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[Assistant] We have two more asking a lot of questions. Deal with them quietly. I can't let anyone find out what we were doing there.


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[Assistant] Before you kill us, tell us why. Why is Taco Bell taking the records of women's vaginas in South Park?


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[Assistant] I'm picking up some hot readings on the ESRB. Tell us! What do women's vaginas and Doritos Locos Tacos have in common? ESRB is going crazy. Oh shit!


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[Assistant] We'll see if you're a real doctor. Give her an abortion. Do it!


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[Assistant] Where did you find the alien goo? Broken vials were in the trashcan, sir.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's just, it's just not working. Let's try that other outfit.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, tell you what, how about just no shirt at all? Let's try that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's gonna work better. Here we go. Oh, those pants don't work with the lighting.


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[Assistant] Could you roll up your pants or, you know what, just take, take the pants off too.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's good. Really nice. Yes, very nice. How about we lose the underwear?


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[Assistant] Wow, good job kid. You're quite the fighter. Alright, let's get this over with. Say cheese! Congrats kid, you have your first passport.


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[Assistant] We should have known Taco Bell is far too compassionate and caring to be so secretive. The quality of their character, like the quality of their food, should have never come into question.


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[Assistant] I didn't join the company for this. We've got our orders. Yea, but how come we always get the shit jobs? Go clean out the barracks. Go round up civilians in their homes. Go up a gay man's butthole and guard against intruders. Fuckin' sucks.


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[Assistant] Great job! You've disarmed the snook! South Park is saved!


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[Assistant] You don't remember, do you? How we tried to find you?


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[Assistant] Boys, what's going on here is much more complex than that. This isn't the first time a UFO has crashed to Earth. You see, in 1947, a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.


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[Assistant] Hang on a sec. A UFO crashed in Roswell and a new government agency was created to investigate the paranormal. Our agency.


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[Assistant] That is, until four years ago when we investigated a child.


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[Assistant] A child who had an unnatural power inside him. I had orders from the president to secure the child so that we could harness his powers before our enemies could. But he slipped through our hands.


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[Assistant] His farts? No! His amazing ability to make friends so quickly on any social network! Before he was five years old, he had 3.2 billion friends on Facebook alone!


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[Assistant] Time to stop resisting and use your gift for your country.


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[Assistant] Are we so different, you and I, Dovahkiin? You have to do what the government tells you to do, just like me. We're all just pawns in their game. I'll admit you are fascinating.


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[Assistant] You have more power than any child I've ever come across and yet all you seem to really care about is this. It must be very important. What does it do?


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[Assistant] Dovahkiin, why should we be on the opposite sides?


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[Assistant] Join me, Dovahkiin. Rule by my side. Rule. And you can have this all to yourself forever. I can offer you all! Just get me safely out of here! You can rule with this once again!


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[Assistant] An elven queen fell in love with the orc known as Dandar, the first one to possess the Stick of Truths. They loved in secret and had a child. A beautiful little girl.


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[Assistant] Because every time I show up and explain something, I earn a freckle.


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[Assistant] That's right, son. The dragonborn must have farted on a princess's balls.


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[Assistant] Defining the enemy now in this part of the campaign is a challenge.


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[Assistant] Uh, when you, when you conduct the decisive combat operations at the beginning of, uh, of the land attack,


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[Assistant] Uh, threats against the coalition, which are blended in.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, it's an open market. Uhm, so I put more blame on investors than on the banks that were selling them.


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[Assistant] For over 70 years, a commitment to playing it straight, getting it right. U.S. News and World Report. Trust Matters.


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[Assistant] No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world, and today we have a legendary Detroit hip-hop outfit, twisted in this bitch. How the fuck are you guys doing?


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[Assistant] But then also the other day I went to a concert and I saw multiple people with gigantic twisted fucking either back pieces or like massive chest tattoos. And that sort of like might've like reignited my curiosity. I was like, I'd like to have a conversation with those dudes at some point. That's awesome. Hey, shout out to whoever had those chest pieces.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it's a lot of truth to that. So talk about the scene in Detroit that you guys came up out of and do you think it was a particularly like inspired time? Because like in that, however many years span, you can point to a whole lot of legendary shit, both on underground level and people who broke out of that world. Right, right.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? But you guys are coming up out of the struggle, like was your upbringing like really, really rough or- and how do- how were you guys friends in the first place before rapping?


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[Assistant] And when you lose that, is when it becomes hard to keep like a team together, is when you lose that initial inertia of like, this isn't just a money making operation, this is a movement, this is about something important, and you, a lot of times, you know, you'll originally have that group of people who are fucking with it to the extent that they just want to be part of it, but then a lot of times,


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[Assistant] I just always found you guys interesting cause I remember when I realized that you guys had like videos where you'd be showing your actual face and then the face painted version, which is very different than ICP who were just like always painted pretty much. For sure. Yeah.


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[Assistant] When I think about onions, I think about eating a steak and there's a bunch of like, you know, just big chunks of onion and I'm like cutting off a piece of the steak and just jamming the big chunk of onion in like, that's the only thing that's entering my mouth besides the actual meat, but somehow that additional texture just really adds to it and you're gonna puke.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was crazy. You know, when you think about it, when you're growing up, you were fucking some whack ass chicks, you were smoking some really shitty weed, drinking nasty ass alcohol, everything was trash quality, but you didn't know, man. It was the best.


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[Assistant] When did you start to feel like you actually had made it in any sense? We still don't feel like that. I'll keep it real. Never felt financially comfortable enough to kind of feel like you had solidified yourself?


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[Assistant] What's your perspective always been on your fan base? Because it's like you guys have always been known as the second most...


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[Assistant] At certain points sort of appealed to that audience and it helped their career, but you guys were always like the second in command known as those dudes. So how did it feel to like one day just to like have that fan base be developing around like what you guys were doing?


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[Assistant] That is such a weird thing to think that a fan, like that fandom in some senses is so permanent and hardcore and in some senses is, is this supposed to be for me?


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[Assistant] You guys should be listening to this type of music because you fit into this demographic and you are this type and you know, they base it on the stuff that you already listened to. If you listen to a lot of Twisted, I could sit here and tell you 10 other groups that they're going to tell you to listen to, but then you might not find out that you actually like


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[Assistant] What uh, but so okay, like you guys, this is just the juggalo world had been such a huge part of you guys' identity for so long and then to actually just like take a stand, I don't know if people are even aware of like, I watched an interview you guys did with fucking rude Jude where you sort of outlined.


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[Assistant] Did you feel like they were still like people that you were comfortable?


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[Assistant] The thing that was the straw that broke the camel's back though was the fact that they were basically, you felt, representing the FBI claimed that Juggalos were a gang. Was that the thing?


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[Assistant] That was our fucking blood, bro. A lot of people just, you know, in the rap game, they start off as soldiers to a certain extent to a larger artist, but then a lot of people like are capable of dealing with that kind of role for a period of time and then they eventually get fed up with it and they can't handle it. You gotta stand out because you're like,


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[Assistant] 18 or 20 years or however long that you guys seemed like really, really loyal like soldiers to the movement.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like a lot of the fans, especially like the old time fans that just like have, that, that, that, you know, consider you guys to be such a big part of the label, like do you feel like it's been hard for them? Do you feel like you've lost fans because of it or?


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[Assistant] Bring out the Molly Water. Molly Water's got me going crazy too. Actually, it's just Starbucks, but still.


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[Assistant] Nah man. So yeah, how you guys feeling? What do we gotta look at? Well, I guess I was my, usually my last question is what do you guys have coming up? But we kind of already covered a large percentage of that.


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[Assistant] Who is the most mainstream artist that you guys ever worked with in any capacity? Have any like weird ones, like you just got a ludicrous verse one time?


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[Assistant] Ooh, you know who I like from Detroit is these dudes Drago and Beano.


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[Assistant] Alright, well hey, I appreciate Twisted for coming through and rocking with us, man. It was tight. No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world. Check us out on YouTube, Soundcloud, iTunes. Appreciate you guys.


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[Assistant] I know how it looks, but I had nothing to do with that.


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[Assistant] Look, I was just asking him about the girl, that's all. When I mentioned her being dead, he freaked out. I figured someone had told him. How was I supposed to know?


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[Assistant] You're looking for the woodsman, right? I know where he is. My guy says he's holed up at the trip trap. We can go over there right now. The both of us.


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[Assistant] Must have run out. Who hired you? I can't tell you that. It's confidential. Sorry. Sure you understand.


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[Assistant] Alright, I got a hundred bucks for the first bloke that can tell me something about a girl name.


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[Assistant] Not until we sat down in the general accounting office and sort of slowly stripped, uh, the layers of, uh, expenditures that were due but not really being recorded or declared.


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[Assistant] Not until that time did we realize that what we had, uh, was a very, very serious problem.


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[Assistant] Deficit for this year is gonna be double the one previously projected. In double digits, around 12.5%.


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[Assistant] I showed up and I had to tell them that the deficit was twice as big as the previous government had told them.


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[Assistant] It was clear to me from the reaction that, uh, we were unleashing a certain chain of events.


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[Assistant] It became apparent that Greece was not alone, that this was not just a Greek issue, that there were other countries that had similar problems. So what was originally perceived


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[Assistant] As an isolated problem quickly became a systemic problem for the rest of the Eurozone.


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[Assistant] It would take me hours to say all of their names.


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[Assistant] Omid, you can't be serious. I am. We are not doing that. Why not? Because.


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[Assistant] But I'm Krista. I don't wanna call her Krista. That's just confusing. So name her Genevieve. I don't care. How can you not care?


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[Assistant] You're not taking this seriously. I take everything seriously. Especially Little Omid's future. Keep talking, and you'll be sleeping in the rain tonight. Remember that time in Barstow?


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[Assistant] You're the one telling me to fucking shoot her. Everybody just calm down for a second. Clementine, you okay?


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[Assistant] I'm not going through this again.


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[Assistant] I'm Victor. Victor Belmont. Commander of the Brotherhood of Light. Protector of humanity.


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[Assistant] And the last of my illustrious bloodline.


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[Assistant] He sees the economy as a practical matter the way Wall Street sees the economy. And therefore, uh, Tim Geithner is going to reflect what Wall Street ultimately


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[Assistant] And therefore, uh, the taxpayers, we have in effect decided that we will not allow them to fail.


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[Assistant] Obama gets a real glimpse of the future.


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[Assistant] Paulson is out in public saying, it's all on you now. This was a one time only event. All right. You're on your own now. We did it with bear, but now you're on your own.


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[Assistant] Dick Fold is still believing in the orthodoxy, even though Paulson's saying publicly, you're on your own. He's like, what are you kidding?


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[Assistant] If there's trouble, the government's gonna come and take us. They're gonna come and do what we need to do.


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[Assistant] The world can't live without Lehman Brothers at the center of the financial system. It'll be a complete nightmare.


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[Assistant] He's saying, Barack, this is bad. Lehman could go down, but AIG is right behind it, as well as Merrill. He lays it out.


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[Assistant] McCain walks into the meeting with like a cue card with a couple things scribbled on it. Uh, Obama doesn't even wait for McCain to start. He just moves right in.


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[Assistant] McCain is fumbling with his cue cards. He doesn't even barely get started. Obama kind of patronizes him saying, I think Senator McCain has something to say. McCain just melts on the spot.


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[Assistant] Nobody understood how subprime mortgages had proliferated through these things called credit default swaps. And nobody understood how they'd kind of gotten into the blood of the financial system.


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[Assistant] They determine who the president of the New York Fed is. It's really the ultimate insider's institution.


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[Assistant] So what do you say? You think he had to go to LSU? Of course. Now, let me tell you this. Let's go play Matt real quick. Yeah. I realized that Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase was on his team. That's true. And they have better talent. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] Yes, man, I'm, I'm back. I come back, uh, for, for a little sinus or respiratory issues. And, and, and I come outside this south, south central California outside. What's up with all this noise?


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[Assistant] You know, that was what I was getting at, boo, as I cleared my throat.


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[Assistant] Are the Guardians wasting Great Year?


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[Assistant] Like, think about this. Like, you, I remember the days of Eric Wedge. Maniac.


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[Assistant] Like, you got a guy right now who is a Hall of Fame coach, he gets the most out of his players, and sometimes I look at him and say, listen, you guys are, are you really maximizing this dude's time with your organization? Because right now,


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[Assistant] You know, like you said, any time you get into your 60s, and we hope everything is fine, maybe it's just something minor, but any time you get up in age.


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[Assistant] Small things become big things, right? And so for me, I'm saying to myself like, hey, are the guardians realizing


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[Assistant] One day he's not going to be on the bench no more. Like sometimes I think they operate under this false sense of security where they feel like, oh Tito will be here all the time. Like Tito, like you could do certain things with Tito that you can't do with other people. Like if you, if you draft a kid and you borderline on them,


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[Assistant] You think Tito's gonna be able to, you know, play the Jedi mind tricks and get him to play the best he can play. That doesn't happen with everybody. Look around the league, bro.


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[Assistant] I remember when they didn't have this type of coach on the bench, and sometimes I wonder, will they look back at it and say, we should have done more to get a better roster, to give him a better chance to actually win a World Series. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Let me see if this is correct. I wasn't on air at the time that I could voice my opinion about this. Let me get this correct.


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[Assistant] They, did, was it, did the media people get mad at him for drinking beer with his players?


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[Assistant] Like pitchers, like pitchers when they're not pitching the ball have terrible accuracy sometimes.


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[Assistant] Okay, well I guess I was the closest. You are the realistic guy. Yea, you know. I mean, and this is crazy though.


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[Assistant] It's hard for me to tell, like, who's good at, like, pitching. I have to watch the game and see, because now, all of the records and the guys I grew up watching, those records are entertainable.


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[Assistant] I used to look at complete games, wins, strikeouts, ERA, and then I get up, I'm 40, I get up, he bulls like none of those count anymore.


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[Assistant] The rest is like, I mean, how could you ever contend for, like, the wins if you, like, got five, they'd get you five innings.


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[Assistant] Nah, nah, I ain't gon' say, what I am gon' say is I'm gon' uh, protract and give you the futures of this. I don't, I'm scared. I don't like, I do not like the fact that they all the same age and all of them is up here.


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[Assistant] My thing is, I get a little scared because I already heard in my head, well guys, you know, uhm, you know, the thing about who we are in our market and the way we're built is, you know, it's going to be unrealistic to be able to give all three of these young guys contracts.


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[Assistant] I like putting it out in the media first before we start getting these talking points. These young dudes, if they make the roster, everybody is making pennies on the dollar.


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[Assistant] You can go get me. You already got, you locked in Jimenez on a friendly deal low key. You got Ramirez on a friendly deal. On a beyond friendly deal.


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[Assistant] And how, and how much, see, cause I, I, I wanna piggyback your trade, and I wanna get something. Does Espino even have value? Not right now.


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[Assistant] Trevor Hoffman, I thought he had a record for a while.


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[Assistant] Let me play devil's advocate a little bit right here. Shoot, please. From a basketball perspective, there are only literally maybe


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[Assistant] You should look at Darius Garland, right? And you would, you should go down a list and say, okay, well, in what scenario for a one versus one, one to one, would you consider trading Darius Garland? Right. You said one for one? One for one. And if you, and if you get to a point where you get over 10 people,


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. Now, there's a couple of people, like you said, Yanis, and here's the thing, you're not gonna get, and so I've been looking at the salary, this little salary cap thing that they've been talking about.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I wanted to say the Sally crap was mythical in the NFL, but it's sure not mythical in the NBA. I've done some research and uhm, you gonna have about two ballplayers. That's all you got. This year they can get it all.


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[Assistant] So you got Darius Garland, right? So you got DG. How much is this contract? How much he gave?


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[Assistant] A all-star, very team-friendly, that's a very valuable contract.


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[Assistant] Now, if you think about it, you still gotta pay Mobley, right? How many years he got left on that contract? Four. Darius got four years? He just signed it last year.


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[Assistant] So, so you gotta think about it. That's worth more to people than you know. Like come on, like if you think about that, you're like wow.


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[Assistant] That's a, that's a very nice deal. Like you could get, you could get somebody back preferably that might even be better than Darius Scarlett.


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[Assistant] To me, to me, I think there, there is Garland.


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[Assistant] I don't know how you feel about this. There's Garland McNuggets. I feel it's like, just a little bit less.


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[Assistant] Nicer than Kyrie Irving. I agree.


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[Assistant] But he close as hell. I agree. He close. He don't have, he don't have the wow, but he's 40 beyond the three point arc. He's, he's getting you more assistant Kyrie gonna give you. He doesn't wow you with the dribbling. He can finish very well as two drop.


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[Assistant] Trey Young, but, Trey Young, Garland, that's a, that's a nice, that, hm, Trey Young. Who you taking between those two?


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[Assistant] Miles Bridges, I think that might be the outlandish thing. You gotta, when you take a word at the, when you look at these prognosticators, right, they try to give you these context clues, right? They do. Outlandish.


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[Assistant] That's like, yeaah. He didn't say blockbuster. He didn't say intriguing. He didn't say like this is a hot take. He said outlandish. Like so, if you looking at what Cleveland is at this point, with a lot of people, a lot of things around, think about it like this. Cleveland is a place where, you know, they got the Deshaun Watson thing.


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[Assistant] Like, they just took, they got Amani Bates, you know, now that happened two years ago.


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[Assistant] I can't, like, that's, y'all handle by the judicial system, sometimes y'all blow it out of proportion. It's already been dealt with. It's already been dealt with. What it did, was ugly, but it's been dealt with legally.


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[Assistant] But, he still owes some, ain't he, ain't he suspended for a couple games?


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[Assistant] So he is, if you haven't looked up, you can go look it up for yourself. It was domestic violence.


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[Assistant] So what you said, when he says Outlandish, that's what I think of. I think that the Cav are honestly looking at it. You look at Michael Jordan, he's no longer the owner, uh, not the majority owner.


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[Assistant] Uh, and ownership is going to come in. They want to put their stamp on the organization. Uh, at the end of the day, I think he may be a guy that they look at and say, no, we want him off the roster. We're not going to make that move or we want to move in another direction. And I think he's another person you can get on the cheap.


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[Assistant] In terms of trading, figuring out now if it's a Jared Allen for him, uhm,


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[Assistant] And by the way, by the way, McNuggets, he was seen with Darius Garland.


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[Assistant] Hey, hey, let me know in the chat. We gonna get, hey, hey, chat, you tell us, would you be willing to take on some, a guy like this? Cause at the end of the day,


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[Assistant] Listen, Sam Merrill sounds like a real estate agent.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to say I've been talking to a lot of people, but I've been watching these little posts and different things.


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[Assistant] I think people are now just coming around to the fact that just cause somebody tells you you're a unicorn does not mean that that helps you. Like Evan Mobley to me has not shown me any game outside of the paint.


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[Assistant] And he's doing all that at 62305. That man is a monster.


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[Assistant] Not even, not for another week. Hey, look, hey, we be hating on, listen, if he can get it together, I'm, I'm, I'm old enough to remember was the Juniors of Goss. His feet was bad for like 10 years and then his feet, like the same with him be, but, but I will say that man, uh, Mobley to me, I think he's still gonna be really good.


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[Assistant] But I just think I'm looking at a more of a, as a, as a center that can, you know, handle the ball a little bit more and do things like, but I don't, I don't see no nothing in this game that says he's KD or Wimby or none of that. We've come up with a lot of outlandish stuff. Yes, we have.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, let me get a chaser ready. Chaser? They smell like gin. I'm not a gin guy.


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[Assistant] Well guys, I brought you guys all here today as coaches. We really want to talk about the philosophy of what we're going to do offensively. Now.


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[Assistant] We've been saying a lot that we're going to throw the ball, uhm, we're going to throw the ball a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Uh, but one of the things that we have to watch for Dashaun is...


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[Assistant] We still haven't got him back to the way he was feeling when he was in Houston. I talked to him the other day. He's saying all the right things.


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[Assistant] But, it's all about the body language. It's all about, you know, getting him acclimated. So the first three, four games of the season,


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[Assistant] We gotta be, we gotta be locked in and we gotta have some easy wins for them. Easy passes, easy stuff so that we can open it up.


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[Assistant] I always envisioned us being a team that was going to spread people out.


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[Assistant] But the one thing that we gotta do, we gotta continue to not lose our identity as a running team.


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[Assistant] We need to really continue to work on getting Nick Chubb the football out of certain positions. And as Nick Chubb gets the football and they bring guys up, I think that's when Deshaun will have his best, you know, have his best, uh, you know, best game, best season. I think we start him off slow.


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[Assistant] But at the end of the season, if we can get his confidence rolling, uhm, he has his arm back, he has his legs underneath him, he's the healthiest I've seen. But as coaches, we have to fight the urge of just dropping him back 40, 50 times. Like, he can do that.


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[Assistant] I think if we start him off slow and get him to a place where we can, I think he can be, I think he may not have the numbers that he's going to have when he was in Houston, but I think he'll be way more efficient. And it's up to us to keep that thing rolling while he's getting excited. He's excited. He's chomping at the pit now. Now look.


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[Assistant] It could also roll off the, it could go off the wheels, because Deshaun also,


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[Assistant] He wants to make plays sometimes and he wants to show everybody that he's back. We have to, we have to keep that in tow. I think he ends up with a nice season and if, and if he plays and gets us.


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[Assistant] You know, he's efficient. Uhm, he's completing over 67, 68% of his passes. That's the number we're looking at. Not necessarily the yards. It's the efficiency and that'll play, that'll, that'll work as we get to the end of the season.


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[Assistant] Well, I think, Thomas, you know, as a player, you know, the game plan switches every week.


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[Assistant] Some weeks we throw it, some games we run it, but I think we gotta do, we gotta be good at either or. Okay. And do it in a good fashion.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know what, I like to play, I like to play sheet in front of my face. As soon as I have a role playing, like look, I like, you know, let me see, let me see this. Look, see, this is nice, man. We do that. I got a nice beard too. So that's all right. Uh.


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[Assistant] Uh listen, Paul is a savant. Like Paul is one of those guys that he has a calculator and he has an abacus in his back pocket. Now Andrew, Andrew is the sneaky guy. Andrew tries to act like he's not smart.


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[Assistant] Like, he's where he's from, that's not cool. Like, so Andrew's like, nah, he's the undercover guy. Listen, I used to get serious.


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[Assistant] I got C minuses at uh, at Yale, so you know, I'm the dumbest out of the three.


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[Assistant] I think Donovan, I like Donovan's game. I'm just not sure that Donovan is a, is a difference maker. Okay.


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[Assistant] They both got on my nerves a little bit. Uhm, but to save face, I had to stay with the quarterback because it was the quarterback. You know, it's just quarterback over receiver. Uh, but Baker didn't do any stuff. Baker D bag or not a D bag.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I'm definitely, uh, I'd say one word hell yeaah. That's two words I know. Uh, but at the time, we were looking at the organization, we were looking at what the pieces and parts we had. Frankly, we thought


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[Assistant] Evan Mobley was going to be on a certain track. We thought Evan's year two would start the show's outside game.


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[Assistant] That didn't happen. Then we always knew that Donovan was from Europe. We always knew he's going to throw out the first pitches and things like that.


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[Assistant] When we started, here's things, the little rumblings behind the scenes and Donovan does a great job of, of, you know, being a corporate role. His father is, is in sports, so he knows how to play it right. But, you know, when we got Donovan, our hopes was we were going to really elevate our play. We were really going to get


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[Assistant] At least to the Eastern Conference Finals with the team that we had.


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[Assistant] Jared Allen, uh, we found out wasn't that guy we needed him to be. Darius Garland, I'll give him credit. Darius, uh, he didn't take it hard. Darius had a really good season. Uhm, but what really hurt us was the fact that Donovan, to get Donovan, it took us three first round picks. A lot of those first round picks, people may say they're not going to help a good team now.


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[Assistant] However, it does help you get other guys in trades via trades.


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[Assistant] Free agency is hit or miss thing here in small, smaller markets. If you, you know.


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[Assistant] You got me up against it. I think it was a really great move in the beginning.


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[Assistant] But now that you look back at it and you look at what we gave up in, in...


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[Assistant] Lori Markkinen turned out to be a great player. We developed him here.


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[Assistant] Lori turned into somebody awesome. Uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] He averaged 24, but we didn't think he was going to be a difference maker. It turns out he's not a difference maker out there. Uh, Abadji's hit or miss, um, so he was part of the deal. But at the end of the day, if we had to go back and do it all over again, we could have did what we did this year, if we would have just kept the same, same team and let it grow. So I would say yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, no, no, I, I, actually, I like the name Lori. Like, I, you know, I thought, Lori, Lauren, I liked all the L's.


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[Assistant] Uh, listen, if, if, if it's a package deal with LeBron, listen, if I, we have to take, we'll, we'll sign LeBron's wife if he wants us to, his gardener, his, uh, his youngest daughter, his son, all of a package deal, come on back. I got what you need. Got what you need.


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[Assistant] Like, so I gotta at least build him back up and get some trade value for him. Now I said no sweeping. Like, I don't know what sweeping is, but I can say major. I didn't say when no major trades will be made or consequential trades. So I was just grandstanding. It is what it is. I gotta get value from these guys if you want me to make a deal.


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[Assistant] Hey man, yeah man, like, do you, like, if you going on dates, like, do you, like, is you really big on these dinosaurs, Miles? Like, is you, is you talking dinosaurs to the ladies?


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[Assistant] Because the chat was like ahh, this is long. They said it was good the first round, everybody had one, we should do truth serum one round, but it was funny.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this, cause I always, always thought about this in terms of like your life cycle. When you're a younger player, like,


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[Assistant] You know, you just worried about like, I don't know where my apartment is. How much money I'ma get paid? Do I have money? Do I need tickets? Like, do I need to, like, you know, things like that. Just everyday like, everyday little like living stuff, right?


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[Assistant] And like, you played on, on, on good teams where they had veterans and, and guys had Super Bowl aspirations on those, on those, you know, those rosters.


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[Assistant] When you were, like, how do, how do, how do veterans get young dudes who they know gon' have to contribute locked in?


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[Assistant] Playing with a sense of urgency when they got that whole career in front of them.


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[Assistant] They got everything in front of them. You trying to win?


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[Assistant] You're trying to get playing time. You want to be all pro. You might want to go to the club. You might want to, you might want some girls. You might like all these different things that are, that is a life cycle, but some players going to be at the end of that life cycle where they like, I didn't already got all this and I need you to locked in and had the same level of tomorrow ain't guaranteed.


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[Assistant] Type feeling. How do they get, how do they, how do they go about that in a lot?


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[Assistant] Cause like, you know, you see a lot of times like, wait, last year we watched, like they talked about it a hundred times about


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[Assistant] You know, the reason I ask that question is, see, like, you know, I'll be in the lab, I'll just be watching junkie, little football junkie stuff. Like, it'd be like,


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[Assistant] When you talk about like, guys like, you know, there's moving parts. You got Juan Thornhill. You had Grant Delphi, right?


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[Assistant] You got Newsome, you got Emerson, you got Ward. Like, these guys wanna be, you know, I remember Newsome saying a couple years ago when they was talking about going against the Cincinnati Bengals and how they felt like they had the number one secondary going against the number one, like, uh, you know, receiving corps. And so when you got like three new guys like that, it just,


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[Assistant] It, it, it reminds me, like, everybody don't be on that same type of time. Like, the Legion of Boom, you said, right?


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[Assistant] All of them, like with Cam Chancer, Brandon Browner, and, and, and guys like that, and obviously Richard Sherman, like, it seems like,


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[Assistant] They was like, they had a special thing where they was like, yeah, we all together. Like we, this is, we, we, not only our corners are in our safeties, but I see a lot of teams don't do it like that. Like, you know, they literally was like, no, we, Earl Little and them, they was like, yo, this is what it is.


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[Assistant] How do, how do they go about developing that or is it was just something like they was just like, cause usually you get a corner, I'm the best corner.


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[Assistant] Or do you get a safety? I'm the best. Say you don't get people saying this is the we got the best secondary or the no fly zone. Yeah, in Denver. How did


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[Assistant] He played on the Browns, so that's the only AFC North like he would have got, but now I don't think he played against no AFC North team. NFC man.


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[Assistant] Like, and to be truthful, like, you gotta actually, like, everybody can't make brownies. As a matter of fact, everybody should be bringing desserts. I'd rather you bring store bought than, like, have you, don't be trying your hand at stuff. Like, yeaah, I got these experimental brownies. No, we don't want your experimental brownies, Suzy.


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[Assistant] And I would tell my wife if those brownies were not good. These are not giveable brownies.


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[Assistant] Like finding, like viewing another man's work is kinda creepy though. Like, let me see what your work talk about. That's kinda us.


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[Assistant] You know, Mike, you know, we talk about it all the time, you know, when you're coming from an angle or perspective of being a referee.


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[Assistant] And that background, now an executive, still being an analyst with refereeing.


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[Assistant] How do you, how do you get a chance to enjoy the game? It would seem like you have a job to do and you would have to take like the names off the back of the jerseys and you just have to call balls and strikes. Has that ever been difficult for you to be able to be a big fan of the game and you kind of miss a little bit of it when you're still being a referee?


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[Assistant] And just a quick another thing. Uhm, I remember watching this a couple years ago. There was a strike with the referees. Can you kind of talk about


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[Assistant] You know, the plight of, of the referees and, and wages and, and cause, and to be truthful, they're a huge part of, of what the game is on the field.


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[Assistant] Uhm, have, have wages gone up? Have, have they been able to, uhm, you know, have more benefits? And now could you possibly be a full-time referee and earn enough living to take care of your family and don't have anything else?


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[Assistant] And, uh, we're at that crossroad. I got one that's, uh, 16, uh, about to go into college.


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[Assistant] Uh, no leading with your head. I mean, the game has changed quite a bit since when I played. I mean, after seeing some of the guys being, uh, kicked out of the game, especially in college on some of the questionable cause.


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[Assistant] Uh, I knew a lot of guys wouldn't play a lot of games because that's how they play.


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[Assistant] Well, I tell you, I was glad to see the rule and I was glad to see them ban the jersey. Uh, when you play in a game, come in a game and that's 30 seconds between play.


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[Assistant] Teams go out and they do scouting reports and they know pretty much, they know pretty much and down in situations, most likely when I'm going to get the ball, how often


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[Assistant] I'm confronted with what kind of adjustments they made.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I sit on the bench and the doctor come over and he, he says, how many fingers is that? And you get three chances to get it right. And then the big question was what day was it?


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[Assistant] Definitely. It'd be huge. It's unimaginable.


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[Assistant] How much celebrating we could do uh, if the Browns wanted up? Crazy, crazy.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, I think, um, third in terms of, uh, uh, yards from a line of scrimmage, fourth in terms of, uh, uh, running the ball, rushing the ball.


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[Assistant] Uh, his biggest gift is he has great vision.


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[Assistant] Oh, I have the same frustration that you have. I'm a running back, but I concentrate on backs and I see a lot of situations in games.


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[Assistant] Where there's a play that pretty much can win the game for you. And a lot of times it was running the football. Nick Chubb rushed for the yards he rushed and never got the opportunities that he should have gotten.


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[Assistant] To get the yards he got. He's a quiet guy, uh, don't have a lot to say.


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[Assistant] I can see that in the games and the, the, the Brown should see that too. We've almost lost games.


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[Assistant] And because they didn't have the death, it affected them more than it should have if they had had the death. So the grounds gotta stay healthy. And that's...


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[Assistant] Uh, Cleveland Browns again, I just alluded to how bad the weather gets here. That means that God don't want you to throw the football.


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[Assistant] And if that dictates some time, running the football rather than passing the football, then that's what we should do. We should never force passing the ball with a running back like we got.


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[Assistant] But uh, the smart teams will have a balanced.


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[Assistant] And I was neck to neck and neck with Jim going to the 18th hole. Now Jim did not know that everybody played on the golf course and there's one.


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[Assistant] Hold that. You just don't like, you just never do well and it just beats you up for me.


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[Assistant] Uh, 18 with that hole. So I'm neck and neck with Jim on 18.


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[Assistant] So Ben, uh, Jim gets out of his car. When he gets out of his car, he got jeans on, no socks.


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[Assistant] But, uh, yeaah, he's very competitive and he's a good golfer. He really is a good golfer. I, uh, I tell kids all the time,


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[Assistant] When, when you were real young, you don't know what's in your future. You try to do the right thing.


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[Assistant] The Browns play the Giants. Sometimes I see a highlight. They show it on TV and Jim Brown runs a sweet.


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[Assistant] So when this game is over, everybody is all fired up, want to be, uh, Jim Brown. And so we go out and play football.


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[Assistant] So it was so many of us, we decided to pull straws to see who was going to be Jim Brown. And one of my friends named Charles Law, uh, he got the, uh,


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[Assistant] He drops his shoulder, three of us hit him, we broke, we broke both of his, uh, legs and his arms.


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[Assistant] Paulson comes from the great breeds of masters of the universe that have come from Wall Street.


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[Assistant] America, you should be outraged about Washington is about to do. It is an unprecedented and an affordable and an acceptable expansion of federal power that our kids


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[Assistant] In the history of this country, but this is essentially Mr. Paulson's bill. To help his friends. And I can't buy it.


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[Assistant] But, you know, that's crazy because that was like one of his, his, uh, criticism. He could throw out.


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[Assistant] The attitude was to emphasize how good the economy was.


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[Assistant] How things were improving. We'd have different bullet points and things we'd emphasize in speeches and over time some of the bullet points stopped being irrelevant or they were actually bad signs so we took them off the list. So the list of good news kept dwindling down.


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[Assistant] John McCain gives some speech saying he's suspending his campaign and he's coming to Washington and he's calling a summit meeting and was going to solve all these problems for us. There was a very delicate negotiation going on and he was just throwing himself into the middle of it for no apparent reason.


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[Assistant] Obama took charge, had authority. John McCain had no plan, no strategy.


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[Assistant] It becomes a turning point because, uh, McCain started this. He suspended his campaign. Obama did not suspend his campaign. Uh, McCain promised some sort of dramatic action.


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[Assistant] Uh, he sent mixed signals and did not seem to have, uh, the authority that a commander in chief should have. And I don't think he ever really quite recovered from that.


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[Assistant] I was in Maryland's midtown facilities and I live in Westchester so I was trying to get out of the city early because the traffic's always bad on a Friday night. I went by myself.


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[Assistant] And for the most part, the CEOs of the large investment banks and commercial banks were all there by themselves.


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[Assistant] Had to find a solution for this. And this is the important part.


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[Assistant] The government was not going to provide any form of assistance.


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[Assistant] I got a phone call on Sunday from Secretary Paulson, and he basically said, Keanu, I need you to be in Washington Monday. And he said, I really can't tell you a lot about it. He said, be at the Treasury at three o'clock tomorrow. I said, well, what's the topic? You'll find out when you get there.


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[Assistant] This taxpayer money, the TARP money.


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[Assistant] We're all gonna do it for the good of the country, for the good of the system, and it's not really discretionary.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's kinda crazy to think that you, do you feel like you were sorta just pushed out into this crazy ass world that you maybe weren't necessarily 100% prepared for or in terms of just that stardom level and just being out there?


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[Assistant] So before that, it wasn't obvious that you were going to be part of ASAPMom?


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[Assistant] The people want that, especially the SGP. You mentioned SGP right away. People want to know about him too. People want to know about that whole breakup.


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[Assistant] How much are those worth? People tell me about people putting diamonds in their glasses lately.


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[Assistant] I like that for sure. I feel like the DMVs have a moment right now as well. It's kinda crazy.


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[Assistant] That's how I feel. A lot of times when I see shit that the fans send in and shit, it's like, damn, this is a not that bad Cardi rip-off. But at the end of the day, Cardi's already here. We already got a Cardi. We don't need another Cardi. So it's like, you're gonna have to differentiate yourself one way or another, bro.


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[Assistant] If you spit a crazy bar by accident on a feature, are you then gonna bring it back for your album or something?


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[Assistant] But you remember the masterpiece song where he said your mom's dogging and raping her. Saudi Arabia.


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[Assistant] No, that's a good one. That's some Harlem classic right there. Okay, so let's get the storyline fleshed out and shit in terms of how you became friends with Rocky Yams, how this whole, how you even became a part of a clique with all these dudes from Harlem and shit.


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[Assistant] How long was it between you getting out to New York and Rocky starting popping and everything just started going crazy?


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[Assistant] That was just a crazy, like, way for him to come out, because...


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[Assistant] I was really sad when uh, Tony Yeo put his project out and it didn't sell.


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[Assistant] That was the best. Did you have that relationship with G-Unit and Dipset and shit or what was the stuff that was blowing your mind as a kid?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I moved to New York when I was like 20, cause I was, I'm from like four hours away, like right outside Boston, you know?


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[Assistant] Did yams get into drinking a fucking shitload of lean and everything when he got money and got successful or was that always something that was part of his life?


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[Assistant] When you got somebody who's down to finance doing that much lean, all of a sudden she can get real crazy.


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[Assistant] I used to be out going, going crazy off just drinking shit loads of whiskey or Hennessy and then also doing Zans and then also doing Coke.


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[Assistant] And that was just, I could have been doing one, you know, probably would have been all right, but I was doing all of it together and it was just like, it wasn't sustainable, you know?


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[Assistant] Right. I mean, I used to, the first time I went to Coachella, I was off Hella Molly and Coke and shit.


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[Assistant] So what was your relationship like towards the time where he passed? Like from your perspective, was he not in a great space mentally or?


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[Assistant] He's the person that really made me realize that all you need to do is just do good shit.


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[Assistant] And that was the first time I really realized that like, you give people all this value and then all of a sudden it'll come back to you once you do have something that you want to push.


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[Assistant] That, that is my perspective, and it is weird to have the shit get bigger and bigger, so it's like if I interview somebody, I am putting them on a bigger pedestal, but then it's like there's more criticism for what I'm doing, even though


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[Assistant] You're the first ASAP member to ever be on this podcast unless you count Ian Conner or Tyler Grosso.


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[Assistant] Was there a lot of people who tried to sort of like get on board with the ASAP thing that maybe didn't have the best intentions but were trying to ride the wave?


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[Assistant] Everybody always wants to know what the level of, that you guys are still tight is. Like, what's your perspective on ASAP and in terms of like, it as an actual click, not just a-


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[Assistant] Yeah, what's the deal with Cozy Tapes 3? Some people thought it would never happen.


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[Assistant] There's nothing better than when motherfuckers do the Jada Kiss and Styles P thing and just rap back and forth and shit.


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[Assistant] I've had all kinds of threesomes that I don't remember. That's really unfortunate. That's the whole point is so that you can think about it in the future, right?


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[Assistant] There's a lot of crazy shit going on out there. Yeaah. Uhm, do you have any aspirations outside of music, shit that you've been working on, stuff?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't mean a lot of black atoms. I feel like it's like a distinctly white name.


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[Assistant] You ever go morbid, morbidly obese? What's that? Just like so fat they can barely walk.


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[Assistant] I got Selena Powell coming later today. Uh, I don't know why it is. Selena Powell, she like used to do academics and shit. DJ academics? Yea. He did a porn star? She's not a porn star, she's just a ratchet.


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[Assistant] Alright. Crazy. Hey man, I appreciate you coming in.


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[Assistant] Adam and Adam. You did. Easy. Alright, hey, no jumper, coolest podcast in the world. Check us out on YouTube, Soundcloud, iTunes. Gang shit. Gang.


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[Assistant] The fires are getting worse. The other girl's vanished.


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[Assistant] Maris, gather your belongings and go into hiding just as we've practiced. Do not return until I summon you.


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[Assistant] I cannot allow you to be captured or killed by the Empire. Now please, go to the graveyard and wait for my summons.


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[Assistant] No. She hasn't been corrupted. Not yet. She's just afraid.


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[Assistant] Vader's assassin, welcome to the ancient abyss. A place of sacrifice since time immemorial. Are you prepared to meet your fate?


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[Assistant] Poor boy. The Sith always betray one another. But I'm sure you'll learn that soon enough.


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[Assistant] You know something, you've been messing with Tan for way too long. You need to learn to quit.


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[Assistant] You will do me a favor. Augustin Dufour is a very secretive man. First find his plantation contact and give him this message from the gouverneur. Augustin will give you all the proof you need. Repeat this password.


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[Assistant] Now I suggest you leave before my admirers get suspicious.


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[Assistant] Mr. Adwele, then my own cause has made an ally of you. Augustine speaks highly of your help.


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[Assistant] Since you cannot provide me with the one thing I truly desire...


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[Assistant] Here they come. Join the line. Be careful.


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[Assistant] I keep my friends close and my enemies closer. Which camp are you in? Will you tell me what you have learned?


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[Assistant] The scientist, good day. What is his full purpose here? Can you find that out?


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[Assistant] That is what I thought. The storm brought you in, and you will leave on the tempest of opportunity and imagination. And I will be left here to do what I can. Powerless.


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[Assistant] At your signal, we will be ready to board.


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[Assistant] You will return to your Brotherhood of Assassins. And whatever duty they assign you.


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[Assistant] We were in competition with gangs, so we had to provide the same things that gangs did. Comradery, you know, an extended family, a safe haven.


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[Assistant] It's just a passion of mine. And, uh, when I saw the Browns were having a competition, I was like, well shit.


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[Assistant] And, uh, you know, so it wasn't necessarily that I had to research all these things, uh, it was just that, uhm, it was finding a way to put them in, into the logo.


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[Assistant] I grew up a really big ANM fan, so I actually was hype about Manziel and I was hype about Miles Garrett. So I'd consider myself a Browns fan kind of through them instead.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, you know, I'm gonna be following this year. Like, I'm following. I'm, I'm keeping my eye on them. Hoping they win some games, cause they got a damn good team. They got a damn good team. Uhm, and I know y'all have Jalen Darden, I think, as a reserve wide receiver. Uh, he went to UNT. Shout out to him in green.


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[Assistant] See, unlike an exchange traded market, where all the banks can see all the positions, there's no public market for these derivatives. You can't look in the newspaper and get a price for them. These are all private, off-exchange markets, and nobody else in the market knows what's going on.


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[Assistant] The spreads on derivatives are several times larger than on comparable cash securities, just as a general rule. And that's why the banks trade them. Cash securities being those that- Equities, bonds.


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[Assistant] The best reference that you could give is that if you look at say the spread that a bank might earn doing an IPO for Facebook.


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[Assistant] Let's say I have a pool of mortgages. So I have a thousand mortgages from California, and I want to package these up.


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[Assistant] But I decide, well, some of these mortgages may be subprime.


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[Assistant] And I want to buy a little bit of credit default insurance. And by doing that, you improve the profile. In theory, yes. Of your CDO. That's right. So that you can sell it better. I could go get a rating for it too. I could go to Moody's and say, look, I have laid off 2% of the risk on this portfolio. Shouldn't I get a better rating than if I just sold the pool? As it was.


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[Assistant] The city of London actually did yeoman service in creating some of the nastier structures. They did this offshore, these were not.


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[Assistant] SEC registered deals, these were all private placements, so they were going through the legal loopholes.


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[Assistant] Within a decade, you have the most phenomenal machine anybody's ever seen.


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[Assistant] They haven't reported this to anyone else. The other dealers have no idea what's going on.


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[Assistant] The banks turned this market into their own private game.


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[Assistant] The future of America's dominance as the financial center of the world is at stake.


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[Assistant] Oh, so you're in charge now?


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[Assistant] Made Shang Tsung look like a chump.


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[Assistant] Anybody get the number that... Wait, where's Sonya?


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[Assistant] It's not like that. I'm her C.O. Honey, like that under my command? You'll wanna stop talking now.


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[Assistant] Good. Maybe somebody else needs their ass whooped. Looking for something?


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[Assistant] IQB was very convinced that they were one of the strongest, uh, bank in that area. They were running around telling people how good they are in investing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely, otherwise, uh, we wouldn't have manufactured these products and sold it to them. So you were bullish on subprime mortgages in the U.S.


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[Assistant] We were bullish on the mortgage market in general and subprime, which was a element of it. We were not overly aggressive, but we were part of that market. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] Raiden, put forth a worthy champion, if you can.


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[Assistant] Sindel's ward prevents me from setting foot in Earthrealm.


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[Assistant] Have you considered why your wife and empress chose to betray you in this particular situation?


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[Assistant] Yep, that's meth. And your hypodermic needle that about punctured my arm fell out from your hat.


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[Assistant] What aphedrine does is basically shrink those blood vessels. There's less tissue swelling. And since your sinuses are a very small space, that shrinkage of the tissues, uhm, actually allows people to breathe better. Uhm, and they're able to carry on with their lives instead of feeling like they have a sock in their sinuses.


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[Assistant] It's a medication that in some people gives a little boost of energy. And so people see this as a way to A. Relieve symptoms and B. Maybe feel a little extra zip.


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[Assistant] You can see a meth user from a mile away once you've been working around meth addicts for eight years. Just like they can see the police, there's aura that's around us and they have their auras around them.


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[Assistant] This guy's been arrested for assault, stolen vehicle, meth, meth, weapons, forgery counterfeit, burglary, burglary again, burglary yet again, robbery, commercial robbery with a knife, shoplifting, burglary, motor vehicle theft, aggravated assault with a knife, burglary, burglary.


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[Assistant] You did what you had to. To protect Earthrealm. Losses in war.


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[Assistant] But he's not dead. And he has his entire family around him.


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[Assistant] We, uh, finished at the end of last year, like October.


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[Assistant] Find new things, and then I knew that David and Dan, our creators, were doing...


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[Assistant] And I thought, I suddenly got really emotional at the end and tried to head down the stairs and they all rushed up and trapped me and then they gave the speech, it was really moving.


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[Assistant] I did, I moved back to this small little northern town where I was raised and bought a


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[Assistant] Being Tom Hanks in Big, I felt like that. Like I was in my body, but I was...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I once took a boyfriend home when I was quite young.


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[Assistant] It was a documentary originally, a Channel 4 documentary about this incredible fighting family, wrestling family from Norwich and how they raised their kids to be these brilliant wrestlers and they pushed their children and Paige got into


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[Assistant] The WWE made history and they're just the most colourful bonkers, brilliant family.


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[Assistant] Hi Annie. Thought you guys were gunners. You find anything? Maybe some food or a gun? Found this out there.


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[Assistant] Hey, don't scare me like that. Rez not back yet.


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[Assistant] We should definitely do stuff, leave or something.


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[Assistant] He's supposed to meet me here, but he hasn't shown up. You think that loser outside chased him off?


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[Assistant] Your emperor, my father, he is indeed wise and fair.


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[Assistant] It is a direct extension of his will and the power of Rome.


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[Assistant] You and me in the cold Thought it'd never be true Wherever I go I got you


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[Assistant] Victor Industries welcomes the opportunity to field test the latest model of our security robots.


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[Assistant] When we go after the goblins, we'll face challenges far deadlier than those slow moving buckets of bolts. What exactly are you getting at, Victor?


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[Assistant] Well, I brought a few of my security robots with me. If Knack can get by those, then I'll grant he has a place in the expedition.


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[Assistant] What a wonderful demonstration, Doctor. Yes, Knack must join us in our expedition.


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[Assistant] We'll need to find another way in.


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[Assistant] What? It's time to wrap this up and go home.


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[Assistant] We're certainly not going to learn anything more by standing around up here.


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[Assistant] Time to get back to more important matters.


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[Assistant] Come pay me a visit at my home, doctor. Until then.


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[Assistant] Believe it, Katrina, he's quite dangerous. Victor!


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[Assistant] Why did you kidnap my assistant? Doctor, don't be so melodramatic. I merely took him for a ride in my flyer.


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[Assistant] I needed your full attention, and I didn't think I'd be getting it out there in the woods.


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[Assistant] I put in my time! If you care so much, why don't you track down the rest of the goblins yourself and finish them all?


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[Assistant] Point of fact, I've been working on something much more interesting. Take a look.


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[Assistant] A single relic weighing more than a ton. Such a thing should not be possible of course, yet here it is before you. Where did you find it? It? I have dozens like this.


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[Assistant] We are on the verge of the next step of human evolution.


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[Assistant] No getting huge and nasty. No smashing everything in sight.


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[Assistant] Take the fastest plane you've got. And go get them!


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[Assistant] So, you saw the motor. Impressive, isn't it? Yet, in another sense, it's simply a toy.


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[Assistant] Powerful as they are, there's only so much I can do with a few giant relics. But soon, I'll have unlimited numbers of them. Then you'll see what becomes possible. What? World conquest? Nothing so mundane, I assure you. But Doctor, why are you here? Could it be that you feel the pull as well?


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[Assistant] You should be back in the Goblin Village with Ryder right now, trying to figure out where all those weapons came from. Yet, instead, here you are. Breaking into other people's homes.


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[Assistant] Don't you ever talk-


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[Assistant] Well, this is unfortunate. I was hoping to finally get past this barrier. So, what happens now?


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[Assistant] I do hope you'll join me in trying to figure out how to get past this blasted door. But Nak, if you're not the key, then you're far too much trouble to keep around. Take him out!


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[Assistant] But there's only so much damage you can do to a couple of tons of metal and stone.


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[Assistant] What you need is a little help from the boys in research and development. Come with me. There's something I think you'll enjoy seeing.


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[Assistant] I just wish there was some way to get past that door.


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[Assistant] Katrina, when you proposed that we have the doctor find the key for us, I was more than a little skeptical. But now you say they've found a clue.


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[Assistant] Bugging the child's pendant was such a clever idea of yours, Katrina.


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[Assistant] If they all can't finish you off, then this will.


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[Assistant] This time, I want you to take no chances. First, get me the key. Then, destroy Knack.


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[Assistant] The key is coming with me. I leave Knack to you, Katrina.


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[Assistant] Katrina is dead as a result of your pathetic interference. And now it's your turn.


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[Assistant] If Katrina had perished in the achievement of our dream, then that would have been a beautiful thing. But she died for nothing! As you will now. Goodbye, Doctor.


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[Assistant] Almost there. We can check out the goblin fort from the top of that rise.


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[Assistant] The arcane energies of your chest orb can interact only with the hybridense material of the relics. The doctor says.


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[Assistant] See? Nothing happens. That one moved. It did? Okay.


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[Assistant] Isn't it incredible how much this season can change in just one month?


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[Assistant] In the end of October, this is how it looked like here.


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[Assistant] And now, as I sit here and edit this video in the end of November, this is how it looks like.


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[Assistant] So the winter has definitely arrived, and it's been a wonderful month with a beautiful transition from the autumn to winter. I've been out filming almost every day the past two weeks because of the singing ice and the beautiful winter landscapes.


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[Assistant] But before I show you more of this magical winter time that we are in right now, I want to share some moments from the end of October, when I finally met up with my beautiful friends that I first met on a meditation retreat back in June. Maybe you remember that from an earlier video.


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[Assistant] I don't know what happened, but after those days together I felt like they were my friends for life.


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[Assistant] We connected so deeply and we promised each other that we would meet again in October, even if we all lived very far away from each other. Most of them actually comes from Denmark.


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[Assistant] One thing that we all have in common is that we love to take cold swims. I think we spend more time in the water than on land during these days.


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[Assistant] Especially the Danes were really excited about the snow.


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[Assistant] It felt so wonderful to have them here and to show them my home and the places that I love.


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[Assistant] And of course we went down to the lake in the sauna and took midnight swims every night when they were here. That was magical.


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[Assistant] It's so strange, because I've always seen myself as someone who never likes to hang out with people for too long. After a day with social activities, I need at least a week alone to charge myself. Both me and Johan are the same in that way. We are introverts that prefers to be by ourselves.


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[Assistant] But these people, my soul friends as I call them, I could be with them for a month without feeling drained or the need to be alone. And Yuan felt the same.


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[Assistant] It's just a very new feeling to me. I'm so grateful that I get to have these amazing people as my friends. I know that we will be friends for life and meet up as often as we can.


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[Assistant] We can laugh and cry together and everything in between. And I just have so much fun with them. Being with these people is pure healing.


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[Assistant] And we found out something really crazy when they were here. This guy, Klas, he is my relative. Well, a long time back. We come from the same Finnish guy that built his home on this piece of land 400 years ago.


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[Assistant] So we both have our roots here, on this exact spot where I have my house. It was thanks to his grandmother that we found out about this. So Klas is actually my long lost brother. And aren't we a bit similar?


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[Assistant] They were only here for two days, but it felt like a week. We really took advantage of the time and filled our days and nights with so many beautiful experiences. I can't wait to see them again.


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[Assistant] The next morning, the snow melted away and created this magical mist all around the landscape. It felt like we went back from winter to autumn again, and that's very typical October.


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[Assistant] Me and Johan decided to keep taking cold swims every single day, because it made us feel so good.


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[Assistant] It didn't matter what weather it was, we took a swim every single day.


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[Assistant] And sometimes it was late in the evening in pitch black darkness.


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[Assistant] We took a swim for 23 days straight until the ice started to cover the lake.


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[Assistant] And as many of you know by now, I always get very busy when the ice begins to grow on the lake. It's one of my favorite times of the year.


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[Assistant] There's just so much beauty in the eyes. So many incredible patterns and beautiful blue colors. It feels like there's a masterpiece waiting to be seen in every step I take. And I could spend hours taking photos or filming the eyes.


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[Assistant] And then, something even more magical is the sounds that the ice creates. It's like an ancient spirit waking up from deep down in the lake.


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[Assistant] As always when the ice sings, I try to capture the sounds on my sound recorder so that I can make a new long ice sound video for you.


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[Assistant] But now the ice is so thick that we can't really break through it.


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[Assistant] Because uhm, I left some ice tools there, you know, I usually. Oh, thank you.


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[Assistant] I usually make a ice hole down by the sauna, so I have this ice saw and ice


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[Assistant] Here because we take a swim in the lake here just down by the house every morning. Or we have done it for a long time now. For almost a month.


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[Assistant] But now, yeah, as we said, the ice is getting so thick so we can't take an ice. So we're gonna bring the tools here and make a hole tomorrow in the ice and hopefully keep it open.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe not every morning, but once every week would be so super nice. We were actually supposed to be in Stockholm right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, you can't lock it. And it's not a door that are supposed to be out, you know. It's leaking in so much cold air.


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[Assistant] It's getting so cold in our house now again and we're fighting the cold every day and we've been waiting for this door now for a long time.


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[Assistant] But it was meant to be now because the carpenter is coming tomorrow to put in our door.


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[Assistant] Now that was a strange change in the weather. Now it's all wet on the ice.


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[Assistant] When you see the birch trees in their reflection in the water.


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[Assistant] It's so beautiful. Okay, let's get shit done.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it was harder than we thought because the ice is still so thin.


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[Assistant] Wow. Nice. So nice. So nice.


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[Assistant] Good morning! It's snowing a lot today.


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[Assistant] It's really beautiful. Big beautiful flakes. I'm walking down to the ice right now.


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[Assistant] The ice was singing really loud for about a week until the snow came and isolated the sounds. I had my sound recorders outside every night that week and I think I got the most beautiful ice sounds that I ever recorded before. So I will definitely make a new ice sound video for this year.


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[Assistant] This time of the year is also the most busy time when it comes to our jewelry and art business. But now when we have such a great setup and such a wonderful team helping us, it just feels so good and fun. It's like we have our own little Santa workshop.


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[Assistant] Me and Johan talk every day about how grateful we are that we have Adrian and Marie to help us with all the orders and customer service and so much other work behind the scenes of our webshop.


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[Assistant] It's been a huge challenge building up our little family business while having a high demand and still keep it local and personal without overworking ourselves. It took three years to come to this place where we feel balanced and at peace with our work.


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[Assistant] It has definitely been some years with a lot of hard work and many lessons learned along the way.


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[Assistant] And I am very grateful that things have worked out the way they did.


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[Assistant] I also want to take the opportunity to thank you for supporting our small business.


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[Assistant] After posting my last video where I showed you our newest jewelry designs, we sold them out really quick and we've had a really busy time here in the workshop the last weeks.


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[Assistant] I want you to know that our business is now giving jobs not only to me and Johan and some of my family members, but also to our friends Adrian and Marie and to three other silversmiths here in Sweden working for us. Isn't that incredible?


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[Assistant] In a place like this, getting a job is usually very hard. These small villages all around the north of Sweden is getting less and less people because of the lack of job opportunities.


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[Assistant] I feel so grateful and proud that it has become what it is. It is still a very small business, but in our eyes it's a big thing and it has made a huge difference for some people. So thank you from all of us for being here.


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[Assistant] Thank you for watching my videos, for showing interest in our jewelry and in my art and all the things we create.


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[Assistant] Just that you are here watching this video is supporting me more than you could ever know. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Good, good. All these boxes are gonna be sent today all over the world.


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[Assistant] So this video also became a really long one, but I actually had more that I wanted to share with you.


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[Assistant] But because of extreme cold weather for the last two weeks, I couldn't work as usual because of really cold degrees in her house.


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[Assistant] So the editing of this video became really delayed. Life in the north, you know?


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[Assistant] So I'm going to end this video now so that I can share it with you and then continue on the next video very soon. Thank you with all my heart for your beautiful comments and thank you for watching this video. Take care everyone, I see you soon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like an inside door.


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[Assistant] Moist or it's, it's not hard enough.


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[Assistant] Well, obviously you're not done taking me to task for how I handled things with Kathy, Kate, whatever her name is. So go ahead, go ahead, lay it on me and be on your way. The neighbors, I understand, have pork rinds.


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[Assistant] At post time, the odds board headed it around 50 to 1.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, if it won, I would win five thousand dollars.


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[Assistant] One public employee in Kentucky who wondered if his pension was okay was a history teacher at a local Louisville high school.


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[Assistant] I also met with some police, some active, some retired.


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[Assistant] It used to be that nearly half of all American workers had defined benefit pensions, a guarantee that you would get a good percentage of your salary and benefits upon retirement.


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[Assistant] Workers and their employers contributed funds that were then invested on Wall Street.


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[Assistant] Over the years, private corporations have largely stopped offering defined benefit pension plans. But most public employees still have them.


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[Assistant] And for many years, Kentucky Retirement Systems or KRS was flush with cash.


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[Assistant] But then, in 2000, the dot com bubble burst. KRS lost 1.2 billion dollars.


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[Assistant] One of the few local reporters paying attention was John Chiefs.


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[Assistant] Chiefs watched as one governor after another invested in roads, bridges, libraries, and more. Pension obligations were not met.


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[Assistant] David Sirota is a reporter, an opinion writer.


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[Assistant] By 2008, Kentucky's pension funds were in very bad shape. And things were about to get much worse.


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[Assistant] Nearly every sector of Kentucky's economy was affected.


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[Assistant] Starting in the fall of 2009, Kentucky's public pensions decided that to dig out from under, they would invest a portion of their portfolio in some of Wall Street's more exotic and risky investment vehicles like hedge funds.


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[Assistant] And Wall Street was more than happy to answer Kentucky's call.


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[Assistant] Some trustees have financial experience, but others are police and firefighters appointed to the board to represent their co-workers, often not trained in portfolio management.


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[Assistant] In 2008, only two members of the board had any investment management experience.


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[Assistant] And thus you're 60 billion dollars in the hole. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Among those police I spoke to, one had served two terms as a KRS trustee.


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[Assistant] And you were a trustee? Yes. Now in all due respect, you're a police officer. Are you in a position or equipped to...


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[Assistant] Be able to evaluate a complex financial instrument like a hedge fund.


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[Assistant] Even with the best information, it's hard to choose a winner. Think of that horse race with only 20 entries.


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[Assistant] In the world of high finance, there are 10,000 hedge funds. How do you know where to bet?


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[Assistant] One of the first ones KRS chose was called Aerohawk Durable Alpha. It had no track record and long odds.


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[Assistant] In 2009 when Aero Hawk was being considered the only person on the KRS board with much investment management experience was Chris Tobey. He thought it was a risky bet.


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[Assistant] Toby told me that KRS's chief investment officer, Adam Tosh, convinced the board to invest in Aerohawk, which resulted in a large fee from Aerohawk for Tosh's man, Glenn Surgeon. And how much money was he paid to bring in Aerohawk?


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[Assistant] But at the time of the vote, the board didn't know there was a placement agent operating in the background.


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[Assistant] Toby then hired Ted Seidel, a financial crimes investigator.


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[Assistant] They eventually filed a 32-page complaint to the SEC.


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[Assistant] The SEC and state auditors investigated and found no laws were broken.


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[Assistant] But the auditors did conclude that Tosh violated KRS's disclosure rules.


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[Assistant] After KRS invested $100 million, the fund failed and closed down.


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[Assistant] But another hedge fund investment involved the Camelot Group.


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[Assistant] Camelot had a manager who in a separate case was charged and pled guilty to personally pocketing over nine million dollars of investors' money.


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[Assistant] Despite this, KRS would continue to invest in more hedge funds.


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[Assistant] Ann Oldfather is a Louisville attorney who recently represented firefighters in a pension-related lawsuit.


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[Assistant] The winners were Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company or PAMCO, Prisma Capital Partners, and Blackstone Alternative Asset Management.


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[Assistant] Each offered KRS so-called funds of funds.


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[Assistant] Umbrella vehicles that contain dozens of underlying hedge funds.


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[Assistant] With multiple layers of often hidden fees, they are sometimes called black boxes.


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[Assistant] Today hedge funds are deemed by many investment professionals as inappropriate for public pensions because they are expensive and lack transparency.


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[Assistant] While hedge funds contributed only some of Kentucky's pension woes,


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[Assistant] Two class action litigators from San Diego, Bill and Michelle Laroque, sensed an opportunity here.


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[Assistant] As lead plaintiff, they tapped an old friend of Michelle the Rock's, Jeff Mayberry, a retired state trooper.


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[Assistant] In the spring of 2018, we attended a pretrial hearing in a courtroom in Frankfurt.


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[Assistant] Mayberry faced 31 defense attorneys representing KRS board members, their financial advisors, and the three hedge fund companies.


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[Assistant] But Oldfather argues that the hedge funds need to fully verify that KRS got all the money it should have received. That the funds didn't cheat KRS by charging hidden fees.


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[Assistant] In April 2019, an appellate court dismissed the lawsuit.


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[Assistant] The plaintiffs are now taking their case to the Kentucky Supreme Court.


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[Assistant] People in industry and on Wall Street think that what you're looking to do is to wear them down, get them to a settlement, and take the money. How do you respond to that?


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[Assistant] Every month, Kentucky Retirement Systems makes over 100,000 pension payments with the average retiree receiving around $1,500.


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[Assistant] The total outflow is nearly $2 billion a year.


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[Assistant] But by 2013, the KRS Board and Kentucky legislators worried that in the future, they would not have enough money to meet their obligations.


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[Assistant] Lawmakers decided it was time to make some drastic changes.


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[Assistant] Existing workers would keep their defined benefit pension


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[Assistant] But all new hires would be moved to a 401k style plan.


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[Assistant] Once in office, Bevin decided to stop shorting the pension system and to make what are called actuarially required contributions, or annual ARC payments.


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[Assistant] Under a proposal called Keeping the Promise, all newly hired teachers would be moved to a 401k.


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[Assistant] Existing teachers would also contribute a greater percentage of their salary to shore up the old system.


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[Assistant] Now, Trosper feared that lawmakers would come after her pension.


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[Assistant] And she's worried there will be less incentive for teachers to sign up.


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[Assistant] Knowing that they won't have a defined benefit pension plan and that she has young children and the quality of the teachers for them will be less.


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[Assistant] They'd like to have your hide. Some? Well, the teachers were out there chanting.


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[Assistant] By March 2018, the pension bill had stalled and time was running out.


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[Assistant] So with just a few days left in the legislative session, state Republicans try to last-minute maneuver.


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[Assistant] It became clear to everyone in the room that the Republican majority was not interested in hearing the Democrats' objections to the bill.


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[Assistant] The pensions of some other Kentucky state workers are facing insolvency in around three years.


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[Assistant] Teachers worry that when the time comes for them to retire, the state won't have the money to pay their pensions.


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[Assistant] The United States locks up more people than any other country in the world.


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[Assistant] We really have to look at a paradigm shift in this business of how we operate justice. Jail didn't work. Prison doesn't work.


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[Assistant] At any given time, we're detoxing up to 90 people. Residential detox beds are full. So more often than not, they come here to jail. How you guys doing?


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[Assistant] Carolyn, don't have room for you here. We're locking up people that we're pissed off at.


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[Assistant] We ought to be using this space for people that we're afraid of. Violent folks. People that are going to hurt me and you.


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[Assistant] We've, we've gone through just an explosion of jail and prison construction in this country, costing us billions and billions of dollars to build and billions and billions of dollars to operate.


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[Assistant] We are locking people up that don't need to be locked up.


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[Assistant] There was a huge downturn in the funding status because of that crisis. And you can't pay that back in five years.


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[Assistant] So the investment crews are feeling the pressure to get the returns up so that we're generating more money going into the system.


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[Assistant] Don't have that skill set. They're better at fighting fires than I am. They're better at catching criminals than I am.


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[Assistant] The campaign promise was if the pension system is bankrupt, then viable contract is moot.


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[Assistant] Because if you don't have those dollars to pay those benefits, then okay, you don't pay those benefits.


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[Assistant] All this fighting, violence, that does not solve the problem, babe, in life. It really doesn't. It makes it worse.


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[Assistant] A lot of kids I worked with over the years, they're dead or they're in prison doing a long time. When I say life, they're doing life. And that's not a good life.


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[Assistant] We need to segregate those individuals who are a threat to public safety. Those individuals that we're mad at, there may be a better way.