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[Assistant] I want, but I don't want to go on TV and say that's a rigged election because I don't have any evidence it's a rigged election. You can't do that. It's irresponsible and it's wrong.


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[Assistant] So, I was like, I want, the Trump campaign was making all these claims about, you know, this or that fraud, so I was trying my best.


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[Assistant] To, to substantiate them. To follow up on it. Everyone else is like, shut up Trump, you lost, go away. We're gonna indict you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I felt like my job was to be like, no, the guy's, he's president, he's claiming the election just got stolen, and he's making these claims, let's see if we can...


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[Assistant] Well, the people around him were like so incompetent. It was just absolutely crazy. And I, so I called a couple of times, I finally gave up, but I'd call and be like, all right, you guys claim that these inconsistencies and this, you know, whatever this happened, give me evidence and I'll put it on TV.


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[Assistant] You know, it's my job to bring stuff that is not going to be aired anywhere else to the public.


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[Assistant] I couldn't, it was like, it was insane how incompetent and unserious- So they weren't able to provide like- Well, here's the point of the story and of that text.


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[Assistant] So then they come out and they say, well, dead people voted. Well, that's just an easy call, okay? If a dead person voted, we can prove someone's dead, cause like being dead is one of the few things we're good at, like, verifying, cause you start to smell, okay? And there's a record of it, it's called the death certificate.


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[Assistant] So it was like, give me the names of people who are dead who voted. Then we can get their registration and we can show they voted. Five names. So I go on TV and I say, uhm, this, you know.


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[Assistant] Caroline Johnson, 79 of Waukegan, Illinois, voted. Here's her death certificate. She died.


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[Assistant] And the campaign sends me this stuff now. I, in general, don't take stuff directly from campaigns because they all lie because their job is to get elected or whatever. So I, I'm very wary of campaigns having been around it for 30 years. So like, but I made an exception to my rule and I got a bunch of stuff from them. Well, like of the six names, two of them are still alive.


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[Assistant] I was, I immediately corrected it the next night. CNN did a whole segment on how I was spreading disinformation, which I was, by the way. In this one case, they were right. I was so mad. I was like, I hate you. I'm not talking about you. I'm so mad. Anyway, that's the answer. That's what that was.


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[Assistant] My producer, and I was like venting, it's like a producer I was really close to and...


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[Assistant] I've known him for a long time, he's really smart and uh, and he's like, he was someone I could like be honest with and I was like,


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[Assistant] And by the way, it's so funny. I mean, now I'm doing what was me, which I will keep to a minimum, but it's like stealing someone's text. Like how, and by the way, I was an idiot.


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[Assistant] I should have said, come and arrest me. I'm not giving you my freaking text messages, okay? But I got bullied into it by a lawyer.


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[Assistant] I didn't get bullied into it. I was weak enough to agree with a lawyer. It was my fault.


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[Assistant] Never should've done that. Fuck you! They're my texts. They're total- I'm not even named in this case. That's what I should've said, but I didn't.


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[Assistant] I said I was mad on the air the next day, but not in language that colorful. But whatever, whatever. I try to be.


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[Assistant] I try to be transparent. I mean, I also think, by the way, if you watch someone over time,


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[Assistant] You don't always know what they really think, but you can tell if someone's lying. You know, you can sort of feel it in people.


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[Assistant] And I have lied. I'm sure I'll lie again. I don't want to lie. You know? I don't think I'm a liar. I try not to be a liar. I don't want to be a liar.


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[Assistant] My texts are so uninteresting now, it's like crazy how uninteresting they are. Emojis and gays. Yea, lots of dog pictures.


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[Assistant] The way people vote, right before the election on the basis of COVID, which had nothing to do with me. So in that way it was rigged. 100%. And then, then you censor the information people are allowed to get. Anyone who complains about COVID, which is like, by the way, it might've hurt Trump.


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[Assistant] You can't have censorship in a democracy, by definition. Here's how it works. The people rule, they vote for representatives to carry their agenda to the capital city and get it enacted. That's how they're in charge. And then every few years they get to reassess the performance of those people in an election.


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[Assistant] In order to do that, they need a, they need access, unfettered access to information.


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[Assistant] And no one, particularly not people who are already in power, is allowed to tell them what information they can have. They have to have all information that they want.


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[Assistant] Whether the people in charge want it, or don't want it, or think it's true or think it's false, it doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] And the second you don't have that, you don't have a democracy. It's not a free election. Period.


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[Assistant] And that's very clear in other countries, I guess, but it's not clear here. So, but I would say it's this election.


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[Assistant] That, I mean, it took me a while to come to this, but it's this election that's the referendum on democracy. Biden is senile.


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[Assistant] You can't, you can't, a senile man is not gonna get elected in the most powerful country in the world unless there's fraud.


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[Assistant] Period. Like, who would vote for a senile man? He literally can't talk. And nobody I've ever met thinks he's running the US government because he's not. And so...


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[Assistant] I think the world is looking on at this coming election and saying, and a lot of the world hates Trump, okay, it's not an endorsement of Trump, but it's true. If Joe Biden gets reelected, democracy is a freaking joke.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, that may be a term of art that I don't fully understand and maybe there's like an IQ threshold or something.


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[Assistant] But I'm happy to go with degraded cognitive ability.


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[Assistant] Sure, but that's an age thing. But he's the leader of the United States with the world's second largest nuclear arsenal.


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[Assistant] I agree with you that rhetorical ability really matters, convincing people that your program is right, telling them what we're for, national identity, national unity all come from words. I agree with all of that.


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[Assistant] But at this stage, even someone who grunted at the microphone would be more reassuring than a guy who clearly doesn't know where he is.


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[Assistant] And I think everyone knows that and like, I can't imagine there's an honest person in Washington which is going to vote for Biden by 90% obviously. Those are all dependent on the federal government for their income. But is there any person who could say like,


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[Assistant] Out of 350 million Americans, like that's the most qualified to lead or even in the top-


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[Assistant] 80%. Like what? That's so embarrassing that that guy is our president. And with wars going on, it's scary. But it's complicated to understand why.


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[Assistant] I agree. Well, it's a failure of the system. Clearly it's not working if you've got one guy over 80, the other guy almost at 80.


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[Assistant] I think it's a really interesting ques- oh, there are a million different answers, and of course I don't fully understand it, uhm, even though I feel like I've watched it pretty carefully, but, uh,


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[Assistant] Vested in the federal apparatus, in the parties, in the government, as I said a minute ago, our economy is dominated by monopolies but the greatest of all monopolies is the federal monopoly.


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[Assistant] It's really substantially about the money. It's not ideological. It's about the money. And if someone controls the federal government, I mean, at this point,


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[Assistant] It's the most powerful organization in human history. Like it's kind of hard to, it's kind of hard to fight that.


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[Assistant] In the case of Trump, I know the answer there. They raided Mar-a-Lago. They indicted him on bullshit charges.


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[Assistant] You know, like whatever you think of Trump and I agreed with his immigration views. I really liked Trump personally. I think he's hilarious and interesting, but she is.


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[Assistant] But it's like, okay, a lot of people in this country, let's, let's get some, you know, let's have a, at very least like, let's have a real debate. The second...


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[Assistant] The second they rated Mar-a-Lago on a documents charge, as someone from DC, I was like, I know a lot about classification and all that stuff and been around it a lot. That's so absurd that I was like, now it's not about Trump.


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[Assistant] It's about our system continuing. If you can take out a presidential candidate on a fake charge, use the justice system to take the guy out of the race, then we don't have a representative democracy anymore. And I think a lot of Republican voters felt that way.


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[Assistant] If they hadn't indicted him, I'm not sure he would be the nominee. I really don't think he would.


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[Assistant] Or an expression of your desire to keep the system that we had.


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[Assistant] Which is when voters get to decide. Prosecutors don't get to decide. Look, they told us for four years that Trump was like a super criminal or something.


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[Assistant] I've actually been friends with some super criminals. I'm a little less judgy than most. So I didn't discount the possibility that he had.


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[Assistant] I don't know, he's in the real estate business in New York in the 70s, like, did he kill someone? I don't know.


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[Assistant] And what they came up as was a documents charge? Are you joking? And then the sitting president has the same documents violation, but he's fine. It's like...


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[Assistant] It's crazy this is happening in front of all of us and then it becomes like, at that point, it's not about Joe Biden.


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[Assistant] It's not about Donald Trump. It's about preserving a system which has worked, not perfectly, but pretty freaking well for 250 years. I know you don't like Trump. I get it. Let's not destroy that system. Like we can handle in their four years of Trump. I think we can. So calm down. What we can't handle is a country whose political system


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[Assistant] Is run by the Justice Department. Like that is just your freakin' Ecuador at that point.


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[Assistant] Which one bats above its weight? We know. Which one is... Massage, just to be clear, I guess, is what you mean. Well, of course, tiny country, very sophisticated intel service. Which one has the greatest


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[Assistant] Yeah, surprisingly good for kind of a declining country. Their intel services are pretty, seem pretty impressive. No, I'm, I love France, but you know what I mean? And, and all that.


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[Assistant] So the, but the question, I mean, I grew up around all that stuff. That's all totally fine. Like a strong country should have a, a strong and capable intel service. So its policy makers can make informed decisions. Like that's what they're for. And so as, as Vladimir Putin himself noted, I don't talk about it very much, but it's true. I applied to the CA when I was in college because


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[Assistant] You know, I was familiar with it because of where I lived and had grown up and everything and I was like, seemed interesting. That's honestly the only reason. I was like, live in foreign countries, see history happen, like I'm for that. I applied to the operations directorate. They turned me down on the basis of drug use actually.


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[Assistant] True. But anyway, whatever. I was unsuited for it, so I'm glad they turned me down. But the point is, I didn't see CIA as a threat, partly because I was bathing in propaganda about CIA and I didn't really understand what it was and didn't wanna know.


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[Assistant] But second, because my impression at the time was it was outwardly focused. It was focused on our enemies. I don't have a problem with that. As much.


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[Assistant] The fact that CIA is playing in domestic politics and actually has for a long time was involved in the Kennedy assassination, that's not speculation, that's a fact.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's shocking. You can't have that. And I, the reason I'm so mad is I really believe in the idea of representative government acknowledging its imperfections. But like, I should have some say. I live here. I'm a citizen.


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[Assistant] I pay all your freaking taxes, so, uh, the fact that they would be...


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[Assistant] Tampering with American democracy is so outrageous to me, and I don't know why Morning Joe is not outraged. This parade.


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[Assistant] Of dummies, highly credentialed dummies they have on Morning Joe Everyday, they don't seem to, that doesn't bother them at all.


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[Assistant] And I guess it shows how dumb I am because they've been doing that for many years. I mean, the guy who took out Mosadeq lived on my street.


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[Assistant] You know, one of the Roosevelt's, C.I. officer. So, I mean, again, I grew up around this stuff, but, um.


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[Assistant] I never really thought, I never reached the obvious conclusion, which is that if the US government subverts democracy in other countries in the name of democracy, it will over time subvert democracy in my country. Why wouldn't it?


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[Assistant] That is, the corruption is like core, it's at the root of it.


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[Assistant] The purpose of the CIA was envisioned, at least publicly envisioned, as an intel gathering apparatus for the executive so the president could make wise foreign policy decisions. What the hell is happening in country X? I don't know. Let me call the agency in charge of finding out. The point wasn't to freaking guarantee the outcome of elections.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's not a topic that I get into a lot because I'm a non-expert. Um, and because I'm not unlike every other American, I'm not emotionally invested in.


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[Assistant] Other countries just in general. I mean, I admire them or not. And I love visiting them. I love Jerusalem. Probably my favorite city in the world. Uhm, but I don't have an emotional attachment to it. So, uh, maybe I've got more clarity. I don't know. Maybe less. Here's my view.


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[Assistant] I believe in sovereignty as mentioned, and I think each country has to make decisions based on its own interest, but also with reference to its own capabilities.


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[Assistant] And it's very unwise for, uh, I'm not a huge fan of treaties. Some are fine, too many bad. Uh, but I think U.S. aid, military aid to Israel and the implied security guarantees, some explicit, but many implied security guarantees of the United States to Israel.


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[Assistant] Probably haven't helped Israel that much long term, you know. It's a rich country with a highly capable population like every other country. It's probably best if it makes its decisions based on what it can do by itself. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So, I would definitely be concerned if I lived in Israel because I think fair or unfair, and really this is another product of technology, social media, public sentiment in that area is boiling over.


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[Assistant] And I think it's going to be hard for some of the governments in the region, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey.


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[Assistant] They don't want conflict with Israel at all. They were all pretty psyched actually for the trend in progress. The Saudi peace deal, which was never signed, but it would have been great for everybody. Cause like trade, peace, normal relations, like that's good. Okay. Let's just say, I know John Bolton doesn't like it, but it's, it's good. And it's kind of what we should be looking for.


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[Assistant] But uhm, now it's, it's not possible. And you know, if you had like a coalition of countries against Israel, I know Israel has nuclear weapons and has a capable military and all that and the backing of the United States, but like you don't, it's a small country. I think I'd be very worried.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there's that and I don't see any advantage in, uh, to the United States. I mean, I don't, I think it's important for each country to make its own decisions.


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[Assistant] Probably right after Ramadan, if I had to guess. And uh, yeaah, I pray it doesn't. But, again, I don't think you can overstate the lack of wisdom, weakness, short-term thinking of American foreign policy leadership.


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[Assistant] These are the architects of the Iraq war of the just the totally pointless destruction of Libya, totally pointless destruction of Syria and the 20 year occupation of Afghanistan that resulted in a return to the status quo. So like there of the Vietnam war.


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[Assistant] Their track record of the Korean War even going back 80 years is uninterrupted failures, one after the other.


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[Assistant] I just don't have any confidence in those leaders to improve. When was the last time they improved in another country? Can you think of that? Oh, the Marshall Plan.


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[Assistant] Well, you look at Europe now and you're like, I don't know, you know, if that worked. Um, but even if it did work again, 80 years ago, so when was the last country American foreign policy makers improved? So if I were.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu's in a very difficult place, politically impossible. I mean, I'm glad I'm not Netanyahu. Um, and I'm not sure he's capable of making wise long-term decisions anyway. But if I was just like an Israeli, I'd be like, I don't know if I want like all this help and guidance.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, I actually think it's worse than just having just returned from the Middle East and talking to a lot of pretty open-minded sort of pro-Israeli Arabs who want stability above all. The merchant class always wants stability. So I'm on their side, I guess.


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[Assistant] They're like, man, this could get super ugly, super fast. American leadership is completely absent. It's just all posturing. It's like people like Nikki Haley.


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[Assistant] Like that, that would be the appropriate response, but everyone's so intimidated to be like, no, she's a strong woman. She's so transparently weak.


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[Assistant] And sort of ridiculous. It doesn't know anything. And it's just like, thinks that jumping up and down and making these absurd blanket statements, repeating bumper stickers is like leadership or something. It's like, uh, self confident.


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[Assistant] Advanced society would never allow Nikki Haley to advance. I mean, she's really not impressive. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Well by the way, these are not- I mean, you can completely disagree with my opinions.


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[Assistant] But in the case of Nikki Haley, it's not like an opinion form just from watching television, which I don't watch. It's an opinion form from knowing Nikki Haley, so.


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[Assistant] Well, the world's in the balance. I mean, it's not just like- Yes, yes, this is important stuff. Yeah, it's not just like, well, you know, what should the capital gains rate be? It's like, do we live or die? I don't know, let's consult Nikki Haley.


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[Assistant] So, if you're asking should we live or die in consulting Nikki Haley, clearly you don't care about the lives of your children. That's how I feel.


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[Assistant] Well it's really changed my perspective and I've been going on about how American I am and I think that's a great thing.


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[Assistant] I love America, but it's also, you know, we're so physically geographically isolated from the world, even though I traveled a ton as a kid, a lot, you know, more than most people, but even now I'm like, I'm so parochial. I'm so, I see everything through this lens and.


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[Assistant] Getting out and seeing the rest of the world, to which we really are connected, like that's real.


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[Assistant] Is, is vitally important. So I, yeah, I mean, at this stage, I don't.


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[Assistant] You know kind of need to do it but i really want to just motivated by curiosity and trying to expand my own mind.


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[Assistant] And not be closed minded and really see the fullest perspective I possibly can in order to render wise judgments. I mean, that's like the whole journey of life.


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[Assistant] I, there's no, I've only met Rogan once and I, and I liked him. I met him at.


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[Assistant] The UFC in New York, he was with somebody, a mutual friend of ours and, uh, I, you know, Rogan changed media. I mean, maybe more than anybody and he did it. What I love about what I admire about Rogan without knowing him beyond meeting him that one time.


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[Assistant] I'm still in media, but I've always been in media. You know, it's like not a great surprise.


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[Assistant] I'm doing what I've always done, just a different format. But Rogan, like, he's got one of those resumes that I admire.


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[Assistant] You know, I like the guy who was like, I was a longshoreman. I was a short order cook. I was an astrophysicist. I was like, he's called a man of parts.


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[Assistant] And this guy was a fighter, a stand-up comic, he hosted some, you know, Fear Factor, and like, how did he wind up at the vanguard of like,


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[Assistant] The deepest conversations in the country, like how did that happen?


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[Assistant] I definitely respect that, and I think it's cool and...


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[Assistant] He, Rogan is one of those people who just kind of came out of nowhere. Like no one helped him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and he's curious. So that, that's like the main thing. And there was a guy, without getting boring, but there was a guy I worked with years ago, like kind of dominated cable news, Larry King.


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[Assistant] And everyone would always beat up on Larry King for being dumb. Well, I got to know Larry King well, and I was his film host for a while.


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[Assistant] Larry King was just intensely curious. He'd be like, why do you wear black tie, Lex? He'd be like, because I like black tie. Why do you like black tie?


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[Assistant] No, everyone else wears a striped top. You wear a black one. Why? And he would like, he was like really interested. Yeah, genuinely. So yeah, totally. And.


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[Assistant] And I want to be like that. I don't want to think I know everything. That's so boorish. And also false. You don't know everything. But I see that in Rogan. Rogan's like, rah, how does that work? And people...


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[Assistant] It's like Rogan will just sit there while someone else is, you know, free balling on some far out topic, which by the way, might be true.


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[Assistant] You know, he had someone say the pyramids weren't built 3000 years ago, but 8,000 years ago, and that's wrong. It's like, first of all.


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[Assistant] How do you know when the pyramids were built? Second, why do you care if someone disagrees with you? Like, what is that? This weird kind of like group think.


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[Assistant] It's, it's almost like, you know, fourth grade, there's always like some little girl in the front row is like acting as the, you know, kind of the teacher's enforcer.


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[Assistant] Without that, man, you're destroyed. Yeah. If I had a wife who was interested at all, in any way, in what I did, I think I would have gone crazy by now.


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[Assistant] When we get home, we don't, she's like, how was your day? It was great. Oh, I'm so proud of you. That's the end of our conversation about what I do for a living.


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[Assistant] And that is such a wonderful and essential respite from, you said, how do I not become an asshole to the extent I haven't? I kind of have. But how do I not?


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[Assistant] Been, you know, transformed into a totally insufferable megalomaniac who is checking his Twitter replies everyday.


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[Assistant] For every minute, uhm, it's that. Yeaah, you gotta have the core of your life has to be solid and enduring and not just ephemeral and silly.


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[Assistant] No, I'm, I'm serious. I got married in August 91, so that's, well, it's our 30, third year of being married. Followed with the collapse of the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. As noted. Yeah. So, you know, you hear these people, it's actually changed my theology a little bit. Not that I have deep theology, but like I grew up in a society in Southern California when, when I was little, that was like a totally self-created society. I mean, Southern California was


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[Assistant] It was that root of libertarianism for a reason. It was like, that's where you went to recreate yourself. And so the.


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[Assistant] The operative assumption there is that you are the sum total of your choices. And that free will is everything.


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[Assistant] And we never consider questions like, well, why do children get cancer?


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[Assistant] Like, what do they do to deserve it? Well, of course nothing, right? Because that would suggest that maybe you're not the sum total. Choices matter. If I smoke a lot, I might get lung cancer. If I use fentanyl, I may OD. Got it. If I don't exercise, I might get fat. Okay.


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[Assistant] But like on a bigger scale, you're not only the sum total of your choices. Like things happen to you that you didn't deserve, good and bad. And marriage is...


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[Assistant] And I'll speak for myself in that case, in my case, just one of them. And I could say, I mean, clearly spending time with the person you're married to, talking, enjoying each other.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I have a lot of rituals. We have a lot of rituals that ensure that, but in 40 years, like you change, you're like a different person. You know, I like did drugs. I was drinking all the time when we met, you know, it's been a long time since I've been done that.


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[Assistant] I'm very different, so is she, but we're different in ways that are complimentary and happy. We've never been happier. So, like, how do we pull that off?


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[Assistant] Just kind of good luck, honestly. And then I see other peop- No, I'm not kidding. But that's true. I think it's so important.


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[Assistant] Not to flatter yourself if you've been successful at something. The thing I've been most successful at is marriage. But, I, it's not really me. I mean, I haven't.


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[Assistant] It's not even humility. Humility is the result of a reality-based worldview. Once you see things clearly, then you know that you are not the author of all your successes or failures. And I hate


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[Assistant] The implication otherwise because it suggests powers that people don't have. That's one of the reasons I always hated the smoking debate or the COVID debate.


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[Assistant] Shit, I, you know, yeah, if you smoke cigarettes, you more likely to get lung cancer. If you don't, if you get whatever, cause and effect is real. I'm not denying its existence. It's obvious, but it's not the whole story.


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[Assistant] There are larger forces acting on us. Unseen forces, that's just a fact. You don't need to be some kind of religious nut. And they act on AI too, and you should keep that in mind.


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[Assistant] The idea that all- Amazing way you said that. No, it's true. It's, it, it's demonstrably true. We're the only society that hasn't acknowledged the truth of that.


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[Assistant] And the idea that the only things that are real are the things that we can see or measure in a lab, like that's insane. That's just dumb.


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[Assistant] There are very few atheists. I've never actually met one. There are people who pose as atheists, but no one's purely rational.


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[Assistant] And everyone, I mean, this is a cliche for a reason, everyone under extreme stress appeals to a power higher than himself because everyone knows that there is a power higher than himself.


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[Assistant] So really it's just people who are gripped with the delusion that they're God. No one actually believes that. If you're God, jump off the roof of your garage and see what happens. You know what I mean? No one actually thinks that. But people behave as if it's true. And those people are dangerous.


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[Assistant] And I will say by contrast, the only people I trust are the people who know their limits. And I was thinking actually this morning in my sauna, uhm,


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[Assistant] Of all the people I've interviewed or met, this is someone I've never interviewed, but I have talked to him a couple of times.


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[Assistant] The greatest leader I've ever met in the world is literally a king. It's Mbz, Sheikh Mohammed of Abu Dhabi, who is Muslim. I am definitely not Muslim. I'm Christian, Protestant Christian. And so I don't agree with his religion and I don't agree with monarchies.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but he's the best leader in the world that I've ever met. And by far, it's like not even close.


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[Assistant] And why is that? Well, there, I could bore you for an hour on the subject, but the.


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[Assistant] The reason that he's such a good leader is because he's guided by an ever present knowledge of his limitations and of the limits of his power and of his foresight.


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[Assistant] And when you start there, when you start with reality, it's not even humility. Humility can be opposed like, oh, I'm so, I'm so humble. Okay. Humble brag is a phrase for a reason. It's like way deeper than that. It's just like, no, can I, do I have magical powers? Can I see the future? No. Okay. That's just a fact. So I'm not God.


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[Assistant] But I've never seen anybody more at ease with admitting that.


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[Assistant] And what then, MBZ, just a remarkable person. And for that reason, he is like treated as an oracle. I don't think people understand.


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[Assistant] The number of world leaders who traipse through his house or palace to seek his counsel is, there's no, I'm not sure that there is a parallel since, I don't want to get too hyperbolic here, but honestly since like Solomon,


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[Assistant] Where people come from, like, around the world to ask what he thinks. Now why would they be doing that?


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[Assistant] Because Abu Dhabi's military is so powerful. I mean, he's rich. Okay. Massive oil and gas deposits, but like for a lot of, you know, so is Canada. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] No one is coming to Ottawa, Tahwa, to ask Justin Trudeau what he thinks. No, it's humility. That's where wisdom comes from.


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[Assistant] You start to think like, I spent my whole life like mad at America's leadership class because it's not just Biden or.


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[Assistant] The people in official positions, it's the whole constellation of advisors and throne sniffers around them. And I'm, it's not that even I disagree with them, it's I'm not impressed by them. I'm just not impressed. They're not.


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[Assistant] That capable, right? So that's what I was saying about Nikki Haley. I don't think Nikki Haley is the most evil person in the world.


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[Assistant] I think she's ridiculous, obviously, and everyone's like, oh, Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo.


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[Assistant] What blows my mind about Sheikh Mohammed in Abu Dhabi is that


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[Assistant] Everyone in the world knows it. And I've never seen a story on this. And I'm not guessing I know this is true because I've seen it.


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[Assistant] He's the only person that people call. Like, everybody calls the same guy.


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[Assistant] And it's like, he runs this tiny little country, the UAE, I mean he's the, in Abu Dhabi, they're a bunch of Emirates, but he's the president of the country, but still, and it's got a ton of energy and all that, wealth and all that, and Dubai's got great real estate and restaurants, but really it's a tiny little country that,


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[Assistant] Wasn't even a country 50 years ago. So how did that happen? Purely on the basis of his humility and the wisdom that results from that humility.


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[Assistant] Have children immediately. Including in high school. Yes! I think that. That's all that matters. Like, in the end...


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[Assistant] You know, again, these aren't even cliches anymore because no one says them, but when I was a kid, people would say, on your deathbed, you never wish you'd spent more time at work.


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[Assistant] And I mean, everyone said that it was like one of these things. And now, now I don't think Google allows you to say that. It's like, no, you're going to wish you spent more time at work. Get back to your cube. But, um, I can't overstate from my vantage how true that is. Nothing else matters, but.


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[Assistant] Your family, and if you have the opportunity, a lot of people are being denied the opportunity to have children.


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[Assistant] And this messing with the gender roles, and I'm not even talking about the tranny stuff. I mean, I mean, feminism has so destroyed.


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[Assistant] People's brains and the ability of young people to connect with each other and stay together and have fruitful lives. It's like nothing's been more destructive than that.


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[Assistant] It's such a lie. It's so dumb. It's counter to human nature and nothing counter to human nature can, can endure. It can only cause suffering and that's what it's done.


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[Assistant] But fight that. Stop complaining about it. Find someone. By the way, everyone gets together, most people get together on the basis in a free, in a western society where there's no arranged marriages. They get together on the basis of sexual attraction. Totally natural. Get off your birth control. And have children.


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[Assistant] Oh, I can't afford that. Well, yeah, you'll figure out a way to afford it once you have kids. It's like, it's chicken and the egg, but it's actually not.


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[Assistant] When you have responsibility, when you have no choo- this is true of men. I'm not sure if true of women, but it's definitely true of men. You will not achieve until you have no choice.


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[Assistant] As I always think of men, men do nothing until they have to. But once they have to, they will do anything.


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[Assistant] That is, that is true. Men will do nothing unless they have to, but once they have to, they will do anything. I really believe that from watching and from being one.


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[Assistant] And I would never have done anything if I didn't have to, but I had to, and I would just recommend it. But by the way, even if you don't succeed, Indians are poor.


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[Assistant] Having spent my life among rich people, I grew up among rich people. I am a rich person. Boy are they unhappy.


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[Assistant] Well, that's clearly not the road to happiness. You know, you don't want to be a debt slave or starve to death or anything like that, but like making a billion dollars, that's not worth doing. Don't do that. Don't even try to do that.


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[Assistant] If you create something that's beautiful and worth having and you make a billion dollars, okay, then you have to deal with your billion dollars, which will be the worst part of your life, trust me. But seeking money for its own sake is a, is a dead end. What you should seek for its own sake is children. Talk about a creative act. Last thing I'll say, the whole point of life is to create. Okay. The act of creation, which is like dying in the West in the arts and in its most pure expression, which is children.


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[Assistant] That's all that's worth doing while you're alive is creating something beautiful.


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[Assistant] And creating children, by the way, it's super fun. It's not hard. I can get more technical off the air if you want. Yeah, please. I have a lot of thoughts on it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the greatest thing. And the fact that corporate America denies- Oh, freeze your eggs! Have an abortion! What? You're a- You're evil! Are you kidding? Because-


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[Assistant] I have no vision for myself or my career and I never have, so I'm like the last person to explain.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm an instinct guy, a hundred percent. I have a vision for the world, but I don't have a vision for my life, for my career. So really my vision extended precisely this far. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing. And there was a, you know, five hour period where I wondered if I would be able to.


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[Assistant] Cause I, I feel pretty spry and like alert and I'm certainly deeply enjoying what I'm doing, which is talking to people and saying what I think and.


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[Assistant] Learning constantly learning uhm, and but I just wanted to keep doing that and so uhm, and I also wanted to employ the people who I worked with at Fox. I've worked with the same people for years and I love them and.


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[Assistant] So I had, you know, all these people and I wanted to bring them with me so we had to.


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[Assistant] You don't want me doing your taxes, like I'm good at some things, but I'm really not good at others, so.


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[Assistant] Commerce guy so i don't buy anything so it's like the whole thing i'm not good at but uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, luckily, you know, I'm really blessed to have friends who are involved in this who are good at that. So I feel, I feel positive about it, but mostly I am.


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[Assistant] I'm totally committed to only doing the things that I am good at and enjoy and not doing anything else because I don't want to waste my time. And, uh, so I'm just getting to do what I want to do and I'm really loving it.


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[Assistant] People are great, just by their nature. I mean, they're super complicated, but I- I like people, I always have liked people.


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[Assistant] You know, if I was sitting here with Nikki Haley, who I've, I guess I've been pretty clear I'm not like a mega fan of Nikki Haley's.


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[Assistant] I would enjoy it. You know, I've never met anybody I couldn't enjoy on some level given enough time. So as long as nobody tampers with the human recipe.


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[Assistant] With human nature itself, I will always feel blessed by.


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[Assistant] Being around other people. And that's true around the world. Like I've never been to a country


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[Assistant] And I've been to scores of countries where I didn't, given a week, really like it and like the people. So yeah, bad leaders are like a, you know, recurring theme in human history.


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[Assistant] They're mostly bad, and we've got an unusually bad set right now, but we'll have better ones at some point. I just don't wanna...


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[Assistant] I don't, the one thing I don't like more than nuclear weapons and more than AI, the one thing that really really bothers me is the idea of using technology to change the human brain permanently.


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[Assistant] Because you're tampering with the secret sauce. You're tampering with God's creation. And uhm, totally evil. I mean, I literally sat there the other day with Klaus Schwab. I was with Klaus Schwab.


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[Assistant] And he starts talking about it in his survey, in his accent. He was saying, I think it's so important that we...


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[Assistant] That we follow the, you know, using technology to improve the human mind and implant the chips in the brain. And I'm like, okay, you have no idea what you're talking about. You're like as senile as Joe Biden.


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[Assistant] Look, I don't, I don't want to seem like the Unabomber, and I'm not... We are in a cabin in the woods. No, I don't. I'm sympathetic to some of his ideas, but not, of course, sending mail bombs to people, because I like people. But, I mean, I don't believe in violence at all. But... I think the problem with technology...


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[Assistant] One of the problems with technology is the way that people approach it in a very kind of mindless, heedless way.


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[Assistant] And I think it's important, this idea that it's inexorable and we can't control it, and if we don't do it, someone else will, and there's some truth in that.


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[Assistant] But it's not the whole story. We do have free will.


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[Assistant] And we are creating these things intentionally and I think it's incumbent on us, it's a requirement of a moral requirement of us that we ask like,


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[Assistant] Is this a net gain or a net loss what to the extent we can foresee them will the effects be et cetera et cetera looks like it's not.


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[Assistant] That's super complicated. So I just, I prize long-term thinking. I don't always apply it in my own life, obviously. I want to.


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[Assistant] But, uh, I prize it, and I think that people with power should think about future generations, and I don't see that kind of thinking at all. They all seem like children to me. And like, don't give children handguns, because they can hurt people.


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[Assistant] By the way, you don't want people who are 81 who are gonna die anyway. Why do they care?


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[Assistant] And by the way, if your track record with your own family is miserable, why would I give you my family?


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[Assistant] To oversee. I just don't, like, again, these are autistic level questions that someone should answer.


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[Assistant] Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about action verbs. And you'll notice it says part one. I'm excited to do this lesson about some of the basic action verbs in English. But if you are an intermediate or advanced learner, don't leave.


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[Assistant] I will make sure to talk about other verbs every time I talk about a basic action verb.


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[Assistant] So if I teach the verb to walk, I'll also talk about stroll and brisk walk and other variations of that.


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[Assistant] So this will be an English lesson that is for beginners, but it will also have parts of it that are for intermediate or advanced learners. It's really an English lesson for everyone.


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[Assistant] If you don't know what action verbs are, they're the things we do in life. The uhm,


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[Assistant] The things we do that you can see happening. So once again, welcome to this English lesson about action verbs, part one. I'm not sure how many parts there will be, but this is part one, so welcome. So the first verb I want to teach is the verb cook.


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[Assistant] When you're hungry, you need to cook food. I mean, you can eat food that's already cooked. You can eat food that doesn't need to be cooked. But most of the tasty meals that I enjoy eating, uhm, I need to cook them before I eat them.


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[Assistant] If I want to have some pizza, I need to cook the pizza. You can't just eat the pizza after you make it. It needs to go in the oven. You need to cook it. I do know there's a few uh,


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[Assistant] Other verbs for cook, you can bake things as well. Generally, we use the verb to bake, to talk about breads and cookies. You can also roast things, uhm, and a variety of verbs. But the basic verb, if you want to talk about preparing food, is the verb


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[Assistant] It's fun to cook. You can smell things when they're cooking and it makes you


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[Assistant] And then of course, after you cook something, you will eat.


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[Assistant] When you have food in front of you after you have sat down at the table and everyone has said hi to each other, you can start to eat. There's no other way to describe this. When you eat, you put food in your mouth. You then chew the food and then you swallow the food.


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[Assistant] So in order you cook the food, then you eat the food, then you chew the food, and then you swallow the food. That is what you do when you are hungry.


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[Assistant] We also, when we talk about cook, can use the word prepare. You can prepare food.


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[Assistant] And when we talk about eating, we can use the verb consume. You can also consume food. It's a little more formal to use the word consume. We usually use this when we are talking about eating in general. People consume a lot of fast food in North America.


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[Assistant] So you might not think anything is happening, but oh, look, this person is going to catch the keys. It looks like they got into their car and they didn't have the keys, so someone threw the keys to them and they were able to catch them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like this person in a car and when you don't have your keys, it's nice if someone throws them to you so that you can catch them. This is a common verb when you're talking about sports. When someone passes you the basketball, you catch it. When someone throws the baseball to you, you catch it.


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[Assistant] We also sometimes say to receive in some sports, you receive a pass or you catch it.


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[Assistant] And of course, in order to catch something, someone has to throw it. Usually someone has to throw it. So you can see this person is, uh,


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[Assistant] Having fun, they are throwing rocks into the water. I think they're rocks. So when you throw, you take your arm with something in it and you move it quickly forward and then you let go.


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[Assistant] In English, we have an informal verb for throw as well. Sometimes we just say chuck. You can chuck something and it means the same thing. When you chuck something, it means that you are throwing it.


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[Assistant] If someone throws something at you and you're not ready though, you might have to duck so that it doesn't hit you.


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[Assistant] So there's not a whole lot going on in this little video clip because this person has decided to sleep. We are awake during the day, which is the opposite of sleep, but at night we sometimes have to sleep for a long period of time or sometimes for a short period of time. I myself


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[Assistant] Usually need to sleep for about eight and a half hours. If I sleep for less than eight hours, I'm usually a little bit tired the next day. So when you sleep, it restores your energy. You close your eyes and you lay in bed. You put your head on the pillow and you sleep.


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[Assistant] A nap or to nap, it can be a noun or a verb, means to sleep during the day. When I have a nap or when I nap, I usually do it sitting on that gray couch. I don't like to nap by laying down because I sleep for too long.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I just like to have a little 10 minute nap. Sometimes we call it a snooze, a 10 minute snooze.


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[Assistant] So there are four things that you need to do in order to learn English. One is that you need to read. When you read, you get a book or a magazine or you look at a computer screen, uh, and you have words and you look at the words and somehow your brain


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[Assistant] I love to read. In particular, I love to read science fiction books. I love to read the news. I like to read in order to learn new things. So anytime you are looking at words, you are usually reading.


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[Assistant] And of course, the opposite, I guess, of read is write. When you write, you get a pen and paper and you put words onto the paper.


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[Assistant] Interestingly enough, when you type on a computer, you are also, uhm, writing. You are using the same verb. I'm going to write an email to my mom later today. Uhm, it was nice that you were able to write.


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[Assistant] And when you write, it means you put your thoughts onto a piece of paper or on the screen in words.


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[Assistant] And then listen of course, it was hard to find a


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[Assistant] Showing someone listening, but this is a pretty common thing to do when you can't hear someone or you can't hear something. Sometimes when I'm watching the TV in my back room, the volume isn't loud enough during certain parts of the movies. So sometimes I go like this so that I can hear it.


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[Assistant] Notice the difference between listen and hear though. You decide to listen. I can decide to listen to some music. I can listen to Jen when she talks. But when you hear, it's something that happens to you. If there's a noise outside, I will hear it.


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[Assistant] And then of course, speak. Uhm, it's what I'm doing right now. It's when you use your brain and your mouth and your vocal cords to make sounds. It's the...


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[Assistant] Number one thing that people learning English want to learn to do well. You all want to learn to speak English really, really well. You obviously want to learn to read and write and understand when you listen to English.


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[Assistant] But I think the one thing that people really, really want to get good at is they want to be able to speak English, uhm, as best as they can. So I hope that as you continue to study this, uh, language, you learn to speak English really, really well.


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[Assistant] So, one of the most common verbs. Now I just said run was more common, but walk is very common. You walk everywhere. Part of the thing that makes us human is that we are able to walk. If I want to go


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[Assistant] And as I mentioned, we do use other words to talk about walking. A stroll is a very slow walk. If I go for a stroll, or if I say he was strolling along, it means someone is walking very, very slowly.


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[Assistant] You can also go for a brisk walk. Uhm, that means that you are walking very very quickly. Uh, and you can also tiptoe when you walk to go quietly. There are many many different ways to walk.


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[Assistant] When you run, your feet come off the ground. I think when you walk, your feet stay on the ground. So you can see this person has decided they need to get somewhere quickly. So they are going to run. So you can see that they are running. Now there are different words for run. You can go for a jog.


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[Assistant] You either need to climb the stairs or you need to climb a ladder. You need to get somewhere higher and we use the verb climb to talk about that.


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[Assistant] You can see this person is probably working on something in their house and they needed to climb the ladder to get up to a higher spot.


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[Assistant] The, uhm, other thing that can happen when you are somewhere high is you can fall. Don't worry, I'm sure this person is okay. But this person decided to climb a ladder.


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[Assistant] But something wasn't safe and they lost their balance and so now


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[Assistant] They are falling. It's not nice to fall. I'm sure he landed on something very, very soft when he fell.


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[Assistant] So there's a nice picture of the person. I shouldn't laugh. I'm not sure why I'm laughing. Uhm, but I'm sure that this person is okay. I'm sure that uhm, they weren't aware that they were going to fall but then they did fall and hopefully they are okay. One of the nicest things to do


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[Assistant] During the day is to laugh. I really like it when I hear people laugh.


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[Assistant] I like it when I laugh I like to hear laughter.


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[Assistant] Uhm, when people laugh, it just makes the day nicer. I like to tell little jokes when I'm teaching because I like to make people laugh. And there's a couple different verbs. You can make someone giggle. So a laugh is like, ha ha ha. And a giggle is like,


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[Assistant] That, sorry, that was really, I guess it is how my giggle works. So a giggle is kind of a small laugh, but it is always nice to hear people laugh or to hear people giggle when you go through your day. It just makes your day nicer when you see people smile.


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[Assistant] Uh, when you see people laugh, when you see people giggling, it makes you happy yourself.


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[Assistant] So, this is something that you are all doing right now. You have decided to learn. You've decided that you want to learn English. One of the ways you learn English is you watch YouTube videos. Or you come to my live lesson. Uhm, when you learn something, it means first of all that you don't know it.


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[Assistant] And you do things so that you will know it.


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[Assistant] Maybe you read something. Maybe you listen to someone explain something. But you've decided that you want to know something. And so in order to learn it, you need to do the action of learning in order to know it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is one of my favorite things to do, by the way. I really, really like learning. I like to learn.


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[Assistant] I like this little clip here. I feel like this person has a lot of freedom. They have decided to ride a motorcycle.


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[Assistant] When you have a motorcycle, or if you have a horse, you would ride your motorcycle, you would ride your horse. If you have a bicycle, you ride your bicycle. Generally in English, if you sit on something, we use the verb to ride, to talk about it.


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[Assistant] He is uhm, probably going to ride his motorcycle for a long time. You can see he has his leather jacket.


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[Assistant] What I don't like though is he is not wearing his helmet.


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[Assistant] He should be wearing his helmet. In Canada, you must wear a helmet. I think there are some states in the United States where you don't have to wear a helmet, but in Canada, you are required to wear a helmet.


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[Assistant] Now, if you are in a car or a truck or a van, you will drive that vehicle. Uhm, usually when you sit in something, you use the verb drive. I drive my tractor. I drive my car. I drive my minivan. If I want to have pizza tonight, I might have to drive to the store to buy some of the ingredients.


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[Assistant] Drive is any time you are moving in a vehicle and controlling it with the steering wheel.


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[Assistant] By the way, here's a, I hope this doesn't confuse you.


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[Assistant] But you can ride in a car if you're not the driver. If I drive a car, I'm the driver. But if I go in the car, then I ride in the car. Interesting, isn't it? A little, just a little bit of a distance, uh, difference there. Not distance, difference.


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[Assistant] Hey, as humans we can walk but sometimes we get tired and we want to sit down. You can also use the verb sit like I'm going to sit on this chair.


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[Assistant] But we often use the verb sit down.


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[Assistant] Uh, to talk about when someone goes from standing to a sitting position.


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[Assistant] So I might use it as a command. I might say to my students, sit down. The lesson is going to start. Or I might say, hey, I would like everyone to sit down. I want to start teaching the lesson. Some of you are probably standing right now. If you're getting tired, you can sit down. You can go from a standing position.


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[Assistant] You can just use the verb stand. That does work. But we do often say stand up.


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[Assistant] I would like everyone to stand up. I would like everyone to sit down. Stand up if you have a question.


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[Assistant] It's one little tiny extra word, the word up, but it does indicate that someone is moving from a sitting position to a standing position. They have decided to stand


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[Assistant] So, in English, we use the verb to fight, to talk about two different things. When you argue with someone, like these two people are doing, we would use the verb fight. You know, I had a fight with my friend today. That doesn't mean that you and your friend were hitting each other.


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[Assistant] It can mean that, so you have to be careful with the verb fight. If I say, oh, uh, my friend and I got in a fight yesterday, it means we had an argument. It means we disagreed with each other and we only used words.


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[Assistant] If I said there was a fight at school, two students were fighting, or I think those two students are angry and they're going to fight, then I mean that they're going to hit or punch each other.


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[Assistant] Fight, I think I've explained this before, has two meanings, and you really need to listen to what the person is saying to understand them. If I said to you, I got in a fight with my boss yesterday, uhm, that would mean we argued.


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[Assistant] So sometimes things make us sad, and one of the actions that happens is we cry. When you cry, tears come out of your eyes and tears roll down your cheeks. You can see this older lady here is very, very sad.


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[Assistant] The younger lady is trying to comfort her, to make her feel better, but the older lady, uhm, something has happened that has made her cry.


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[Assistant] So she is very sad. I don't actually see tears on her cheeks, but I couldn't find a video clip of someone with actual tears rolling down their cheeks. But when you're sad, when something happens to you that makes you sad, you sometimes will


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[Assistant] One thing kids do a lot is they play. One thing adults don't do enough is they don't play enough. They don't take time to enjoy life and to do fun things.


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[Assistant] This, uh, little boy has a kite and he has decided to go outside and play. He's decided to enjoy his time outdoors. Kids will often play with toys when kids get a new toy on their birthday. Sometimes instead of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Enjoying the party they want to play with their toy because it's a new toy.


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[Assistant] Uh, in Canada, we give gifts at Christmas, and kids often want to play with their toys, their new toys as soon as possible. So, when you play, it means you


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[Assistant] Usually you're a kid and you do something fun. You can play with toy cars. You can play with a kite. You can also, as an adult,


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[Assistant] You can play games with other people. So you can play sports as well. Like I, when I was younger, uh, I like to play soccer. I like to play baseball. So it can also be used when talking about a sport.


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[Assistant] This is one, another one of my favorite things to do. I like to think. In fact, I really liked this video clip because this is exactly how I think. I usually have a pen or pencil in my hand and I fidget a little bit.


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[Assistant] Fidget is a word, like if you twirl a pen in your hand and you, you kinda do little things like this, it's called fidgeting. So I usually fidget with a pen. Sometimes I do tap my head.


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[Assistant] And I do that because that's how I think. When I want to think of a new lesson or a new way of teaching English on YouTube, I usually sit like this gentleman and I think. When you think you're having thoughts in your mind, no one else can see them.


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[Assistant] But yes, you think for a bit and then hopefully you come up with new ideas.


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[Assistant] Hey, I have a couple verbs here to turn on and then of course to turn off the opposites. Let's go back to this one. If a light is off, when you push the upper button or when you flip the switch up, you turn on the light.


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[Assistant] Uh, so if it's dark in a room, you might want to turn on the light. We also use this to talk about things. You can turn on your computer, you can turn on the TV. Uhm, I can, uh, also, uhm, turn


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[Assistant] On my camera, which is right here. Sorry, little bit of a lapse in my thinking there. I'm trying not to think about too many things at once and I'm thinking about too many things at once.


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[Assistant] Uh, you can also use a switch to turn off. So when you flip a switch, you can turn off a light. You can turn off your TV. You can, I can turn off this light. Whoa, that's really dark, isn't it? I shouldn't do that during a lesson. I, I shouldn't turn off the light during a lesson. I should turn


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[Assistant] The light back on. There we go. It's gonna be a little bright while my camera adjusts a bit there. There we go. Back to normal. So, you can turn something on. You can also turn something off.


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[Assistant] And then another pair here. You can open something and you can also close something. That went a little quickly there. Let's go back.


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[Assistant] Is inside something else, or when you want to go...


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[Assistant] And then they could close the door. So once again, close is the opposite of open.


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[Assistant] Leave. So when someone goes away, if someone visits you, eventually they will leave. If someone comes over for tea, you'll have tea, you'll talk, and then at a certain point they will leave. They might even say, I have to leave now. I have to leave at four o'clock.


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[Assistant] I often use this verb when I'm talking about going to work. I'll say,


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[Assistant] And I don't have to say this today. I'll say, I need to finish the lesson soon because I need to leave for work.


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[Assistant] That means I have to physically get up, put on my coat and drive to the school. So if you are in one place,


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[Assistant] And you decide to go to another place. You will leave the place you're in. Don't get confused with go and leave. We do use them interchangeably. I have to leave for work in an hour. I have to go to work in an hour.


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[Assistant] A slight difference in usage, but it definitely means to go from one location to a different location.


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[Assistant] This is going to freak you out. I don't know if you know the verb freak out. It's like when something scares you a bit, but this person is going to look at you, wait for it. It's going to happen. He is currently, Oh, there it is. Like that is someone is definitely looking at you. When I look over there.


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[Assistant] It feels like I'm not talking to you, but when I look at the camera, we make eye contact and it feels like I'm talking to you. Uhm, so yes, I thought this clip was good because you can see this man look


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[Assistant] And you point your eyes, I guess, at someone. It's kind of a weird way to describe it. We would use the verb look. I'm going to look at you. I'm going to look outside. I'm going to look.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the kitchen, because I lost my keys, I'm going to look in the kitchen. I guess that means to search for too, right? So it has two meanings. Like I can look at you, I can also look for something if I add the verb for.


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[Assistant] This guy looks relatively into his video game and suddenly he will lose. So he's playing something. You have the ability to win.


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[Assistant] When you play something but you also can lose. It's not fun to lose. When two teams play a sport, eventually one team will win and one team will lose. When you lose, you're usually sad.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you usually go home a little bit sad or upset or disappointed because it's not fun to lose. It's much more fun


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[Assistant] But it's used as a noun. Sorry to get a bit confusing there. Let's go back to games. You can lose a game, or you can win a game. When you win, you're happy. When you lose, you are sad.


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[Assistant] And sometimes you meet people. So maybe you go and you meet someone somewhere. You might say, let's meet today at four o'clock for coffee. I can meet you at


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[Assistant] Noon and we can talk about the new project. Can you meet me in three days at the school and we'll make some lessons. So when you meet, it's when you go to the same place as another person. It can also mean uhm,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna use the word meet again, but when you meet someone for the first time, we use the word meet as well. So, I'm going to meet you at school, or I would like you to meet my new friend. That means you are seeing them for the first time.


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[Assistant] To give, I really like this clip. So two things happen here. One, the man gives flowers to the woman.


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[Assistant] And then the woman is happy and she gives the man a kiss. Actually they give each other a kiss. So certainly this is a happy situation. The person has decided to buy flowers.


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[Assistant] And then he has decided to give them to the woman. So when you give something, you have it. And then...


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[Assistant] I can also give an English lesson. So I'm giving an English lesson right now. The action of teaching it, we can use give as well. So, always nice to give things to people.


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[Assistant] This guy's really excited, he's running, and now he's going to jump.


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[Assistant] When you jump, both feet come off the ground. It's not something I do very often. It takes a lot of energy to jump, but when you jump, uh, you kind of crouch down and then you use all your leg muscles and your arm muscles to go into the air.


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[Assistant] It's a little bit like flying. It's like flying but for like half a second. So often people will jump when they play a sport. People will also jump when they're excited. Uhm, people will always, always enjoy


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[Assistant] Running and jumping as long as they're young enough to still do it. As I said, I don't often jump, but sometimes I do.


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[Assistant] The window toolbar is located in the top center of the active graphics window.


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[Assistant] Here we have two windows in our area, a map window here and a 3D window. The 3D window is active because of the orange background, so the window toolbar refers to the 3D window. Whatever type of graphics window is active, you will get a Windows toolbar for it. There are a few types of windows that do not have a Windows toolbar. The tools here are a subset of the tools


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[Assistant] The Windows contextual tab contains the full set of tools for the active window.


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[Assistant] The Windows toolbar is a subset of that functionality. If you think the Windows toolbar is in the way, as it is always here at the top of the active graphics window,


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[Assistant] This icon that looks like a push pin, if you click on it and then move the cursor out of the window toolbar, it will then slide up and become just barely visible right here. If you need to use a tool on the window toolbar, have your cursor in the graphics area, slide it up to here, the toolbar will appear.


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[Assistant] Do anything that you need to do and then when you slide it off in a second or two the toolbar will once again disappear. Some of the different things on the Windows toolbar.


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[Assistant] The second one is select mode. If you need to pick something in your graphics window, use the select mode. The cursor will be an arrow when you're in that mode.


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[Assistant] Other modes. Global restrict. This allows you to restrict editing of data so you don't move it out of the location where it should be. The domain.


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[Assistant] There are three choices in the domain. Any, which means it can display either time or depth in the window.


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[Assistant] Time and depth are the other two and you can only display time data in the time window and depth data in a depth window. So if you're trying to display data and it just doesn't appear in your window, check this domain. Make sure that that type of data can be displayed in the window.


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[Assistant] This button right here, the little eye with the green below it is view all. Whatever you have displayed in your 3D window and however far you are zoomed in


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[Assistant] Patrell will zoom you out at the same angle where you are looking.


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[Assistant] But make sure you can see all of the data that is in the window. The icon right next to it, view from above.


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[Assistant] If you click on it, Petrel will make sure you can see all data that is being displayed in the window, but look at it from above.


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[Assistant] Clicking on the little black triangle to the right allows you to change this from above to from east or from west or from below or a few other directions in there also.


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[Assistant] The little icon that looks like a target, a little yellow target with blue on it, allows you to zoom in. If you click on this icon and click on something in the 3D window, you will zoom in a little bit and now the point that you clicked on will be the rotation location of the window from that point on. This number here is vertical exaggeration.


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[Assistant] Three times vertical exaggeration in this example. Uh, often you need to change the vertical exaggeration depending on what type of data you're looking at. Possibly for structure you will use one or three, but if you look at a porosity surface in a 3D you might want to see more detail so you will have to make this one larger.


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[Assistant] This icon that looks a little like a paint can pouring stuff out toggles the background between black and another color and that default color is gray. You can change that color in the settings for the window if you want to.


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[Assistant] This icon here looks like axes with the little black triangle to the right.


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[Assistant] Let's you put other information in your display window. Click on the black triangle. This information down here becomes visible.


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[Assistant] If the icon has an orange background, it means it's visible like the compass. If it has a non-orange background like the axis here, it means it is not turned on at the moment.


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[Assistant] To turn it on, just click on it, you will see it appear on the screen.


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[Assistant] If you want to turn it off later on, again click on the black triangle, come here, click it again, and it will be turned off.


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[Assistant] This group of icons allows you to attach notes, URLs, pictures, other type files to your patrol project.


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[Assistant] Over here to the far right is a very important icon allowing you to clear the display.


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[Assistant] Rather than looking through all of your pains trying to decide what is being displayed in a certain window,


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[Assistant] Just get rid of all items that are being displayed by clicking on the eye with the little red X.


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[Assistant] The window toolbar again is available only in the active window.


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[Assistant] So if you have multiple windows being displayed like is shown here, the active window, again, the one with the orange background here is the only one with a window toolbar. If the windows not wide enough to show all of the tools, there is an icon that looks like this that you will see that you can click on, which will show you the remaining icons.


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[Assistant] I'm Bob the Canadian, welcome to this English lesson about


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[Assistant] Communication. We're going to talk about a wide variety of things this morning when it comes to communication. So I went way back to start this lesson and I went to the word marathon. So the marathon is an event at the Olympic Games.


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[Assistant] Where people run a little over 26 miles. Uhm, I'm not sure what that is in kilometers, but the marathon is a very long


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[Assistant] Uh, race. That's a long distance race. Uhm, and the history of the marathon is that it was a run that someone named Filippidis, now I apologize to Athanasios, uh, if I say this wrong. Uhm, but he ran from the battle of marathon to Athens to report that they had won the battle. Hopefully I have my history correct.


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[Assistant] But that is one example of how messages used to be delivered. How communication used to happen. Uhm, if you wanted to send a message to someone far away, you literally had to go and give the message to them or send another person. So anyways, I have never run a marathon.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I find the marathon intimidating. When something's intimidating, it means that


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[Assistant] You're just scared to even try it. Uhm, I have in my life run in short races, like five kilometer races, but I don't think I could ever run a marathon. Uhm, after that, people used carrier pigeons for a little while. So you would put your message on the leg of the bird, of the pigeon, and the pigeon would fly somewhere.


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[Assistant] And deliver that message. So, just a couple older methods. Uhm, there was also when people wanted to communicate from one ship to another. They developed a system where they could use flags. I believe it's called Semaphore.


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[Assistant] And they would use flags to communicate. I think this is the letter B, but I'm not 100% sure.


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[Assistant] But anyways, just a few of the older ways and then eventually we invented mail. Uhm, so mail is something that has been quite common for a very long time on this planet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I remember when I was a kid, because my parents came from Holland, we would occasionally get mail from people in Holland because my mom and dad had relatives there. And I remember sometimes my mom would send a letter to her friends and family in Holland. So she would go and she would get a stamp.


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[Assistant] So notice in there I was using two phrases, right? You send a letter or you can receive a letter.


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[Assistant] We also say that you put a letter in the mail, okay? So if someone said, uhm, hey, I'll send you a birthday card, I'll put it in the mail or I'll put that card in the mail. So you can say that you send it or that you put it in the mail. I do want to say thank you to Nymar Vargas for becoming a member. Thank you so much Nymar.


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[Assistant] Uh, for deciding to help support my channel. That's very awesome of you. Uhm, so I did use a couple of words in there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one is stamp or postage stamp. So in order to send something in the mail, if you want to send a letter, you need to buy a postage stamp. We just say stamp. And you need to put a stamp on the envelope. Uh, so that's one of the first things you need to do. Uhm, and then you do need an envelope.


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[Assistant] Bear with me here because I say this word two ways. Sometimes I say envelope.


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[Assistant] And sometimes I say envelope. Okay. I'm not sure which is the American pronunciation and which is the British pronunciation, but I could very well say to Jen, I'm going to go buy


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[Assistant] Envelopes today or I could say I'm going to go buy some envelopes today. So sorry about that. Sometimes in Canada we have more than one way to pronounce something. So hey, I do want to just pause and say hi to everyone who is here. I do want to just take a moment to verify that things are working. Give me a sec here.


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[Assistant] Just let me click to where I'm supposed to be here. Uhm, and I do want to say again, uh, shout out to Brent from American English with this guy and just again,


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[Assistant] I noticed on Brent's channel at 9 o'clock my time. So when this live stream is done, he has a premiere.


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[Assistant] Of a video, and that video has a special guest in it. So, if you have not checked out American English with this guy's channel, YouTube channel, you should.


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[Assistant] Uh, and maybe go and watch that video as soon as we're done here because I think you'll enjoy it. Uh, thank you to Procore, uh, Marchenko for becoming a member. Awesome. Thank you for, uh, deciding to join and support my channel. That is awesome of you Procore. Thank you very, very much.


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[Assistant] And I don't want to go into the third pronunciation because there is another one which has a different meaning. Uhm, at some point they invented something called the telegram. Uhm, I'm not super familiar with the telegram.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but they invented the telegram and you could send a short message to someone using a telegram. So a telegraph operator would send the message and the message itself is called a telegram. Uhm, let me just check one other thing here.


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[Assistant] Okay, there we go. Uhm, and they would send the telegram using Morse code. So Morse code is when you send a series of dots and dashes. And I think it sounds like this. Beep beep beep beep, beep beep beep beep, beep beep beep. That's my impression of Morse code.


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[Assistant] We have moved pretty far away from a lot of these types of things. I'm trying to go through the history of communication quickly because I think it's a little bit boring, but you probably don't. You're probably enjoying this a lot.


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[Assistant] Let's see here. Um, eventually too, they invented shortwave radio. So shortwave radio allowed for wireless communication. So people were able to communicate. Oh, we have a fly. We have a fly at the live stream. I have not had a fly in the live stream since I used to do these at school. So.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's the same fly. Uhm, the fly used to have a name, but I can't remember, uh, what that name was. So shortwave radio allowed people on one side of the Atlantic Ocean to begin communicate with, communicating with people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then eventually we had the telephone. To me the telephone is the first type of communication that I remember in my life. As a child I remember that we had a telephone.


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[Assistant] My mom and dad would make phone calls. So when you use a telephone, you say you're going to make a phone call. Oh, I need to make a phone call today.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you can also say that you're going to phone someone. Uh, often in English, we take a noun, and if it's a new item, we change it into a verb. So, in the case of the telephone, we did that. You could say, I need to telephone someone, but we kinda shortened it, and now we say, I need to phone someone. Or you can say,


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[Assistant] The communication by phone as a phone call. So you could say I need to make a phone call.


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[Assistant] Or you could say, I need to phone someone. So uhm, and then just the word call as well, right? I need to call someone. Usually refers to using the phone. It's not like, hey Joe. So that's not what we mean when we say that we need to call someone. Uh, we usually are talking about making a phone call.


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[Assistant] When your phone is this old fashioned kind, we call it a landline. We call it a landline because the phone has a wire and that wire goes into the wall and eventually into the ground. And sometimes you refer to a phone as being connected to the phone lines.


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[Assistant] So a landline would simply not be a smartphone. A landline is connected to a wire. Actually, a few years ago, in my part of Canada, many people started to get rid of their landlines because their smartphone replaced how they communicated when they needed to make a phone call.


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[Assistant] Khaled says, guys, is there any sound problem? And then Brent says the sound is, the audio is perfect for me. I thought the audio was working really good.


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[Assistant] You can figure out what's happening there. Uhm, and then of course we got these. So this is what I would call a smartphone. We used to call it a cellular phone or a cell phone. We call it a mobile phone or a mobile phone, depending on where you are. Uhm, but this is now uhm, probably the most common.


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[Assistant] And if you're wondering, I have a Pixel 3. I have a Google Pixel 3 is the type of phone I have.


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[Assistant] Earlier, Rod asked about what has changed the world of communications the most or what


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[Assistant] I think the internet and then now the smartphone and those two together because the smartphone needs the internet have probably changed how we communicate with each other the most.


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[Assistant] If I'm at work and I need to get groceries, I will text Jen, this is how I text with my thumbs, uh, to ask if there's anything that I need. Uhm, let's see here.


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[Assistant] It looks like a dead mouse. Yeah, sorry about that. Uhm, but I do need it as close as I can have it to me. And, uh, here I'll show you what it looks like. So this is what it looks like. Uhm, I guess I don't need the wind protector on right now, but I'm gonna leave it there. So, sorry, I want the audio to be really good.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we had fax machines for a while. In fact, at my school, we still have a fax machine. A fax machine is something where you put a piece of paper in and it scans the piece of paper and it sends it to another fax machine and a copy of it comes out.


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[Assistant] What we would call a facsimile. So the English word facsimile means a copy of something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yes, a fax machine was quite popular for a while. Probably for almost 20 years. Uhm, and you'll see again, we took the word fax.


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[Assistant] And we turned it into a verb. So I would fax something to someone. So if someone needed a copy of something, I could say, oh, I'll fax it to you. And I would take what I needed to send them, the piece of paper. I would punch in their fax number and I would stick it in the fax machine and it would go through.


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[Assistant] And then I would basically say, yes, I faxed it to you earlier today, or did you get the facts? I faxed it to you earlier today. So that's just another example of how we name something and then we take the noun and we can sometimes create a verb out of it. We often do that with new technology. Um, and then we have email.


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[Assistant] Uh, email came along, uh, when I was young. I remember my first email address, how excited I was. I could email my friends. I was at university at the time.


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[Assistant] And so I could email my friends and they could email me back. Notice again, I got email. I got an email account. I got an email address.


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[Assistant] So that's how you would talk about, oh, can you send me an email? I did send you an email. I emailed you yesterday. So notice how I'm flipping the word email in and out as a noun and a verb.


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[Assistant] Uhm, let me just check one thing for a moment. I just want to say hi to the 462 people.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. 462 people who are watching. Thank you so much for being here. If you're new here, don't forget there is a subscribe button right there. You should click it. Uh, and give me a thumbs up if this video is helping you learn a bit of English. Let's keep moving along though. Uhm, we also text people. So,


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[Assistant] In some countries you'll call this an SMS, like send me an SMS. In my part of Canada, we just call it texting.


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[Assistant] So people will text each other. They will send each other a text or a text message.


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[Assistant] So the other day I sent a text to Dave, the Canadian.


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[Assistant] And Dave the Canadian texted me back, okay? Uhm, I could say I sent him a text message and I could say he texted me back. Uhm, but generally we just use the word text. So the other day I texted Dave the Canadian and he texted me back. Later I'm going to text Dave the Canadian again.


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[Assistant] So that's how we talk about that. Uhm, we do sometimes say SMS but it's not as common. We just say text. And most people, uhm, when they text they use their thumbs but some people now use swipe on their keyboard. Uhm, and now something that


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[Assistant] Wasn't as popular four or five months ago, was fairly widespread in usage, but now is very common because of COVID, is the use of video calling, video calls, or video chat. There's a number of ways to refer to it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but generally what we've done is this. We have a piece of software called Skype.


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[Assistant] And you can use Skype to talk with someone online and we've turned the word Skype also into a verb. So later today, I'm going to Skype Rod VIP. Okay. Sounds kind of funny, but I'm going to have a Skype call with him.


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[Assistant] And I can use it as a verb. We haven't done this with Zoom. Generally with Zoom, we just say, oh, I'm going to meet with someone via Zoom.


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[Assistant] Or I'm going to have a Zoom meeting with someone later today. But Skype has become a verb. And so has FaceTime. Like, oh, I'm gonna FaceTime my cousin later today. Or I'm going to FaceTime my mom on Sunday to see how she's doing. FaceTime, again, is another way to do a video call, uh, or to do video chat. So, let's see here. Uhm, let's see here. I'm just gonna check the chat for a sec. A few things going on there. Uh, and then,


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[Assistant] Just a few extra things that I want to make sure I talk about. Uhm, none of this would be possible. We wouldn't be able to have a world where everyone can communicate easily without two things. Number one is satellites. So a satellite is something that they put in orbit


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[Assistant] But satellites, uh, have been launched for years now, for decades. And when they put a satellite in space, it allows for communication to happen more easily between people in different countries. It also allows for things like television and internet to work as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for sure. Uhm, so satellites, I think Russia put the first satellite in space, or the USSR. Uh, I can't remember. Sputnik. Uh, Natalia's here. Maybe Natalia knows her, uh, her history there. But, uh, satellites are a critical part of our worldwide communication. And undersea cables.


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[Assistant] I did not realize this till I was researching it last night.


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[Assistant] But there are hundreds of undersea cables, long wires or cables that go from one continent to another. If you look on Google and do a search for a map of undersea cables, there are so many cables between North America and Europe.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for communication. So undersea cables. Really, really cool.


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[Assistant] So, let's talk about non-verbal communication. So, you can communicate by speaking, you can communicate by writing, but humans also communicate without using words. And I'm just gonna go over a few of those methods in a moment.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the first one would be body language. You can see this guy. You don't have to hear him.


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[Assistant] You communicate non-verbally how you're feeling. So if I was like this.


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[Assistant] You might think I look skeptical. If I was like,


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[Assistant] You might think I look scared. I don't have a lot of good facial expression. If I smile, you know that I'm happy.