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[Assistant] Uh, and that is, when that happens just right, it makes all the other meetings worthwhile. It feels good. It has a kind of beauty to it. It has.


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[Assistant] And aesthetic beauty to it. And you get real breakthroughs and meetings like that.


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[Assistant] Meetings at Amazon and Blue Origin are unusual. When we, when we get new, when new people come in, like a new executive joins, they're a little taken aback sometimes because a typical meeting.


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[Assistant] We'll start with a six page narratively structured memo and we do study hall.


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[Assistant] For 30 minutes, we sit there silently together in the meeting and read.


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[Assistant] Take notes in the margins and then we, then we discuss.


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[Assistant] And the reason by the way we do study, you could say I would like everybody to read these memos in advance.


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[Assistant] But the problem is people don't have time to do that and they end up coming to the meeting having only skimmed the memo or maybe not read it at all and they're trying to catch up.


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[Assistant] And also bluffing like they were in college having pretended to do the reading.


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[Assistant] It's better just to carve out the time for people. So now we're all on the same page. We've all read the memo.


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[Assistant] And now we can have a really elevated discussion. And this is so much better from having a slideshow presentation, you know, a PowerPoint presentation of some kind where.


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[Assistant] That has so many difficulties, but one of the problems is PowerPoint is really designed to persuade. It's kind of a sales tool. And internally, the last thing you want to do is sell. You want to, you're again, you're truth seeking. You're trying to find truth.


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[Assistant] And the other problem with PowerPoint is it's easy for the author.


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[Assistant] And hard for the audience and a memo is the opposite.


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[Assistant] It's hard to write a six page memo. A good six page memo might take two weeks to write. You have to write it, you have to rewrite it, you have to edit it, you have to talk to people about it, they have to poke holes in it for you.


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[Assistant] You know, there are little problems with PowerPoint presentations too. You know, senior executives interrupt with questions halfway through the presentation. That question's gonna be answered on the next slide, but you never got there. Because if you read the whole memo in advance, you, you know, I often write lots of questions that I have in the margins of these memos.


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[Assistant] And then I go cross them all out because by the time I get to the end of the memo, they've been answered. That's why I save all that time.


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[Assistant] You also get, you know, if the person is preparing the memo, we talked earlier about, um,


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[Assistant] You know, group think and you know, the fact that I go last in meetings and that you don't want, you know, to your ideas to kind of pollute the meeting prematurely.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, the author of the memo is, is, is kind of got to be very vulnerable. They've got to put all their thoughts out there and they've got to go first. But that's great because it makes them really good.


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[Assistant] And so, and you get to see their real ideas and you're not tromping on them accidentally in a big PowerPoint presentation.


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[Assistant] I think it's terrifying in a productive way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I think it's mostly a very nerve-racking experience.


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[Assistant] The, I mean, it's really got to be a real memo, so it means, you know,


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[Assistant] Paragraphs have topics, sentences, it's verbs and nouns. You can't, that's the other problem with PowerPoint is they're often just bullet points and you can, you can hide a lot of sloppy thinking behind bullet points. When you have to write in complete sentences with narrative structure, it's really hard to hide sloppy thinking.


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[Assistant] So it does, it, it forces the author to be at their best.


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[Assistant] And so you're getting somebody's, they're getting somebody's really their best thinking and then you don't have to spend a lot of time trying to.


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[Assistant] Yes. So you don't want, you don't want to pretend that the discussion should be crisp. There's, you know, most meetings you're trying to solve a really hard problem.


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[Assistant] There's a different kind of meeting, which we call weekly business reviews or business reviews. They may be weekly or monthly or daily, whatever they are. But these business review meetings, that's usually for incremental improvement. And you're looking at a series of metrics every time it's the same metrics. Those meetings can be very efficient. They can start on time and end on time.


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[Assistant] Ten Thousand Year Clock is a physical clock of monumental scale. It's about 500 feet tall. It's inside a mountain in West Texas in a chamber that's about 12 feet in diameter and 500 feet tall. Ten Thousand Year Clock is an idea conceived by a brilliant guy named Danny Hillis way back in the 80s.


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[Assistant] The idea is to build a clock as a symbol for long-term thinking.


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[Assistant] And you can kind of just very conceptually think of the 10,000 year clock as it.


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[Assistant] It, it, you know, it ticks once a year, um, it chimes once, you know, every hundred years and the cuckoo comes out once every thousand years. So it just sort of slows everything down. And, um, it's a completely mechanical clock.


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[Assistant] It is designed to last 10,000 years with no human intervention. So the material choices and everything else.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's in a remote location both to protect it, but also so that visitors have to kind of make a pilgrimage.


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[Assistant] The idea is that over time, this will take hundreds of years.


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[Assistant] But over time, it will take on the patina of age.


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[Assistant] And then it will become a symbol for long-term thinking that will actually hopefully get humans to extend their thinking horizons.


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[Assistant] And in my view, that's really important as we have become.


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[Assistant] As a species, as a civilization, more powerful. You know, we're really affecting the planet now. We're really affecting each other. We have weapons of mass destruction. We have all kinds of things.


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[Assistant] Where we can really hurt ourselves and the problems we create can be so large.


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[Assistant] You know, the unintended consequences of some of our actions like climate change, putting carbon in the atmosphere is a perfect example. That's an unintended consequence of the industrial revolution. Got a lot of benefits from it, but we've also got this side effect that is very detrimental.


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[Assistant] We need to be, we need to start training ourselves to think longer term. Long-term thinking is a giant lever. You can literally solve problems.


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[Assistant] If you think long-term that are impossible to solve if you think short-term.


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[Assistant] And we aren't really good at thinking long-term as, you know, it's not really, you were kind of, you know, five years is a tough timeframe for most institutions to think past.


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[Assistant] Um, and we probably need to stretch that to 10 years and 15 years and 20 years and 25 years. And we'd do a better job for our children or our grandchildren if we could stretch those thinking horizons. And so the clock is in a way, it's an art project. Um, it's a symbol.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it, if it ever has any power to influence people to think longer term, that won't happen for hundreds of years, but we have to, you know, we're going to build it now and let it accrue the patina of age.


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[Assistant] But you know, the United States won't exist. Like, whole civilizations rise and fall. 10,000 years is so long.


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[Assistant] Like no nation state has ever survived for anywhere close to 10,000 years.


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[Assistant] Even less likely, so do I think humans will be here? Yes, what, you know.


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[Assistant] No, I'm, you know, I, I used to be afraid of death. Uhm, I did, I, like my, like, I remember as a young person being kind of, like, very


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[Assistant] Scared of mortality, like you didn't want to think about it and so on.


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[Assistant] Always had a big, and as I've gotten older, I'm 59 now, as I've gotten older, somehow that fear has sort of gone away. I don't, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, I, I would like to stay alive for as long as possible, but I'd like to be, it's, I'm really more focused on health span. I want to be healthy. I want that square wave. I want to, you know, I want to be healthy, healthy, healthy, and then gone. I don't want the long decay.


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[Assistant] And I'm curious. I want to see how things turn out. You know, I'd like to be here. I love my, my family and my close friends and I want to, I'm curious about them and I want to see. So I have a lot of reasons to stay around, but it's.


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[Assistant] Mortality doesn't, doesn't have that effect on me that it did, you know, maybe when I was in my twenties.


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[Assistant] We dressed as Juliet, and then her dad, right up there, he's Romeo.


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[Assistant] I know what it's like to struggle to feed kids.


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[Assistant] I know what it's like to struggle to feed kids.


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[Assistant] I know what it's like to struggle to feed kids.


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[Assistant] I know what it's like to feel like there's no one you can count on.


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[Assistant] I know what it's like to feel like there's no one you can count on.


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[Assistant] I know what it's like to feel like there's no one you can count on.


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[Assistant] It's a miracle our house survived the earthquake.


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[Assistant] It's a miracle nobody was killed in the crash.


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[Assistant] It's a miracle nobody was killed in the crash.


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[Assistant] It's a miracle she didn't break her neck falling from that height.


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[Assistant] It's a miracle she didn't break her neck falling from that height.


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[Assistant] It's a miracle she didn't break her neck falling from that height.


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[Assistant] I will do everything to make you happy forever.


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[Assistant] I will do everything to make you happy forever.


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[Assistant] I will do everything to avoid the company's bankruptcy.


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[Assistant] I will do everything to avoid the company's bankruptcy.


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[Assistant] I will do everything to avoid the company's bankruptcy.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, those are two separate things.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, those are two separate things.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, those are two separate things.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, we care about everybody.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, we care about everybody.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, we care about everybody.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, I'm not saying either side is wrong.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, I'm not saying either side is wrong.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, I'm not saying either side is wrong.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, I am not condemning rationality.


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, I am not condemning rationality.


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[Assistant] I don't have any plans of going back to Australia.


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[Assistant] I don't have any plans of going back to Australia.


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[Assistant] I don't have any plans of going back to Australia.


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[Assistant] I didn't tell you because I thought you weren't interested.


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[Assistant] I didn't tell you because I thought you weren't interested.


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[Assistant] I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to be upset.


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[Assistant] I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to be upset.


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[Assistant] I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to be upset.


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[Assistant] I didn't tell you because I knew how you'd react.


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[Assistant] I didn't tell you because I knew how you'd react.


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[Assistant] We're going to talk about the files on disk that make up a Petrel project. Petrel is a one person


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[Assistant] One project at a time system. If two people get into the same patrol project, it will almost be guaranteed to be corrupt and then neither will be able to use it.


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[Assistant] Petrel files are listed as shows here in this picture. There are many different projects here. The ones up at the top that start with AGF input data 2014 and the ones here in the middle that have the exact same name to the left of the dot are one petrel project.


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[Assistant] File folders appear at the top. The one that ends in .ptd is where Petrel stores all information.


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[Assistant] 3D grids, surfaces in the input pane, templates, everything is stored up here in the PTD area. You do not ever want to change this folder, change names, add things to it, delete things from it, leave it just like it is.


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[Assistant] The folder up here that ends in .sim has information that's been brought back from a run through a reservoir simulator. All that information is stored in this file folder.


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[Assistant] Once again, do not change it. Do not copy data into it. Do not delete data from it. Do not rename things. Leave it just as it is.


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[Assistant] File down here in the middle that ends in .lock is just a regular Windows file.


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[Assistant] The lock file tells Patrell that somebody else is already using this project and if another person then tries to get in and use this project


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[Assistant] Again, all of these files have the exact same name in front of the dot sign. The file that ends in .pet, the patrol file, is the controlling file for all the others. This is the one that you access when you open a patrol project


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[Assistant] This file has information in it to know where everything is stored in the .ptd and the .sim files. So this is the one that you want to use at all times. You click on the .pet file to open a project.


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[Assistant] The following is a conversation with Tucker Carlson, a highly influential and often controversial political commentator. When he was a Fox, Time Magazine called him the most powerful conservative in America.


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[Assistant] After Fox, he has continued to host big impactful interviews and shows on X, on the Tucker Carlson Podcast, and on TuckerCarlson.com. I recommend subscribing, even if you disagree with his views.


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[Assistant] It is always good to explore diversity of perspectives.


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[Assistant] Most recently, he interviewed the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.


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[Assistant] We discuss this, the topic of Russia, Putin, Navalny, and the war in Ukraine at length in this conversation.


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[Assistant] Please allow me to say a few words about the very fact that I did this interview.


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[Assistant] Publicly and privately, when I announce that I will be talking with Tucker.


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[Assistant] For people who think I shouldn't do the conversation with Tucker, or generally think that there are certain people I should never talk to, I'm sorry, but I disagree. I will talk to everyone.


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[Assistant] As long as they're willing to talk genuinely in long form for two, three, four more hours.


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[Assistant] I will talk to Putin and to Zelensky, to Trump and to Biden, to Tucker.


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[Assistant] And to John Stewart, AOC, Obama, and many more people with very different views on the world. I want to understand people and ideas.


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[Assistant] That's what long-form conversations are supposed to be all about.


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[Assistant] Now, for people who criticize me for not asking tough questions, I hear you, but again, I disagree.


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[Assistant] I'm looking always for the expression of genuinely held ideas and the deep roots of those ideas.


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[Assistant] When done well, this gives us a chance to really hear out the guests and to begin to understand what and how they think. And I trust the intelligence of you, the listener, to make up your mind, to see through the bullshit, to the degree there's bullshit, and to see to the heart of the person. Sometimes I fail at this, but I'll continue working my ass off to improve.


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[Assistant] All that said, I find that this no tough questions criticism.


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[Assistant] Often happens when the guest is a person the listener simply hates.


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[Assistant] And wants to see them grilled into embarrassment, called a liar, a greedy egomaniac, a killer, maybe even an evil human being, and so on. If you are such a listener, what you want is drama, not wisdom. In this case, this show is not for you. There are many shows you can go to for that.


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[Assistant] With hosts that are way more charismatic and entertaining than I'll ever be.


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[Assistant] If you do stick around, please know I will work hard to do this well and to keep improving. Thank you for your patience and thank you for your support. I love you all.


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[Assistant] This is Alex Friedman Podcast. To support it, please check out our sponsors in the description. And now, dear friends, here's Tucker Carlson.


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[Assistant] What was your first impression when you met Vladimir Putin for the interview? I thought he seemed nervous.


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[Assistant] But he was also probably prepared to, uh, to give you a full lesson in history as he did.


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[Assistant] Well, you said he was nervous. Were you nervous? Were you afraid? This is Vladimir Putin.


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[Assistant] Wife? What was the goal? Just linger on that. What was the goal for the interview? Like how were you thinking about it? What would success be like in your head leading into it?


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[Assistant] There is a more nuanced discussion about what winning might look like. You're right. A nuanced discussion is not being had, but it is possible for Ukraine to quote unquote win with the help of United States.


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[Assistant] Vladimir Putin after the interview said that he wasn't fully satisfied because you weren't aggressive enough, you didn't ask.


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[Assistant] In the moment, what was your gut? Did you want to ask some tough questions as follow ups on certain topics?


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[Assistant] So you mentioned Navalny. After you left, Navalny died in prison. Yes. What are your thoughts on just at a high level first about his death?


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[Assistant] There's a lot of interesting ideas about if he was killed, who killed him, because it could be.


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[Assistant] Putin, it could be somebody in Russia who is not Putin. It could be Ukrainians because it would benefit the war.


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[Assistant] Does it bother you that basically the most famous opposition figure in Russia is sitting in prison?


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[Assistant] This question about the freedom of the press is underlying the very fact of the interview you're having with him. Right. So you might not need to ask the Navalny question, but did you feel like, are there things I shouldn't say?


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[Assistant] So you were okay being arrested in Moscow and arrested?


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[Assistant] Strange and sad and weird. So the NSA was tracking you? Do you think CIA was? Is people still tracking you?


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[Assistant] So you keep switching phones, getting new phones for the battery life.


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[Assistant] I mean, you say it lightly, but it's really troublesome that you as a journalist would be tracked.


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[Assistant] So you had no fear, you know, your lawyer said, be careful which questions you asked. You said, I don't have.


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[Assistant] And our task is to figure out where on the spectrum they lie in the leaders.


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[Assistant] Uh, task is to confuse us and convince us they're one of the good guys.


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[Assistant] So I think cleanliness and architectural design is not the entirety of the metrics that matter when you measure a city.


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[Assistant] It is true, there doesn't have to be a trade-off between cleanliness and freedom of speech, but it is also true that in dictatorships, cleanliness and architectural design is easier to achieve and perfect and often is done so so you can show off, look how great our cities are while you're suppressing


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[Assistant] Your point is well taken. You can have both.


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[Assistant] But do you regret? We had both. That's the point. We had, I saw it. Do you regret to a degree using the Moscow subway and the grocery store as a mechanism by which to make that point? No.


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[Assistant] There's many elements, like you said, you don't like Stalinism. You know.


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[Assistant] You're a student of history. Central planning is good at building subways in a way that's really nice.


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[Assistant] The thing that accounts for New York Subways, by the way, there's a lot of really positive things about New York Subways, not cleanliness, but the efficiency, like the accessibility of how, how wide it spreads like that. Now the New York network is incredible, but Moscow for different, in different, under different metrics.


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[Assistant] Results of a capitalist system, and you actually said that you don't think US is quite a capitalist system, which is an interesting question itself.


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[Assistant] So, well, the central planning point is really interesting, but I, I just don't, I don't know where you're coming from. There's a capitalist system.


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[Assistant] I mean, the United States is one of the most successful capitalist systems in the history of Earth. What's the most successful?


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[Assistant] What the hell? Direct data is good, but it's challenging. For example, if you talk to a lot of people in Moscow or in Russia and you ask them,


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[Assistant] Is there censorship? They will usually say yes, there is.


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[Assistant] So it's not like for real where most of the men are either volunteering or fighting in the war. And there's actual tanks in the streets that are going into your major city of Kiev and still the supply chains.


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[Assistant] Are working. Yes, a handful of months after the start of the war, everything is working. Uh, the restaurants are amazing. Uh, the most of


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[Assistant] The people are able to do us some kind of job, like the life goes on.


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[Assistant] Cleanliness, like you mentioned. I love that. Security, like, is incredible. Like, there's the crime went to zero. They, they gave all guns to everybody.


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[Assistant] The Texas strategy. It does work. Yeah. When you witness it, you realize, okay, there's something to these people. There's something to this country that they're not as corrupt as you might hear. Right. You hear that Russia is corrupt. Ukraine is corrupt. You're, you assume it's just all going to go to shit.


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[Assistant] So I think after you did the interview with Putin, you put a clip, I think on TCN.


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[Assistant] Where, like your sort of analysis afterwards. Yeah, it wasn't much of an analysis. No, but what stood out to me is you were kind of talking shit about Putin a little bit. Like you were criticizing him. Why wouldn't I? It spoke to the thing that you mentioned, which is you weren't, uh, afraid. Now the question I want to ask is.


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[Assistant] It'd be pretty bad ass if you went to the supermarket and made the point you were making, but also criticize Putin, right? Criticize that there is a lack of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In the supermarket? Yes.


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[Assistant] You should make clear that, you know, by many measures, you look at the world press freedom index, you're right, US is not at the top.


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[Assistant] Close to China at 23 and North Korea at the very bottom of 22.


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[Assistant] But do you have the freedom to say it if you do deviate? That's the question. Can you keep your job? That's one measurement of it.


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[Assistant] You mentioned Jon Stewart, the two of you have a bit of a history. I don't know if you've seen it, but he kind of grilled your supermarket and subway videos. Hey, have you got any chance to see it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was essentially it. So in 2004, that's 20 years ago, uh, Jon Stewart appeared on Crossfire, a show you hosted. And that was kind of, uh.


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[Assistant] Memorable moment. Can you, uh, tell the saga of that as you remember it?


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[Assistant] Okay, you said a lot of words that will make it sound like you're a bit bitter.


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[Assistant] Even if you're not. So you said unhappy person, partisan person.


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[Assistant] He would probably say that he's not a partisan, that he's a comedian who's looking for the humor and the absurdity of the system on both sides.


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[Assistant] What do you think? I'm just a comedian is uhm, I don't think any serious person thinks that.


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[Assistant] I'll just be honest that I watched it just recently, that video. From 20 years ago? From 20 years ago, I watched it initially and I remember very differently. I remembered that Jon Stewart completely destroyed you in that conversation and I watched it and you asked a very good question of him.


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[Assistant] Which was, and you, there was no destruction, first of all.


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[Assistant] Uh, and you asked a very good question of them. Why, when you got a chance to interview John Kerry, did you ask a bunch of softball questions?


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[Assistant] A really fair question, and then his defense was, well I'm just a comedian.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, it's a bit darker, I think. The reason he's seen as the winner and the reason at the time I saw as the quote unquote winner is because he was basically shitting on you, like personal attacks versus engaging ideas. And it was, it was funny in a dark way and like making fun of the bow tie and all this kind of stuff. And it was fair to call me


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[Assistant] And that's not my best quality, trust me. But also to be kinda...


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[Assistant] I thought Jon Stewart came off as a giant dick at that time, and I'm a big fan of his, and I think he has improved a lot. So, we should also say that, like, people


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[Assistant] Well, I think he probably feels free enough to do it, but you're saying he doesn't do it.


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[Assistant] Do you think, uh, Zelensky is a hero for staying in Kiev? Because I do. To me, you can criticize a lot of things. You should call out things that are obvious.


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[Assistant] Well, I thought that was the whole premise of the, no, no, no, at the beginning of the war.


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[Assistant] When the tank, when Kia, when a lot of people thought that the second biggest military in the world,


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[Assistant] Is pointing its guns in Kiev is going to be taken and a man, a leader who stays in that city and says, fuck it.


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[Assistant] When everybody around him says flee, says everybody around him believes the city will be taken, or at least destroyed, you know, leveled, artillery, bombs, all of this, he chooses to stay. You know a lot of leaders, how many leaders would choose to stay?


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[Assistant] Well, there's, there's military answers to that, which is, urban warfare is extremely difficult. Do you think that Putin wants to take Kiev? No, I do think he expected Zelensky to flee and, and somebody else to come into power.


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[Assistant] Well, that's why it's interesting that he didn't really bring up NATO extensively.


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[Assistant] Yes, that was a failure, but it doesn't mean you can't have a success over and over and over. Keep having, uh, negotiations between leaders.


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[Assistant] That is not good. I'm ashamed of it. What do you think of Putin saying that justification for continuing the war is denazification? I thought it was one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard. I didn't understand what it meant.


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[Assistant] It literally means what it sounds like.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And I actually, you know, having had a bunch of conversations with people who are living in Russia, they, they also believe it. Now there's technicalities here.


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[Assistant] Because you know you can really touch people if you use the Nazi. I think that's totally right. But it's also, to me, a really like disgusting thing to do. I agree. Because, uh, and also to clarify, there is neo-Nazi movements in Ukraine, which is just very small.


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[Assistant] You're saying that there's a distinction between Nazi and neo-Nazi? Sure.


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[Assistant] It's a small percentage of the population, a tiny percentage, they have no power in government. As far, I have seen no data to show they have any influence on Zelensky and the Zelensky government at all.


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[Assistant] So really when Putin says denazification, I think he means nationalist movements. I think you're right.


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[Assistant] What troubled me about that is because he said that that's the primary objective currently for the war and that because it's, uh, not grounded in reality, it makes it difficult to then negotiate peace because like what


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[Assistant] Uh, what does it mean to get rid of the Nazis in Ukraine? So like he'll come to the table and say, well, okay, I will agree to do ceasefire once the Nazis are gone. Okay. So can you list the Nazis?


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[Assistant] It was very strange but maybe it was perhaps had to do with speaking to his own population and also probably trying to avoid the use of the word NATO as the justification for the war.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And you said some of this also in your, whilst in your post Kremlin discussion while you're in Moscow still, which was very impressive to me that you can just openly criticize.


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[Assistant] This is great. Well, I don't care. I understand this. I just wish you did some more of that also with the supermarket video and perhaps some more of that with Putin in front of you.


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[Assistant] Yes, I understand. So I think you're just so annoyed about how bad journalists are that you just didn't want to be them. Yeah, that's probably right actually. Some great conversations will involve some challenging, like you were confused about denazification.


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[Assistant] You mentioned there's a bunch of conspiracy theories about, uh, Putin's health. How was he in person? Like, what did he feel like? Did he look healthy?


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[Assistant] Uh, what was that like? The conversation off camera? Like, uh, you walking around with him? What was the content of the conversation?


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[Assistant] Who do you think is behind it if you were to analyze, like zoom out, looking at the entirety of human history? The military industrial complex. You said Kamala Harris. Is it individuals? Is it like this collective flock that people are just


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[Assistant] Kind of get there because they're not that impressive. So you actually have mentioned this, it's not just the Cold War, it's World War II that populates most of, uh, their thinking in Washington. You mentioned Churchill, Chamberlain, and, uh, Hitler, and they kind of


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[Assistant] Seeing the world war two is the kind of the good war and the successful role the united states played in that war they're kind of seeing that dynamic that.


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[Assistant] Geopolitical dynamic and applying it everywhere else still.


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[Assistant] Since we're on the time period, let me ask you kind of almost cliche question, but it applies to you, which you've interviewed a lot of world leaders. If you had the chance to interview Hitler in 39, 40, 41.


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[Assistant] First of all, would you do it and how would you do it? I assume you would do it given who you are.


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[Assistant] Your energy with Putin, for example, was such that it felt like he could trust you. I felt like he could tell you a lot.


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[Assistant] I think it was an extremely like we have to acknowledge how important that interview was for the record and for opening the door for conversation.


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[Assistant] Like opening the door to conversation literally is the path to like more conversations and peace, peace talks. Well, I would flip it around.


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[Assistant] What advice would you give? Oh, do it, do it immediately. How's your Russian, by the way? Have you kept up with it? Yeah, fluent. So it would most likely be in Russian. So that's the other thing is I do have a question about language barrier. Like, did you feel it was annoying?


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[Assistant] It's real. It's not, it's not not whining. Like, can you actually describe the technical details of that? Are you hearing?


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[Assistant] Concurrently, like at the same time? Yes, but there's a massive lag.


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[Assistant] Plus conversation, so the chemistry of conversation, the humor, the wit, the, the play with words, all this kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] And we should say that you've met a lot of world leaders. Both Zelensky and Putin are intelligent, witty, even funny. Yes. So like there's a depth to the person that can be explored through a conversation just on that element. For sure.


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[Assistant] No, he is, well, he's better than Putin at English, but he's still the humor, the wit, like the intelligence, all of that is not quite there in English. He says simple points.


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[Assistant] The guy's a comedian and he's a comedian primarily in Russian, the Russian language. So the Ukrainian language is now used mostly, uh, primarily as a kind of symbol of independence. I'm aware of that. It's a political decision. No, I know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he is, you know, his, really his native language is Russian language. Of course. As a lot of people. But you can also understand his position that he might not want to be speaking Russian publicly. That's something I've...


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[Assistant] Is there advice you have about how to carry an interview? It is fundamentally different when you do it in the native language, but.


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[Assistant] In your case, I think, uh, the very fact of the interview was the most important.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Yeaah, you don't wanna open with a crazy- with humor. Alright.


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[Assistant] At Fox, you were, for a time, the most popular host. After Fox, you garnered a huge amount of attention as well. Same, probably more.


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[Assistant] Do you worry that popularity and just that attention gets to your head is a kind of drug that clouds your thinking?


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[Assistant] I hope those two things aren't coupled. Technological advancement and the erosion.


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[Assistant] Inclusively, that we can brag about. I think, well, you've criticized Google search recently, but I think making the world knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere across the world through Google search.


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[Assistant] It's not close. No, I don't know. I think they are more informed. It's just revealing the ignorance. The internet has revealed the ignorance that people have, but I think the ignorance has been decreasing gradually. And like, if you look, even you can criticize places like Wikipedia a lot, and very many aspects of Wikipedia are very biased.


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[Assistant] When you, most of it are actually topics that don't have any bias in them because they're not political or so on. There's no battle over those topics. And most of Wikipedia, I think that's true, is like the fastest way to learn about a thing.


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[Assistant] And I mean, your fundamental worry is the same kind of thing might be happening or will happen in the United States.


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[Assistant] I've seen a lot of increased distrust in science, which is deserved in many places. It just worries me because some of the greatest inventions of humanity come from science and technological innovation.


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[Assistant] At best, perhaps, but technology is the very tool which will allow us to have that kind of discourse to figure out to do science better.


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[Assistant] So I agree with that, but also there could be, I grew up in the pre-internet age, but if you grew up in the internet age, I think your eyes would be more open to beauty that's digital, that is in a digital way.


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[Assistant] Well, I could also argue that, you know, I'm a big sucker for bridges and modern bridges can give older bridges that run for their money, but.


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[Assistant] And the other question is also consider that whatever is creating this technology is unstoppable.


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[Assistant] Well, there's that. And the question is like, how do you steer it then? You have to look in a realist way at the world and say that if you don't, somebody else will and you want to do it in a safe way. I mean, this is the Manhattan Project.


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[Assistant] For me it's an easy call in retrospect, in retrospect, yes, because it seems like it stopped world wars. So the mutually assured destruction seems to have ended wars, ended major military.


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[Assistant] That's just like this picture. Am I wearing a cowboy hat? No.


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[Assistant] Okay, great. I like this picture. I'm just, I think about this a lot. Uh, yeah, I understand your point, but also the, I think that metaphor falls apart if, uh, there's, um, if there's other nations at play here. So.


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[Assistant] The same as with a nuclear bomb. If US doesn't build it...


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[Assistant] Will other nations build it? The Soviet Union build it? China or Nazi Germany?


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[Assistant] It's not so obvious to me. What I'm terrified about is probably similar thing that you're terrified about is using that technology to manipulate people's minds. That's much more reasonable to me as an expectation. Yeah. A real threat that's possible in the next few years. What matters more than that?


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[Assistant] I think that can lead to like destruction of human civilization through other humans, for example, starting nuclear wars.


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[Assistant] I think, uh, we will forever fight against the dying of the light as the entirety of the system.


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[Assistant] You should have a ton of kids. Are you going to have a ton of pups? Five, oh, pups? You mean like kids? Children? Yes. But also I've been thinking of getting a dog. But, uh, unrelated. I would love to have like five or six kids. Yeah, for sure. Have you found a victim yet? You make it sound so romantic Tucker.


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[Assistant] Yeah, 100%. But also in terms of being humble, you know, I do jujitsu, it's a martial art where you get your ass kicked all the time. I love that. It's nice to get your ass kicked. Physical humbling is unlike anything else, I think. Uh, cause we're kind of monkeys at heart and just getting your ass kicked is really helpful. I agree. I've had it.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you, you've been pretty close with Donald Trump. Your private texts about him around the 2020 election were made public. In one of them, you said you passionately hate Trump.


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[Assistant] When that came out, you said that you actually know you love him. So how do you explain the difference?


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[Assistant] You said nice things about me earlier. I'm starting to question. I have questions. I have a lot of questions.


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[Assistant] Doesn't think he's senile, just thinks he is speaking. They don't think he's senile?


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[Assistant] Difficulty speaking, it's like a gradual, like gradual degradation, just getting old. So cognitive ability is degrading. What's the difference between degraded cognitive ability and senility? Well, senility has a threshold of like a, it's beyond the threshold to where he could be a functioning leader.


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[Assistant] I'm with you. I'm a sucker for great speeches and for speaking abilities of leaders and Biden with two wars going on and potentially more. The importance of a leader to speak eloquently.


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[Assistant] Both privately in a room with other leaders and publicly is really important.


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[Assistant] So why, you have on the Democratic side, you have, uh, Dean Phillips, you have, uh, uh, uh, R.K. Jr. until recently, I guess he's independent. And then you have Vivek, who are all younger people. Why did they not connect to a degree to where the people vote?


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[Assistant] So now a vote for Trump is a kind of fuck you to the system.


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[Assistant] So speaking of the justice department, CIA and intelligence agencies of that nature, which you've been traveling quite a bit, probably tracked by everybody, which is the most powerful intelligence agency do you think? CIA?


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[Assistant] I'm doing an Israel-Palestine debate next week. Uh, but I have to ask you just your thoughts, maybe even from a US perspective, what do you think about Hamas attacks on Israel? What was, what would be the right thing for Israel to do? And what's the right thing for us to do in this? If you look into the geopolitics of it.


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[Assistant] But it also is a place, like you said, where things are boiling over and it could spread across multiple nations into a major military conflict.


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[Assistant] I just feel like you hold back too much and don't tell us what you really think.


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[Assistant] Not to try to get a preview or anything, but do you have interest of interviewing, uh, Xi Jinping and if you do, how will you approach it?


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[Assistant] I should also say like, it's been refreshing you interviewing world leaders. I think when I've started seeing you do that, it made me realize how much that's lacking.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, it's just interesting. I mean, from even a historical perspective it's interesting, but it's also important from a geopolitics perspective.


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[Assistant] I was just hanging out with Rogan yesterday, Joe Rogan, and uh, you know, I mentioned to him that as me being a fan of his show, that I would love for him to talk with you. And he said, uh, he's up for it. And you reason you guys haven't done it already? I don't know.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? He was doing the thing that he loves doing and it somehow keeps accidentally, uh, being exceptionally successful.


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[Assistant] Yeah, curiosity, open mindness. The thing I admire about him most honestly is that he's a good father. He's a good husband. He's a good family man.


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[Assistant] For many years, and like that's his, uh, place where he escapes from the world too, and it's just beautiful.


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[Assistant] So the two of you have known each other for what, 40 years? We've been together 40 years.


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[Assistant] So I think what you're indirectly communicating is it's like humility, I think.


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[Assistant] Two categories that I really like that of the two kinds of people, uh, people who believe they're God and people who know they're not, which is a really interesting division that speaks to humility and a kind of realist worldview of where we are in the world. Oh,


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[Assistant] You got four. You somehow made them into great human beings. What advice would you give to people in high school?


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[Assistant] Build a structure for that. But this feels like one of the first times you're really working for yourself. Like there's an extra level of freedom here. Totally.


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[Assistant] What hope, positive hope do you have for the future of human civilization?


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[Assistant] In, uh, let's say 50 years, 100 years, 200 years.


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[Assistant] I mean, you're right. The secret sauce there, the human mind is really special. Like we should not mess with it. Should be very careful and whatever special thing it does, it seems like it's a good thing. Like human beings are fundamentally good and like these


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[Assistant] Sources of creativity. A creative force in the universe we don't want to mess with.


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[Assistant] Yeah, fundamentally you want people in power to be pro-humanity.


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[Assistant] Well, thank you for asking those questions. First of all, and, um, thank you for this conversation. Thank you for welcoming me to the cabin in the woods.


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[Assistant] To support this podcast, please check out our sponsors in the description. And now let me leave you with some words from Mahatma Gandhi. When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it. Always.


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[Assistant] Welcome to this English lesson about conveniences. In this lesson, I'm going to talk about all of the things that make life just a little bit nicer. I'm going to talk about all of the little inventions and techniques and things that can happen in the world that make life a little easier.


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[Assistant] That make life a little bit more convenient. I thought as I was making this lesson, maybe I could even do a lesson someday on inconveniences. I'm not sure there are enough of them. I'm sure there are. But let's stay focused. This English lesson today will be about conveniences.


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[Assistant] So the first convenience I have is the washing machine and possibly the dryer.


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[Assistant] Now, I do want to say one thing about this lesson. I recognize that things are different in different parts of the world, and when you go back in time, things were different as well.


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[Assistant] I think that, uh, the washing machine is a relatively new invention this century. Uhm, and it has very much made it easier to wash clothes and if you have a dryer as well, it makes it easier to dry clothes.


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[Assistant] In English, we say that we're going to do the laundry, at least in Canada. So when we have a lot of dirty clothes in the hamper, we take them to the washing machine and we use the washing machine to do the laundry. Uhm, we use it to wash our clothes and then we use the dryer to dry them.


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[Assistant] We actually, I think I've mentioned this in past lessons, we don't have a dryer. We do have a washing machine, but we usually hang our clothes on a drying rack outside so that they can dry naturally. It's a little cheaper than running a dryer.


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[Assistant] But I know many people who live in a small apartment, they might do their laundry and then hang it up in their apartment or they might have a dryer as well.


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[Assistant] And if you don't have a washing machine or dryer, you might go to the laundromat. That's a place where you can go to wash your clothes.


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[Assistant] Contact lenses. So contact lenses, I don't wear them, but I hear they are very, very convenient. Uhm, they are one of the modern conveniences in life. A modern convenience is something that's been invented in the last 50 or 100 years.


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[Assistant] Uhm, many people who wear glasses love wearing contacts instead. Notice I call them contacts?


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[Assistant] That's kind of the short way to refer to them in English. So Jen wears contacts. I could also say Jen wears contact lenses. And some of my kids wear contacts as well. They wear contact lenses. The only thing that's inconvenient about contact lenses is that you have to take them out


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[Assistant] That's what I understand. Uh, I don't actually wear them so I don't know. I think, yes, they, they take them out at night and they put them back in, in the morning. Online learning?


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[Assistant] So online learning is definitely a convenience. It's definitely something that makes life a little easier.


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[Assistant] Now for kids and for myself as a teacher.


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[Assistant] That I can do an English lesson this morning and people from all over the world, uhm, can watch it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's very convenient. Uhm, many, many years ago this would not have been possible. It would have been impossible. But certainly the internet makes things a lot more convenient.


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[Assistant] Running water. So running water is anytime you have water that just comes out of the tap or the faucet when you turn it on. Uhm, if you think back in time, and there are some parts of the world still where there is no running water,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I know that, uh, one of the teachers I taught with, they didn't have


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[Assistant] I think they had running water in the kitchen, but they still had an outhouse when they had to go to the bathroom. So in the middle of the Canadian winter when he was a kid, he had to go out of the house if he had to go to the bathroom. So running water is certainly very, very convenient.


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[Assistant] And in addition to that, having hot water in the house, having a hot water heater is very, very convenient as well.


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[Assistant] So this is the one thing that I do not have where I live when I lived in the city.


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[Assistant] I actually really enjoyed pizza delivery. I enjoyed the fact that you could just make a phone call.


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[Assistant] And a person would show up at your door within 30 minutes with hot pizza.


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[Assistant] That was very, very convenient for me when I was a university student. I really enjoyed the fact that uhm, and it wasn't very expensive. So I could make a phone call and for a few dollars, a person would bring a pizza to my door. Uhm, and if you're having a party, you can order a stack of pizzas like this.


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[Assistant] This person is bringing a whole bunch of pizzas, but pizza delivery is certainly one of the modern conveniences in some larger cities in the world.


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[Assistant] And then we have this new delivery service in North America, parts of Europe and other places in the world.


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[Assistant] And there was a lockdown. It was possible that you could still get Uber Eats, okay? Or skip the dishes. You might have been able to get food delivered to your house.


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[Assistant] I have never used uber eats or skip the dishes. I have never had food delivered. Uhm, I think I'm too cheap. I think I would rather just go get the food myself or make the food myself at home.


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[Assistant] And then they say your order will be ready for curbside pickup at 9.30.


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[Assistant] And then you go to the store and they bring the items to your car or they bring the groceries to your car depending on what you ordered.


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[Assistant] I have used curbside pickup quite a bit during the pandemic. Uh, when stores were closed in this part of Ontario, Canada, most stores and restaurants still offered curbside pickup. So you could drive your car up to the store or restaurant.


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[Assistant] And a person would come out and bring you your food. It was very, very convenient.


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[Assistant] Out of season. We can buy strawberries in the middle of the winter. That means that we can't grow strawberries in Canada in the winter. We have a lot of strawberries in June and July, but when the winter comes, all of our strawberries come from California or Florida.


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[Assistant] So it's very nice and very convenient to be able to buy out of season fruit and vegetables. And then we have things like bananas, which I love. We wouldn't call it an out of season fruit, but we would definitely say it's an imported


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[Assistant] So it's really nice and very convenient to be able to eat different fruits and vegetables from around the world, uhm, and to eat them during the winter season when we can't grow them ourselves.


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[Assistant] Let's see here. Fast food. So as I mentioned in the description, not all of the conveniences are necessarily good.


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[Assistant] Fast food is very convenient. If you don't have a lunch, you can quickly go to a fast food restaurant and get something to eat. Uhm, but it isn't necessarily healthy. So something can be convenient but also be unhealthy.


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[Assistant] So uhm, I have to admit that I am guilty of buying fast food every once in a while. There is something really convenient about you give your order or you place your order and within minutes you have food to eat. So fast food, definitely a modern convenience. Frozen food.


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[Assistant] And in the frozen food section, you can buy frozen vegetables, um, and things that are probably healthy for you. But you can also buy frozen meals. You can buy frozen pizza. You can buy what's called a TV dinner, which is a meal in a tray that you just microwave. Uh, and so frozen food,


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[Assistant] They're kind of like pre-made meals and then they're frozen. And this is another example.


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[Assistant] Uh, of something that maybe isn't healthy for you. Frozen food often, uh, has a lot of salt in it and maybe isn't the best thing to eat, at least not on a daily basis.


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[Assistant] So coffee makers have evolved over time and now we have coffee makers where you simply put in a little pod of coffee and you push a button and it brews a cup of coffee for you very quickly. Uhm, even older coffee makers were very convenient but certainly the newest coffee makers.


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[Assistant] Are super convenient. Uhm, you could also say they're very handy.


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[Assistant] Handy's another way to say that something is convenient.


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[Assistant] But certainly, uh, a coffee maker, we sometimes just call it a Keurig because that's one of the companies that makes this type of coffee maker. Uhm, I actually have a Keurig but mostly I just use it for hot water to make tea. I used to use it to make coffee and it was very convenient but now I just use it to make tea.


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[Assistant] And then of course the microwave is super convenient. If you take food to work that you would want, that you would like to heat up, it can be very handy to have a microwave at work. You put your food in, uhm, you punch in one minute and you hit start and then when it goes ding,


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[Assistant] Uh, phrase in English. Sometimes we say, I'm just gonna nuke it for a bit.


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[Assistant] And I know that sounds like nuclear, like nuclear bomb, but we sometimes in informal English or slang will say, uhm, oh, I brought, uh, a couple hot dogs to work. I'm just going to nuke it. I'm going to nuke them for a sec, which means you're going to put them in the microwave. That might be regional. I'm not sure if that's just this part of Canada. Uh, but, but it is a funny thing to say, I think.


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[Assistant] There are a lot of different appliances that are very convenient. I don't want this to be a lesson about appliances, but things like blenders and mixers and bread machines.


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[Assistant] Uhm, our new oven, we can tell it to turn on at a certain time of day. Uhm, all of those little things are very cool, very handy and very, very convenient. So appliances, large and small.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if you drink bottled water every day, all day, and you don't recycle the bottle, then that's not a good convenience. But it certainly is very convenient to be able to buy bottled water when you are thirsty. If you go on a trip, or if you are out and about.


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[Assistant] Out and about. You might be thirsty. Maybe you forgot to bring some water. It's very convenient to be able to buy some bottled water.


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[Assistant] But please only drink bottled water when you need to. Uhm, and please recycle the bottles. Please don't throw them in the ditch. When I go for a walk in the morning, there's often, uh, empty water bottles in the ditch. So please recycle.


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[Assistant] The drive through. So that is not how you spell the word through in normal English. The THRU spelling almost only shows up in drive through. Okay. It's a short form. I always think they didn't have enough money to put all the letters on the sign.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but a drive-through is certainly, uh, very convenient. There are many people in North America that go through the drive-through.


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[Assistant] Sometimes once a day, I don't go through it once a day. Uhm, and it's a way to buy food, to buy coffee, to buy something to drink, uhm, without having to get out of your car. So if you don't want to get out of the car,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I know it sounds kinda lazy, doesn't it? You go through the drive-thru, you drive up, you order something, when you get to the drive-thru window, uh, you pay and they give you your food and your drink. So the drive-thru is certainly very, very convenient.


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[Assistant] This is one of my favorite conveniences, and that is GPS. The global positioning system is amazing to me. A few weeks ago, Jen and I had to drive to another city. We had to go to a city that we had never been to before.


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[Assistant] Just told us how to get there. So very, very handy, very, very convenient. Uhm, I think from the question before, uhm, I think it was from Yaroslav.


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[Assistant] This might be my favorite modern convenience is GPS. I love GPS. So handy when you're going somewhere where you have never been before.


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[Assistant] I think I am going to really, really like self driving cars. Just the fact that if Jen and I wanted to go to see a movie and if I was 75 years old and if my eyesight wasn't good and if I didn't like driving anymore, it would be so nice to just jump in a self driving


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[Assistant] So, I'm not sure if you like the snooze button. Uh, for those of you that are wondering what a snooze button is, if you set your alarm,


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[Assistant] And I sleep for another six or seven minutes and then my alarm goes off again.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so definitely the snooze button is another, uhm, modern convenience in the world today. So very, very...


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[Assistant] What's the remote control? The children were the remote control. So my dad would say, can you turn the TV up? Can you turn the TV down? So make it louder or quieter. Can you change it to channel two? Can you change it to channel seven? And as kids, we would run up and we would change the channel.


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[Assistant] But certainly the remote control when it was invented is a very, very cool thing to have. Uhm, when I am feeling lazy and sitting in front of the TV, uhm, I very much, uh, like the fact that I have a remote control to turn up the volume or to turn down the volume and to change the channels.


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[Assistant] In Canada, we call this an ATM or a bank machine. Uh, ATM is short for automatic teller machine. The bank machine is very, very handy, but I use it less and less.


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[Assistant] Because I hardly ever need money anymore. I just use my card or my phone to pay for stuff.


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[Assistant] So I think the bank machine, when I was 16 or 17, the bank started to put in bank machines and it was very, very convenient. I could deposit my paycheck after work. I could take money out on the weekend. That was actually a bad thing because sometimes I spent too much money on the weekend. Sometimes when something's convenient.


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[Assistant] It also allows you to behave differently and I certainly spent a lot more money because there were bank machines and it was so easy. It was so convenient to just go get more money out.


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[Assistant] And then online banking is certainly very, very convenient. Very, very handy. Most of the time, I would say 90% of the banking that I do, I do online. I use online banking almost all the time.


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[Assistant] Even for our flower business, everything has become digital. It's very rare for us to actually go to the bank to do some banking. We just do it online. Very, very easy. Very, very convenient.


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[Assistant] And then wifi. Uhm, maybe second only to GPS. No, maybe this one should be first. I don't even think about wifi anymore, but it is incredibly convenient. In fact, I was in a park the other day and there was free wifi in the park. Like I was outside. I actually thought that was a little bit silly.


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[Assistant] Very convenient, very handy, uhm, very, very helpful.


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[Assistant] So, public transit. Anything that you pay to ride on or in is considered public transit.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's not totally true. Buses, uh, street cars, the subway, the metro, those are all considered public transit, and they are very convenient. When I lived in Quebec City, I took the bus everywhere. I found it to be very, very convenient.


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[Assistant] The reason I corrected myself is because taxis and Uber are not considered public transit. They're considered


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[Assistant] Private transit? I'm not sure if that's actually a phrase. But anyways, public transit is usually run by the government.


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[Assistant] In Canada we have something called a convenience store. So we actually took the word convenience.


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[Assistant] And we, that's what we call our corner stores, our small stores that you find in every town. Um, and in your city, you might call it a dairy or a corner store. Um, but we call them convenience stores. In fact, you can see it right there. Avondale food stores, convenience with low prices.


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[Assistant] They do have, it is convenient. You can just run in and buy something quick. Although, if you need something like milk, it's usually more expensive.


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[Assistant] The smartphone, I'm not gonna spend too much time on this one, but the smartphone has certainly made all of our lives more convenient. Uhm, and especially for me, the ability to communicate with people. I find that very, very convenient.


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[Assistant] Air conditioning. So uh, the last few days here in Ontario, Canada, it has been over 30 degrees. Uh, there has been a heat warning every day because it's very, very humid. So I am happy that we have air conditioning.


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[Assistant] Definitely it's very, very convenient, uh, to have air conditioning. It just keeps your house cool and it makes it a lot easier to get things done in the house.


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[Assistant] So I put rechargeable, and then in brackets, anything.


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[Assistant] Anything that you own that you can recharge instead of buying batteries for it, I find very, very convenient. You might have a rechargeable, uhm, you might have a rechargeable shaver like what you have here. Uhm, you might have, uhm, a rechargeable toothbrush if you have a, uhm,


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[Assistant] I had a little pocket radio and I was always bugging my parents to buy me a new battery. Uhm, I wish that it had been rechargeable. That would have been really cool. So anything that is rechargeable is very, very convenient.


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[Assistant] And then cordless is kind of another way to talk about rechargeable. So we would call this a cordless drill. You could also call it a rechargeable drill, but it's far more common to call it a cordless drill. Uhm, there are so many things now that are cordless. Cordless drill, I have a cordless saw, uhm, I have a


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[Assistant] What do I have? Other thing. Oh, I have a cordless weed eater.


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[Assistant] So it's like, it's what you use to trim, uhm, along buildings after you mow the lawn. So anything that's cordless, I find very, very convenient.


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[Assistant] And then 24 hour in brackets, anything, anything that's available 24 hours a day. So here I have the 24 seven emergency plumber.


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[Assistant] It's very convenient to have a store that is open 24 hours a day.


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[Assistant] Our grocery store in our town is open 24 hours a day. It's very, very convenient. So you can go and get something in the middle of the night.


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[Assistant] When we were younger and when our kids were babies, sometimes you would need something. Uhm, maybe the baby wasn't sleeping. Uhm, and you needed to run to the grocery store. We would have to wait till the next day. But now we have a 24 hour.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things now that are open 24 hours. 24 hour pharmacies are very handy if you need some medicine or something like that.


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[Assistant] So we're talking about, uh, some larger appliances. As you know, we don't have a dishwasher. We do the dishes by hand. We wash all of the plates and cups in the sink and we dry them by hand as well. But some people love having a dishwasher. One of the reasons we don't have a dishwasher is because there's too many people here.


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[Assistant] We would need to do two loads of dishes a day. It's easier, I think, just to wash them by hand.


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[Assistant] The refrigerator, of course, very, very handy.


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[Assistant] They used to, a long time ago, I live on a river and they used to cut blocks of ice out of the river.


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[Assistant] And when my parents moved here, there was an ice building where they would store blocks of ice and then they would sell them during the summer. Um, but that all ended with the invention of the refrigerator, a very cool, modern convenience.


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[Assistant] I see Judith talking about how I say garage. Yes, I don't say garage. Garage? Garage. I say garage. I think my American friends say garage in Michigan, but I say garage.


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[Assistant] Laptop. The laptop, uh, as a computer, very convenient, rechargeable, cordless. You can use it anywhere. If there's wifi, you don't have to plug it in. And the battery life is now amazing. My work laptop, the battery lasts all day. I know that might seem normal to you, but 10 or 15 years ago,


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[Assistant] Batteries, uhm, the laptops would be dead after an hour or two. So I'm very happy that now my current laptop is very, it's very convenient as a teacher.


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[Assistant] Uber or a taxi. So Uber is kind of like a private taxi. If you own a car, you can become an Uber driver and people can pay you to get a ride.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a taxi is usually yellow and it's operated by a taxi company, but they do the same thing.


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[Assistant] If you need to go somewhere, you can call an Uber, you can call a taxi, they come and pick you up, they bring you to your destination and then you pay them. So very convenient. I think they will be replaced, uh, by robot cars though. If not, that might have already started already.


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[Assistant] And I had to pay someone to develop them and then you would pick them up a few days later. So it is very convenient to have a digital camera.


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[Assistant] One, it does not cost any money to take pictures. You can take a thousand pictures and it doesn't cost anything. Uh, two, you don't have to wait to see the picture. You can go, you can literally see the picture on the back of the camera.


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[Assistant] As soon as you take the picture. So digital cameras, super, super convenient.


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[Assistant] I will be honest, I didn't do a lot of online shopping before the pandemic, but now I have become


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[Assistant] At the checkout and I have paid for my groceries.


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[Assistant] The ability to pay for things quickly with your bank card or your phone is very, very convenient. Uhm, it can also be a little bit, it can be a bad convenience in a way because uhm,


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[Assistant] I think it's resulted in me eating more chocolate bars from the vending machine at school because I can just buy something with my bank card or my phone instead of having to rummage around in my pocket to see if I have money. I can just buy things whenever I want, but certainly


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[Assistant] Uhm, how we pay for things has become a lot more convenient lately.


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[Assistant] Email is very, very convenient. I know it's not as popular as it used to be.


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[Assistant] I know that, uhm, people text now, sorry, and people tend to message via Instagram or Facebook messaging, uhm, or WhatsApp or, uh, any of the other big, uh, WeChat if you're in that part of the world. But email for me is still a very convenient way to communicate. I really, really like it.


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[Assistant] Electricity, I'm going to end on electricity because to me,


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[Assistant] Almost all of the major conveniences in the world. All of the things that I find very convenient.


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[Assistant] Usually rely on electricity. So smartphones, GPS.


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[Assistant] Uhm, almost everything in my list almost probably in some way relies on electricity. So yeaah, I'm just looking over. Electricity is very, very convenient. If you did watch the video that I did with Lucy on her channel, English with Lucy,


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[Assistant] I talked about how here we call it hydro, which is kind of a unique thing in Canada. So I would say.


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[Assistant] You know, I pay a lot for hydro. The hydro bill came in the mail. Uhm, I'm glad the hydro didn't go out yesterday. Uhm, uh, did I use a lot of hydro last month? That's very Canadian, but generally, uhm,


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[Assistant] We could also use electricity as a word to describe it if we want to. Anyways, electricity is probably the biggest and coolest and best convenience of them all.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, am a busy detective. One morning, I was not busy. I was on my vacation.


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[Assistant] I was sitting under a tree enjoying the breeze with my dog, Sludge, and a pancake. He needed a vacation too. My friend Claude came into the yard.


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[Assistant] I knew that he had lost something. Claude was always losing things.


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[Assistant] I lost my way to your house, he said, and then I found it. What else did you lose?


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[Assistant] Very well, I, Nate the Great, will take your case. Tell me, what was on the list? If I could remember, I wouldn't need the list, Claude said. Good thinking, I said. Does anyone know what was on the list? My father, Claude said. He wrote it. Good. Can you find your father? No, he won't be home until lunch.


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[Assistant] Can you remember some of the list? Yes, Claude said. I remember salt, milk, butter, flour, sugar and tuna fish. Now, tell me, where did you lose the list?


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[Assistant] If I knew, I could find it, Claude said. You can't be sure of that, I said.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure, Claude said. I lost my way a few times. And I, Nate the Great, know what to do.


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[Assistant] I will draw a map of every street between your house and the grocery store and we will follow the map. Sludge and I got up. Our vacation was over.


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[Assistant] I got two pieces of paper and a pen.


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[Assistant] I drew a map on one piece of paper. I wrote on the other. Dear Mother.


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[Assistant] Something is lost. When I find it, I will be back. Love, Nate the Great. Claude said, I will walk with you.


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[Assistant] Don't get lost, I said, or I will have two cases to solve. We walked between Claude's house and the grocery store.


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[Assistant] And then between the grocery store and Claude's house, Sludge sniffed. But we could not find the list. Perhaps it blew away, I said. I dropped the map on the ground. What are you doing? Claude asked.


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[Assistant] I am dropping the map. Whichever direction it goes will show us the way the wind is blowing. Perhaps your list blew in the same direction.


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[Assistant] The map blew toward Rosamond's house and disappeared.


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[Assistant] I will go to Rosamond's house, I said. I will ask her if she has seen your list. I will go to my house and wait, Claude said. We are in front of your house, I said.


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[Assistant] Yes, that makes it easy to find, Claude said. Sludge and I went to Rosamond's house. Rosamond opened the door.


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[Assistant] Rosamond is a very strange girl. Today, she looked more than strange. She looked strange and white. She was covered with flour.


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[Assistant] Sludge sniffed hard. I sniffed hard. Rosamond smelled terrific.


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[Assistant] Pancakes. She was making pancakes. We walked in. Rosamond's four black cats were there. Today they were white too. The cats looked at Sludge. They were not afraid of him. Nobody is afraid of Sludge.


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[Assistant] I am making cat pancakes for my cats, Rosamond said, from a new recipe. I would like to taste cat pancakes, I said.


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[Assistant] You're not a cat, Rosamond said. I would like to taste them anyway, I said. A pancake is a pancake. Rosamond and I sat down. I ate a pancake. It tasted fishy. I ate another. It tasted fishier.


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[Assistant] I am looking for Claude's grocery list, I said. I think the wind blew it toward your house. Have you seen it?


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[Assistant] I haven't seen a grocery list, Rosamond said. But... But what?


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[Assistant] But I see Annie, and her dog, Fang, outside my window, and... and what?


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[Assistant] And Fang has a piece of paper in his mouth. It might be the grocery list. I got up. Thank you for your help.


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[Assistant] And your pancakes, I said.


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[Assistant] I am having a cat pancake party this morning, Rosamond said. I've invited all the cats I know. Can you come? I am not a cat, I said.


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[Assistant] That's what I told you before, Rosamond said.


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[Assistant] Sludge and I went out to talk to Annie and Fang. I like Annie. I try to like Fang.


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[Assistant] Hello, I said. I am looking for Claude's grocery list, and I think Fang has found it. It's between his teeth. He won't let that paper go, Annie said. Can you pull it out? I asked. No, Annie said. Fang would get mad.


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[Assistant] I would not like to see Fang mad, I said.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, say that we should keep anybody with sharp teeth happy. Very happy. I had a problem. How could I get the paper out of Fang's mouth? Suddenly, I had the answer. Sludge, I said. Bark. Sludge barked.


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[Assistant] Sludge barks funny, but that does not matter.


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[Assistant] Thang barked back. The piece of paper dropped from his mouth. I reached for it. But the wind blew it down the street.


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[Assistant] I went after it. Sludge went after me. Fang went after Sludge. Annie went after Fang. The paper went around the corner.


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[Assistant] I went around the corner. Sludge went around the corner. Fang went around the corner. Annie went around the corner. The paper blew into a fence.


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[Assistant] I grabbed the paper. The case was almost over. I looked at the paper. I saw many lines. The paper was my map.


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[Assistant] The list is still lost, I said. I need more clues. I thanked Annie and Fang for their help.


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[Assistant] Sludge and I walked to Claude's house. Claude was home. He was not lost. It was a good sign.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, have not found your list, I said. Can you remember anything else that was written on it? How will that help you find it? Claude asked. Trust me, I said. I remember.


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[Assistant] I remember two more things, Claude said. Eggs and baking powder. Very good, I said.


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[Assistant] Can you find the list before lunch? Claude asked. I hope so, I said. Come to my house at 11. Sludge and I walked home slowly. This was a hard case.


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[Assistant] At home, I made myself some pancakes. I mixed eggs, flour, salt, baking powder, milk, butter, and sugar together and cooked them. I gave Sludge a bone. I ate and thought. I thought about the grocery list.


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[Assistant] I thought about Rosamond and her fishy cat pancakes.


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[Assistant] I thought about Annie and Fang and the map. I put ideas together. I took them apart.


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[Assistant] Then I had a big idea. I knew I must go back to Rosamond's house. I did not want to do that.


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[Assistant] I did not want to be at a party with Rosamond and all the cats she knew. But I had a job to do. I had a case to solve. Sludge and I walked quickly to Rosamond's house.


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[Assistant] I said hello to Rosamond and more cats than I could count.


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[Assistant] They were all over Rosamond's floor, Rosamond's tables, Rosamond's chairs, and Rosamond.


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[Assistant] I came to talk about your cat pancakes, I said. Would you like more? Rosamond asked.


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[Assistant] I would like to see your recipe, I said. Here it is, Rosamond said.


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[Assistant] There are no directions in this recipe, I said. I don't need any, Rosamond said. I just mixed some of everything together. Tell me, where did you get this recipe?


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[Assistant] I found it today, Rosamond said. Aha! You found it, I said.


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[Assistant] Did you find it near your house? Yes, Rosamond said. How did you know that? I have something to tell you.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, say that your cat pancake recipe is Claude's grocery list. I stood tall, I cleared my throat, I read the recipe. Salt. Milk. Butter.


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[Assistant] Oh, Rosamond said, when I found the paper, I thought it was a cat pancake recipe.


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[Assistant] Yes, I said. And when I saw Fang holding a piece of paper, I thought it was a grocery list. I thought it was what I hoped it was. When you saw the grocery list, you thought it was what you hoped it was. A cat pancake recipe.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, thought of that when I was making pancakes. I mixed eggs, flour, salt, baking powder, milk, butter, and sugar.


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[Assistant] Well, Claude can have his paper back. I will keep the recipe in my head.


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[Assistant] That is a good place for it, I said. It cannot blow away.


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[Assistant] I said goodbye to Rosamond and more cats than I could count.


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[Assistant] Sludge and I went home with the list. The case was solved. And it was almost 11 o'clock.


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[Assistant] When Claude comes at eleven, I will give him his list. It is now past eleven o'clock. It is now past eleven thirty. Claude has not shown up. I do not see him anywhere. I hope Claude has not lost himself. It is now past twelve.


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[Assistant] Here comes Claude. I am glad I do not have to look for him. I am glad the case is over.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, have something important to do.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, am going to finish my vacation.


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[Assistant] Nate the Great and the Sticky Case


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, was drying off from the rain.


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[Assistant] I was sitting under a blanket and reading a detective book. My dog Sludge was sniffing it. I was on page 33 when I heard a knock. I opened the door. Claude was there.


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[Assistant] I lost my best dinosaur, Claude said. He was always losing things.


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[Assistant] This is your biggest loss yet, I said. A dinosaur is huge. How could you lose it?


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[Assistant] My dinosaur is small, Claude said. It is a stegosaurus on a stamp. Can you help me find it?


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[Assistant] It is hard to find something that small, I said.


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[Assistant] This will be a big case, but I will take it. Tell me.


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[Assistant] It was on a table in my house, Claude said. I was showing all my dinosaur stamps to my friends. The stegosaurus stamp was my favorite. Who are your friends? I asked. Annie, Pip, Rosamond, and you. But you weren't there, Claude added. Good thinking, I said.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, will go to your house and look at your table. I wrote a note to my mother.


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[Assistant] Dear Mother, I am on a sticky case. When I find something big that is small, I will be back. Love, Nate the Great.


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[Assistant] Claude and I went to his house. He did not lose his way. He showed me his table. It had stamps all over it.


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[Assistant] Here are all of my stamps, Claude said, except for the Stegosaurus stamp.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, saw a tyrannosaurus stamp. I saw a brontosaurus stamp. I saw an ichthyosaurus stamp. I saw claws and jaws. The stamps were ugly. But that did not matter. I had a case to solve. I had a job to do.


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[Assistant] Where was the Stegosaurus stamp when it was on the table? I asked.


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[Assistant] Near the edge, Claude said. It must have fallen off, I said. I looked on the floor near the table. The stegosaurus stamp was not there. I picked up a stamp and showed it to Sludge. We must look for a lost stamp, I said.


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[Assistant] Sometimes Sludge is not a great detective.


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[Assistant] He tried to lick the sticky side of the stamp.


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[Assistant] Sludge and I looked at, over, under, and around everything in Claude's house. Then we looked again. We did not find the Stegosaurus stamp.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, turn to Claude.


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[Assistant] The stegosaurus stamp is not in your house, I said. Tell me, when did you notice the stamp was missing? After everybody left, Claude said. Did everybody leave together, I asked. Yes, said Claude. Did everybody come together, I asked. No, said Claude.


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[Assistant] Annie and Rosamond came to tell me that Rosamond was going to have a yard sale. Then, it started to rain.


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[Assistant] It rained for a long time, so Annie and Rosamond stayed and looked at my stamps.


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[Assistant] When the rain stopped, Pip came over. He looked at my stamps too. Then, they all left together to go to Rosamond's yard sale.


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[Assistant] Then I, Nate the Great, must go to the yard sale too, I said.


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[Assistant] I must speak to everyone who is in the room with the stegosaurus stamp. Sludge and I went to Rosamond's house.


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[Assistant] Are you selling your cats? I asked. No, Rosamond said.


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[Assistant] I am selling and swapping empty tuna fish cans, slippers, spare cat hairs, toothbrushes, pictures of milk, spoons, and all sorts of things. Sludge was sniffing. Do you have a stegosaurus stamp? I asked.


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[Assistant] No, Rosamond said, but I saw one at Claude's house near the edge of his table.


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[Assistant] Thank you, I said. I started to leave.


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[Assistant] Please buy a cat hair for my yard sale, Rosamond called. They're only a penny each. I, Nate the Great, did not want a cat hair. But I gave Rosamond a penny. I will buy one cat hair, I said. I will give you an extra one free, Rosamond said.


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[Assistant] Do you want hairs from big hex, little hex, lane hex, or super hex? Surprise me, I said.


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[Assistant] Rosamond took a hair from a box that was marked Big Hex, and a hair from a box that was marked Super Hex. She stuck the hairs to a piece of tape. So, you won't lose them, she said.


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[Assistant] Sometimes Rosamond has strange ideas. This was one of them.


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[Assistant] I saw Pip looking at some empty tuna fish cans.


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[Assistant] Did you see a stegosaurus stamp at the edge of Claude's table? I asked. Pip doesn't say much. He shook his head, up and down. Do you know where it is now? I asked.


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[Assistant] Pip shook his head sideways. Thank you, I said. I saw Annie and her dog fang.


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[Assistant] I am looking for Claude's stegosaurus stamp, I said. What do you know about it?


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[Assistant] I know that the stegosaurus is pretty, Annie said. I know that it looks like Fang. Annie turned toward Fang.


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[Assistant] Show us your stegosaurus smile, she said.


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[Assistant] Fang opened his mouth. I, Nate the Great, knew it was time to go home.


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[Assistant] I said goodbye to Annie. Sludge and I walked home slowly. It was a good walk.


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[Assistant] There are raindrops on the tree leaves. We saw ourselves in puddles. We sniffed the clean air. We saw a rainbow.


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[Assistant] At home, I made some pancakes. I gave Sludge a bone. We ate and thought. Where was the Stegosaurus stamp? Nobody knew, but the stamp was gone. This was a sticky case. I, Nate the Great, was stuck. Then I thought.


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[Assistant] Perhaps there is something different about a stegosaurus stamp.


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[Assistant] Perhaps I should think about the stegosaurus instead of the stamp.


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[Assistant] I had pancakes in my stomach, and a good idea in my head.


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[Assistant] Wait here, sludge, I said. I have to go look for information. I went to the museum. I saw a stegosaurus there. I had to look up and up and up. The stegosaurus was big.


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[Assistant] He was bigger than Fang. His smile was uglier. But he could not move. He could not do anything.


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[Assistant] I, Nate the Great, was glad about that. I learned about the Stegosaurus. He was a giant lizard. He lived a long time ago.


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[Assistant] He had two brains. I, Nate the Great, wish that I had two brains and that one of them would solve this case. I walked home.


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[Assistant] The signs of rain were gone, except for some puddles. I thought hard. What did I know about the stegosaurus stamp?