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[Assistant] An alligator this size has a bite force of about 1,000 pounds.


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[Assistant] The biggest crocodiles and alligators have a bite force of 5,000 pounds. That is the same amount of pressure as a pickup truck sitting on top of you.


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[Assistant] Whoa! The mighty Nile Crocodile of Africa!


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[Assistant] And over 20 feet, one of the two largest types of crocodile in the world.


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[Assistant] Oh, you'll like them after this adventure. Yeah, Operation Crocodile Nest will prove that there's more to Crocs than you think.


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[Assistant] Miniaturized and standing by. Okay, it's done.


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[Assistant] Oh, she's holding her mouth open. It's getting pretty hot up there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this sand is amazing. Down here under a layer of sand, the temperature hardly changes at all. It's been about 85 degrees day and night. The perfect temperature for these eggs to develop.


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[Assistant] One crocodile egg? Over easy. Come on, Chris. Hey, but this is cool. I've never ridden a crocodile before. I'll stay out here with Crocodilla, find out more about what being a mama croc is all about. Okay, keep that creature pot on. You got it, bro. Look out for those lizards.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's a super hot day! Crocs are cold-blooded, remember? Their bodies take on whatever temperature is around them. So when they get too hot, a croc has no choice but to cool off in the water to survive.


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[Assistant] Okay, I think we got a full load. Bus is packed and ready to go!


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[Assistant] That's a fancy word for the nursery pool. A nice, calm, quiet section of the river. Everybody out!


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[Assistant] Uh oh, these monitor lizards don't only like eggs, they think baby crocs are pretty tasty too!


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[Assistant] We can't fill in for a mama croc! We don't have a crocodile disc for our creature power suits!


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[Assistant] Woohoo! Nice croc action, bro! You too, but I hope Crocodilla gets back soon. There's a lot of predators out here. Okay, better do a quick head count. Let's see, crunchina, chompella, munchet, snapper, fur. Oh, hang on there, Josanna. Wait, where's Frederica?


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[Assistant] So there's a lot more to crocodiles and alligators than most people think. Who'd have thought she'd be such a devoted and protective mom?


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[Assistant] And baby alligators really depend on those moms.


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[Assistant] When she's born inside the nest, she makes that call. And also, when she's out on her own and she needs the protection of her mother, we better bring her back to her mom.


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[Assistant] These are ball python eggs, and in order to hatch them, we have to keep them in a constant temperature and humidity, just like their mom does. To do that, we'll use this machine, an incubator, and just close it up, slide them in, and wait till they hatch.


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[Assistant] Happy birthday baby pythons! Keep on creature adventuring! And discovering that there's more to some creatures than you might think. See you on the creature trail!


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[Assistant] Alright, time for another Wild Kratz Creature Quiz. You're on it, Chris. Alright, is it a fish?


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[Assistant] They can walk right above the snow as they're hunting the snowshoe hares.


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[Assistant] There are, and it's a lovely place to relax. Because, phew, it's hot today.


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[Assistant] My nose is happy about it, because now it's in the shade.


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[Assistant] Let's try something different.


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[Assistant] To all the wonderful sounds around us.


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[Assistant] Well I'm not really doing anything. And look at how happy I am.


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[Assistant] Alright. Well. Come and lie down here next to me.


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[Assistant] Look up and tell me what you see.


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[Assistant] Anyone hungry? Should we think about going home soon?


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[Assistant] I don't think so. These are very rare. I've never, ever seen one until now.


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[Assistant] We're nearly home, so you can walk the rest of the way.


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[Assistant] Well, clouds make interesting shapes to look at.


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[Assistant] These clouds are grey and low, which means...


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[Assistant] Snuggled up together under the old oak tree.


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[Assistant] Well, it's way past my bedtime now. See you later. Goodnight. Sleep tight. See you in the evening light.


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[Assistant] More than I can count on both paws. I have to... eat breakfast? Explore our meadow?


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[Assistant] I'd like to find the sun flower to thank her for shining for us.


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[Assistant] Huh, yes. And hard to get everything done when it's...


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[Assistant] Oh no! What is it little nut brown hair? Look! The sun is already low in the sky!


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[Assistant] Really? How? We'll look for a flower. Backwards!


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[Assistant] Whatever it is, it's beautiful. It's a topsy-flopsy flower, made out of ice. I think you're right, little field mouse.


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[Assistant] I nearly forgot to ask you an important question.


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[Assistant] Ah, I love you. How much kiss? Hmm.


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[Assistant] They're ready to munch on anything after eight months of hibernation. Ah, I'm not worried. You will be if you come face to face with the most carnivorous bear on the planet.


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[Assistant] Polar bears need to be patient and focused. Unlike you, Martin. But they can wait for hours for their prey to pop up. What do you think? Ah, wait's over.


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[Assistant] Ah, it worked! Storm's over, and I'm still floating!


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[Assistant] And flippers are the key for moving, for lots of water creatures. They help them swim smoothly through the water.


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[Assistant] So, legs are for land, flippers are for water, and you're made to live in the water, right boy?


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[Assistant] Did you know that a rattlesnake's rattle is made of special scales? And these scales are made of keratin. The same thing our fingernails are made of.


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[Assistant] Of all the thieves, idiots are the most harmful. They steal from us our time and


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[Assistant] It is better to make approximately correct decision and to make a precise mistake.


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[Assistant] What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.


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[Assistant] If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is.


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[Assistant] But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.


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[Assistant] Those from whom we learn are rightly called our teachers, but not everyone who teaches us deserves this name.


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[Assistant] Those who stopped loving and making mistakes have buried themselves alive.


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[Assistant] Catch a good mood. It so rarely visits us.


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[Assistant] The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.


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[Assistant] Talent is formed in silence, character in stormy disturbances of light.


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[Assistant] Inspiration is not a herring, which can be pickled for many years.


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[Assistant] There are people who never make mistakes because they don't want to do it.


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[Assistant] What we nourish blooms in us. This is the eternal law of nature.


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[Assistant] Magic is believing in yourself, and when you succeed, everything else succeeds.


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[Assistant] Man's manners are a mirror in which his portrait is reflected.


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[Assistant] An overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.


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[Assistant] There is no more hopeless slavery than the slavery of those slaves who consider themselves free from fetters.


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[Assistant] The way you see people is the way you treat them. And the way you treat them is what they become.


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[Assistant] A person who lies is immediately spot by his gaze.


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[Assistant] A person who has something to hide will rarely look at his companion straight in the eye.


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[Assistant] Where the light is brighter, the shadows are thicker.


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[Assistant] There is nothing in the world more sha- There is nothing in the world more shameful.


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[Assistant] Little Nut Brown Hair had learned something very special that day.


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[Assistant] Nothing can give you a cool mental lick like Wolcelero. Exotic fruit puree and creamy vanilla ice cream all in one.


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[Assistant] Okay, we have to say that it's a very great, great honor for us to receive this award, especially from the hands of Peter that we admired for a long, long time. I have just to say that


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[Assistant] It looks like this may belong to little grey squirrel. I wonder what he's doing out in winter. Well, why don't we follow his prints and find him? Good idea.


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[Assistant] You or Snow hide while I count.


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[Assistant] Then I'll snow seek you by following your prince in the snow.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh, Little Redwood Fox Snow Prince and Little Phil Mouse. Look out Little Phil Mouse, here I come.


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[Assistant] That tricky little redwood fox has walked backwards in her own tracks.


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[Assistant] We still need to find something special for big nut brown hair. Maybe we should look down by the river. Let's go!


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[Assistant] Hello, we're looking for something very special to show big nut brown hair. Something very special?


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[Assistant] The little dance you just did.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, and welcome back to English with Lucy. Today I've got a very special guest. This is...


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[Assistant] So we are lacking a member of the, of the gang, aren't we? We're lacking Charlie, who


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[Assistant] Also worked with Harry on the Real English with Real Teachers channel. Uhm, what's wrong with Charlie?


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[Assistant] Bedridden, yes, he can't get out of bed. He's recovering in bed. And I saw a picture of his x-ray. Broken shoulder.


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[Assistant] You guys might have seen my video about five tips to help you improve your conversation in English. If you haven't seen it already, you can have a look up here.


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[Assistant] And in that video I asked you guys if you wanted to see something about interjections. But really to show interjections you need a partner, someone else as well. So I thought, I've got Harry here, let's do it together.


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[Assistant] Well, an interjection is a word or phrase that a speaker can use to show feeling or emotion.


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[Assistant] So it's normally used in spoken English, can be used in written English as well, like in stories if the author wants to show how a character is feeling.


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[Assistant] We use it a lot, we really do, and the thing is, if you want to improve your conversation,


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[Assistant] You really need to know how to use interjections and also understand them.


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[Assistant] So today I've picked out my top 10 interjections that native English speakers use and I want to help you understand them and hopefully be able to use them. So let's get started.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the first interjection that we're going to talk about is, hmmm.


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[Assistant] So, it could be great if you get asked a question and you want to buy a bit of extra time to think of an answer.


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[Assistant] Okay, and it's something that I mentioned in my previous video because a lot of speakers will say,


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[Assistant] Hmm, with our mouth shut. And this is simply because having your mouth open in front of someone else is considered impolite. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, and you just sound more native overall by not saying ehhh. You say hmmm.


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[Assistant] Okay, and jeez, I mean, where do you think the word jeez comes from?


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[Assistant] And normally it is used to express shock or exasperation.


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[Assistant] So, I can say it in two different ways. If I was to say, jeez, what would I be showing?


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[Assistant] Phew. Could often be teamed with the hand on the forehead.


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[Assistant] We would use the few interjection to show relief, that you are relieved about something.


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[Assistant] So, maybe I'm running for the bus?


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[Assistant] And then I see that it hasn't arrived, or maybe it's delayed. I would say, oh, phew. Thank God.


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[Assistant] But the funny thing was I was on a similar train and I was also delayed.


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[Assistant] So actually, we were both delayed, so there was no, there was no issue anyway. No, no. It was fine. So, interjection number four is, oops, oops, mhm.


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[Assistant] This one I think is quite international. Yea? Spanish people tend to spell it UPS. Oops.


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[Assistant] British, I would say, if not English. Probably quite a British English expression.


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[Assistant] I'm American and I use it all the time. So uhm. So tell us.


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[Assistant] Ready to say something, okay? Maybe you have to interrupt someone, so you say, ahem.


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[Assistant] People will often say, uh-hum, before they make a speech.


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[Assistant] We were just discussing that we use it a lot to show agreement that we agree with someone.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we would also use it if we see something delicious. We might say, mmm.


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[Assistant] But if you want to show that you're agreeing with someone without interrupting them and saying yes, yes, right all the time, then just going mmm, mmm.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we're showing a doubt, we're showing that we don't agree with someone if we go, uh, in like a sort of questioning tone.


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[Assistant] We would, we would say yikes to show negative shock at something. Normally negative.


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[Assistant] So, when I saw Charlie's broken bone,


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[Assistant] Yikes. That looks painful. Yeah. Yeah. So yikes.


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[Assistant] Now the next one that we're going to talk about is really, really British and it's something I say all the time.


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[Assistant] So much so, that I actually have to cut it out of my videos quite a lot. And it is so.


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[Assistant] So is a word that I use to introduce speech. So I know I'm going to say something, so I'll say, so next we're going to talk about


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[Assistant] But it could be really useful for you if you're doing a speaking exam.


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[Assistant] Because it does, again, buy you a little bit of extra time.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So I think it's a really good one to use.


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[Assistant] Sometimes it's good not to mention God, and instead we substitute it with gosh, oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] Which can then be cut down to just, gosh, oh my gosh, or oh gosh.


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[Assistant] So, oh my god isn't really frowned upon nowadays in Britain. It might be in America though. They're a little more religious over there.


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[Assistant] Okay guys, that is it for our lesson on interjections. I hope you liked it. I hope you learnt something.


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[Assistant] Don't forget to check out Harry's channel, Real English with Real Teachers, and we've done a couple of videos together, one's just gone live over there, on minimal pairs.


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


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[Assistant] Uh, I guess the first matter at hand today is to congratulate all of you. That's why we're here.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and specifically, uh, you and your families, because as we all know, it's great to have a, uh,


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[Assistant] A backup team behind you, but today it's all about you, so congratulations.


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[Assistant] For being recognized today for the completion of a task that you all set out to accomplish.


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[Assistant] Some, a couple of years ago, and uh, maybe for others, it was a little longer than that. Well done, and congratulations.


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[Assistant] The second matter for me personally is to, uh, to thank President Albrecht, the Board of Trustees, and the entire administration and staff of Utah State University. It is truly an honor to be here today and to partake in this important event. I'd like to thank my wife Trina,


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[Assistant] My children, Justin, Jackson, and Lindsay, as well as my niece, Tori, who are here with us today. Without them, I wouldn't be standing here myself.


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[Assistant] Okay, where should I start? I guess a brief summary of how I got here today.


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[Assistant] It was the spring of 1976 when I arrived here in Logan as a walk-on football player.


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[Assistant] Hoping to earn a scholarship in new coach Bruce Snyder's football program.


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[Assistant] I'd come on the advice of my junior college coach, Terry Shea, who would join Snyder's staff and thought I might be able to play.


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[Assistant] It's interesting all the parallels I have found between sport, business, and life in general. Competitiveness, teamwork, preparation, just to name a few. And it was 35 years ago when I happened to be sitting in the same spectrum arena.


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[Assistant] At the time, I was a lot more excited about being done with school than worrying about what was next. The naivety and exuberance of youth certainly served me well at the time. So I celebrated, of course.


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[Assistant] I took a trip to places I'd never been, to the East Coast. I went to New York City, Washington DC, Miami and down to the Caribbean. It was when I returned home to Oregon.


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[Assistant] Immediately after I returned home, returned home, and my dad said, okay, now what?


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[Assistant] Well I really didn't have a specific plan. I knew I wanted to get started on my career. I didn't want to go to grad school. And I love business. And of course sports.


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[Assistant] So I applied and was accepted into one of the regional department executive training programs, department store training programs. And when asked what department I was interested in, my reply was obvious. I'll take Sporting Good.


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[Assistant] Not long after that I ran into a long time family friend who I'd grown up with.


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[Assistant] He had run track for the University of Oregon and legendary track coach Bill Byerman.


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[Assistant] After graduation, he'd gone to work for this small start of shoe company.


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[Assistant] Started by Bowerman and one of his ex-athletes, Phil Knight.


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[Assistant] Fireman was always tinkering with ways to make lighter, better shoes and give his athletes a competitive advantage. And Knight had just finished his MBA at Stanford.


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[Assistant] Writing his thesis on how to manufacture athletic footwear in Asia much more efficiently.


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[Assistant] So they birthed an idea, they shook hands, and eventually they named their company. They named it Nike after the Greek goddess of victory. I had heard of it and in fact had even purchased several pair of shoes while I was in high school and college. He asked me if I'd be interested in the job.


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[Assistant] But the idea of attaching my fragile career plan to a small company run by a bunch of ex jocks was something I didn't think was pretty a very good idea. So I said no.


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[Assistant] I focused on my department store job through the holiday season and needless to say, if any of you have ever worked retail at Christmas, you know it's a lot of hard work. I wasn't sure it was going to be a career I was looking for. So I called my friend again to see how he was doing.


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[Assistant] There were a couple of assistant store manager jobs open and he could get me into one of them. I had to think about it. It was still retail, but it was an entry point into the company. What it did offer


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[Assistant] was a direct connection with sports and business.


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[Assistant] And it was working with a lot of ex-athletes. Now I call them athletes and not jocks. I had to show a little bit of respect. All the things I had a passion for. Then there was the tipping point.


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[Assistant] He was going to pay me a hundred bucks a month more than I was making. I'll take it. So I made the leap, but with a conscious commitment to myself, I would do this for a maximum of five years. Then I would go get a real job and a real career. Now I can honestly say I never had to go get a real job. The career thing worked out okay.


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[Assistant] Thirty-four years later, I have lived and traveled all over the world, been to every major sporting event there is,


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[Assistant] Met and worked with some of the most smartest and the most creative people on the planet.


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[Assistant] I've met with presidents, prime ministers, and world leaders.


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[Assistant] And call some of the greatest athletes of our time close friends.


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[Assistant] I have a pretty good gig to say the least. So here I am celebrating with you here today and I'm truly excited about that. It's not that about how to approach this conversation.


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[Assistant] Many different ways it crossed my mind, but what I landed on was something that served me well over my career. Let's keep it simple. So what I want to do


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[Assistant] I want to ask and attempt to give you some insights on three simple questions. First, what do you want to do? Second, what should you do? And third, what I hope you do.


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[Assistant] Obviously, I don't think they have the same answers. Let's start with what do you want to do? For me, as I said, the first thing on my list, celebrate. You've earned it. Go ahead. Personally, I recommend it for everybody.


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[Assistant] It's been a long four years for some of us, maybe a little longer for the rest.


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[Assistant] Graduation represents one of the most important milestones in your young careers. Now how long do you celebrate? A day? A week?


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[Assistant] A month, a year, some of you, you might even take a lifetime. That's okay.


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[Assistant] Everyone has their own clock. And how fast or slow yours ticks is now entirely up to you.


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[Assistant] There's no one to tell you what or when or where you have to be or what you have to do. So whenever the celebration ends, then comes that ultimate question. Now what? We all face it.


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[Assistant] And I will make a few guarantee- I will make few guarantees to you today. In fact, I won't make any more. But here is the only one. You will all answer it differently. There is no right or wrong answer to this one. These are always the type of questions I like.


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[Assistant] Some will choose the sciences. Some will choose to pursue higher degrees of academics. Some will pursue business. Some may also want to even enter politics.


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[Assistant] That knowledge can also bring conflict between cultures, religions, even generations. And these will become bigger and bigger issues if we don't all understand that we only have one world. There really isn't anywhere else to go. You know, life on earth is our only option and it's a good one, but we need to adapt and change environmentally, economically, and even socially if we're going to keep it viable.


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[Assistant] Our world needs to evolve, and you are the people who will lead that evolution.


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[Assistant] Your generation is moving and creating expectations and solutions at an increasingly accelerated speed. Don't let up on that. Get involved, form an opinion and make a difference. You can, and I would challenge all of you, you must for all of our sakes. Whatever the pursuit, I can only relate to my own experiences.


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[Assistant] You may feel like you need to create a master plan, target a final destination, define your expectations. My advice?


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[Assistant] Don't restrict yourself to anything specific, at least not yet.


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[Assistant] I've been fortunate enough to have traveled from the jungles of Africa to the urban jungles of the world's biggest cities.


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[Assistant] I have seen hope in the faces of children living in conditions that you would find hard to imagine. I can assure you the human spirit is alive and well. Find a way to tap into it. You'll learn a lot about yourself. You're smart, smarter than any generation before you, but you're not wise, not yet. Wisdom will come with time, so respect it.


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[Assistant] Whatever you choose to do, make sure you include some options. Stay open to new ideas and new opportunities. What you want to do, where you want to live, or even how you want to get there. You will never have more freedom than you have right now. So make the best of it.


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[Assistant] There are several characteristics that I think are critical to achievement. One of the most important is curiosity. It leads to asking the question why or even why not. A lot of the most amazing innovations of our time have come out of that one simple question. It's a good one. Some others are listening, learning and collaboration. I was once at a conference with some of the smartest people in the world.


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[Assistant] Actually a little intimidating to be honest with you. And someone had said to me, remember, there's a lot of really smart people in the world, and most of them don't work for you. A good idea can come from anywhere.


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[Assistant] And to be a lifetime learner is a great characteristic to develop and to utilize. Okay, let's go to what should you do.


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[Assistant] Well, my advice, keep your options open, as I said, and create some guardrails from which you can evaluate these options. When I say guardrails, what I mean is you have to figure it out. What is it that makes you fulfilled? What are your passions? What will make you feel satisfied at the end of the day?


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[Assistant] If you talk to anyone who has achieved personal success, they will all tell you they have followed their passion. It's critical to success and self fulfillment. So take some time and figure out what it means to you. It'll help. Expectations. Oh yeah. Always part of the mix.


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[Assistant] Key point, whose expectations are you trying to fulfill?


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[Assistant] Your parents, your friends, professors, siblings, significant others, or your own. There's only really one that matters. Only one that you have complete control over.


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[Assistant] Make sure you don't have, make sure you know how to answer that one first. Then you can deal with all the rest. If you don't, you'll wake up some morning and ask yourself, how did I get here? Now that's not always a bad thing. I pretty much do it every day. I can't believe how incredibly fortunate I've been.


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[Assistant] I've stayed at the same company for 34 years. Sometimes I have to stop and ask myself why. The original plan was to stay a maximum of five. I've had options along the way, but I realized there were three questions.


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[Assistant] I had to be able to answer every time I considered another opportunity whether it was inside or outside Nike.


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[Assistant] Was I confident and prepared to be a success in the new role? Because success breeds opportunity.


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[Assistant] Was it an opportunity that allowed me to continue to learn new things? Because you don't know what you don't know. And finally, was it something I really had a passion for?


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[Assistant] Because boredom will never allow you to do your best. Beyond that, I didn't have a plan. I felt that if I could answer those questions in a positive way, I'd go ahead and take the role. I considered changing companies along the way.


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[Assistant] But in the end, Nike always allowed me to answer those questions over the span of my career. I used the term journey earlier. It's an important nuance because I believe that's what we're all on. It's not a sprint, although it's going to feel like one at times.


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[Assistant] One of the things we all learn over time is patience. Not a term I've ever been comfortable with for most of my life, but certainly something I've learned to embrace.


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[Assistant] It's really struck me when I moved abroad and had to adapt to a foreign culture. One of the greatest learning opportunities of my life.


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[Assistant] I finally learned there was more than one way to solve a problem. More than one way to create an opportunity. And more than one way to communicate a message.


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[Assistant] It changed my perspective on almost everything and really created the opportunity and capability to run a multi-billion dollar global brand and organization. It's a journey. Make sure you set yourself up to enjoy it.


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[Assistant] For you and your generation, you have, you have more responsibility and opportunity than any generation in history. Now that may sound a bit daunting. It is. Now it's your turn to contribute, to lead and to find your way. The good news, you're also the most capable generation ever. You're better educated. You have a more global perspective.


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[Assistant] And you are armed with all the mistakes that have preceded you. I believe we're in good hands, but it's time for you to answer the bell.


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[Assistant] So that brings us to what do I hope you do? I hope that you want to change the world, make it a better place. We can't continue the way we have. We're running out of natural resources. We're altering ecosystems and slowly destroying our planet. Our planet is big, but it's not infinite.


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[Assistant] It's not about using less. It's about doing things differently. That's where you come in. Look for new ways to create things.


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[Assistant] New ways to use things, different ways to dispose of things. Our planet has its limits.


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[Assistant] But limits create opportunities to innovate, to get to a different place. I hope that you lead mankind to a place of respect and understanding. Our world gets smaller every day. It's a world of the 24 hour newsfeed, a world of transparencies.


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[Assistant] And a world that societal norms are evolving at lightning speed. Respecting understanding will be critical to avoid conflict and that will take leadership and participation. So have an opinion, get involved, you can make a difference. I hope you won't be afraid to fail.


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[Assistant] That you'll remain curious and that you'll always ask the question why or why not. That you'll never be satisfied with the status quo.


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[Assistant] That you will seek a different path, solution, or direction. That you will always look to make it better. I hope you take care of your mind and your body. We only have one of each, and they're not really transferable.


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[Assistant] The next generation is the first generation that may see a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Inactivity is killing us. Stay active. Keep moving.


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[Assistant] And finally, I hope that you all take the time to figure out your passion and that you follow it. That you build your life and your career around it. If you're lucky, they will become the same. You'll embrace it and you'll find both success and fulfillment. And it doesn't get any better than that. And finally, as I mentioned up front, it's quite an honor to be here. So I hope all of you get a chance to come back 35 years from now and talk to the graduating class of 2048.


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[Assistant] About what your hopes are for them. Congratulations everybody. Good luck. Thanks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I really like what you said about massive online courses. I think there's tremendous potential there. And I spent a lot of time with my friends debating this topic.


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[Assistant] At the same time, it's very interesting to see also, I think there's gonna be very interesting side effects also on the, on, on this country and, and, and the countries around it, uh, in the sense that teaching itself may change quite dramatically. And, uhm,


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[Assistant] I was curious to hear more about the, kind of the bigger picture for like, uh, uhm, additional thoughts you had on this.


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[Assistant] And welcome to the LSC. Hello everybody. I hope you can hear me.


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[Assistant] Welcome to this very exciting event on globalization and authoritarianism.


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[Assistant] My name is Mary Caldor and I'm Professor of Global Governance here at the London School of Economics and Director of the Civil Society and Conflict Research Unit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I'm going to start by introducing everybody and then I will hand over to Luke and Guy, who are the authors of the report we're going to discuss today. So, Guy Atchison, who on my screen is next to me, uhm,


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[Assistant] Is lecturer in politics and international studies at Loughborough University.


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[Assistant] Actually, they all have their names on so you can all see who they are. Luke Cooper, uhm, is associated with my research unit, uh, and also co-author.


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[Assistant] Is a senior lecturer and co-director of the Center for Research on Race and Law.


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[Assistant] And author of Debordering Britain, Law, Race and Empire. So welcome Nadine.


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[Assistant] Who is the director of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna?


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[Assistant] And also professor of social anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.


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[Assistant] And the director of the Albert Hirschman Center, something that's very relevant to all our discussions as Hirschman did so much about voice and democracy. So, uhm.


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[Assistant] So now I'm going to, oh, just before I introduce Luke and Guy to


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[Assistant] And the online event is being recorded and we hope it will be available as a podcast.


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[Assistant] Um, and as usual, there'll be a chance for you.


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[Assistant] To submit your questions through the Q&A feature at the bottom. Please let us know your name and your affiliation.


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[Assistant] People really like to know and we're very keen to hear from students, alumni and incoming students.


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[Assistant] And you can find the report we're launching today.


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[Assistant] Let us hand over to Luke and Guy to present the report.


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[Assistant] Uhm, thank you very much Luke, and I'll go straight on to Guy.


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[Assistant] So let me now, everybody's been very good about time, let me now turn to Nadine.


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[Assistant] Thanks very much Nadine, and I will go straight on to Charlene.


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[Assistant] Of the current situation, although I would say perhaps a little bit too depressing.


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[Assistant] Because I do think there are openings at the moment and I'd like to make one comment. I have lots more but just for time reasons I'd like to make one comment before I ask Luke and Guy if they want to respond and then we go over to the questions.


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[Assistant] So my point really is about this argument about de-globalisation, which,


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[Assistant] It seems to be widely accepted, not just by you two.


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[Assistant] And of course, in an obvious sense, if you define globalisation in a very conventional, narrow sense as trade and financial flows, then of course it's true.


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[Assistant] Uh, as a result of the use of internet and all of those things. But it's also, and I, for me, that's the most important meaning. It's about global consciousness.


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[Assistant] It's about thinking of yourself as a human being and being part of a human society.


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[Assistant] And it seems to me that this crisis, and then of course there's another meaning of globalisation, which is actually what most of the meanings tend to assume.


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[Assistant] Which is, we think of globalization as beyond the stake. And it seems like the state is back.


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[Assistant] But it seems to me that actually, if you think of globalisation as something more than those narrow meanings,


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[Assistant] I would say, despite the clampdown on civil society, we see this enormous outpouring over Black Lives Matter, which is a really significant, I think, transnational social movement. And if we think about the stakes,


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[Assistant] It's true that public authority is back, that people expect our authorities to act, as Charlene said, as an insurance mechanism and to protect us.


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[Assistant] But it's not clear to me that it's the state. Look at America.


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[Assistant] Trump is making all these ridiculous remarks, but most of the support, most of the anti-Covid measures are being taken at state level. Even in Britain, we're finding this is a moment that, oh, I thought I turned it off. We're finding that devolution, uhm,


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[Assistant] The World Health Organization has become much more present in our consciousness.


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[Assistant] We need to invent mechanisms through which citizens and civil society can have an influence on institutions.


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[Assistant] Absolutely correct arguments that you've all made about how it's an opportunity for authoritarianism but I also think it's a huge opportunity for the other and we should pull out the other as much as we can.


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[Assistant] The pandemic, even though it had covered up numerous families in the past and covered up the Uyghurs and everything else.


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[Assistant] The armed forces are trying to rush in on the act, but we're all celebrating health workers, not soldiers. And that's a huge paradigmatic change. So those were my comments. I'm not going to say more, just very briefly.


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[Assistant] So finally we get to the questions and answers and we have 25 minutes for this. So I'm going to start by reading out three questions and then whoever wants to answer can answer.


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[Assistant] A good example of what I meant about transnationalism.


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[Assistant] And she says some governments have announced suspending labour laws for a while after the pandemic to stimulate business after the pandemic.


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[Assistant] Will the pandemic lead to a post capitalist world or to a hyper capitalist world?


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[Assistant] What would this mean for our human rights? I have to say, I think you've all been talking about that all the time, but you might have specific answers. And then, how do I do this? I'm trying to get, then, the next question comes from David McBurnley, uhm, who's from the Open Government, uh, Network.


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[Assistant] Is the EU as prone to authoritarian austerity, crony capitalism and state dependent capitalism and lack of transparency and


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[Assistant] Authoritarian and populist governments around the world have dealt really badly with the coronavirus.


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[Assistant] And this has resulted in large numbers of people dying. Responsible governments have had better results.


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[Assistant] Is this an indication that populations are going to reject authoritarian and populist governments as being totally inept?


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[Assistant] So, all of three questions in a way cover ground, but I'm gonna let Charlene start.


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[Assistant] Local guy, because we've got a few more questions and...


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[Assistant] Okay, that's great. I will just read a couple more and then I'll go to all of you starting with Nadine. Okay?


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[Assistant] So there's one, I'm not going to read them all. There's one from Tom Lines who's in Brighton like me. Hello Tom.


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[Assistant] And he's a retired lecturer and consultant.


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[Assistant] Was an eventual turn to authoritarianism, probably with an ethnic link and inherent consequence of neoliberalism, like the fascism of the 1930s which followed the 1929 crash.


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[Assistant] In turn, a product of decades of laissez faire economics.


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[Assistant] Some people have predicted both during the 40 years of neoliberalism. Is this just facile historicism? And then uhm,


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[Assistant] I think, actually I'll leave it there, but I'll just ask one question myself.


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[Assistant] Which is, especially to Shalini, although I'm going to start with Nadine.


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[Assistant] Which is, is China a diff- does China fit this model of


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[Assistant] That all the new authoritarianists have been inept.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the responses have been different because in both India and China, for example,


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[Assistant] Maybe not a changing balance between capital and labour, but a changing balance, uh, in political authority. So Guy, do you want to start?


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[Assistant] Thank you so much Shalini and thank you to everybody and thank you to everybody listening. Uhm, I think we've run out of time. Goodbye. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Christmas. Christmas stocking.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, it's Angela from the App Brewery. And in this lesson, we're going to deep dive into how exactly does the internet work? So what exactly is the internet?


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[Assistant] A lot of people think it's a cloud, something that's hanging around in the sky. It's super complex, super difficult to understand, but actually that's not it at all. The internet is pretty simple.


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[Assistant] All it is, is just a long piece of wire. And wire connects different computers to each other. So you might have one computer that's in London, and another one that's in Seattle, and they can talk to each other and transfer data through this giant wire. Now, some of these computers attached to the internet have a very special job.


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[Assistant] They have to be online 24-7 ready to serve you all the data and files that you are requesting when you try to access a website.


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[Assistant] And these are called servers and what they do is they serve you all the data and files you need to be able to access and interact with certain websites. So these computers are called servers


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[Assistant] And any computer that a user would use to access the internet is called a client. Now you can imagine a web server as a giant library that's open 24x7.


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[Assistant] And you can go in there at any hour of the day and say, I want to see Google's homepage or I want to see the latest posts on TechCrunch.


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[Assistant] Quickly locate the thing that you want out of this giant library, right? So how is this problem solved on the internet?


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[Assistant] Well, let's say that you're sitting at home on your computer and you type in google.com because you want to head over to the main Google homepage. Well, what happens behind the scenes is that your browser will send that message.


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[Assistant] To your ISP or your internet service provider. So these are the people who you pay to be able to access the internet.


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[Assistant] If you live in the US, that will be AT&T or Comcast. And if you're in the UK, that would be something like BT or Talk Talk.


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[Assistant] Now the message that you're sending the ISP is, I wanna see google.com. And the ISP will then relay that message to something called a DNS server. Which stands for a Domain Name System Server. And a DNS server is essentially just a souped up phone book.


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[Assistant] And what happens when you make that request through your browser is the DNS server will look up in its database to find the exact IP address of that website that you're trying to access.


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[Assistant] And every single computer that's connected to the internet has an IP address. It's kind of like a postal code for your computer.


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[Assistant] So that when people need to send and receive files on the internet, each computer can be located and contacted using their unique IP address. And once the DNS server finds that IP address, it'll send it back to your browser through the ISP over the internet.


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[Assistant] Then you can make a direct request to that address and what lives at that IP address is of course the Google servers and they'll be able to send you back all the files and data you need to be able to view the Google homepage.


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[Assistant] Now you can try this for yourself to look up the IP address of the Google homepage. Head over to this website, nslookup.io and type in google.com.


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[Assistant] And they should show you the exact IP address of the Google servers that you can access.


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[Assistant] Now, if you try checking this on a different day, say in a week or in a month's time, you might see that this address actually changes. And that's because many websites, including Google, use something called dynamic IP addresses as well as a content distribution network or a CDN.


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[Assistant] This basically ensures that it gets you to the closest server to where you are located. And also this address will change depending on whether if it's being used or not.


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[Assistant] So don't type in what you see on screen instead, head over to nslookup.io and look up what is the closest IP address to you that is currently being used.


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[Assistant] So if you copy it and paste it into a new tab, then you'll be able to replicate that process and see the Google homepage show up. So to summarize,


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[Assistant] The internet is just a bunch of wires that connects up different computers.


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[Assistant] But it's just on a much bigger scale, connecting up all the computers in the world. But what about the oceans, I hear you ask? Well, that's one of the coolest things. There are these massive undersea cables connecting all the continents on Earth.


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[Assistant] And if you head over to submarinecablemap.com, you can see all of these cables and see the ones that connect you up to the internet. And these undersea cables are massive.


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[Assistant] Consisting of hundreds of fibre optic fibres, each of them using lasers to transmit up to 400 gigabytes of data per second. This is a cross section of one of the cables that run to New Zealand.


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[Assistant] It's an absolute marvel of modern technology and it looks really beautiful. Don't you think?


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[Assistant] And to think that every single time we load up a webpage or click on a button on a website, behind the scenes we're sending signals that navigate all of this crazy underwater and above water wires.


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[Assistant] And all I need is just an IP address. And through tiny electric signals traveling at the speed of light through the oceans and halfway around the world in a matter of milliseconds, I get to view my favorite websites.


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[Assistant] And that is how awesome the internet is. And we're going to be taming it to build our own websites and web apps. And to be able to do that, we first have to understand how exactly do websites work?


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[Assistant] Listening to wise quotes is like living the human experience. Fill your wisdom with Charles Dickens quotes we've collected for you in this video.


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[Assistant] There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.


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[Assistant] Happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.


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[Assistant] One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are the rain on the dust of earth.


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[Assistant] Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.


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[Assistant] There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.


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[Assistant] In a Yuletarian age of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.


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[Assistant] Uh, hi, uh, Sid Suri from Microsoft Research New York. Uhm, what is the most important problem facing humanity right now? And then as a following question, what is the most important problem facing humanity that people in this room might be well equipped to handle?


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[Assistant] Hey guys, welcome to day 40 of 100 Days of Code.


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[Assistant] Today is really exciting because we're going to be upgrading the project that we created in the last day.


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[Assistant] To a fully fledged product, we're going to be building a company today and this is part two of your capstone project.


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[Assistant] Now the first rule of flight club is you do not talk about flight club.


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[Assistant] So in part one, we created our flight deal hunter for ourselves and we only had a user base of one. Now in this part two, we're going to be leveling up the code so that we can start signing up users and send them an email with a notification of all the best flight deals.


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[Assistant] A little while ago, I discovered a company called Jack's Flight Club.


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[Assistant] And it's pretty simple. All you have to do is put in your email and then they'll send you cheap flight deals. So any flight within the next six months that is a lot cheaper than it normally is, you'll get it through an email.


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[Assistant] And if you're like me, somebody who doesn't really care where they're going, just as long as they're getting a good deal, then these emails are pretty cool.


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[Assistant] They actually charge for this premium service in order to get an email with all of the latest deals and all of the best flight prices.


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[Assistant] Now, if you think about it, their service is essentially the same as what we've created using Python code. Maybe they'll have a larger Google spreadsheet with more destinations, but essentially it's pretty much the same.


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[Assistant] I want you to take a look at their website, Jack's Flight Club, and see how it works. And you can see that they've actually got a whole bunch of members, but this is essentially what we're going to replicate.


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[Assistant] By the end of today, we'll have a text-based way of getting our customers or users to join.


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[Assistant] So maybe you've got some friends and family who might want to use your flight club to get the best flight deals. Well then all you have to do is to point them to a link in Repl.it which contains your customer acquisition code and then they get to enter in their name and email.


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[Assistant] And after a little bit of validation, we hit enter and we get added to a spreadsheet in our spreadsheet in another sheet called users.


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[Assistant] We'll see all of the details of our customer being added.


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[Assistant] And we're going to be using the SMTP module that we learned about a long time ago to email all of our users with the latest deals every day.


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[Assistant] So head over to the next lesson and get started by downloading the starting files.


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[Assistant] I know what kind of guy Angeal is, and he'd never do that!


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[Assistant] What's with Angeal? How long is he gonna slack off like this? It's already been a month. Sephiroth's no help either. Lumping Angeal together with Genesis. Genesis is a deserter.


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[Assistant] Not yet. I'll read it later. I'm in a meeting in the briefing room right now.


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[Assistant] I'm kinda busy, but if you can keep it short...


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[Assistant] Wait, what? You brought me here just to ditch me?


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[Assistant] Soldier First Classes. Have a big female following it looks like.


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[Assistant] So Genesis deserts and gets his best friend Angeal to join him. Is that it?


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[Assistant] Uh, greetings ma'am. Are you Angeal's mother?


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[Assistant] I'll take care of Angeal. You should go and hide somewhere.


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[Assistant] Now these two rascals must be Angeal and Genesis.


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[Assistant] Angeal, where did you go? What?


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[Assistant] He wasn't at the house. But please, give me time. If I find Angeal, I can talk to him.


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[Assistant] If I can convince Angeal, maybe Genesis will come back too.


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[Assistant] They would have done that anyway. At least your parents would have.


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[Assistant] Fuse sound and color, huh? I have to get to Angel's mom quickly.


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[Assistant] I hope she's alright. Gotta find her. Now!


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[Assistant] Zack? I've never heard of you. You must be Soldier Second-rate.


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[Assistant] Just imagining him walking around shirtless is enough to make me swoon.


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[Assistant] You're not here together with Genesis, are you?


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[Assistant] Genesis came back here, a month ago, with an army of cohorts.


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[Assistant] And they proceeded to take the lives of many towns people. Genesis, he used to be such a good boy.


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[Assistant] Don't be concerned. Genesis cannot harm me.


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[Assistant] My husband had that sword made for him and told him to fight with honor.


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[Assistant] It should have been me. I should have dealt with Genesis.


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[Assistant] Then why'd you send me? To prepare you. For your next fight.


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[Assistant] Zack, I am perfect. A perfect monster. My cells can absorb genetic traits and pass them along to others.


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[Assistant] Zack, do you remember what I said about our enemy being all the create suffering


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[Assistant] Um, but it was an amazing experience. The highlight was definitely Villa d'Este in Como, which was stunning.


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[Assistant] Bloody hell. And I've already opened this, I might let Ali open it, actually go on.


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[Assistant] Oooooh, look how beautiful. Got a brun- all the brunch locations.


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[Assistant] Elf Learning presents The Sky. What do you see in the sky?


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[Assistant] Star. Star.


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[Assistant] Storm. Storm.


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[Assistant] That's what we see in the sky.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome back to English with Lucy. Today is a video that can be appropriate for both native speakers. Are you people who have English as a mother tongue?


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[Assistant] And also non-native speakers, people who are learning English as a second or as an additional language.


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[Assistant] Might be your third language. I know some of you are completely crazy.


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[Assistant] I'm going to talk to you about words that are hard to pronounce. There will be 20 words in total.


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[Assistant] And it's going to be a bit of a tongue twister even for me. I love doing these pronunciation videos. Uhm, I've done a couple before.


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[Assistant] And also 10 words that native speakers might pronounce incorrectly as well, and you can click here as well to see that. Yeah, these videos have been really, really popular, and whenever I ask you guys what kind of videos you'd like to see, you want to see pronunciation videos and commonly mispronounced words.


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[Assistant] So here it is! Before we get started, this video is very kindly sponsored by Lingoda, the company that I've been working with for ages.


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[Assistant] If you don't know about Lingoda, it's an online language academy. You can learn French, Spanish, English or German with real native teachers in both private and group lessons. If you want to see a review I did of the platform, then you can click here.


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[Assistant] And that's a full review of Lingoda. And they've very kindly given me a discount. So that's 50 euros or 50 US dollars off your first month at Lingoda.


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[Assistant] It's a great offer, don't miss out. You can claim that by clicking on the link in the description box and using the code INGLUCIE5. The code is also in the description box, don't worry. Right, let's get started with the video.


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[Assistant] Now the first word I want to talk to you about is this one. How do you say it? Go on, give it a go. The word is choir. Choir.


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[Assistant] The next word, number two, is this one. It's difficult because we've got the rr sound twice. Rural.


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[Assistant] Rural. It doesn't sound nice when I say it. Rural. Now the next one, number three, is actually a place name.


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[Assistant] It's a county in the UK, it's Worcestershire.


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[Assistant] Worcestershire. So people want to say Worcestershire. Or Worcestershire, but it should be Worcester, Worcester, Worcestershire.


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[Assistant] Uhm, how do we pronounce? And that brings me onto my next one, number four, which is this. Is it sheer? Is it shire? Or is it sh? The answer is it can be all of them. Officially it should be shire or sh.


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[Assistant] But a lot of people blend the two and say Sheer. That's what my family and I say. We're from Bedfordshire. I'm living in Cambridgeshire.


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[Assistant] The next one, number five, is prelude. Prelude.


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[Assistant] A lot of people want to say prelude, or prelude, but it should be prelude. The next one, number six, are we on number six? Yes. The next one, number six, is a word that most native people will know, but when I was teaching Spaniards English, they never knew how to pronounce it because it's quite a complicated spelling. It's this one. How do we say it?


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[Assistant] It's squirrel. Squirrel. And that rrrl, rrrl, people with Chinese as a mother tongue, that might be a really difficult one because rr and uuuh often get confused. So, squirrel. Squirrel. Two syllables there. The next one, number seven. This one. We've got that rr sound again. Dura. Dura. Also, people suffer with the


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[Assistant] Juh, uh, uh sound. Juh-rah. It's a very complicated mouth movement that you have to make. Uh, I almost stick out my chin when I say it. Juh-rah. Juh-rah. Beautiful angle there. The next one, number eight. Spherical.


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[Assistant] Spherical. It's a very satisfying one to say, isn't it? Spherical. Uhm, a lot of people say spherical because we have a sphere and a sphere is spherical.


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[Assistant] Number nine, this one. Frenchies, where are you? Because this one is yours. Valet. Valet. But you will hear some people saying, valid. Valid.


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[Assistant] That pronunciation is accepted by some dictionaries, but come on guys, let's say valet. Number ten, pronunciation.


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[Assistant] Now, this one is a really common mistake. Pronunciation. How you pronounce something. A lot of people will say pronunciation.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I get accused of saying pronunce- of saying pronunciation in my videos, but really it is just my accent. Pronunciation, nunciation. I say it so quickly that...


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[Assistant] It should be mauve, mauve. Many people will say marv or


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[Assistant] It should be regime. I've got a new regime. The next one, number 13 is this one.


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[Assistant] Now, because it comes from French, it should be pronounced niche, with a shh, a soft shh sound at the end, unvoiced. But many people will pronounce it niche.


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[Assistant] Which sounds so ugly compared to niche, which is so beautiful and airy and breathy and then niche. Niche? Yeaah, snitch.


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[Assistant] The next one, number fourteen, is more a confusion between two words. Uhm, it's moot. Moot. It's a matter about which there may be discussion or confusion, but people generally confuse it with mute, which means silent, not speaking, not making a noise. Moot. Mute. The next one, this one, you might ask for a nice beer. It's draught. I used to work in a pub and I


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[Assistant] I've heard people ask for a drought beer a couple of times, but it's a draught. Draught beer. Number sixteen. This one.


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[Assistant] Yes, in my lifetime I have heard someone say, Albait. Albait. And I was thinking, Albait, what do they mean?


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[Assistant] The next one, and this is one that my Italian ex flatmate used to do, pronouncing correctly all the time, he used to say, letius.


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[Assistant] Lettuce in the house! No, uhm, it's lettuce. Lettice. Yeah, confusing spelling there. The next one, a word that you might not use in everyday conversation, but it's an interesting one because it's such a bizarre spelling and pronunciation difference. Colonel. Not colonel. Colonel. Why?


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[Assistant] I hear a lot of people saying green witch, and I can totally understand why you would say that, because reading it, green witch, it makes sense. But no, it's Greenwich. Greenwich. The next one?


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[Assistant] Infamous. I've heard a couple of people pronounce it infamous, which is incorrect. Infamous.


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[Assistant] Number 20, this one. I used to pronounce this incorrectly. This one is gauge.


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[Assistant] But it looks like it should be pronounced gorge. But no, it's gauge.


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[Assistant] You're gorge. This is gage.


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[Assistant] That's it for today's video. Thank you so much to Lingoda for sponsoring the video, making this all happen. Don't forget to check out the link in the description box and use the code IngLucy5.


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[Assistant] And I will see you soon for another lesson. Mwah! Bye!


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[Assistant] There is no hate, only joy, for you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, healer of worlds.


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[Assistant] Three friends go into battle. One is captured. One flies away. The one that is left becomes a hero.


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[Assistant] But now what I want most is the gift of the goddess.


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[Assistant] Hello up there! How about dropping some of those cherries down to me?


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[Assistant] Look at these lovely fresh acorns. Another autumn treat.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, he managed to steal my most prized materia.


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[Assistant] And well, once he used it, there was no chance.


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[Assistant] You too! You didn't even try to chase him. Come on now, that's not true at all.


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[Assistant] Now a website would be pretty boring if it had no images on it, right? So in this lesson, we're going to learn how we can add images to our website using the image element.


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[Assistant] Now this is what it looks like. It's pretty simple. And you'll notice that similar to the anchor tag or the anchor element that we learned about in the last lesson, the main component of an image tag that renders the image is this attribute, which is called source or SRC.


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[Assistant] And what this does is it tells the image element what is the source of the image.


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[Assistant] And that's why after the equal sign, the value is going to be the location of the image.


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[Assistant] One last thing to notice about the image tag is unlike the anchor tag, it doesn't have a closing tag. Instead, it is a self-closing tag, also known as a void element.


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[Assistant] Remember previously we learnt about void elements where we learnt that you can have horizontal rule elements, you can also have break elements, and similarly the image element is also a void element that doesn't have a closing tag.


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[Assistant] Because if you think about it, what is the text content of an image? It doesn't really make sense, right? The main content is actually the image that will be rendered from the source.


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[Assistant] What does this look like? Well, here's an example image element where we've set the source to a real life live photo on the internet.


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[Assistant] Now when this code is rendered in a website, it will display a random image. So in this case, the random image I got was a forest.


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[Assistant] And the reason why it's random is because I'm getting these photos from a source called pixum.photos. So if you type this into your browser, you should see a website and the idea is kind of like the Lorem ipsum for


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[Assistant] So when you don't really care what the photo is, but you need a photo on your website as you're creating it in order to see what it would look like, then you could use this website.


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[Assistant] And you could put in the URL, which is the standard one, like here. And then after a forward slash, you can add in the size of your image. So in this case, I'm saying I want a square that is 200 pixels by 200 pixels.


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[Assistant] It gives me a random image from its data bank. For example, in this case of a forest.


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[Assistant] The other attribute for a image tag that's super important and one that you should always have is the alt attribute.


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[Assistant] And the alt attribute stands for alternative text description.


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[Assistant] This is really important because people who are blind or visually impaired, they don't look at the internet the same way we do. They often use something called a screen reader.


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[Assistant] And what the screen reader is going to do when it hits an image is it will look at the alternative text provided. So in this case, I've provided that this is a forest at sunset.


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[Assistant] Or sunrise, I'm not quite sure, but that means that the person with visual impairment will get this read out to them and it will help them understand what the website's all about. So what is this process like?


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[Assistant] So as an example, I'm using the Silktide toolbar, which is a Chrome browser extension to simulate what a person with visual impairment might hear as they're browsing, in this case, the BBC website.


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[Assistant] As I click through next, you can see it describes the different things that are on screen. And if I go over to the image, it describes the image for me.


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[Assistant] Item two, dolphin leaping from the sea image.


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[Assistant] So where is it getting this description from? Well, if we right click on the image and inspect it and if we look for the image, which I think should be down here, you can see as I


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[Assistant] Right here. And you can see the alt text saying dolphin leaping from the sea. And that is what gets read out from the screen reader, helping somebody with blindness be able to understand what's on this website.


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[Assistant] Now, if you want to check out this tool, it's a Chrome browser extension called Silktide and it should be a free plugin, but it might only work on Mac or certain versions of Windows.


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[Assistant] But it's not so much about the tool, but I wanted to show you how important it is, the alt text that you provide for accessibility and for disabled users browsing your website.


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[Assistant] Now let's try an exercise and create some images of our own. Download this zip file from this current lesson.


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[Assistant] And go ahead and drag it into your web development project folder and open it inside VS code.


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[Assistant] If you take a look inside the index.html, you can see I provided to you two image URL examples that you can use.


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[Assistant] And what we're aiming for is to find out if you're a cat person or if you're a dog person. I want you to create a h1 that says I'm a cat person or I'm a dog person. And also I want you to add a image element straight afterwards.


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[Assistant] Now you can use the URL for the dog or for the cat. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day, as long as you've understood how to create images.


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[Assistant] That's the challenge. Pause the video and give that a go.


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[Assistant] Alright, so personally, I'm more of a dog kind of person. And if you're also a dog person, then you might see my little Easter egg that I've buried in there. So first, let's go ahead and create our H1.


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[Assistant] Now, already, if we go ahead and show preview, you can see our little dog digging in the sand, because if you've noticed, this is actually a GIF image.


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[Assistant] GIF images work exactly the same way as normal images, JPEGs or PNGs. As long as you put it into the source, it will be rendered in a website and it will start animating all by itself. And you get a cute little dog digging through the sand.


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[Assistant] Now if you're a cat person, then this is just a static JPEG because cats are more chill.


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[Assistant] But we haven't finished creating our image element yet. Remember what I said about the alt tag? It's a good idea to always add an alt tag to describe our image when we can.


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[Assistant] Now there are some cases where you don't create an alt tag because it's not really relevant to somebody reading through the content of a website and you can in fact leave it blank.


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[Assistant] But in this case, it's very simple. We've got a puppy, uhm, who is digging through the sand.


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[Assistant] And now when we take a look at our preview, then nothing visually for us changes, but behind the scenes, we will help our visually impaired friends to be able to understand our website just a little bit better.


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[Assistant] So I hope you managed to achieve either of these goals. And once you're ready, we can head over to the next lesson where we got the final project to create a birthday invite website using all the skills that we've learned so far. So all of that and more, I'll see you there.


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[Assistant] My friend, the fates are cruel. There are no dreams. No honor remains. The arrow has left. The bow of the goddess.


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[Assistant] The mysterious gift of the goddess. What is the meaning behind it? For us, at least.


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[Assistant] My soul, corrupted by vengeance.


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[Assistant] To find the end of the journey in my own salvation and your eternal slumber.


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[Assistant] Dreams of the morrow have the shattered soul.


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[Assistant] McDonald's wings. McDonald's chicken wings. I think these made an appearance in other countries, including America for a while, but I don't think they're there anymore. But they are on the McDonald's menu here in Korea, and I'm gonna be trying them out, doing a little taste test, a little, you know, reaction review.


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[Assistant] Or a little mini mukbang, I don't know what you want to call it, but I've never had these before. And uhm,


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[Assistant] They look very interesting. I just- They've been on the menu here for a while in Korea, but-


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[Assistant] I just never really had the inclination to try and melt.


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[Assistant] Four of each. Four drummies or drumettes. And four flats, I think you call them. I just like to call them drummies and the good ones. I love these. I love both of them but I love these more for some reason. Anyway.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. I guess there's only one thing left to do. Try these out. So, I'm gonna start off with one of these.


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[Assistant] They are different, but it's kinda comparable, I have to say.


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[Assistant] I don't want to compare it to KFC, but I'm going to.


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[Assistant] But you definitely get all those like, you can tell they use a lot of different spices in the batter mix or the breading mix.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a good wing. I can't even lie. Like, I could eat these straight up. Most of the time you don't want to eat wings without sauce, but I could eat these without sauce probably. By the way, these came out to 8 bucks.


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[Assistant] With the delivery, so it's like a dollar per wing. Pretty much, which isn't bad. For McDonald's in Korea at least.


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[Assistant] So I'm going to try one of these. The reason why I like these is because you can like pull out the bones like that. Okay, I got one bone. You just kind of grab one end and kind of twist it around and then pull it out. It should come out pretty clean if not just


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[Assistant] Surprisingly good, I'm not sure why I never wanted to try these before, but, heck.


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[Assistant] I might have to start ordering these more often, to be honest.


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[Assistant] Some sweet chili sauce. Believe it or not, this is the only sauce that I could select from. Which, I mean, it's alright, but...


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[Assistant] I like more of a, you know, I'm not a huge like sweet sauce guy when it comes to wings, you know, it's okay. I like it, but not as much as other sauces. I kinda like some heat usually, so. Got some sriracha.


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[Assistant] I could imagine dipping these in some buffalo sauce and just loving life.


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[Assistant] There's actually a decent amount of chicken. Sometimes you get those like tiny wings.


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[Assistant] These are probably like average size I would say. Not too small, not too big.


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[Assistant] And I don't know man, uhm, it just works, it just works. I don't even need sriracha honestly, I could go for buffalo sauce. It's a shame they don't have it here. But, so if you do this right, by the way.


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[Assistant] You should be able to pull out both bones with one swift...


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[Assistant] That's, that's an epic fail. I think I pulled out all the chicken. I think I just pulled off all this breading from the chicken. Wow. Don't do that.


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[Assistant] Anyway, right now, my first reaction is I'll give these a solid, you know, the, uh, the sauce choices.


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[Assistant] We're weak as hell, so I'm gonna have to downgrade a couple points, or at least a point from that. And honestly, they only have one choice, like c'mon now.


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[Assistant] I would have to give these a solid 8 though, like overall. You know, if I had my own sauce, these could be bumped up to even higher. Not sure what though.


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[Assistant] But yea, solid wings. If you're ever in a country where you can get these wings, try them out if you like wings. Personally, I really like wings. I love wings.


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[Assistant] You know, buffalo wings, that kind of thing. Uh, yeaah, my favorite sauces would be


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[Assistant] Just like, shred it like medium to hot. Just regular buffalo sauce.


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[Assistant] And also parm gar- parmesan garlic.


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[Assistant] If you haven't tried parmesan garlic wings, go out and try them ASAP.


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[Assistant] Granted, they might not be for everybody, but they changed my life for sure.


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[Assistant] That would be good as well. If I had a side of like, just buffalo sauce, or inside a parmgar, man, I'd be set.


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[Assistant] Wings are actually my favorite food, believe it or not. You know, right now it's pizza, it'll never change, it'll always be pizza for the rest of my life.


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[Assistant] When I was younger, probably in high school, Wings briefly took the number one spot.


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[Assistant] And believe it or not, I didn't try wings, like buffalo wings, until I was in high school. I think I was, uh, like a freshman or sophomore the first time I had buffalo wings, which I'm not sure why I didn't try them before that.


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[Assistant] But I still remember the place. Sully's in my hometown. Sully's Pub. Classic, like, sports bar. Local joint. They have, like, Wing Tuesday.


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[Assistant] Maybe 25 cents per wing, maybe 35 cents somewhere in there. But it was a great deal nonetheless.


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[Assistant] For the price, and the quality, yeaah. Fjord from Galesbury hit that place up.


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[Assistant] Before I was uhm, I started filming this video, I was thinking about Wings and Sully's, that, that local pub.


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[Assistant] Those dive bars or those dives, hole in the wall places in your hometown. They aren't anywhere else that you really like. Man, those, you can't replace those ever. No matter what you do or how hard you try. There's just something about those places that you just can't beat them in the end.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe if you, if you live in the same town or same city for your whole life, then it could be different, but.


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[Assistant] I think most people these days will find themselves living in a place other than their hometown, at least for a while. It depends on what kind of town or city it is.


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[Assistant] I would say, don't take those places for granted, for sure.


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[Assistant] It's like me right now. Man, I've been basically almost...


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[Assistant] And it's, you know, it's rare to get those, those good eats, those classic eats that you can't get.


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[Assistant] Anywhere else specific to your hometown.


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[Assistant] My favorite place of all time, I've mentioned this before, but my favorite restaurant of all time was in my hometown. It was a pizza place called Hammer's.


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[Assistant] Best pizza, best Sicilian pizza you could ever, you could ever find.


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[Assistant] They had the buffet. You could eat unlimited pizza for a good, solid price. It closed down like last year when I was over here in Korea and I was just devastated.


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[Assistant] They just shut down their doors for good. I'm not sure why. You know, it seemed like they were always doing well, but...


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[Assistant] Looking back, I regret not eating it more. You know, I ate it a- ate there a lot. But if I go back in time, I would eat there like every week, probably. So.


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[Assistant] Don't take those local joints, you know, for uh, for granted.


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[Assistant] Cause when you get older, well, a lot of you guys are probably older than me, but.


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[Assistant] Like a couple weeks now, and I'm so disappointed that I can't go to Hammer's and get that Sicilian pizza. Man, oh man, that's a, it's a sad day. Anyway, yea, very solid wings though. Uhm, I could eat, man, I could probably eat 30 of these, maybe. If I had the right sauces, man, maybe even more.


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[Assistant] I think one of these days I'm going to have to concoct, you know, maybe a parmigare sauce or a buffalo sauce with some butter and some franks or something, if I can find that, and then order these again and see what's really up, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Yeah, good stuff here. Uhm, I don't know what you guys think about this kind of format of video, I don't know how long I've been recording now, oh, I forgot, I was recording in, ah, nevermind.


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[Assistant] Anyway, it's kinda like a mukbang. It's kinda like a mini mukbang, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I know a lot of you guys probably like mukbangs where the dude person eats a ton of food and sits around for like 30 minutes or something and it's really chill. But for me...


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[Assistant] I mean, that's not something that I can do often, but I can see myself doing something like this, maybe like a 10, 15 minute video of just like a reasonable amount of food and just chilling and talking to you guys. Let me know what you think about that.


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[Assistant] Let me know in the comments. Anyway, before I end this video, I want to give a shout out to Megan. Thank you so much for supporting me on Patreon.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I recently hit 250,000 subscribers, which is a quarter of a million. Completely insane. I'm just rambling on at this point, but uh, thank you all, thank you all for all the support. Uh, hope you guys enjoyed this video, and I'll catch you in the next one. Peace.


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[Assistant] Well done Penelope. But today's Sunday, there is no school.


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[Assistant] Run away if you can, Angeal! The Turks are watching!


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[Assistant] Uh huh. Alright, we'll do it, it's fine. We'll do it.


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[Assistant] Uh, as a, as a 3D animator and concept artist and art director, uhm, and probably on titles you haven't heard of, mostly mobile games, but uhm, decided I wanted to do my comic full-time and uhm, used Patreon to do that and now I kinda wanna just take it a step further and see if we can, we can animate it.


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[Assistant] Uh, and since I'm probably the least interesting person here, I'm gonna go ahead and hand it off to Fable.


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[Assistant] That's a control panel on the side that you can like, and you can warm the seat and you can use like the female version or male version of like the wash. It's really neat.


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[Assistant] Hours before it launched, we had a, like the stock market opened with like historic drops.


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[Assistant] And like, and that's when people, when like, uh, governors were starting to tell people, like, no going to work or anything. So I'm like, oh no, this is the worst possible time to launch a Kickstarter. People are like, their lives are upended. Their livelihoods have just been like taken away from them for an indefinite period and the stock market just plummeted. So.


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[Assistant] That's definitely true. Yeah, in case that's not clear, it's like, this isn't just like, I'm not pocketing the money or like Iron Circus isn't pocketing the money. This is money we're using to fund the production. We're paying artists to make this, to put this together. Uh, so it's employment for people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, being obnoxious about it. But yeah, I had a little bit of an episode after a project I was working on at work. It was clear that the project was coming apart, and our producer left, and I was in a position where I was trying to hire people, and this is when I was working in the game industry, by the way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so, uh, and I also had moved into a house recently that, that was in a historic area in St. Louis, and uhm,


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[Assistant] Copy paper everywhere, all over every surface of just like notes and scribbles and sketches and things.


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[Assistant] Uhm, maybe they were doing terrible things, but maybe with, with pure intentions behind them, just making, you know, bad life decisions.


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[Assistant] But uhm, which you know is an easy thing to do for all of us, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's where it all came from. It just, uhm, it just kind of infected my brain and took over and I've been kind of obsessed with it ever since. And uhm, I was like, initially when I


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[Assistant] Either you never, yeah, yeah, either you do like, you draw like three pages of the comic and then you give up or it just takes over your, your entire life. So yeah, that's just the way comics are. They are, uhm, all or nothing.


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[Assistant] Uh, cross paths there first. Uhm, I know I was aware of Fable's work before I ran into them at conventions, but, like, we traveled in the same, like, same circle. We were inventing our own comics, doing color illustrations, and


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[Assistant] Uhm, showing up at the same conventions and uhm, there was one in Detroit that, that you and Kay were at at one point.


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[Assistant] And knew that they were working in animation and everything. And uhm, just really always enjoyed what they were doing. And at some point last year, uh, I saw they...


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[Assistant] People had posted something about, I think you had a studio gig that had ended not long before and you were looking for work and I was like thinking, you know, I'd always


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[Assistant] When I, when I picture Lackadaisy in my head it plays out like an animated film and I'm just like translating it to comic panels. Like I'm just like taking snapshots of it and then drawing it as a like static panel and trying to capture what I'm seeing in my head. Yeah, Lackadaisy has always had that like classic


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[Assistant] Yeah, like Sable and I think we grew up on the same, like Don Bluth, like the same, uh, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] But it was the 90s, so, you know, they couldn't do that. But uhm, yeaah, it was, uh, but yeaah, that's, that was like, the stuff that I grew up on, that, like Oliver and Company and all those things, those were the movies I watched over and over again, were the talking animal movies.


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[Assistant] And so I guess it's natural that I ended up drawing that, but also like perceiving it in my mind's eye as animation and then just trying to capture as much of that movement and character acting and stuff as I could in the comic, like slipping in extra panels wherever I could to let the characters, you know, make expressions and move around.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so yeaah, I kinda always wanted to try animating it to kinda see it fully realized in the way that I see it in my head and as fantastically narcissistic as I'm sure that sounds.


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[Assistant] Maybe let's try it, uh, because Fable was saying they were looking for something to do, I knew of their animation background, loved their work, and uhm, so I reached out and was like, hey, uhm,


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[Assistant] Do you want to put a pitch together? And we kind of took off from there. We got some, we did put a pitch together.