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[Assistant] And I think he was out there for like a couple days. But anyway, I checked my ovulation calendar. So it was like, good. I was like, I'm about to trap him. Cause like, he was telling me like, send me your STD results. And I was like, alright, gotchu.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like he like fucked around and like came at me, I was like, hope this child support gon' be lit.


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[Assistant] And then, like, I missed my period, so I was like, oh my god, like, I really am pregnant. So I went to the doctors, like, thinking, like, I caught a baby, and I really just caught, like, chlamydia, so I was like, hmm, never fucking a rapper again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just take a couple pills, right? They tell you not to fuck for a week and I just never fucked really again because I'm scared.


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[Assistant] A young boy was telling the truth, that he don't know, that he didn't talk to, what was his name?


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[Assistant] Someone is pretending to be NBA Youngboy. Let me just tell you that. I think it's, okay, so what happened with Tory and how I robbed him successfully? Because his own assistant, like, had his login in his Instagram, and he gave that login to me. And I successfully booked him at multiple locations.


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[Assistant] And I got everyone in the industry's number, every single person you could think of, that's why Drake. Drake hasn't blocked me though, so I think I still have a chance, but.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Joe Budden agree- Joe Budden actually likes his music, so that tells you a lot right there.


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[Assistant] Anyway, what the fuck was I gonna tell you? Oh yea, about NBA Youngboy. So I think someone has his Instagram password and like pretends to be people because I personally knew Youngboy and the way he talks to like other people is like, I don't...


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[Assistant] I don't think like that's him, like I genuinely think he was confused when he was like going off on you because I think someone's pretending to be him.


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[Assistant] No, my old sugar daddy, and he fucking turned off my phone. I'm irritated today.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, I fucked and then they gave me money.


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[Assistant] Like, until I had to like, really go off on him. Like, he loved that story. He was like, Selina got gamed by my seven men, by a little wife at his funeral.


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[Assistant] I don't think she ever found out I said that. I don't really know. Well, now you know how.


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[Assistant] So, I went there and then, cause he was like, yo, I want you to promote my clothes, and I was like, alright, so I went there and everyone tried to fuck me and I was like, no, I was the only girl except for his girlfriend there.


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[Assistant] No. Cause I didn't know that that's how I was gonna go. I thought like I was gonna go and it was gonna be like maybe like a couple guys like how it usually is but like no like they were all like dedicated to like fuck me. So I took a picture in their shirt and then I left and that was it.


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[Assistant] It's five in the morning. That song? They were on tour with uhm...


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[Assistant] Follow me right now. I know my sign has not been seen because only 50 people have followed me. Adam, please tag me this time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'd like to thank Lisa, of course. Lisa has taught me the rules of spontaneity. Uhm, I'd also like to thank Richard Bluer, my costume guy, cause, hey.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my business manager. And, uh, no, actually, you know, guys, thanks at Days of Our Lives. You make it such a great time. It really is a great time. A lot of work, but a great time. And ILY. I'll talk to you guys later.


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[Assistant] It feels ironic to, uh, at the end of the worst personal year of your life, find the light at the end of the tunnel being an award for what you've never been nominated for before.


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[Assistant] But then again, I've never been nominated for anything before, so for that I thank Soap Opera Digest, the people who voted Mindy, my family and friends, Jeff and Luana,


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[Assistant] I also find it ironic that there's so many talented actors here without these, uh, statues. None more talented than the people at my table.


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[Assistant] I'm leaving the show. I will miss you. I love you all. Claire Lebine, you are wonderful. There are two great things that come out of Brooklyn. One is another world and we've seen the other one is you. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] Previously on Revelations 2. Someone left a message.


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[Assistant] And with her the actress who plays Kelly, who is nominated tonight for Outstanding Younger Lead Actress.


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[Assistant] Wow. See honey, I told you I wouldn't be nervous.


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[Assistant] From Dick Powell, who gave me my first break over my first 40 years, and to my friends and producing partner, Duke Vincent, I've had the good fortune throughout the years to work with the most talented people in our business, and I owe a profound debt to all of them.


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[Assistant] You've believed in my work, you've shared my vision, and you've let me into your homes to try to entertain you. It's been a privilege and will always will be for me. And finally, my love and gratitude to my beautiful wife, Candy, and my children, Tori and Randy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, shout out to her because that was what brought us together.


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[Assistant] Seems simple enough. Uhm, sounds like Sandman, so maybe like...


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[Assistant] Nevertheless guys, I'm very excited to watch. Hope you guys are as well. Please keep in mind this will be the official release of Miraculous Ladybug either on Disney Plus or Netflix depending on what country you're from.


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[Assistant] If you wanna support the channel, please consider checking out my Patreon page. Link down in the description below to get access to the full-timer reactions of Miraculous, Amphibia, Owl House, and every other cartoon, anime, or movie that I watch is over there.


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[Assistant] I'm sure nothing bad will happen.


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[Assistant] Oh great, and we don't have our Kwamis! That's not good! That's really bad! That's very, very bad, actually.


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[Assistant] Is this just a little boy who couldn't fall asleep or didn't want to go to sleep?


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[Assistant] Oh no, oh no, that's, that's not good. Alright, so getting to see all the Kwamis was probably my favorite part about


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[Assistant] This episode. So I did like the Samboy design. I just love like that.


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[Assistant] That space kinda look with like the little like sparkles of space like, like stars put in and I think there's like a little constellation on his back. So pretty. So so so pretty. So really really enjoyed that. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I will say I'm very scared of Hawk Moth.


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[Assistant] Especially with that last line of like, even after I have to face an old army of superheroes. I was like, oh no.


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[Assistant] Like we have the two-parter next and that seems like some real foreshadowing.


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[Assistant] I'm a little nervous-cited for it. I definitely like the fact that like,


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[Assistant] We didn't even go into like, the like, why this person was akumatized. It was just there. Like, I actually really enjoyed that. Like,


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[Assistant] I don't feel like every character needs like this pre-story thrown in right away. We could just show them.


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[Assistant] And figure it out later like we did. Like, I'm kinda okay with that, of course not every time.


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[Assistant] But if like this character has nothing to do with us...


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[Assistant] Like, I don't need to, like, plot MacGuffin reason in, like, Oh, we're going to the ice skating rink. Oh, and this ice skater man is gonna get accoupatized. Like,


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[Assistant] I actually like that we can just have like a random like akumatized person and then we just deal with it and then find out what happened.


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[Assistant] I like that a lot. I would actually really enjoy getting more of that. Just not every time though.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, it was a cool design. I like the, uh, the sand boys here, so now the nightmare can begin. Very creepy. And the nightmares were terrifying. Oh my gosh, Adrian was so scary! Dream nightmare, Adrian. Like him being like Chloe!


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[Assistant] That's so Marinette's nightmare, like I'm in love with Chloe!


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[Assistant] Just the way he said Chloe was so good. It was like this horrific monster, which maybe she kind of is, but you know, we need to call her a horrific monster. No, we don't.


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[Assistant] I am terrified that Hawk Moth knows that the Kwamis are close. That's not good. Uh, he has like an idea where to look for them. And he knows there's like, he knows there's like a lot of them.


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[Assistant] Which is not good. There was a lot. Like what? There was, there was like 10, 12 or something in there. There was a lot of Kwamis. I remember there was like a horse one, there was like the snake.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think there was like a little pig. Was there a cow? It had like, I don't know if it was a cow. Oh, there was a lot of Kwamis in there. There was like a lot of Kwamis in there.


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[Assistant] So, it could be really bad, like really bad if Hawk Moth would get any of them.


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[Assistant] So I, we'll have to see what happens. I'm definitely nervous about that fact. Cause if he got them...


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's kinda like a gg for us. Like a big gg for us. So it wouldn't be good, wouldn't be good at all. Uhm, I hope that play can maybe like,


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[Assistant] Confide in Adrian a bit more. I know Plague is like super like chill, doesn't matter. But it would be nice if like Plague learned to like tell Adrian things instead of just doing the things he wants. Like just tell Adrian. And you know.


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[Assistant] Try to talk things over because I feel like Adrian is getting to a point where he doesn't want to tell his dad things because his dad just tells him no. But I think they both need to learn that maybe we could have a conversation and speak up and maybe things could be different. Maybe.


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[Assistant] And maybe not just assuming it, you know, so it would be nice.


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[Assistant] Along with that, I do like that, uh, Tiki was able to confide in Marinette and be like, I wanna go do this. Will you allow me to go do this?


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[Assistant] I think that was very nice, super wholesome as well. I think it was a very, uh, very sweet time.


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[Assistant] And it just shows the, the bond that Tiki and Marinette have.


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[Assistant] I also like the little bubbles comes out of their mouth when they're like to say their owner's name. That's really cool.


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[Assistant] Like, I was very concerned, and I was like, ahhh. That's why I just went, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


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[Assistant] But yeaah, after this we go into the two parter, and then we're done with season 2. Which is so crazy to me. I know we got through season 2 somewhat quickly, it still took us a few months. Uh, but we started it beginning of January, and we're finishing it, you know, like, April-ish. So.


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[Assistant] Not bad, not bad. We got through it faster, you know, than season one.


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[Assistant] So it'll be interesting. We have the two-parter and then I will see where we go. I can't remember if it's special or season three, but I'll figure it out when that time comes.


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[Assistant] But I really do like Miraculous, it's a fun show, it's interesting, the characters are...


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[Assistant] Not perfect, but that's what makes it interesting, because they are children.


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[Assistant] And they're very much capable of making mistakes. Not saying adults can't make mistakes. Cause you know, Hawk Moth is making a many mistakes.


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[Assistant] But it is nice to see these imperfect children just learning to be themselves and-


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[Assistant] Growing in their confidence and truly


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[Assistant] Learning life lessons and teamwork along the way. So it's, it's fun.


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[Assistant] I'm certainly interested to kind of see as we continue into the season one. Seasons, what happens? Cause, you know, we have more miraculous holders, or people who we trust. Or, let me, let me restart that sentence.


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[Assistant] People we can entrust to take care of the miraculous on appointed times and give them back. So that's nice, I'm curious to see how we, uh,


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[Assistant] Utilize that in further seasons and-


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[Assistant] How they will be helpful because there's a lot of Kwamis and I can only assume we're going to probably.


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[Assistant] Use a lot of those Kwamis, so. Super fun, super interesting, I-


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[Assistant] I'm certainly hopeful that the show can stay good and interesting. I would say so far, without seeing the last episode, the two-parter.


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[Assistant] I actually really have enjoyed the story and, you know, getting Chloe to kind of like, open up a little bit more has been really fun. And that she can maybe learn to be a better person. Debatable, we'll see, but you know. I, maybe I'm not like,


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[Assistant] Maybe, before I was like 99% she never would be, but maybe, maybe I'm at like a 95% now. Maybe Chloe can become a good person. Maybe. We'll see.


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[Assistant] But overall I had so much fun watching this episode. I hope you guys did as well. Please keep in mind to like, share, subscribe if you liked the video and comment down below. Let me know what you guys thought about this episode and of course I'll see you all


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[Assistant] He thinks he's religious. He thinks he was doing the right thing.


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[Assistant] Oh god, they're slaughtering them! Ready?


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[Assistant] You too. Sir. Downstairs. There are civilians who need your assistance. Yes, sir. Sir, General Raffaella is in the next room.


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[Assistant] You and Lady of Grain take that entrance. I'll go through this one and sweep for any remaining escapees.


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[Assistant] It would be my honor to see you off on your maiden voyage, my lords. Sir Lucan, if I may? If you permit me, my lords. Of course, it's a personal...


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[Assistant] You are the knight commander! Make him see reason.


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[Assistant] Where chapel remains off limits. That is...officially.


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[Assistant] You have my thanks, Elluin. Of your thanks I have no need. Bring me results.


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[Assistant] Perhaps he wanted to regain a semblance of the humanity he lost. When time came to join the Order, the choice was theirs to make.


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[Assistant] Friend Mallory has always been something of a rogue operative. I've never known a better man. Still, I shall rely on you to be a, call it a sobering influence. Sebastian and I have long been partners. I trust him with my life. A little restraint would not be ill-advised.


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[Assistant] Well, you say true. What's a brother to do, eh? Good luck and godspeed.


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[Assistant] S-684 Marksman Carbine. Impressive.


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[Assistant] Sentinel-5, requesting an immediate sonar payload drop.


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[Assistant] Percival, we have a complication. Lucun is on board.


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[Assistant] I'm just alerting rebel agent.


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[Assistant] Percival! The mark is down! Rebels incoming! I need support now!


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[Assistant] Everyone, there's a rebel commander on board. It's the woman from Whitechapel. I'm in pursuit.


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[Assistant] He was my mentor. My brother. So he was.


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[Assistant] But concern yourself with the upcoming celebrities. The rest can wait.


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[Assistant] Do not fall prey to dark thoughts of retribution. That way madness lies.


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[Assistant] He wishes to thank you in person for saving his life and the lives of all the other people on the ship. The United India Company owes you a debt of gratitude.


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[Assistant] Uhm, women not being able to hire other women into positions of leadership. I was also hearing stories about other women being on a list of like sexy employees that higher ups at the company wanted to sleep with.


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[Assistant] A lot of men told me about the COO like going behind them and humping them at meetings where women weren't present.


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[Assistant] Uh, it wasn't a fart. Lawsuits were filed against Riot after, uhm, Kotaku's report. And...


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[Assistant] A couple of them were forced into arbitration with riots.


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[Assistant] So hundreds of Riot employees walked out in what was the first walkout in game development history, and I think organizing around that would be a really good idea for game workers.


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[Assistant] I absolutely think so because the same thing happened in my industry, media. Gawker unionized and then maybe a dozen other digital media publications unionized in its wake. And I don't see any reason why that wouldn't happen in the games industry where workers are fueled by passion and are often exploited because of that.


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[Assistant] Air Command, this is Galahad. I need response from anyone in the vicinity of Whitechapel.


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[Assistant] Sentinel 5, this is Galahad. We require air support on standby.


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[Assistant] Acknowledge. Shall apprise you once I've made reconnaissance. Remember.


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[Assistant] No, I think we just live in an era where people are so influenced by social media that it doesn't matter if their likes are hit, people are still gonna cap. They're still gonna make their life seem bigger than what it actually is instead of just living like they normally do.


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[Assistant] I'm good. A lot's changed since last time. Got a new spot. New spot.


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[Assistant] I think the drive to mastery is like one of the most important parts of the sort of what makes humans, humans special.


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[Assistant] And like most kids, particularly kids that come from shitty circumstances, nobody ever encourages them.


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[Assistant] To do that, to say like, you can, you can become like world class at this thing. I think some kids get sports, so that's like a huge outlet.


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[Assistant] Obviously lots of white kids and, and, uh, you know, upper middle class kids get all sorts of academic opportunities to do mastery, you know? But, uh,


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[Assistant] Very few people are encouraged to just take something, even if it's not an important thing, and just figure it out. Break it down and figure it out and get better and better and better and better at it. But that's, that's what


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[Assistant] That, that skill is transferable, whether you're getting really good at BMX or skateboarding or fucking yo-yo or, or writing or, you know, playing the guitar. Like, I think these things are really important. The problem is we teach kids to like play the cello because we think it'll get them into Harvard, not because like, hey, the mastery of an instrument.


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[Assistant] Writing? Writing was it, but I was into music at first, uh, but I wasn't very good. I, I got, I fell in love with that process of getting good at something and expressing myself. It just took me a couple starts and stops to figure out like,


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[Assistant] Actually my best medium was writing words, like in books, you know, like in what would become books.


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[Assistant] But that obsession with, with like, I'm gonna figure this out and I wanna consume and learn from everyone that's ever been good at it, that's, that's what,


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[Assistant] Keeps you out of trouble, but it also is a, it's a positive feedback loop, right? Cause the better you get at it, the more you get out of it. And then the more opportunities it presents and it, it just, it keeps you focused on what matters.


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[Assistant] When also, like, you know, I've been writing about stillness and that's what the new book is about, but like,


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[Assistant] That place you get to when you're doing that thing and you lose track of time and you lose track of noise and you're just like in a flow state where you're just fucking doing it. That's the, that's the real pain. That's when you're like.


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[Assistant] When were you last happy? It was when I was like crushing it on something. Like that. Not like the rewards, not the numbers, not the recognition. It was like I got lost in it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's one, that's one kind of a, that a flow state is a kind of stillness, or stillness can manifest itself in the form of a flow state, but it's not always there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I hear from people, like I stole your book from a store. I'm like, okay. You know?


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[Assistant] One, I respect you sent this email, but like, and I wish that you wouldn't steal from bookstores, like of all the things, of all the places to rob, like these are like businesses, but, but I respect the hustle. And that like, you didn't steal like, alcohol, you stole something that has like a positive ROI in your life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And by the way, there's also a place where they give away free books.


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[Assistant] Yeah, of course. It's, it's a wondrous gift to humanity. And people go, I can't afford to read or I don't have time to read bullshit.


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[Assistant] Well look, reading is a thing like BMX or this game or whatever too, right? Like, you're like, the more you do it, the more you get out of it, the, the,


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[Assistant] We don't go like, hey, Inside Books is the greatest, most valuable collection of knowledge in the history of the world.


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[Assistant] Why would you not avail yourself of this? Like what we don't make the case with reading is that there is a real ROI. Like that like for 15, like, so let's say this book is 15 bucks or whatever on Amazon.


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[Assistant] That's like two years of my life. What I, the rate I consult at for companies, that would be cumulatively like the amount of hours that I spent if you took my consulting rate. This book would be worth literally millions of dollars. You can buy it for 15 bucks. You know, I'm not making a pitch for my book. What I'm saying is that


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[Assistant] Billionaires write books about their strategy for how they became a billionaire. Uh, rappers write books about


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[Assistant] How their musical, like Jay-Z has like two books, you know, like you're not gonna, you're not gonna go, you're gonna start.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna start where he left off. You're gonna start from scratch. Like, why would you do that?


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[Assistant] Well, there's two, there's two quotes. So Harry Truman said, not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. I think that's a good one. And then the other one from Mark Twain, we think he said it, but he said, uhm,


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[Assistant] A person who does not read has no advantage over someone who cannot read.


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[Assistant] So you're, if you don't read, you're functionally illiterate. Like, you're not any better than a person not smart enough to read.


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[Assistant] So I think it's a couple of things. So one, how often do you actually make decisions based on these articles you read? It's like, you're like, oh, here's some trivia about this politician, here's some scandal about this athlete, you know, did you hear so and so did X? Right. Right. That's not good. But uhm, so we tell ourselves that this stuff matters, but really we're just like, gossiping.


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[Assistant] The experience of sitting down quietly with a book in a corner, uh, or, you know, as you're sitting in the waiting room of a dentist's office and just deciding to, like, get lost in this thing and to not have anything that can interrupt you, be it on your phone or other people, is like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, read on the plane, read in the car. Driver took me here, I read in the back of the car. Like, I want to use dead time in my life and use it to expand what I know about the world, give me ideas.


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[Assistant] Like they, they are getting, they are learning things from people who have come before you, or the smartest people in the world on this topic or that topic, and you're just, you know, continuing in ignorance.


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[Assistant] Well that's the thing, I'm not just like reading to impress people, or I'm not just reading for fun. Like if I'm gonna do something for fun, I'm gonna watch, like we live in a golden age of television, I'm gonna watch television. This is very true, yeaah. You know, like, so if I'm gonna be reading, I wanna do something that makes me better as a person, and so I'm folding pages, I'm writing, and like when I see a book, someone's like, here I read your book.


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[Assistant] And it's like in perfect condition. So you didn't get as much out of it as you could if you really like dug into the text.


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[Assistant] So I take notes, and then yeaah, I transfer all that to note cards.


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[Assistant] Well, there's a, one of the things Stokes talk about, they go like, no man steps in the same river twice.


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[Assistant] So you're technically reading the exact same book, and nothing has changed in it, but you've changed.


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[Assistant] And the context that you're reading has changed and the way that you perceive what you're reading has changed. So it is fundamentally different.


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[Assistant] And so every, everything is in a state of flux and being remade. Like, have you read all the, re-read all the books you read in high school right now?


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[Assistant] You'd be like, oh, I totally missed the point of that. It's cause you were 17 and you didn't know anything.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean look, I've read meditations a hundred, a hundred and fifty times, like, it's that deep, that's what people used to do with the Bible, right? You read this book your whole, over and over and over again, your whole life.


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[Assistant] In, in Judaism, I forget what it's called, but like, you read a, there's a passage you read, like a, the Torah is broken up in 52 chunks. Right. So every week for a year, every year of your life, you cycle through this book.


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[Assistant] And like you can imagine the level of understanding and knowledge and recall and that experience of like hitting you different ways at different times like


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know, but you read it when you're 12 and then you read it when you're 29 and then you read it when you're 60. Like, you're gonna have profoundly different reactions.


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[Assistant] And learn different things cause, cause actually, like if you heard, there's this expression when the, when the student is ready, the teacher appears.


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[Assistant] Your mind was finally ready to see something in that same book that you were closed off to before.


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[Assistant] Well, to me, that's the form. I mean, if, if, if I was like, hey, Adam, I know you like riding a BMX, but like motorcycles are faster. You'd be like, what? That's not the point. Like this is, this is where I express myself. Right. So like, that's my, that's my craft. You can do.


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[Assistant] Different things on a, you know, a sampler than you can do on a guitar, but like.


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[Assistant] You, if, if what you achieved mastery in is the guitar, that's your, that's your jam. You know? So, so part of it's just like, I'm a writer. That's how I see the world. That's what I love. That's what gets me up in the morning. But also though, it is important that people, that artists don't get too wedded to only reaching their people in one form.


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[Assistant] So like, with Daily Stoic, we have an Instagram account that's got, you know, three, four hundred thousand followers. We've got, uhm, an email that goes out every day that's got, you know, hundreds of thousands of subscribers.


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[Assistant] I do a podcast version of it that's done millions and millions of downloads, right? So it's like, I'm not super, I'm here talking on this show and you know, yesterday I was talking on some fancy, you know, pretentious show.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean a little bit. I think, I think part of it sort of goes with what you're saying. It's like, you gotta do what you like and what you feel is true. And then the fact that it blew up in professional sports and in music and, and the CEOs and, and


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[Assistant] That is not my, that was not my intention, but my intention was to make something that did something for people. So you gotta, like, if you're thinking about, like, I'm doing this because this is what's hot right now, like, that's a, one, it's a shitty way to live.


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[Assistant] Uh, but it's also a shitty place for your art to come from. You know, like nobody makes their best thing when they are thinking solely about mimicking some like commercial trend. Which I imagine you must see all the time, like people are like,


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[Assistant] This is, if, if this thing wasn't popular, they'd be doing some other thing, and if that thing changed, they'd be, like, they're not wedded to any of this.


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[Assistant] And like, you can get pretty good at that. Like, you can do it, but you're not going to build a sustainable career that way.


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[Assistant] I saw him sell out 20,000 seats in San Antonio last week, and they're on their 25th world tour. They sold 100 million albums. You know, like, you, his point was like, you don't, I think the lead singer said this, he was like,


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[Assistant] We have our fields and that's what we're responsible for and that's what we're telling and what other people are doing in their fields is of no concern to us.


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[Assistant] So you do that, and then it happens if you can do that well, you can really connect. So, so the, yeaah, I was writing about Stoicism, it was what I was interested in, I thought it would help people in business primarily, and then it ended up working in all these different domains because like, I think I touched something that people were really struggling with and really needed, and uh,


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[Assistant] And, and so that wasn't coming, that, that was coming from a place of stillness, that was coming from a place of like, I love this thing, this is what I have to say, I think it's important, I hope people listen. It wasn't coming from a like, oh, philosophy books are so hot right now, this is where, like,


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[Assistant] I say this to authors all the time, like, it's not that you can't make money writing books, but like, there's way better ways to make money, so, don't do it for money. Like, if you, if you were primarily motivated by money, like,


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[Assistant] Go sell drugs, or you know, or like go work on Wall Street. You already said by choosing this that money is not the most important thing.


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[Assistant] So don't, don't make the decisions from a better place, and ironically that's how you'll make better money.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and look, uh, the thing with heroin and eating disorders is very few people are like, there's not the validation side that you get from social media. So what social media preys on is our desire to be heard.


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[Assistant] And our desire for validation. Right? Like, so it's like, Facebook says, what are you thinking today? And then people are like, great thought! Like, that's a vicious fucking loop.


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[Assistant] Right? So people spend all their time chasing like imaginary internet points rather than doing what matters or what they care about.


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[Assistant] So, yea, of course, I mean, like, the busy you are, the harder it is to find stillness, but...


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[Assistant] Do what they gotta do. And it can be like they've struggled to move the ball the whole game.


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[Assistant] But in the last 2 minutes, or last 20 seconds, they can suddenly do what they had trouble doing the whole game.


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[Assistant] Presence, I think it's focus, I think it's uh, blocking out of distraction, I think it's intentionality, you know, it's like it's, it's all the things that you need to be great.


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[Assistant] A million different things. Or just like, I see this with people that's like, they want to talk about what they're doing so they can get credit for it as they're doing it and then not actually have to do it. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's like, let me take a, people are like, oh I'm moving to France to go write my novel. It's like, sure you are. You know what I mean? Like, show me some pages.


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[Assistant] No, so that's, I bet you see all different kinds of rappers, but I have not managed to wrap my head around how the like rapper lifestyle is conducive to making good art.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, no, you can definitely like gut it out, stream of consciousness, like you can make, but I don't think you make lasting, enduring stuff that way. So yeah, it's like, like with the rappers that I've met or dealt with, it's like you're,


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[Assistant] You woke up at three, then you, you know, you had breakfast, then you went out, and then it's like you roll in the studio like two in the morning, like.


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[Assistant] I find that the best like artists across all fields and athletes too are way closer to monks. You know what I mean? It's like, like for me it's like I'm starting, I'm not on the phone and then I go for a walk and then I journal and it's all about slowing it down.


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[Assistant] People think that, like, the artist's life is about total freedom. It's like, I don't have a job, I got fuck you money, you know, I got this awesome house, I got these people that work for me. This is the life. And it's like...


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[Assistant] That's not where good, like good stuff comes from, like Jocko Willnick, it's like discipline equals freedom, like you gotta take all that freedom and you gotta create order in it, cause that, it's like uhm,


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[Assistant] A gun is a focused explosion. You can't just...


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[Assistant] That doesn't work, right? And I think that's how a lot of people live. Writers too. It's just like, your life is a mess. Like, you're not gonna, you, you, you woke up at nine, then you had like brunch, and then you did this, and then you did that, and then you watched TV for two hours, and then, and then you're like, it's three, I'm gonna get started. You know, like, that's, that,


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[Assistant] You can, you can gut it out. You can make not, like if you're talented, you can make good, you can make okay to good stuff. But I don't think you're going to make great stuff. It's like when you hear about one of these athletes, it's like they eat McDonald's.


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[Assistant] Yes. Uh, but, but it's like, it's not that they can't be talented running on, you know, 99 cent cheeseburgers. It's what would their body be? It's that their body, their freakish body and what would they be capable of it if they put like good fuel in it?


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[Assistant] I imagine you see, as now the internet allows these guys to just blow up out of nowhere, you might be able to get away with one or two or three things, but if the goal is like, I want to do this, I want to be one of the best there ever was, I want to do this over 20 years, like what I think about, there's writers who are, Robert Karl's like 85, he shows up to work, he's still the best in the world.


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[Assistant] Without taking care of it. It's like, you can have a classic car if you take care of it. You know? But like, if you treat it like your Honda Accord, like, it's not making it to classic car status.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you gotta like work your way into the rhythm of it. Uhm, but I think, yeah, I think too many people want it right now. They want it right away. They're not willing to do the work. They'll just take whatever the market will accept. And I don't think, I don't think that's how you make shit that lasts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wanted to get away from that energy, like I wanna have, I wanna be on my energy, you know, and I want, I wanna be slower and more deliberate and more reflexive, cause that's what my job is, right? Like, if I'm a stock trader, maybe that's exactly the energy you want, uhm, from a party planner or something, that's exactly what you want.


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[Assistant] But if your job is to think big picture to come up with truths, you know, you need. So for me, it was like, I didn't want to live in LA. I didn't want to live in San Francisco. I didn't want to live in New York.


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[Assistant] Austin kind of has the best of a lot of those cities, but slower and smaller, cheaper. And then when we were living there, we were like, if we're going to live in Texas, we should like...


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[Assistant] Texas. So we gotta, we gotta farm. Or a little ranch.


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[Assistant] Well, no, I just think, like, there's just fewer distractions. And, I mean, look, none of my neighbors are writers. You know, I think that's the other problem, is like, you meet people in LA and they're like, oh yeah, I do what you do. But they're just full of shit. Like, you just end up comparing yourself to other people, or...


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just the wrong, it's the wrong energy for different reasons. It's not like that up energy, it's that like professional jealousy energy or that like poser energy or you know, like bad influence energy.


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[Assistant] I didn't want to get away from anything, but I just really liked the challenge, like could I do that? Like could I...


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[Assistant] Be like, can I make this kind of music? Or could I, like, build this kind of boat? Like, I wanted to see if I could, like, have the skills to do it a different way. And it was way outside my comfort zone. It was hard. It was scary. I think I did it. I mean, they're turning it into a movie and, uh,


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[Assistant] Based on your book? Are you involved in it? Yeah, I guess I'm a producer and, uh, I saw, I saw the people last night. Uhm, it's got like, the guy that wrote, uhm, the screenplay for the big short is a screenwriter.


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[Assistant] That's like where I feel the most fulfillment creatively, but like your life shouldn't be doing the same thing over and over again just because you're good at it.


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[Assistant] Like I wanted people to think, not like just what happened, but like how did it happen? How did a billionaire plot in secret to destroy a media outlet? And how did nobody notice?


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[Assistant] And what can you learn from that? And is it also entertaining and surreal and fascinating? I think so.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I, I think, uh, I think it was just, it was a different thing and, and it was,


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[Assistant] Weirdly, it like, it leveled me up in a lot of ways, like it was my first book reviewed in the New York Times, my first book reviewed in the Washington Post, first one to be optioned to turn into a movie, and like the kinds of people that I heard from. The book has sold well, but it like, has definitely punched above its weight in terms of like, who's a fan of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean look, that book could have sold a lot more copies if I had chosen to make Teal the villain. Like if I, if I had said


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[Assistant] If I had said, like, Peter is the irredeemable, Peter Thiel is the irredeemable villain of this story, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna make him look that way, that book would have sold a lot more copies.


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[Assistant] That wasn't the truth. You know, that wasn't like, I mean, it might be somebody else's truth. They might look at the story and see that way and that's like that they want to write their own book they're welcome to. But when I saw it, I saw him as this complicated,


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[Assistant] And that's, so that's the story I want. Plus, I think, I mean, look, what he did was, even if you disagree with it, pretty fucking brutal.


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[Assistant] I talk about this in the book, like the idea that like, you can trade sleep for more work is ridiculous.


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[Assistant] I don't know, from your Instagram it always looks like you're like this sort of depravity and...


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[Assistant] And the stakes were higher. You know what I mean? Like, like if you're... Yeah, I get it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's either they're super, they're so talented they can, you know, like, uh, balance it out or it actually is coming at a super high cost.


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[Assistant] The exception to the rule and then you also look at where it tends to end up, right? It's like, Hemingway killed himself, Hunter S. Thompson killed himself, you know, Jimi Hendrix accidentally killed himself, right? Like, it doesn't, doesn't go well.


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[Assistant] No, it was never, it's, it's just not my personality, although it is interesting, like,


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[Assistant] I don't think it's a lot of people's personality, but I think they force it. Oh, 100%. And then they get into it because it, there are, there is a nice part to it, but like, I've just never been one for like acquired tastes. If I don't like it, I don't like it. And like, why would I feel, like if you don't want to drink, why would you drink to make other people feel better?


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[Assistant] Well that's, I'd say confidence is so important. We mistake confidence in ego, and a lot of people, like,


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[Assistant] Kanye West is not a confident person. Kanye West is an egotistical person. Donald Trump is not a confident person. He's an egotistical person. That's why they get themselves into trouble all the time. The confident person is the one who doesn't need to get involved in any of that shit, right? The confident person has stillness and has peace and has the sort of


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[Assistant] This exchange between Hemingway and Fitzgerald, uh, Scott Fitzgerald who wrote Great Gatsby and, uh, and, uh, Hemingway, no, is it, uhm,


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[Assistant] But if I was like, if, if you started an app and then you sold it for a billion dollars, the idea that you would just become a transformatively different person is preposterous. Like you, you pretty much, pretty much baked. Things can change a little bit, but yeah, it's just people. And, and what, the idea that this billionaire


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[Assistant] And just the idea that like it wouldn't hurt to be outed when you didn't want to be outed because you're rich. It's just so.


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[Assistant] If you applied that logic to any other thing that wasn't money, you'd be like, what a horrible fallacy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and the media has a weird thing about it where they think because someone's like in the public eye or because they have a lot of Instagram followers or because they make a lot of money that like, it doesn't hurt.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Or that you don't care? And that's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's this weird sort of element of our society that's just like, let's burn it all down. And it's like, I'm not saying it's perfect, but like, show me a better system.


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[Assistant] You know? Show me a system that's created more, that's uh, worked longer. You know, I don't see it.


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[Assistant] I think we, we experiment, we've experimented with this burn it all down shit a couple times.


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[Assistant] I mean look, I think wealth inequality is a huge problem. I like, look, and I say that as like a rich person because like I pay, I probably pay a much higher tax rate than Peter Thiel. Like I make good money, great money.


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[Assistant] But like, the system's not rigged for me. The system's rigged for the Warren Buffets and the Peter Thiels and the Donald Trumps of the world. Right? Right? Like, if you, like,


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[Assistant] Uh, I always think it's funny when you see these rappers like, uh, flying in private jets. It's like some of them can afford it, but most of them can't. Like, that's not how the economics of, uh, the music or the writing or the entertainment business really work.


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[Assistant] A lot of times it is a barber for sure. No it is, it totally is. Like, you know, it's like, look, what would the best barber in the city you're landing in cost to come in for one?


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[Assistant] What was thinking of Kennedy and the missile crisis? Okay, the first one you used pretty much. That's the first story in the book, you know, like, here's a guy, he wakes up one day, there's nuclear missiles in Cuba, Russia put him there, what do you do?


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[Assistant] And he's like, well what are they, what happens next?


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[Assistant] And he had the strength and the fortitude to slow it down and think about it and work out a solution, not be jerked around, you know, emotionally, right? So that's a big one. Tiger Woods is a big example. Like here you have a guy who's complete master of his body, of his brain, but like,


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[Assistant] Spiritually, like, was a mess. And then one imploded and took the other two down. It took him ten years to get back.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I think his dad basically abused him. Like his dad turned him into a...


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[Assistant] A machine. I mean, has dad referred to the idea of enough as the E word?


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[Assistant] Like, how fucked up does that, like, that there's never enough, you'll never have enough, you'll never be good enough, you'll never win enough, you'll never win by enough.


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[Assistant] Should we be surprised that he became insatiable? You know? And that like...


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[Assistant] That he thought he deserved everything and that having a beautiful wife and kids and family and a great career wasn't enough that he had to go reach, reach, reach until it all came collapsing down.


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[Assistant] Do you read range yet? The David Epstein book? No. It's really good. He's basically saying there's a Tiger Woods model on one hand and then there's like the Roger Federer.


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[Assistant] Example on the other end, he swam and he played tennis and he played baseball and he was, had all the, like,


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[Assistant] He's saying that like what you actually want is like adaptability, you want range, like a broad swath of skills. Like for you, like you're good at BMX, you're good at fashion, like you had all these different things that somehow


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[Assistant] In riding bikes. Like, that might have made you the best in the world at that one thing.


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[Assistant] But that would have prevented you from experimenting with all these little things that you then got results from and rewards and then


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[Assistant] But even that you were just interested in having a website. It's like most people weren't, right? And so like, like it's the desire to expand and grow and learn new things and that, that somehow comes to, especially when like you're an entrepreneur or creator and you're making something that doesn't exist anymore. You need all these different inputs.


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[Assistant] That, and so like I talk a lot about in the book about the power of hobbies. You know, like this is a hobby for you. Uh, but like Winston Churchill loved painting and you know, Mr. Rogers loved swimming and like, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Great people. Chris Bosch taught himself how to play the guitar in a program on computers. And like, you wanna have, you can't just do your one thing. You gotta have other things. This is where you learn new ideas, you learn how to learn, keep your mind active, and it also helps you relax and replenish.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so you can't just only be on the grind.


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[Assistant] She, uh, Susan Orlean wrote a book about the Los Angeles Public Library fire in like 1985. You know that crazy library downtown? The big one, that's that cool building? That just like, just went up in flames. Millions of books got burned. They think it was arson, but they're not sure. And it's just like, it's super good. She would love it, you would love it.


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[Assistant] Talk's tough. No, it's definitely like the sort of subtweeting of that story is like, like, who do you think I'm talking about? For sure. Uhm, and it's, I think it's an argument for the importance of temperament.


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[Assistant] Like, if Donald Trump was the landlord of this building, you would move out in five seconds. Because you're like, this dude is nuts, right? Like, he's always causing problems, he's always picking fights, he's always blah blah blah. Like, life, you'd be like, life is too short.


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[Assistant] People are like, let's make him president of the most powerful country in the world and give him access to thousands of nuclear weapons. It's insane.


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[Assistant] So yes, uh, the only redeeming quality about Trump so far is that it turns out he's actually like a complete coward. Yeah. And, uh, and utterly indecisive. So like, even when he thinks about doing something really stupid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I mean look, I think it's alarming, but I think historically, if you understand people, you're like...


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[Assistant] The crowd, there's a reason we call the crowd the mob. The mob sucks, right? Like, so, I'm not, and I get there's a lot of reasonable people who have totally reasonable reasons for supporting Trump, and I can have a conversation with those people.


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[Assistant] Although it is interesting, like I'll write, you know, I'll write something and people, how dare you? Like I was, I did a show in New York and some woman got up and was like, uh, you know, my, my, she was like, I have a question. It wasn't a question. It was like, how dare you criticize Donald Trump or something?


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[Assistant] She's like, I think it's very unfair that you criticized Donald Trump in your book. And I was like, what does this say?


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[Assistant] If I, if I say, you know, something thoughtful, like some critique about, I talk about temperament, or I talk about what it means to, you know, have a fragile ego and maybe make an illusion of Donald Trump. I'll get all these, like, for daily stoic, people will be like, I'm unsubscribing, you should keep politics out of this, like, you're gonna hurt me. It's like, I didn't build this platform, or like,


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[Assistant] Cause I don't want to offend people. I think that's like, like I don't totally agree with everything you do and like we live very different lifestyles and blah, but like.


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[Assistant] People should do what they want to do. And like the idea that like,


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[Assistant] One, the idea that people should censor themselves to not upset other people is ridiculous to me and kind of offensive actually. But then the other, the other thing that people would be offended by what other people do with their


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[Assistant] No, totally, but that's really what they're saying. They're not saying, I really disagree with your argument. They're saying, my identity is caught up in my support of Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] And you criticized it, therefore you're criticizing me as a human, and therefore I don't like you and what you have to say anymore. Definitely. Which is a ridiculous way, like ridiculous way to live. There's an epic tedious line that says, when you're offended, realize you're complicit in the offense. You know, like when you get offended, you are choosing to be offended.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, it's, it's, I have a weird relationship with that book. Cause I wrote this book to say like, look, this is how the media is being manipulated, this is bad, this is scary, we should do something about it. And then you go like, oh, there's this guy, the guy that gave Trump the idea for the wall. It's like, that's his favorite book.


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[Assistant] You know, that's, I don't, I don't want that. You know, that's not why I wrote it. Cause you weren't writing it as a guide to how to do that. You know, I'm sure plenty of people. It's kind of presenting it that way, but the argument is like, this is how this works. Shut this down. What are you doing? And so a lot, there was a lot of shooting the messenger, which is really frustrating.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know a lot of bad people like that book and use it and I don't like that.


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[Assistant] But I also feel like there's a lot of good people that just, you know, went like this, you know, like plug their ears to it and


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[Assistant] A lot of the mess we're in was totally preventable, you know? And like, even now, Donald Trump...


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[Assistant] Marco Rubio got in trouble, did you see this where like, so Trump was like, I call on China to investigate Joe Biden. And they were like, Marco Rubio, what do you think? And he's like, I don't think Trump means it. I think he said it.


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[Assistant] Like feeding the trolls. You know what I mean? Like he is just, he knows if he does this or says this or talks about this person or sends his tweet, everyone loses their mind and then they'll be distracted and like his political opponents will have a harder time making a pervasive argument to those sort of like middle ground voters.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if you put the cat back in the bag, but like.


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[Assistant] I do think people are, are like, I don't know anyone that watches cable news that isn't old.


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[Assistant] Like there's other problems, but I'm saying like I think a lot of this is generational. So I do think we'll, we'll figure it out. I think we'll, I think you, either the world ends or we figure it out.


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[Assistant] The world has always been like this, there's always been conflict, there's always been, you know what I mean? I just try to think about it historically a little bit, it gives me some perspective, but.


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[Assistant] It's dark, it's scary, but this is why you need that stillness. Like, if you're jerked around, like, I know so many people, they're basically debilitated by the Trump presidency. Like, so think about it this way, Donald Trump is, I don't think he's been a good president, I think he's done a lot of really alarming things.


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[Assistant] But it's not like he's like sent normal people to like a gulag, right? Like he's, you know what I mean? Like he's not like actually a tyrant in like the Hitlerian sense.


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[Assistant] But sure, but he didn't send those people there, they came across the border and now they're there. But I'm not saying that's not horrible, but I don't find it to be a black mark on all that this country stands for. But what I mean is, Trump has not


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[Assistant] Instituted a thought police that prevents me from doing my job or focusing blah blah blah. But I know a bunch of people who voluntarily put themselves in that position because he and politics and whatever the breaking news is, is all they can think about.


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[Assistant] All they can focus on. They're basically like zombies who for the last three years have


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[Assistant] No, and the fact that they're constantly putting in towards, I actually would argue is having the opposite effect because it's kind of this boy who cries wolf thing. I think when I think of my dad, I think my dad's just like,


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[Assistant] That's not as bad as they said, you know, and that's because they've said like literally we're all gonna die. Right. And it's more complicated than that. So yeah, I think people have sort of voluntarily made themselves prisoners of Trump.


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[Assistant] By being so obsessed by him and so repulsed by him and so...


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[Assistant] Aggravated by them constantly that they don't make good decisions, they don't make...


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[Assistant] God knows how many hours of these interviews I've recorded. I mean, so I try to be present, I try to be focused, but yeaah, I can only imagine like at Casey's level, because he's, I remember Casey and I were staying in the same hotel in Amsterdam once, and like, they had to put out like,


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[Assistant] A red carpet and like, outside, not a red carpet, but whatever those like, barriers are.


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[Assistant] And so I think you want to ask yourself as like an artist, like, is this how I want to make my money? Right. You know, especially the ones where you're getting paid, like you're not doing it because like you want to give back to the fans. It's like you're charging a hundred dollars a person or whatever.


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[Assistant] There's better ways to make money. Why are you doing it that way?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Like, so I did a signing last night at BookSoup and it was great and there was like a hundred people or so and I said hi to everyone, it was awesome. But you can, yeah, you can't do that every day.


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[Assistant] Yes, right. No, books are way chiller than any of the other. It's like, how many people read? How many people buy books? How many people will go?


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[Assistant] How many people go to the back to see what the author, like I bet, I mean what books have sold?


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[Assistant] I'm, uh, yeaah, I've been on the phone with my agent all day negotiating the next, next franchise or series or whatever. Okay. I like to always have the next project because I don't want to ride.


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[Assistant] Like I got the sales numbers for the, uh, the book, uh, this morning and it's like, I don't want that to sit. They're great. Like way better than expected. I don't want that to.


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[Assistant] I don't want that to pump me up and if they were bad, I wouldn't want them to knock me down. I want to know, I want to get back to the work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but those are the best, I love those days. Glorious. And that's all, I always like have huge ideas on those days, and then I go, why do I not making more, but the premise of this book is like,


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[Assistant] The franchise I'm going to work on next, I had that idea while I was on vacation with my family. That idea is worth millions of dollars, right? Why don't I take more vacations? Like, that vacation not only paid for itself because I deserved the vacation, but like, that's where I got the next thing, right? And yet, mostly what we think about is like, how do we cram more work in?


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[Assistant] If stillness are the best moments, or personally, professionally, whatever, like why is it so rare?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, okay, so I know you're, uh, I know you're into the stoicism stuff a little bit. And I know you wouldn't just wear anything, so I had this made for you.


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[Assistant] Remember you will die. And then on the inside, and you can get a resize if it doesn't fit, but on the inside, it says you can leave life right now.


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[Assistant] Expect to live forever, you, you can't let, you can't hang on to grudges, you can't put up with bullshit, like life is short.


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[Assistant] The signet ring is like the, one of the oldest forms of jewelry. But, uh, you know, you would put it...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna live for 75 years. You don't know that. Like, we think like, oh, what if I found out I had cancer? Or something. But you do have cancer. Everybody has cancer.


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[Assistant] That you were not long for this world. You know what I mean? The doctor was like, this person will die. We know this for every single person.


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[Assistant] But it's not just work though, like, cause a lot of people are like, I gotta, how's I gotta get all this money? And it's like, for what? You can't take it with you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but why would you do unfulfilling work to make money to buy things you don't really want or need?


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure, sure. Or, or people are in a position where their lifestyle is so ridiculous that they have to do shit they don't want to do just to maintain it.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, no, not really. I mean, I got this farm, and let me tell you, it's not a money-making proposition, but, uh,


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[Assistant] No, I mean, I think living below your means is one of the most sort of powerful things you can do. Expensive tastes come at the cost of life.


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[Assistant] Seneca is this thing, he's like underneath, you know, marble and gold is slavery. You know, like, you have a fancy house, but you're working for the house.


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[Assistant] The Queen was actually extremely nervous because she could feel the hostility and actually she heard and said, oh, about time you've come. You know, they can hear an awful lot of things that the crowd say. And then I think a woman actually gave her a bunch of flowers and said,


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[Assistant] Would you like me to place it for you? When your mum said no mum, it's for you.


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[Assistant] And that sort of broke the ice. It was that moment. And I think suddenly, people saw her.


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[Assistant] At the funeral, the Queen was very dignified and she bowed her head when Diana's coffin went past.


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[Assistant] And it's because, like you said, both due to new discoveries of amazing fossils that just change the way we view dinosaur evolution, but also because of new technologies that are, you know, being developed or technologies that existed that are now being applied to paleontology.


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[Assistant] And, you know, not, and beyond just technologies, also methods, like chem, like methods of chemistry that are now being, uh, creating this developing paleochemistry field that are shedding new light on the evolution of


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[Assistant] Animals in general. So it's a really exciting time to be a paleontologist.


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[Assistant] Basically the same question and since then within the past five years in part due to or mostly due to really strange and fascinating discoveries, we've actually realized that flight has evolved in dinosaurs


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[Assistant] Three times at least, but you know, maybe four times, five times even. And this, uh, you know, we really realized this with the discovery of a dinosaur named Ichi.


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[Assistant] And this group is uhm, it's a, this taxon is a member of a group called the Scansoriopterygidae. Worst taxonomic name ever, so difficult to say.


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[Assistant] The position of microraptor also indicates that microraptor is also an independent origin of flight. And then there's a couple others that we're less sure about, but I think


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[Assistant] You know, with additional discoveries and with uhm, you know, further research in the next few years, we're going to realize that there's a lot more flying dinosaurs than we previously recognized.


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[Assistant] And uh, you know, and so they were the only lineage that survived. And a lot of people want to say it's because of


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[Assistant] Uhm, eat foods like seeds that were, you know, that they could find buried in the rubble, something like this, you know. So it's a combination of all these different factors that work together to allow this one group to make it through this extinction.


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[Assistant] And uhm, he's just the most fantastic teacher I've ever had. Super passionate about paleontology. He's written tons of books.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah, I just, I took one of his classes and I fell in love with evolution, not necessarily dinosaurs. I also just stumbled onto and to end up working on them. And I told him I wanted to be a paleontologist and he did his best to scare me off and tell me that it was a bad idea. But, uh, I persisted and I'm glad that I did.


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[Assistant] And uhm, yeaah, and then just, you know, choices along the way led me to working on early birds. It was mostly because I'm half Chinese. I'm very interested and passionate also about my Chinese culture, also my Irish culture. But uhm, yeaah, so at the time, you know, like I remember in college reading about Microraptor, the discovery of this four-winged dinosaur, and I,


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[Assistant] And especially with something as complex as the skull, you're losing all those, that internal morphology. So I mean, one thing that could be done, if this uhm, whoever bought it was generous enough, is they could pay maybe for the skull.


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[Assistant] To be high resolution CT scanned, so that then you would at least get more information that is then available for scientists. But uhm, you know, that's up to whoever bought it.


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[Assistant] Write your congressman, you know, because right now it is legal to buy, to collect fossils on your land and to sell them if you want to in the United States. Now in China, all fossils that are of any scientific value


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[Assistant] But outside of Beijing, there really isn't anyone with the expertise to properly take care of these specimens to, you know, to prepare them, which is like removing all the matrix and the dirt that surrounds the fossil or to make sure that they're kept in a temperature controlled environment or community controlled environment. So, you know,


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[Assistant] Capacity means so much. It means both a place for the museum, a place, a museum to hold the specimens, but also people with the, with the knowledge, with the training to be able to take care of these specimens properly.


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[Assistant] And it's difficult to get this, you know. It's difficult to find people who are willing to go outside of big cities who have this knowledge. A lot of this knowledge is very specialized, so uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a very complicated issue but if people are aware of it and when we go out and look for fossils, we're aware of this issue and this need.


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[Assistant] We can start including in grants money to, you know, more than just find the fossils, but also to take care of them afterwards.


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[Assistant] The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the IPBP, for those who don't know, has, you know, over, uh, has about 60 full-time paleontologists under one roof, all working on different animals, and so it's a really spectacular place to work, uh, you know, it's the only, uh, the only place I can think of in the world that has that many paleontologists working together.


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[Assistant] I think uhm, I mean, the coloration thing, it does have some interesting points, like you can learn also about metabolism from the coloration, I know there's been some correlations there, but it's one of these things that's important because it helps us


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[Assistant] So actually, if you can see this, uh, reconstruction behind me, it's done by this wonderful artist named Michael Rothman. And, you know, we were working in collabs, you know, he was asking me like 100 million questions about how to like perfect his reconstruction of these birds.


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[Assistant] And he had them in all these beautiful colors, like greens and blues and yellows. And I, and I kind of thought about this after he had actually finished, cause this was a few years back. And I was like, oh, actually like all the research that we're doing now on melanosomes is telling us like, black, black.


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[Assistant] I guess like a ways that birds have color. So there's also like pigment based coloration or there's also structural color and these things are less likely to fossilize, uh, you know, or to be preserved in the fossil record. So I think when we're looking at melanosome based


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[Assistant] So I think, you know, in the future with more exceptional discoveries and also new techniques and ways to extract additional information, we're going to be able to add back some color to our, to our reconstructions of these feathered animals.


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[Assistant] Yield completely new animals that are going to change everything that we think we know. And I also hope that the established scientists are


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[Assistant] Can open their hearts and be more accepting to new technologies that are being developed, especially by younger paleontologists, because I think this is one thing that just holds back all fields is that the older people, the older scientists,


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[Assistant] AVG, we out here in LA. I just bought a Franchise Gap store. Right here, we gotta go and see how my employees feel about, you know, my current management that I'm doing over there. So let's go and do that.


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[Assistant] We here, we just pulled out to my new franchise, but I see how it's going.


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[Assistant] I wasn't too happy with my experience here at my store. I just recently purchased. But, you know, I have a new Gap store that I'm gonna purchase real soon. Coming to New York, right on 68th Street. You know, we gonna get to it. He tried to tell me I can't record at my store. I'm fucking sodomizing him. He's bugging. He's fucking bugging. You know what I'll do to that man? He's fucking bugging. I'll fucking murder his father. You think I'm playing? You think I'm playing with him?


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[Assistant] You know what's up, the night's over. It's done, everybody's going home. Get away from me, you know what's up.


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[Assistant] It's me. And also, you know what's up.


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[Assistant] I don't have any parents. And I don't know why I'm here. I just am.


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[Assistant] Whyra was trying to get to that tower, when I was with her.


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[Assistant] If you're leaking a song, it's not really giving credit to the artist himself, but at the same time it is, cause you're not the one that...


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[Assistant] Made it, but you dropped it in a sense, but I mean it definitely helps because if it's a good song, like it's number one now.


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[Assistant] It's obviously bringing attention to him and to his music, so yeaah.


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[Assistant] Exactly, cause you're getting fucked over right now. But like, I mean, if artists don't want that, it should be like, legal to kick that person's ass, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] If they leak it, if they leak it, it's not number one. I mean, jail time might be necessary.


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[Assistant] This simple choice revitalized the Saints, transforming them from a degenerate street gang into beloved pop culture icons. But even then, the Saints were not satisfied.


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[Assistant] But while philosophers will spend years debating the epics of the Kinsey Gambit, the saints had a less charitable view.


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[Assistant] When the novelty of shaping history wore off, the saints remembered the words of Xinzhai.


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[Assistant] And that, my friends, is how I first met the Saints.


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[Assistant] I kinda feel like a broken record, cause I feel like the last couple weeks I was like, you guys are so excited for this episode, you're so excited for this episode, and like once again you guys are like really excited for this one. So, like,


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, my name is Xamber. Thank you guys so much for clicking on this video and deciding to watch with me. Today we are here with the long awaited


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[Assistant] Two part episode reaction of the Queen's Battle, is it like combined?


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[Assistant] We're just doing the official part one, part two of the Queen's Battle.


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[Assistant] I'm excited to watch. I hope you guys are as well. Please keep in mind if you want to see my full uncut reaction, you can go to my Patreon page right now and watch it over there.


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[Assistant] And of course, if you want to support the show, please go check it out on Netflix or Disney Plus, depending on what country you're in. But without further ado, let's get started!


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[Assistant] We, uh, we see where she gets her attitude from now.


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[Assistant] Gabriel picked it, it's gonna be fine honey, okay? You got this.


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[Assistant] Okay, either she liked it or she's going to steal it as well like her daughter did. Her no good bratty daughter.


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[Assistant] What does she have? What? Does she have cancer or something? So he just like throws her till he can get a cure? Or is she like dead and he's preserving the body?


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[Assistant] I like, I like how she said,


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[Assistant] Wait, I got too excited about the potential of all yoke joining us.


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[Assistant] Uh, she wasn't glitter eyes, was she?


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[Assistant] Noooo, you're joking! Okay, alright, this all makes so much more sense now. So, oh, we don't


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[Assistant] Give the B Miraculous to Chloe. Chloe finds the B Miraculous. That makes so much more sense. Cause I was trying to think of like,


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[Assistant] Color coordination wise, who might be the like, bee-bret thing? And I was like, it's gotta be Rose, but I was scared, maybe Chloe, but no.


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[Assistant] No, we didn't, we were gonna go give it to Alia, which is interesting. I don't know, I get that. Uh.


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[Assistant] Our guardian was like, make sure you pick what you think would be most, like, helpful. Like, it makes sense that she used like, okay, maybe allusions aren't helpful here.


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[Assistant] Uh, maybe we need to pick a different thing. So that makes sense, I get why we didn't, uh, grab a Raina Rouge again. But, oh my god, so we didn't go get it.


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[Assistant] She just assumed it probably went back. I get that. I'm not mad at her for that. I'm really not mad at Marinette for that. That makes sense to me and I get her thinking on that.


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[Assistant] That Chloe found it. Like, what is she going to do? This makes sense now that we have a two-parter, because you know what's gonna happen instantly.


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[Assistant] Chloe is probably gonna get like super mad because her mom doesn't want to spend time with her. She's probably gonna do something stupid and make like get her mom to take her to New York with her.


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[Assistant] And somehow she's gonna have those miraculous and...


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[Assistant] I guess she'll get akumatized and she'll have it and maybe... I don't know, Ken?


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[Assistant] Can you be akumatized while using a miraculous? And can you be-


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[Assistant] Akumatized and then transformed with said miraculous.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think we might get some answers here and I'm very nervous because at the end of the day we need that miraculous bag and I am like crossing my fingers, I am crossing my fingers.


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[Assistant] I, I don't, I, I want Chloe to be our villain. I want Chloe to be our villain so badly. I want Hawk Daddy and his hawk daughter so bad. I want it so badly. Pleeease. I want like, you know, everything to wrap up in this episode, and I want like, Ladybug to be like, okay, give it back now, and Chloe be like, no! And just like run off, like.


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[Assistant] Ridiculous ladybug. I know she might just leave, but I know she does, but like who's gonna give that up? Definitely not Chloe. She could just keep it.


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[Assistant] Oh, and then she can like go work for Hawk Moth and stuff. Oh my god, I want it. I want Hawk Daddy and his Hawk Daughters. I want it. I want it so bad. Ugh.


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[Assistant] Please, I am like wishing to the universe. Like I know these episodes have already happened, but like I want it. I want it so bad. I want her to keep it and just be like full evil. I want it so bad. Uhm, but along with that, uh,


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[Assistant] Adrian's mom, by the way, which I believe if I remember right, you guys said her name is pronounced just Emily. It's just spelled different, like Emilie.


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[Assistant] But it's Emily is what I've been told. Correct me if I'm wrong. We're gonna say Emily if I'm wrong. Just know that's who I'm speaking about. But.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we got that like vision where it came, not vision, but like that pan down shot of like the creepy basement in the aggress household, which looked like a weird fucking like church sanctuary thing. Like a sanctuary.


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[Assistant] And now we finally got to see it up close. Mom is like in glass casket, fucking like dead or alive. Anyone's guess at this point, I'm sure.


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[Assistant] He like put flowers there like she's dead. She's obviously not living right now. I don't know if she's dead though.


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[Assistant] Uh, it could be like a Mr. Freeze situation where he's just like keeping his like beloved there. She could have like cancer and he just like froze her or something just to keep her like good until he can like, you know, make his wish come true to-


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[Assistant] Make her healthy again, which like I get, but like dude, like stop. Like this ain't the way. Like isn't he rich? Probably by like the best doctors in the world to help her. To be fair, he probably has already helped her. And they couldn't do anything, but. I don't know.


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[Assistant] That she probably had the other Miraculous that, uhm, Gabriel has. The, uh, Butterfly Peacock?


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[Assistant] Butterfly Peacock. I don't remember what it was. Uhm, I'm guessing she must've used it?


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[Assistant] I don't know. It's super weird. It's so weird. I'm just trying to think of like any theory I can.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's just like human illness or maybe like miraculous like ended up harming her somehow. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause now it just sits there, which is odd. Like, why not use it? I think that's really odd. Why not use it?


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[Assistant] He's not using it because it must be that she got hurt from using it. That's gotta be it, right? Really, it's gotta be. Just must be very hard on the user.


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[Assistant] Uh, but damn. I, I, that was a great part one. I'm very excited to see kind of what the...


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[Assistant] The next part has for us, so.


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[Assistant] Oh no, please don't, don't, don't cause an accident.


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[Assistant] But I don't know why that just made me really s- that just really hit me.


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[Assistant] Akuma ties someone with a miraculous.


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[Assistant] While they're using the miraculous. I mean.


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[Assistant] Yeah, she needs a reality check. Like, don't get me wrong, there's a part of me that does feel some sympathy for Chloe, but like, I think it's the adult in me who's just like, come on now.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm, I'm intimidated and you know, I'm, I'm, I'm liking this Chloe. This is my favorite Chloe, one who just owns it. Absolutely owns it.


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[Assistant] Aww. Huh. What an interesting episode this was.


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[Assistant] Do you like him or are you just worried about him? Cause the way you hugged him, I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] You love booga? Aww, that's cool.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna talk about it all, I know I talked about some of this stuff in the middle half, but I'm just gonna like, say all my thoughts, so like, just hold on to me here.


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[Assistant] I'm very proud of Chloe for number one, giving the miraculous back in the end. I'm very, very proud of her for that fact.


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[Assistant] I love the fact that we do have confirmation now that a miraculous holder who is currently, you know,


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[Assistant] I like how Chloe got the miraculous. I'm really glad that she wasn't given.


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[Assistant] The miraculous, cause that seems very out of character for Marinette Ladybug.


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[Assistant] I just don't foresee any way she would do that. I- I like the fact that she went to Aaliyah again to give to Aaliyah. Granted, it makes sense. That's her BFF. But-


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[Assistant] I shall impress you mother! Like, oh my god, like girl, desperate. So desperate.


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[Assistant] But I get it, like, you wanna impress your mom and that moment where you see literally your like-


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[Assistant] I guess rival. Marinette's kinda her rival. Get acknowledgement that she has always wanted from her mother. Like yea, you're gonna be like hella jealous. You're gonna be so like what?


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[Assistant] Like no, I will do anything to get my mom's attention over Miss DuPageHead!


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[Assistant] So, I loved it. Loved it, loved it, loved it. I thought it was really cool. I like the fact that like,


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[Assistant] Gabriel kinda gave up too. I thought that was nice for him to go to the fashion show, actually, like, be there, hug his son, have that moment, and have that moment with Natalie. That was weird, right?


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[Assistant] Like, she seems to have maybe a little bit of a closer relationship than I once thought she might have with Gabriel.


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[Assistant] If you're, if you see your boss, you know, struggling and obviously she's been there and seems to have known Emily too. I, I just.


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[Assistant] Going up and like wrapping your arms around someone like that and like basically like holding them from the back. It's a very intimate pose. It's very intimate.


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[Assistant] Like, I'd sooner see her like put a hand on the shoulder and like kneel down to him and like look at him. Versus like a like, hold caress. It was interesting.


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[Assistant] So I'm thinking they, at least Natalie might have some more feelings besides a, uh, he's my boss type thing and like,


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[Assistant] Emily's my friend, so I care too. I think there might be a little bit more between her and Gabriel. It's probably very much one-sided, but...


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[Assistant] I think it might be something. I don't know. I don't know. I'm probably reading into things. But the way she laughed after she was like, I thought you gave it up.


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[Assistant] After she left, she like put herself against the door and she's like, ugh.


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[Assistant] Like I get it sucks doing this and it doesn't feel good to hurt and harm people, but I don't think that's what she's worried about. I think she was more so


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[Assistant] Maybe a little disappointed he's still trying to get Emily back? Maybe that's it?


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[Assistant] Uh, Chloe's mom and stuff, she's like, you're in the second row. You know? Like, she obviously will do anything for Gabriel. We saw that pretty-


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[Assistant] Clearly in this episode she'd do anything.


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[Assistant] Like, she was so rude for no reason, she just does it. She knows he's doing this and she doesn't stop him.


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[Assistant] So there's definitely more there and I'm curious to see what will transpire and I'm guessing she


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's all, it's all very, very interesting to me. Uh, the story they have crafted is certainly a unique one. Uhm, what else? Uh, I like that we


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[Assistant] Basically had to stop Chloe from causing mayhem. She was just like


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[Assistant] This town is boring. I'm gonna go do something and then, you know, almost kill like a bunch of people on a subway train. Like.


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[Assistant] So dumb. So dumb of her, but that's Chloe. That's, that's what I wanted. I wanted this. I wanted Chloe to go cause mayhem. I wanted her to like,


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[Assistant] Do her best, but of course her best is never correct in any way. She thinks she's doing something good, but it's always coded in a very bad thing. So I, I like it. Like she would go, Chloe's the type of person.


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[Assistant] Who would go buy up a whole grocery store? And then like...


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[Assistant] I'm selling food to you, like you should be grateful. It's like.


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[Assistant] Well, no, you're like charging a higher price for the grocery. You- This isn't helping anybody.


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[Assistant] Like, you're just harming us, cause, that was a bad example, but like, you know.


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[Assistant] She's the person who would take a child's lollipop and then like offer to sell it back to them.


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[Assistant] She'd be like, I gave it back to you and it's like, you made me pay for it. I don't know. I can't think of a better example, but you get what I'm trying to put down. Hopefully.


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[Assistant] Yes, so it was really cool to see a new Miraculous. We didn't really get to spend time with them sadly, which is a bit of a bummer.


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[Assistant] Simplicity of her costume too that it's just kinda yellow with like some like black stripes kinda included.


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[Assistant] Does it have the like, be, it kinda looked like it had like more designs on the yellow? I'd have to look at that. But it looked like there was some more like, intricate detailing with the yellow.


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[Assistant] So I gotta look at that. It looked like a honeycomb pattern maybe. I like it, I liked it, I liked it.


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[Assistant] And I like in the end that Marinette made a good choice and like went and helped Chloe. Do you think Chloe's gonna appreciate that? No, not at all. But I think it was really nice of Marinette.


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[Assistant] She didn't have to go do that, she could've just said no and left. But she actually went to clone, she's like, come with me, like.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna, I'm gonna do a good thing. So, very proud of Marinette. I know Marinette is not our perfect protagonist, but we wouldn't like a perfect protagonist. Now would we? No.


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[Assistant] So I definitely enjoy the fact that Marinette tries to do her best. I may get frustrated with her from time to time, but I appreciate the end of the day she does actually like try. Which is kind of refreshing. I...


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[Assistant] I'm starting to kinda get like curious and nervous because we don't have many episodes left of the season.


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[Assistant] I think we have a few more, like three or four or something, and then we have like


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[Assistant] Maybe not even that many. We have like two or three and then we have like the season finale which is like a two parter.


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[Assistant] I think it's called a hero's day or something. I might be wrong. Uh, I think it's that one though.


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[Assistant] It's combining. So yea, we don't have much left, so it's gonna be crazy! I'm really excited to see where this season will end and where


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[Assistant] We pick off in season 3 stuff, and I am aware we...