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[Assistant] Just a few days before Jo was to leave, she received a letter from Beth telling her about Meg's pregnancy.


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[Assistant] Coincidentally, it was the professor who delivered the mail to Joe that day, so she shared the good news with him.


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[Assistant] For some reason the idea of Meg getting married had been hard for Joe to accept, but news that she was going to have a little niece or nephew completely thrilled her. You like children, don't you? the professor asked, nodding enthusiastically Joe said.


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[Assistant] Joe remembered the strange look that the professor had given her when she made that comment. He said,


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[Assistant] Now as Joe sat packing her bags, she wondered what her dreams were and how they had changed in these past few months. A light knock on the door broke into her thoughts.


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[Assistant] Joe called out trying to clear some space among all her belongings scattered everywhere.


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[Assistant] Will your bag be able to hold one more small item?


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[Assistant] Inside was a leather notebook with her initials on the cover.


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[Assistant] When I saw the girls sewing, I knew these stitches belonged to you, he said.


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[Assistant] I hope we will meet again too much, the professor said with feeling as he held out his hand. Smiling as she took his hand, Joe said.


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[Assistant] The following day she and Atmarque were heading toward their next destination, Italy.


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[Assistant] Amy could hardly sleep that night because she had dreamt about visiting Italy since she was a little girl.


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[Assistant] She thought, thinking of her long-standing dream to see that beautiful country.


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[Assistant] But Amy had changed in many other ways, as she was learning on this trip to Europe.


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[Assistant] Reflecting on the relationship between Aunt Marge and Amy's own family, Amy appreciated the worth of close family ties and the values her parents had taught her.


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[Assistant] She concluded that it was love not money that bonded people closely. That was why she could not marry Fred.


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[Assistant] She didn't love him, much to the disappointment of Aunt Marge.


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[Assistant] In Jo's eyes though much had changed during her absence, most notably Beth.


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[Assistant] She looked thinner, paler and lifeless. A total contrast from the sunny happy girl in Joe's memory.


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[Assistant] When Joe told her mother her worries, mother shook her head and just said,


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[Assistant] Early the next morning Joe decided to brave the cold and took her new leather notebook and extra sweater to the pond behind their house. She was looking forward to having a private moment to reflect upon her trip, but when she got to the lake someone was already there.


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[Assistant] I walk down here most mornings, he said adding. You don't know everything about me.


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[Assistant] Joe said trying to change the subject because she felt uneasy tension between them.


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[Assistant] So do I, Joe, Laurie said quietly, as he stared at her for a long time.


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[Assistant] Joe began, thinking she knew what he was about to say but not wanting him to say it.


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[Assistant] Because once it came out, their friendship would never be the same.


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[Assistant] I went back to college and, by the way, you'll be happy to know that I received the highest marks in my class and will graduate with honors.


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[Assistant] Congratulating him, Joe prayed she would be able to say a few words before Lori went on, but he continued as if he didn't hear her.


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[Assistant] From the first day I met you, all those years ago, until this very moment, my feelings for you have never changed, and they never will," he said passionately. Taking her hand, Laurie said,


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[Assistant] Feeling as though her heart was being broken Joe somehow found the strength to say what she could no longer hold back.


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[Assistant] Laurie bowed his head, his face crushed with pain.


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[Assistant] Said Joe to her dearest friend in the most brutal yet truthful words.


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[Assistant] But I've noticed that whenever I mention her name or talk about something to do with Jo,


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[Assistant] You either change the subject or avoid the topic altogether.


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[Assistant] There is so much more for someone clever like you to do in this world. Money isn't everything, Theodore Lawrence.


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[Assistant] But don't do it around me because I won't stand for it.


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[Assistant] I've seen graffiti on New York subways that would put that to shame.


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[Assistant] You got pants that need to be altered? Oh, hey Chandler, when you see Frankie, tell him Julie Tribbiani says hello. He'll know what it means.


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[Assistant] I think it's time for us to depart this place as well.


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[Assistant] Enjoying yourself? Jane, what are you doing? I was-


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[Assistant] Oh Jane, I'm sorry. I, I didn't mean to ring for my breakfast. I was just wondering who all those people were at the back door. Wasn't anything.


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[Assistant] Just that nosy Mrs. Bates going on about your picture last night. Oh really? Did she like it? Oh really? Did she like it?


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[Assistant] You must too, 1934, right after I did Moon Glow. I made a picture that year too. Oh yes, it was that comedy directed by Lloyd, wasn't it? No it wasn't, it was a love story. The longest night. Martin and MacDonald said it was the best thing I ever did. They never even released it in the United States.


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[Assistant] They were too busy giving a big build up to that crap you were turning up.


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't think it does her any real harm. I think I understand her. Oh, you do, huh? Well, then you ought to take a look at this.


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[Assistant] But they've been open. That's right. They all have. And there's one in here marked personal.


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[Assistant] The other night, my husband and I watched that lovely old movie of yours, Last Honeymoon. I remember saying to my husband at the time that seeing you again was just like meeting an old friend. Oh, that's charming. That's really charming. The point is, you never saw them before, did you? No. I thought that. I'm sorry, I thought you ought to know. But I...


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[Assistant] I don't understand. Where'd they come from? Where'd you find them? In the trash barrel, that's where.


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[Assistant] They're from that television station that's been running your old movies, aren't they?


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[Assistant] Don't let them know what you're against.


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[Assistant] You have your mother's name When you came into the world you cried And it broke my heart


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[Assistant] Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?


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[Assistant] Between the sinners and the saints it takes and it takes and it takes history obliterates and every picture it paints


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[Assistant] My name is Mary Alice Yang. My name is Mary Alice Yang. Mary Alice is her first name. Yang is her last name.


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[Assistant] Normally, there's never anything newsworthy about my life. Normally, there is. There's.


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[Assistant] But Donald Trump's life is newsworthy. Normally,


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[Assistant] Something is very good. Something is quite good. Something is nice. Something is very nice. Something is quite nice. Of course, everything seems


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[Assistant] I ran my errands. Ran my errands. Ran my errands. Wrong one's errands.


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[Assistant] Ah, not really. I've got some errands to do. I have to run my errands. I have some personal stuff to do, to deal with. Run my errands. I ran my errands. So here we go.


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[Assistant] I spend a day as I spend every other day. In truth means in fact.


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[Assistant] I spend the day as I spend every other day. The day happened in the past.


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[Assistant] For example, I used to polish my bicycle every day and take really good care of it. Polishing the routine, polishing the routine of my life.


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[Assistant] When I decided to go to my hallway closet, hallway closet.


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[Assistant] Retrieve a revolver, retrieve a revolver. Retrieve means get something back. Retrieve my money, get my money back. Retrieve a revolver, revolver.


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[Assistant] Do you know how hard it is to lead? You're on your own! Awesome! Wow! Do you have a clue what happens now? Oceans rise!


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[Assistant] So what did I miss? What did I miss?


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[Assistant] I go ahead and I uhm, take a piece of paper from my spell book, and I take a piece of charcoal, and I just scroll over top of it.


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[Assistant] You might even think that her social awkwardness due to her sheltered upbringing is kind of sweet.


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[Assistant] Of course, it would be unwise to underestimate her based on first impressions.


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[Assistant] Under that unintimidating petite frame is a vicious beast waiting to be unleashed, whose natural powers have made even the fiercest of champions pee their pants. Literally.


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[Assistant] Born to the Air Tribe of the Ashari people, Keyleth was raised with a deep love of nature and the elemental magics.


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[Assistant] It is her people's inherent duty to protect the delicate areas in Tal'Dorei, where the four elemental planes begin to bleed with this run.


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[Assistant] If you consider kittens and flying squirrels to be little beasts, which I do. Anyways.


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[Assistant] It wasn't long before the headmaster of the tribe, her father, Corrin, realized her true prodigious abilities, and she was inveterated to succeed him as the next headmaster.


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[Assistant] When her father felt she was ready, he set her on the path to truly discovering herself, not knowing when or if she will ever return. As she hiked down the mountain towards Stillben, she meditated on the task ahead.


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[Assistant] Mr. President, you asked to see me. I know you're busy.


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[Assistant] Hello grammarians, David here, along with my cousin Beth, who also happens to be a teacher. Say hello to the people, Beth.


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[Assistant] So today we are going to talk about sentence fragments, and Beth, you cover these in classes that you teach. Could you tell me please, what is a sentence fragment?


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[Assistant] The way I would put it is that a fragment is a piece of a sentence that cannot stand on its own, but nevertheless, incorrectly ends with a period.


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[Assistant] It could be a sentence, but it's missing something. Beth, what is it missing? What is the whole story missing?


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[Assistant] And now we've got our subject here, the whole story, and now we've given it a predicate. Similarly, if we just had this predicate, and we just said it began ten years ago, well,


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[Assistant] That's not enough to be a sentence either. That's also a fragment. Because now we've got a predicate, but no subject.


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[Assistant] So in order to be a sentence, you need to have both a subject and predicate. So you need to have a thing, like a noun or a pronoun, and then you have to have something happen to that


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[Assistant] Noun or pronoun or something performed by that noun or pronoun.


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[Assistant] Let's look at another example. Alright, what about because of the snowstorm? Is that a sentence, Beth?


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[Assistant] So, this is what we'd call not even a, I mean, it's not even a dependent clause, right? It, this thing doesn't have, uhm, doesn't really have a subject or a verb. It's, it's really just a prepositional phrase. So, because of the snowstorm, something could happen, but we don't know what that is, so.


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[Assistant] Because of the snowstorm, we stayed home from school. So we've got this, this sentence here, this independent clause, right? We stayed home from school. And that's a subject and a predicate.


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[Assistant] And if it were just, stayed home from school, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. And if it were just, we, period, that also wouldn't be a sentence.


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[Assistant] And if it were just, because of the snowstorm, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. Uh, it doesn't have enough support to stand on its own. But, altogether, because of the snowstorm, comma, we stayed home from school, period, that is a sentence.


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[Assistant] So, in order to make sure that you're building sentences, you have to make sure that what you've got is a subject and a predicate. You've gotta have a subject and a verb, put them together, slap on a period, you've got a sentence.


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[Assistant] I'll be organizing that thought in a file in my head labeled Don't Open Ever.


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[Assistant] Not that bad. I was hired to organize some papers, not clean up Katrina.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's not get overwhelmed. We'll take it one step at a time. Let's start small.


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[Assistant] I'll be organizing that thought in a file in my head labeled Don't Open Ever.


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[Assistant] Hi, Caroline, we spoke yesterday. There's a lot more to organize here than you led me to believe on the phone, so we're gonna have to renegotiate our price.


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[Assistant] I'll be organizing that thought in a file in my head labeled Don't Open Ever.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's not get overwhelmed. We'll take it one step at a time. Let's start small.


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[Assistant] Left them with the curse of the last name Trickfoot. Sarenrae, the goddess of healing and redemption, had other plans for Pike's great-great-grandfather Wilhand, who left his family at a young age after a dream. A dream that changed the course of the Trickfoot family. Wilhand devoted his life to Sarenrae.


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[Assistant] As a child, Pike seemed to have an affinity to heal. Whether it was animals, people, or even flowers.


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[Assistant] She felt she had a purpose in making things whole that had once been broken.


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[Assistant] She lived a peaceful life. Quiet and simple. Until one day...


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[Assistant] Wilhand was captured and almost killed by a group of Goliath barbarians.


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[Assistant] One of the goliaths took a stand against the murder of the innocent gnome.


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[Assistant] And he himself was beaten, bloodied, and left for dead, abandoned by his herd. Wilhand went to Pike for help. She prayed and healed this barbarian as best she could, bringing him back to life. When he awoke, she discovered his name was Grog Stonejaw.


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[Assistant] After that, they were the best of friends. A rather unlikely pair. Little did she know that in a few years time, Rob would soon return the favor and bring her back from the clutches of death.


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[Assistant] After being killed in battle, Pike felt angry. She wanted to be stronger so that it would never happen again. She spent four months at sea.


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[Assistant] Training with the men and women aboard a ship called the Broken Howl. Gripping her holy symbol in one hand, and her morning star in the other. This time, Pike is ready.


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[Assistant] She studied and learned the ways to heal through divine magic. She lived a peaceful life, quiet and simple.


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[Assistant] Until one day, Wilhand was captured and almost killed by a group of goliath barbarians.


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[Assistant] And he himself was beaten, bloodied, and left for dead, abandoned by his herd. Wilhand went to Pike for help. She prayed and healed this barbarian as best she could, bringing him back to life. When he awoke, she discovered his name was Grog Stonejaw.


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[Assistant] After that, they were the best of friends, a rather unlikely pair. Little did she know that in a few years time, Grog would soon return the favor and bring her back from the clutches of death.


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[Assistant] I want him to be able to marry the person that he loves. Be happy. Have all the rights that we all have. It's as simple as that.


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[Assistant] Let me see here. Where to start. Well, my name is Takenaka. Asahiro Takenaka. Now, perhaps you can tell me your name? What's the point? Why do you need to know my name? It just doesn't seem right for you to remain nameless, that's all. But have it your way. No big deal. It really doesn't bother me. I'll just call you brother instead.


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[Assistant] I'm actually from Adachi myself. Do you go to Shinjuku a lot? Uuuh, is the Etoile still there? I love that place. And how about the Nichigeki Theater? Well, I...


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[Assistant] I remember after a demonstration we had at the JNR, I went there to see Yakuza Cop. You ever hear of it? It's a classic.


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[Assistant] That was right after we went head to head with the riot police. Wolves right in there with my helmet on and my club at my side. I tell you, it sure was good to be, uhm... Do you miss it? Do you miss living in Japan? Let me ask you something instead. Why would a guy like you want to cross this dangerous bridge? Well, I doubt it's for the money.


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[Assistant] Not a lot of folks would choose this life. These days, Japan's full to the brim with petit bourgeois. If you ask me, bro...


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[Assistant] The truth is, you and I are both outsiders from that country. Neither of us really fit in there anymore. You know...


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[Assistant] Bro, you don't know the half of it. When I left Japan, it was cause I gambled everything I had.


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[Assistant] Non-activism and the concept of permanent worldwide revolution.


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[Assistant] There's a story. I heard it a long time ago. It's about a man who came to a city. Went to a street corner. And all alone, he began speaking.


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[Assistant] Even as he aged with not a single soul left listening to him, he continued all the same.


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[Assistant] Then one day, a child who was walking by stopped and asked him a question. Why do you continue preaching when there's nobody here? And this is how the man answered. In the beginning, I thought I could change everyone. Then I realized that it was a hopeless dream. The reason I won't stop preaching... And brother, the reason I won't stop fighting is...


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[Assistant] Well, it seems that you and I really are different after all. It's a shame. Takenaka, how badly do you think we should hurt him? It won't be necessary. He's not a soldier, just a delivery boy. He has no reason to be loyal. Leave him alone and he'll talk. And if he still hasn't talked to us by morning, well we are soldiers after all, we'll hold a military tribunal and send him to the firing squad.


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[Assistant] Who knows, if we're lucky she might just come waltzing in here to save him, right?


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[Assistant] Takenaka! Oh, you're here. Sorry, but something's bothering me.


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[Assistant] Whatever happened with the team we sent into the city, have we heard from them? What?


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[Assistant] Now how long has it been since the search party left? They haven't reported back.


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[Assistant] That's because the surveillance team at the government camp, that woman hasn't been found anywhere. Makes you wonder where is she?


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[Assistant] Oh, hello! Mr. Ken, what a coincidence! Uh, how's life for the family man? Was the vacation worth the travel? Oh, we really had a great time. How about you?


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[Assistant] Always the next time. Till I die, there will always be a next time. Uh, before you go, what is it you do for a living? My job? Let's see. Yeah, it's clear to me now. My job is to be an enemy of the state.


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[Assistant] Rock's a tight-lipped guy. He wouldn't talk even if they put him in front of a firing squad. Let's move in at sunset. You ready, Changlish?


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[Assistant] If you promise to behave yourself a little bit longer, sweetie pie, I'll even buy you some cotton candy.


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[Assistant] California does allow you to become, uh, domestic partners, correct? Yes. And uhm, you and Mr. Zerillo have not done that, correct?


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[Assistant] Uhm, don't you think that would be a step towards validating your relationship?


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[Assistant] So an example if we're not gonna have parallel structure would be something like the cake was baked, frosted, and I put sprinkles on it.


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[Assistant] Convertible is a car without roof. Expensive and luxury. See? I'm saying, hey, I'm a good husband. I bought my wife a convertible. But you, so.


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[Assistant] Can you just, you know, work some interesting thoughts or some interesting stories into your speech? Try to make a sentence. Five, four, three, two, one.


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[Assistant] Work that in means casually mention how much you paid me for that necklace. There is no way. There's no way.


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[Assistant] Actually, in western country, people talk about sex on the table. When they're eating, when they're dating, when they are having lunch, dinner, family dinner.


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[Assistant] The athletes, the sportsmen, the team, right? Yankee Outfield. There will be like 10s of the players, the baseball players. That means the players of Yankee. Think about that. They are athletes.


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[Assistant] Whisper, whisper. What can you do? I'm whisper. I can talk to you.


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[Assistant] Buy lots of fruit please mum. Strawberries, raspberries and apples.


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[Assistant] I'm Whisper. I can talk to you. How can I help?


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[Assistant] Okay Monty, but we will need some good games. Yeaah, games, ha.


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[Assistant] Don't whisper his surprise. Eh, uh, oh, whisper, just a go.


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[Assistant] My mate, uh, loves a coconut. But, uh, I can't reach. Uh, can you help?


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[Assistant] Oh, Otis, now look what you've done! I'm sorry, it's just that I can't wait for the pot! Shh, Otis! Don't worry, I know someone who can get it for us. Close your eyes. Go, Garry, go!


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[Assistant] Monty, have you seen Garty and Otis? No, I definitely haven't seen them, or anyone else for that matter. But, uh, I do need a horse. A horse? Yea, you know, glibity-glop.


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[Assistant] Monty's arranging a surprise party, and I'm waiting for his friend.


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[Assistant] You've probably guessed by now that my special mate is you, Whisper. You're always here to help us. And we wanted to have a party to say thank you for being our very best friend.


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[Assistant] Whisper, whisper. What can you do? I'm whisper. I can talk to you.


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[Assistant] She said I have to wait, but I've waited so long. Let's put a smile back on your face. How?


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[Assistant] We'll play a game, a guess the friend game. I love guessing two friends. One is very tall, she doesn't like to bend. The other has feathers and says, oh man, go to notice.


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[Assistant] Yes! This friend likes it hot and sandy. It's quick on his feet.


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[Assistant] And has a big family. Uhm, crusty cockroaches. I know, there's Monty. Right again.


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[Assistant] Someone's missing. He's a friend who's hard to hide, but big and strong enough to ride.


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[Assistant] And now I know just what to give her to make it super special. Thanks to all of you.


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[Assistant] Oh, thanks guys. Mom, I made you a card mom. Oh, Whisper, it's lovely. Look inside.


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[Assistant] Declared that because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Now, the judge stayed his ruling from going into effect, so there'll be no gay marriages in California. Just yet, this case is headed for an appeal. Diane, no question.


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[Assistant] Max, it feels like you want me to be depressed about the holidays. No, no, I'm just saying that it's okay for you not to be-


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[Assistant] Max, it feels like you want me to be depressed about the holidays. No, no, I'm just saying that it's okay for you not to be all up and everything around me if you're not feeling it. It's alright to let your dark side out.


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[Assistant] But there's positive movement as well. Italy and Poland have come over to our side. We need to speak to Zero as soon as he returns.


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[Assistant] If that's in the car, we'll place him in the dressing room.


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[Assistant] Sometimes we have more than one body in the dressing room when we're holding, uhm, Tupapuku here over a long period of time.


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[Assistant] Mr. Albert. This is Mrs. Haver. Mrs. Haver. This is Mr. Albert.


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[Assistant] Naturally we introduced them, it's only right if they were alive, we would do that and because they're now passed away, we'll still introduce them because we believe their wairui were still here.


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[Assistant] At the moment, and he's going to be with us for two weeks.


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[Assistant] It's pretty normal. It was organised to make sure it suits everyone so they can fly together.


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[Assistant] So we won't need to, uh, strap his feet with, uh, leg straps because we need to, um, hemorrhatically seal his body and we'll do that before he goes on to his flight, eh hun?


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[Assistant] See what I really want is a line along there. So hopefully over the next few days it'll turn into a crease so that it stays in that spot.


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[Assistant] Today is, it's been a big day, a big Monday. Typical of a Monday to be honest. Who put this on?


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[Assistant] I see a casket hasn't been trimmed properly. Flicky, how come this one's got no rolls?


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[Assistant] Let's just step to the side, and we'll just let Fuliki put some rolls on Eho. The side sits wrong, so we need to put it on again.


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[Assistant] Yes, so important, it's community, uh, it's public relations.


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[Assistant] Mr Sisi Kefu has been with us for about two weeks, and he is looking amazing, like the first day he came in here. We are happy now that he's on his final journey home. So all of these are going with him, in the casket. Okay, just remind us.


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[Assistant] Now we need to hermetically seal Mr Sisi Kefu in his casket, so we'll do that.


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[Assistant] We've just received a phone call about a young man who was involved in a car accident. He survived the crash but has just passed away in hospital.


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[Assistant] Been through a lot eh? Surprisingly, he looks okay. Not exactly like the photo, but considering what he's been through, he looks okay.


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[Assistant] It's been two days since they've last seen or been with him. He's been in the coroner's care so we just want to bring them together to holo to reconnect the whanau so they can be together. Who's coming to dress? His mother. His grandmother.


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[Assistant] They're able to embrace and hold and touch their loved one. It's special for them.


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[Assistant] I don't know the exact circumstances surrounding Zion's death.


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[Assistant] I'd love Nourna to join us with the personal training with Gabes, but she goes for walks.


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[Assistant] I have been avoiding my personal trainer because it's too hard.


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[Assistant] I was thinking if you come over at, uhm, 12.


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[Assistant] That'll be good, that'll give us enough time to prepare both emotionally and physically.


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[Assistant] Scotty is gonna be... He's gonna be... This is, he's gonna, this is gonna kill him. Like...


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[Assistant] Now when you come to park, park down the road, because we'll have, we've got families coming in, so that'll give you a bit of a kilometre warm up when you walk to the office.


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[Assistant] And look at what Scotty has to carry in terms of his own weight. It's... gee.


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[Assistant] The hospital have returned that part of the skull to us, and now we're going to place it in the casket.


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[Assistant] With Zion, because it's important that he goes back to Papatūānuku in his full form. As he came into this world with his whole tēnana, he will leave this world with his whole tēnana.


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[Assistant] It's so devastating when someone so young passes away under circumstances like this.


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[Assistant] Life is like that, up and down and so we just gotta make sure we get back on the track. That's what your hair gives.


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[Assistant] And I'm glad he's been here and had a look. And I'm thankful for the session we had. And I will show him the way out.


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[Assistant] If it weren't for you, everybody would have known about my secret. Exactly. And it isn't just your secret anymore, brother. True. So, shall we destroy the Geass Order now?


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[Assistant] Good! Today we are going to talk about run-ons and comma splices.


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[Assistant] So a run-on sentence is what happens when two independent clauses are put together in one sentence without any punctuation or coordinating conjunctions like and, but, or. So, Rosie, what is a good example of a run-on sentence?


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[Assistant] Two individual, independent clauses. So we've got number one.


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[Assistant] We bought nails. Number two, we bought a hammer. Now there are a couple of different ways we could make this a legal sentence, but right now as it stands, this is a run-on, right?


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[Assistant] So this is a run-on sentence without this and and this comma and it's called that because it's sort of like a runaway train. You know, it doesn't have enough stoppage in it. That's how I would put it.


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[Assistant] So that's what a run on sentence is. Now I want to talk about comma splicing. And the word splice, not a super common term if you are neither a sailor or a film editor. Uhm, but splicing is a word that originally meant to take two ropes


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[Assistant] Untangle them and weave them back together. It's a sailors term related to rope lines. In our case, for grammar,


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[Assistant] A splice, a comma splice is an inappropriate joining of two independent clauses by using a comma, so.


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[Assistant] So, Rosie, this is Little Tony, Crime Fighting Pony. Right. So, for example, in this sentence, I love Little Tony 2, Pony Up to the Streets. It's my favorite movie in the Little Tony franchise. Very fine series of non-existent films.


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[Assistant] The problem with this sentence is that right now it's got this comma in the middle of it. And this comma inappropriately joins these two independent clauses. Oh, and this whole time


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[Assistant] Two independent clauses inappropriately joined by a comma. So, okay, so we've got independent clause number one. Remember, this thing could stand on its own as a sentence. I love the name of this movie. I love Little Tony Two, Pony Up to the Streets. That could be its own sentence on its own, ended with a period.


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[Assistant] Period. It's my favorite movie in the Little Tony franchise. Period.


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[Assistant] We have these two independent clauses, right? Uhm, we cannot join them with just a comma.


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[Assistant] We could say, I love Little Tony, Two Pony, Up to the Streets, comma, and it's my favorite movie in the Little Tony franchise, or as we did in the previous


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[Assistant] Uh, example, we could also throw in a semicolon, which is, I think, what I would rather do. I love Little Tony 2, Pony Up to the Streets, semicolon, it's my favorite movie in the Little Tony franchise. And, Rosie, you will notice that I have underlined these, uh, these titles.


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[Assistant] But okay, but for real, I would love to see like a little Tony crime fightin' pony.


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[Assistant] Uhm, when you're looking at a run-on, you're looking at two independent clauses that are together in one sentence that are joined inappropriately without punctuation or conjunctions.


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[Assistant] Uh, so we bought nails, we bought a hammer. There's, there's not really a place to know where the division between clauses is in that. Uh, and so the thing to do is to either, is to add some kind of, is to add a comma, uh, and some, and a conjunction.


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[Assistant] Or to combine them using a semicolon. Uh, the same deal with a comma splice. It's just that a comma splice is a run on that hasn't been fixed all the way.


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[Assistant] So, that is how you identify and fix run-ons and comma splices. You can learn anything. David out.


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[Assistant] You need more of this, like all of it. Can we have some more toro? Thank you so much. And, ah, sumimasen, mousukoshi otoro onegaishimasu.


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[Assistant] Alright Ross, look. You're feeling a lot of pain right now. You're angry. You're hurting. Can I tell you what the answer is? Strip joints!


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[Assistant] Okay, he is a plumber indeed. What do you do? Plumber.


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[Assistant] Mike is giving a sexual hint to Susan Meyer. How? If you ever have a clog in your pipes, in your toilet, in your kitchen, I can help.


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[Assistant] They go out for a date and they do sex and see if they can, you know.


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[Assistant] If the present tense of the verb to be is I am, then the subjunctive tense is if I, Joey,


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[Assistant] If the present tense of the verb to be is I am, then the subjunctive tense is if I.


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[Assistant] Okay, I think now's time for us to call the cops, yeah? Wait, wait, wait.


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[Assistant] So we know exactly what to say during the interrogation.


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[Assistant] Hello grammarians. Today I want to talk about one of the absolute thorniest issues in usage of English. And it's the difference between there, there, and there. And if you can't tell the difference from the way I'm saying it, that's because it's really confusing and evil.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that is why I am here, is to help you make a distinction between these three sound-alike words.


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[Assistant] Now, first of all, we have, there, t-h-e-r-e, which we're gonna use orange for, is an adverb, uh, and an adjective, and it's used to signify where something is. So the way to remember that this one is all about location is just to take the t and replace it with a w. The question is, where? The answer,


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[Assistant] Is there. So, have you been to Greece? Yes, I went there. I have not gone there. Have you seen my dog? Yes, there's my dog.


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[Assistant] So you ask the question, where did you go? I went there. Where is my dog? There is my dog.


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[Assistant] And technically this is an adverbial use here, there is modifying went, and here is an adjectival use, uh, because there is modifying dog.


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[Assistant] Uh, the second member of this confusing trio is their T-H-E-I-R, which is a possessive determiner.


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[Assistant] Let's just call that a possessive. So this is when something belongs to a they, and it's an adjective.


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[Assistant] So let's just call this a possessive adjective for some, for a they. Sue and Frieda ate their ice cream cones.


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[Assistant] So T-H-E-I-R, the possessive, answers the question, who does that belong to? So rounding out our trio, the last member of the there, there, there writers of the apocalypse is T-H-E-Y apostrophe R-E, which is a contraction of they are.


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[Assistant] So anywhere you would want to say they are, you can smush that together and say they're. So, Hey kid, are your parents home? No, they're not home right now. Can I take a message?


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[Assistant] So you can see in this sentence, they're not home right now, can I take a message? Their T-H-E-Y apostrophe R-E is replacing they are. Both of these things would work equally well in the sentence, they're both grammatical, one's just shorter. And as we know,


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[Assistant] English as with most languages likes to take the easy route.


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[Assistant] Uhm, finding the shortest possible or most efficient option, if you prefer.


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[Assistant] So as a writer and speaker of English, you're going to come across this situation a lot. Which one of these things do you use?


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[Assistant] Uh, and so when you come across this thorny little issue, do I use there, there, or there? You have to ask yourself a series of questions. Question number one, does it answer the question, where is it? If so, use t-h-e-r-e.


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[Assistant] Uh, if the use answers the question, who does it belong to? Then you use T-H-E-I-R.


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[Assistant] If what you're trying to say is a contraction of they are, then what you're looking for is T-H-E-Y apostrophe R-E. I know it's confusing, but you can learn anything. David out.


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[Assistant] For example, he went out on a limb and started a conversation even though he was just a beginner.


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[Assistant] A promise you make to yourself to change a bad behavior or accomplish a goal in the new year.


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[Assistant] Some common New Year's resolutions are losing weight, spending more time with one's family, learning a language, or saving money.


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[Assistant] To direct or drive a jet, which is a big commercial airplane.


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[Assistant] This is another way to say a plane full of or loaded with people. Other common expressions are a truckload or a boatload of something.


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[Assistant] In some informal situations, some natives also use bad words such as shitload, fuckload, and assload among many others.


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[Assistant] This verb is commonly used both literally, the eagle plummeted down toward its prey, and figuratively, sails plummeted this month.


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[Assistant] This is the word that describes a plant producing new leaves, buds, etc. As a noun, a sprout is what comes out of a seed. Chandler in this case uses a common collocation for this expression to sprout wings


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[Assistant] Which means to quickly grow or develop wings, which is obviously a joke that means that's never gonna happen.


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[Assistant] Better yet, you used to introduce an idea that is even better than the one previously mentioned. For example, you've been working too much.


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[Assistant] You should take one or two days off, or better yet, go on a vacation to some nice place. The new thing you do that day. Chandler is employing his typical ironic humor to make fun of Ross, but the second layer of irony is that technically, that's the type of joke he promised to stop doing with the bet he just made.


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[Assistant] You used to ask how or why something has happened. For example, somebody might ask a dedicated English learner, how come you're always studying English?


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[Assistant] Well, you know those uh, special skills I have listed on my resume? Resume.


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[Assistant] A piece of paper where you put information that's relevant for an employer when you are trying to get a job, also known as a CV.


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[Assistant] This expression is often used to indicate that one has just made a sexual innuendo.


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[Assistant] To gossip. To talk about other people's private lives, especially involving details that are not always true. For example, people at work are gossiping that the boss might have cheated on his wife.


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[Assistant] Ted Koppel, famous news anchor, lead journalist, on the American news program Nightline.


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[Assistant] Coworkers. People you work with. To botch. To ruin or to do something badly. Especially because of carelessness or lack of skill.


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[Assistant] For example, I thought he was going to do a good job painting the room but he totally botched it. Boob job.


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[Assistant] You can continue watching this hilarious scene and learn English without subtitles and without getting lost or bored with our free three-part course.


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[Assistant] Master real English with a special present, the PDF Power Lesson, and a vocabulary memorization file. Plus, get weekly dynamic fluency lessons.


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[Assistant] Click on the box at the top right corner and join thousands of learners around the world who are making learning a fun part of their life.


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[Assistant] You've probably heard that carbon dioxide is warming the Earth. But how does it work? Is it like the glass of a greenhouse? Or like an insulating blanket? Well, not entirely. The answer involves a bit of quantum mechanics. But don't worry, we'll start with a rainbow.


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[Assistant] If you look closely at sunlight separated through a prism, you'll see dark gaps where bands of color went missing. Where did they go?


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[Assistant] To shift its electrons from the ground state to a higher level, a molecule needs to gain a certain amount of energy. No more, no less.


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[Assistant] It gets that energy from light, which comes in more energy levels than you could count. Light consists of tiny particles called photons, and the amount of energy in each photon corresponds to its color.


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[Assistant] So which photons does carbon dioxide prefer? Where is the black line in our rainbow that explains global warming? Well, it's not there.


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[Assistant] The light that our eyes can see, including all of the colors of the rainbow, is just a small part of the larger spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.


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[Assistant] Earth emits infrared radiation because every object with a temperature above absolute zero will emit light. This is called thermal radiation.


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[Assistant] Earth's infrared radiation would escape to space if there weren't greenhouse gas molecules in our atmosphere.


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[Assistant] Just as oxygen gas prefers the dark red photons, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases match with infrared photons. They provide the right amount of energy to shift the gas molecules into their higher energy level.


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[Assistant] Shortly after a carbon dioxide molecule absorbs an infrared photon, it will fall back to its previous energy level and spit a photon back out in a random direction.


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[Assistant] Some of that energy then returns to Earth's surface, causing warming.


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[Assistant] The more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the more likely that infrared photons will land back on Earth and change our climate.


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[Assistant] I knew Lucas would be trouble. My bathroom is a mess.


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[Assistant] Okay, thank you, Chris. Before we do that, can I just check, uh, need to know my audience? How many of you here use TikTok? Just... Oh, thank you. For those who don't, the Wi-Fi is free.


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[Assistant] Roughly 10 years ago, I met with, uhm, two engineers who were building a product. And the idea behind this was to build a product that


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[Assistant] Recommended content to people not based on who they knew. Which was, uh, if you think about it, 10 years ago, uhm, it was all, the social graph was all in the rage. And the idea was, you know, your content and the feed that you saw should be based on people that you knew.


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[Assistant] You know, about 10 years ago, these two engineers thought about something different. Which is, instead of showing you what you, you know, instead of showing you people you knew, why don't we show you content that you liked?


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[Assistant] And that's sort of the genesis and the birth of uhm, you know, the early iterations of TikTok. And about five years ago, with the advent of uhm, you know, 4G, short video, mobile phone penetration, uhm, TikTok was born. And a couple of years ago, you know, I had the opportunity to run this company and it still excites me every single day.


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[Assistant] I think to describe this, uh, to begin to answer your question, we have to talk about the mission of the company.


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[Assistant] Now the mission is to inspire creativity and to bring joy. And I think, you know, missions for companies like ours is really important because you have product managers working on a product every single day and they need to have a north star, you know, something to sort of work towards together.


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[Assistant] Now based on this mission, our vision is to provide three things to our users. We want to provide a window to discover, and I'll talk about discovery, you talked about this in a second. We want to give them a canvas to create, which is going to be really exciting with new technologies in AI that's going to help people, you know, help people create new things. And the final thing is bridges for people to connect.


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[Assistant] So there are earlier apps that I have a lot of respect for, but they were built for a different purpose. You know, for example, in the era of search, you know, there was an app that was built for people who wanted to search things so that it's more easily found.


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[Assistant] Now what we have done is that we are based on our machine learning algorithms, we're showing people what they liked. And what this means is that we have given the everyday person a platform to be discovered. If you have talent, it is very, very easy to get discovered on TikTok. And I'll just give you one, one example of this.


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[Assistant] The biggest creator on TikTok is a guy called Kavi. Kavi was from Senegal. He lives in Italy. He was a factory worker.


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[Assistant] So every single day we hear stories like that, you know, businesses, people with talent. And I think it's very, it's very freeing to have a platform where as long as you have talent, you're going to be heard and you have the chance to succeed. And that's what we're providing to our users.


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[Assistant] The, I'm gonna simplify this a lot, but the machine learning, the recommendation algorithm is really just math. So for example, if you, if you liked videos 1, 2, 3, and 4, and I liked videos 1, 2, 3, and 5, maybe he liked videos 1, 2, 3, and 6,


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[Assistant] Now what's gonna happen is, because we like 123 at the same time, he's gonna be shown 456, and so are we.


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[Assistant] And you can think about this repeated at scale in real time across more than a billion people. That's basically what it is, is math.


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[Assistant] And of course, you know, AI and machine learning has allowed this to be done at a very, very big scale. And what we have seen, the result of this is that it learns, um, the interest signals that people exhibit very quickly and shows you content that's really relevant for you, uh, in a very, in a very quick way.


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[Assistant] It's, it's pattern recognition based on your interest signals. And I think the other thing here is that we don't actually ask you 20 questions on whether you like a piece of content, you know, what are your interests. We don't do that.


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[Assistant] I think we were the first to really try this at scale. Uhm, you know, the recommendation algorithm is a very important reason as to why the platform is so


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[Assistant] Then, you know, through this recommendation algorithm, we have found that it connects people together. People find communities. And I've heard so many stories of people who have found their communities because of the content that they're posting. Now, I'll give you an example.


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[Assistant] He started posting all this content on TikTok and, uh, you know, I saw his content. It looks, I was hungry after looking at it. It's just great, you know, content.


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[Assistant] We have given many small businesses and many people, your common person, a voice that they will never otherwise have. And I think that's the power of the platform.


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[Assistant] I would, uh, I would describe it in a different way.


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[Assistant] So there are other platforms that exist, you know, before TikTok. And if you think about those platforms, you sort of have to be famous already in order to get followers. Because the way it's built is that people come and follow people. And if you don't, if you aren't already famous, the chances that you get discovered are very, very low.


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[Assistant] Now what we have done, again because of the difference in the way we're recommending content.


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[Assistant] And again and again, you will hear stories from people who use the platform, who post regularly on it, that if they have something they want to say,


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[Assistant] The platform gives them the chance and the stage to connect with the audience in a way that I think no other product in the past has ever offered them.


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[Assistant] We want to make sure that uhm, every person who posts a video is given an equal chance to be able to have some audience to begin with. But this idea that you are maybe alluding to, that we can get people to like something, it doesn't really work like that.


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[Assistant] Ultimately what the machine does is it recognizes people's interests. So if you post something that's not interesting to a lot of people, even if you gave it a lot of exposure, you're not going to get the virality that you want. Whereas, so it's a lot of, you know, there's no


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[Assistant] Uh, there's no push here. You know, it's not like you can go and push something and because I like Chris, you know, I'm going to push your content and it doesn't work like that. You've got to have a message that resonates with people. And if it does, then it will automatically just have the variety itself.


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[Assistant] That's the beauty of user-generated content. It's not something that can be engineered or overthought. You know, it really is something that has to resonate with the audience. And if it does, then it goes viral.


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[Assistant] Well, I think in terms of complexity, there are many companies with a lot of resources and a lot of talent. You know, they will figure out even the complex, the most complex algorithm.


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[Assistant] I think what is very different is your mission of your company, how you started the company. Like I said, you know, we started with this idea that this was the main use case.


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[Assistant] The most important use case is you come and you get to see recommended content.


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[Assistant] Now for some other apps out there, they are very significant and have a lot of users. They're built for a different original purpose.


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[Assistant] And if you're built for something different, then your users are used to that. Because the community comes in and they expect that sort of experience. So I think the pivot away from that is not, it's not really just a matter of engineering and algorithms.


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[Assistant] The diversity of content that our users see is very key, you know, to in order for the discovery and the mission is to discover. So, sorry, the vision is to discover. So in order to facilitate that, it is very important to us that what the users see is a diversity of content. Uhm, now, generally speaking,


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[Assistant] You know, there are certain issues that you mentioned that the industry faces. You know, there are some bad actors who come on the internet, they post bad content. Now our approach is that we have very clear community guidelines. We're very transparent about what is allowed and what is not allowed on our platform. No executives make any ad hoc decisions and based on that we have built


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[Assistant] A team that is tens of thousands of people plus machines in order to identify content that is bad and actively and proactively remove it from the platform. Talk about what some of those key guidelines are.


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[Assistant] We have it published on our website, uhm, we just, uh, in March, we just, uhm, iterated a new version to make it more readable. So there are many things like, for example,


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[Assistant] No pornography, clearly no child sexual abuse material and other bad things, no violence for example. We also make it clear that it's a differentiated experience if you're below 18 years old. So if you're below 18 years old for example, your entire app experience is actually more restricted. We don't allow, as an example,


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[Assistant] Users below 16, uhm, by default, to go viral. We don't allow that. If you're below 16, we don't allow you to use the instant messaging feature in-app.


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[Assistant] In our industry, we do, we rely mainly on something called age gating, which is when you sign up for the app for the first time and we ask you for the age.


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[Assistant] Now beyond that, we also have, uh, we also have built tools to go through your public profile, for example, when you post a video, we try and match what the age that you said with the video that you just posted.


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[Assistant] Now, if, you know, for example, you know, we scan the faces of every single user, then I, you know, we will significantly increase the ability to tell your age. But we will also significantly increase the amount of data that we collect on you.


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[Assistant] Now we don't want to collect data, we don't want to scan data on your face to collect that. So that balance has to be maintained. And it's a challenge that we are working through together with, you know, industry together with the regulators as well.


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[Assistant] I think uhm, you know, so when, again, you know, when I meet with, when I travel around the world, I meet with a whole bunch of creators on our platform. I was in South Korea just yesterday, and before that, you know, I met with uhm,


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[Assistant] Before that, I met with a bunch of people don't expect, for example, teachers. There is, uhm,


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[Assistant] English teacher from Arkansas. My name is Claudine. And, uh, I met her in person. She uses our platform to reach out to students. You know, there is another teacher called Chemical Kim. And Chemical Kim, uhm,


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[Assistant] What she does is she uses our platform to reach out to a much broader student base than she has in her classroom. And they're both very, very popular.


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[Assistant] Uhm, has over 116 billion views on our platform, globally.


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[Assistant] And it's so significant. It's so significant that in the US we have started testing, creating a feed just for STEM content, just for STEM content. I've been using it for a while.


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[Assistant] And uh, I learned something new. You want to know what it is? Apparently if you flip an egg, you know, on your tray, the egg will last longer.


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[Assistant] What is too much? I don't actually agree with that. Uh, I, you know, as a company our goal is not to optimize and maximize time spent. It is not.


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[Assistant] In fact, in order to address people spending too much time on our platform, we have done a number of things. I was just speaking with some of your colleagues backstage. One of them, Tony, you know, she has encountered this as well. If you spend too much time on our platform, we will proactively send you videos to tell you to get off the platform.


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[Assistant] We have also built in tools. The limit, if you're below 18 years old,


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[Assistant] By default, we set a 60 minute default time limit. How many? 60 minutes. And we've given parents tools, and yourself tools. If you go to settings, you can set your own time limit.


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[Assistant] We've given parents tools so that you can pair for the parents who don't know this. Go to settings, family pairing. You can pair your phone with your teenager's phone and set the time limit. And we really encourage parents to have these conversations with their teenagers on what is the right amount of screen time.


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[Assistant] I think that's a healthy relationship that you should have with your screen. And as a business, you know, we believe that that balance needs to be met. So, it's not true that we just want to maximise the time span.


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[Assistant] Well 60 minutes, uh, we did not come up with it ourselves. So I went to the digital wellness lab at the Boston Children's Hospital and, you know, we had this conversation with them and 60 minutes was the recommendation that they gave to us, which is why we built this into the app.


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[Assistant] Now, so 60 minutes ticket for what it is, you know, it's something that, you know, we've had some discussions of experts, but I think for all parents here, it is very important to have these conversations with your teenage children and, you know, help them


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[Assistant] Help them develop a healthy relationship with screens. I think we live in an age where it's completely inevitable that we're going to interact with screens and, you know, digital content. But I think we should develop healthy habits early on in life. And that's something I would encourage.


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[Assistant] I think uhm, you know, in terms, even if you think about it from a commercial point of view, it is always best when your customers have a very healthy relationship with your product. It's always best when it's healthy. So, if you think about very short term retention, maybe. But I don't think, that's not the way we think about it.


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[Assistant] If you think about it from a longer term perspective, what you really want to have is a healthy relationship, you know. You don't want people to be...


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[Assistant] That, that is a, unfortunately a, a very, uhm, it's a misconception. So, that experience that is being mentioned for The Win, which is a different act, is for an under 14 year old experience.


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[Assistant] Now, if you compare that in the United States, we have an under 13 experience in the US. It's only available in the US, it's not available here in Canada. In Canada, we just don't allow it. If you look at the under 13 experience in the US, it's much more restricted than the under 14 experience in China.


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[Assistant] It's so restrictive that every single piece of content is vetted by our third party child, uh, uh, safety expert.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and we don't allow any under 13s in the US to publish, we don't allow them to post, and we don't allow them to use a lot of features. So I think that that report, I've seen that report too, it's not doing a fair comparison.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, if you look at sort of the sexualized content on our guidelines.


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[Assistant] If you're below a certain age, you know, for certain themes that are mature, we actually remove that from your experience. Again, I come back to this, you know, we want to have a safe platform. In fact, at my congressional hearing, I made four commitments to our users and to the politicians in the US, and one of the first ones,


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[Assistant] Is that we take safety, especially for teenagers, extremely seriously and we will continue to prioritize that. You know, I believe that we need to give our teenage users and our users in general a very safe experience because if we don't do that,


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[Assistant] That we cannot, the mission is to inspire creativity and to bring joy. If they don't feel safe, I cannot fulfill my mission. So it's all very organic to me as a business.


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[Assistant] So dangerous challenges are not allowed on our platform. If you look at our guidelines, it's violative. We proactively invest resources to identify them and remove them from our platform.


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[Assistant] In fact, if you search for dangerous challenges on our platform today, we will redirect you to a safety resource page. And we actually worked with some creators as well to come up with campaigns. This is another campaign. It's the stop, think, decide before you act campaign, where we work with the creators to produce videos to explain to people that some of things are dangerous. Please don't do it. And we post those videos actively on our, on our platform as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the group is based in Ireland, uhm, and uhm, it's a lot of people, it's tens of thousands of people. Tens of thousands? Tens of thousands. It's a huge, it's one of the most important cost items of my P&L and I think it's completely worth it.


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[Assistant] Now most of the moderation has to be done by machines. The machines are good, they're quite good, but they're not as good as, you know, they're not perfect at this point. So you have to complement it with a lot of human beings today.


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[Assistant] And I think, by the way, a lot of the progress in AI in general,


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[Assistant] It's making that kind of content moderation capabilities a lot better. So we're gonna get more precise, you know, we're gonna get more specific, and it's gonna get, you know, it's gonna be able to handle larger scale.


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[Assistant] Uhm, at the same time, if you search certain terms, we will make sure that you get redirected to a resource safety page.


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[Assistant] Now we are always working with experts to understand some of these new trends that could emerge and proactively try to manage and try to manage them, if that makes sense. Now this is a problem that predates us, that predates TikTok, it actually predates the internet.


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[Assistant] You know, it's uhm, but it's our responsibility to make sure that we invest enough to understand and to address the concerns to keep the experience as safe as possible for as many people as possible.


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[Assistant] I will say a couple of things about this if you don't mind. The first thing I would say is that the internet is built on global interoperability and we are not the only company that relies on the global talent pool to make our products as good as... technology is a very collaborative effort. You know, I think many people here would say the same thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, so we are not the first company to have engineers in all countries, including in China. We're not the first one. Now, I understand some of these concerns, so...


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[Assistant] You know, the data access by employees is not data access by government. This is very different. And there's a clear difference in this.


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[Assistant] We hear the concerns that are raised in the United States. We did not try to avoid, you know, discussing. We did not try to just argue our way out of it. What we did was we built an unprecedented project where we localized American data to be stored on American soil by an American company overseen by American personnel.


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[Assistant] So this, this kind of protection for American data is beyond what any other company in our industry has ever done.


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[Assistant] Now we are the first to do it and I expect that, you know, other companies are probably looking at this and trying to figure out how you balance between protecting


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[Assistant] Today, by default, all new US data is already stored in the Oracle cloud infrastructure. So it's in this protected US environment that we talked about in the United States. We still have some legacy data to delete in our own service in Virginia and in Singapore. Our data has never been stored in China, by the way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that deletion is a very big engineering effort, so as we said, as I said at the hearing, it's gonna take, it's gonna take us a while to delete them, but I expect it to be done this year.


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[Assistant] So during the congressional hearing, I made four commitments. We talked about the first one, which is safety. The third one is to keep TikTok a place of freedom of expression. By the way, if you go on TikTok today, you can search for anything you want, as long as it doesn't violate our community guidelines. And to keep it free from any government manipulation.


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[Assistant] And the fourth one is transparency and third party monitoring. So the way we are trying to address this concern is an unprecedented amount of transparency. What do I mean by this? We're actually allowing third party reviewers to come in and review our source code. I don't know any other company that does this, by the way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just so, because everything, as you know, is driven by code. So to allow someone else to review the source code is to give this a significant amount of transparency to ensure that the scenarios that you described, that's highly hypothetical, cannot happen on our platform.


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[Assistant] Now at the same time, we are releasing more research tools for researchers so that they can study the output. So, you know, the source code is the input.


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[Assistant] We are also allowing researchers to study the output, which is the content on our platform.


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[Assistant] I think the easiest way to sort of defend this off is transparency. You know, we give people access to monitor us and we can just make it very, very transparent. And that's our approach to the problem.


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[Assistant] I can say that we are building all the tools to prevent any of these actions from happening.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I'm very confident that with an unprecedented amount of transparency that we're giving on the platform, we can


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[Assistant] That's the reason why we're letting third parties monitor this. Because if they find out, you know, they will disclose this. We also have transparency reports, by the way, where we talk about a whole bunch of things. The content that we remove, you know, that violates our guidelines, government requests, it's all published online.


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[Assistant] I think it's still down to the vision that we have. So in terms of the window of discovery, I think there's a huge benefit to the world when people can discover new things. You know, people think that TikTok is all about dancing and singing and there's nothing wrong with that because it's super fun.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's still a lot of that, but we're seeing science content, STEM content. We're seeing, have you heard about book talk?


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a viral trend that talks about books and encourages people to read. That book talk has 120 billion views globally. 120 billion. People are learning how to cook, people are learning, people are learning about science, people are learning how to golf.


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[Assistant] I think there's a huge, huge opportunity here on discovery and giving the everyday person a voice. If you talk to our creators, you know, a lot of people will tell you this again and again, that before TikTok, they would never have been discovered. And we have given them the platform to do that. It is important to maintain that.


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[Assistant] Then we talk about creation. You know, there's all these new technology coming in with, with AI generative content that allows, that will help people create even more creative content. I think there's going to be a collaboration between, and I think there's a speaker who's going to talk about this, between people and AI where they can unleash their creativity in a different way. You know, like for example, I'm terrible at drawing personally.


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[Assistant] Then we talk about bridges to connect, and connecting people and the communities together.


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[Assistant] This could be products, this could be commerce, five million small businesses, five million businesses in the US, um, benefit from TikTok today. I think we can get that number to a much higher number. And of course, if you look around the world, including in Canada, that number is going to be massive. So I think these are the biggest opportunities that we have and it's, it's really very exciting.


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[Assistant] This is the story of Bridget and Annie who share a flat in London and the boys next door, Nick and his friend Hector from Argentina. Hector and Annie are dating.


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[Assistant] And Hector's English is getting better and better. Nick fancies Bridget, but, uh, well, Bridget does not fancy Nick. Stand by for Extra.


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[Assistant] Next time in Extra. Annie wants to save the animals.


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[Assistant] Bridget has a date with Leonardo DiCaprio, and what is in Nick's box? Extra! Don't miss it.


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[Assistant] Alright, now you say something. I uhm, I really don't think so. Come on.


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[Assistant] You just say what you wanna do to her. Or what you want her to do to you.


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[Assistant] Alright, now you say something. I uhm, I really don't think so. Come on.


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[Assistant] This apartment is very busy.


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[Assistant] Chocolate mousse! My favourite dessert!


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[Assistant] What you're looking at isn't some weird x-ray. It's actually a baby yellow tang surgeon fish at two months old. And you thought your childhood was awkward.


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[Assistant] But here is the same fish as an adult, a beautiful inhabitant of the Indian and Pacific Ocean's coral reefs and one of the most popular captive fish for saltwater aquariums. Of the 27,000 known fish species,


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[Assistant] Over a quarter live on coral reefs that make up less than 1% of the Earth's surface.


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[Assistant] But prior to settling down in this diverse tropical environment, baby coral reef fish face the difficult process of growing up on their own.


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[Assistant] Undergoing drastic changes and the journey of a lifetime before they find that reef to call home.


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[Assistant] The life cycle for most of these fish begins when their parents spew sperm and eggs into the water column.


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[Assistant] This can happen daily, seasonally, or yearly depending on the species.


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[Assistant] Generally following lunar or seasonal tidal patterns.


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[Assistant] Left to their fate, the fertilized eggs drift with the currents and millions of baby larvae hatch into the world.


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[Assistant] When they first emerge, the larvae are tiny and vulnerable.


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[Assistant] Some don't even have gills yet and must absorb oxygen directly from the water through their tissue-thin skin.


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[Assistant] They may float in the water column anywhere from minutes to months, sometimes drifting thousands of miles across vast oceans, far from the reefs where they were born.


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[Assistant] Along the way, they must successfully avoid predators, obtain food and ride the right currents to find their way to a suitable adult habitat, which might as well be a needle in a vast haystack of ocean. So how do they accomplish this feat?


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[Assistant] Until recently, marine biologists thought of larval fish as largely passive drifters dispersed by ocean currents to distant locales.


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[Assistant] But in the last 20 years, new research has suggested that larvae may not be as helpless as they seem, and are capable of taking their fate in their own fins to maximize their chances of survival.


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[Assistant] The larvae of many species are unexpectedly strong swimmers and can move vertically in the water column to place themselves in different water masses and preferentially ride certain currents.


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[Assistant] These fish may be choosing the best routes to their eventual homes.


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[Assistant] When searching for these homes, evidence suggests that larva navigate via a complex suite of sensory systems, detecting both sound and smell.


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[Assistant] Odor in particular allows larvae to distinguish between different environments, even adjacent reefs, helping guide them toward their preferred adult habitats.


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[Assistant] Many will head for far-flung locales miles away from their birthplace, but some will use smell and other sensory cues to navigate back to the reefs where they were born, even if they remain in the larval stage for months.


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[Assistant] So what happens when larvae do find a suitable coral reef?


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[Assistant] Do they risk it all in one jump from the water column, hoping to land at exactly the right spot to settle down and metamorphose into adults?


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[Assistant] Larva will drop down in the water column to check out a reef below.


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[Assistant] If conditions aren't right, they can jump back up into higher water masses and ride on, chancing that the next reef they find will be a better fit. But this is the point where our knowledge ends.


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[Assistant] We don't know the geographic movements of individual larvae for most species.


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[Assistant] Nor do we know which exact environmental cues and behaviors they use to navigate to the reefs they will call home.


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[Assistant] But we do know that these tiny trekkers are more than the fragile and helpless creatures science once believed them to be.


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[Assistant] The secret lives of baby fish remain largely mysterious to us. Unknown adventures waiting to be told.


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[Assistant] Those rashes and itches are bound to go if we can find where the aloe vera's grow.


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[Assistant] She can't. They'll look fantastic.


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[Assistant] The Timble Shelves in clear, lacquered beach veneer. With six casters. And a TV bench. Now, where shall we begin?


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[Assistant] Anyway, guess what I have discovered.


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[Assistant] Hector's family, the Romero family, is one of the richest in Argentina. Can you believe it? Wow! The good news is our landlady has gone on holiday.


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[Assistant] Well, I have never. What does she, who does she think she is?


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[Assistant] Yes, Hector is still building the shelves. I don't know why he is so keen to help. Still, I like it. Do you think that's correct? And poor Nick, he looks exhausted. He's going out with Eunice. They've been to the theatre, the cinema, a restaurant, a salsa club,


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[Assistant] And a karaoke club. She is the karaoke queen.


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[Assistant] I don't think Bridget likes her.


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[Assistant] Whisper, whisper. What can you do? I'm whisper. I can talk to you.


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[Assistant] Barry, but, what's the problem?


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[Assistant] The good news is, I have an audition for London on Fire.


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[Assistant] Yes! The bad news is, it's in Birmingham this afternoon. So I won't see the semi-final. What a tragedy!


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[Assistant] Hector says, why haven't you spoken to him for two days?


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[Assistant] No idea what you're talking about. But if my father sent you to change my mind, you won't!


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[Assistant] Okay, so if you're not scared of needles, would you have a tattoo?


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[Assistant] Okay. Okay. It's a deal.


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[Assistant] It's someone who throws people out of nightclubs. Uh, uh, uh.


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[Assistant] Oh Hector, you don't have to be a tough guy for me. I love you just the way you are.


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[Assistant] I do love Hector, but I think he is a bit of a wimp. Wimp.


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[Assistant] At least Nick has a tough guy job at ICE.


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[Assistant] The shop's been really slow lately, and we haven't had any new clients coming through the door. This is the worst time for you buying cars.


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[Assistant] Get up there. With summer half over, we need more clients.


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[Assistant] Okay. If we get more clients in the door, then my dad can spend more money on cars. Just straight box.


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[Assistant] So Mike needs to advertise to bring people into the shop. If my dad thinks that putting rusty trucks out on the side of the highway is good for advertising, we're in trouble.


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[Assistant] We're gonna have advertising all over it, have our name on it. It could be big for the shop, could get our name out there, but we waited for the last minute obviously to get started on it and we're way behind schedule.


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[Assistant] I don't really think my dad looked over the book that much, he just kinda perused it.


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[Assistant] It's not! There's a whole lot of build rules, there's a whole lot of driver rules. You're literally surrounded by 5,000 pound battering rounds. You want to be able to take some hits, you don't want to get killed doing that.


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[Assistant] We don't have time to concrete the doors. If we build the car and it doesn't meet the tech specs, they just won't let us compete. Oh, there you go. Door bars, you mount them on the outside. The side bars.


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[Assistant] How long did you guys have this thing running for? A while. Well then the motors calved.


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[Assistant] This side tire went spinnin'. Well shortly. Doesn't have to be pretty. Who cares if it's haywired or duct taped together, if it's workin'.


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[Assistant] Captain Chip Hardy. Pilot extraordinaire.


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[Assistant] I am in a plane. Chip Hardy. Pilot. Extraordinaire.


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[Assistant] For a theatre festival in Paris? Now, who is going to help me rehearse?


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[Assistant] Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain Chip Hardy speaking.


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[Assistant] We will now go through the safety routine. Exits are here, here, and here.


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[Assistant] Life jackets can be found under your seat.


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[Assistant] Dan, forget about fast cars.


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[Assistant] Forget about exercise in the gym. Forget about cool clothes. You have to get a pilot's uniform. It's magic with women. Captain Chip Hardy. Pilot extraordinaire.


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[Assistant] Hello? Captain Chip Hardee speaking.


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[Assistant] I have an extra ticket for Paris.


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[Assistant] Sylvia! I'm proud of you!


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[Assistant] Harris was great, but there was one problem. Sophie, my actress, was ill.


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[Assistant] Where is the actress who plays the stewardess? Ha! Well, she's ill.


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[Assistant] And I had to persuade Hector to play her part instead. You are going to play the stewardess.


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[Assistant] Put them in the grass! Well, that's not in the grass!


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[Assistant] Okay, we just thought it would show off a little bit. I got her up and running. Yeah, well, whatever.


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[Assistant] I like demolition theory because I can't function when I go into the arena. I shake, my feet shake, my arms shake.


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[Assistant] I vibrate, uh, until that throttle drops and you hear that horn. I'm speechless. It is, uh, the most epic adventure a guy could ever have.


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[Assistant] This torsion bar is broken. This is why the suspension sagged so hard on this. That's why it was on the ground.


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[Assistant] I'm seriously regretting the trade I made for this car. This thing is a basket case. Like if I don't put some strength into this car, I'm done.


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[Assistant] Bumper to bumper, I'm gonna dismember that car out there. Okay, let's, uh, get a shifter built.


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[Assistant] I'm stoked right now. This is my game. When I'm up in that arena, you will see a different day.


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[Assistant] That's a lot of work to f***. We're used to failure.


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[Assistant] I hope he's alright. I hope she's alright. He was super close with her.


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[Assistant] So I see that you've returned from the Belarussian front, Sir Bradley.


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[Assistant] Speak another untrue word of her name and you will have to face me in a duel, sir.


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[Assistant] Alliteration is when a series of words all start with the same consonant.


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[Assistant] Which is like the clanging of a bell. We've got bang, which sounds like something exploding.


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[Assistant] That's a great question. Writers can use some of these techniques to basically use the sound to get across


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[Assistant] Like if you're, if you're going to use words that all sound the same at the beginning with a bunch of S's, that kind of could potentially build some momentum to your sentence.


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[Assistant] It kind of makes the reader set up and pay attention too. It's like, oh, this is an interesting pattern.


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[Assistant] So that could be one reason why a writer might use, for example, alliteration.


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[Assistant] The reader is really able to be immersed in the experience even more fully. You can, you can hear the sounds that are happening, the buzzing of the bees or...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just puts you even more in the story that the writer's telling.


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[Assistant] We'll be party entertainers to rich children for loads of money!


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[Assistant] Hector and I are going to be top class party entertainers to rich children. We'll be party entertainers to rich children for loads of money.


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[Assistant] It's only the home of George Dukas with the children of Hollywood stars.


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[Assistant] Oh, great! Great, this is just a temporary job. Is George here?


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[Assistant] Princess Hectorina is going to show you a magic trick. Aren't you Princess Hectorina?


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[Assistant] But it's time to come home now, Daisy! Princess Nicky-Wicky-Wocky!


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[Assistant] Late ironing, penalty £20.


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[Assistant] Really Hector, you must talk to her. She's too serious about this traffic warden exam.


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[Assistant] Because the contestants are my responsibility. Nothing can go wrong. Well...


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[Assistant] Why are you dressed to go to war, Annie? I'm going for my traffic warden exam.


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[Assistant] Uhm, let's see. She likes children and animals.


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[Assistant] She likes children and animals. Uh, she likes children and animals. Uh, ha!


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[Assistant] This one's different. Miss Holland Babe. She likes reading. And her ambition is to learn to read.


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[Assistant] Oh, here's another one. Miss Belgian Babe.


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[Assistant] Her ambition is to go to the moon.


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[Assistant] You have one simple job. You must tell Hector who each girl is. Their names are on these cards. Got it?


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[Assistant] Hector is doing a fantastic job presenting the Miss Euro Babe contest.


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[Assistant] Miss England babe is not here. Miss England babe is where? Her Porsche got clamped.


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[Assistant] Eunice wants to see me, and I've had to leave Nick in charge.


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[Assistant] Miss Spain-maid. It's all going wrong. He'd better think of something fast. Think of something Nick and fast!


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[Assistant] Bridget Evans, Annie Taylor, Detective David Hunt of the Metropolitan Police. Can I have a word with you please?


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[Assistant] Bridget Evans, Annie Taylor, Detective David Hunt of the Metropolitan Police. Can I have a word with you please?


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[Assistant] Chair-I-T. Chair-I-T? You're being silent for charity. Huh. But which charity?


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[Assistant] I'm here to investigate a robbery.


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[Assistant] Gee, I'm getting good at this.


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[Assistant] Bridgett Evans. Annie Taylor.


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[Assistant] Detective David Hunt of the Metropolitan Police. Could I have a word with you, please?


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[Assistant] Nwith was watching babes and bikes on television. I watched that too. So he may be telling the truth.


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[Assistant] Ridget was looking at herself in the mirror all night. Huh. An unlikely story.


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[Assistant] However, if I accuse her, she'll start crying again. And I can't stand hysterical women.


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[Assistant] Hector's wearing a terrible suit. It looks stolen. Nobody would buy it. Surely.


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[Assistant] And his only alibi is Annie. And guess what? She can't speak. But the clues do speak. Hunt, you're a genius. I think that someone here is not telling the truth. And I think that someone


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[Assistant] Mike, Connor and Avery are prowling through Mike's field of dreams. How about a cop car? Go right in the back of one if you want.


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[Assistant] They want something to destroy.


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[Assistant] One of the first crossover vehicles ever made, the El Camino was a car and truck rolled into one. Released in 1959, the first generation was a flop. But a later redesign, modeled after the Chevelle, with powerful V8 engine options, was a hit with the younger crowd.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, here we go buddy. With less than two weeks before the hit to pass event, JF's crew quickly start stripping down the car. Woah! To get it, race ready.


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[Assistant] The car's airbags would detonate right away in a high impact race, so they must be removed.


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[Assistant] Uh oh, here we go. Have you seen one of these things blow up, Kyle? Oh yeaah. Everybody used to put basketballs on them. They'd go 30 feet in the air.


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[Assistant] Today, Avery's son Shafen is helping out with the Rust Bros El Camino.


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[Assistant] Mike's calling a metal supplier. You guys got any three-sixteenths wall? His son Connor's hit to pass race is just a week away, and there's no room for error when it comes to reinforcing the El Camino.


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[Assistant] Mike and Avery have hauled a second El Camino up to the shop to cannibalize for parts. Starting with the brakes.


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[Assistant] Mike and Avery make one more stop to pick up their order from metal supermarkets.


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[Assistant] Mike's also recruited engine specialist Dave to help get the big block running.


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[Assistant] What have you guys done? Just outside Western Speedway in Victoria, V.C., the Russ Bros have arrived at the home and auto shop of their friend and fellow competitor, Kenny Baker.


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[Assistant] Kenny's offered to help the crew install some last minute safety gear and foam padding.


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[Assistant] Victoria's Western Speedway is Western Canada's oldest race course and host of the two day hit to pass tournament.