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[Assistant] Hey, let's get DeAndre here. Can we get a visit? How much do you wear? That phone ain't been ringing like that. And when it does not ring, players didn't say, they go to their agent and say, why is the phone ringing? We need to drum up something. You ain't got no teams that's interested. So you go to a team and it's like the Titans.


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[Assistant] And think about it like this. It seems like I'm going to Tennessee to drive the price up because Tennessee has one of the worst quarterback situations in the AFC of teams that are decent. Like, you got Tanner Hill, you don't know who to play with. I just don't know that they're decent anymore.


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[Assistant] I don't know. There's a, there's a happy medium out there. There's a nice number that says, hey, I'm getting a lot of money. Plus I got a chance to win. I think he's trying to get to that point. Get to that.


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[Assistant] And I always say this, money is such a cra-crazy thing. Uhm, one point in time, we didn't think we was getting Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] At one point in time, Deshaun Watson told the Browns, he physically called them, nah dawg, this is not gonna happen. And guess what?


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[Assistant] 24 hours later, he got signed. Funny how money worked. Now the Tennessee Titans come out and give him $5 million offer, and the Browns have more money to give?


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[Assistant] It might happen, and like, and I love what Jason said, the one thing. If Deshaun Watson...


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[Assistant] All hands on deck, I need to get this dude right now. They get him.


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[Assistant] Because guess what? He, he get, he, he, Jason said it, he the only person that's owned the books for 50 million. And if somebody for 50 million want to rental, they'll go, they'll find the money to get to rental. But he, but what he gonna say?


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[Assistant] What if, but I'm thinking, what if, what if, what if Deshaun Watson says look.


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[Assistant] I like D-Hop, that's my man. I can't, I can't say he lost a step. I can't just tell him, nah, we ain't going. He's like, yo, like if, if D-Hop is on the market and they ask him in a conversation, well, who are you going to look to? Who are you looking to if it's third down? Who was in your pecking order? He like, listen,


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[Assistant] Mark Cooper gonna get most of the targets. I like Elijah Moore. I want him in on third down all the time. He's throwing to these guys. Like, he may be telling them behind the scenes, like, look.


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[Assistant] I mean, I can't come out and say that that's my guy. I can't come out and say that I don't want him. What am I going to say the situation? But what we're going to do is we're just going to play the corporate role. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Well listen, my dream offense is I want to see some 10 personnel, uh, I want to see some 11 personnel.


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[Assistant] My dream scenario is coming out with, see my base formation would have three receivers in it and a tight end.


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[Assistant] And so that's what we come out in bass. Now out of that bass, I want Elijah Moore.


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[Assistant] I want him picking apart people trying to, you know, diagnose where the, where the defense is going. But more than that, I want to have him slip, shifting back into the backfield, maybe swing them out of the backfield, running wheel routes, making those guys adjust. But the great thing about it is I'm looking to not only pass out of that,


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[Assistant] That's going to be one of my power running formations because what you can do is now when you force somebody a nickel, now you can count the guys in the box. Now Nick Chubb has traditionally always gone against boxes where you got seven, eight, nine people in a box. If you come out with three right receiver sets in a tight end that can move vertically like David and Joe Coo.


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[Assistant] Now you have an opportunity where now you may only have four or five guys in a box. Now you can't count on somebody making a one-on-one tackle with Nick Chubb and he's gonna break at least one. So now you have to pick your poison.


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[Assistant] Either Deshaun Watson could throw the ball downfield vertically. He could pull the ball run. He could run some little quick orbit motion and swing passes with Goodwin. He could do that with Elijah Moore. Uhm, you could, you could find guys over the middle. And if you're using David and Joku on vertical routes and post and corner routes,


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[Assistant] I need the Travis Kelsey playbook. That's what I need. I don't need him running those sit-down routes, Bull, like you talked about. No four yard button hooks. That ain't what we looking for. And on top of it, now,


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[Assistant] That opens up everything on the outside. I think Donovan Peebles Jones will run more of the route tree. I just like the fact that vertical, vertical, vertical, if you can spread guys vertical, now you can run some of the underneath stuff. And for God's sakes, when I run, when I watch the four o'clock games,


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[Assistant] I see people wide open, Jason. Wide open, just running free.


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[Assistant] Just, just know, just know that they run so free. I feel like they ain't got no bills. They have no bills. All they bills is paid. Car payment is done. And there's grocery and refrigerators. That's how free they is. I need the Browns to be free like that. I like, I like three receiver sets. And by the way, I'm going to say this market down. Nick Chubb.


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[Assistant] It's too, you limit your possessions, right?


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[Assistant] And that works and that seems great, but what happens is you're counting on your defense, you know, stopping somebody if you limit their possessions. You know, Patrick Mahomes, yeah, you might not stop him on, you might, you may actually stop him the first couple snaps or the first public quarters or even a half.


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[Assistant] Is this a year, if the Browns are successful, and it jumps off with the fans, it jumps off with Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Could you, could you foresee this as something where for the first time Kevin Stefanski would be a coach that got the second contract?


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[Assistant] Well, technically Hugh did. It was a one year extension for Hugh. But do you think if Kevin Stefanski, they come out, they do great this year, you get to the second year, he gets the extension,


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[Assistant] Okay, the Browns are set up for now some sort of success because


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[Assistant] That's why it's a bold prediction. I hope you're right. I hope you're right. It's great for the franchise if you're right. If that aerial attack happens where the Cleveland Browns are, they step into this century and they vertical throw the ball, people will go crazy.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. If you come out of this thing three and one, four and oh, forget me shaking.


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[Assistant] Yes, it will. It'll be an island. It's just, listen, it's just three against the AFC North.


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[Assistant] Are you serious? Like people would go crazy. Like it would be the net. They delete every story. It'd be a national headline. What is the last time the Browns with three and oh in the division in AFC? North Reno to start the start the season last


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[Assistant] Oh, that's ugly. Oh boy. And he shoots with two hands.


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[Assistant] Why does he have high tops on? He has high top.


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[Assistant] David and Joku look like a creative player who just missed the green dot.


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[Assistant] I just downloaded, I just downloaded what you said. You said Luke Herringgody, bro. That, that's that Samardo Samuels and Christian Iyenga. Christian Iyenga.


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[Assistant] Do you think he plays at all this year? Yea. You think they'll put him on like some goal line package or something?


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[Assistant] Somebody, somebody hit me with a hot take. It was, it was kind of flaming at the time. He said, uh, Wyatt Taylor was a one hit wonder.


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[Assistant] He said, uh, that one year he had, 2020 was his best year. Uh, he was knocking everybody out, he said, but uh, I think he was a one hit, one


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[Assistant] You know Mandy, you mentioned uh, Will Brennan. That's where I was gonna go. We thought Oscar, Oscar Gonzalez was gonna take the next step and he might have had a, a uh, a season where he was, he's producing some power, doing some things at the plate. But since May 29th, Will Brennan has batted 560.


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[Assistant] He kinda, you know, is a guy who's getting hot right now. Uhm, are you surprised that Will Brennan is the guy in right field, or is the guy who's getting hot lately?


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[Assistant] It's bad for him. I said, are you, I keep asking, I said, y'all worried?


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[Assistant] I mean, but everybody, I mean, they come at you in waves, bro. Like, they got waves of guys with link.


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[Assistant] That can shoot, that can defend, athletic, and it's just...


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[Assistant] You know, and the pick that really gets me is, a lot of, shout out to the Nuggets for this. They, how many teams passed on Porter Jr. because of his back injury?


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[Assistant] Thirteen people passed on him. And that guy was the number one rated player coming out of high school. He was projected to be the first overall pick for years.


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[Assistant] And you look at what that does to them. It was a savvy pick up to get a guy like Aaron Gordon who had played basically in Orlando for no, for nothing for, you know, five, six, seven years.


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[Assistant] They get him, who he comes in, and he has, he's like the fourth or fifth best player on the team. He comes in, he gives you energy, athletic, but then you, you wave, and you, you mix in Porter Jr., uh, six, how tall is he, six, nine? Porter Jr.?


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[Assistant] Big Bird, he get more rebounds, he's bigger, he's the center.


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[Assistant] Who does everything. Dribbling the ball up the court. He does everything. Like just, no, like as a point guard, like I have, even at the Y, if you're the biggest person at the Y, there's always some small guy like, here, here. Right. And you're like, no, no, no. You're not faster than me or you can't jump higher and you really can't dribble. You just want the ball cause you're smaller than them. Right, right, that's right.


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[Assistant] Alright. Gee, what do you got? I got Nuggets, Gentleman's Sweep. Gentleman's Sweep. 4-1.


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[Assistant] Larry, Larry Bird is the first super, super star that people pass. Like, when LeBron was good, they was like, ah, he already got Larry Bird. Like, he's like the, he's like the gateway. Alright, let's go to Mike.


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[Assistant] But, but, but he's, but it's dedication. You can't have followers and don't be doing that. You be getting on planes. Like who gets on planes and be like, yeah, I'm going to interview somebody. Everybody's on zoom. That's the lazy stuff.


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[Assistant] And you like, you're up there like CNN, Fox, in your town hall, just giving them answers, that'd be great. I like that.


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[Assistant] Somebody asked me this, well people ask me this all the time, and I'm like, well I can't really give them an answer because everybody is different.


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[Assistant] When did you know, like, or when did you first start to know, like, ay, I can make a living doing this? Like, and, and if somebody wants to make a living doing videos and YouTube and social media, what, what advice would you give?


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[Assistant] And then walk away and then, and then the cool thing is that everybody has an entourage or a little mob that follows. Oh yea, you're right. And then a mob cleans them all the way up. They're like, how dare you say something


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[Assistant] They think it's easier than it is. Like, they think like, okay, you just got hot because you went viral, right?


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[Assistant] But here's the thing about going viral. Like you go viral once and then have nothing to talk about. You like, I don't have anything to say about that.


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[Assistant] To have like to build something around other different platforms and to talk about a bunch of different stuff and have people like you for your just commentary and stuff is extremely difficult. Like it's crazy. But a lot of people think that that he just sits in his basement and dribbling a basketball. So yeah, I want to ask you about


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. So like, is she like, so you do have a girlfriend, uhm, is she like, is she like down for the cause? Does she know you do really crazy shit and it just-


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[Assistant] Should we have a nuggets eating contest? That'd be fun. He has to eat nuggets like consistently the whole show for two hours. Yeah, just do it right. Like every two minutes. He doesn't want to do that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I buy, I buy you the nuggets. I'll sponsor the nuggets, right?


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[Assistant] This was no ordinary quake.


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[Assistant] Are you in it?


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[Assistant] I don't think they could say anything to fuck me up, but like, they're just, like, livestream chats are probably the cruelest things.


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[Assistant] So like, in one of my songs I go, uh, you know, call me Kodak, I'm a suburban dude.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't want to go into it, but not, not, not really, no.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't wanna like, you know. No, don't put it on blast.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, my, my parents are like video game designers. Uh, my mom, my mom worked at Activision.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I love Red Dead Redemption. I just started playing the second one.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, looking back, it's, it's not, you know, it's not the most like, rapper kind of look. Fuck it man, a views a view.


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[Assistant] That's exactly right, views of you. Uhm, but now, like, at the time, seeing that Ronaldo show up in the pack, there's nothing better than that.


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[Assistant] That is crazy unlikely, but like, on top of that, when you have a chance, like, when you're like...


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[Assistant] You know, doing it as a channel, it's not only like, oh, that's sick, but like, oh, this is about to get hella views, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, like my first first videos they were, I was like 9 and 10.


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[Assistant] And they were all like, me playing the piano, like singing like some Adele type shit.


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[Assistant] And so my first videos was just, uh, uh, they're pretty funny. I have some like, I still have them like, uh, unlisted or on private, but like, you know, it shouldn't be like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Alright, fuck it. If this, uh, no jumper interview, if this gets, uh, how many likes? 10,000 likes. Alright, 10,000 likes. I will, I will publish it tomorrow.


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[Assistant] They never even like put me into it or anything, like I just like, since I was like five and six, like I used to, I listened to like a lot of like rock and roll, like ACDC and like, you know, like, uh, the Donnas, I'm not sure if you remember. Oh, I do remember them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was like, I was really obsessed with them and I had a little like mini electric guitar in my first album.


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[Assistant] This is a little, you're getting a lot of exclusives here because this is actually my first interview too.


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[Assistant] But it was like me playing on this like big electric guitar, I was like tiny. Every time I strummed the guitar it would shake my body, my voice, it would sound, it was like uuuh.


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[Assistant] But it was, some of them were kind of bangers. So I was, yeaah, I was always making music.


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[Assistant] It's kind of scary, because middle school kids, they're the biggest assholes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so, you know, I was, I'm not gonna lie, I was afraid, you know, and a lot of songs are very vulnerable.


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[Assistant] So I was like, you know, I like, I like soccer, I like football.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm saying football instead of soccer because if there's British people watching, they're gonna...


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[Assistant] Exactly. But, uh, yeah, so, so I was like, I'll just do that instead because it's more safe, you know? Like if I'm playing FIFA and they can't even see my face.


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[Assistant] You know, like, who, who can, who can judge me? So it was sort of like a, it was like a shield. You know what I'm saying? But I was, I was still always making music even when I was doing all my FIFA stuff. Uhm, and then,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, like I, I just noticed that, I like, I just realized that I was like better at music than I was at FIFA. Right. And I was like, I just need to like share this shit, cause I'm, I was still like working so much, like. What kind of music?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think around like, uh, 5th grade, 4th, 5th grade, I started making a hip-hop turn. Like, I, I, I had watched all of these, like, uhm, I'm not sure if you know this, like, uh, the, the Key of Awesome. There's like parody channels and shit.


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[Assistant] They did like, back in the day they were really popular, like 2010 and shit. They did like these parodies of you know, like Eminem and like Kesha and shit like that.


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[Assistant] And so that, that's what I would, cause I just love like sort of that whole entertainment type shit, like I thought it was hilarious.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I would like do those parodies and no- like nobody had the heart to tell me that I was horrible.


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[Assistant] So, and that was probably the same with a lot of my, a lot of my musical endeavors in the past.


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[Assistant] People just didn't want to be an asshole and like ruin my dreams, so they allowed me to just be bad.


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[Assistant] I do, I, well I don't have my own but people have made some for me. Some of them are a little, are a little, are a little strange.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my first, yeah, my first songs ever, they were like, uh, little like parodies of like, you know, like Not Afraid. And I, like, I have some videos on my channel, like, looking at them. And, like, I think what attracted me to hip-hop so much, like,


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[Assistant] It's just like, I was so impressed by what people could do with, like, language and words, like,


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[Assistant] Singing songs, I never wrote a lyric, I just was all about the melody, I was all about the feeling.


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[Assistant] And then when I heard someone like Eminem or Nas or, you know, just like twisting all this shit up, I was like, damn, how the fuck do they do that? So making those parodies and like, and then later trying to make my own stuff.


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[Assistant] It was, it was sort of me like the, my initial stuff was just sort of figuring out like language in general. What rhymes with what? I remember my big revelation. I realized that I was like, what rhymes with hospital? And then, and then I was like, oh shit, you could say lost it all.


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[Assistant] And, you know, so it was, and I was maybe 10, so I wasn't trying to be anything, any lyrical, spiritual, miracle type shit.


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[Assistant] At that age, you know, like, I was always like, sort of like, an asshole, kind of like, you know, I was born in the wrong generation, kind of, kind of kid, like.


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[Assistant] But you know, now I love LMFAO, like those are some fucking classics.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I was just writing, writing little stuff, you know, uhm.


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[Assistant] It was nothing that, that incredible, but I, I feel like sort of what made me a little bit like interesting, sort of an interesting artist even back then, uhm, was like sort of combining my background and like playing the piano and being sort of just a,


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[Assistant] Like, more of like a traditional musician and putting that with hip hop lyrics and flows and, uh,


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[Assistant] All that, cause I just, you know, once I found hip hop, that was like pretty much all I listened to. You know, like.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh yeaah, going back to what we were talking about before, like the first people who were like, were inspiring me, I was, I was like a mortal technique.


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[Assistant] Exactly, like when, you know, when I was going through my, uh, whole like atheist, like, what, is God real? Like, I listened to that. Right, that realization.


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[Assistant] Yeah, when I, when I had that whole, like, I remember I watched, uh, the Ill Mind, I think it was like the set, Ill Mind 7, where he's in the desert. He's like, God, what the fuck, man? Like.


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[Assistant] Uh, I just remember, I was like, damn, he, he's like saying what I'm, what I'm thinking, so like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh, I don't wanna like offend anybody. I-I-I say I'm pretty much like agnostic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I remember like deism, it was like all the founding fathers, like nobody's actually a deist anymore.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I kinda fuck with it though, cause it's like, God made the world, or like, created the universe, and then sorta just was like, alright, do your thing. Right. You know, like, it's sorta like, there was some creator that just left the world to its own devices.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's always turned me off. But like, I'm not like a big, like, atheist, like,


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[Assistant] No, fuck you if you believe in God. Like, that's not...


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[Assistant] That's, you know, basically I'm just saying I have no idea.


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[Assistant] But I feel like Deism is a, is a fun, is a fun belief system.


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[Assistant] I, all I know about deism is what I've said so far, so if there's some fucking shit-


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[Assistant] Uhm, anybody's beliefs, just sorta like, being like, I have no fu-


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, it was a whole, uh, it was a nice community, you know, like, a lot of my-


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[Assistant] You know, middle school experience of just coming home, like basically, basically everybody in the FIFA soccer football world is like in the UK. So I still have a bunch of like homies.


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[Assistant] From that community who are, you know, now they're looking at my songs like, damn, we like, we believed in you all along.


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[Assistant] And it's still like a great community, you know?


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[Assistant] Some early success, you know, opening, opening my FIFA packs and whatnot. But it was nothing like...


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[Assistant] Like it's cool when you're in like middle school and shit, but, but.


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[Assistant] Uhm, looking back on it now, like, like, I'm, I'm glad that it happened. Like, I don't, I don't regret anything that's, that's happened, but like, I'm glad that I moved on.


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[Assistant] You know? And even when I was doing FIFA, it was still always music.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, I've done like a lot of like FIFA, like rap battles and shit. Sort of just, I knew that I wanted to transition to music, but I knew that I had to, I sort of have to.


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[Assistant] Feed my audience little bits and pieces, they'd be like, oh, he can actually, these are actually some bars, you know? And then...


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[Assistant] Maybe I'd upload an original song here and there and then sort of using that, uhm, to go over.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, and I'd done like little freestyles, like when I hit a hundred thousand subscribers I just did a-


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[Assistant] Set a camera up, put a microphone freestyle, and I remember that was, that was, like when people actually enjoyed that, I was, uh, it inspired me a lot to see that, oh,


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[Assistant] Uhm, when I actually did do something that I'm passionate about, that I work really hard on, people actually fuck with it more than something that I think can like game the YouTube algorithm. But going back to what you said about like,


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[Assistant] Learning how to get a million views, like, yeaah, I think my experience on that community and just doing it, cause I started maybe when I was 12.


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[Assistant] Do it and just not stop. Like, except that at the beginning, you're going to be bad. Like, there's nobody who's good in the beginning at anything. And like, you always feel like you're really good. Always, you know, cause that's sort of how you have to feel. You know, whether it be like music or YouTube or like probably any passion. But uhm, I think just doing it and just allowing yourself to get better.


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[Assistant] And not just saying fuck it when it doesn't work. Like, I, it took me maybe a year to get 400 subscribers and I was uploading like every day. And I was like, what the fuck, I should be bigger than this guy and that guy. And like, you know, I'm so glad that I didn't become successful at that time because I wouldn't have been ready. I wouldn't, like, I feel like when things happen, like,


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[Assistant] I don't want to, you know, get all, you know, manifestation and all this, you know, legendary interview, but like when I guess things they'll happen at the right time. Most of the time, like I feel like, um,


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[Assistant] If I were to have like this following or I'm not even that successful yet now or not, you know, or I don't even think I'm as good as I'm gonna be. Right.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think it's, you have to, you have to trust the process, you know? Uhm, so I think, you know, to all, everybody, uh, watching this, thinking of, of doing some shit, just start doing it, and just say, just say fuck it, and, and, and accept that you're gonna get better, cause if you do something for a year or two years, you can't, you're not gonna get worse.


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[Assistant] And especially with young kids on the internet, like I got on the internet when I was maybe like 8, just was watching YouTube videos.


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[Assistant] Like all the time, but there wasn't this huge, uh, like Instagram culture or like, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like, it's fucking people up because you, everybody's growing up where views and likes are validating your existence. Like even when I was like 8, I was on this website, it was called Fanpop.


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[Assistant] And it was basically just like Tumblr, a bunch of like raw XD type people on there, you know, and I, and I.


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[Assistant] When, and I was so obsessed with this website. The whole premise was you just go on things, you'd be a fan of things and you'd create quizzes and interact with people. I was so obsessed with just getting as many likes and followers on this. I would spend all day. I was like so obsessed. I had a fucking girlfriend on the fan pop website. I was like eight and I told her that I was 14.


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[Assistant] I was like, yeah, uh, I'm, I was so excited every day I would come home from school going, cause they had a little G chat type thing of going there. I was like, how are you doing? Beautiful and all this shit. And then I remember it was, I was so guilty cause I was like, oh, she thinks I'm 14. She thinks I'm like this cool guy.


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[Assistant] You know, even at like, but it goes back to like even at such a young age.


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[Assistant] On that website, I was just a fake person and I was still putting so much of my, like, self-worth into this stupid ass, like,


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[Assistant] Like I saw, I just like stumbled into porn accidentally when I was like 9.


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[Assistant] No, but, like, I remember, I was, I remember this, like, it was so clear in my head, like, I still have this memory, like, I was on YouTube watching, like, X Factor auditions, and YouTube was much less regulated at this time, and I remember there was a video, it was called, like, Two Girls No Talent. I was like, oh, that sounds exciting, Two Girls No Talent.


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[Assistant] Like, it's just gonna be, it was a picture of Simon Cowell, I was like, oh, Simon Cowell, he's gonna, you know, he's gonna roast these girls, it's gonna be hilarious. Uhm, and then I click on it and it's like,


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[Assistant] It was just like, what the fuck, you know what I'm saying? I'm nine years old. What am I supposed to do with that information?


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[Assistant] I think the, well, the first time I went viral with music, it was, uh, when I was in eighth grade, I performed at this talent show over the No Roll Models, J. Cole Instrumental.


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[Assistant] And I remember it, I think I was like 2 million views or 1.7 million now, but it was just sort of a freestyle. And that was, but that was one of the first times I was like, oh, people actually like when I'm doing just real music.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, I'd, and then I, you know, I started releasing, uh, uh, I was like, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna focus on releasing an album.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so I, freshman year of high school I released my, my album was called Work in Progress.


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[Assistant] It was just kind of a self-deprecating, is that the word?


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[Assistant] Yeah, self-deprecating title because I was like, okay, it's not that good.


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[Assistant] It's, you know, still a work in progress. But some of the songs are decent. I had this one song, uh, We Music Fire. Uh huh.


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[Assistant] And I remember I did that and I, and I, you know, I just rapped over, I made the beat myself, cause I always love making beats too, like doing, I still do, I'm still on my rest shit in my production, in my master. That's very valuable.


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[Assistant] Like, and then I, I, that, that just like blew up over time on Spotify. Like, I think I was like 3 form, or 3 mil right now.


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[Assistant] But I remember, uh, releasing that album. I just wanted one of the songs to get a thousand plays.


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[Assistant] And, you know, it just, it just kept going up and now I think it's at like 3 mil.


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[Assistant] It's a super weird place. Uhm, and like, even now it's, it's still, it's probably even more weird, but like back then it was just like, oh, he's just a kid making stuff. Like I wasn't, I wasn't terrible.


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[Assistant] I think it was, but there was still probably a lot of like, you know, talking behind my back, like, oh, that's that rapper, whatever. He's like, you know, I'm kind of like a weird kid.


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[Assistant] Being a white rapper, there's a double-edged sword. Yes, it is. Because, you know, people will be more intrigued by you.


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[Assistant] Like I've always, I would say like I'm more self-aware than I wish I was.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I guess the people in my school, like, they never...


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[Assistant] And it never feels like, oh, that guy's like...


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[Assistant] That guy's, like, famous or something, you know? It just is like, oh, that's, you know, that's Ben.


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[Assistant] You know? And I always find that weird when people are, like, trying to treat me like, oh, oh, he's so poppin' or whatever.


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[Assistant] I just don't, I just don't like it. And I think at the same time, it's, it's been good for me to have people who are around me who are just like gonna roast me just as if I'm like a regular person at school.


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[Assistant] Like, like, uh, you know, when I drop a song, like, like,


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[Assistant] They'll be like, oh, that's just trash or like, they may not be like that mean, but like, uh, like I'll never, I don't really have like all these yes men around me.


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[Assistant] I guess it's the kids in my grade, like the kids in the grades below. I think they think more of, they have more of like a, damn that's that guy.


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[Assistant] When you're with somebody for so long, it doesn't, like, it affects them the least.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, it's been good to have them around also cause like, I think I've really broadened my taste, like, just as a music listener, like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I went from like, you know, being all lyrical, like Playboi Carti's like probably one of my top three favorite rappers, you know, like, I think they've helped me broaden my taste, just seeing like, oh, why do they fuck with that? Oh, I guess, I guess I kind of fuck with that. Like sort of, sort of having that. And then, you know, uhm, but I don't know, it's just-


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[Assistant] I feel like pretty strongly that he is like a, I think, I think he is like a genius. But not, when I say that, people will pull up the lyrics and they'll be like, well, okay, she suck on my dick like a tick.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? But uhm, which is a bar.


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[Assistant] I mean, it may not be just him as a genius, but, but his music.


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[Assistant] Is, I sort of describe him as like the Jackson Pollock of hip-hop.


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[Assistant] You know, Jackson Paul, he just throws the paint and it comes out this sort of masterpiece that some people think is really fucking stupid and others are like, this is an amazing work of art. Like, the way that he-


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[Assistant] He works like so simplistically, like just with the ad-libs, just with the flows, and the production is fucking insane on his songs, the beats are amazing. Like, I think he's dope, and I think he's inspiring a lot, uh, in hip-hop, even though he's not profound or anything, but he,


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[Assistant] I think sonically and like production wise, he's kind of ex- he's pretty experimental.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I always find it really interesting, like, and I, and I didn't even like Die Lit when I first heard it that, that, that much. Like I was like, okay, I kind of, I fuck with Shuda and whatever, but I just, I keep listening to it. It's still really addicting to listen to. Right. So I, I always feel like the, the most, uh,


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[Assistant] Innovative shit is the shit that you hear at first and you're like, I shouldn't like this, but I do. As soon as you like-


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[Assistant] But I kind of want to keep listening to it. That's when I think it's, it's, it's something for the future.


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[Assistant] And I think just the fact that this becomes such a provocative, like, conversation starter.


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[Assistant] Like, there's something, like, in there. But I think you're totally right with the first impre- like, uh, one of the songs on my album I've- line is like, I hope your first imp- I hope my first impression wasn't the last.


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[Assistant] If people's first impression of me, like, I don't know, we can talk about the KSI.


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[Assistant] Insecure shit. Right. But like, I really hope that that wasn't their first impression. Like, I'm not sure if you've like listened to my new album or anything like I'm, but...


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[Assistant] Oh, so I was like a, like people, I don't know if they're going to try to use this against me, but I've said this many times, like I was a big fan of KSI back-


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[Assistant] Like, I don't know if I thought he was like really good or if I was just young.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Like, a lot of the whole like, rape face jokes, like,


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[Assistant] Like I don't know why, but that was like really acceptable back in like 2013. Yeah. But I don't know if it's- Different time. I think, I think, like he's made good videos in the past and I was like a big fan, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Like I never thought that he actually knew who I was, you know? Uhm, so I remember just that when, when he was on the podcast with some other people talking about me. I think that's another weird way my FIFA community


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[Assistant] Uh, beginning sort of was able to spiral into that huge thing. Like if I had never done FIFA, then he probably would have never known or people wouldn't have brought me up in that podcast. So just little tiny shit to think about like that.


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[Assistant] Exactly, but, uh, he was talking shit about, about me on the podcast. Like, I remember I'd, somebody was like, oh, he's talking, he's, uh,


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[Assistant] He's, he's talking about you on the podcast. I was so excited. I was like, oh, it's KSI. Like that, this is great.


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[Assistant] Somebody, they're talking about who are the best rappers on YouTube, and one of his friends is like, oh, uh, Kwadekka. And he's like, nah, bro, fuck that guy. That guy's fucking trash. All this shit. And at first, it actually hurt my feelings. I was like, damn, like, this is KSI. This guy has like 20 million followers. And he's like, oh, I'm trash. Like, it hurt my feelings. But then, the businessman in me, I was like,


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[Assistant] I wouldn't have dissed him, but he was telling so much shit about my, like, music, and like, with his perspective as an artist, like, it really hurt me too, because I hadn't, I had basically finished so much of my new album.


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[Assistant] Which I think is like, I really, I really hope that people will judge me based on that and not like, you know, a diss track or like some, you know, styles of rap.


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[Assistant] It sucks when you know that you're better than other people can see.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So I was like, damn, he's going to really go, go at me like this. Like I have to respond. And, uh, yeah, I remember, uh,


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[Assistant] Okay, this is an exclusive. It came out as a podcast, like five days before it came out as a YouTube video.


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[Assistant] Like how I'm going to approach this whole system, this whole thing. Like I was like, should I do a really lyrical da-da-da-da-da kind of track? You know, which I could do. Like should I do like some classic hip hop shit? Should I do some?


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[Assistant] But I was really like, precise with it. And I just spent the whole time planning. Then when the video came out, I had done a reaction like damn, it was all new.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? So it was just me, I was playing, I was playing the game.


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[Assistant] And I had, uh, and, uh, I was like, boom, I'll drop this shit in like two days. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Dropped it, uhm, and it just fucking bl- blew up.


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[Assistant] Uh, for like a sample on One of the Beasts, but luckily we got a good 20 mil views before that happened.


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[Assistant] I think it uh, I think it turned out pretty well, like it was during, remember when all the fires were in LA and like-


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[Assistant] Because I didn't know how big it was going to be at all. I thought maybe I'd get a million views, like that would be great for me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I remember I went out in the, in the smoke days, like with one of my homies, I was like, just stand here, take this camera and film it. It was totally just like, uhm.


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[Assistant] Like DIY kind of shit, like I was just in my, I remember I, after the podcast came out, I was like, okay, I'm just going to take the day off from school and just work on a song. Just worked on it for one day. So like all the shit about just making it in one, one day is true. But I was just sort of preparing how it would market it.


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[Assistant] I've spent, on some of my shit I spent a long time. You're new in the game. Yeah, I'm new in the game.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah. It sort of just depends. Like I have a bunch of like the shit that I'm doing. I'm doing a lot of shit with Sad Frosty. Oh nice. Which you'll hear is fucking, it's fucking fire. I think you'll fuck with it.


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[Assistant] But like when I'm doing shit like that, like hype shit, like my, or my song, like uh huh, I made that really fast. But if I'm doing the more like...


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[Assistant] And the stuff that I'm really trying to be precise with, they can take a lot longer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but uh, for yeah, but for that song, I remember I just was in the studio grinding the whole time and then we went out, filmed it, I edited it and then it just went fucking crazy. So.


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[Assistant] Like I never had a problem with him before, but after the podcast, I actually, like there was nothing like stage. I think people were like, oh, this is stage to like promote all their shit. I'd never spoken in my life, you know?


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[Assistant] But like I don't think it was that deep, like I think he was doing it on purpose, like talking all that shit, but which was weird because I was not that big, like.


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[Assistant] I think he maybe knew that if I did something it could become big because I was sort of getting a buzz around...


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[Assistant] That, like, I was, I dunno, maybe getting like 20-30k subs a month, so I was like doing pretty good.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause going back to the root of it, like coming out of the FIFA community.


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[Assistant] When I made my transition, I was like really embraced by the community, like my songs, like they would get a really, they would get, ugh, I can't fucking speak, they would get good like ratios, uhm, people would tweet out my songs like, damn, this guy's really good, and then when he would transition, people would sort of just laugh at it.


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[Assistant] It, it, the songs just didn't do well. So I think in that conversation when he saw that, oh, people were gonna like, say I'm the, like, I'm the best YouTube rapper and not him.


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[Assistant] Cause we'd both sort of come from that, that sort of same lane, but I was being more embraced with my music than him. But I think what he didn't realize is like, I'm like an actual musician.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I think he actually was, that's just, you know, I think he actually was insecure. And so, uhm.


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[Assistant] I like my song and all of everything I said in the song, like it wasn't just like, oh, I don't, oh, I'm really, I really love this guy, but like, I just want to say it for the views. Like I was actually like pissed.


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[Assistant] Like, I remember I was, I was like, god damn it. Like that's why I had to make the song so fast. I was like, I just can't let this slide.


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[Assistant] I feel you. That's what I feel with most of the cases, but this one I was like, I got it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I love turning like negative shit into, like, I, I got, this is, this is true though. Some people didn't think this is true, but like, I got a speeding ticket, uh, in like juvenile traffic court.


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[Assistant] And I was like, okay, fuck, you know, and he, this, this was one of those sort of like,


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[Assistant] I wanna teach the kids kind of people, you know?


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[Assistant] Like, uh, you know, one of those kinds of judge, judges. So, he was like, you know, what, what do you do?


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[Assistant] Trying to like, give me my punishment for speeding. And I was like, oh, I make music.


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[Assistant] He was like, alright, here's what you're gonna, what kind of music? I was like, eh, like hip-hop.


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[Assistant] Alright, here's what you're gonna do. You're gonna make a hip-hop song.


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[Assistant] About this speeding ticket, about what you're gonna do when you encounter a biker, cause I sped when I passed a biker.


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[Assistant] And so that was my thing. He's like, tell people what they need to do when they encounter a bike biker and what's the safe and legal way. He was like, make a song about that. So I was like, I was like, Oh my fucking God, this is stupid as shit.


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[Assistant] But, you know, people are probably like, okay, white privilege, you know, you get a speeding ticket and you're going to get out of it from making a fucking rap song. But nah, I'm telling you, it's just the...


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I did it and I made it, I made a video out of it because I was like, oh, rapping to get out of speeding ticket. That's fire. And then the video has like 1.7 million views.


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[Assistant] No, but it's true, and the judge, they sent me a thing back, like a couple months ago, cause they had taken some time to listen to it, make sure it was really a banger song, cause it is kind of a banger.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he was like, it said on the note, it was like, amazing song.


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[Assistant] Because it turned into like a banger video and a nice little thing.


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[Assistant] And I was so amped up that whole time. Cause you know, I'm just, I'm like a regular dude, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Uh, like, I'm not- Okay, now that sounds corny. No, I get it. That's how I feel too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I'm getting a thousand notifications a minute. Like I'm just going and I'm going to school the next day. Like, uh, you know, I play like high school soccer. Like I remember after this, like I would go to a game. There would be like.


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[Assistant] It was like such this huge thing. And like I'd had, you know, I'd sort of been like low-key kind of well-known, like, but this just...


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[Assistant] And so I was really like my, I had no appetite for like the whole, that whole time. Like I was just like, how, how am I going to use this to become, like use this to my advantage on my own terms? Cause that, that's something that I'm, that I, like when Logan Paul invited me on his podcast, like I, like I didn't, I didn't, I, I declined it because I was like, um, I,


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[Assistant] And this goes back to sort of me just being on YouTube and looking at people for so long, like how easy it is to die.


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[Assistant] Because you, you, I, I didn't want, I don't want my, some fucking diss track on KSI to be like this huge legacy. And then after it's done, it's like, alright, that's it. So.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I like, I didn't want to do another, that's the same reason I didn't want to do another Distract. I also just didn't feel like it was worth it, cause like, I didn't think his was that good. And I felt like I'd already, like, I'll take, I got the W and I'll, and I'll leave.


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[Assistant] I always want to like get to where I want to be on my own terms. So I was like, okay, I'm going to, I'm going to use this. I'm just going to be me. I'm going to upload what, what I would upload normally and make the same music that I would normally do. Just make it a little bit better. Uh, and just basically do as much as possible to show people what I can do.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't wanna fuckin' do some fuckin' YouTube diss track. Like, yeaah, I'm, I'm, I'm a YouTube person.


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[Assistant] Like, and if Logan Paul is watching, I'd be down to come do the show.


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[Assistant] And I wasn't like mean or anything, like, I think his podcast is actually really entertaining.


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[Assistant] But I guess that's sort of, I was, I was, I did a lot of thinking and a lot of, like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, reevaluating like my whole perspective on like clout and where, where I wanted to go. And I was like, I'm just gonna focus on this album.


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[Assistant] And just being myself, you know? So, and I think that actually really paid off, cause...


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[Assistant] Uhm, like my feedback from my album, I feel like it's been way- I feel like it's more overwhelming than even the diss track.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like no labels or anything hit me up for the YouTube diss track, but like,


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[Assistant] It was just totally organic. So I was like, this, it made me, I felt validated from my decision. I was like, I made the right decision to just focus on trying to make quality music.


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[Assistant] And not trying to, and just doing me, like, even, even in music for so long, like, I would try to do the fucking...


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[Assistant] Lyrical da ba da ba da ba da, da ba da ba da ba da, which, you know, is such like a white rapper.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of, like, I fuck with a lot of YouTube rappers, like, as like, uhm, and I think that they're doing a lot of good things, uhm.


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[Assistant] And a lot of skill, like, there's a reason that that is such a big following and, and it's very impressive. But, uhm,


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[Assistant] I, and I, and I still do that, you know, in my songs cause, but, but it's more just like, I want to make what I enjoy listening to, you know, and.


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[Assistant] I like, I like melodies, I like weird production. So I think even just sort of straying away from that and just making music that I think is just unique, you know? Uhm, and that, that's, that's really all I'm trying to do right now. Even my shit with Sad Frosty, like it's, it's, yo, I'm, this is a,


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[Assistant] Little promo right here, but it's gonna, it's gonna like, I think it's gonna surprise people, but in a different, in a totally different way, just because I fuck with that style of music.


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[Assistant] And, and just, I, I'm, you know, giving off a lot of like my personality in my songs.


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[Assistant] You know, you're going to say this is hypocritical, come from the styles of rap guy. But like, you know, those are just like YouTube, those are just YouTube videos for fun. But like, I feel like just trying to just show, give people something interesting, you know?


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[Assistant] Uh, where they can, even if they don't fuck with it, they can be like, well, I guess that's kinda, kinda different.


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[Assistant] And I'm still not all the way there, like I acknowledge I still have a lot of work to do, but I think that's what I'm focusing on.


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[Assistant] I've just had like pretty surface level phone calls with some of them.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a fun, it's good to flex like being like, I'm independent, I got no manager, I have all the shit. Uhm, which is like fun, but at the same time there's a ceiling to that. Uhm, or, you know.


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[Assistant] Like I don't have all the, like I could maybe find all the connections on my own.


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[Assistant] Doing, you know, Spotify placements and all the, all these, all those little like,


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[Assistant] Industry Givens, like, oh, you'll be on the front page of iTunes, you know, New Music Friday, all that kind of shit, like, that I just don't, like,


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[Assistant] That's just not something that, that I've really been a part of, which I guess is kind of fun because I can be like, yeah, I don't even need that shit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. And that's something I'm, um, oh, like I'm, like, I feel like I'm very conscious of, of who...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think sometimes people give too much credit to like their childhood dreams.


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[Assistant] Having a dream, you know, but everybody, they always hold that to themselves, uhm.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so I always, yeaah, sometimes I think about that, uhm, but I'll always just, you know, it's all about the music before the money. A lot of the shit I've probably been saying sounds pretty corny and pretty like, you know, wishy washy and shit, but that's really how I feel though.


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[Assistant] I sort of like a model of like growth and success, like I'm very inspired by Russ, but in terms of like his attitude, I-


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[Assistant] Like, I think that's some, that's what sort of turned me off on him, is the sort of like, uhm, like there's a lot of like preachiness, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, with the whole, like, don't drink lean and all this shit. Like, like, I mean...


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[Assistant] Like I get it, like with Russ, I totally get it, but there's just some, some shit I'm just, and, and when he would go on the, on interviews and be like, no, what other rapper has sold more tickets than me?


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[Assistant] Like, I think he has, he has a great build up to like, be, be such like an honorable, like, inspirational artist. But just in sort of the way that he's sort of approached it as in like a fuck you attitude.


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[Assistant] Like, and I think he's a talented dude, but I think he got too, like, self-absorbed in his, like,


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[Assistant] Uh, like anti-industry, like, I'm better than everybody.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I think he's a good dude and a talented guy for sure. Like, being able to, like, do everything yourself even though it's a meme, like, it's very, that's very impressive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, I think it's good that he's sort of having like a, sort of re-evaluating like,


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[Assistant] Social media and his sort of perspective, I think it's gonna help him in the long run. And I think that-


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[Assistant] The, like when he does come back, like I think the internet should give him a second chance.


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[Assistant] Fuck her mind, man. Like, like, what girl wants, like, uh, chocolate and flowers? Like, I'm trying to elevate her to new mental wavelengths, dog. Like, that shit is just like, come on, Russ, like, I'm rooting for you, man.


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[Assistant] I just started working on my new project. I don't know what it is, what it's called at all. I'm going to start doing a bunch of shows. I got one in Palo Alto on Friday, so if you're in the Bay Area, come through.


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[Assistant] You know, it should be, like I'm trying to do some interesting, interesting things.


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[Assistant] I have no idea, but it's a pretty small venue, I don't think there will be that many people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll see, but uh, yeah, and then my shit with Sad Frosty. I'm telling you, that, like,


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[Assistant] And Sadfrost, he is some, I'm gonna hype up his project too, cause he, he's a talented dude, like I know that some of his new shit, it will surprise people. And the shit that we've got together is, is pretty fucking, pretty fucking hard.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's, and the article 13 just passed. You see that?


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[Assistant] Like how the fuck, like if you have two seconds of a song, they get 100% of the money.


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[Assistant] Like on my, uh, the style, I did one, on my Styles of Rapplin', I got like 10 million views. Like guess how much money I made off that.


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[Assistant] A two second insta- it was for sipping tea in your hood.


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[Assistant] The instrumental. Just the instrumental for two seconds, and it fucking, they got all of the money.


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[Assistant] You know, Spotify, because at least they won't demonetize you on Spotify, unless you're R. Kelly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, uh, once I get my PR person, they'll probably tell me to say different things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, but it's actually like, I feel like he...


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[Assistant] Was such like, he was like, I don't know, 15, 16 when he got his charge. And he couldn't fight it because he was so, he was, he didn't have any money.


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[Assistant] It was sorta like, this is what I'm saying, like the same people who would go and say like, the justice system in the US is so corrupt, they like, fuck over minorities and poor people who aren't, that don't give them the resources to fight a case.


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[Assistant] And so they just accept plea deals. That's exactly what happened to 6ix9ine, but because he's like, the rainbow-haired...


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was like a, he was, you know, at like a party. There was some girl, he was like in the background of a video.


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[Assistant] Maybe I've just been played by, cause he seems like such a nice guy in his interviews. Maybe I've just been played.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but then the shit that he's gone to jail for now is like, come on bro, like be smarter.


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[Assistant] He should have, he should have not done that. But, uh, yeah, I, like, uh, god, now, now I'm gonna sound like such an idiot, but, uh. No, no.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess that's, you know, the whole cancel culture shit, it's like...


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[Assistant] It's, you never know who's telling the truth, who's lying. It's all court of public opinion.


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[Assistant] As Charla, I always like the Charlamagne quote. He's like, why don't, why would you believe the truth and the lies more entertaining?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember I watched one of his videos, like it was like an abduction, I think it was in blackface, did an abduction of some girl. I was so freaked out by that video. I was like, damn, is this what people are, people are going to do when I'm, are they going to abduct me?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, but yeah, that shit, the memes were fucking hilarious. Oh yeah, it was too good. Because, you know, the internet, they got so many great cat memes.


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[Assistant] They, they, they, I love, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I don't love cancel culture, but sometimes the memes that come out of, of it can be entertaining.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, check out, uh, Quodak on YouTube, but before you do that, I would say if you're into music, I would say listen to my, uh, album, my new album, Voice Memos on Spotify. I think that, that's a better introduction.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I think that's all I'm gonna say. I'm gonna be working on a lot of...


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[Assistant] Exciting shit to come, uhm, doing some shows. I'm about to graduate high school, which is exciting.


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[Assistant] You know, I just did from my, from my, I skipped my Bible class.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's a, it is a lime crush. I spent $24 to buy this shit, so.


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[Assistant] It was a really beautiful evening in June, as I packed my car to go on a little photo road trip to the mountains in the north.


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[Assistant] I was so excited to finally go on this journey. And I had no real plans on where exactly I was gonna go and how long I was gonna stay. And that's exactly the kind of journey that I love to do. Just the total freedom.


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[Assistant] But yea, if you're gonna be away for many days and only live in the car, this is how it's gonna look like. And also my camera equipment takes up a lot of space. And of course clothes for all different kinds of weather. Because in the mountains it can be super cold or super warm. So.


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[Assistant] So I said bye to my lovely family, and then I was on my way.


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[Assistant] I do these kinds of road trips at least a couple of times every year, usually to work on some photo or film projects. And I always feel such an intense happiness. I think it's because of the freedom and of stepping out into the unknown. Seeing new places and having no daily routines, no schedules and no plans.


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[Assistant] I know nothing about what these days will bring me, and I love that feeling.


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[Assistant] Just me, my car and my camera equipment and the beautiful nature.


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[Assistant] I just stopped here to take a little break because I'm hungry. I need to find something to eat. Here I have all my food.


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[Assistant] Early in the day, like maybe at 12 in the day or something. But the packing took so much more time than I thought. So I didn't start until...


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[Assistant] Take a road trip on these light nights because it makes it so much easier to drive.


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[Assistant] I'm a night driver. I love to drive in the nights, and that's because in the days when I drive I get really tired. I get super sleepy when I drive far on the days. The daylight makes me tired, but this light, this soft light like this, it just...


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[Assistant] It just gives me energy in some way. So actually it was a perfect timing to start so late because, I mean, it's so beautiful outside. I, I just, the journey to the mountains is just as beautiful as, you know, the goal to come to the mountains. Alright, I gotta keep moving.


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[Assistant] I drove through the night with the company of the bright northern sky and the midnight sun rising up above the trees.


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[Assistant] And I had no hurry. I took plenty of time to stay here and there on different beautiful places. And early in the morning there were lots of wild animals on the roads, so I wanted to drive slowly.


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[Assistant] Even though I drove for many hours, I felt as if I was just flying through the night. It was so beautiful.


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[Assistant] It's now two in the night and I have been driving 250 kilometers. And I have many more kilometers to go. But I am enjoying the night.


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[Assistant] I'm having the time of my life. The roads are completely empty. That's why I always love to drive to the mountains and to the north. In the north of Sweden there is not much people living and there is not much traffic. And the further you come north, the less traffic it is.


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[Assistant] And I just love it so much. I mean, I feel like the queen on the roads. And I have my coffee here and I'm listening to the radio. And in Sweden, we have a radio program that's called Vaken, which means awake.


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[Assistant] It's like a night radio. So they send light the whole night and I love listening to that because it just gives me such a cozy feeling and yeaah, it feels like you have company of some sort. Alright, my loves. I'm gonna continue driving. I see you soon. Mwah.


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[Assistant] My first goal on this road trip was to reach a place called Stora Sjöfallet. It's a national park here in Sweden, about 600 kilometers from where I live.


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[Assistant] And I've been there many times the last couple of years. So I continue to drive the whole night and eat breakfast by a lake close to Jokkmokk, which is a beautiful town pretty close to Stora Sjöfallet.


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[Assistant] It felt really good to take a long break in the sun before I continued to drive the last hours.


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[Assistant] It's eight in the morning now, and I have been driving all night, non-stop. I have to admit that I'm quite tired in my head right now.


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[Assistant] Close by to my first destination that I wanna go to. I believe I have at least...


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[Assistant] 100 kilometers left to drive to get to the mountains, but I found this beautiful place here by a beautiful river and I really need to get some sleep. So I thought this would be a perfect spot to take a few hours of sleep. It's just so beautiful here.


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[Assistant] I spent the day hiking around in the beautiful mountain area. I really love the views from this place.


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[Assistant] I also did some research on beautiful spots where I would go back in the night to do some photography. As always, I combine these road trips with work. I always have some kind of photo or film project that I'm working on. And this time my goal was to take a beautiful header photo for my new website with the mountains in the background.


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[Assistant] As the late evening came, I was so ready for a night outside in the mountains. And I knew exactly where I wanted to go to do the photography.


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[Assistant] But unfortunately, a storm came in for a couple of hours with really hard wind and lots of rain, so I had to stay in the car.


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[Assistant] But later in the night, the sky finally opened up a bit, so I could go out and do some photography. But the wind was still really really strong, so I had a bit of a struggle to take the photos as I wanted.


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[Assistant] The wind was now much colder, which made this photo session even harder. But I really tried my best.


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[Assistant] Always when I'm out filming and taking photos, I always hope that nobody sees me. Because the behind the scenes of my filming or photos always look so strange compared to the result.


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[Assistant] After maybe 50 times of running back and forth through the camera, I was too cold to continue, and I think I got a photo that was at least as close as I could get to what I wanted in this stormy night.


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[Assistant] Now I'm back in the car. You know what I would like to have?


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[Assistant] I feel a little bit down right now because I was hoping for more this night. I really wanted to be out all night and you know, take photos and be filming.


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[Assistant] But the wind was too strong. I can really enjoy strong winds sometimes, but in some way I, I feel like I lose my senses when


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[Assistant] I feel like I lose the feeling in a way because I can't smell anything anymore because the wind has taken away all the smell and I can't hear anything, you can't hear any birds, you can't...


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[Assistant] You know it's, I feel less creative when it's very windy. I can really love to, you know, stand in the wind and feel the power of the wind.


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[Assistant] But when it comes to, you know, doing something.


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[Assistant] So it's only 3 o'clock now in the night. It feels like I'm going to bed too early tonight because I'm used to going to bed, you know, in the morning like 7 or 8 or something.


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[Assistant] It's like a weird state of being when your body is asleep but your mind is still awake.


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[Assistant] And it's something that I've had since I was 16 years old. It comes now and then. And when it happens, you can't move. So you are totally awake, but you can't move.


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[Assistant] And if I don't move quickly, then I will be paralysed and...


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[Assistant] I can be paralyzed for several minutes before I can move. You have to, you know, give all you can to be able to move so you can come out of it.


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[Assistant] And another creepy thing that happens when you come into sleeping paralysis is that it's like you enter another dimension, at least that's how I would explain it because


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[Assistant] You, you are here, but you suddenly hear other things and if you open your eyes you might see things and I don't want to open my eyes when I'm in a sleeping paralysis.


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[Assistant] I know this sounds so strange for a lot of people who are listening now, uh, but it's, uh, it's something that I'm really used to. I have had it for so many years and when you have a sleeping paralysis it can be both super, super scary.


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[Assistant] And it can also be like coming to heaven. It all depends on what kind of presence are there when it happens, because it's always some kind of presence around you, you're always here.


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[Assistant] Someone that are talking to you or someone that are walking around you or there's always someone or, or other.


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[Assistant] Beings around you. One thing I really like about it though is that


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[Assistant] I feel like I should have done an own video about this subject. I've been thinking about it so many times since I haven't told you about these experiences. I think it deserves an own video if you guys are interested in knowing. But if you have never heard about it before and want to know more, you can definitely just


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[Assistant] Check on YouTube or whatever. There's lots of information about this nowadays. When I was 16 years old and this happened to me for the first time, I was so scared and...


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[Assistant] There was not a lot of information that you could found on the internet that you can today. I was feeling so lost. But yeah, this night was really weird because I had


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[Assistant] You know, very heavy sleeping paralysis. And when I finally came out of one and I just lay down to sleep again,


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[Assistant] I really tried everything I could to get out of this weird feeling of this vibration in my body that I'm, that I told you about. It's like I can feel in my body when, when it's gonna happen. So after a while I just, you know,


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[Assistant] But of course, it just looks like I'm sleeping because I'm paralyzed. I can't do anything. But yeaah, now it's morning and I'm finally not paralyzed anymore.


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[Assistant] After having my morning coffee, I decided to change my plans for the road trip. My first plan was to continue further north.


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[Assistant] But mostly because of the very stormy weather that would be up in the north for many days ahead.


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[Assistant] I instead decided to go to a cabin which is in another part of the mountains, much more closer to where we live.


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[Assistant] A part of me wished I would have gone there in the beginning instead, but still I was very happy to come to this place at least for a day.


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[Assistant] So I called Johan and asked if he wanted to go to the cabin with me for a few days. In that way I could continue my adventures and photo projects in the mountains, but combine it with having a little mini vacation with Johan and also having the comfort of sleeping in a cabin.


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[Assistant] It really felt like the right decision to do. So I was gonna drive back home again to pick up Yoann and then go to our cabin.


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[Assistant] And we are ready to leave to our cabin in the mountains.


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[Assistant] This is the main special management unit. It's a segregation unit for the state prison.


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[Assistant] And what we have here is we have the prisoners who are down here to do segregation time for disciplinary reasons.


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[Assistant] The other thing that they do from time to time is they will self-injure themselves. They can bang their heads, punch the doors with their fists and break their hands. They can resort to razor blades that they find and they will cut themselves.


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[Assistant] Attempted to look through the tray slot to see if I could get a visual on him and he's got it covered with a mattress.


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[Assistant] So my only other hope before I have to extract him and bring him out of there since he refuses to talk to me or cough up is that I can see him through the back of the window.


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[Assistant] I think I will never ever find the right words to describe how much I love June.


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[Assistant] And for every year, I fall more and more in love with this time. If that's even possible.


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[Assistant] June is like a silent explosion of life. It's so still, quiet and peaceful in some way. But yet it's bursting out its beauty in all different forms.


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[Assistant] Everything is so full of life. The flowers are blooming and the never-ending days and the midnight sun is bringing a very special, mystical feeling into the nights.


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[Assistant] June was the most wonderful month, with sun every single day. So we spent a lot of time outside, working with stuff in our garden and just taking advantage of the beautiful weather in every way we could.


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[Assistant] Today it's the potato day. It's time to put the potatoes in the earth.


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[Assistant] Despite the mosquitoes, both days and nights were so wonderful and I cannot even remember where we had such a warm June the last time.


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[Assistant] And I've never been swimming as much as I did in June. We went down to the lake at least a couple of times every day.


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[Assistant] It just felt like the most beautiful summer in a long time. Like one of these dream summers that you only see in movies.


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[Assistant] But after a winter that felt very draining in many ways, I really needed this.


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[Assistant] Here in Sweden, we are very thankful for the few sunny and warm days that we get in the summers. It's not very common that we get to experience a summer like this. So, I am very thankful for all the sunny days. I really felt how it nurtured my soul and boosted me with new energy.


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[Assistant] That came to the house when we bought it. And I also showed you that we have a boat here, but it's not our boat. It's another owner. It just have been here for a couple of years. But actually, just like five minutes ago, we bought a boat!


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[Assistant] When the boat finally was clean we decided to try it out right away and go for a little trip on the lake.


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[Assistant] And, I don't know, it was just something about this evening that felt very special to me. It will definitely be one of all these moments that I will love to think about as the dark winter has arrived. Something that will bring warmth and joy to my heart.


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[Assistant] We took the boat to the other side of the lake and explored a little beach where we could get a beautiful view of the sunset.


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[Assistant] It's ten in the evening now. It's hard to believe when it's still so bright and the sun is still shining.


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[Assistant] It's a strange feeling to wake up every single day and know that it's gonna be beautiful weather. It's just nothing that we're used to here. But the whole month of June was just like that. Amazing.


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[Assistant] And a few days later, we also met up with Johan's parents. They live in a city about one and a half hour from here. And it was really good to see them again.


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[Assistant] As you already might know, because of the situation in the world right now, it's not as easy to meet up with all your loved ones in the same way as usual. So we have not met all our families this summer as much as we want to. But these warm and sunny days makes it easier to hang out with family and friends, and I'm really thankful for that.


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[Assistant] And it felt like Christmas meeting them, since they brought us so many beautiful homemade gifts. His dad had made a wooden counter to have outside when working with plants or even preparing food from our garden. Like a little outside kitchen. It was just perfect for our garden and it looked so beautiful.


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[Assistant] And his mom had crocheted this beautiful shawl in my favorite colors. It reminded me of the mountains.


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[Assistant] I almost wanted the weather to be a little colder again, so I could use it immediately.


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[Assistant] And we also got lots of plants and vegetables for our kitchen garden. Zucchini, cucumber and many different kinds of cabbage.


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[Assistant] So our garden really became complete now, and it's gonna be really interesting to see how it all grows now during the summer.


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[Assistant] A long time. And I was just so happy that it finally rained because when it has been raining, you can get these beautiful foggy evenings. Well, it's not any fog or maybe you say mist. It's not any mist now, but...


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[Assistant] It's just something beautiful when it has been raining and everything, you know, comes to life again and...


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[Assistant] I just really wish I felt the same for them as they feel for me, you know?


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[Assistant] It's so funny because in my last videos, uhm, I think in my past two vlogs I have had mosquitoes in my face at some point. And there has been a lot of comments from people asking


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[Assistant] Why I don't use mosquito repellent. And I am using mosquito repellent, believe me or not.


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[Assistant] And then I have this little machine. Or, it's, uhm, the smell of this is not super good. I actually borrowed it from my parents.


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[Assistant] It's some kind of gas, eh, it's eh, you turn it on and it's like a little lighter, so it's like a little fire inside here, I think. I think this is some kind of gas or a smell that mosquitoes don't like. So, just to answer the questions to why I don't use mosquito repellent. I do.


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[Assistant] I use mosquito repellent and I don't know if I would have survived without them.


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[Assistant] You can definitely feel the difference just a couple of minutes after you've been spraying yourself with them. I guess there has to be some kind of balance. Wouldn't it be unfair if I had all this beauty and no mosquitoes? That would be like too good to be true.


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[Assistant] So I just felt like having a little talk with you before I end the vlog.


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[Assistant] When I was talking about where I buy my clothes, I just want to tell you something funny about those scenes. I had got that idea for a long time that I wanted to do something like that, changing clothes, like, it looks like magic in a way. So my first idea was that I wanted to


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[Assistant] And that's because I did these turnarounds all the time. And I'm usually very sensitive when it comes to...


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[Assistant] You know, turning around or, you know, doing things that makes you dizzy. I very quickly feel like I have to throw up.


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[Assistant] So I just sat there on the floor, realizing that I can't do this, you know, turn around. I really wanted so bad because it would look so cool, but yeaah, I had to admit that I couldn't.


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[Assistant] So I just put down the camera and was gonna start over again. But the problem was that...


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[Assistant] And then I was just stuck in the sofa for the rest of the evening. And I felt so bad.


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[Assistant] It took me three whole days to get fully recovered after that.


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[Assistant] But yeah, I don't really know what happened. Why I felt so sick after that. So four days later I tried again, but then I just did the jumping scenes. And it turned out okay. And I'm really, really glad that you liked it.


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[Assistant] I just needed to switch the memory card. And there was another thing that happened during this Q&A video. I actually felt like maybe I shouldn't do this Q&A video because everything is just going wrong. Mosquito break.


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[Assistant] Which I didn't notice until after. And I had been sitting on my phone, which had probably been against a little stone.


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[Assistant] So the screen on my phone was completely crushed. So I ended up having to buy a new phone. And I was not planning to buy a new phone. But changing the screen would just cost too much for the old phone that I had.


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[Assistant] The strange thing is that the day before my phone broke, I said out loud to Johan that


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[Assistant] I really wish I had a new phone that had better cameras. And the universe was like, hell yeah, you need a new phone. I'm gonna make sure your fat ass gonna sit on it for


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[Assistant] An hour, so it breaks. So you have to go and buy a new one.


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[Assistant] I'm just so happy to be here right now. So it's midsummer in two days now, on June 19th.


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[Assistant] So now it's only two days until midsummer. Or actually only one day now, because it's past midnight. So I don't know if you celebrate midsummer or not, but no matter what, I really hope you will have a beautiful weekend. And I hope you're all fine. That you're having a beautiful June. And, uh,


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[Assistant] Bye bye. So, as you might have noticed, I recorded these scenes a couple of weeks ago, and my plan was to upload this video much earlier.


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[Assistant] But midsummer came, and after that I went on a road trip to the mountains. And I didn't have time to edit it before I left. So that's why it took some time for this video to come up. In my next video I will share everything about a road trip.


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[Assistant] So instead, I will end this video with some scenes from our midsummer celebration. And again, thank you for watching this video. You are the best. And I see you soon.


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[Assistant] Well, right now we have an inmate that's covered his window. We can't see in. He's actually plugged his toilet, flooded the toilet out, pushed feces out the cell doors. Uh, he's covered our back window, so we can't look into the back window and see him either. So we have some concerns for what he's doing in the cell for his own safety.


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[Assistant] Wooden Perry. Right now he is doing everything we ask for him to do. He comes out and cleans. He doesn't give my staff a hard time. He does group. I don't have any problems with him.


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[Assistant] It made it very difficult with the number of inmates in the pod for us to secure that scene, also protect the inmates that were involved in the incident.


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[Assistant] And putting those types of personalities all in one area, it can be extremely challenging to manage. It can be extremely challenging to do it in a safe manner as well.


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[Assistant] We locked the unit down, we searched everybody. During that search process we discovered six inmates that had tattoos DM on them, which meant deadly mines.


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[Assistant] So we have to say he's definitely influencing younger prisoners to be involved in the gang and to assault other inmates.


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[Assistant] And it had to do with, it said something like, uh,


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[Assistant] The McNuggets are made from a processed, uhm, chicken product, I guess, that's actually pink and it-


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[Assistant] Alright then gang, so now we're briefly seeing how the life cycle of a service worker takes shape.


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[Assistant] We've seen the registration, the installation and the activation as well, but we've not actually done anything with our service worker yet. It's just kind of sitting here listening to these different events and that's not very good, but don't worry. We will come back to this later. I just wanted to show you how to get a service worker up and running to begin with, which now we have done.


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[Assistant] Now, before we go any further, I want to bring you back to the overall goal that we've got here. We're trying to make a PWA, a progressive web app, right? And service workers are just one part of a PWA, albeit a very important part. But they're just one part, like a web app manifest file is another part of a progressive web app.


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[Assistant] So, a PWA is made up of several different things and we need to implement them all together to make our PWA valid.


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[Assistant] Now Chrome DevTools gives us a way to audit our application using the Lighthouse plugin, which essentially gives us a checklist of required actions to make our site a valid PWA. So let's have a look at this in action just to audit what we've got so far.


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[Assistant] So I'm going to go over to audits in the top tabs. Then I want you to make sure you have progressive web app checked. I've unchecked the rest, but you can keep those checked if you want. Then come to the bottom and click run audits. Now this is just going to take a few seconds, but then it will spin up a report for us with some different things in the checklist that we need to complete.


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[Assistant] So, we can see right here, progressive web app, and it's split up into three different sections, fast and reliable, installable, and PWA optimized.


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[Assistant] Now, the ones in green over here with a tick, they are passed, and the ones in red, they are not passed. So there's a few we still need to do, but this section right here, installable, we have fully passed that.


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[Assistant] It uses HTTPS. Well, it doesn't, but remember localhost is an exception to the rule, so it's passing here. It registers a service worker that controls the page and the start URL. Well, we've registered a service worker, this one right here.


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[Assistant] And also the web app manifest meets the installability requirements. So that's passed as well. We've created that file. Now if we scroll down here, we can see some of these different ones are not passed.


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[Assistant] This one, for example, does not redirect HTTP to HTTPS. Now we'll take care of this one later. This one actually we can do right now. It says it does not set an address bar theme color. So there's no meta tag with the name of theme color in the HTML files.


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[Assistant] Now we have a theme color property inside the manifest.json file right here, but.


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[Assistant] We can also place in a meta tag right here, which sets the theme color as well. And this will actually override the other value right here. So it wants us to do this. Let's create a meta tag and the name of this is theme color.


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[Assistant] Like so, and the content is going to be equal to a hex code. I'm just going to paste that in like so, and then I'm going to copy this dude and paste it inside the about page and also inside the contact page.


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[Assistant] Okay, so now if I come over here and clear off this one and then run the audit again, hopefully this time it should pass that individual check.


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[Assistant] And now if we scroll down here, we can see that it does get a tick now on the address bar theme color. So that has passed now, but we still have some other different things that we need to address. And we will be coming back to this throughout the course and addressing these different points and reordering our application to make sure they pass.


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[Assistant] Now another checklist I want to show you is for the add to home screen banner. So before I said when we were on an Android device or something like that and we go to add to home screen in the browser, there was an easy way to prompt the user to add our application to the home screen and that is the install banner.


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[Assistant] Now, the install banner in Chrome can automatically appear


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[Assistant] And it's based on certain criteria. So it only appears if all of these criteria are met. So first of all, the web app is not already installed, but that's okay. We can delete it and it's not installed. Then it meets a user engagement heuristic. And that is currently that the user has interacted with the domain for at least 30 seconds. So that's fine.


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[Assistant] It includes a web app manifest file, which ours does, with these properties, short name, icons with these sizes at least, which ours do.


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[Assistant] Start URL and display must be set to full screen standalone or minimal UI. Well, we have standalone, so that's fine.


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[Assistant] It's served over HTTPS required for service workers. Well, we're a local host, which is an exception to the rule, but later when we deploy the app, we will be doing it to HTTPS as well. And it has a registered service worker, which we do with a fetch event handler. Now we don't have a fetch event handler right now.