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[Assistant] Our coming was evidently a great event, for stationmaster and porters clustered round us to carry out our luggage.


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[Assistant] It was a sweet, simple country spot, but I was surprised to observe that by the gate there stood two soldierly men in dark uniforms who leaned upon their short rifles and glanced keenly at us as we passed.


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[Assistant] The coachman, a hard-faced, gnarled little fellow, saluted Sir Henry Baskerville, and in a few minutes we were flying swiftly down the broad white road.


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[Assistant] Rolling pasturelands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage.


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[Assistant] But behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.


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[Assistant] The wagonet swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep plains worn by centuries of wheels.


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[Assistant] High banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy heart's tongue ferns.


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[Assistant] Bronzing Bracken and mottled Bramble gleaned in the light of the sinking sun.


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[Assistant] Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the grey boulders.


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[Assistant] Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir.


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[Assistant] At every turn Baskerville gave an exclamation of delight, looking eagerly about him and asking countless questions. To his eyes all seemed beautiful.


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[Assistant] But to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year.


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[Assistant] Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed.


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[Assistant] A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.


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[Assistant] On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm. He was watching the road along which we travelled. "'What is this, Perkins?' asked Dr. Mortimer. Our driver half turned in his seat.


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[Assistant] There's a convict escaped from princetown, sir. He's been out here three days now, and the warders watch every road and every station, but they've had no sight of him yet. The farmers about here don't like it, sir, and that's a fact.


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[Assistant] Well, I understand that they get five pounds if they can give information.


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[Assistant] Yes sir, but the chance of five pounds is but a poor thing compared to the chance of having your throat cut.


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[Assistant] You see, it isn't like any ordinary convict. This is a man who would stick at nothing. Who is he, then? It is Selden, the naughty nail-murderer.


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[Assistant] I remembered the case well, for it was one in which Holmes had taken an interest on account of the peculiar ferocity of the crime, and the wanton brutality which had marked all the actions of the assassin.


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[Assistant] The commutation of his death sentence had been due to some doubts as to his complete sanity. So atrocious was his conduct.


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[Assistant] Our wagonet had topped a rise, and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tours.


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[Assistant] A cold wind swept down from it and set a shivering


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[Assistant] Somewhere there on that desolate plain was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.


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[Assistant] It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky. Even Baskerville fell silent and pulled his overcoat more closely around him.


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[Assistant] We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now.


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[Assistant] The slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new-turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands. The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes sprinkled with giant boulders.


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[Assistant] Now and then we passed a moorland cottage, walled and roofed with stone, with no creeper to break its harsh outline.


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[Assistant] Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and firs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip.


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[Assistant] Its master had risen and was staring with flushed cheeks and shining eyes.


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[Assistant] A few minutes later we had reached the lodge gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boar's heads of the Baskervilles.


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[Assistant] The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold.


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[Assistant] Through the gateway we passed into the avenue, where the wheels were again hushed amid the leaves, and the old trees shot their branches in a sombre tunnel over our heads.


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[Assistant] Baskerville shuddered as we looked up the long dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end. Was it here? he asked in a low voice. No, no, the U-alley is on the other side. The young heir glanced round with a gloomy face.


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[Assistant] It's no wonder my uncle felt as if trouble were coming on him in such a place as this, said he.


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[Assistant] It's enough to scare any man. I'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months, and you won't know it again with a thousand candle-power Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door.


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[Assistant] The avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf, and the house lay before us.


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[Assistant] In the fading light I could see that the centre was a heavy block of building from which a porch projected.


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[Assistant] The whole front was draped in ivy, with a patch clipped bare here and there, where a window or a coat of arms broke through the dark veil.


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[Assistant] From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenellated, and pierced with many loopholes.


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[Assistant] To right and left of the turrets were more modern wings of black granite.


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[Assistant] A dull light shone through heavy mullioned windows, and from the high chimneys which rose from the steep high-angled roof there sprang a single black column of smoke.


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[Assistant] Welcome Sir Henry, welcome to Baskerville Hall.


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[Assistant] A tall man had stepped from the shadow of the porch to open the door of the wagonette.


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[Assistant] No, I must go. I shall probably find some work awaiting me.


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[Assistant] I would stay to show you over the house, but Barrymore will be a better guide than I.


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[Assistant] Goodbye and never hesitate, night or day, to send for me if I can be of service.


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[Assistant] The wheels died away down the drive while Sir Henry and I turned into the hall, and the door clanged heavily behind us.


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[Assistant] It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and heavily raftered with huge walks of aged blackened oak. In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log fire crackled and snapped.


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[Assistant] Sir Henry and I held out our hands to it, for we were numb from our long drive. Then we gazed round us at the high, thin window of old stained glass. The oak panelling, the stag's heads, the coats of arms upon the walls, all dim and sombre in the subdued light of the central lamp. It's just as I imagined it, said Sir Henry.


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[Assistant] Is it not the very picture of an old family home? To think that this should be the same hall in which for five hundred years my people have lived. It strikes me solemn to think of it.


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[Assistant] I saw his dark face lit up with a boyish enthusiasm as he gazed about him.


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[Assistant] The light beat upon him where he stood, but long shadows trailed down the walls and hung like a black canopy above him.


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[Assistant] Barrymore had returned from taking our luggage to our rooms. He stood in front of us now with the subdued manner of a well-trained servant.


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[Assistant] He was a remarkable-looking man, tall, handsome, with a square black beard, and pale, distinguished features. Would you wish dinner to be served at once, sir? Is it ready?


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[Assistant] In a few minutes, sir. You will find hot water in your rooms.


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[Assistant] My wife and I will be happy Sir Henry, to stay with you until you've made your fresh arrangements.


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[Assistant] But you will understand under the new conditions this house will require a considerable staff. What new conditions?


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[Assistant] I only meant it, sir, that Sir Charles led a very retired life, and we were able to look after his wants.


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[Assistant] You would naturally wish to have more company and so you will need changes in your household. Do you mean that your wife and you wish to leave? Only when it's quite convenient to you, sir.


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[Assistant] But your family have been with us for several generations, have they not? I should be sorry to begin my life here by breaking an old family connection.


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[Assistant] I seem to discern some signs of emotion upon the butler's white face.


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[Assistant] But to tell the truth, sir, we were both very much attached to Sir Charles, and his death gave us a shock and made these surroundings very painful to us.


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[Assistant] I fear that we shall never again be easy in our minds at Baskerville Hall. But what do you intend to do?


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[Assistant] I have no doubt, sir, that we shall succeed in establishing ourselves in some business.


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[Assistant] Sir Charles's generosity has given us the means to do so. And now sir, perhaps I'd best show you to your rooms.


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[Assistant] A square, balustraded gallery ran round the top of the old hall, approached by a double stair.


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[Assistant] From this central point two long corridors extended the whole length of the building from which all the bedrooms opened.


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[Assistant] My own was in the same wing as Baskerville's, and almost next door to it.


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[Assistant] These rooms appeared to be much more modern than the central part of the house, and the bright paper and numerous candles did something to remove the sombre impression which our arrival had left upon my mind.


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[Assistant] But the dining-room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom.


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[Assistant] It was a long chamber, with a step separating the dais where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependants.


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[Assistant] At one end a minstrel's gallery overlooked it.


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[Assistant] Black beams shot across above our heads, with a smoke-darkened ceiling beyond them.


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[Assistant] With rows of flaring torches to light it up, and the colour and rude hilarity of an old-time banquet, it might have softened. But now, when two black-clothed gentlemen sat in the little circle of light thrown by a shaded lamp, one's voice became hushed and one's spirit subdued.


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[Assistant] A dim line of ancestors in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.


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[Assistant] We talked little, and I for one was glad when the meal was over, and we were able to retire into the modern billiard room and smoke a cigarette.


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[Assistant] My word, it isn't a very cheerful place, said Sir Henry.


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[Assistant] I suppose one can tone down to it, but I feel a bit out of the picture at present.


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[Assistant] I don't mind that my uncle got a little jumpy if he lived all alone in such a house as this.


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[Assistant] However, if it suits you, we will retire early tonight, and perhaps things may seem more cheerful in the morning.


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[Assistant] I drew aside my curtains before I went to bed, and looked out from my window.


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[Assistant] It opened up upon the grassy space which lay in front of the hall door. Beyond, two copses of trees moaned and swung in a rising wind.


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[Assistant] A half moon broke through the rifts of racing clouds.


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[Assistant] In its cold light I saw beyond the trees a broken fringe of rocks and the long low curve of the melancholy moor.


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[Assistant] I closed the curtain, feeling that my last impression was in keeping with the rest. And yet it was not quite the last.


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[Assistant] I found myself weary and yet wakeful, tossing restlessly from side to side, seeking for the sleep which would not come.


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[Assistant] Far away a chiming clock struck out the quarters of the hours, but otherwise a deathly silence lay upon the old house.


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[Assistant] The muffled, strangling gasp of one who is torn by an uncontrollable sorrow. I sat up in bed and listened intently.


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[Assistant] The noise could not have been far away, and was certainly in the house.


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[Assistant] For half an hour I waited with every nerve on the alert, but there came no other sound save the chiming clock and the rustle of the ivy on the wall.


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[Assistant] I bet. I heard Victoria got a face full of paint. I'd pay money to see a photo of that.


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[Assistant] By the way, I saw Daniel's sketch of you online. Not bad, but I could do a much better job.


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[Assistant] Art is science. Music is math. Et cetera, et cetera. I'd put Stephen Hawking against Picasso any day.


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[Assistant] Ha ha. Make sure you watch Cannibal Holocaust.


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[Assistant] Ouch, that sounds awful the way you say it.


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[Assistant] Russ Mayer was a genius of black and white, plus babes with breasts.


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[Assistant] The Dragon King of the Eastern Sea is here to see you. Let him in.


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[Assistant] Hello everybody, welcome back to American Textbook Reading.


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[Assistant] My name is Brian Stewart and today we're going over Science Book 4, Lesson 2, How Seeds Are Scattered. So in this unit we will discover what kinds of seeds there are and of course how seeds are scattered.


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[Assistant] As usual, we start with the vocabulary. And you may have noticed a difficult word in the unit title. How seeds are scattered. Well, what does scatter mean?


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[Assistant] Scatter means to throw or drop objects over an area, usually a wide area.


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[Assistant] Think about your room, right? If you come home and you take off your clothes, you know, you change from your school clothes to your home comfortable clothes. And how do you do it? You just throw your shirt over there, maybe your pants over there, your belt over there. You scatter your clothes all over the room.


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[Assistant] Okay, hopefully don't do that. Mom doesn't like it, right? So, but to scatter is to throw objects or things in a wide area. Not very neatly. Like the picture shows, we see seeds are just tossed on the ground randomly. Okay. Next, we have blow.


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[Assistant] Right? How strong can you blow? If you're young, you can blow really strongly. Usually if you have a birthday cake, you have many candles on your cake and you blow them out.


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[Assistant] Blowing doesn't mean that a person or animal has to do it. It could just happen in nature naturally from the wind.


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[Assistant] Right? If there's a strong wind, the wind blows. And we have a video to show what's going on here. Also, this is very important because as you can see the boy, he's blowing on a flower.


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[Assistant] And I just want to point this out before we watch the video. What kind of flower is that? That is called a dan, oops, sorry, d-a-n, dandelion.


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[Assistant] It's not a lion, it's a dandelion. A dandelion is that type of flower. Let's watch a video of the dandelion being blown in the wind.


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[Assistant] Here we go. There's the dandelion. Let's watch as the wind blows it.


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[Assistant] Okay, here we go. There's the wind. The wind comes along and blows it. Now what happened? All these little things here, actually you see these little pieces here?


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[Assistant] Those are seeds, right? The wind comes along and blows the dandelion seeds and they are scattered. Okay? And that's how the plant


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[Assistant] Reproduces itself because new plants will grow.


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[Assistant] By the way, it's very interesting that people will say, dandelions, you can predict the weather by looking at the dandelion.


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[Assistant] Next word is land. Now if something is flying in the air, like a dandelion seed that's blowing in the wind,


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[Assistant] After a while the wind will stop or get weaker and the dandelion seed will calm down.


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[Assistant] And then we say that it lands. So land is a noun, right? It's the, the, the ground that you stand on. But land is also a verb because we use it to say that something that was flying


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[Assistant] Ripe is an important word, especially if you're going to eat fruit or other types of plants or vegetables, right? Ripe.


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[Assistant] Ripe means that it is fully grown and ready to eat. So you don't want to eat an unripe apple. Ugh, that doesn't taste very good. You want to eat a ripe apple, or a ripe orange, or ripe corn.


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[Assistant] Whatever the plant is that you eat, it should be ripe. That means it's fully grown and it is ready to eat. Our next word is stick.


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[Assistant] Now, stick has a couple of different meanings. Of course, you can say, I have a stick, right? You have a tree branch, and you wave it around. That's a noun. But we're not talking about that definition here. Stick here,


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[Assistant] Is a verb. It's a verb in this definition. It means for one object to become attached


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[Assistant] To another. And you can see in this picture, oh, you're probably familiar with this situation. You walk in the woods or you walk in a grassy area where there's a lot of plants. And after you go through, you look down at your pants or your socks especially, and you see these little


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[Assistant] And of course that's what it means to stick, to attach to something.


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[Assistant] Tape is sticky, right? If you want to stick two things together, use a piece of tape. Or glue. Glue is also sticky. So stick can be used as a noun.


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[Assistant] It can be used as a verb, it can also be used as an adjective, sticky. It is sticky. Glue is sticky. Tape is sticky. Parts of plants are sticky. They will stick to you. Okay, next.


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[Assistant] Drop of course just means to let something fall or to fall by itself. Of course it's a verb. If you just let go of something, it will drop. Of course,


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[Assistant] The earlier example we looked at with the dandelion seeds, they're flying in the wind, the wind is blowing, so the dandelion seed is, is flying in the air. What happens when the wind stops?


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[Assistant] The dandelion seed drops to the ground. It lands, okay? So, to drop means to fall from the air, fall from a high place down to a lower place. It can mean to land if the object winds up on the ground.


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[Assistant] Okay, so there's different kinds of landings. There's good landings and not so good landings. Okay, anyway, to drop.


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[Assistant] Burr. Now, we talked about stick. Remember when we saw that picture for stick? We saw those little pieces of the plant that sticks to your socks. They're really hard to get out, aren't they?


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[Assistant] And of course, many plants will do this. They'll have the little tiny hooks, very small, but if you look at them carefully, especially with a magnifying glass, you can see that the little parts of the, uh, part of the plant, they're like little hooks, and those hooks grab onto your clothing.


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[Assistant] And they really like socks, but also pants. And they'll grab onto those and stick with you as you move. So burr is little hooks on a seed that can stick to things.


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[Assistant] And those are the things that are on your socks or your pants. And your shoes. Okay.


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[Assistant] Fur, well first we had brr, now we have fur, rr, the ending sound of r, brr.


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[Assistant] Don't call this fur, right? It's not that thick. I don't have that much hair. But if it's really a lot of hair growing really close together and you cannot see the skin, we call that fur.


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[Assistant] Look at your dog. Maybe you have a pet dog or a cat or a mouse.


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[Assistant] That, if you look at the animal, they have very thick hair growing out of their skin. We call that fur. It's the hair that covers some animals.


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[Assistant] Have fur. But not humans. We don't have fur. So don't, don't say that about a human being. It's not nice. Okay. Anyway, good. Okay, so those are our words for the lesson.


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[Assistant] Okay, the first idea for this lesson, of course, is how are seeds scattered? When you think about it, plants don't really move, right? I mean, they grow in one spot. Sure, they can move this way, but they don't really move from where they're growing out of the ground. They don't have legs. They can't get up and walk around. So how do plants


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[Assistant] Produce other plants. If, if they make smaller plants right where they are, well then they will die, right? Because there's not enough land or water or sunlight in that


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[Assistant] Now, seeds can also be scattered by water, right? And here we see, uh, this looks like a coconut, right? A coconut and a little, uhm,


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[Assistant] If it drops a coconut, hits water, it might float to another island. And then the new coconut tree will grow on another island far away from the parent plant. So that's interesting.


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[Assistant] Also, seeds are scattered by animals. You'll notice we talked about fur, we talked about burr, and we talked about stick, right? So animals, when they walk through plants


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[Assistant] Uh, they, uh, the seeds might stick to the animal's fur and then drop off later and that's how they are scattered in nature and that's how plants can spread out.


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[Assistant] And make sure that they, uh, you know, propagate or propagate, reproduce over larger areas of land.


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[Assistant] Okay, the second idea is different kinds of seeds. And we can kind of get the idea of different kinds of seeds when we talked about the first main idea, how seeds are scattered, right? We see that some are small and they can blow in the wind.


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[Assistant] So there are many different kinds of seeds. In this chart, we can see three different types of seeds.


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[Assistant] And we can see also how they are scattered. For example, we first, we have the maple tree.


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[Assistant] Uh, the maple tree has interesting looking seeds. Of course, that's not the whole seed. The seeds are down in here, right? But they have a covering or, or,


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[Assistant] Because in that, with that shape, the wind can easily pick them up and carry them very far away.


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[Assistant] And that's how the maple tree will spread or scatter its seeds.


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[Assistant] Next we have the water lily. And water lily, we can see right away, okay, those seeds are scattered by water.


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[Assistant] Float means to stay at the surface of the water. So the seeds will stay at the surface of the water. If they sink, they'll get stuck on the bottom, right? So they stay on the surface of the water and they can move to different parts of the lake or even down rivers to other parts or other areas of land.


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[Assistant] And that's how the water lily will spread its seeds.


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[Assistant] Now chestnut tree, of course you know chestnuts, I think in Korean you say pum, right? Those are delicious, especially in the late fall around November and even in December.


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[Assistant] People will cook chestnuts on a fire. They're very warm and they're very delicious, aren't they? But of course, when you see the chestnut that you see that you get from the store or from the people selling them on the street, they're brown, they have a thick, smooth, uh, covering, right? But that's not how they grow on the tree.


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[Assistant] On the tree, they have another skin around them with, it looks like fur. And that's actually little burrs. It's the little hooks. And chestnut burrs, right, you can see them here. It looks like the hair here. But these have the little hooks on them and they'll stick onto the fur.


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[Assistant] Uh, they'll stick on the fur or feathers of animals. So fur of normal, uh, animal, and normal animals, of mammals, or they get


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[Assistant] Stuck on the feathers of birds, and especially if you get stuck on the feather bird, you can travel very far, right? Because birds will fly long distances. And then they fall off in another area.


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[Assistant] Different kinds of seeds will use different types of techniques or methods to spread out, right? Maybe they're light and they're small, so they can be carried by the wind.


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[Assistant] Maybe they're, they might be larger, but they can float on water. They're not heavy, they're very light, so they float on water. And some seeds even use little hooks to stick onto animals or birds that do move.


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[Assistant] And can move the seeds for them. So, this is a very interesting idea.


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[Assistant] Okay, now it's time for the reading. So as usual, read along with me or read along in your mind. Practice the pronunciation and focus on the vocabulary for this lesson. Are you ready? Let's begin.


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[Assistant] Plants grow from seeds.


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[Assistant] It is difficult for a seed to grow in the same space as its parent. If seeds are scattered, they are more likely to grow into new plants.


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[Assistant] Seeds are scattered in many ways.


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[Assistant] The wind can blow seeds away from a plant.


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[Assistant] Where a seed lands, it might grow into a new plant.


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[Assistant] Sometimes the seeds are inside fruits.


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[Assistant] Animals like to eat ripe fruit.


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[Assistant] Sometimes birds take fruit from a plant and fly away.


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[Assistant] When they land and eat the fruit, the seeds fall out.


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[Assistant] Birds can scatter seeds over a large area as we talked about.


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[Assistant] And the seeds can drop off the animal in different areas.


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[Assistant] Seeds can be scattered this way.


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[Assistant] The wind and animals help scatter seeds. And so plants have more space to live in.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's the reading. And it's interesting, as we talked about before, this reading kind of shows you how plants


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[Assistant] There's not enough area around the mother or parent plant to, for more plants to grow. It gets too crowded, right? There's not enough resources so they have to spread out. Okay.


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[Assistant] How is this reading organized? Now here we're looking at cause and effect.


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[Assistant] And basically we have three different causes and three different effects. That's what they're breaking this, uh, this down into. Uh, the wind can be a cause, the animals can be a cause, and also seeds with burrs can be a cause. That's our three causes here. So let's fill in the blanks in this chart.


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[Assistant] First we have the cause and that results in effect. What is the cause? The cause is the wind can beep seeds away from a plant. So what do we talk about? Remember this action?


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[Assistant] Right? What am I doing? I am blowing. So the wind can, the wind can blow.


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[Assistant] The wind can blow seeds away from a plant. That's the cause. What is the effect?


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[Assistant] In different areas. That's the effect. And so seeds have


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[Assistant] Uh, new areas, new, a lot of resources, they have enough resources to grow. Hopefully, if they land in the right area.


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[Assistant] Okay, next we have animals like to eat bees.


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[Assistant] So fruit is our noun, right? So we need some kind of adjective to describe fruit. What kind of fruit do animals eat?


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[Assistant] Well, of course, animals aren't going to eat fruit that is not ready to eat.


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[Assistant] So they're going to eat ripe fruit. Ripe means ready to eat. Fully grown and ready to eat. It doesn't always mean ready to eat. I mean, some things can be ripe and you don't eat them. It just means fully grown. But when we're talking about plants, vegetables, fruits, things like that, ripe means ready to eat.


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[Assistant] So, animals eat ripe fruit, they move around, and then this way, animals can do what? They can scatter seeds. They can scatter, scatter seeds. Uh, there's different ways.


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[Assistant] In the reading it said that birds, when they eat the fruit, right, the seeds fall out.


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[Assistant] Okay, remember, if you're walking through a field, there's a lot of grass, those burrs do what? They stick to you. So, seeds with burrs can stick


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[Assistant] Animals, so stick to animals and drop off animals.


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[Assistant] So first they stick, of course, after a while maybe the animal scratches, you know, or licks it, or rubs up against a tree, and the seed will drop off.


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[Assistant] You don't have to repeat animals, right? So it's the same object. You don't have to repeat it. Stick to animals and drop off animals. Stick to and drop off animals.


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[Assistant] Okay, good. And of course the effect of that is that the seeds will be scattered. In fact, all of the effects are


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[Assistant] All of the effects are that seeds are scattered, but through different means, through different causes. But it's always the same effect. Seeds are scattered, plants have room to grow,


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[Assistant] More plants can grow in a larger area and this is how plants


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[Assistant] Okay, interesting, interesting lesson. So if you ever wondered, you know, how do plants spread out? How do they, you know, how do they, how does a forest grow? Don't all the trees grow, shouldn't all the trees grow in the same area?


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[Assistant] No, they're scattered around and now you know how plants can


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[Assistant] Occupy large areas of land or even travel to new lands, new islands or downstream or far away, uh, by the wind.


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[Assistant] So it's very interesting to see how nature works. Okay, well that's your lesson for today. Thanks for studying with me. We'll see you next time. Take care. Bye bye.


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[Assistant] Hi, Daniel. Yes! Max makes an entrance! Ha ha! I only came to the party because of you. I'm glad to see you out and about.


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[Assistant] Uh, you look pretty ripped already, Justin. And not happy. Why did you even come tonight?


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[Assistant] You might be right, so stay away from him tonight, okay? Spread the word.


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[Assistant] No, I'm cool Justin, and I have to get going. Maybe you should go chill somewhere else.


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[Assistant] If we hung out with our attitude, we'd get along fine. I almost asked you to hang out. You said my photos were Avedon-esque. Then I remembered who I was.


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[Assistant] You should have asked me. It would have been cool to compare photo notes. Maybe we're too much alike. You might be right. Well Max Caulfield, there's still time for you to go.


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[Assistant] That sounds like a plan, Dana. I'm glad Trevor is with you tonight.


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[Assistant] I just knew if I agreed to come to New York, somehow I would be roped into this. I mean, SNL is like an iconic


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[Assistant] I just get in the car in New York. I find out that Trav is going to propose to court and we get a surprise them. We are on our way to SNL. Somehow we're thrown into the live show. I mean, this is craziness.


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[Assistant] Do you see where your mother used to live? No. My problem with my mom is, my mom has the most beautiful present life. But sometimes my mom misses out because she's crying about something that happened back in like the 80's.


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[Assistant] Tell me when you care about me. I just can't find any of the f*** cares. Cares?


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[Assistant] Story? Stardust apartment. I think you keep forgetting that you've told me this story.


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[Assistant] My mom. God bless her. I love her. But...


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[Assistant] I can go to any state and she takes me on these tours of her childhood. When I go to San Diego, I've gone to her high school, I saw where she started her period, like the things she'll tell me so I know all the f***ing stories. Oh god, who's this?


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[Assistant] Can we just really quick say a quick prayer for you today? Yes. Okay. We ready?


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[Assistant] So now, we're gonna see the apartment.


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[Assistant] I'm not really thrilled to have the apartment tour anyway. There's swarms of paparazzi and now they're just following us down the street. I struggle with anxiety and ugh, this feeling makes me so grossed out. This is exactly why I didn't want to do it. I'm going to go back to the hotel. This is not what I'm doing for three blocks.


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[Assistant] I just got back from New York and I'm doing the Ellen show. This, I did not wake up like this.


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[Assistant] So I need to cut my skins and I'm fine cutting them. I know the owner.


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[Assistant] You know, having scissors so close to my vagina is not really ideal. It's not really my type of foreplay.


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[Assistant] Glam is definitely not always glamorous. You don't want to go to Disneyland and see Mickey Mouse with his head off. You want the whole character together.


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[Assistant] I cannot believe that Travis is proposing to court in like three days and we are all keeping Travis and Courtney's proposal super hush hush. But my mom did tell Ellen and that's okay because you know she's never gonna say anything.


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[Assistant] No, I've done, not Sunday night, she wants to rest and you're not, you don't feel good, but Monday you're fine.


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[Assistant] What is pending is the location. Why don't we just override it all and say this is getting too choppy, let's do it in Calabasas. Yes.


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[Assistant] If Courtney is getting her egg retrieval and doesn't feel well enough to go to Santa Barbara the same day, I just want to throw out other ideas. At least there's going to be backup where the engagement can still happen on their anniversary.


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[Assistant] I want your vision to come to life and I think maybe just narrow it down to Calabasas. It's not a bad backup is all I'm saying.


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[Assistant] We need a plan. What's happening at 8, 802, 803, like we need an agenda.


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[Assistant] At least let's nail down the location. Like I can't, I'm literally getting hyped. Let us know tomorrow. Okay. Okay. Ciao. I just have to have faith and debate a blocker that Travis is going to take care of it.


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[Assistant] There's more footage from the sex tape that's been out there.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to pack for SNL and now I have to deal with this sex tape drama. 19 years. This has been held over my head. This is the shit that I did when I was young and I need to own it. That was 20 years ago. I didn't know what to do. I had no money and I did not know what to do. I have all the time, all the money, and all of the resources.


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[Assistant] Don't you think you should call the guy and say I just want you to know that this guy is not the rightful owner of anything?


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[Assistant] Our homes right now and where we live that it's going to be really hard to find something to beat that.


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[Assistant] This house has a really cool style. It kind of reminds me of like old Hollywood Frank Sinatra vibes, like, which is so us. Is this Mason's room?


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[Assistant] I could see us all like laying on the couch and watching movies and cooking together.


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[Assistant] My parents had a set up like this growing up, like two separate sides.


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[Assistant] Kissing and hugging is not a bad thing. I'm actually grateful that my kids can see a loving, affectionate relationship because they haven't seen that their whole lives.


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[Assistant] Are you gonna be excited that I'm doing Saturday Night Live?


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[Assistant] I'm in New York and I just have so much to do this week. I don't think people really get how insane SNL is and what the schedule's like. I mean, you come in on a Monday and you have like these meetings where they pitch things to you. Tuesday is sketch pitches. Wednesday is the table read where you read like 40 sketches.


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[Assistant] Thursday, filming of pre-tapes. Friday we start at 5am. Saturday is showtime. It's a machine.


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[Assistant] I really want this moment. I don't want to be thinking and stressing about something else. Like I have a lot on my mind.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I'm gonna go finish getting ready. I love you.


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[Assistant] I mean, my mom's obviously right, like I can't stress about something that I have no control over anymore, but it is easier said than done.


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[Assistant] The most support. She's literally the, just the funniest, but just giving me advice and like girl pep talk. Because sometimes I'm like, why the f-


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's here already. He literally took a coach commercial flight. Stop.


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[Assistant] Sat, like, in the seat next to the bathroom.


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[Assistant] Kanye is in New York to support me, but we also have like set some serious boundaries. Like Kanye and I are staying at separate hotels. I've been really clear with him as far as like where we stand in our relationship. Just super drama-free is the vibe for this week.


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[Assistant] He said he didn't sleep all night long just so that he can get in town early enough to meet up with Dave and like go over jokes and really like help and Dave introduced us to this comedian Michelle Wolf who is so funny.


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[Assistant] We've all been like on this thread about the monologue and what jokes are funny and what we should take out and we've all kinda like collaborated on it.


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[Assistant] And just really, really, really go for it. 10, 12 hour days. As important as SNL is, it's more important that I study for the baby bar because I have one last chance to pass it and then I can't take it again.


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[Assistant] So much better. I need to get more confident at my essays, but this is my last chance.


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[Assistant] Amy Schumer and I have been friends for a few years now. Of course she's like so funny that I want her to hear what I have as like my final monologue and see what she thinks and I feel really good about it and I'm honestly not nervous. That's like the one thing that I'm not nervous about.


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[Assistant] So I feel like you should read the one on my phone. Okay, let's do it. I don't want too many Kanye jokes.


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[Assistant] Dave Chappelle suggested that I work with Michelle Wolf, who's like the funniest comedian, and she's really helping me write my monologue.


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[Assistant] I just can't, like, I have to just take my power back on that and be like, this was 20 years ago. Yeah, like please. So I think even like taking the air out of those people, like just starting off with that is kind of funny without being super like sex tape.


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[Assistant] Like most of the things that I wear, it's really hard to pee. It's like a whole ordeal.


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[Assistant] Let's put it this way, if R. Kelly dressed like me, he may have stayed out of trouble.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, oh Chloe, you have the biggest heart.


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[Assistant] It's so big it has room for Tristan and all of his side pieces. Oh shit.


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[Assistant] The one thing I thought I had and was so confident in is my monologue. So, I'm a little confused now.


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[Assistant] My kids aren't here today because there was Scott, but Penelope will be here any minute.


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[Assistant] The most amazing experience. Every single person on social media and is always like, Courtney's pregnant.


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[Assistant] Yes. I think because I'm so clean and careful with what I put into my body, it's just like having the complete opposite reaction and is working as a contraceptive instead of helping us.


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[Assistant] The medication basically like put me into depression.


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[Assistant] And I have everything in the world to be happy about. I just feel a little bit off and off, like myself super moody and hormonal, like I'm a lunatic half the time.


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[Assistant] I think that we want it so badly because we want to make something together.


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[Assistant] I mean I think I want to say something. I think I've been in this game long enough to know that like you just have to be yourself. So I want to say things that feel good coming out of my mouth and that like are things I would actually say.


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[Assistant] And so I'm gonna just go with my gut and stick with it and do exactly what I had planned on doing.


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[Assistant] I've been to SNL before, but only obviously with Kanye as like a musical guest.


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[Assistant] I've never seen what it's like to be a host. I have to work a 23 and a half hour day tomorrow. I've never done that in my life you guys, I've never pulled an all-nighter.


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[Assistant] No one gives you a second to breathe. There's no lunch break, like you just have to take a bite of pizza, eat along the way, like there's no breaks, there's no nothing, like there's no time. I've never experienced anything like this before.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Kim Kardashian West and I'm hosting SNL This Week with musical guest Halsey.


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[Assistant] So Kim, are you nervous about doing sketch comedy? Why, I don't have to write sketches, do I? No. Memorized lines? No, current cue cards. Everyone else won't look as good as me, will they? No, absolutely not. I just want to make sure that I focus enough to do a really good job on SNL.


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[Assistant] Seeing Mario be really emotional just reminds me of when his agency told him not to work with me because I was just a reality star and that like I wasn't going anywhere and he was never going to have a career if he was my makeup artist and he told them basically to like go


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[Assistant] Don't forget to subscribe for more fun and adventure with me and all my friends.


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[Assistant] So this is probably the first time in like 15 years that we've had a really, really long break from having cameras follow every move. And I think it got a little lonely.


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[Assistant] God must have broke the mold when he made you. Just hopin'. Get these cameras out of here and go upstairs then.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I think for like the first time probably in my life, it's finally starting to change.


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[Assistant] Now that Courtney's got her life with Travis, like...


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[Assistant] As hard as it is, it does give me a place to like finally be able to move on.


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[Assistant] And serious and someone I'm gonna actually spend my life with. It would have to be somebody.


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[Assistant] Nah, a little bit, because I think one of the kids said something, which the kids always kind of tell me everything. Feeling left out and not being told anything is super hurtful, especially when I don't have another family to go to.


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[Assistant] Our family are, you know, in my ear kinda like, don't worry honey, like, eventually you guys will figure it out and you'll get back together one day.


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[Assistant] So my foot was always halfway in the door. It was a huge adjustment losing Courtney romantically. But now it's becoming a huge adjustment losing her as kind of a best friend. Now we're really just more of co-parenters. I would say it's probably one of the more difficult things in my life.


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[Assistant] Listen, at the end of the day, I understand what the bigger picture is. What would be best for Courtney? And she's happy, she's in a real thing, and I believe that's true. Because I also felt like...


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[Assistant] I did so much wrong to her over so many years that I felt super guilty and I always felt like if she ever needed me for any reason whatsoever


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[Assistant] To despise me and the way I treated her. Cause it was horrible. Like that wouldn't go on today for a day. But it went on for years.


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[Assistant] No, stay in it. All I need is just to be acknowledged. Oh, do I even mean anything to anyone?


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[Assistant] Kim Kardashian on SNL. It's like crazy. It's gonna be so epic and fun and historical. You'll never forget this. It'll be the coolest moment of your life. This'll be...


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[Assistant] I don't know if I could do no caffeine just in the morning. It's the only way that I can survive.


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[Assistant] You know what? It's nice for you to try something new. Yeaah. I think it really is. No matter who you're dating, my only advice would be, the minute you start bad mouthing the other parent in front of your kids is the end of the world for them as kids.


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[Assistant] They can't handle that. They hear everything. You and I would talk-


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's why you're here. That's why God put you here to raise kids and have a family and


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[Assistant] Be with each other and that's what life is all about. It's all about your family.


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[Assistant] You guys bought someone's random Emmy? Yeah, you can buy them. Kim bid for it at an auction.


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[Assistant] What's really crazy is I had started my professional career when I was about 40 years old.


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[Assistant] And to have masterclass reach out to me at this stage in my life and ask me to do a masterclass is wild. I really want to communicate my style of doing business. I think people want to know how we've created this empire and these businesses all under one umbrella.


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[Assistant] I, no, you bust your chops, no, you hone your skills, but you're something, you're chops.


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[Assistant] You lick your chops. Ah. You. Chop licker. Come on. Chopsticks. Come on. Chopstick. Choppy chop. Okay. You.


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[Assistant] I really want to be able to articulate where I am in life and what my journey was and how I got here, but it's a little nerve wracking and I really want to get it right. It's my legacy. Alright guys, get the hell out of here.


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[Assistant] Bye. Ta ta for now. See you later. Ta ta for now. Adios.


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[Assistant] It's really nice to have a neighbor that I'm really in love with.


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[Assistant] Because you have no idea what's going on with this wardrobe.


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[Assistant] Can you come to the taping? It really would make me feel better.


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[Assistant] Wait, you've said such great things today. Life is life. Life is life? That was like a home run for you? Yeah, I think it's a t-shirt. Life is life, okay. It's merch.


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[Assistant] My master class is tomorrow, so that means I only have a couple of hours to boil down my last thoughts.


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[Assistant] I get those butterflies. I want to do a good job. I'm a perfectionist. I want people to hear what I'm trying to say and I want to be able to communicate. This is a really big deal and I just want to do the best that I can.


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[Assistant] Today is Master Class Day and I'm so confident because the more I thought about it and the more I talked it through with Chloe, I thought, you know what, I do have something to say.


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[Assistant] I think the number one thing that I would love for people to take away from my master class is learning step by step how to get to where you want to be.


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[Assistant] I'm Chris Jenner and this is MasterClass. Never give up and learn how to navigate the system.


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[Assistant] And really have somebody in your corner to help you get there.


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[Assistant] We'll get there, little field mouse. One step at a time.


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[Assistant] Don't worry. The mist will lift soon. We'll be fine.


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[Assistant] The time will pass even quicker if we play a game.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's a good one. My turn now. Hmm.


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[Assistant] I spy with my little eye something brown.


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[Assistant] Hmm, as much as a meadow on high?


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[Assistant] No. I could have guessed that after all.


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[Assistant] Because that's just how much I love you too.


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[Assistant] It must have melted. You'll have to catch another one.


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[Assistant] Oh, this one is very special and pretty. Right, we need to be quick. Little feel-mouth, grab some snow.


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[Assistant] Now, roll the snow into a ball.


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[Assistant] Can I just have one last peek at the snowflake before I give it to him? Of course!


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[Assistant] What else could keep it cold? Really cold.


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[Assistant] But I did find another reason to love the snow. Hooray!


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[Assistant] Don't forget to subscribe for more fun and adventure with me and all my friends.


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[Assistant] I'm all about trying everything because happy accidents are like half of what we end up running in.


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[Assistant] Alright, we finished the shoot, I'm exhausted, I'm gonna go to bed, so enough of you guys.


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[Assistant] Let's head in. Yep, get to go, get to go.


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[Assistant] This month has been insane. SNL. Courtney and Travis got engaged. I'm dealing with some stuff with Kanye. But today's my birthday. I am 41 today.


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[Assistant] And the only thing on my mind is taking the baby bar, and it's coming up any minute.


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[Assistant] This is my last chance to take this test, and if I don't pass, then my whole law school journey is over.


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[Assistant] Last year I took the bar right after my birthday, but like, I went on a full birthday trip. Like, I made that a priority this year. I really don't give a shit. Like, a birthday party is not important to me. Like, I cannot be worried about a party. I don't want to see people. I just need to study.


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[Assistant] And my favorite Armenian food, carousel, is here. I've been going to carousel with my dad since I was a little girl.


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[Assistant] And if I'm partying, then I'm gonna mess it up. So I just need to focus.


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[Assistant] My gosh, can you believe that you're engaged? Where's the ring? It's, I'm covering it because it's actually getting fixed. Why? What happened?


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[Assistant] This is probably one of the worst things I've ever done in my whole life, by the way. I was sitting on my floor folding...


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[Assistant] And then I called Travis. I was like, I did something really, really bad.


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[Assistant] And I was just like, this is the most beautiful thing that I've ever had in my life and how could I have done that? So pretty. Travis picked it out, he designed it, he looked at so many stones and that this was like me in a stone and so I thought that that was really special.


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[Assistant] I don't really think that me getting engaged is like about Scott. Like undeniably, my life is going in a different direction. I feel like I am living like a fairy tale.


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[Assistant] Making like new memories and new moments and I don't necessarily want Scott at all of them.


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[Assistant] But he woes me. Of course. He didn't do all the stuff. No, I know.


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[Assistant] Today is the day that I'm taking the bar and it is do or die.


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[Assistant] I think it started off as me just feeling like I wanted to know more and me wanting to.


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[Assistant] Be able to help more, but then it kind of was proving something to me personally, and no one's ever really respected, you know, a reality star with a sex tape, and I've always had to like,


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[Assistant] I can't grow or move beyond where I was.


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[Assistant] Whenever I'm talking to Travis, he's like, you should have been an attorney. And I'm like...


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[Assistant] I was going to. I had no idea you were gonna go to law school. Like, that's crazy that I just learned that about you. Also, I think about all these things that I went through and then I feel like you go through them after me.


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[Assistant] Who knows? But like, how's everything going with Kanye?


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[Assistant] He did an interview last night saying that like SNL got me to say that I divorced him.


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[Assistant] And I showed him the monologue, but he says he never read it, like he just didn't read the text. And you know, Kanye had a hard time with what I said.


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[Assistant] Because it's not final. Yeah, and so he's like, I haven't signed the divorce papers. Well, what's he waiting for? I don't know, I ask him all the time.


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[Assistant] He says he will, he says he, you know, and then he's like, well, I don't want a divorce, so I'm not gonna sign him. I'm always super protective of Kanye and not sharing a lot of the negative things that have happened. Just because, you know, he's not here doing the show. Also, if I do something on a reality show, then it's like, how dare she talk about it, and then he can do a song, but that's so creative and expressive, and you know, it's always like two different sides are being expressed two different ways. And one is respected and one's not. I'm very sure now. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I think that fashion has always been something that I've always been really into, but I've never been like the creative. How would I do my hair?


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[Assistant] I definitely see what I like, but I've never really been like the visionary.


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[Assistant] Kanye would come in and be like, Oh, you should do your hair like this. Oh, you should do your makeup like this. That's his love language is clothes. And so I always just trusted in him.


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[Assistant] It's not just about clothes. That was like the last thing we had really in common.


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[Assistant] Who am I in the fashion world or who am I by myself? I was always like the Kardashians with my sisters and then I was like Kimye. Like who is Kim K? That is the jump. How do I get there without Kanye?


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[Assistant] When I filed for divorce, it's been like 10 months now and I am finally...


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[Assistant] Just like stepping out, being like, I can do this.


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[Assistant] I know Travis is like a really authentic person and just wants to feel like he can be affectionate with me. I just want to protect our energy. I think that's the only, the only thing.


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[Assistant] My mom's house is incredible. I know it's everything she's dreamed of.


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[Assistant] I love that it's really infused with her personality.


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[Assistant] To be in the same room together is not a bad thing. It's a great first step for everyone and it will take time to really figure out like what makes sense.


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[Assistant] Jiggle comes through. Heel comes up there from behind as Artzine walks the zine back up to 100.


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[Assistant] C9 actually has four players here towards this A site. Deniability here from the wingman to try to plant it for generator. Activation from C9 to tempo back up towards the back of the site, but first blood is for MIBR still.


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[Assistant] That was one of the delays. This time it's Seppa that gets the lineup on the FRZ and JZZ. Shots are plenty on the side of C9. Advantage coming in.


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[Assistant] Glass Cannonaut for Oxy, as he's just watching back towards the spawn while these teammates are crossfiring to watch this spike.


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[Assistant] Not clear. They had this thing to work with, but they decide to play the contacting set. And C9 are able to still get map point.


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[Assistant] A very early timeout now for Amy, for Cloud9.


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[Assistant] It's potentially to fix up towards this B-side post plant.


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[Assistant] I see not all grouped together on that side. Although on the other end though, for MIBR, they have two players there.


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[Assistant] Mazeed and RGL working together, forced to fall back. Orp to come up, decaying a few players. It gives a chance for the owl drone to clear out towards yellow, if Rune wants to use it. Dash and Zen on the top. How?


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[Assistant] Two of them fall and that's B site open for C9. I actually go kill, right?


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[Assistant] Hey Max, see if you can put together all those Rubik's clues.


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[Assistant] Max, where are you? Max, come out to play. Come out to play!


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[Assistant] I just don't have the energy for this. My head is on a different planet and I feel like I'm living a different life. I am unsubscribing from this drama.


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[Assistant] No, so our egg retrieval with Dr. Wood didn't go the way that we would have hoped.


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[Assistant] We start back again and we are at Dr. A's office to check my follicles, see how they're looking, see how many follicles we have. She measures all the follicles.


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[Assistant] The fertility journey, Travis and I stay in the moment with it and like just do the steps that we need to do. You know, it's nice to hear good news and have some positivity. So we love that, but we just wait to hear the final.


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[Assistant] Travis is a really amazing father. It's one of the reasons that I fell in love with him. He is very, very patient. I think because we've all known each other, it does make it easier.


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[Assistant] I'm just nervous to get put to sleep.


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[Assistant] How would the Kim of 15 years ago feel about competing with her sister for a vote cover?


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[Assistant] And colour theory is the art and science of creating the right palette for your website. So take a look at this example.


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[Assistant] Now, let's say you had a logo where you have flowers which are brown, paintball which is pink. It looks all very weird and very inconsistent. And take a look at the actual logos. Like, what are you thinking when you see these color palettes on the words?


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[Assistant] The colour of the flowers looks a bit like dirt, I guess, but it also looks a bit like something else. And the paintball being pink, I'm not really sure who their target audience is.


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[Assistant] Take a look at this. If we flip the colour palette, it suddenly all looks like it's meant to be like this. It suddenly all looks a lot better, right? It looks consistent with the actual message.


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[Assistant] So when you're picking colors, you have to be aware of the mood of your color palette. So the predominant color that is going to be in your design really tells a story and it conveys a message to the user.


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[Assistant] Which is why you see a lot of car adverts which have a red car on a red background. It's because they're trying to tell you, hey, buy this car and you'll feel energetic and the intensity of this car, even if you're 89.


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[Assistant] And the most important thing about yellow though, is how attention grabbing it is. Because it's almost impossible to not look at something that is very yellow.


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[Assistant] And a lot of people got really, really upset about it. They took to the internet, they raved about it. And I remember thinking to myself at the time, you know, this is not so different from a lot of the other ads that are trying to tell women how to look.


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[Assistant] And I think the reason is because it's actually bright yellow. It's impossible to ignore this advert when you come across it.


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[Assistant] But when you're creating something that's designed to be looked at for a long period of time, then yellow can be too attention grabbing. It might actually hurt your user's eyes if you try to read a whole article that's backgrounded in yellow.


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[Assistant] Now, the next color that we're gonna talk about is green, which is all about freshness, growth, safety. And that's why you see a lot of grocery companies like HelloFresh or Amazon Groceries use this color as their predominant color palette.


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[Assistant] And so, if you have a company that has anything to do with food, this is usually a safe bet to go with.


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[Assistant] Now, blue is about stability, trust, serenity. And so you see a lot of companies which need to convey that, hey, we're really trustworthy. Use this color. For example, look at all the financial companies. Look at companies like PayPal or the cryptocurrency companies like Coinbase.


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[Assistant] In fact, there was a really interesting psychology study where they compared interviewees wearing different colored shirts.


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[Assistant] So for example, a group of them would wear a green shirt, another group would wear a blue shirt, and they compared how they were perceived by the interviewers. And it showed that just by changing the color of your shirt to a blue one, you vastly increase the amount of trust in you that's given by other people. So have a think about that the next time you're going for an interview.


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[Assistant] Now the final color is purple, and it's meant to signify royalty, wealth, femininity. And strangely enough, I've come across a number of payday loan companies which use this color palette, especially ones which are targeted at women.


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[Assistant] So the important thing to think about is that you're making a conscious decision when you're choosing a color palette. It's not just whichever color you like or your favorite color, but it's actually what message am I trying to convey to the user and then picking an appropriate color.


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[Assistant] Now usually you're not just going to be using a single color for your design. You're probably going to be using two or three.


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[Assistant] So at some point, you have to think about which different colors to combine. And this is probably the most scientific part of color theory.


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[Assistant] Now very often, designers will rely on scientific ways of combining colours. For example, taking two colours that are right next to each other on the colour wheel.


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[Assistant] And this way you create what's called an analogous color palette. And these designs look incredibly harmonious and they really work well together. So this color palette can be really good for things like navigation bars and the body of your website or things like a logo and its background.


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[Assistant] Now, what it's not so good at, though, is standing out. If you really want your design to pop, you're better off taking two colours from opposite ends of the colour wheel, creating what's called a complementary colour palette, or a clashing palette. Now, this complementary colour palette really creates that


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[Assistant] And it really brings out each of the colors.


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[Assistant] So the next time you go to a supermarket, I want you to take a look at The Meat Isle and see if they've used this complementary color palette to make things pop.


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[Assistant] And because the green and the red are complementary colors, it makes the red meat pop out a lot more and gives you this idea of freshness, even if it's, you know, a little bit past the best dates.


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[Assistant] But what you shouldn't do with clashing colors or complementary colors is to try to style text and text background with it. Because it actually looks very, very jarring. And you can feel your eyes sort of getting a little bit fuzzy looking at this particular combination.


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[Assistant] So don't do this when it concerns text. Instead, keep it to things like logos or icons or things that you really, really want to stand out from each other.


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[Assistant] Now, there's a lot of other ways that you can combine colors, like drawing an equilateral triangle to create a triadic color palette or drawing a perfect square.


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[Assistant] Now, if you want to, you can head over to a website called Adobe Color, which lets you mess around with all of these different color combinations. So select a triadic color palette or a square color palette, and then drag it around the color wheel so that you get different combinations of colors.


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[Assistant] And once you come across a palette that fits the mood of your project, then you can pick the hex codes and just put them straight into your website.


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[Assistant] Now, if all of that sounded like it was a little bit too much work, then I got you covered. You can also use a website called colorhunt.co. This is a website where professional designers have curated some of their favorite color palettes, and you can nap the hex codes straight off the website.


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[Assistant] So take a look at the hot and popular sections of this website and use it to guide the palette scheme for your next project.


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[Assistant] Now, when you create a website that has a beautiful, consistent color scheme, like the one for the Lieber yogurt, you can see how much it makes the design stand out, and it becomes really colorful and really playful, and you can convey different messages using your choice of colors and your color scheme.


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[Assistant] So think about your color choice and your color palette the next time you design your website to make sure that it's consistent with what your brand is about and what your product is about and it conveys the message you want to convey.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, I guess bombs are part of Willy's getaway plan.


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[Assistant] Good news is, they were Willie's last line of defense. I'm right outside his office.


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[Assistant] Writing your memoirs? Don't forget the hyphen between spider and man.


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[Assistant] You do know I can still see you, right? Years of this insolence.


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[Assistant] That was a disaster. How could the dampener have failed? I know Doc said take the day off, but I have to figure out what went wrong.


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[Assistant] Ooh, you are in bad shape little guy. Let's see what's wrong with you.


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[Assistant] Doc's been testing new materials for the prosthetics. He asked me to review his work if I had time. He's well dig in now.


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[Assistant] Hydrogel polymer composite. Strong, but there's a lot of impedance. Better tell Doc to keep looking for other materials.


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[Assistant] Alright, I should get outta here before I screw things up for Doc even more.


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[Assistant] Ah, joining Scorpion, Electro, and the rest. Fisk should be honored. That's a esteemed company.


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[Assistant] Fair enough. So, why'd you call? Need a date to the policeman's ball?


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[Assistant] Sure, but just so you know, I had to sync up with the tower to fix it. I'm seeing all crime data in the area now. Looks like there's a break-in happening near me.


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[Assistant] I'm sure you can, but just in case, there's a place called the Feast Center.


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[Assistant] It's Spider-Man. Hello. Should be able to spot the next tower from up there.


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[Assistant] We'll all drink tonight, Yuri. Drink to the memory of Spider Cop's tireless... Yuri? Yuri, you there? Guess the emotion of the moment overwhelmed her.


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[Assistant] Not good. Can't have people taking pictures of my three chest hairs.


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[Assistant] Wish I could bottle and sell that man's optimism. Sounds like he's left the lab for the day. Good time to work on my suit in private.


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[Assistant] Looks like Doc's gone for the night. Time to sneak in some spider work.


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[Assistant] When we rendered the HTML page of our CV, one of the components is an image tag.


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[Assistant] And it has a image file that it needs to render.


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[Assistant] But it looks pretty broken when you rendered our HTML. So if we go ahead and open up the Chrome developer tool.


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[Assistant] Which is under view developer and developer tools.


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[Assistant] Then if we go to console, you'll see that we actually get a bunch of 404 errors and they relate to the styles.css file as well as the angela.png file. That is what this is referring to.


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[Assistant] And you can actually see we get the same 404 errors when we look at the debug log in here as well.


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[Assistant] So we're missing some stuff basically. Well, firstly, let's see if we can recover it. We can go ahead and save this image from the website, which I'll just call Angela.png.


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[Assistant] Now in my case, my image actually happens to be a circular one.


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[Assistant] Which I edited in Photoshop, but you might just have a square one and it doesn't matter at all.


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[Assistant] Now that we've got our image inside our project, how do we make sure that that image actually gets rendered in our HTML site? Because here is the image tag.


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[Assistant] And it's looking inside Angela's personal site files for angela.png, which is not what we have here.


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[Assistant] In fact, if we had moved this PNG file to the same folder,


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[Assistant] So they're on the same hierarchy, basically inside the same folder.


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[Assistant] Well then we could probably just change this to angela.png.


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[Assistant] If I go ahead and restart and rerun my server after I've added in all these files,


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[Assistant] And I go to my personal site and I hit reload, you'll see that there's still no photo. So why is that? Well, back to the flash documentation we go.


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[Assistant] The reason is because just like our templates have to be inside a folder called templates, Flask will look for all your static files like your images or your CSS files inside a folder called static. So you have to put it inside a folder called static.


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[Assistant] They made the framework, they make the rules. So inside our project, my personal site, let's create a new directory called static and let's move our image into that static folder.


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[Assistant] Now inside our angela.html, when we want to point to that image,


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[Assistant] Then the path is going to be static forward slash the name of the file inside that folder, which in my case is angela.png.


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[Assistant] Now if I go ahead and rerun my application,


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[Assistant] Then go back to my homepage and refresh. You should see that image being rendered.


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[Assistant] It was able to look inside the static folder and find that image.


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[Assistant] Whenever you create a Flask application, nine out of 10 times, you'll need to create it with the templates folder and the static folder.


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[Assistant] And you put all your static files like your CSS files or your images or your videos inside that folder and your file path is relative to that folder.


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[Assistant] And then when you create your HTML templates, you're going to put it inside the templates folder.


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[Assistant] Now going back to my project, I'm going to delete all the extra files that we created just now in the demo.


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[Assistant] And I should now only end up with my index.html, which is our simple website.


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[Assistant] Now the reason why I want to keep it simple is just so that you really understand everything from the ground up.


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[Assistant] And the challenge I've got for you is to go ahead and create a CSS style sheet.


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[Assistant] And then using the style sheet, change the background of the body of this index.html website to purple. That's the goal. You're going to have to change the server.py. You're going to have to change the index.html and you're going to have to create a CSS file.


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[Assistant] Pause the video and see if you can complete this challenge.


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[Assistant] All right. The first thing we're going to do is create a CSS file. That is going to be a static file. We're going to create it inside the static folder.


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[Assistant] The body of my website, so the body tag.


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[Assistant] When it's run is going to target this body tag.


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[Assistant] Which is basically the body of our website and hopefully it's going to turn the background purple.


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[Assistant] Now in order for that CSS to work though, we're going to have to add it into the head of our HTML file.


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[Assistant] Just as we've done it thousands of times before when we did the lessons on CSS and HTML.


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[Assistant] In order to add that in, we're going to create a link element.


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[Assistant] Which is going to have a relationship.


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[Assistant] Now the relationship is going to be a stylesheet. So it's basically telling the HTML file that this link points to a stylesheet and then the href of the stylesheet is going to be inside static forward slash styles dot css.


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[Assistant] Now let's go ahead and save both of these files and go back to our server and make sure that we're rendering that HTML template, which is index.html.


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[Assistant] And now if we go ahead and stop and restart this project so that it takes into account all the new files and then we go to our homepage, hopefully it should show you a page that has a purple background like you see here.


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[Assistant] Now one of the things you have to be careful about Chrome is that it likes to cache your static files. So what does this mean? Well, let's go back to the style.css and I'm going to change that background color to red.


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[Assistant] Now I'm going to hit save on this file. I'm even going to stop and rerun my file, but you can see if I refresh this page, it's still purple. And if I go into the Chrome Developer Tools,


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[Assistant] And we take a look at our elements. You can see that the body still has CSS saying that the background color should be purple.


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[Assistant] If we go to the sources inside the static folder, there's our styles.css and you can see this is an older version of our style sheet. So what's going on? Is it because we didn't save this change? No, we definitely saved it.


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[Assistant] What's actually happening is that to save your internet usage, Chrome likes to cache the style sheets and other static files. So images or JavaScript.


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[Assistant] And the reason why it does that is because when you visit a website, if you're visiting it on the same day, these static files are unlikely to change. A website is unlikely to update their CSS or their images over one day.


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[Assistant] So once the browser downloads it, it keeps hold of those static files. This just means that you don't have to keep downloading these large files every single time you hit up the same website.


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[Assistant] That's kind of good if we are in fact visiting a real live website. But when we're testing, it's a little bit confusing.


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[Assistant] So one of the things you have to do is you have to get Chrome to hard reload.


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[Assistant] And clicking on this refresh button, which is going to do a hard reload and it's going to get rid of all the cached files and pull in any new files. So now the background changes to red.


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[Assistant] And we can confirm that by, let's change this to blue, hit save on that file.


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[Assistant] Holding down shift, reload and we get the blue background updating.


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[Assistant] So that's just something to be careful about when you find that your CSS files or your other static files are not being changed or not being rendered.


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[Assistant] Hmm, someone left me a voicemail. Numbers blocked though.


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[Assistant] She packs those with range extenders, then harvests nearby RFID signals. I'll let Yuri know to pick it up.


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[Assistant] Maybe. Just double check and let me know if her gear is still there. Will do.


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[Assistant] Actually, no, not really. I hate to ask, but any chance you have room at the shelter?


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[Assistant] I know. Even Shocker's a part of it. Got roped into running jobs for the demons.


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[Assistant] That'd be bad enough. Hope it's not something worse.


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[Assistant] I can't believe I haven't slept since the Fisk takedown. Gotta start taking better care of myself.


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[Assistant] Understood. I'll do a swing by and let you know what I find. And hey, here's a tip on public speaking. Just picture everyone in their underwear. Wait, not Osborne. You know what, just nevermind.


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[Assistant] Nice jumpsuit. Slimming.


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[Assistant] This is your master plan? Replace Fisk? Fisk is only not repeating!


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[Assistant] Something's not right about it. I just don't know what.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, if I knew how to do it. How do I do that?


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[Assistant] If you first look at the sheet, I want to make sure we are using culture in the same way. Culture is not something what you decide about. Culture is something that is already there because of the history of a group or an individual's learning over their entire life span from the prior experiences that have worked


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[Assistant] That have made you who you are, that have made the company who it is in solving its problems of external getting along in the environment.


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[Assistant] And solving its internal problems of integration.


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[Assistant] Strategy, tactics, ways of operating, how you're organized.


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[Assistant] That's mostly the external survival stuff.


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[Assistant] The trouble is, most culture analyses


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[Assistant] Only deal with the second half, the interpersonal stuff, and forget that the way in which you conceive of your company.


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[Assistant] The identity of the company, its branding, its strategy, all of that has a history as well. And your current culture will be the product of all your successes in the past in how your organization is functioned. So in a mature organization, your culture is what you're stuck with. It's not what you would like or what you want to impose.


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[Assistant] It's what you're stuck with and that can be analyzed at three levels. You can look at the artifacts. Digital was an open environment, high communication kind of organization and you could see that in all sorts of


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[Assistant] The way the architecture was, the open offices, there were even, uh, there was a time in the mill out in Maynard,


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[Assistant] Where Ken Olson said there will be no doors on the offices of engineers.


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[Assistant] Because at the same time I was consulting with Seba Geige, where doors were


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[Assistant] And you say, well, why do, why does digital have no doors? And why does Siba Gaigi have these heavy doors?


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[Assistant] And they will give you then their espoused values. They will tell you, well, we believe in communication.


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[Assistant] And to communicate, you have to be very, uh, accessible to each other. Say the people are digital.


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[Assistant] So our value of communication creates these kinds of artifacts. And then you go to Sabagagi and say, why? Why do you have all these heavy doors?


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[Assistant] And say, well, we believe in very good thinking and decision making because in our industry, clear thinking and research and so on are important. And you can't get that work done if you're constantly being upset and, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, people running in on you, so you have to have privacy. So, two successful companies at the time.


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[Assistant] With totally opposite espoused values about how to work. They both say this is how we work. But why do they have such different values, espoused values around work? That tells you you have to look at one level deeper. You have to look at the assumptions about work.


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[Assistant] To see why they evolve so differently. And so you look at digital and you say to them


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[Assistant] We're developing desktop computers that people can interact with.


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[Assistant] And that is so new, and nobody knows what will work, that we have to really debate it out. We're all creative electrical engineers, so we have to argue, and if we aren't available to each other, we can't argue.


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[Assistant] The mothers of arguments, they were constantly fighting and debating and arguing because in the end they said truth comes through conflict. Truth comes through debate.


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[Assistant] It's sort of the academic model. You know, professors argue all the time because only the idea that can't be shot down must be good enough to pursue. Okay? So, DEC had the assumption of truth through conflict, truth through debate, and that fitted their technology


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[Assistant] Why they had the open office architecture. You go to see Begaygi and say why, tell me again why the doors are closed.


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[Assistant] And they would look at you patiently like you were an idiot and say, look, we're doing chemistry and chemical engineering.


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[Assistant] Chemistry is a very hierarchical science.


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[Assistant] It's not a matter of debate whether you should put these two liquids together. Because if you make a mistake,


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[Assistant] And for that purpose you need privacy and thought so that you can really figure out what to do. You don't need a lot of debate if you have a question.


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[Assistant] You go to the most senior researcher, the most creative.


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[Assistant] Uh, able chemists and you ask them what to do and they will give you the answer.


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[Assistant] So where communication in digital was debate, in Sibigagi it was information. You go only when you don't know something.


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[Assistant] So, the point is, you don't understand a culture until you understand this level of the culture's operation. You can see all this stuff, but you don't get it. You have to be at this level to really get it. Questions about that way of defining it? That clear?


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[Assistant] So now notice, if you as a naive entrepreneur say, I want to have a culture of such and so, you can say that till you're blue in the face, but that doesn't make it happen. So when Ken Olson says,


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[Assistant] Above all else I want to invent new forms of computing. How does he go about doing that?


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[Assistant] And the steps are rather obvious if you think about it logically. First of all, it's whom you hire.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna process my interviews through some kind of a filter.


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[Assistant] So you have to be very careful when you hire somebody.


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[Assistant] To think about your own values that you're trying to impose and see how you can determine whether the persons you hire in fact fit those values.


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[Assistant] Unless you decide you deliberately want diversity because you think that'll be better.


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[Assistant] But the act of hiring your immediate subordinates is your single most important culture creation decision. Is that clear? So it can't be made lightly or whom you partner with. There were some very interesting


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[Assistant] Stories about the early biotech companies where there would be big fights.


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[Assistant] Between, among the top management team, particularly between the biological entrepreneur and the managerial entrepreneur around time management.


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[Assistant] The managerial person had a assumption about time, that time should be managed to fit the marketplace.


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[Assistant] So there's going to be an opportunity for this new drug or whatever.


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[Assistant] To, to really clean up if we get it out in six months.