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[Assistant] You feel me? It was good cause just seeing somebody that come from the same place you come from.


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[Assistant] On a certain level. I don't really see too many successful Detroit people in the music industry.


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[Assistant] I only wanna hear street shit from Detroit. I don't give a fuck about no industry niggas. Oh, you say a nigga from Detroit made it out? Let me hear it. Yeah, that- I wanna hear that street shit.


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[Assistant] You feel me? But as I got older and as I gained more respect for the craft, I started fucking with this shit like, no, he really cold for real.


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[Assistant] That's our sound. It's gonna sound like that. You feel me? Because...


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[Assistant] Detroit ain't a fun place. Not a tourist city. It ain't people being there coexisting.


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[Assistant] Everybody happy, none of that niggas is getting killed. Niggas are selling drugs, niggas are trying to get some money.


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[Assistant] That niggas is in the streets. Everything that come with the streets is going on in Detroit 24-7.


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[Assistant] I go there, creep through, pull up on the people I need to pull up on. You know what I'm saying? See who I need to see then. I be right back on.


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[Assistant] I was at home, I got real hot, my heart was beating fast, I'm like I'm about to die in this bitch. Off of Backwood?


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[Assistant] I get the same high, I don't give a fuck what kind of weed it is. I get the same high. I get scared thinking I'm about to die, hear my heart beating. I want to be in the house. Every, the moment I realize I'm high, I want to be sober right then and there.


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[Assistant] I gotta do something bro, cause niggas be looking like they having too much fun.


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[Assistant] Never smoked. I had one incident where I smoked. And I was at the house. I mean, I was at my man's house.


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[Assistant] We smoked or whatever. I'm like, I'm about to go home. I'm high as fuck walking home.


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[Assistant] I get to putting snow on my face all the time if she's trying to get sober. You feel me? So, as soon as I see my house, it's like seven, eight cars outside.


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[Assistant] So, I got this girl number earlier that day.


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[Assistant] You feel me? Just cold, girl. I couldn't wait to finesse my little text messages to her. Like I'm doing more than I'm doing in everything, so boom. I call, I'm calling my sister, I'm like, let me call my sister, tell her to open the door. Call her sister, I'm like, listen, don't tell granny, don't tell nobody I'm here.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna get in trouble, come open the side door and I'm just gonna go straight in the basement. She like, what is you talking about? Whole time, it's the girl number who I got.


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[Assistant] From earlier type shit. Bro. Who I was trying to impress. And I see like, oh this nigga scared of his grandma type shit. Fuck my whole playa. Couldn't call her no more.


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[Assistant] So uhm, I linked up with Kanye West and throughout me and him working. I met Timberland.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, I ain't just gonna pull up, cause I don't, I don't want an old nigga to pull up if I call you over here.


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[Assistant] Feel me? So call me when you done so we can go finish what we doing. He like, shit, nah, he wants you to pull up. So I pull up. He like, let me hear some of that new shit. Kanye. I'm like, damn, I can't even believe this nigga know me.


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[Assistant] Feel me? Play this shit, he like, yeah that shit crazy, that shit hard. Nigga, we need to work. I'm like, come on. So we got to working for like a week straight.


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[Assistant] Everyday all day we in the stool. Wow. You feel me? We're jumping on the jet, going to see some shit. So he like, we bout to go to Miami tomorrow.


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[Assistant] I'm like, alright bet, I'ma get my ticket. He like, no, I'ma put you on a plane, we gonna get there. I'm like, alright bet. So I'm like, what airport? I mean, what's the airline and shit? He like, what you talking about? This nigga ain't flew at an airport in so long, he don't even know what I'm talking about. I end up finding out I'm about to be on a jet.


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[Assistant] Busy, just tumbling, you feel me? He was like, shit nigga, let's do it.


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[Assistant] And Timberland really cold though, like, when you hear this bitch, you ain't even gonna be believing Timberland produced some of this shit. Really? You feel me? I be letting niggas hear it, they be like, who made that beat?


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[Assistant] Feel me, three times a week type shit. Not even on no music shit, just like, uhm, sending positive energy away, hope all is well. Some shit like that, you feel me?


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[Assistant] I would be happy actually that, that somebody, or that,


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[Assistant] Caliber would want to use some shit that I did that let me know I'm doing something right. Cause I can always make some hard shit.


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[Assistant] I can put myself in anybody's mind state. Like, I can adapt. I done been around all type of people.


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[Assistant] Before it really took off, I was fucking with it, and he had came to my show at Rolling Lawn one day.


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[Assistant] And I was like, what up? Embraced him. You feel me? He like, damn I didn't know you knew who I was. We exchanged numbers. Ever since then we just been working. Locked in ever since.


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[Assistant] If they post a picture of a dude and say this man raped and killed 20 young girls.


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[Assistant] Everybody gonna be like, damn, he did that whole ass shit, he savage, he a monster. Whole time, he didn't even do it. This could be an experiment to see how people gonna react.


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[Assistant] You feel me? I had like the literally the whole crowd as far as you can see was fucking with me.


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[Assistant] I feel like it was a success. I feel like next time around it'll be better though.


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[Assistant] All the niggas that be in the videos with guns and all the niggas that's doing good, any and everybody who they feel like they can get some points off of, they gonna do it. You feel me? That's why I get in and get up out of there.


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[Assistant] Some uhm, they say she was selling bricks and all this other drug shit.


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[Assistant] She got left, so she was sentenced to 25 altogether. That's why I say she got life, 25 years of life. But a lot of laws passed, and they did a lot of bullshitting in her case.


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[Assistant] You know, and see back in court now trying to get this shit to where she can get immediate release.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? And once I went, I was just like, this shit is crazy. You feel me? Like the guards think they gotta...


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[Assistant] Add to your punishment. They talking to you any kind of way, treating you any kind of way, they beating your ass in that bitch, all type of shit.


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[Assistant] And I'm just looking like, us being in prison, being away from our family, not being able to get no money, our life being put on pause while we continuously aging, is our punishment. That's our punishment. Y'all ain't here to punish us.


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[Assistant] Y'all got a job, y'all get a check, y'all come to work and go home.


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[Assistant] Ain't seein' they kids. I was in that bitch with niggas and they mama died. It's crazy for your mama to die while you locked up.


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[Assistant] You feel me? But with me, I know that they ain't tearing that motherfucker down when I get out.


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[Assistant] When I get out, they not demolishing all the prisons. Them bitches still gonna be there. So whenever you do some more dumb shit, it's still here for you.


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[Assistant] I got family members in there that's coming home, they ain't never seen this type of life before. Really? So I'm excited about showing them that.


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[Assistant] She still can't believe it. My little brother still can't believe it. I can only tell him what's going on. They be like, damn, that's crazy. But it ain't really hit him yet. Cause we never saw this type of shit.


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[Assistant] Right, but I'm hoping that he only do those five years because the way he interacting, he might have to do longer than five years.


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[Assistant] Feel me, so. Hopefully he come home in 2020. He got locked up in 2015. I got five years.


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[Assistant] That's all they really give a fuck about. They say they wanna see all that other good shit cause it sound good and that's what you're supposed to say.


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[Assistant] And you know, that's, that's following the norm. You feel me? That's following what's right. But deep down in they heart, they gonna go watch a nigga, the video of a nigga getting killed.


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[Assistant] More times than I can go watch a video of a nigga doing something or speaking out to somebody.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm very excited about the project. You feel me? That's what I've been working on. I just bought a house, so I've been working on getting my house together.


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[Assistant] Not even that, I'm pulling out the parking lot and down there scraped something.


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[Assistant] You feel me? And it just fucked up a part that's just like complicated. It fucked up a complicated part on the car. So now I'm waiting on that to get back so I can get all my cars wrecked.


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[Assistant] You feel me? I like, you know who not to bring in this motherfucker. You feel me?


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[Assistant] You feel me? And if I didn't do something with him, or if I know the person, I'd be like, nah, I'm straight. I don't want shit to be awkward.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you did not just wake up to ruin my life with science. Go back to sleep, bear man. Can you actually just read this out loud really quick?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, we're not gonna do that. Not a chance. We were supposed to be doing that. Well now I'm awake! Oh good, here's everything you missed.


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[Assistant] The entire west coast was on fire. They found a guy with a plague in California. There was more police violence. Louis got hit with two hurricanes and all of Lake Charles was destroyed.


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[Assistant] Okay, Science Boy, you wanna tell the world about your lies? Yeah. Excuse me? Uh, that's actually my line, usually. No, yeah, you- you can borrow it.


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[Assistant] You said yourself, only 6% of people actually died from COVID. Okay.


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[Assistant] I- in the head and from point blank. He'd still be alive. A 22 is not big enough to pierce that thick skull of his. Good thing it got something a little bigger for you. You couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from 10 feet. I hate it here.


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[Assistant] I was just at the trip trap, and I heard Gren telling some folks about a funeral at the Buckingham bridge. The trip trap?


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[Assistant] It is, and two things to note about the three games that they're playing in. Two of the three, the Steelers and the Jets,


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[Assistant] Our primetime matchups. The Jets are Thursday Night Football. The Steelers are Monday Night Football. So those white uniforms are going to look epic.


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[Assistant] In the night sky, under the lights, they will look awesome. The Steelers game, time still, TBD, but those will be the three games they wear. My first thought when I saw these, other than I think they're really fresh, you can't get your ass kicked in all what you know. Just puts the pressure on all three of those games, you better show up, show out and win, because it's one thing to lose a game,


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[Assistant] You know, I think the Browns are gonna be pretty good this year. I don't think they'll lose a lot of games, but you can't get your ass kicked in those games.


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[Assistant] It's like when Baylor wears their neon green, and they lose and you're like, KTS.


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[Assistant] Hey real quick before we do that, kudos to us. Four minutes on Browns before we gotta get to the main event of the day and that is, when's the parade coming G Bush? Have they asked you to be the grand marshal?


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[Assistant] Do you want to hear the rest of the second team? Yeah, do you want to hear him real quick? Yeah, please. Santi Aldama of the Memphis Grizzlies. Okay.


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[Assistant] Wait hold on, we got, we got two more things we gotta address here on assembly. Two more things. Because there is two other people we have to address. With the Monty Bates. Yea. To put the cap on Bates and move onto their guys. Yea. He did a four assist yesterday.


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[Assistant] No, no, I know. I just want to point out that we as a show have been critical of his lack of...


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[Assistant] Two other guys we gotta mention real quick. Sam Merrill broke the summer league record for most threes made in a single summer league and he sat out a game. So in five games he made 25 threes, that's the most since 2017. His shooting ability...


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[Assistant] So shooting translates, whether or not he's big enough to contribute on the NBA level remains to be determined, but he certainly has a sniper. And Isaiah Mobley, and G and Jason and Bull, I want your guys take on Mobley. He was the Summer League game championship MVP, put up a double-double, had 28 points. He wasn't named to either Summer League team, whatever, who really cares? But my question is, what you saw from Isaiah Mobley,


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[Assistant] Do you think he's got a chance to actually be a contributor on the Cavs this upcoming season?


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[Assistant] He's played 36 total games in the NBA. He started two games in his career. They were the 81st and 82nd games for the Bucks when they'd already clinched the first overall seed three years ago.


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[Assistant] How many threes has he actually taken? He has attempted 88 career threes. He's 33 for 88 in his NBA career.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're gonna do running backs in a sec. We're gonna let the, uh, the maximum audience trickle in before we do the running back conversation. But we talked about the stars on this team time after time again. We know Deshaun Watson, the most important player on the Browns. We know Myles Garrett, Chubb. Those guys have to have monster seasons for the Browns to reach their full potential. So my question today for you guys is,


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[Assistant] Amari Cooper, Antonio, Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Those are the ones that are not, and I'd prefer you not to pick Dalvin Tomlinson.


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[Assistant] So three good choices. We actually put a poll out on our YouTube channel. Whenever we do that, we're gonna get the results for you guys. Cause we like to hear what you guys say. We are very interested in your guys' thoughts on some of these topics as well.


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[Assistant] And our poll today got over 900 votes, so I'm gonna tell you those results in one sec, but first we gotta tell you who brings us the results of that poll, and that is...


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[Assistant] Online at precast.com slash careers to learn more.


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[Assistant] So we asked the YouTube community tab, which if you're not a member, subscribe, it's free. This is free for everyone out there. You can become a member, you can communicate in these YouTube community poll posts and all that kind of stuff. Leave some comments, we'll read them here. And we essentially asked, and we picked four candidates. One was on your guys list, the other three weren't.


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[Assistant] The same question we asked you, which non-star for the Browns is most important this year? And of the 937 votes, 72% said Elijah Moore.


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[Assistant] No, we did this this morning before, so we put Elijah Moore, we had Jerome Ford up there, we had, uh, Acro, I say his name, Oboe. Oboe Concro. No kid York? And Grant Dell, but we did not have York up there.


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[Assistant] So let's do it real quick, in the chat, Anthony, in the YouTube chat real quick. So Elijah Moore was the winner. Is that more in the chat? Is that what you guys saw the most? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Anthony's giving me a nod, I don't know if he wants to talk, but yeaah, he says Elijah Moore by far is the most in the chat, so woah.


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[Assistant] You may have won a YouTube chat today. Wow, look at that. That's a rarity.


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[Assistant] Maybe in the year I've been here for the first time, there's some legit trash talk going on between like front office members of the Browns and the Bengals. We have JW Johnson tweeting at the Bengals arguing who had the first white uniforms. Can I ask a question? Who cares? What did he tweet?


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[Assistant] The Bangles are saying the Browns ripped off their all-white uniforms, because the Bangles released the Tiger Stripes one last year. The Browns are saying, we were there first, we actually had the first uniform.


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[Assistant] The Bangles tweeted out a video 30 minutes ago of a clip from, and TagBoard's not working or I'd play the clip, but TagBoard of course decided to crap out on us today. Of Mike Brown speaking, the video's only 9 seconds. Uh, Mike Brown saying that


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[Assistant] The Browns ripped off the Bangles uniform back in the day and then JW responded, remind us what year you joined the league. Hashtag, we were here first.


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[Assistant] It is 10 million, 10.1 million. It's the only position in the NFL that saw the franchise tag go down in value over the last 8 years. Everything else has skyrocketed, running back's actually gone down.


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[Assistant] That Nick Chubbs the last running back to sign a multi-year ten million dollar contract, correct?


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[Assistant] Leonard Fernet was the only first round pick in the last 10.


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[Assistant] He's 27, he turns 28 in December. Okay.


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[Assistant] The issue, real quick G, the issue with running backs, and I feel bad for running backs. I genuinely feel bad and I don't get the victory laps some people are taking online about running backs not getting paid. The issue with the running back position,


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[Assistant] Is you get paid for what you will produce, not what you have produced. And as soon as they're running back in their NFL timeline, is up for renegotiation, they're right near that cliff.


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[Assistant] And it's hard to negotiate and pay a guy and project he'll still be the same player he was the first couple years of his career down the line. Derek Henry's the exception.


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[Assistant] Like Derek Henry's don't come around very often. We don't see guys. Derek Henry's gonna turn 30 this year. Don't have seasons like he had at 28, 29, historically speaking. Doesn't mean it's impossible. It's just unlikely. So I'm not sure what the fix is. Not adding them in a salary cap. I'm not sure if that's the only way.


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[Assistant] It sucks for running backs, because I don't think it's gonna change.


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[Assistant] So Bull, it's interesting. There was a kid, his name is Kaden Blue. He was the number one high school recruit at the running back position in Texas when I was there.


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[Assistant] He sat out his senior season. He had already committed to Texas. Just sat out his senior season. Oh, in high school? High school. His senior season of high school. Yeah. He committed to Texas. I wanna double check. I think he's transferred twice already. Okay. But he sat out his senior season of high school to save some wear and tear on his legs. Right.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, wait, let me ask you a question. I asked Earl this before the show today. In a world where Nick Chubb doesn't exist, how many yards has Jerome Ford rushed for this year?


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[Assistant] So the fact, real quick, so the fact, and I'm just playing devil's advocate here.


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb last year, with Jacobi Percett at quarterback for 11 games, rushed for 1,500 yards. If you think Jerome Ford's gonna rush for 1,100 in a world where Nick Chubb doesn't exist, that means essentially you're paying 16 million dollars, or 15 million dollars, which is the difference between Nick Chubb and Jerome Ford for 400 yards.


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[Assistant] All of them. They'd go to the XFL and find the best 5 from the XFL and the best 10 from the Boogie would be taking carries.


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[Assistant] Hey real quick, do you know how many carries Nick Chubb had in college?


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[Assistant] And the re- the reason I looked that up was, gee, you said earlier that these guys, these running backs are wasting the prime of their physical abilities in college. And I was like, oh, I thought of Blake Corum, the guy from Michigan.


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[Assistant] He ran the ball a ton last year and he has, entering this season, he has 416 career carries entering his senior season. He's going to get 250 again, just like last year, assuming their season goes, that'll be, you know, close to 700 carries before he gets to the NFL. And I was like, well,


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[Assistant] I think Chubb was hurt a little bit in college. Maybe that's why he's so fresh. Well it turns out he ran the ball 219 times as a freshman. Then he got hurt as a sophomore in 92 attempts. 224 carries in each his junior and senior season for a grand total of 758 carries in college.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's it. So let's start with the real guardians topic today. The trade deadline is approaching. Yeah. Shane Bieber's hurt. Two topics I want to get to. One is Aaron Savali.


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[Assistant] Now the guardians, most valuable trade asset. And two, do you think they'll end up being buyers or sellers when it's all said and done?


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[Assistant] He's a free agent in 2026. So they have this year, then two more years, then yeah. Right. So under contract through 2025.


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[Assistant] Wait real quick, before you get into Yandhi, explain to me and the people out there that aren't exactly, what was Yandhi's path to leading Cleveland? Did they just release him?


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[Assistant] And, uh, with Cole Solcer to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Rays sent Cash to the Mariners, the Rays sent Jake Bowers to the Indians. So yes.


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[Assistant] I'll read it one more time, December 13th, 2018.


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[Assistant] And then the next, the next part of that is the Mariners then sent Carlos Santana and cash to the Indians, the Indians sent Encarnacion.


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[Assistant] We have to have a conversation as a show, and I'm gonna do two things before we have this particular conversation. First.


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[Assistant] We got some big numbers today. Monty Bates and the cash from the summer league. We knew it was going to be a big show and the fans out there delivered. So if you're out in the chat, we appreciate you. Hit that like button, do us a favor. If you're not already a subscriber.


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[Assistant] Do you want to tell the people real quick why they should be a subscriber of the Ultimate Football Sports Show?


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[Assistant] I appreciate that, G. Uh, for the people out here, I came up with the segment we're gonna do tomorrow that is either gonna be


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[Assistant] It airs right around noon and we need internet comments live as we do this from you guys. We're going to read a bunch of these live after each question. So tomorrow around noon, if you want to participate, you better be in the chat and I'm calling you guys to bring your A game tomorrow because


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[Assistant] I hope this segment hits. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I think you guys in the chat are going to like it a lot more than Bull's going to like it. I guarantee Bull's going to hate it. I guarantee G is going to like it. Tyvis is the wild card and I need the chat to be on their A game tomorrow to help us bring this home. So I'm calling out the chat. I need you guys tomorrow. The segment is going to air right around noon.


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[Assistant] I need you guys at your top tier form, so.


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[Assistant] I know, and that brings us right to what we need to talk about as a show. We are going to discuss this and we're going to make a ruling today as an ultimate Cleveland sports show. It is Madden ranking season.


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[Assistant] They have come out, quarterbacks are out, running backs are out, edge rushers came out today, all that good stuff. Last year we discussed in depth all of them. This year.


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[Assistant] Do we want to give any grievance, any attention to the Madden rankings? Should we discuss? Should we pass? What do you guys think? I am open for discussion. Let's put it in the chat. Does the chat want to hear about Madden rankings? We're going to make a decision here as the five of us.


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[Assistant] Whereas, Schefter tweets so much, it's trying to find. Okay, you ready for the list? Yeaah. These are the top 10 receivers in Madden 24. Yeaah. And this is why I wanted to discuss if we wanted to do this or not. Okay. Because some of them are so stupid, but. Yeaah. Justin Jefferson, 99. Only receiver who's a 99.


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[Assistant] Stefan Diggs in Cooper Cup 96. What? Jamar Chase 94.


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[Assistant] AJ Brown 91, and to round out the top 10, Amari Cooper 91.


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[Assistant] Wait real quick, do you want the rest of the rankings?


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[Assistant] I got 11 through the rest real quick. So I'll just give you number and name. CD Lambs and 90 at 11.


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[Assistant] Mike Evans, 90, Debo Samuel, 89, Keenan Allen.


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[Assistant] So are we done with Madden Rankings? I'm done with Madden Rankings. Okay. I'm done. I didn't see where Higgins was at. Higgins is 21st with an 87.


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[Assistant] Okay, so what's more egregious, Garrett Wilson being an 84 or DeAndre Hopkins being number 7 at a 93? Oh, definitely.


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[Assistant] Well we talked about running backs, you get paid for what you're projected to do, not what you've done. Madden rankings are not what you're projected to do, it's what have you done for me. Right, but what has Odell Beckham done?


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm not disagree. I'm looking at Garrett Wilson as like the guy who we all think he's, he was awesome. I know, but he was great as a rookie. 84? Well, 84 is way too low.


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[Assistant] An eighty-four, eighty-five, he's twenty-nine. One above him.


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[Assistant] And Michael Pittman, Christian Kirk, and Calvin Ridley. Those are the 585s.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Hill's 99, Jamison Williams, Jaylen Waddle, both 98. Marquise Brown and Quez Watkins, both 97. Anthony Schwartz, Christian Watson, McCall Hardman, Tyquan Thornton, 96. So the Browns, unmaddened, 296 and up receivers.


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[Assistant] That's why I wanted to have a discussion on the air. So people didn't think either we are ignoring them and or piping up too much.


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[Assistant] You know what? That was a projec- projection. The, uh, quarterback ranks came out Friday.


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[Assistant] But today, today was Edge Rushers, Myles Garrett tied for first. Receivers is out, we already talked about that.


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[Assistant] Oh, they have every receivers rankings, literally every single one.


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[Assistant] For his career, he's thrown 192 touchdowns and 49 interceptions.


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[Assistant] Last thing on my homes and I want to get to this last topic cause we got, here's his year by year touchdown interception. So his first year is a full time starter. He'd only started one game prior. 50 touchdowns, 12 interceptions.


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[Assistant] Next season, down year for him, 26 touchdowns, 5 interceptions. The next year, 38 touchdowns, 6 interceptions. The next year, got a little reckless with the football, 37 touchdowns, 13 interceptions. And this past year, 5200 yards, 41 touchdowns, 12 interceptions.


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[Assistant] We see athletes go from playing to the media all the time. And we've all made the joke that we think Baker will be great on the Big 12 Network in two years. That's right. Big new kickoff. Big new kickoff. Not Big 12. He's good enough for prime time. Naturally. Which current members, or which current athletes in Cleveland?


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[Assistant] Do you think we'll translate to being good media members when their careers open?


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[Assistant] Wait, question, question for you guys. Who would have to be the moderator?


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[Assistant] To get the most out of a broadcast of any sport, regardless of what it is, with the two color guys of Evan Mobley and Nick Chubb, who would have to be the moderator to bring out their personalities?


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[Assistant] Kinda salty real quick, uh, just found out the Browns sent a white helmet to a radio station in town. We didn't get our white helmet from the Browns.


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[Assistant] Alright, we got time for final takes for the first time in a long time. Fellas. Go ahead, Jason. Wait for the stinger.


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[Assistant] We're going to talk about something that I found online and was personally offended by. And it's food related. And it's either going to disgust you guys or you're going to be all in. So stay tuned.


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[Assistant] I'm done arguing, General. I have to do this.


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[Assistant] Can you see that? Is that good? Is that a good place? Yes? Okay.


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[Assistant] David Addington, principal of the vice president, uh, was interested in ensuring that, uh, the president's constitutional authority, uh, was used to its fullest.


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[Assistant] We have to remember that, you know, we had had terrorists living in this country for a number of months, and we didn't know about it. What else didn't we know? And so there was a great deal of concern about the fact that we not only could not connect the dots, we could not collect the dots.


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[Assistant] You know, David pushed. He pushed everybody. He pushed me. Even when I was the Attorney General, he would push me. So that was just David's nature. And I think Jack didn't appreciate being pushed sometimes.


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[Assistant] I satisfy myself that there would, there was sufficient legal authority to move forward. And I felt that the president was not a lawyer, and that this, it was my job, if I felt comfortable that it was in fact lawful to provide that signature.


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[Assistant] I did it because I wanted to protect the president. That's why I signed that document.


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[Assistant] We were worried that this would compromise a very important, very significant intelligence activity. Uhm, there was a great, there was debate within the administration about what to do. Should we try to get an injunction?


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[Assistant] They broke the law. They leak classified information. That's against the law.


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[Assistant] You have to remember that NSA was created after World War II to prevent another surprise attack. That was the whole raison d'etre for NSA. Pro Harbor, we don't want another Pro Harbor.


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[Assistant] The director had a meeting with Vice President Cheney and his top aide, David Addington, and, uh, he was asked what can be done, what can be done, uh, that isn't being done.


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[Assistant] Suddenly have all this attention from senior officials in the White House and so forth, and I'm sure it had a major impact on Hayden.


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[Assistant] We're keeping secret this new operation of some sort.


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[Assistant] The next move is to try to get some cooperation from Congress, from the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. And he finds an ally in Diane Rourke, who felt the same way.


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[Assistant] So that was the point where he could have said, I'm turning it off until we get a proper order from the Justice Department. But he didn't. He went along with Eddington and Cheney.


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[Assistant] He spent two years draining all his resources on a private attorney, and then when he had no more money, he had to go to a, uh, public defender.


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[Assistant] I was hired as a consultant by the defense and was able to find basically all the information that they were charging him with. It was already in the public domain.


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[Assistant] America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining. Today our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature.


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[Assistant] Tonight I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve.


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[Assistant] And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23.


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[Assistant] Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me.


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[Assistant] States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.


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[Assistant] I will not wait on events while dangers gather I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer


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[Assistant] The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.


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[Assistant] Our war on terror has well begun, but it has only begun.


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[Assistant] Jerry Bremer has agreed to become the presidential envoy to Iraq.


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[Assistant] The America I know is a compassionate country that believes in freedom. The America I know cares about every individual.


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[Assistant] The America I know has sent troops into Iraq to promote freedom, good honorable citizens that are helping the Iraqis every day.


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[Assistant] The four suspects hope to be martyrs or on a mission to commit what they call jihad.


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[Assistant] Where everybody else is looking for their maps on Afghanistan, we're ready to rock, ready to roll.


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[Assistant] We far outnumbered the number of American, uh, special forces and CIA who were on the ground there.


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[Assistant] There was a bigger journalistic contingent at Tora Bora than there was an American fighting force.


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[Assistant] And boots on the ground and attention that would have taken to have a more definitive resolution of that conflict.


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[Assistant] The threats were no longer from dangerous overseas countries as much. The way Donald Trump talked about it, the threat was the enemy within.


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[Assistant] Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Revenge Tour will always, always be like a memory, but this tour is like the most comfortable tour I've, we've ever experienced, honestly.


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[Assistant] Working out. Working out with Ed! Yeaah, you dig? Yes sir! I'm trying to get, like, uh, trying to get fit, trying to get, what's up? Trying to get to where I need to be in life, you know what I mean? Like, as happy as I can be. You look good compared to last week.


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[Assistant] Diane is the go-to girl on the House Permanent Select Committee on matters dealing with NSA.


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[Assistant] Diane, very capable, so good that she pierced the veil, uh, of a program that she was not briefed on, not cleared for, but knew something was going on.


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[Assistant] Mike Hayden is particularly good at coming in and explaining things in a way that, uh, shall we say, neophytes, uh, in the business, uh, could understand it.


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[Assistant] Really wanted to believe what Mike had to say, uh, and again absorb it and digest it rather than question it.


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[Assistant] I said, you need to talk to General Hayden and you also need to know that concerns of the areas you're talking about, uh, are known to me and I'm not going to discuss because you're frankly not cleared for this level of program, uh, or what's going on here. But, uh, the fact that you've discovered this means that you need to talk to General Hayden.


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[Assistant] Agents, FBI agents primarily to try and develop


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[Assistant] Intelligence about people that we thought were foreign agents or terrorists.


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[Assistant] It was in an, uh, uh, on the sixth floor and only one elevator went up there. And it was literally in a bank vault, uh, because they were worried about the Soviet Union, you know, overhearing what was going on.


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[Assistant] The law specifically said that if you didn't go through the court, you were, uh, committing a federal felony.


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[Assistant] I asked a supervisor of mine if she knew what the, uh, what the program was about and she told me that she just assumed that what we were doing was illegal and she didn't want to ask any questions.


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[Assistant] They were conducting electronic surveillance without getting warrants, uh, and using that information then to develop probable cause and basically not informing the court of the source of the information.


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[Assistant] It just kind of ate away at me and kind of came to a head when


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[Assistant] There was a chance that for the first time ever that a sitting attorney general would be indicted.


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[Assistant] And she, uh, I remember her last comment was, you know, Tom whistleblowers frequently don't end up very well. And I told her, yeaah, I understood that.


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[Assistant] I eventually told them my suspicions that a very, very limited people knew what it was all about and that it really


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[Assistant] And of course I knew that, you know, that immediately would send up red flags and that I would immediately be their primary suspect.


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[Assistant] I certainly had a lot of hope and I had a lot of hope for hope and change. But I actually thought that somebody might say, you know, you actually did the right thing.


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[Assistant] He drives it to the Red Cross and, uh, he can't breathe, uh, and he's beginning to drown.


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[Assistant] Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock.


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[Assistant] Saddam Hussein already possesses two out of the three key components needed to build a nuclear bomb.


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[Assistant] Sodom Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb.


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[Assistant] I can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these weapons to al Qaeda. Fortunately, this operative is now detained and he has told his story.


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[Assistant] Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction.


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[Assistant] We heard basically that the president had authorized a warrantless wiretapping program. It was believed by a lot of, by the people we were talking to, to be in violation of the


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[Assistant] I told the press person that I needed to talk to Hayden immediately and for a very sensitive matter and I didn't tell him exactly what it was but to my surprise she got him on the phone immediately.


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[Assistant] You know, it was almost like he was, he didn't want to say it, but he was like, I can't believe you got that story.


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[Assistant] I'd caught him off guard and he started to confirm it and then realized what he was doing and hung up.


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[Assistant] Hypotheticals, like saying, if we were doing this, this would be very important to the


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[Assistant] And then I started taking notes and they tried to stop me from taking notes and it was a very contentious meeting that, uh,


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[Assistant] Only convinced me further that the story was right and that they were trying to stop it.


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[Assistant] We argued that this was really important, that our sources were telling us.


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[Assistant] It was illegal or unconstitutional that there was, uh, clearly


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[Assistant] People in the government who disagreed with what the government, what the officials were saying to the, to the editors.


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[Assistant] This story was dead, now twice dead, and I thought the only way to ever get this story out was to put it in a book.


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[Assistant] I said I want to make sure it's okay with you and he said the only thing I ask is, you know, put my name in there too.


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[Assistant] The editors were furious at me. They thought I was being insubordinate.


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[Assistant] Between me, my book, me, my book, and the New York Times over the next few months.


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[Assistant] I knew that couldn't be true, that it was just collateral damage.


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[Assistant] The damage to US interests in the rest of the world is hard to calculate, but it will be significant.


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[Assistant] Look at my fancy shoes. These are perfect when you are around water and slippery stones. I've had them for many years, I think. Almost 10 years or something. This rock gives you a heart.


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[Assistant] How is Jamar Chase? Does anybody on this panel even play Madden? Yes. Okay, so you trippin', G. If you played Madden last year, you know like Omari's like a sneaky, he was like a 91 last year, but he played like a 94, 95 on Madden.


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[Assistant] Earl's got one more thing. One more thing though, the interesting thing about video games today, and like with Madden rankings, as the season progresses in real life, the ratings alter based on your real life performance. So I think Madden drops like a new updated rankings of ratings at the end of each week of the season.


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[Assistant] And they talked numbers, you know, 478 months, 35 years. The government said he would have the blood of soldiers on his hands for what he did.


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[Assistant] It was not stamped classified until after it was seized from Tom Drake's home.


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[Assistant] I remember when the bill came forward, there was some discussion as to whether or not he would support it.


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[Assistant] The angel of Valhalla isn't a person. It's a legendary chocobo, covered in feathers as white as the clouds.


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[Assistant] It's the sacred bird that only appears at the end of the world.


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[Assistant] The doctor lives up the road a bit, in the village of Canopus Farms. If you catch him in a good mood, he'll help you out. Uhm, maybe.


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[Assistant] I am the speaker for the dead.


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[Assistant] Tell me, savior, do you know the ritual they call soul song?


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[Assistant] She is the only one who can tell us what to do. She has the power to guide us into the future, where we can live again.


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[Assistant] Yes, but she doesn't know what she is capable of. The order has kept the truth from her.


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[Assistant] Those who try to defy the gods end up controlled by them and are destroyed in the end. Like Sid Rains.


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[Assistant] Its potential is limitless, and that makes it more powerful than he is.


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[Assistant] With the chaos, anything is possible. Find the invisible bonds that unite us across life and death.


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[Assistant] So he was just worried he wasn't going to get up because he typically sleeps through his alarms.


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[Assistant] You get that cool mountain air or the Atlantic?


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[Assistant] Like right in the corner, the northeast corner of Tennessee.


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[Assistant] We were gonna go visit, they moved out there like three or four years ago. But right after they moved, COVID popped off and everybody, we were all a little bit anxious to travel, so.


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[Assistant] We lived in, uh, Durango, Colorado. Me and my fiance for like a year. She got a job there right out of college. And, uh, everybody's like, Oh, must be nice. You know, get all the outdoors and.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, there was a little bit there where we were thinking we might be getting some, but most of it luckily missed us.


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[Assistant] The job isn't easy, let me tell ya. I've warned ya, but seeing you're out here in the land of outlaws and bandits, once you've got your hands on some solstice, we pay good money for it.


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[Assistant] Very striking thing happened. General Franks gave guidance.


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[Assistant] That his commanders should be prepared to withdraw all American forces except for a little more than a division, which would remain by September 2003.


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[Assistant] There'd be buildings on fire, the fires would just have to burn themselves out because there was no fire department. There was no government. There were no police.


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[Assistant] And the idea is you would remove the Saddam's agents from the government of people loyal to him and make room for, uh, Shiites and Kurds who it was assumed would work together in some sort of collegial way.


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[Assistant] The thought was that Iraq needed a, uh, a new, uh, prime minister, someone who would be less sectarian, more pragmatic, uh, and certainly more decisive.


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[Assistant] During the course of the discussion, uh, Cleo, uh, put the proposition to him, have you ever thought about running for prime minister? Maliki seemed surprised.


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[Assistant] When you take the fight, uh, to the adversary, by definition, casualties are going to go up. And casualties went up.


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[Assistant] Uh, because, uhm, the Americans were dropping lots of bombs and, uh, and, and using artillery.


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[Assistant] You know, all, just about every heavy weapon system you can imagine to try to reclaim lost ground.


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[Assistant] Obama had campaigned on the Iraq issue as a candidate, and he had a plan. The idea was that American forces would leave Iraq on a kind of a regular schedule, and then we'd hand over to the Iraqis.


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[Assistant] When he opened the talks, President Obama made a demand.


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[Assistant] It wasn't sufficient merely to have an agreement that conferred legal immunities.


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[Assistant] This agreement had to be formally approved by the Iraqi parliament.


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[Assistant] Because we didn't have any advisors with the Iraqi troops.


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[Assistant] President Obama, it can't be satisfying to say you diminished a terrorist threat you took up in Laden.


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[Assistant] What he lacked was the practical experience and it was that lack of experience that commended him in large measure to the Bush administration.


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[Assistant] Last summer, the top U.S. administrator in Baghdad told me that the press was doing a lousy job of covering the story here.


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[Assistant] Now it's mid-November, and we've come back to see how the U.S. plan to turn this country into a showcase for democracy in the Middle East is faring.


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[Assistant] Today, I'm in the northern city of Mosul with General David Petraeus. He's having the kind of success here that Washington had hoped for.


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[Assistant] This was our first stop on a five-week trip across Iraq.


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[Assistant] We're attending a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new free trade zone.


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[Assistant] Getting business rolling in the midst of constant security threats is no easy matter.


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[Assistant] But with a combination of money well spent, tough military tactics, and what Petraeus will admit is some luck, the general has made steady progress.


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[Assistant] We've come here to get some sense of how much work there is still to do.


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[Assistant] Petraeus and around 18,000 soldiers moved into northwestern Iraq in late April and set up headquarters in Mosul, an ancient city on the western edge of Kurdistan.


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[Assistant] Petraeus told me, the landscape here reminds him of Kansas.


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[Assistant] Under names like Task Force Johnny Appleseed, Tom Sawyer, Easy Rider, and Marcus Welby, Petraeus has launched 4,500 reconstruction projects, making Mosul a showcase for visiting congressmen.


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[Assistant] They were discussing what right the newly trained Iraqi police had to search mosques for weapons.


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[Assistant] This council has met over 50 times and approved thousands of projects. The plan is that by June, Iraqis will run it by themselves.


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[Assistant] Several truckloads of rockets, sands, grenades, explosive material, and they bring it in here to this old base, old rocky base, and then they blow it up.


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[Assistant] In fact, there is so much ammunition that it is piling up faster than the 101st can dispose of it.


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[Assistant] The problem for Petraeus now is that his very success has made him and the hundred and first an attractive target.


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[Assistant] A visit of U.S. congressmen, scheduled for the following day, was cancelled.


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[Assistant] Until recently, Mosul had not seen much violence compared to Baghdad.


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[Assistant] And it is still not experienced, much in the way of ethnic tension.


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[Assistant] Though the city contains a volatile mix of Kurds, Arabs, and Assyrians.


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[Assistant] He's a young entrepreneur who's banking on peace and prosperity.


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[Assistant] He's put all his life savings into a used BMW.


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[Assistant] Today he's helping us locate another entrepreneur, a wealthy Mosul businessman, so we can talk to him about the future.


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[Assistant] His name is Muhammad Ali Yunus and he runs this tannery next door to one of Petraeus' air bases.


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[Assistant] His workers, a mix of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen, all get on just fine, he says, as long as there are jobs.


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[Assistant] With business picking up, he tells me, he'll be hiring more soon. And Eunice has other plans.


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[Assistant] He has invested $40,000 of his own money to build a combo restaurant, laundry, internet café and leather shop.


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[Assistant] General Petraeus told us that if we wanted to understand ethnic tensions in Iraq, we should drive to Kirkuk.


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[Assistant] Traditionally, a city of Kurds and Turkoman on the southwestern edge of Kurdistan.


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[Assistant] Kirkuk fell prey to Saddam's brutal Arabization program in the 1980s.


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[Assistant] Today, the city is claimed equally by Arabs, Turkmen, and Kurds.


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[Assistant] The job of sorting out those claims has fallen largely to the U.S. Army.


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[Assistant] Several times in the last few months, Kurds and Arabs have clashed in the streets.


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[Assistant] Turkmen and Arabs both fear that their city is being sold out from underneath them to the Kurds.


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[Assistant] And seats reapportion to reflect the fact that Arabs now make up a large proportion of the city.


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[Assistant] They live mostly in housing projects on the south side of town.


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[Assistant] The Kurds call them 10,000 dinar Arabs, a reference to the incentive money they received from Saddam to relocate from the south. Most of them have been here for more than a decade.


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[Assistant] Under Saddam's Arabization policy, close to a million Kurds were forced out of their homes. Now they've been coming back to cities like Kirkuk and settling in refugee camps on the outskirts of town.


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[Assistant] This month, Colonel Mayville and his unit will rotate out of Iraq.


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[Assistant] The work he started here will fall to another Coalition commander.


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[Assistant] One policeman fired three rounds at the windows directly above our heads to push us back.


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[Assistant] The other part of Colonel Mayville's job is running military operations against the resistance.


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[Assistant] We arrived in the town, Hawija, at dawn.


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[Assistant] Colonel Mayville said the objective was to capture enemies, not create them.


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[Assistant] A tip brought them to this house, where they found eight tubes of C4 explosives,


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[Assistant] Several AK-47s and a banner proclaiming loyalty to Saddam.


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[Assistant] But they wouldn't talk until soldiers brought in a bulldozer and began to destroy the house.


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[Assistant] He was arrested that day, along with 25 other men.


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[Assistant] After Kirkuk, we push south deeper into the Sunni Arab lands of central Iraq.


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[Assistant] The roads between here and Baghdad are notoriously unsafe.


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[Assistant] A civilian contractor had disappeared on this stretch a few weeks earlier.


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[Assistant] Sunni Arabs have long dominated Iraqi politics, but now they have been stripped of their power.


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[Assistant] And being only one fifth of the overall population of Iraq, they worry about how they will fare in a democracy.


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[Assistant] Nowhere more than in Tikrit, birthplace of Saddam.


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[Assistant] This is not a place that welcomes outsiders. Even filming is difficult. We've been warned to watch our backs


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[Assistant] At a downtown restaurant where I had lunch, Saddam's picture hung on the wall.


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[Assistant] And that very day, two coalition contractors were murdered a few blocks away.


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[Assistant] We've come to ask the commander of the 4th Infantry Division, now headquartered here,


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[Assistant] About the prospect of winning the loyalty of the people in the Sunni Triangle.


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[Assistant] It has not been widely reported, but in October, reconstruction money, so important to winning hearts and minds, dried up.


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[Assistant] It appeared to have serious consequences. As reconstruction slowed, anti-coalition violence increased.


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[Assistant] November, the month we were in Iraq, turned out to be the most deadly since the war was declared over in May.


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[Assistant] This is Bakuba, 75 miles south of Tikrit.


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[Assistant] Lieutenant Susan Greig says she ran out of money while trying to set up a police force.


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[Assistant] To make matters worse, Baqaba is among the most dangerous police posts in all of Iraq.


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[Assistant] Two days before we got here, suicide bombers struck two local police stations. Eleven policemen and five civilians were killed. Many more were injured. We talked to one of the victims at his home.


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[Assistant] Immediately after the bombing, around 40 police officers in Bakaba province resigned.


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[Assistant] Greig told us that in early December, she'd been assured that money was on its way. But she says she lost valuable time.


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[Assistant] It's a stubborn problem. The more active the resistance, the slower the reconstruction.


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[Assistant] There are security problems throughout the SUNY triangle. The worst are in Fallujah.


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[Assistant] Less than an hour west of Baghdad. It is the epicenter of the resistance.


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[Assistant] On the way there, we saw two US Army supply trucks that had just been attacked.


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[Assistant] As we entered the town, there was anti-American graffiti everywhere.


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[Assistant] Throughout central Iraq, it's easy to find people that complain on the streets. But the people of Fallujah were especially blunt.


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[Assistant] Even the mayor, who says he is pro-American, is critical.


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[Assistant] There's been tension in Fallujah since the end of the war.


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[Assistant] On several occasions, American troops have mistakenly shot and killed civilians and Iraqi policemen.


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[Assistant] The people have not forgotten, and soldiers remain tense.


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[Assistant] Just a few days before we got here, a warehouse had been raided by soldiers looking for explosives.


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[Assistant] We asked to go inside the warehouse and talk with the owner.


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[Assistant] The leader of the Buisa tribe, one of the largest and most powerful in the country.


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[Assistant] When we asked the Americans about the raid, they admitted that they might have overreacted and are investigating the incident.


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[Assistant] We spoke to the local U.S. Army commander, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Drinkwine.


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[Assistant] One of your captains says, uh, I don't like him because, uh, he wants to kill me.


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[Assistant] When are Iraqis on the streets of Fallujah gonna tell me that things are better? Hopefully tomorrow. They'll tell you it's a little better.


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[Assistant] The people that I've spoken to on the streets, they, they like to...


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[Assistant] It doesn't jump out at you when you drive through Fallujah that there's a lot of reconstruction going on.


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[Assistant] We were interrupted. A helicopter had been shot down.


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[Assistant] Of the ten American helicopters shot down over Iraq, four came down near Fallujah. This time the Americans were lucky. There were no serious injuries.


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[Assistant] Before we headed south, Keiss told me we needed to fill our gas tank.


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[Assistant] The people on this line have been here for much of the night and all morning.


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[Assistant] This enterprising seller buys it from the gas station and sells it to us at six times the market price.


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[Assistant] In a country where unemployment ranges as high as 70%, few Iraqis can afford the markup.


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[Assistant] We would have met with U.S. military commanders in the South, but there are none.


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[Assistant] Instead, Italians, Poles, British troops, and others patrol here.


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[Assistant] The South is home to the Shia, traditionally the poorest, most oppressed, and marginalized of Iraq's people.


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[Assistant] Today, the Shia are experiencing a revival.


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[Assistant] Commerce is booming, and contributions to the local mosques are filling their coffers.


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[Assistant] Making the clerics who control them rich and powerful.


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[Assistant] The Shia also know that they have a lot to gain in a democracy.


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[Assistant] By some counts, they represent 60% of Iraq's population.


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[Assistant] Sistani has challenged Ambassador Bremer's complex formula for the selection of a National Assembly


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[Assistant] Calling instead for direct, popular elections.


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[Assistant] Another of Iraq's five living Grand Ayatollahs, Muhammad al-Mudarresi, is much more approachable. Like Sistani, he is considered a moderate.


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[Assistant] But he warns if the Americans don't yield to Sistani's demands for direct elections, they risk disaster.


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[Assistant] Meeting with a group of pilgrims from eastern Iraq, the Ayatollah insists on their moving closer.


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[Assistant] The most fervent of Sodder's flock wear a green banner that reads God's army.


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[Assistant] They are the activist paramilitary wing of his religious movement.


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[Assistant] They have stormed mosques, thrown out moderate clerics, and reportedly threatened the lives of Sistani and other moderate ayatollahs.


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[Assistant] U.S. military intelligence believes they have also organized violence against occupation forces.


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[Assistant] The Army's size is unknown, but it is active across the country.


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[Assistant] Another member is the young Imam we met in Kirkuk, Abdul Musawi.


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[Assistant] We ran into him in Najaf after he had come from a meeting with Sadr.


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[Assistant] Many Iraqis are wary of Sadr and his followers.


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[Assistant] Adnan Pachachi is a secular Sunni member of the U.S. appointed governing council in Baghdad.


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[Assistant] What constituency, uh, does Muktada Sada represent?


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[Assistant] Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is also a member of the Governing Council.


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[Assistant] Can I ask again, what does Muktadarsada represent? Who are his followers?


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[Assistant] For now, Sadr is not openly advocating a break with Sistani. He, too, wants direct elections.


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[Assistant] If democracy is coming to Iraq, the Shia must get their due.


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[Assistant] In 1991, after the first Gulf War when Shia rose against Saddam, they were at first encouraged by the U.S., but then abandoned.


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[Assistant] Thousands were slaughtered by Saddam and buried in mass graves.


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[Assistant] Today we've been invited to a memorial service in the town of Shatra for fallen Shia martyrs.


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[Assistant] A veteran of the 91 revolt tells me their fight against the Bathists is not over.


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[Assistant] Inside, we attend the memorial service for martyrs of the 15th of Shaban movement, a militant Shia Islamist group.


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[Assistant] Musui says he doesn't support violence, but there are reports that his own 15th of Shaban movement has been involved in vigilante justice, terrorizing Sunnis, forcing them off their lands.


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[Assistant] Our journey had brought us far south to the marshlands.


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[Assistant] Here the great rivers of Iraq, the Tigris and Euphrates, merge.


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[Assistant] Some people believe that this was the biblical Garden of Eden.


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[Assistant] For centuries the marshes were impenetrable beyond the control of outsiders.


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[Assistant] During the 1980s, they provided a hideout for deserters from the Iran-Iraq War.


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[Assistant] And after the failed 91 uprising, Shia rebel groups used the area to organize fresh attacks on the regime.


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[Assistant] Saddam retaliated by draining the marshes, forcing up to 200,000 Shia to flee.


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[Assistant] Many to Iran, others north to towns like Kirkuk.


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[Assistant] 90% of the marshes are now destroyed. We saw abandoned villages, and where there was once water, desert.


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[Assistant] Camel trains now cross the dry land from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.


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[Assistant] I traveled with 15th of Shaban rebels who took me to an old hideout.


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[Assistant] In a nearby village, they introduced us to the tribesmen who helped protect them.


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[Assistant] The chief of the tribe, Hussein al-Jabiri, was himself jailed and tortured by Saddam.


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[Assistant] It will be a long time before the killing stops, before the cycles of revenge wind down.


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[Assistant] Traveling across the country for the past five weeks, we've been shadowed by that history.


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[Assistant] Ottoman Turks, British colonialists, Hashemite kings, Saddam Hussein, and now the Americans.


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[Assistant] On our last day as we headed south through Nazaria, we ran across history's path again.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new video. And to all of you who are new to this channel, my name is Jonna.


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[Assistant] And I live here, on the land of my ancestors in the north of Sweden.


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[Assistant] It's March now, which means that we start to get small glimpses of the spring. The sunlight is back with full power and the birds starts to sing.


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[Assistant] So, in this video I will just take you with me into my daily life right now and share what I've been up to since last time. And as usual, it's been a little bit of everything. Cheers!


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[Assistant] But for the past weeks most of my focus has been on the renovation project in my new little house. So what do we got here?


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[Assistant] In my previous video, I shared about the exciting news that I bought a little house that I'm going to transform into my very own art studio and workplace.


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[Assistant] I recently got my new fire stove delivered from Germany, since they are pretty much sold out here in Sweden in the moment.


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[Assistant] It's quite a project to move out the old fire stove from the house and then move in the new one since they are very heavy. But my dad used a tractor to move the stoves and I got so much help from my family and the carpenters. I had like a whole team there.


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[Assistant] And I've been painting the walls in my future office, something that took a lot of days to finish. Since I decided to paint with real limestone paint, I had to prepare the walls in the right way, which ended up me having to paint the walls five times.


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[Assistant] And then it was time to decide the color. I wanted a natural beige color with a soft tone of pink in it that would give a warm cozy feeling in here. Like the feeling of the night sky in the bright nights of June.


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[Assistant] I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing, since I mixed a lot of different colors into one. But I was really happy with the result in the end.


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[Assistant] The trees are so beautiful. It is crispy white, frost everywhere.


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[Assistant] It just turned into a winter magical landscape overnight.


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[Assistant] Suddenly a lot of clouds came in and it started snowing. It's so nice to just come outside in nature.


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[Assistant] I've been inside too many days working with the renovation. I really started feeling drained with that. I needed some, some space. Nanook is rolling. Rolling in the snow.


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[Assistant] Sun is going down now. So it's gonna get dark really quick.


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[Assistant] I really wanna take advantage of this fresh air because now I'm actually leaving to Stockholm for a few days, the capital of Sweden. So it's gonna be very different from this.


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[Assistant] I don't go to Stockholm so often, even though...


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[Assistant] Every time there's some kind of event or something, it always is in Stockholm. So I usually don't go too.


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[Assistant] Stuff like that because I prefer to be here. It's fun once in a while to go down there though. Just to see something else and to do all the things.


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[Assistant] That you can do in a city that you can't do here. So I definitely enjoy it sometimes.


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[Assistant] Now I'm actually going to a birthday party. It's the birthday of Anders Sval. It's the man who has the foundation where I got the, the scholarship last year.


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[Assistant] Every year he has a big birthday party where he gives out scholarships to different young entrepreneurs.


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[Assistant] But last year, because of the pandemic, there wasn't any parties, so it was online. So I'm going to...


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[Assistant] His birthday party this year instead. I actually really look forward that. It's gonna be really fun to be there in real life instead of online. So I'm going with the night train. It leaves 10 in the evening.


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[Assistant] From the city Örnsköldsvik, which is one and a half hour away. And then I will be in Stockholm around seven in the morning. Oops.


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[Assistant] Even though I can really enjoy doing something totally different sometimes, I know I will always.


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[Assistant] I feel so happy to be back home again. And I'm gonna miss you. A lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'm really happy we got to be here on the ice for some time. Having a cozy quality time together.


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[Assistant] I really enjoy to sit and just watch people and yeaah, whatever goes on in a city. I think it's quite fascinating.


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[Assistant] This is something I can never see at home.


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[Assistant] Then it was time for me to go to the event to celebrate the 92nd birthday of Anders Vall and the new scholarship holders of 2023. It was such a beautiful place.


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[Assistant] And Kristina, the Princess of Sweden was there. And also the Prime Minister of Sweden. And of course, a bunch of really talented, amazing scholarship holders from earlier years, all the way back to the 80s.


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[Assistant] I had some really fun days in Stockholm, but coming home again, that's the best feeling in the world. It's a really beautiful day today, with a beautiful sunset.


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[Assistant] Me and Johan are down by the lake, by the sauna. So we are going to have a little sauna evening and I really feel like that's going to be the best way to


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[Assistant] Relax after a very intense weekend in Stockholm.


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[Assistant] I'm so happy to be home. I'm so happy to be home. Johan is checking on


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[Assistant] We are both introverts, so we don't hang around with other people too much. We like to be by ourselves, alone, but together we can be, yeah, so much.


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[Assistant] It's rushing in my body, all these happy feelings, because look at this!


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[Assistant] That I'm so grateful that you watched this video and, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we're gonna go and have a little sauna now, but I see you guys soon again. Take care of yourselves.


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[Assistant] I grew up over here, so. But uhm, you know, I got to where I'm at pretty much just being a blit though, you know?


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[Assistant] Yea, I guess so. It was, it started on Twitter. It wasn't like a beef. That was probably like when people started calling Twitter beef.


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[Assistant] Yea, that was going viral, you know. Somebody say some shit on the internet, then you meet up with them.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. But uhm, to clear that up, game hoe ass didn't have nothing to do with that. What do you mean? Impassive. Oh, okay, right.


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[Assistant] How would you describe? It's a long little shit, so just try to sum it all up.


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[Assistant] But that whole situation, it was just brazy, it was just some real street shit and that was just like the...


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[Assistant] Everybody love my boy, man. Rip Rows, my long lip, Rows, my yard, you know. We need some backwoods.


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[Assistant] I got shot. How? What happened? In Detroit, in the studio. In Detroit?


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[Assistant] Oh my god, that's crazy. I was like at the right place at the wrong time I guess. Somebody dropped a gun and it went off.


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[Assistant] He was signing with Jeezy, so that's, I guess that'll be the start of it. I used to rap with him. And then, uh, Waka.


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[Assistant] He was filming that Hard in the Paint video. Oh wow, really? Yeah, and then, uh, I bumped into him over there. And then the next day, she called me.


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[Assistant] Like, aye, where you at? Come to the studio with me and we'll walk a flock of shit happen. Some street shit and shit. So, I pulled it up here.


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[Assistant] Oh nah, that was cool. When I first came, it wasn't no Brick Squad Monopoly. It was 1017.


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[Assistant] But they always was like brothers though, you know? Right. So it'll be like when brothers get mad at each other but they always come back.


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[Assistant] I never got paid for this shit. Like I got paid for what I did, but it wasn't like I had a contract.


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[Assistant] When I came in, the game was changing from CDs to digital. You feel me? So the shit I did do on the CDs, it was cool. That little rap money, but the streams, that's where it was at.


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[Assistant] I never really wanted to rap. It just always happened for me, you know?


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[Assistant] Nah, I ain't never did it like this, I just wanted to do it now because I've been smoking it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and then I met Lani, Lani like, we makin' money off this shit.


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[Assistant] So that's why I was down there, it was like alright, fuck it, it's three hours away, let's go.


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[Assistant] It's like shit. One day, you realize it's like...


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[Assistant] It was never a beef. He said some slick shit and got beat up. And that's what made it a beef.


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[Assistant] This new shit is even harder. I like it. Like my shit back in the day, I was just rapping like I told you, I didn't even...


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[Assistant] It just happened like that. I met Waka, did a song. He's like, come on, let's go on tours. And next thing you know, I'm in the studio and I ain't even know what I wanted to rap about. This new shit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we just be on the same shit, that's why, so. And then you know, everybody's different, so.


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[Assistant] Come together, but, you're right, it is a good Cami Street Air.


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[Assistant] I can, uh, spot talent good, you feel me?


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[Assistant] Everybody I listen to, they end up blowin' up. I be cashing them early, too, before they...


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[Assistant] I came too dependent on it, like if I didn't want a drink, I had a drink and my stomach would be all fucked up. So I'm like, damn, I'm like a real dope thing, I gotta quit this shit.


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[Assistant] If I didn't drink, that's alright. If I didn't drink, I had to stay in all day.


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[Assistant] The park is definitely another one to get off. I don't know what they doing up there. I can only imagine. This does taste crazy. It's like fucking Starburst, bro. It's the blue raspberry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was crazy. It really didn't affect me like that, but it's a sad situation. You know him? Nah. I met him before, but I don't know him, you know?


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[Assistant] I don't even really know what's going on these days with these young niggas, but they can have it like we had it, you know?


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[Assistant] For sure. Like, Nipsey Killer down there would've got away. That badass camera, you can't see his face.


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[Assistant] New tape. Inglewood to Detroit. Coming up to Detroit to Inglewood. Single, you feel me?


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[Assistant] What kind of Snapchat video y'all did? Y'all did some premium shit? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] He a marine nigga, so you know that's what they on. They tricks, they be going overseas, they be just paying for bitches, they don't care. I don't know how they get down exactly, but that's how they get down.


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[Assistant] I don't know nothing about stockbrokers. It's hard to have an opinion, right? Yea.


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[Assistant] They end up being from the black once you find out where they're really from. That's why I guess so.


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[Assistant] Not literally from the block, but acting like they're from the block. Yeah, or the other, or literally from the block. They just be made up and dressed up good. You might thought they wasn't from the block.


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[Assistant] Hey, Frenchie is retarded, man. I love that nigga, man. He love Gucci, too. He was just mad, man.


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[Assistant] He got all the stories. R.I.B. Dunk too. R.I.B. and yeah, R.I.B. Dunk. That's nothing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was bull with Dunk. It wasn't real super close. I liked it. Dunk fell.


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[Assistant] Because when we first came, everybody used to fuck with us, but Dunk didn't fuck with us.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, for his hood, for DG, for their gang, for Drez and Sean and them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that was like one of Wacka's best friends too, you feel me? If not just his best friend. Dunk. So, it fucked up Wacka.


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[Assistant] Crazy. They had a whole little jazz. All them niggas.


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[Assistant] The rest was always gonna blow. He been hard since back in the day. That's why Dunk had him. You feel me? He was always right there rapping with Dunk.


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[Assistant] Besides, if she doesn't, can you guess what will happen? This wind has been building for years.


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[Assistant] Hi everyone, I'm from Ethiopia and in case you're having a bad day, I just wanna tell you that it's okay to have a bad day.


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[Assistant] And tomorrow will come, so never give up, and just part of the journey.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I love you so much in the word Dr. Arlo. It is an Amharic word, uh, it means I love you, Dr. Arlo. So don't give up.


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[Assistant] I'm Zoey, owner of the Slaughterhouse.


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[Assistant] It is time for the second round. Now is your time to show the audience what you have to offer.


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[Assistant] You've come at last to the final round. Your audience expects greatness now. Don't let them down.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone. I've missed you so much. It's been a really long time since my last vlog, and I'm gonna tell you more about why in this video.


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[Assistant] I am right now recovering from covid and I'm still feeling pretty weak. I started filming for this video two weeks ago when I was out with Nanook in the forest and unfortunately I got sick right after that. So that's why it was a bit delayed. But I'm here now and I'm so ready to catch up with y'all.


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[Assistant] As you can see, it's such a beautiful day outside today. It's frost everywhere. You know, this typical November frost before the snow has come. Oh, mmm.


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[Assistant] He took a swim. And uh, yeaah, I didn't thought he would do that, because it's pretty cold outside. But you know, he, he loves to swim, he loves water, so. I was thinking to stay outside for a couple of hours, but I don't think I'm gonna do that now, because I don't want him to freeze. Hmm. I guess we gotta head home soon. Yeaah. I'm just so happy today, because


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[Assistant] I know a lot of you have been asking for a new vlog and, uh,


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[Assistant] I just have been so busy. All of October and all of November so far I have been


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[Assistant] 100% focused on our dual work business that I have together with my husband Johan.


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[Assistant] If you follow me on Instagram, I'm sure you have seen that I've been busy with that. Because we have created some new designs during this past year.


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[Assistant] And now in November we finally could release them and... Oh my gosh, it's...


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[Assistant] So much work with that behind the scenes. Even though I know it's a lot of work, somehow I always think like...


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[Assistant] But this time I'm gonna manage to keep up with everything else, but...


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[Assistant] So in October I spent, uh, two weeks up in the mountains, uh, in our cabin.


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[Assistant] Taking photos of the new designs and the films and yeaah, working with all of that.


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[Assistant] I think it's good that he lays on my jacket so he keeps his paws warm. I'm so glad and relieved now when all that work is done. Even though it's super fun also to work with the new designs and take the photos and everything. It still takes 100% of my focus and


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[Assistant] It takes a lot of energy, so now today was my first day when I kinda could step away a little bit because we had a release of the new designs a few days ago. I feel like I need to charge up now by doing things like this. Get out and...


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[Assistant] Be in nature and be with Nanook. I have also started editing the video that you guys actually are creating together with me. The what would you say if you could say something to 4 million people video. My goal is to be done with that now in a month or two.


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[Assistant] I feel like I wanna say so much, but I don't really know what to say. I, I had a little bit of a struggle to get started with this video, cause now when I've been so focused on the webshop and the jewelry,


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[Assistant] And I haven't done a video like in a long time, and even though I have a lot of footage from when I was working in the mountains, I still felt like...


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[Assistant] Where, where am I gonna start? I kinda lose the track a little bit, but I know that the only way to get rid of that wall you can build up is to just...


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[Assistant] Do it. So today I thought I would just bring the camera out. Bring you guys out with me and just have fun. Just do what I love and it's gonna be alright, you know? Just make sure to do something with joy and it's gonna find its way.


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[Assistant] I think that was like a hug from nature, saying, Jonah, it's alright, you can relax now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I was going to say that I've been feeling a bit stressed. And I immediately feel how my immune system goes down when I'm not in balance.


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[Assistant] I'm sure you can relate to that. So I'm not surprised that I actually catch the call because I'm usually never sick unless there is like a very busy time and I'm a little bit overwhelmed in my head.


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[Assistant] And hearing the ice sing. Oh my gosh. Yes, cause as you can see, the ice started to grow on the lake and it just happened yesterday. And eh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go home with my little swimming boy.


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[Assistant] He's, he has eyes in his fur now. I will just show you some footage now from October. And, uh, then I see you later again.


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[Assistant] So in October, I went to our cabin in the beautiful mountain area, about four hours from home.


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[Assistant] For some reason I always go here when I need to be 100% focused on something. I feel like the mountains and the wild rivers opens up a lot of creative energy in me, so I love to go to the cabin to work on creative projects now and then.


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[Assistant] But the first thing I did when I came to the cabin was to meet up with my friend Jonas Parandian. If you've been around on this channel for a while, you maybe recognize him from an earlier episode.


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[Assistant] He has a YouTube channel where he goes on adventures with different guests every month. And almost two years ago we slept outside in the middle of winter in this beautiful mountain area.


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[Assistant] Now we were going on a new adventure, and this time we wanted to hike up in the mountains and find a beautiful spot for our camp.


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[Assistant] We had just arrived in the mountain area when the rain came. And unfortunately the rain never stopped. Which meant that we had to spend the whole day and the whole night under this little shelter that we put up.


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[Assistant] But if you want to see the episode that Jonas made from our rainy adventure, I have put a link to his channel in the description.


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[Assistant] When I came back to the cabin, it was time for me to get started with photography of the new jewelry designs. I had a lot of work ahead of me. But little did I know that a rainy night on the mountain was just the beginning. It was raining almost constantly for a week, which made the photography work so much harder.


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[Assistant] I had to take advantage of the movements when the rain took a break.


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[Assistant] And after a few days by the river, I finally started to feel the creative flow.


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[Assistant] I think the key to whatever you are doing is to do it as if your life depended on it.


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[Assistant] I know for sure that I'm going to create something I'm proud of if I lose myself in the process. When I'm out filming or doing photography and I'm freezing my ass off without even notice, that's when I know I'm on the right path to capture something beautiful.


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[Assistant] Being really uncomfortable is like the secret ingredient to having something really beautiful unfolding in your life. It's a sign that you are growing and evolving and learning something new about yourself.


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[Assistant] So sometimes while I'm working on something, I'm asking myself, am I feeling uncomfortable now?


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[Assistant] From the outside I can understand that taking photos of some new jewelry designs isn't a big deal. But for me it is a big deal.


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[Assistant] Because, first of all, these new designs is something that me, Johan, and my mother Anita have been working on for such a long time.


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[Assistant] And they are really created from our hearts. And when it's time for me to take photos of them for our webshop and for Instagram, I know that it's all up to me to capture them in the way that they deserve.


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[Assistant] Because when you are sharing or selling something on the internet, and when people can't see or touch something in reality, the photos and films is everything.


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[Assistant] So there by the river, I make it into my most important job ever to capture the soul of these pieces and to put them in the right light where people can feel the energy behind them.


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[Assistant] It's 12 in the night now, and I've been editing photos for a few hours, so I'm pretty tired in my head.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I feel really happy for the photos so far. I have many more to take and hopefully I can have a really good day tomorrow with no rain because tomorrow is actually the last day I can be here.


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[Assistant] Before I need to go back home again, but I'm gonna be back here again soon, but yeaah. I'm so tired.