demand is increasing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, pay attention to these words. Nest egg.


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[Assistant] Hit up. So, from the context of the dialogue, try and see if you can figure out what they mean. But after listening to it, we'll come back and explain it anyways.


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[Assistant] So as you can see, the noun and adjective form are the same. Yes, inevitable. Inedible. When we use it as an adverb though, we add the ly to it. Inevitably. Inevitably. Yes. So yea, as you can see, we can use it in many different ways depending on what we want to say.


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[Assistant] Exactly, where you can leave all your questions and comments and we'll be there to answer them. But until then, it's goodbye.


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[Assistant] The depths of the ocean may appear barren, lifeless and silent.


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[Assistant] While the great abyss plummets ever downwards into darkness.


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[Assistant] But advancements in technology and research in recent years have granted us a greater understanding of how these separate settlements of life are interconnected as one. Let's take a closer look at the food web of the deep sea.


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[Assistant] There must be organisms capable of synthesizing organic molecules using energy.


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[Assistant] Photosynthesizing organisms that use energy from sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemical energy stored as glucose. Though they are tiny, these plankton play a large role.


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[Assistant] Producing the carbon that supports nearly all marine life.


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[Assistant] Herbivores, or primary consumers, such as zooplankton or turtles and manatees.


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[Assistant] Creating a trickle of organic material that begins to sink downwards. A nutrient-rich supply of food, known as marine snow.


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[Assistant] There are no plants here to fulfill the role of nutrient producers. There is only marine snow, bringing down the leftovers from above.


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[Assistant] In place of photoautotrophs we find chemoautotrophs. In place of plants and plankton there is bacteria. In place of photosynthesis, chemosynthesis. The bacteria are the primary producers.


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[Assistant] Like manatees grazing seagrass in the shallows, there are grazers here too. Bottom feeders.


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[Assistant] These creatures that rely on the bacteria for food are the deep ocean's primary consumers.


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[Assistant] Predators at the vents, such as crabs, eels and octopuses, are the secondary consumers. But here is where things get interesting.


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[Assistant] Though organisms at these isolated vent ecosystems cannot stray from their respective habitats,


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[Assistant] The first of these processes involves visitors to the vents. From hagfish to deep sea skates.


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[Assistant] These are creatures that can survive away from the vents, but must seek out these hot spots of life in order to feed or lay their eggs.


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[Assistant] In doing so, these creatures are supporting another form of life in the deep sea, the pelagic ocean wanderers.


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[Assistant] It is used up by the creatures as they move, grow and reproduce.


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[Assistant] So only a fraction of the nutrients they assimilate will make it to their predators.


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[Assistant] Thus, wonderers like the Humboldt squid tend to be larger, as they must be in order to become more efficient.


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[Assistant] Their slowed metabolisms are a useful adaptation down here where nutrients are scarce. Even


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[Assistant] Amidst the constant trickle of marine snow from above, something larger will sink to the deep sea.


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[Assistant] Within minutes of it reaching the sea floor, pelagic wanderers gather out of the barren darkness to feed. The first to arrive are mobile scavengers. These are the larger ocean wanderers.


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[Assistant] During which specialized bacteria break down the lipids present in the bones to produce sulfides.


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[Assistant] The presence of sulfides allows other organisms to thrive, including dense mats of bacteria, mussels, and tube worms.


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[Assistant] But unlike hydrothermal vents, whale falls are temporary.


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[Assistant] Life cannot specialize to rely on them for nutrients.


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[Assistant] There is simply not enough time to allow creatures to evolve here, so these sunken carrion.


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[Assistant] Who, once the flesh has been stripped, dissipate once more into the barren expanse in search of prey.


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[Assistant] Overall, these isolated ecosystems in the deep sea are all interconnected.


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[Assistant] With each one relying on the processes of energy production, predation, and decay to transport nutrients between communities.


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[Assistant] The depths benefit from productivity in the shallows, supporting filter-feeding detrivores that in turn support predators.


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[Assistant] Due to the loss of energy between trophic levels, predators display unique adaptations to make them more efficient.


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[Assistant] Taken from hydrothermal vents, out into the open ocean.


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[Assistant] All belong to one great cycle of life and death that has been turning since the dawn of life on Earth.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching. Check out the brand new Deepsea Hub over on our website for more facts and footage about the deep sea. See you next time.


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[Assistant] A lawyer. Let's move to our third word, which is? A point. A point. A point. A point. So a point means choose.


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[Assistant] In that case, I know a great little bistro. They make a really tasty seafood platter. The fish is outstanding.


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[Assistant] We were thinking of checking out a restaurant in the neighborhood. Do you have any suggestions?


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[Assistant] I know this really nice Italian place. The food is fantastic and the decor is beautiful. I'd recommend giving it a try.


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[Assistant] In that case, I know a great little bistro. They make a really tasty seafood platter. The fish is outstanding. It sounds fantastic.


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[Assistant] But I'm allergic to seafood, so... Okay, well, let me think.


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[Assistant] Oh, I know this great little place. It's just a hole in the wall.


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[Assistant] But they do the most amazing sandwiches. You've got to give them a try.


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[Assistant] Do you two have any plans for the evening? We were thinking of checking out a restaurant in the neighborhood. Do you have any suggestions? I know this really nice Italian place. The food is fantastic and the decor is beautiful. I'd recommend giving it a try.


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[Assistant] In that case, I know a great little bistro. They make a really tasty seafood platter. The fish is outstanding.


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[Assistant] And today we're bringing you another great lesson about appointments.


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[Assistant] It's a really common situation sometimes. You have an appointment at the doctor's or something. Or at work. And you have to cancel it.


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[Assistant] And it's gonna be a little bit fast in the beginning, but when we come back, we will explain all the great vocabulary.


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[Assistant] Today on Language Takeaway, we're bringing you three words. Uh, Erica, what's the first one?


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[Assistant] Great, the second word that we have is inconvenience.


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[Assistant] Okay, some great words there, and we can listen to our dialogue a second time at a slower speed.


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[Assistant] Alright, so in this dialogue we had some really great phrases that we should look at in Fluency Builder.


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[Assistant] Right, and now the interesting thing is that many people don't know how to answer this phrase.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the next time someone tells you what's up, now you know what to answer.


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[Assistant] Okay, our second phrase is... Can't make it.


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[Assistant] Right, so, if you're having a party today, I say, oh I'm sorry, I can't make it.


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[Assistant] Our last word for Fluency Builder. This thing came up. This thing came up. This thing came up.


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[Assistant] So, I can't make it today because this thing came up. Like, something...


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[Assistant] So let's listen to our dialogue a third time and now we're ready to understand everything.


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[Assistant] So Erica, have you ever cancelled an appointment like this, uh, under false pretenses?


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[Assistant] So uhm, when we were playing in the World Cup, Ecuador was playing and, uh- Not you, but- Well no, like-


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean it was like the first time we were ever in the World Cup and you know, my boss didn't really put up much of a fight because I guess he also wanted to go watch the game.


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[Assistant] Right, there you'll be able to find more resources and also a large community to interact with.


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[Assistant] Right. So, we'll see you there. Until then, it's... Bye!


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[Assistant] Yeah, about five minutes ago. Oh, who's winning? The Bulls, of course. What? That wasn't a foul! Oh come on, ref! Don't worry, Shaq always screws up free throws.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was a great shot. Three pointer, yeah? Oh, did you see that? He traveled and the ref didn't even call it. This ref needs glasses. Hey ref, open your eyes! I can't believe you didn't see that.


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[Assistant] I'm so relieved that your ankle wasn't broken. I feel just awful about this whole thing. I wanna make it up to you. Let me take you out to dinner tonight, my treat.


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[Assistant] You look so beautiful tonight. I wish this night would never end. There's something that I have to tell you.


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[Assistant] I woke up today thinking that this would be just like any other day. That I was wrong.


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[Assistant] Twist of fate brought us together. I crashed into your life and you into mine and...


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[Assistant] This may sound crazy, but I'm falling in love with you, Veronica.


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[Assistant] I'm so relieved that your ankle wasn't broken. I feel just awful about this whole thing. I wanna make it up to you.


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[Assistant] Let me take you out to dinner tonight. My treat.


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[Assistant] Me too. You look so beautiful tonight. I wish this night would never end. There's something I have to tell you.


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[Assistant] I woke up today thinking this would be just like any other ordinary day, but I was wrong. A twist of fate brought us together.


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[Assistant] I crashed into your life, and you into mine, and this may sound crazy, but I'm falling in love with you, Veronica.


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[Assistant] You look so beautiful tonight. I wish this night would never end. There's something that I have to tell you.


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[Assistant] I woke up today thinking that this would be just like any other day. And I was wrong.


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[Assistant] Twist of fate brought us together. I crashed into your life, and you into mine, and this may sound crazy, but I'm falling in love with you, Veronica.


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[Assistant] Good morning and welcome everybody. I'm Jenny Stewart and I'm the staff manager here at the Exhibition Centre.


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[Assistant] We're expecting this year's international travel exhibition to attract over 10,000 visitors a day, ladies and gentlemen.


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[Assistant] And you are among the 200 extra staff recruited to help look after them.


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[Assistant] Now, to help things run smoothly, we have divided you into four teams.


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[Assistant] The blue team, the green team, the red team and the yellow team. So first, I'll explain how the teams are divided up and then we'll be giving you color-coded t-shirts so we can identify you more easily.


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[Assistant] First of all, those who will be looking after the phones and handling all calls regarding the exhibition, you will be on the red team. Now, we've also put the entrance staff on the red team and you'll be stamping the entrance tickets and giving out publicity leaflets, okay?


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[Assistant] Those of you involved in distributing entrance tickets will be on the yellow team and we've also put those of you who will be staffing the information booths around the conference centre on the yellow team so you'll be getting a yellow t-shirt.


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[Assistant] Now, most of the hospitality staff have been put in the blue team, so the chefs among you and the kitchen hands will all need a blue t-shirt, but because of the sheer numbers, all waiting staff will be on the yellow team, and this includes the bar staff among you.


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[Assistant] Those who will be monitoring and directing the traffic in the car parks are on the green team, so you'll need to get a green t-shirt.


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[Assistant] We've also employed a considerable number of attendants to direct the human traffic around the conference centre.


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[Assistant] Now, you'll be working in the exhibition hall at all times, giving directions and generally helping people whenever you can. And you will be in the red team, so please collect a red t-shirt.


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[Assistant] Right. Now that everyone knows what team they're in, we'll get on with the orientation and training program. And first, I'll run through the rest of today's program, which you should have in front of you, so that you can get a general idea of what else is in store today.


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[Assistant] This introduction finishes at 9.30 and then you'll be hearing from Anne Smith.


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[Assistant] Anne works in the accounts department on level two and she looks after all temporary staff and so she is the person to see if you have any problems regarding pay.


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[Assistant] Anne will be explaining when and how you get this.


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[Assistant] She will also be handing out your tax forms. And I will just stress that all tax forms must be completed and returned to Anne before your pay can be processed.


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[Assistant] Following Anne's talk, you'll hear from Peter Chin, our conference manager, and he will be going over a plan of the conference centre with you, which will help you to orient yourselves.


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[Assistant] He will also go through the security arrangements with you and show you the fire exits.


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[Assistant] We'll be moving to a different location for a video presentation, so instead of coming back here,


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[Assistant] We'd like you all to go to Lecture Room 311.


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[Assistant] We'll finish off the morning with lunch, which should give everyone a chance to meet and get to know each other.


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[Assistant] Which is on the first floor from twelve o'clock.


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[Assistant] After lunch you'll be divided up into your teams to meet your team leaders and we're hoping to be all finished by three so I won't delay you any longer and I'll hand over...


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[Assistant] Dad! I'm 16 already, and I'm like the only one at school who doesn't have a car.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, the only one at school who doesn't have a car.


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[Assistant] Dad, I love it. It's awesome. Can we get this one please?


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[Assistant] I don't know if we should buy that house. It's perfect for us, but it's so expensive.


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[Assistant] Well, the School of Education has libraries on two sites, as I'm sure you know. This one here is the Fordham site, and the other is on Castle Road.


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[Assistant] But the Castle Road site has books on the sociology of education and a collection of textbooks and teaching resources covering most of the subjects taught in secondary schools.


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[Assistant] Right, well, members can borrow two books at a time from each site.


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[Assistant] The borrowing period is one month, but of course books can be renewed. You can renew any item a maximum of three times.


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[Assistant] No, you can do it by telephone or email, but you can't renew overdue books this way, only before or on the due date stamped in the book.


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[Assistant] We'll need your full name, your borrower number, and the name of the site library you borrowed the items from.


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[Assistant] Well, sometimes an item is requested by another borrower, in which case we'd send you a letter and you'd have to return the book within seven working days. Don't forget we're closed on Sundays.


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[Assistant] How to use the library's resources. That includes everything, not just the print and technical resources.


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[Assistant] The one on the internet for beginners was last term.


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[Assistant] No, it's more to do with academic writing conventions. You know, writing a bibliography and how to refer to sources in your text. That sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Hello, Daddy Pig here. Daddy Pig is in his office. There are some ducklings stuck on our roof.


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[Assistant] Alright, it is 8 o'clock pacific time, sunday night. We just watched the first two parts.


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[Assistant] Of the Michael Jordan documentary. I'd already seen it, but I really enjoyed watching the second time. Ryan Rosillo. You hadn't seen yet. What'd you think?


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[Assistant] Well, he has that one line in the second episode when he's talking about, uh, we can't let up.


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[Assistant] You've got to keep asserting your dominance. You can't let other people know. Like he has that whole dominance alpha dog thing, but genuinely believes that it's not, it's not like, you know, I think Kobe.


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[Assistant] Kind of grew to believe a lot of the stuff that he was saying, but a lot of it was like mama mentality, hashtag, whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like he really believed a step on somebody's neck.


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[Assistant] You can't let them up. You have to motivate people. You have to drive them. And if they can't take it, you don't want to be in the war with them anyway. Get them the fuck out. Get me somebody else.


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[Assistant] Well, the other thing is it was actually terrible that they made the playoffs. It led to the 49 and 69 three point games against the 86 Celtics, but that's like, you know.


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[Assistant] That, that was a no win situation. They did the 86 Celtics were the best team of all time. The lottery that year, only seven teams were in there. That was back in the day. That was the envelope era.


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[Assistant] That was like everybody had the same odds. So if you, if you ended up, you know, one of the seven, even if you were the 17, you had the same odds as the worst team in the league. So it wasn't weighted at all yet. Cause I was looking it up before we.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Celtics ended up getting a number two and they got the limb bias pick. So.


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[Assistant] So it's actually kind of indefensible if you're just running an NBA team that you would have let Jordan play at all. And I wonder, like, I was thinking about, you know, Jordan's own the Charlotte team now for the last decade or so, if he was in that situation as an owner, he'd probably be pinching.


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[Assistant] Michael Jordan or, or, you know, keeping him to the minutes restriction, right? Yeah, whatever. But, but that could have been a huge pick for them. Cause Brad Doherty was the first pick, like even Ron Harper, I think was the seventh pick that year.


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[Assistant] If bias goes to them, who knows, maybe he doesn't party as hard that night. It's a good what if now that's the only time I'm going to defend the bulls organization. This whole podcast I've written about this a couple of years ago, their decision to basically break up that team after that 97, 98 thing is the most indefensible.


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[Assistant] Decision slash strategy from any NBA team we've seen. It, it does, it doesn't make sense now. It didn't make sense then. And I think there's been some revisionist history about why he retired. He retired because as I laid out in the piece I wrote two years ago, he didn't have anywhere to go.


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[Assistant] You end up going right into a lockout right after that. Phil Jackson's out. He only wants to play with Phil Jackson if he stays with Chicago. This is the late nineties, the era when, you know, teams weren't carving out cap space and keeping an extra 20 million to try to sign MJ. The only team that really had cap space was Houston. They ended up signing Pippen.


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[Assistant] So he could have like glommed on to somebody else's situation, played for cheap, tried to win more titles. He just wasn't going to do that. He had made like 36 million in the 98 season. He wasn't going to play for 4 million to try to win a title with Ewing or, you know, and he'd hurt his finger.


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[Assistant] And he was just like, ah, fuck it. I guess I won't play. And when you think about it.


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[Assistant] How did the bulls handle it that way? Hey, the stuff Jordan was saying about we deserve to keep defending this title until we lose.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. The bulls organization didn't feel that way. And by the way, they had the rebuilding thing and it was a disaster. We've been laying it out in the redraftables. They ended up rebuilding three different times.


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[Assistant] In retrospect, a catastrophe of a trade for the Celtics. It was the third pick, the sixth pick, and I think it was their 1998 first round or two for Pippen.


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[Assistant] And which would have ended up being Chauncey Billups, Ron Mercer, and the Paul Pierce pick.


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[Assistant] And at the last second it doesn't happen. Pippen almost got traded.


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[Assistant] A couple times during the nineties, one was a Sean Kemp trade that, that almost happened.


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[Assistant] And then as we find out the end of part two, he demands a trade at that point. He's going to be a free agent.


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[Assistant] What's the point? Who are they going to get to come back to try to win the title? And you know, the rest, they're going to, they're going to figure it out. We find out some stuff in the last two parts, spoiler alert, um, uh, more about could Jordan have actually come back.


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[Assistant] Did they audible? The part I never understood is what if Jordan hated cross this much and so to Pippen, why didn't they exercise?


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[Assistant] Their leverage slash sway and be like, Hey, it's him or me. Like do that earlier. Do that when he's coming out of baseball, like I'll come back, but you got to get rid of Jerry Krauss. Like at some point Reinsdorf wasn't going to value Krauss more than this Jordan dynasty, this money machine that he had. I always wondered why Jordan didn't just do a him or me thing because nowadays somebody would, right?


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[Assistant] That was actually, I think he signed that early.


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[Assistant] He had a rookie contract where his agent fucked them on the rookie contract. So then to catch up.


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[Assistant] They gave them this longer deal early earlier in the rookie year contract. So it's like, we'll pay a little more.


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[Assistant] Give us a little more in the backend. I thought it was disingenuous for Reinsdorf to say, Oh yeah, I told Scotty he shouldn't sign it. Like that's bullshit. He, that was an unbelievable contract to have Scott and he was one of the best 15 players in the league. By the time he signed the contract, they had him for nothing.


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[Assistant] Well, it's impossible beyond the titles. Think about how much money that costs them. Let's say they figured it out and he played for two more years.


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[Assistant] And that's another eight months of tickets. It's another eight months.


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[Assistant] Oh my God, but you're still raking it in and you're selling that building out. And instead for what they audibled into, and if you haven't heard the redraftables, which we've been doing on book of basketball, um, you know, they, they luck out in 99. It's a three and a half month season.


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[Assistant] They, they're terrible and they get the number picked. They get out and brand a couple of years later, they flip out and brand, they get two of the top four. They take Tyson Chandler and Eddie Curry. That doesn't work out. And six years in there finally have the foundation of something, but.


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[Assistant] Rebuilding is a lot harder than it sounds. You know, it's what's also really hard is having the best part of all time. I just would have.


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[Assistant] I, at some point, like I think the players have way too much power. It's weird how little power they had in 98 that he couldn't.


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[Assistant] Convince them to be like, look, rehire Phil, give Scotty a contract extension.


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[Assistant] I'll stay for as long as you keep those two guys. I, if you're a writer, I feel like great. Good done. Let's keep going.


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[Assistant] Right. Well, the other thing is the rules were a little more favorable to mess around in the 97, 98 range. Like Jordan, they were just able to give him whatever salary he wanted. For some reason that didn't count against the cap. You were able to renegotiate somebody's contract as far as I can remember with the year left.


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[Assistant] You know, you could, you could tack it on to after that last year, things like that. The coach thing, Jackson making 6 million and 98 was a lot of money. I think he was the highest paid.


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[Assistant] Coach back then, except for Riley. So it's re it's really weird. This for people who don't know, uh, the background of this story, this DVD has been around since the late nineties, the NBA entertainment. They asked the film.


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[Assistant] The, the only deal they made was we'll never do anything with the footage unless you say it's okay. And they let them behind the scene and you got a little taste of it in the first two parts, but you get, you get much more of a taste in the next eight parts because this was more of a background set up, you know, first two.


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[Assistant] So we, we were doing 30 for 30. We had it going. It was in motion.


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[Assistant] And I don't remember that the timeline. Oh, I do remember the timeline actually.


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[Assistant] It was spring of 2009, it was when, uh, when LeBron played Orlando, cause we had a meeting with the director during that series and this was 30 Thursdays of motion. We were making them and then we were like, Oh, there's Jordan thing. Could we get something?


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[Assistant] And we'd heard about this mystery DVD, but they heard about it.


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[Assistant] This legendary DVD where they had followed him around. I was like, what's that? Well, you can't see it. Nobody gets to see it. It was like, well, we know some people have seen it. So they ended up mailing us the DVD. I still have it. And it was their cut of this two hour doc.


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[Assistant] That NBA entertainment had done and it was dated and you would have to take some stuff and change some things, do some interviews, but it, the, it was the real Jordan and we were like, how do we.


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[Assistant] Hey, by the way, I take no credit in this. This is just, this was a quick moment in time in Oh nine where it was like, could we turn this into a documentary? We taught, we brought in at least one really good director that we had sent him the DVD to see if they could do it. And, uh, and it just came down to the NBA didn't want to do it. And Jordan did Jordan. We had no chance.


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[Assistant] Over and over again was that it was going to be incredibly expensive and.


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[Assistant] For the NBA for the amount of time that they had spent.


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[Assistant] That season falling in the time, energy, money, everything. And then on top of it, compensating Jordan.


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[Assistant] Who also had to allow all this footage where, you know, as you'll see in the next day parts doesn't come off great in some of this stuff, but this is the real Jordan. He had no interest and it kind of died. We thought you didn't pay, you know, $10 million for documentaries in 2009.


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[Assistant] I don't, it never got, it never got that far. The way they did this deal, you know, this was a Netflix ESPN combining ESPN gets the live rights. Netflix gets the.


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[Assistant] Overseas rights and then they eventually get the doc after like three months or whatever. And they put in real money. I bet. I don't know what the exact price is, but I guarantee it was over 20 million, something like that. And then the production company gets some.


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[Assistant] The NBA gets a lot and then Jordan, I'm sure it gets the most because you can't do this without Jordan. You're not getting any interviews if he's not involved.


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[Assistant] You know that it's a, it becomes a dominance thing. Once it's like Jordan's in, he's producing it with us. That opens the door for all these things. But honestly, the documentary climate changed the last four or five years. It was inconceivable for anyone to pay.


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[Assistant] More than 5 million bucks for a documentary five years ago. And now you look at what's happening, even in the music industry, like Billy, I wish his music doc went for like 25, 30 million and singer, uh, Beyonce's Netflix thing was 25 million.


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[Assistant] The price for this stuff because of what we saw tonight, because you could own conversation. If you looked at Twitter today, it was hashtag glass dance across the board. Now we miss sports, but a documentary is ability to capture.


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[Assistant] Attention and getting the zeitgeist for two days a week, whatever that's worth something. In 2009, it wasn't.


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[Assistant] Well, it's him and Ali, that's it. It is right. That's the whole point. It was him and Ali and Lebron is not in that level of the conversation. He's just not.


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[Assistant] But you know, it's so, the timing of this was bizarre, but when we were Kings was on today.


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[Assistant] So that's the best sports documentary of all time. And I say that as somebody who has produced a lot of sports documentaries.


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[Assistant] I, the reason I say it's the best is it's one part. If you're going to say the best multi-part documentary, that's like a different conversation. The best documentary of all time is when we were Kings because.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like an hour and 50 minutes and it's incredible. And every, the footage and.


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[Assistant] So I get, I try not to get frustrated by younger people too much because I, and I'm sure I did this when I was in my twenties and whatever, where, where now where you're just like.


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[Assistant] You tend to think everything that's happened in your recent lifetime is always the best thing.


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[Assistant] It worries me that people haven't even seen when we were Kings because it's on Cinemax right now. And I'm sure it's on like the HBO go site.


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[Assistant] And if you care about sports documentaries and you love the 30 for 30, uh, series and you love the OJ series and you're joining this Michael Jordan series and you want to have conversations with other people about sports documentaries, it starts with when we were Kings that thing.


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[Assistant] First of all, Hoop Dreams, which was the other like, you know, really.


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[Assistant] Impactful sports doc. It's not nearly as good as when we were Kings when we're Kings could be released right now and it'd be fucking awesome. And that thing is at least 20 years old, right? I don't remember when it came out.


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[Assistant] It's it's impeccable. It's so good. And the story's great and everything about it. So, um, I would highly recommend that one. But yeah, the journey of documentaries, you go back to hoop dreams was I was in grad school.


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[Assistant] And that was the first time a sports doc comes out.


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[Assistant] And they're going, wow, this thing has a chance to get nominated for an Oscar. Like what?


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[Assistant] Um, and then all the way through when we were Kings was another big land point that I think the legendary night series that HBO did was really important. Um, HBO and ESPN both had some good ones. Black magic was important. 34 30 was important. Obviously, uh, you go through, I think what's cool about this and, and, and, uh,


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[Assistant] And hat why we'll remember at longterm, regardless of if people feel like it's an A minus and a, and a plus whatever is just what it meant for the quarantine, how we didn't have sports for.


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[Assistant] Five and a half weeks, and this is being treated as a sporting event. People are doing live after shows after a documentary. It's inconceivable in 2005, right?


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[Assistant] No, and my friend Dan chorus did that who did the Reggie Miller 30 for 30 for us and also did basketball love story and black magic was really important for ESPN because.


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[Assistant] It was the first really high quality nonfiction thing he has penned in.


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[Assistant] Cause you go through the eighties, nineties, they're not doing anything other than sports century. Sports century was important.


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[Assistant] You know, it was the same kind of behind the music type thing where it was like, but what Ryan didn't realize was that Danny Canell wouldn't be around for much longer. And then it would go to commercial and I didn't know.


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[Assistant] But you know, it was good for what it was, but it was very, you watch those now and it's very primitive. I don't even think they would rerun those on ESPN. Uh, black magic was the first one that pushed the envelope.


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[Assistant] They did a bunch of them. They did Dale Earnhardt movie. They did a whole Bronx is burning mini series, which was like secretly one of the most expensive ESPN projects ever. It was like three times as much as the budget was. So by the time we started.


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[Assistant] Innovating 30 for 30, it was just a mess there. All the different projects were all over the place. We were just one of the many projects people were working on, but, uh, to watch it now, it's like this well-rounded machine where you have the sponsors and the sponsored segments in there. And it's like the vault presented by whatever. And then.


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[Assistant] It's all going on, uh, there's stuff on plus and there's stuff on the website and there's after shows. And when we did the first 30 for 30.


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[Assistant] I still have the pitch. No, it was always supposed, it was supposed to be four parts.


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[Assistant] Or maybe it was supposed to be three parts, five hours. I think Connor went and got, it ended up being five parts, but the pitch we always wanted to do like a multi-part.


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[Assistant] Whatever. I remember we, we, the one, the one I was the most excited about that fell through is Tyson week. I wanted to do Tyson week, like shark week as before. How did that fall through?


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[Assistant] Cause it was, we were working on the second series, so it was the second 30, but then.


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[Assistant] We knew that we knew the next iteration had to be, it needs to be a multi-part something. This is like the next step for 30 for 30. Cause we're doing shorts at that point. We'd done the nine for nine. It was like, the next one is we need like a multi-parter.


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[Assistant] And we had, I had a whole, I had a really good game plan. We'd worked on this whole, um.


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[Assistant] Uh, memo thing for the five nights and all that stuff. But then if you remember, remember like right around that time, Tyson started, he did like a, he wrote a book and he did, uh,


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[Assistant] He did the Broadway thing and he was like available. He was coming off the hangover and it just didn't feel special. So we ended up just kind of not pursuing it.


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[Assistant] Well, the five parts, the best part was the Robin, like laying it out was what the Robin Givens leading to Buster Douglas.


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[Assistant] That would have been like, that would have been one of the best hours ever.


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[Assistant] I would say making a murderer was a bigger impact.


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[Assistant] Cause this, wow. Yeah. Because that, well, it just started a documentary trend in general where people started looking at multi-part documentaries. Cause you get more money. It's honestly.


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[Assistant] So that's why you see even tiger cane. That was probably what? Two episodes too long.


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[Assistant] All of these are always padded because the more hours you're doing, the more you're getting paid for for this one.


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[Assistant] The way to really do this correctly was the way they did it. And I actually, I don't think this was too long. I, this is one of the ones that it's only 49 minutes per episode. And if it was on Netflix, it would probably be.


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[Assistant] An hour of pop. So maybe it would be eight episodes instead of 10, something like that. I think it's the right length. I actually feel like.


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[Assistant] Stuff like the Bowie, the Sam Bowie Jordan draft, they could have done another five, six minutes on that, you know? And I think you'll see some other stuff like the 91 finals that's coming up in a little bit. They could have gone way deeper on that. That was one of the reasons I wanted to the podcast last week.


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[Assistant] But I just think it's cool. I'm, I'm glad I'm really glad that he, that Jordan decided to do this. I'm glad that, uh, they found an awesome director for it because that's another way this could have gone wrong.


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[Assistant] And I'm glad they got everybody and that everybody was still alive to talk about, except ironically Jerry Krause, because he died, I think a year ago. But other than that, all the principles are in this. So.


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[Assistant] It was, it's Woj was really in his corner and I always thought it was.


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[Assistant] That was an interesting one. Woj Woj was a huge Krause guy. And I remember, I think he had him on a podcast, like fairly close to when he'd even died.


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[Assistant] But, uh, really like respected him. There were, there were Jerry Krauss fans out there that thought he was like a brilliant guy.


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[Assistant] Way more down the line a little bit later in this podcast, we're going to do volume two of the rewatch of bulls about, uh,


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[Assistant] Game four of the Knicks bull series in 1993, which is just a classic. Uh, we're going to take a break and then talk about the NFL draft. Hey, let's audible to the NFL draft, which I think people are more excited about than any other draft ever because we have nothing to do. We literally have nothing to do.


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[Assistant] This, my son is excited to watch a draft with me. My son never in a million years would have said.


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[Assistant] Hey, let's watch the draft dad. But now he's like, yeah, we're going to watch the draft, right? Where do you think two is going to go? I'm like, who are you? Uh, what, what is the plot? You're the most excited about this draft.


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[Assistant] Well, you left out his, uh, he fucked up his wrist too. He's got, he had three things.


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[Assistant] One of the reasons I think, and I barely follow college football, but I love the draft. And I think one of the things I love about the Tua whole subplot is I could see it going one of two ways and each way would make total sense. Right? He goes to the NFL. He just keeps getting hurt.


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[Assistant] And he's just like, yeah, two is brittle. I mean, the guy was talented, but we should have known in college, he kept getting hurt. Then he got to the NFL and he got hurt more. And of course that was how it was going to play out. Or I could see the other way. I'd be like, man.


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[Assistant] Remember when we weren't sure if too, it was the top five pick because he had a couple injury things. It was the quarantine and then he, you know, the Raiders traded up and got him and it really does feel like hit or miss.


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[Assistant] I don't feel like there's going to be a middle ground. I feel like it is a little bit like the Odin thing, although not as many, maybe, uh, obvious red flags as Odin had, but same thing where it's like, oh man, if this comes through, this would be an amazing pick. But I do, I do think there's a world in which if he goes by pick six.


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[Assistant] I wonder if like panic time sets in and the team start looking at each other and it becomes like a Paul Pierce 1998 situation. You think there's any way he falls out of the top six?


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[Assistant] The flip side would be when you aren't able to really study what he's like physically right now, this moment, and you're a GM and you're, if you're a GM, what's your goal? Your goal is to keep your job.


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[Assistant] You go, if it's like, you know, you're the owner, if you're Steve Ross, it's your team.


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[Assistant] You're like, well, if this doesn't work out, I'll still loan the dolphins. If you're the dolphins GM, whoever the hell that is now, it's like, well, this doesn't work out. I'm getting fired. I'm going to be on ESPN two with frigging Marcus Spears. That's, that's my destiny.


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[Assistant] When it gets really close, when we're, it's like the night of.


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[Assistant] That's our price. We don't even want your second, just 12 and 19. We'll move back. You can have three. And if you're Mayock and you're just going, all right, now I'm all in on two here. Maybe they want the third round or two.


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[Assistant] And Gruden's like, what do you think we should do? And now Mayak is thinking I'm in a really good spot here. I've only been here a year.


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[Assistant] Things are good. Multiple first round picks. I can take like a left guard and a cornerback. Those guys take forever, you know, and even if they don't work out, it's D backs. People don't care as much, but if I'm like two is our guy, we're all in.


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[Assistant] And it's just a catastrophe. I'm out. I'm back on the NFL network so that there's going to come a nut crunch time.


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[Assistant] And I'll be interested to see which team it is. So my pick.


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[Assistant] And I studied it just like looking at the order and what people need, the team that has the most urgency.


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[Assistant] And that just the need just for all things considered to be the chargers for me where it's like they're in LA.


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[Assistant] Nobody knows they're in LA. They're playing it. They're playing in somebody else's new stadium. They have no ties to any fan here. There's barely any football fans who like LA teams here anyway. And if there are, they like the Rams there. They have no wins.


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[Assistant] That's the move where it's like, you got to get Tom Brady. Well, they didn't get him. You got to get to, uh, and you're like, yeah, we're the team that has to, uh, that's something. That's something to put in a stadium. And if at the six pick, I feel like that's the upside. The question is, you don't think he even falls to six.


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[Assistant] They're like the, they're the other team. They're the, they're basically the Clippers without even any of the Clippers history and none of the fun stuff or anything. They're just kind of the other team that's going to play in that stadium. I have no idea why they even want to be in LA.


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[Assistant] So that's why I thought they were going to go all in on trying to get Brady. Cause at least that's an identity for two years. Obviously they thought that was stupid, but you know, I go back to like, what would you buy that you couldn't see?


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[Assistant] You just buy, you're buying a blind basically, like how far would you go? What's like, what's like the line? What's the line that we cross? There's a case where people are basically buying into a franchise QB that their doctors can't look at.


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[Assistant] I think that's crazy. I would be afraid to take them. I really would. I, I, if I was the dolphins and I have those three first round picks, I have a really good foundation. I'd love my coach. I'm in a division that Brady just left. I wouldn't take Tua.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't, I would just keep trying to add good players and be like, we'll worry about a quarterback next year. Let's, let's keep building on what we have over rolling the dice.


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[Assistant] I guess you argue that this goes more wrong than right when you're taking quarterbacks this high. I don't know what the percentages is, but.


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[Assistant] Even look at the famous Sam Darnold draft and how many of those guys went in the top 40 or top 45 or whatever.


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[Assistant] I love them. I, by the way, they've won nothing with them. I don't know if that was right, but you know, here's a, here's a deep cut. I'm gonna give you a little deep cut right here. The two thing reminds me, and this isn't fair to two, but I, it might be, it reminds me of the grand Hill thing. And in when great Hill became a free agent that year, but he'd hurt his ankle in the playoffs. Remember? And the magic.


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[Assistant] They were so fired up to get two stars. They had, they had.


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[Assistant] And Duncan ended up staying, so they ended up getting Granhill and TMac.


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[Assistant] If you go back and read the grand Hill stuff back then, they were major red flags. Like he had a really bad ankle injury and the physical, we, there were some.


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[Assistant] Concerns, but they were so fired up to do it that they just plowed ahead. I think there are concerns with the Tua thing. I just don't think you can give somebody a physical examination through zoom. It's ludicrous. Now my question is.


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[Assistant] Have figured out a super clandestine will never tell anybody. Let's keep this between eight people total.


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[Assistant] We're actually doing a physical with, with two during the quarantine thing.


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[Assistant] Would you put it past two NFL teams to be like, Hey man, we're going to take you at three.


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[Assistant] We're going to send two people there. They could be wearing hazmat suits.


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[Assistant] Um, and they're going to, we're going to put you through a physical and we'll never tell anybody. Is that conceivable?


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[Assistant] Right. Right. So you think, you think at least two teams have done it? Cause I feel like at least two teams have done it. How could you not? How could you not?


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[Assistant] Cause I think our people are becoming more brazen than they want to admit to anybody. You know, like even.


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[Assistant] Ben and I went to see my mom yesterday and we drove and she came out.


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[Assistant] Let me just be like, we'll, we'll, you know, we'll talk from 15 feet away. My mom just comes right up to the car and leans in. She's got the mask on. We're like, mom, you're too close. She's like, oh, come on. I've got a mask on.


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[Assistant] I do feel like some people are breaking a little bit. And if you're an NFL team, we're like, ah, we'll just send two doctors. It'll just be the two doctors and two. They'll be, they'll be wearing things with the mask. It's totally safe, but, and we'll take you if you do the physical. I don't think it could be ruled out.


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[Assistant] I'm going to give my picks for how I hope this plays out where we are two weeks from now. Now I'm including the cam, Jamis, Dalton, all the rookies. Um, I think this would be the most fun scenario.


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[Assistant] I like the idea of Gruden and Mayock not trading up for two, uh, because Marcus Mariota is their guy as a football fan from a comedy standpoint.


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[Assistant] All of that, I hope that's their move where they're like, look, this guy was the second pick in the draft. He just needed to change the scenery. Cause by the way, he doesn't need to change the scenery. He's not, he's not going to be a winning started quarterback. It's not happening, but I liked the idea of them trying to make him happen in Vegas.


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[Assistant] I like to go into the chargers. I actually liked their weapons. I think he has a chance to be.


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[Assistant] Awesome. If he could stay in the field with the weapons they have. And that would be exciting. If, if like they backdoor became the more fun LA team is the Rams are in their cellar cap. I liked the idea of cam in Washington.


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[Assistant] And reunited with Rivera. I think that'd be fun. I love the idea of James going to the paths for like one year, 3 million. Prove it.


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[Assistant] Who's going to be better next year? Jamus or Stidham? I mean, come on. Anyone who says Stidham is going to be better than Jamus next year needs to have their head examined. I don't know how it's going to be.


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[Assistant] But they spent a lot of the savings on, uh, on franchising guys and bringing back McCordy, things like that. I don't think they have the money anyway. You made the key point. Belichick loves nothing more than getting somebody on a discount.


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[Assistant] Like that year that they signed Revis for one year, 14 million, like Belichick probably had to be hosed down after, after he agreed to that. It was like, Oh my God, we're paying.


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[Assistant] One of the three best quarterbacks in the league, 14 million for one year. He had to, he had to have been so out of his mind, delighted about that. So if, if they could just steal one of these guys, which is conceivable because yeah, I don't know how many first round quarterbacks do you think they're going to be four or five? It seems like there's at least four.


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[Assistant] And the situation the Rams are in, which the cooks trade, I think helped them out at least a little bit. Cause that looked like, I still can't believe they unloaded that guy and got a second round pick. He said five concussions. I thought he was completely untradeable. Um, but they're still in, in absolute hell with their cap situation.


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[Assistant] Wait a second on that one. Also just the history of giving running backs a contract like that is the quickest way to just commit football suicide over and over again. Teams have done that and it's worked out horrendously. The one position you should never do that to.


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[Assistant] They do that Peter King column after, which I happily made fun of when it happened, where they did the whole thing. Like, you know, it was like the ultimate, we joke about the zig.


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[Assistant] You know, they did the zag where they were like.


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[Assistant] You know, all these teams are saying first round picks matter. We're going the other way. They don't matter.


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[Assistant] Well, it was the equivalent of an NBA team being like, you know, we've studied this in lottery picks. They just don't matter. We're just going to, we're going to trade ours every year. Top five.


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[Assistant] Listen, we've seen this over and over again in sports, but.


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[Assistant] When a, when a franchise starts trying to build their team based on we've got to win the fans over.


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[Assistant] It's never worked in any sport and you could go back. I mean, one of the most famous examples of this was when, uh, New Orleans moved to, um, the jazz, they moved to New Orleans.


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[Assistant] And they traded two really juicy first round picks for Gail Goodrich who.


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[Assistant] It was this Lakers guard who he's like a CJ McCollum type and he was near the tail end of his career.


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[Assistant] They went all in on him. Then they traded more picks for Maravich. They just completely gutted their team. They're like, we've got Maravich and Gail Goodrich.


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[Assistant] To, to, uh, to score first guards, but the fans are going to love it. It's like, guess what? The fans don't love going 30 and 52. Like just, just have a team that wins. That's, that's what's going to matter. I don't know why they were so concerned with trying to have stars for the stadium and have stars in LA. Like.


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[Assistant] Nobody cares. So it's a, my son's going to wear a Todd Gurley Jersey. Cause they gave them $40 million a year or whatever they gave them. Like I, it's just the dumbest, uh, philosophy.


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[Assistant] The Knicks have been the most guilty of this over the last 45, 50 years. I mean, they, they, in the seventies, they try to sign Will Chamberlain.


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[Assistant] They gave Spencer Heywood a ton of money. They tried to sign George McGinnis. They thought about trading for Dr. J was like year after year after year, they traded first rounders for Bob McAnoo.


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[Assistant] Um, and that's been the mindset really ever since over and over again, remember that the Larry Johnson trade they made.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It was like his contract, I think was 12 years, 84 million or something. Bakers like that. And, and they were like, cool.


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[Assistant] He'll get the fans talking. Meanwhile, like his back was already messed up. He couldn't jump anymore.


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[Assistant] He wants to play with his son someday. He might have to go to Russia. Um, I have, I have a couple, uh, I have a couple more. Um, that was harsh.


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[Assistant] He's a tweener. Like he's got to grow. He's already breaking him down. Oh, he didn't.


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[Assistant] He's a freshman. I just think it's crazy to talk about ninth graders where, oh, when, when LeBron jr. Joins the MBA, the kid hasn't even finished growing yet. We have, would the next, would the next draft them though, if they knew it locked up LeBron free agency.


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[Assistant] One thing is he might, he's an incredible athlete, but right now he's short. So he'd have to grow to like six, four, six, five. He's a, he's not a point guard. He's a shooting guard.


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[Assistant] There's like kind of like a combo card, but I just think, I think it's nuts to put pressure like that on 14 year olds who haven't even grown into their bodies here. Like, wow. When Lebron jr. Makes the NBA, this is the thing that people just say on TV shows now. Well, you know, he wants to stay around long enough to play with his son.


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[Assistant] There's only 400 NBA players and only 40 new ones come in every year. Like to just assume that LeBron's son is going to be an NBA player, I think is crazy.


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[Assistant] But it would be a foregone conclusion if he was like LeBron was in high school where LeBron as a ninth grader was the best guy in Ohio and the best player in the team that won the title. Like those are usually the guys that make the NBA. Um.


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[Assistant] I have one more thing that would make me happy with quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Uh, pretending he's not unhappy, Andy Dalton being stuck in Cincinnati, but then.


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[Assistant] As we get into like that August, September range with an injury or something, there's a whole week of Andy Dalton. Where's he going content?


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[Assistant] Bears not happy with foals or Chibisky. Could that be where Dalton's going? Next on First Take.


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[Assistant] Hold the camp thought if you had to bet on Roethlisberger rivers being washed up first.


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[Assistant] I thought what I saw last year, there's no, I was telling some of the ringer NFL guys, they were texting and I was saying how, uh,


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[Assistant] When you lose the mobility and you start throwing picks as a QB.


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[Assistant] It's over. It's like when the dog starts going to bathroom, the bathroom in the house, the dog's just like, fuck it. I'm just going to take a shit in the carpet again. Yeah. Could you do that outside? The dog's like, nah, I'm just going to do it in here again. You're like, oh man, we might have to take this dog to the vet when that, when rivers.


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[Assistant] You can't move side to side anymore. You're just getting crushed and you're throwing it up for grabs with three minutes left.


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[Assistant] That doesn't change that you, that's who you are from that point on and there's no going back. So I think he's washed, but I think.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't be surprised if we never saw like a meaningful Roethlisberger moment again, because I felt like he was on the fringe anyway, just because he'd taken so many hits. He reminded me of like that when Ben Coats.


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[Assistant] On the pats when he hit this weird point, he just, he had dragged three defenders down too many times over the course of five years. And all of a sudden he just wasn't, couldn't move anymore. And it was like, Oh man, Ben Coats is done.


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[Assistant] So I could see Roethlisberger just being shot.


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[Assistant] I was saying Manning had that last year when he was nine TDs and 17 picks. And you just look at his pro football reference page and cause they won the super bowl that year. And I think people remember the whole Manning performance a little more fondly than what actually happened. You throw nine TDs and 17 picks in a season.


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[Assistant] And you're in a Brock Osweiler quarterback controversy, which did happen. Remember Osweiler came in and look good. And it was like, ah, should they just put Manning on ice? Like, is this, should this just be over?


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[Assistant] Every quarterback, it has to happen too. And it has even far when he had that rejuvenation with the bikes the next year, he was terrible. He was, he just lost it.


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[Assistant] I feel like, well, no, I just feel, I like it for Pittsburgh. I, the moment he signs with the pats, if it ever happened, I would talk myself into it in 1.4 seconds. I feel like he's been hurt for two years.


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[Assistant] We've been hearing about that shoulder forever, but I feel like.


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[Assistant] When he's healthy, I do feel like he's right there with, with Wilson.


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[Assistant] With these guys where when you're going against them and he came in and he won a couple of games in new England.


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[Assistant] Where you're just like, fuck this guy. I don't know how to beat this guy when he, when he's really feeling it. I would like to see him on a different team, healthy.


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[Assistant] Doing his thing again. I still believe he's young. He's that way. Is he, is he even 30 yet?


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[Assistant] The thing that the, the reason I brought up him and Wilson cause.


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[Assistant] I do feel like they're guys, those are two guys that they could win these games against really good teams.


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[Assistant] And you would kind of be watching going, we can't stop this guy. And I can't really figure out why, especially like Caroline would have those years where cams, the receiver was like. Devin functions.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And, and cam is just like moving down the field and the same thing with Wilson, where you're like.


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[Assistant] Who's that guy? Where's this guy? How is he getting this much out of DK Metcalf? Uhm, where they could just take the sum of the parts and do shit.


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[Assistant] I feel like should come back. It's not like he's 37. I don't know. I think he's a good gamble for somebody.


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[Assistant] No, I, cause I don't think this Pat's team is a contender this year. I just don't, I think Dave Belichick has screwed up too many drafts recently. I think from a value standpoint.


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[Assistant] I think one of those guys or both of those guys is going to be a steal. If you can get cam for even one year, 9 million or something.


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[Assistant] And just be like, yeah, we'll try to rehabilitate. You see how this works. And if this is awesome, we'll take care of you with a much bigger deal. I think that's a great, you know, a great move for somebody. Um, last thing on to, uh,


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[Assistant] If the Raiders did, the Raiders are like 12 to one to trade up for him. If they did trade up and they do have the pieces, if they want it.


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[Assistant] And then they're going into Vegas with Tua and John Gruden and the whole thing. And then two actually turned out to be good. That's probably our most fun scenario.


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[Assistant] And that whole thing and they're there now he's in the AFC West. He's going to get to my homes twice a year. Um.


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[Assistant] I would enjoy that. I hope he's good. We need more good quarterbacks. We don't need like another Greg Oded situation. Can I ask you something on the Raiders thing?


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[Assistant] Who's probably not successfully practicing social distancing right now.


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[Assistant] I would guess I had one more question for you since you love college football. Did you see the flights to Jacksonville? How cheap they are. Jalen hurts. There's some.


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[Assistant] Oh, he might go into the first round kind of buzz. The Patriots.


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[Assistant] You know Belichick who I, I'm convinced doesn't really watch college football, uh, but does have like the coaches that he relies on.


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[Assistant] Saban, Saban has to love, like if you call Saban is like, Hey, should I take Jalen hurts it? I'm not going to take with 23, but I could trade back to 28, take them there. Um, do you think this guy could be like a really good starting quarterback? And Saban was like, yeah, I fucking love that guy. I had a one, a once in a generation prospect into a.


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[Assistant] And that was the only reason I had to play to it. Like he's the best quarterback I've ever coached. Jalen hurts is going to be an awesome pro. You should take them. Could you see Belichick taking Jalen hurts?


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[Assistant] I have to tell you my son, um, my son's really into football now.


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[Assistant] He goes into these stages, right? So he'll go like he really got in wrestling.


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[Assistant] When he was like six, he really got a Michael Jackson for a couple of months. He goes from like obsession to obsession.


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[Assistant] We downloaded the NFL app and they have those football life shows. He's been watching those and he's always asked me like, who's, who's your best three? Who are the best four guys? Who, who do you think are the three greatest?


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[Assistant] And I was always like, my answer is always like Lawrence Taylor, Jerry Rice, and then probably Brady. But like, I just felt like Taylor and Rice have to be the first two. So we watched a football life with Taylor and they have, they have the North Carolina footage of him when they kind of figured out what he was his junior year.


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[Assistant] It's some of the most unbelievable footage. You're right. You, when you talk about Sue, it reminded me of this, where he's just like.


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[Assistant] Demolishing three guys on the same play. Like he's, he's blowing over the blocker and then throwing the running back into the quarterback for the sack and shit like that. It's Lawrence Taylor, North Carolina has to be like the number one defensive highlight guy. Um.


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[Assistant] I, I still have him one. He's the greatest football player I've ever seen. He's still my, I have him one A and I have Jerry Rice one B.


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[Assistant] So my top four, if I had to do a Mount Rushmore, just the guys I've seen, cause then if you're going backwards to the Jim Brown era, who knows, but, uh, Taylor Rice, I think Brady has to be on there. And then my fourth spot is either Dion. Well, I.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he has to be brought up, but I think Montana has to be four because I left the Montana experience telling myself like.


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[Assistant] Just remember 30 years from now, that was the best quarterback you've ever, you've ever seen. There's been guys that have passed him. And I think Brady obviously the longevity, but when you go back and watch this football from the eighties, you always joke about how, uh, the bad boy pistons. It was, oh man, every time he drove to the lane, you just got clothesline in the basket. It wasn't totally like that.


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[Assistant] Montana gets knocked out of the Giants Niners game in 90 on what, on a hit that if it happened now, I think, I feel like sports would stop for a month so we could just regroup. Yeah. I'd be like, Oh my God, what?


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[Assistant] But that happened all the time and these guys took crazy hits and that guy's diving at their knees and for all the shit he was able to do and how great he was, they almost went, they almost went back to back to back.


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[Assistant] I mean, if the giants, if Roger Craig doesn't fumble, now they're playing the bills in the super bowl. They probably beat the bills. They could win three straight super bowls in the eighties, like.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, so anyway, he would be my fourth and then I I'm in the Moss Deon range after that. But to me, LT and Rice are unassailable. They have to be the first two. If for anybody in my age group, if those aren't your first two, I don't know what you're watching.


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[Assistant] Who do you have for best offensive endeavor? For you.


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[Assistant] You could be, so it's, it's third and eight and you need a sack.


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[Assistant] I'm saying like lineman. It's so like the Reggie white straight hand like that. Those kinds of guys, no stack.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's funny. It's cause they have all these and Matt and KO, they have all the legend cards.


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[Assistant] And there aren't any, like as many legendary defensive linemen as I thought they would be.


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[Assistant] You know, that like me, Joe green and two tall Jones, people like that. But, um, and then you go back to the fearsome foursome, all those guys, those are before our time.


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[Assistant] They're all kind of around the same, but LT and Rice were just so clearly.


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[Assistant] You know, at the end of the LT thing, Belichick's just like, he's the greatest football player I've ever seen. Like in Belichick doesn't say things like that. You know, Belichick's not like, here's my.


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[Assistant] Here's my hot take on best players ever. And he's just like, yeah, he's the greatest player I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] How much of the, uh, NFL a hundred have you watched? Cause we taped all those. So there's in the Ed Reed one, which made me want to watch the whole series. They're talking about this play Ed Reed makes on Manning and they were.


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[Assistant] He set it up and he runs two steps and then just veers to where he knows the ball is and they go and then Collinsworth sets it up and he finishes and.


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[Assistant] And it seems like the moment's going to be over and Belichick just kind of comes in and he goes.


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[Assistant] That is the greatest play I've ever seen a safety make. And he gets so excited. It's like.


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[Assistant] That's fucking porn for Belichick. Like he's honestly, and he's going over and he's like, no, it's a go route. Like Collins worth had like a little detail wrong. Belichick's correcting them going through and how upset Manning was and how they studied it on tape. And they just couldn't believe Ed Reed pulled that off. And so every every it is for the safeties.


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[Assistant] You know, there's been some great ones, but he's got to be in that conversation too. But I've been thinking a lot about my all time, just guys I've watched. I, I, this is a whole podcast for us, but I've read.


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[Assistant] The year he had an 07, which really pushed over the top, but he had like three or four signature.


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[Assistant] Like really, really pantheon years combined with the eye test.


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[Assistant] When he showed up in the Pats and those first couple games when they were just wreaking havoc and that Jets game when he had the three guys on him and he ran the 55 yard button hook.


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[Assistant] Brady had 10 seconds to throw, just hit some mosses running across the field, 50 yards from the line of scrimmage and I've never seen anything like it. But I still, Rice is the guy that I don't understand why he hasn't carried over.


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[Assistant] From a legacy standpoint, like he should have, cause that was one of those where we left the Jerry Rice experience. Like, oh yeah, it's not.


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[Assistant] He was so far ahead of any other receiver. Like you go back and look at the numbers compared to the other guys and the stuff he did in big games. It was like total package. And then Sue blew out his, uh, not Sue, uh, sap broke out, blew out his knee that time. And that face mask is never totally the same after that, but.


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[Assistant] Right. When they weren't throwing the football. It'd be like 300. Now he reminds me that Rice's numbers are a lot. Like when you look at Gretzky's numbers, you're like Gretzky had 50 goals and 39 games.


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[Assistant] You know, Gretzky had 220 points or whatever he had and, and it just has this crazy at your end.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, Pepper. I'll make sure the birds don't eat the seeds.


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[Assistant] Ho ho ho, no pepper, but it does go...


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome back. Today we're going to look at how to insert nodes into an AVL tree in great detail.


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[Assistant] We'll be making use of the tree rotation technique we looked at in the last video. So if you didn't watch that simply roll back one video.


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[Assistant] Alright, before we get too far, I should mention what an AVL tree is. An AVL tree is one of many types of balanced binary search trees, which allow for logarithmic insertion, deletion, and search operations.


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[Assistant] Something really special about AVL tree is that it was the first type of balanced binary search tree to be discovered.


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[Assistant] Soon after a whole bunch of other types of balance binary search trees started to emerge, including the two three tree, the a tree scapegoat tree, and the AVL trees main rival, the red black


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[Assistant] What you need to know about next is the property that keeps the AVL tree balanced


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[Assistant] is the difference between the height of the right subtree and the left subtree. I'm pretty sure the bounce factor can also be defined as


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[Assistant] The left subtree minus the right subtree height, but don't quote me on this. It would also screw up a lot of what I'm about to say.


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[Assistant] For clarity, because people get this wrong, or define it differently, the height of node x is calculated as the number of edges between x and the furthest leaf.


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[Assistant] So if your tree only has one node, the tree has height zero, not height one, because there are no edges. The invariant on the AVL tree that keeps it balanced is


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[Assistant] Forcing the balance factor of every node to be either minus one zero or plus one. If the balance factor of a node is anything else, we need to resolve that with tree rotations.


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[Assistant] In terms of information we need to store in each node to actually make the AVL tree work, what we'll need is the actual value the node stores, this value must be comparable. So we know how to insert it and what position it goes the tree.


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[Assistant] Then we'll also need the balance factor and height of the node as well as the left and the right child pointers. As the algorithm executes, we'll need to update these values. So keep that in mind.


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[Assistant] So a slider so back, I said that the balance factor of a node must always be minus zero or plus one.


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[Assistant] A natural question to ask is how do we handle the case where this is not true? The answer is that if this is not true, then the bounce factor must either be plus two or minus two.


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[Assistant] The first such case is when the tree is what we call a left heavy, and there are two left child nodes. This is an easy case to fix, because all we need to do is perform a right rotation about the yellow node to balance.


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[Assistant] The next case is the left right case, where you have a left child, but then that node has a right child.


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[Assistant] To fix this, you do a left rotation about the left child. So the green one on the leftmost image, what happens then is that this transforms into the left left case we just saw, which we can resolve with a right rotation balance.


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[Assistant] The third case is the right right case, which is symmetric to the left left case. So instead of doing a right rotation, we do a left rotation about the green node.


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[Assistant] Last but not least is the right left case which is symmetric to the left right case.


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[Assistant] For this case, you would perform a right rotation of the yellow node on the left most image to transform this case into the right right case, and then do a left rotation about the green node in the middle image.


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[Assistant] Thanks, I want to show you some pseudocode for inserting nodes into an AVL tree because it's not all that obvious or easy. This first method is the public facing method for the insert method, which returns true or false depending on whether the value was successfully inserted or not.


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[Assistant] For simplicity, we're going to ban duplicate values in our AFL tree. So if the value already exists, or the value is no, this method would return false.


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[Assistant] If the node is not null, and it doesn't already exist in the tree, we call our private recursive insert method, where we pass in a pointer to the root node and the value we want to insert.


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[Assistant] The private recursive method is also simple. If we hit the base case a null node, we simply return a new instance of the node with the value we want to insert.