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[Assistant] Black people would be robbing black people, and Puerto Rican people would be robbing Puerto Rican people, but it was just like, you're there for the music and the experience, especially at that time because it was not like what we're used to today where it's just so accessible.


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[Assistant] That these, these hip hop comments that I've made and the videos and the, the, the good, the bad and the difference.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, but I have no, just to be clear for all you, you young people out there are like, what the fu- yeah, this fucking guy, what's his name? I've never been in the music business. I've never, I'm not a disgruntled rapper. I'm not a, I'm not a disgruntled music label executive. I don't, I'm just


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[Assistant] Just a fan. So when I'm talking shit or talking shit that when Rakim turns 50, why isn't every single hip hop station in the country saluting him? That was a viral video, but it's more of a positive one. But when I'm talking shit, I'm just talking shit as a fan.


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[Assistant] I think it's gotten some sort of, some sort of, some sort of way it's gotten twisted, like I'm some sort of, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] It means so much to me, the music means so much to me as a fan. So, if I think it's being, uh, uh, disrespected, or I think it's being, uh, uhm, not treated li- treated li- correctly, or contextualized correctly, and if it's just whack music, that's my opinion.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean I say, oh I don't want this person to make as much money as they possibly can. I don't want their fans to, to, to, uh, to love them. I just think your shit is-


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[Assistant] Me per- me! I don't, uh, think along those guidelines.


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[Assistant] The shit is wack, the shit is wack. When, when, when the world blows up, if it ever blows up, 300 years from now, when they, when they dig up the CDs and they dig up the music of James Brown, the shit's gonna get played in 300 years from now and you're gonna be like, when you hear it,


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, but, but those are still dope songs. Uh, uhm, I think it was just kind of like a pull, a push and pull. But, but like, there's certain dudes...


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[Assistant] That I listen to now, I-I-I'll listen to, like, am I missing something? Am I, uh, uh, w-w-am I wrong? And I'm like, man, this is fucking, this is not dope.


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[Assistant] Thing was, I missed my word. Listen, I'm not a big fan of Meek Mill, but I shouldn't have said he's trash. Cause he's not trash.


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[Assistant] By the time it got to the game and Meek Mill performed and it's on record that the sound was kind of fucked up and I'm watching the TV.


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[Assistant] Uh, an overall thing for the NBA All-Star weekend. What I should have said is the NBA week, the NBA All-Star weekend is trash and this performance by Meek Mill ain't shit.


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[Assistant] I was like, fuck, because if I had used my words right and I had said what I just said about his, his, his rap, I could have stood by that, but I can't stand by.


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[Assistant] Sayin' he's trash, cuz I don't think he's trash. And for someone who likes to talk shit like myself, listen, if, you know, sometimes, you know, uh, uh, you, you gotta take a, a loss in terms of you weren't right. And I'm not, like, I'm not, uh, uhm,


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[Assistant] I, I, I'm not like bumping Meek Mill's music, like I, I never thought that, like for me, like I like his story, I like his, his come up, uh, uh, I like his, his, uh, uh, his, uh, uh, revitalized come up after he got locked up. I, I think he's going to do good things with his prison reform stuff.


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[Assistant] And uh, like I said, I don't think he's trash, but I don't really rock with him the way I rock with other music. It doesn't, it doesn't get me like that.


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[Assistant] Musicians, random songs, uh, uh, random, uh, artists all the time. It never goes viral. The only time it went viral is when I was, well, I was talking shit about, uh, you know, hip hop radio cause I thought that Rakim's 50th birthday should have been a bigger deal in hip hop.


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[Assistant] Just like, give a tweet, play a little Rakim tribute on the radio, do something, it's fucking Rakim.


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[Assistant] Like, the Meek Mill thing, like, I'm watching the All-Star game and I'm like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then I'm like, oh, what, oh, oh, uh-oh.


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[Assistant] This, why are you speaking on our culture? You sh- you have no right to speak on your- Yo, I'm- I'm- I'm gonna talk shit about this, this, I- I- like-


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[Assistant] My, what I've been around and what I've seen in regards to hip hop and what I've contributed with the tribe doc, with the roles I've played, uh, with the way I represent myself, with the movies that I've been in, in regards to hip hop and hip hop culture.


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[Assistant] My, uh, my opinion is my opinion and I'm, I'm clear on my opinion. And again, I have no vested interest. I'm not a, uh, I'm not a, uh, old, uh, beleaguered, fucked up, you know, out of work rapper. I'm just a fan. So if, if my opinion is my opinion, prove me wrong. And the thing about Meek, and again, it's, it's not personal, it's like,


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[Assistant] As a musician, that's part of his legacy. And I'm trying to recreate beef and all that shit. But when all the people that were like, fuck you Rappaport, da da da da da, about the Meek Mill thing, where were you when the Drake shit happened?


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[Assistant] So, totally agree. That being said, if I had phrased my words correctly when I made the tweet about the All-Star Game performance or what's foreign that I would have stood by it.


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[Assistant] He didn't, he didn't, he didn't answer, he didn't answer the bell in the 15th round. Fuck the 12th round. He didn't answer the bell in the 15th round as a, as an MC.


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[Assistant] So when I get phone calls from them, like, yo, you're talking about our artist and la la la la. And then he, and I'm like, fuck, I can't stand by what I said. Because I don't believe he's trash.


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[Assistant] You're, you're doing great things. And I said that in a series of tweets. And then when I posted the picture of myself, I was like making fun of myself. Like I knew the context of the picture.


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[Assistant] I knew that, but, but the, but he said, but he only, he only would remember that, cause he was going off my tweets, cause in that series of tweets that I said he was trash was that.


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[Assistant] 2015 All-Star Game. The whole, the Slam Dunk contest.


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[Assistant] One thing like if you, you know, people sometimes they misconstrued with all my shit talking, except for with, uh, uh, uh, Trump. 99.9% of the time and in that Meek Mill thing, I posted that picture. I re- that picture wasn't out. I reposted that picture. I'm making fun of myself. Like I'll talk shit about myself first. Cause if you're going to talk shit, you gotta be able to take it.


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[Assistant] Another thing about that people misconstrued regarding me and the shit talking is when I get on the internet and curse, it doesn't matter if I'm saying, uh, fuck Adam 22 or this fucking coffee sucks or fuck this rapper or fuck Dick Stain Donald Trump, Dick Stain Donald Trump this or, or this, that and the other.


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[Assistant] It fucks up my money, but I don't get money to post videos. I don't get money to, to, to curse on Twitter.


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[Assistant] That- that's what I do first and foremost. That's my- that's my- I'm a podcaster. But that's what I- that's how I make-


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[Assistant] Thanks for the research. Uhm, but, but, so, like, people think that you're trying to do this to make money or you're trying to do this to stay run. Like, I'm doing this because this is how I feel.


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[Assistant] I'm not in the NBA, I'm not a coach, I'm not an ex-coach, I'm just a fucking fan.


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[Assistant] So, so like I can't say, well I directed a tribe movie, or, or I've done this, I mean, but I'm, I'm not like any other crazy fan, I just have a louder voice, and because I go on the sports shows, louder meaning literally, but also like audience wise,


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[Assistant] So like the equivalent of my mumble rappers is Lebron. So I talk shit about Lebron all the time. And I was, like I could sit there and say he's top five player of all time. But that doesn't mean I have to, first of all he's not on my team.


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[Assistant] But you, he's one of the, like, it's, like, in, in sports right now, Tom Brady, it's accepted.


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[Assistant] Kobe Bryant, you either fucked with Kobe, fucked with the Lakers, or you hated him. Lebron, like, you wouldn't be like, oh, you're a Kobe hater, you understand it. You don't go, you're a Tom Brady hater. You know why we hate Tom Brady. I'm a Giants fan. Fuck this guy.


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[Assistant] It's just the social media. Cause I've always been like this, spoken the same way. But, but you're right. And, and one thing...


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[Assistant] I had said this when I, when I came, the final thing that I said about the Kodak Black thing, uhm, was all these...


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[Assistant] Media people, hip hop experts, hip hop bloggers, whatever the fuck that corny shit is, all of you are trash. Uhm, each and every one of you that calls yourself a hip hop blogger, you're all trash. Uh, uh, the good, the bad, uh, uh, the great radio personalities, a lot of them,


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[Assistant] We'll say this. Well, Kodak Black, he said, uh, he should be looked at in the same way as Nas, Tupac, and Biggie. What do you guys think? And I'm like, no, you punk-ass motherfucker, why don't you-


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[Assistant] I know a lot of people like Kodak Mac and I know a lot of people think he's fucking just like it's a joke. And whatever it is, it is, uh, he's doing great. But, uh, uh, this is, uh, if you speak your opinion and, and for me, like to, to, to, to, to disrespect.


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[Assistant] Young MA to disrespect sticky fingers and then to come out and say, uhm,


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[Assistant] I should be looked at in the same way as Nas, Tupac, and Biggie, and the only reason why Tupac and Biggie became legends or icons is because they died. And I'm like waiting around and I'm like, nobody's gonna say anything? Like it doesn't take a, it takes a second to say something.


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[Assistant] Alright, cause god is my fucking witness in regards to music and sports. I don't think twice about what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] I just articulate my feelings. I don't give a fuck about, like I got enough attention and accolades, like I'm talking my shit.


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[Assistant] So when I'm saying what I'm saying, I'm saying it because that's how I feel. But specifically with the Kodak Black thing, I was like, how is no one else?


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[Assistant] I understand how he could mean so much to this generation and I know specifically hip hop is a young man's sport.


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[Assistant] For saying that, and me as a fan, I don't agree with what you're saying, and you're not that dope to be saying that. Now if it was some young dude who was like really fucking ill, like let's say Kendrick Lamar said some shit like that, or J. Cole, who are a little bit older than those guys, but let's say one of these young dudes who was really, in my opinion, dope,


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[Assistant] Said some shit like that. I'm not gonna be like, what the fuck are you talking about? Just because like, yo, that motherfucker's kinda nice. It's just like when Jay-Z said the line, who's the best MC, Biggie, Jay-Z, or Nas. It's like, alright, yeaah, this is a good, this is a respectful conversation that you're saying, and if he had said, then he said later on, he said different things, but,


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[Assistant] That's hip hop. Hip hop is based on shit talking. But I'm like...


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[Assistant] I'm just saying to me, this shit's not getting anywhere in my head. And as far as this younger music, you notice this. And this isn't a financial thing.


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[Assistant] Young kids play basketball. These guys are 21, 22, they're probably like, you know, from 19 to 34. LeBron James being the oldest at 34, who's very in tune with, with, uh, all sorts of music.


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[Assistant] A lot of feeling, but you can't skill wise. I never questioned Tupac skill and, and, and, and, and the sh- I mean, like, listen, he was doing thug shit. He was doing dear mama shit. He was doing party joints. He was rhyming to different, different cadences, different flows. Tupac was, was a student of.


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[Assistant] The fundamentals of hip hop. So, the Kodak Black having a heart...


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[Assistant] And having a lot of feeling and having, you could tell that it's a person that, that, that has a lot to say to get off his chest. And I like that, but the skill level, you can't compare it to that. You can't compare that shit to Nas. You can take it. What's his best song?


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[Assistant] I get what you're saying. I get the argument, I get the heart of it, and I get, and I, and I, the one thing I, I, I, I'm very clear on is that when hip hop came out in 82, 83, 84, 81, people were like, what the fuck is this shit? And I was like, suck my fucking dick.


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[Assistant] To me, I just thought like, yo, you're a young kid, and, you know, me as a fan, but I'm not expecting it to turn into this whole thing for him to talk about me on stage, but I'm just like, me as a fan, like,


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[Assistant] Push back. Like, you're tripping. And, uh, you, I'll take Biggie's freestyle on the corner in Brooklyn, uh, that we, before he was Biggie Smalls, and I put that against every song you have. And, and, and there's nothing you have that's as great as that. And that's a two-minute freestyle.


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[Assistant] Yo, it's a slick line, but also you could say a slick line, but like the way it's delivered might, see like I get the heart of it, but it's like also some, some young rappers, slow down, like you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,


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[Assistant] But slow. But slow, like, you-you-you-you're a porn dude, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, so, so if you have fuck styles, you got your, you got your, your, your sugar dickin', you got your, your, your, you know, your, your, your grounding pound, you got all sorts of different fuck styles. But, but, if you're really, if you're really gonna make love to it, you gotta slow it down.


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[Assistant] You gotta, there's, there's gotta be, you know, different, there's gotta be variations. I'll say this, since I know your audience is, is, uh,


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[Assistant] I wanna use the proper language here, uhm, cunnilingus.


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[Assistant] Now, as a young person, I-I would-I would-


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[Assistant] Gotchu. I understand what you're saying. Young M.A. ill technical rapper. Funny.


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[Assistant] She, she, she, she, she fucks around with different cadences, different flows. She rhymes on different kinds of beats. She'll rhyme on, she'll put out freestyles over old beats. She rocks on new beats. She needs to put out a record record. I think she'll blow up and she's a stupid rapper. Like her, her flow game is, it's, it's quintessential, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] But where's that really going to get him at the end of the day? I, I, I got you. So, so, so I'm at a touch. So who, who's the, who's the top five? Uh, not necessarily yours. I'm talking about right now. Like who's like the, the, the, the hottest dudes right now? I mean, it kind


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[Assistant] Now are Migos considered because at one point it was cool to shit all over the Migos.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright, give me a little uh, a little landscape of what's going on today.


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[Assistant] Now one thing I like about Takashi69, and people are like, well why do you like him? Because he, he knows he ain't shit.


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[Assistant] He doesn't give a, I don't think he gives a fuck. And I respect that whole thing, like, uh, whether he wrote it, didn't write it, uh, I'm not here to win any awards. I'm here to get the fucking money. I respect that. Now, now, now my girl Cardi, Cardi B, uh, shout out to the Boogie Down Bronx, uh, how has she looked at now?


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[Assistant] But the hardcore crowd, does the hardcore crowd accept disrespect? If you're a hardcore hip hop fan, can you also accept disrespect to the iconic people like Tupac, Nas, and Biggie, the way Kodak Black did?


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[Assistant] But that, but that's like saying what the fuck, like if you put on Jimi Hendrix...


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[Assistant] It embodies all the traits, but it's still different and I, and I fuck with those guys and I respect them. But there's, I think when that 808,


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[Assistant] And I'm not like one of these New York ride or die dudes. Outkast is one of my favorite groups. Uh, Scarface is one of my favorite MCs. You know, LA shit I fuck with. San Francisco Bay Area shit I fuck with. So I'm not like New York. But when we got away from the musicality...


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[Assistant] And the production, and the pr- like, there was a desperation, and uh, uh, if this doesn't work, I'm done.


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[Assistant] To the record business back then. If I put out some shit today and it's whack.


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[Assistant] I could just go back on YouTube and put out some shit the next day. At the time it was like... Yo.


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[Assistant] And you felt that heart and soul and also the production of this, the sample based using soul music, rock music, reggae music, jazz music and all that stuff. It just has a depth to it. And that's one of the other problems like, is there a producer right now that you could compare to Marley Mall?


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[Assistant] DJ Premier, Q-Tip, Large Professor, uh, Afrika, Afrika from the Jungle Brothers, Prince Paul, like, that has like this, like, Timberland, you know, 9th Wonder, like these guys, like,


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[Assistant] But, but like, I'm talking about like where you're like, yo, this motherfucker is like, where you go like that every, like, like a signature sound where you could tell, like, that's a Q-tip beat, that's a Large Professor beat, that's a Marley Mall beat, that's a DJ Premier beat, that's a Pete Rock beat.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm uninformed, like half the people you just named, I never, what's the name, Juice World?


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[Assistant] That was, that's an occasional thing. It's not good to text and drive and it's certainly not good to podcast.


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[Assistant] And drive, but, but it was a time crunch thing. And sometimes if you're driving around, if, if I'm doing solo podcasts and I'm driving around and podcasting, it's like, almost like your mind is, it's, it's like extra focused because you're driving and you're, you're, you know, whatever you're saying and thinking about comes out clear. So, but it's certainly not the safest thing to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'm not fucking with you right now, it's too early in my day.


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[Assistant] Been good. Is this where the dude got, uh, held up?


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[Assistant] So where was the security? You were the security?


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[Assistant] That says a lot about your fucking employees, you got fucking burnouts here, but at least he's on the case when they pull the fake guns on you.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I would be, if, if, if anything ever happened to me in, in regard to that, I would be heavily disappointed, uh, because it...


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[Assistant] In life as a fucking hole, uh, because like I said, if I'm talking shit, I'm talking shit. I'm not trying to fuck anybody's career up. I'm not trying to, uh, fuck anybody's hustle up. I'm just talking shit. But I, I definitely, yeah, I mean, I'm a, I'm a dude, you know what I'm saying? I'm, I'm out here and, you know, I've had,


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[Assistant] Security for certain things, but I'm not going to get security when I'm going to fucking...


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[Assistant] You know, like when people like run up on it, it's not even any, it's 99.9% of the time it's all positive. But when people run up on you when you're out and they go, yo, rapper boy, you motherfucker. And like that, like if you're, if you're, if I'm with my wife or I'm with my kids, like just chill.


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[Assistant] Ebs and flows, but because of social media, uhm, social media is a motherfucker. Social media, uh, is, is, is, is a motherfucker and, and the connection that people have to me through social media.


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[Assistant] Okay. Uh, uh, uh, when I did, uh, I think when I did this movie called True Romance, that's when I got to like a different level, uh, and then higher learning was a different level.


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[Assistant] I'm a French-Canadian. French-Canadian. French-Canadian. What are you, you from France?


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[Assistant] I mean, N-O-G's good and all that stuff, and like I said, Guru, uh-


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[Assistant] You know, it ain't that fucking serious to me. Uhm, there was another question I had to ask you. Oh, so, uh, this ongoing Takashi 6ix9ine saga, cause you've been sort of the, uh, where is that at today? Is he getting out of jail?


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[Assistant] And, and, and, and at one point Chief Keef was the dude. Where's this guy at now?


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[Assistant] Because that usually, like Tekashi, that's the same shit. It's like the police, uh, come up behind you. Yeah. And I'm, I'm always scratching my nose because I'm Jewish and, and my nose is dry because I didn't know where they go.


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[Assistant] Bloggers. We'll not say any, but the majority of them. If you call yourself a rap blogger or a hip hop blogger, I don't respect you. If you blog about hip hop and you really know your shit, top to bottom, from the beginning to the end, then I could rock with you.


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[Assistant] Now let me ask you something about you real quick. Let me take over, like this is the IM rap horse stereo podcast. How did you wind up getting like this, this, cause I was like who the fuck is this tattooed weirdo? Like what the fuck is this guy talking about?


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[Assistant] And like, how did you wind up sort of getting, uh, a following? Uh, was it the podcast? Was it videos? Was it the store? Like, like what was the sort of progression of your shit?


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[Assistant] You watched him rock? Yeah. Now, okay, so you understand, you said exactly what you're supposed to say. Yeah, I did a Ghostface interview, it was exhilarating. There's, there's no, there's nobody right now who's even in the same planet as Ghostface. The same planet as Ghostface. You feel that way, huh? Nobody.


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[Assistant] Who's as, who's as dope as Ghostface? I agree, it's a short list.


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[Assistant] No, no, but Cam's also from the same era as Ghostface.


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[Assistant] That's like picking a son, that's like picking a son in terms of ghosts. Ghost face is pretty fucking special. And Black Thought is like a fucking cobbler. He's like a lifelong, he's dedicated his life to the craft.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying Wendy's, McDonald's, all of this shit, but I'm just saying, don't be mad at me because I have good taste.


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[Assistant] I fuck with Action Bronson. He's a friend of mine. Great guy. Love his shit. He did this podcast as well. You got some good guys. I fuck with Action Bronson, but you can't.


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[Assistant] Action Bronson's biggest influence is clearly Ghostface Killer. And I fuck with Action Bronson. And I hated when that whole thing happened. I hated it.


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[Assistant] And n-nobody, no disrespect to Tiana Trump, is focusing on anybody named Trump, except for Dick Stain Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] But I don't think the name Tiana Trump is gonna really get the, the attention because we're so focused on Dick Stain Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] I'm the best that's ever done it, dead or alive, whatever the fuck, I'm not big on the lyrics, I don't know the lyrics, spit it in a rhyme. Spit it over like a fucking break beat.


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[Assistant] Spit it over a Biggie beat or a Nas beat or a Tupac beat. If you're really talking that shit, spit it! Spit that shit!


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[Assistant] I think people were just a little bit more apprehensive and I know New York, New York guys just...


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[Assistant] Especially if you're really bout it, you would think twice. And I just think it's a different time. And social media, it's made us all nuts. It's made you fucking crazy. It's made me, it's made me nuts.


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[Assistant] I think it would be more understanding to say that. I think it would be more understanding. But, listen.


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[Assistant] You could say I'm best this, I'm the best at. Yo, here's a beat.


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[Assistant] Let me see what you got, Money Grip. Let me see what you got. Just like if you say, yo, I could fight. Yo, you wanna fight?


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[Assistant] These guys are fighting. If you say you can play ball, check, we're playing 101 Games 11. You're an MC, you come on your show, this is a predominantly hip hop show, culture show, you put on a beat, let me see what you got. And if you're whack, you cut the beat off and you say, get the fuck outta here, man.


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[Assistant] I agree with that. I agree with that. But, but, but I'm gonna just say it one more time.


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[Assistant] You rappers, you're saying you're this, you're that, if you're really about the music and the musicality, you show up, let's see what you got, just spit your shit, like spit your shit on Instagram, kick a little freestyle just for the, you'll see Snoop do it every now and then just like 60 seconds just rock.


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[Assistant] You know, if I could rap, I would be on this motherfucker all the time. Just like 60 second, you know, 16 bars and just, just...


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[Assistant] It's, I am concerned about that, but I know how far I'll take it. I know the language that I'll use.


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[Assistant] But, you know, that's it. Never fucked with any pills in my life. Never fucked with any booger sugar in my life. You're missing out, man.


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[Assistant] For the rest of the day, I am uh, gonna do some bullshit mundane errands.


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[Assistant] And then I'm gonna chill, then I'm gonna walk my dog, and then I'm actually doing stand-up comedy tonight at the laugh factory at like 8. Oh really, okay. And, uh, and then my day will be, uh, over.


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[Assistant] Uh, probably watching, uh, uh, some sort of, uh, uh, m- either basketball or some mundane bullshit TV or possibly some Bravo, uh, or I'm into this show on Hulu called The Act.


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[Assistant] Which is, you ever see that documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest? I don't think so. You should watch it.


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[Assistant] Uh, her and a guy she meets online cause this is like, you know, 10, 15 years ago. So my space and Facebook were just coming. The girls started, found out about Facebook. She started having relationships with people online. She met some fucking lunatic who wind up killing her mom and she assisted into this poor girl who was held prisoner by her mom her whole life.


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[Assistant] Never saw the light of day, she went right to jail and I don't know when she's ever getting out. Fucked up story. Crazy, right? Fucked. They made a show about it on Hulu.


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[Assistant] Oh shit, okay, that's dope. 3.30. To do his show? Yeah. What time does he do his show? Five? Six, five, six, I don't know, something like that.


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[Assistant] That's, uhm, I don't fuck with that. I don't know if it's worth it, man.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, but but so so give me the short version cuz you didn't finish Tom you did the BMX shit


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[Assistant] So how did it go from the bicycle shit to the store in Melrose to year 32, uh, uh, uh, uh, 33, whatever the fuck you are, and you're talking about bad baby.


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[Assistant] Was that like a sort of a blow up thing for your podcast or you were already rocking?


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[Assistant] Gotcha. Now, now my other question to inform me, because I'm very uninformed. I am very uninformed. Uh, where are, uh, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, the, the, the golf wing Tyler the creator people in regards to music right now.


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[Assistant] He's got, no I'm saying, but in terms of the music, is he putting out any, like are there anybody from that clique that are putting out music right now? Like banging shit.


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[Assistant] Okay, cause I fuck with also, uh, ASAP because the funny thing about ASAP is, uh, when I connected with them, they were like, yo, you went to high school with my uncle. And I was like, Jesus fucking Christ. I was like, you fuck, you fucking cocksuckers. Like that's like, I, and he was like, oh yeah, my mom knows you're, I'm like, Jesus fucking Christ.


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[Assistant] In, in, in growing up, I've always been, you know, when it was boy, you know, kid, you know, 13, 14, 15, 16, I mean, that's, that's just the reality.


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[Assistant] And for younger people that find me on, you know, like that have gotten hip to me because of the shit talking and the commenting on Trump and the commenting on rappers, you know, the legacy lives on.


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[Assistant] But I know there's rights and all that shit, like I know if you said to him, yo, will you, will you rock? Will you spit?


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[Assistant] That's something I only think about that. That's kind of wild though.


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[Assistant] My goal was to work on some photography projects, and just enjoy the nature of course.


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[Assistant] After a very stormy photoshoot and a creepy night in the car, I decided not to continue further north as my first plan was. I just had a strong feeling the next day that I was not in the right place.


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[Assistant] I thought I wanted to go to see some new mountains and explore new places, but actually, I just wanted home to the mountains where my heart belongs.


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[Assistant] So, I drove all the 600 kilometers back home again. I picked up Johan, and instead we went to our little cabin, which is in another even more beautiful mountain area much closer to where we live. It was the best decision ever. I feel so at home in these mountains.


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[Assistant] And in this video, I will let you follow us along during these beautiful days that we had in our cabin in the mountains. Enjoy!


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[Assistant] I spent the whole night by the river, in the soft light from the midnight sun.


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[Assistant] I sat down for a long time just watching the water flow by, and it felt so nice. I recorded a long video from the same spot, just of the flowing water.


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[Assistant] I have always loved sitting by wild rivers like this to watch the water. It's something very relaxing and healing.


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[Assistant] I like to imagine the strong power from the water cleansing my soul and flushing away all negativity and blockages and to help me heal and let go of old and heavy things and thoughts that no longer serves me.


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[Assistant] It's like a water meditation and I feel like new afterwards.


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[Assistant] And I thought that I maybe would make a long video later with footage that I recorded this night only of the wild river flowing by. So maybe more people that are not able to sit by a river like this also can take part of its healing energy.


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[Assistant] Early in the morning the sun was rising and I had just experienced one of the most beautiful nights of this summer. And I felt so joyful as I came back to you wanting the cabin.


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[Assistant] Both me and Johan loves to be here in the cabin, even if we haven't spent so much time here yet since we got it about one and a half year ago.


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[Assistant] This was actually the first time that we could go here without having a time limit of three days.


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[Assistant] Even though we actually live in a remote place just like this, we both work from home and sometimes it's really needed to get away from everything that reminds you of work and all the things you have to do at home.


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[Assistant] Here we have nothing that reminds us of our everyday life. And we have no internet or phone connection and no running water. But it's like heaven.


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[Assistant] This is our place to go when we need some vacation and some time to just relax and boost ourselves with some new energy and inspiration. And I'm really thankful for that.


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[Assistant] And we still have a lot to discover here in our cabin, since all the stuff was included when we bought it. Still, there is a lot of things that we have not yet seen, and it feels like going on a treasure hunt every time we come here.


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[Assistant] They would really need some love and care though, I think.


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[Assistant] It would be so nice to have bicycles here because then we can, you know, just take the bikes and go down to the rivers and stuff.


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[Assistant] You once spent some time fixing with the bicycles and managed to make two of them at least okay to try out for a ride.


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[Assistant] The bikes worked fine even though the tires was in really bad condition, but at least they were good enough for a short ride.


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[Assistant] We decided to take the bikes down to the river and bring some lunch and have a swim in the very cold mountain water.


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[Assistant] The water from the rivers comes directly from the melting snow in the mountains, and that's why the water here is always very cold, even in the summer. But as you might know already, we both love cold water. We had a really wonderful time by the river, with some lunch and a glass of wine. Just enjoying our vacation.


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[Assistant] After a while the weather changed quickly, and I was sure there was gonna be rain, but Johan was sure that the rain wasn't gonna come here.


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[Assistant] We went back to the cabin again and had a few hours of rest while it was raining outside. And then, late in the evening, it was time for a new adventure.


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[Assistant] So it's in the middle of the night, it's actually midnight right now, and me and Johan just got the idea that we wanted to climb up on a mountain tonight to see the sun rise.


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[Assistant] We have a few hours of hike. Well, we're not gonna go to the top. We're just gonna go up to see the view a little bit.


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[Assistant] Now we're gonna go, we're gonna climb the mountain. It's such a beautiful night. It's just a hell lot of tiny mosquitoes. But we're gonna survive.


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[Assistant] I need to take photos and film because, well I have a camera here but it's my vlog camera so it's not as good. This hike is gonna take 10,000 years because I'm gonna stop everywhere and take photos already on this way when we were driving here. I was like, I need to get out and take out the drone. Johan, I love you so much for the patience that you have.


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[Assistant] Hiking at night is just the best. Johan, you look like a mushroom.


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[Assistant] Now we're getting even higher. We're starting to get among the mountains now. And, it's just like being on another planet.


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[Assistant] No words can describe how magical this night was. We were both blown away by the beauty of the mountains surrounding us.


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[Assistant] Now and then we stopped by a little stream to fill up our bottles with fresh mountain water. It's so delicious.


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[Assistant] We continued to walk the whole night. Even though we were both tired and hungry, the beautiful nature gave us energy to keep walking deeper into the mountains. And of course, the mosquitoes stayed with us the whole time. It's a lot of mosquitoes, but it's beautiful, so it's okay. Okay, we gotta keep going! Yeah!


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[Assistant] Around 4 in the morning we decided to find a good place to set up our tent.


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[Assistant] Which shows a beautiful spot here, by the little stream in the middle.


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[Assistant] And then, the next adventure began. To set up a tent that we've never set up before, without proper instructions, together with a million mosquitoes.


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[Assistant] We were so tired and hungry, and the mosquitoes made us desperate. And for a while, I honestly thought that we would never get up the tent, and that we instead would have to wrap the tent around us like a towel, to try to hide from the mosquitoes and the cold air.


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[Assistant] But after a while we figured it out and we could finally get into the tent and have some rest.


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[Assistant] The first thing I saw as I woke up a few hours later was Johan sitting by the river preparing some food. It felt like waking up to a dream.


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[Assistant] I just felt so happy being there with him. It felt like we were in our very own universe. So disconnected from everything known, but so connected to nature and the mountains around us.


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[Assistant] Later in the afternoon, we began to hike back again. If you would have known that we were gonna hike so far into the mountains, we would definitely have brought some more food and stayed for one more night.


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[Assistant] But it also felt great to come back to our cabin again. And the magical hike during the night in the mountains were more than we could ever dream of. The beauty was breathtaking and I will never forget that night.


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[Assistant] When we got back to the cabin, the first thing we did was to go down to the river to take a bath, because we felt so sweaty after the long hike. And that bath was better than any shower I've ever taken.


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[Assistant] I love the balance of living a simple cabin life during the days. And when the beautiful nights arrived, I packed my camera equipment and went out to explore the nature.


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[Assistant] Hello! So I'm in the car right now and it's midnight again. I think it's 30 minutes past midnight. It's always in the night when I film. But it's just the most beautiful time.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's one of my favorite places on earth. It's called Stegnjokk. I just wanted to go here to, you know, take photos and film a little bit because, you know, the sky is just so beautiful.


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[Assistant] So you can't really move so far away from the road and also the reindeers have, uh, how do you say, calves or babies right now. So you really have to be careful when you are at these places because you don't want to disturb them. So I will just skip to the road tonight and leave space for the reindeers and


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'm just not tired at all because of this view. As always, it just gives me so much energy that I could just spend thousands of nights in a row watching this.


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[Assistant] Alright, but I'm gonna continue doing some filming now and then I will drive back to the cabin. So, I see you tomorrow, guys. Muah!


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[Assistant] We spent our last two days in the cabin with cleaning up in one of the rooms. Something we have wanted to do ever since we bought it.


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[Assistant] As I told you in an earlier video, the man who owned this cabin before us unfortunately got sick and Alzheimer's. For seven years it stood empty, but it looked like someone was living here, since everything was still looking exactly the same as how this man left it the last time he was here. Therefore, all the stuff was included in the cabin.


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[Assistant] Most of the stuff in the cabin are really beautiful and we really want to take care of this cabin and the things that he left and give it a new life.


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[Assistant] But there was also a lot of garbage and a lot to clean up. And we spent two days to sort out what things to keep and what things to take to the recycling central.


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[Assistant] It was really fun to go through all the stuff that we didn't know we had.


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[Assistant] I spent a lot of time trying on different clothes and got disappointed every time because they were all in a too big size.


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[Assistant] We spent a whole evening cleaning up in there and it was so worth it. We suddenly had so much more space in there and it looked so beautiful.


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[Assistant] The next day, which was our last day in the cabin, we went to the recycling station two times, and it was our freedom to get rid of all the garbage.


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[Assistant] And the very last thing we did before we went home was to carry out this big old freezer that we wanted to take home.


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[Assistant] We thought it would be perfect to use it for all our berries, mushrooms and other things that takes up a lot of space in the freezer.


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[Assistant] It wasn't until we got home and put it in place that we found out that it actually didn't work. But oh well. At least we tried.


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[Assistant] Let's see, our next question is from Joanne S. from Toronto, Ontario, who's asking, why is the food at McDonald's so cheap?


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[Assistant] Well hi, Joanne. I'm John Betts, President of McDonald's here in Canada. You ask a great question.


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[Assistant] And if you think about when you go out and shop for the family, when you buy those large containers with lots of whatever it is that you're buying, you know, you can often get them at a cheaper price because you're buying in bulk.


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[Assistant] Well, when you buy for 1,400 restaurants in Canada, you get some great deals that we love to pass along to our customers. Last year, we bought 70 million pounds of ground beef. 65 million Canadian Grade A eggs.


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[Assistant] That's a lot of buying power. We're buying from some of the great suppliers that you have an opportunity to buy from here in Canada as well. Such as Renais, Cargill, Saputo, Coke, Heinz, and many more.


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[Assistant] The opportunity to pass along these savings to our customers is one of the things that we pride ourselves at McDonald's. It's about providing great quality, great tasting food at a great value. And when you buy in bulk like we do, you can pass along the savings and that's exactly what we do. Thanks for the question, Joanne.


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[Assistant] Please take it easy.


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[Assistant] For more on this and other Frontline programs, visit our website at pbs.org.


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[Assistant] Frontlines Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown is available on DVD.


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[Assistant] When's the last time they went through your note to start a season? Well, haven't they lost 21 of 23?


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[Assistant] For the normal person who doesn't work in a facility like this.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be thinking, if you punish him, you're gonna make him better. And the reality is the exact, the exact opposite happens.


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[Assistant] We have some very, very dangerous prisoners. So on the surface, it might look crazy, uh, but the reality is, is 80% of these inmates are going to be hit in the street. Okay, so we can either make them worse, okay, and create more victims when they go on the street, or we can rehabilitate them.


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[Assistant] If we just leave Rulot mid segregation, he's gonna become worse. Uh, we're gonna end up with an inmate that probably will attempt to starve himself, uh, without a doubt at some point begin demonstrating, uh, some self-abusive behavior.


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[Assistant] These inmates have been significantly violent and they truly endanger to self or others. So this is going to be a slow process. We have a rule initially in cuffs and shackles.


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[Assistant] And we would gradually work him, uhm, so that he'd leave that group from segregation into general population, where his program would continue.


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[Assistant] What we're going to do with Todd is introduce an individualized program in the mental health care.


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[Assistant] We're going to have a clinician working with Todd until we're successful at reducing the cutting behavior. And ultimately at the end of the day, you know, we'll look at reintegrating Todd back into the general population.


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[Assistant] We still believe that he presents a significant danger to the staff and the other inmates. Todd ended up in segregation for a very serious assault. Uh, so essentially, we need to be reassured through programming that the likelihood of him engaging in that type of behavior is significantly reduced.


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[Assistant] Brulot is a young man. Brulot is impulsive.


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[Assistant] And essentially, he's gonna have to engage in programs, he's gonna have to demonstrate the behaviors that we're looking for before we're ready to reintegrate him in general population. He's gonna have to show us and demonstrate to us that the likelihood of him being involved with an assault or a crime is diminished significantly. Listen, you got four months left. You stop behaving and we'll figure something out.


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[Assistant] There's no question in my mind that we're actually seeing some positive effects of what we do.


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[Assistant] I can tell you that the number of fights have dropped, the number of use of weapons has dropped, transports to the emergency room have dropped, the use of constant watches has dropped, so overall it's had a positive impact.


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[Assistant] But we're just beginning. The reality is, is we're just beginning.


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[Assistant] I'm not keeping him there. If he's showing that he's behaving and doing what he needs to do, we're going to move him along.


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[Assistant] At some point you gotta give somebody a second chance. If they're doing what we're asking them to do, they're moving through the system.


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[Assistant] We don't like to use segregation, but sometimes it's necessary.


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[Assistant] Mr. Brulot was engaged in some very, very serious behavior while he was in general population. So without a doubt, it was the right place for him.


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[Assistant] There's no exact science to any one of these guys. You have to try to figure them out as we go along.


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[Assistant] But ultimately, when we're moving him back into the general population, you know, we have to be certain that the staff are gonna be safe, that the other inmates are gonna be safe, and that he's gonna be safe.


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[Assistant] We've been able to reduce our segregation population by 50%. We saved about a million dollars a year. I'm very confident that this process is going to work.


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[Assistant] And obviously, if there's any negative outcome, we're going to look at that negative outcome.


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[Assistant] The staff at Marion were completely demoralized.


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[Assistant] They felt that we had to do something to protect them from these inmates, and we had to do something to protect inmates from these inmates.


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[Assistant] The high security lockdown was created


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[Assistant] Have to face these kinds of individuals on a daily basis. We never wavered our belief that this was a necessity.


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[Assistant] For the people who felt we were too hard or harsh, well what alternatives did we have? What choices did we have?


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[Assistant] Our job is to protect the inmates and the staff.


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[Assistant] And to allow people to get to their time and go out as respectable citizens, that type of thing. But what are you going to do with those people who don't want that to happen? If you've got a better answer.


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[Assistant] I wish we did. I always said, you know, I wish we had some social medicine or a magic wand that we could use to correct people's behavior, but there's no such thing.


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[Assistant] When police say Richard Stahurski took two makeshift knives and stabbed convicted child molest. How is it possible a murder can go unnoticed? An inmate beaten, tied up and stabbed?


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[Assistant] For more on this and other Frontline programs, visit our website at pbs.org.


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[Assistant] Frontline's Last Days of Solitary is available on DVD.


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[Assistant] To order, visit shoppbs.org or call 1-800-PLAY-PBS. Frontline is also available for download on iTunes.


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[Assistant] I brought you some, some gifts from the Globes. Me or everybody? Well, it's kind of for everyone, particularly


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[Assistant] From the Golden Globe. Oh wow. Yeah. What do you get? They totally, they knew I was gonna take this stuff. This is all been, I was given permission. Alright, let's see.


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[Assistant] So it's still kind of my dream, genuinely, is to be a waitress. I wanted to be a waitress when I was a child, and so technically I am an actor that wants to be a waitress. And you know there you meet a lot of waiters and waitresses that want to be actresses, but I'm actually the other way around.


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[Assistant] Young, I'm a young cat from Baltimore City, northeast Baltimore City. Uhm, I tap into other people's culture, so.


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[Assistant] As I started to tap into other people's culture, I was like, alright, I can dig the beat once I dig the beat.


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[Assistant] I always come up with shit for females and shit like that. I make music for females but, I mean bro, bitches be dogs bro.


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[Assistant] Oh, my mama, bro, they should be dogs, so I, it just felt good, it all just came about, and I just feel like it was all just genuine, or, or, or.


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[Assistant] Get to the, get to the money, bro. We don't really be too much. It ain't really like how, how Baltimore explain it to be for real on my side. On my side, we more money, more achieving goals or more, more like that. You feel me? I mean, I'm not saying to anybody else in my city ain't, but we more on it that I know.


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[Assistant] Baltimore, Baltimore got talent. It's just the way we move. It's just the way we move. I, I wasn't patient. You feel me? I wasn't patient either, so I could have been that same dude still in the city for real, but.


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[Assistant] I just grew a little bit of patience for real. We just don't have too much patience. A lot of us artists in the city don't have too much patience.


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[Assistant] Wanting to, wanting to be better as far as like...


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[Assistant] You love yourself more than people. You should think people should love you. You feel me? You understand what I'm saying? So, like, I love my music more than I think other people love my music. And that's what I think people gravitate to. You get what I'm saying? I-I-I-I'm different.


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[Assistant] Definitely. Definitely. And when you see confidence, you know confidence. You be like, oh yea, he confident. He loves what he's saying. He believes in what he's saying for real.


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[Assistant] I was, I was, I was a street nigga the whole time. So, being from the streets, going from the streets and being confident and doing that.


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[Assistant] It gave me confidence in doing what I'm doing now, but I know the odds.


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[Assistant] You feel me? The odds of being in the streets didn't get me nothing. The odds of doing this, music, moving around.


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[Assistant] I'm still, I mean, I'm still, I'm still, I'm still tapped out, I'm just, feel me, I just, niggas know, like, I'm better. I got better shit to do. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] And I respect my circle and that's why I respect my circle. There's not a lot of circles that respect their winning piece. Not a lot of people respect their winning piece and that's why you see a lot of circles fall, a lot of rappers that's good artists get locked up or die, whatever the case may be because you got people in your circle that don't


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[Assistant] Make you that star. You dig what I'm saying? Like, I know I'm a star. My people make me a star. Let me know that I'm a star. Then, outside.


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[Assistant] Definitely. That is definitely what it is. Cause I mean, I mean.


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[Assistant] You don't, you don't bro, you don't gotta respect it. You don't gotta, you don't gotta at all, nothing, it's music. So it's, it's a feeling, a vibe type thing. So it's not a, it's not a...


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[Assistant] It's me, me relating. It's a relating thing. If I can relate to your music, bro.


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[Assistant] I don't even have to know you. There's a lot of these rappers I don't even know, bruh. I never met before. But I can relate to them because of their story. You dig what I'm saying? So as long as my story matches, I'm cool, bruh. I don't care about who hates. That's the thing.


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[Assistant] That's another thing, I don't really care who hates. I just care who, who, who respects it.


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[Assistant] And sees where I'm going at. And understands where I'm going at.


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[Assistant] Out of my city, I'm making all the hottest melodies. I'm Captain Hook out of my city for real. Out of my area, I'm Captain Hook. And the fact that people just give me that, that, that credit right there, I'm good.


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[Assistant] Besides having them hooks. Driving a boat. I felt like I needed to steer the boat.


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[Assistant] You see what I'm saying? I needed to, to use my voice to...


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[Assistant] The open up, and I don't feel like I'm just doing this for myself. I feel like I'm opening up for my area too. Cause it's like, alright, it's Shorty Shorty from Baltimore. Who else is from Baltimore? You dig what I'm saying? They looking and they tapping in to everybody else, so.


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[Assistant] I don't, I feel like I'm taking the sacrifice. I feel like I need to be the one to do that. You feel me? Because I'm going to be the one to take the patience, take out the sacrifice, all that. You dig what I'm saying? And I'm cool with doing that. You feel me? So people can see it and be like, alright, cool.


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[Assistant] Not, not, it's not motivation, cause I know sometimes it's not motivation.


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[Assistant] It-it-it's just for you to gravitate on. Alright.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you feel me, my pops died at 12, so around like, around like,


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[Assistant] At that time, at that area, I was, I started to get tapped into what I knew what I was doing. You understand what I'm saying? I started to really understand what I was doing, process and stuff. So music, my mother really tapped me into everything for real. I could by do, um, Jill Sky, all, uh, Anthony Hamilton, all types of like different genres of music. So I'm really not like a, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Everybody wants to know what's up. And if they sense you're a little fake, then it's not good. It's over, bro. It's over. And that's where it started, the bass. The bass has to believe in you. It's not about, it's not about like...


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[Assistant] They with you, they don't have to be 100% with you. They just gotta believe in you. Like, your base just gotta believe in you. Like, they believe in what I'm saying. Ain't nothing false. You can relate to it. I'm talking bitches and trapping.


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[Assistant] I'm talking money and bitches. Hey bro, you don't want to relate to that. Even the females, the females relate to what I'm saying, so how can you not? You dig what I'm saying? You must not be getting no pussy and you ain't getting no money. And that's too wrong, motherfuckers.


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[Assistant] I did a couple songs, but I didn't, I still didn't know where my lane was. You understand what I'm saying? I didn't know who I wanted to gravitate to. At first it was just, oh, I want to gravitate to the dudes on the corner. But the dudes on the corner don't buy music. You feel me? I started to understand that and become a businessman. Like, alright, people on the corner don't buy the music. Kids buy the music, parents buy the music.


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[Assistant] Females by the music, you feel me? So I gravitated to females, like, I'ma go to females.


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[Assistant] Like, yo, hell yeaah. I never did the coolin' with niggas in school. None of that shit.


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, everybody get their situations bro, but I mean, she's starting to be understanding. So I'm cool with that. You feel me? I even had it. That's crazy. I even had to get my big mom to believe in me. She didn't believe in it.


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[Assistant] You feel me? And I've been taking care of my child, but it was just a way.


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[Assistant] She wanted me to take care of him.


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[Assistant] I guess she accepts it this way. You know what I mean? I dig that. Four is a good age though.


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[Assistant] I don't know bro. I told you I was patient with it. I had to wait my turn, wait my time. And a lot of times in the city, I don't like to drop over people.


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[Assistant] Because I know how strong my voice can hold. You understand what I'm saying? So I allow everybody to do their own thing.


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[Assistant] And then like when it's dry and nobody's dropping no music or nobody's doing nothing, then I like to kind of like slide in. You feel me? Alright, let me drop this real quick. Or let me slide in here with a video real quick. You feel me? Nothing intentional, it's just...


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[Assistant] Let me slide some different shit in there. Like yeaah, y'all, I'm fucking with that. I bumped that in the car and all that, but let me slide this different shit in there. You feel me? See how they vibed to that. And bro, it works in my favor. You feel me? Being patient. Yep. Interesting.


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[Assistant] But it's like, bro, if you don't know what you're doing, and you're trying to be competitive.


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[Assistant] You're not doing nothing at the end of the day. You're basically wasting time.


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[Assistant] You feel me? So me, I don't get into the competitive part because I'm, huh, who's, who's there to compete with?


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[Assistant] Nobody has a voice like mine. This ain't no auto-tune. You feel me? I can make a song right here. People think it's auto-tune?


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[Assistant] A lot of females think it's auto-tuned, so it's like, it's a win-win, bro. It's a win-win, bro. It's a win-win.


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[Assistant] So when, when I'm on stage, and I tell them cut the beat, and I rap, or I sing, whatever the case may be, bruh, it's my voice.


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[Assistant] Everything, right now, I'm just soaking it in. You feel me? So, just, being around bro.


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[Assistant] I've never had a relationship through the music like that, you feel me? I like to meet people and then have a relationship through them. You dig what I'm saying? Meet them, see what type of person they is, they see what type of person I am. And it locks in like that. How regular people meet, you feel me? So, I've never met nobody like that. You dig what I'm saying? So, for it to be so genuine and locked in like that for real, like bro, this man is doing stuff for me that I can't even really explain, but yeaah. So how'd you meet Carnage?


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[Assistant] He's from, he's from, he's from the area, he's from Frederick. Right. You know what I mean? But uhm, over IG.


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[Assistant] And I didn't even know who he was. That was the crazy part. That was the crazy part. You feel me? And that's, that's how genuine it was. I didn't know who he was. I hit them like, who's Carnage? Right.


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[Assistant] Crazy on a whole nother scale too, like, and it's coming how I want it to come. It ain't coming 5,000, 10,000 followers a day to the point where I don't see what's going on. It's coming 25.


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[Assistant] That slow little grind a little bit, but it's kind of fast, it's like a steady pace, but that slow grind, I can kind of see where the actual genuine love is coming from. I can see where people just want to...


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[Assistant] Get into the wave and shit like that. And I'm cool with that too. You feel me? Especially if you like from a different culture. I'm cool with tapping into a different culture because I've probably never been to that.


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[Assistant] That area, where you from, or whatever the case may be. So I'm cool with that, but...


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[Assistant] Other than that, but I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm with me and you first. Type, type. I'm still kinda like...


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[Assistant] I'm a street nigga, you feel me? So I wanna meet you first. Uh, I'm a people person. I ain't do the media type shit. Like I seen you, I know of you, you feel me? So it was like, once I seen you, like damn, you know about me?


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[Assistant] Damn, bro. You feel me? Like, it's crazy, bro. Like, I really don't know how to really take it. Like how you said, bro. Nigga never had that type of exposure or that, that type of people understand like, damn, he made good music. You dig what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Music doesn't sound like where you're from? Nah, I mean it do. It do, I sound like them, but it, I'm just in another wave, like bro, I'm, I'm,


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[Assistant] I'm on a whole other planet, I feel like. I'm on different levels. I'm on different levels. I'm not where they at. And I think I skipped different levels from-


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[Assistant] Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect. What can I say? How can I say it? What is my wave? How can I start the song? How can I end the song? Bro, now my art became great. You feel me? So, I'm running with it.


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[Assistant] When did you realize that the Betrayer song was gonna be it?


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[Assistant] You feel me? You feel me? So I kinda tapped into him like, oh alright.


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[Assistant] They fuckin' with me over there. Them bro, you feel me? LJ, tapping to me, you feel me? I linked in with him, and that's another thing. I never genuinely met nobody over 6,000 miles away and actually fucked with the kid, you feel me? So it's like, that's...


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[Assistant] That's genuine. I fuck with that. You feel me? That's a life type thing. For life, forever, forever. You dig what I'm saying? Like that's, that type of, like, give me that type of vibe. So yea, definitely. That's what I knew. Like, oh yea, humble man.


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[Assistant] I just came off a tour with, uhm, One Take Jake. One Take Jake, uh, Chaz.


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[Assistant] Shout out to them guys, man. How was that? It was cool, man. The vibes was great.


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[Assistant] Were you basically in Baltimore your whole life? Yeaah, in that area.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, man. I know farthest, I know up north, farthest I knew up north, before I was fucking with the labels, was Jersey. And that was South Jersey. Uhm, and the farthest I knew down south was D.C. Ain't never fucked with Virginia.


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[Assistant] Alright, I ain't going out there, you feel me? So the farthest I've ever been down south was D.C.


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[Assistant] You see, I went to Georgia, I went to Georgia like Savannah for like a week. That shit don't count though. You feel me? But, eh DC, you feel me?


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[Assistant] Father's up north, South Jersey, so it's like bro, moving and going in New York and... crazy.


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[Assistant] As long as they living, as long as females are living and money is being made bro, I'm telling you I'm gonna have songs and songs and songs and songs. As long as they got planes that I can fly on, I'm good.


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[Assistant] Don't shake me, don't feel me, no type of way. That's why when I go to other cities that they be like dangerous. That shit don't shake me. Okay.


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[Assistant] Even if we don't got the highest murder rate, we in top three. Okay. So like bro, nothing shakes me when I go to other cities. You feel me? I just like to see different shit. You feel me? Like bro, you don't get to see good shit all the time.


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[Assistant] Straight up. Nah city ain't but so big, you can walk over east. Right.


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[Assistant] My city ain't the worst, bro. I went to Oakland the other day, shout out to Oakland, I love the bay. Uhm, but I went to Oakland, it was fucking crazy, bro. Like I never seen the most ratchetest...


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[Assistant] The most ratchetest together shit in my life, you feel me? And it was more ratchet than my city.


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[Assistant] Tapping in bro, to like different cities. Tapping in to different cities. So it's more like, I ain't really had too much time in all the cities that I went to, but when I had the time in Oakland,


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[Assistant] I stopped at 106, came here, met Big Vaughn, you, like that, you feel me? Like I wanna, I wanna tap into different cities, I wanna see what's going on, I wanna see who...


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[Assistant] Who, who moving the music around? Who I can tap in with? Who fucking with me? Who ain't fucking with me? I wanna know that, bruh. You feel me? So I know where I'm wasting my time at and where I'm at. Show nothing, bruh. I'm that type of guy. Show nothing.


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[Assistant] I always want to stay the best. And that's the thing. I'll probably, bro, I'll be in the city and won't nobody know how I see in the city, bro. No, won't nobody know.


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[Assistant] I'll be all through that. You dig what I'm sayin'? You feel me? So, like, that, that, it won't, it won't, man.


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[Assistant] I gotta stay the bitch. I gotta stay myself. Cause that's what got me where I'm at.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? I'll never go that far, bro. It's just, it won't. I gotta touch bases.


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[Assistant] Relate, bro. They wanna relate to you. If there's no relating, they really, it's just...


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[Assistant] Tunes at this point is really not music. It's tunes. It's just something to listen to. But when it's music, you actually like processing it. I can actually put it on. It's some moody type shit. You dig what I'm saying? When I'm in this type of mood, I can put this on. When I'm in this type of mood, I can put this. You see what I'm saying? So when you tapping in like that, I feel like you're not a rapper.


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[Assistant] Your artist, you understand what I'm saying? There's a lot of rappers. Like, I don't, I don't ever deny nobody when they be like, yo, there's a lot of rappers. There's a lot of rappers. There's not a lot of artists. Not a lot of people that can make music. Not a lot of people that can sit with a producer and be like,


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[Assistant] Put that on the beat or stop. Don't put that on the beat. Put that right there. Alright, I'm done. Just leave it right there and make the song right there. It's not a lot of artists bro, like that can create. You feel me? It's a lot of rappers. It's a lot of people you can turn on the beat and they can go crazy. Yeah, that's cool. It's alright. Let's go get some shit to bump.


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[Assistant] I don't knock nobody hustle, some shit to bump, but I really credit artists, people that sit and take time out making a beginning to an end type of song. I still respect that.


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[Assistant] It gives you longevity. It gives you long, long longevity. Cause it's like, oh he can create his own music and can make music for other people. It's like, shit. Like what can we do? I can do a lot of shit.


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[Assistant] Great. Out of my city, people don't get signed. It doesn't happen like that. You feel me? I don't know. You feel me? I'm different.


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[Assistant] I can't speak for everybody else, but I can speak for myself. I'm different. This is my second time. First time.


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[Assistant] Definitely, on my momma. On my momma, bruh. I remember everybody, nah, I ain't even, bruh, I remember everybody, but, but that bro, sure enough, I remember everybody and it feel, it feel great, you feel me? For them to really like, bargain for the kid, you feel me? It like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I ain't this rapper, I ain't that rapper. I'm me. I'm Shorty Shorty. You dig what I'm saying? I'm making my own music. I'm coming like this. You want to hear me? Plug up.


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[Assistant] And, and people respect that, people see that, that confidence off of my music and off of me, like bro, you won't take it or leave it.


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[Assistant] Alright, hello office, shout out to a lot of labels, I ain't even gonna name them.


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[Assistant] Right, exactly. You feel me? But it's, it's, it's inspiration to myself and it's kinda, it's, I wanna say it's motivation, but it's not, bro. You feel me? Coming from the city that I'm from. It's not. It's not.


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[Assistant] It ain't, you know what I mean? I'ma be serious, you know what I mean? I love everybody, even the niggas that don't love me. I love you too. Straight up, straight like that. You know what I mean? But the thing is, it's not motivation. It's, it's, it's like, niggas looking at like, shitting on me? You crazy? You shitting on me?


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[Assistant] Nah, I ain't shitting on you, bro. You don't even see that I ain't shitting on you. You gotta see that I'm trying to show you some better shit. I'm trying to show you that what you doing is foolishness or is a waste of time. Or I feel like you should...


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[Assistant] Put a-put a strategy to this shit, bro, cause it's-it's gonna be all over the place.


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[Assistant] Nah, I'm, I'm fuckin', I'ma go, I'ma go fuck up the babes too and shit. Oh. Bro said he got, they got some shit down there, I'ma go.


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[Assistant] Fuck yeaah, financial, life, all that shit.


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[Assistant] I'm on my way shooting it. Uhm, I ain't even gonna get back to it.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. That's my guy. That's my guy. Shout out to COVID.


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[Assistant] And shout out to the team, my whole team, family, Baltimore, yeaah.


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[Assistant] So I'm looking at things from a domestic violence and sexual assault situation. I need to think that the league needs to be more proactive in their approach instead of reactive. Get to the root cause of why these situations keep happening. I think there needs to be more awareness and education in the domestic violence and sexual assault realm.


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[Assistant] What a lot of players may think is consensual in a lot of sexual situations may not be actual consensual contact. And I think that there is education that needs to be had around that.


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[Assistant] I may interpret things one way, you may interpret things another. So I think that there needs to be some self awareness that is taught so that people can start paying attention to people's reactions to what they're saying and what they're doing.


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[Assistant] Right, I don't think you're going to completely scrub it out of the NFL and you're right, this happens all over society. But when you're in the athletic realm and you're in the spotlight, you need to understand that. You need to understand that your actions are going to have consequences just because of who you are.


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[Assistant] And in a lot of situations, especially these athletes that started out as very young age, they've been in a protective bubble, right? So they haven't had to learn about personal boundaries. They haven't had to learn about consequences for their behavior.


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[Assistant] They get to the professional realm and they're still doing these things that they got away with their entire childhood and teenage years. They take it into the professional space where they're making millions of dollars. They're in the spotlight and they get in trouble and it throws them off guard because they never have to suffer consequences for their behavior in the past.


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[Assistant] Based on social constructs for coaches, trainers, and athletes, which is a proactive group approach as opposed to a reactive approach to educate and create awareness.


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[Assistant] I do believe that the NFL players need help post-career. And that is something that we can assist them with as well.


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[Assistant] We had, uh, won our first little league game Friday night, had the team over Sunday on the trampoline in the hot tub playing basketball. Kids were going crazy, had all the parents over.


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[Assistant] Had in-laws over at my mom over yesterday, cooked out again. We had a fantastic weekend. Nobody got injured on the trampoline? Nobody. I made my son, AJ, broke his wrist and he's just coming out of the cast.


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[Assistant] No, he broke it in gym class. And I told him, if you're on the trampoline dude, you gotta put the cast back on. He plays tonight. He missed Friday's game. His season debut is tonight and the kid is climbing the walls. Yeah, nice. Soft tossing with him yesterday. He's an animal. Is he pitching? No, he has no idea where the ball is going. I understand that.


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[Assistant] Like, how was we doing that? Well, we were in a house, and apparently, I didn't know at the time, we're not supposed to eat pink chicken. If it's pink and wet, it's not done. Oh, you didn't know that? No. And I was like, it's good enough, and I about killed myself with salmonella pork. Oh yeaah, let's see, let's see. This is awful.


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[Assistant] I think they're going to have to go multiple years on him just for cat purposes. And I was talking to Zach Jackson about it on my drive in this morning, our bronze rider.


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[Assistant] I am a little bit concerned about the age of the receiving broom and adding another guy.


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[Assistant] As you say, who's going to, we went 31 next week. Amari I think is 29, 30 in that range. Goodwin I think is going to be 32 next year. So that is a little bit cause for concern. Now, if DeAndre Hopkins picks up the phone and says, I want to come to Cleveland, you figure it out. Yeah, absolutely. But I don't think it's going to happen. I think that there's other places that probably fit a little bit better for him.


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[Assistant] They're cutting them now so that they just take the entire cap hit now rather than designate them post June 1. They're going to be bad this year so just eat it now. So they're willing to just eat the dead money now but Hopkins is going to want to get paid.


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[Assistant] If, well yeaah, I mean, Hopkins holds all the cards here. He's in control of this whole thing. I have a hard time believing that he would choose Cleveland over all the other options. Just for a variety of reasons. I don't think, I think other teams could probably pay him a little bit more. The Browns, I know. Well, Kansas City and Buffalo don't have a lot of cap space either. No, I know.


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[Assistant] But just better opportunities, better quarterbacks, better chance to win. Let's just be realistic. If I'm him, I want to go to Kansas City or Buffalo. Maybe the Chargers would be on that list too, with Justin Herbert. And I think he said something about he would be open to reuniting with Deshaun Watson. That's not a very strong endorsement.


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[Assistant] You know, what do you want him to say? Like, screw that guy, I'm never playing with him. Like, that's just a very lukewarm.


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[Assistant] It just feels like we'd never learn our lessons and go get every big name guy and throw him on the team. And like, it just, like Jarvis and Odell didn't work. And listen, I don't want, this is, these are two completely different receivers. But just the idea of go get a big name and throw him on the field and he's going to have 1500 yards.


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[Assistant] I think he was probably frustrated with the situation he was in. I mean, it's just not good. It's not a well run organization.


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[Assistant] They've already. They've invested big money already. Yeaah. I mean, what kind of salary kept they got?


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[Assistant] It goes back to the conversation about winning versus financing, which you, which you value more. That's right. But I mean, you can put incentives in there. You can make a contract look like anything you want it to. Didn't mean he's going to earn all the money, but just for headline sake and for him to be able to say, I signed for X amount. Right. It could be 4 million.


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[Assistant] I was between, well I'll give my pick away. I was, I was in consideration for that. Yeaah. That was between one and two. Alright.


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[Assistant] And Nick Chubb to me is the top three running back in the league. I think he could be in Canton one day. It's a no-brainer slam dunk for me. It was between defensive end and running backs. Uh, and so I will, if Myles Garrett isn't there, I will gladly welcome Nick Chubb to Team Goose.


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[Assistant] Uh, can be just a terrific lockdown corner. They already have one on the other side in Denzel. He's gonna miss four games. We know that. But in the 12-13 that he's out there, he is elite.


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[Assistant] And when you add Greg Newsom in the slot to that, when you add Delpit behind him in, in, uh, its safety, I, I think that the secondary with the defensive line that they have playing in front of them could be really, really, really good. And just, just based on Emerson and Denzel alone, give me the defensive backs.


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[Assistant] Well, this is easy. Uh, last we saw the defensive tackles, they were pretty atrocious. But I have faith that they have sufficiently upgraded Dalvin Tomlinson, of course, in the middle. Uh, Siaki Ika is just a massive human being. He'll be on the field.


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[Assistant] That's for sure. Especially if it's my defensive tackle. He's gone. Uh, you have to believe that Jim Schwartz is going to get the best out of this unit. And Tomlinson at least has a record of success in Minnesota. And I... Listen, we're in the third round. It is what it is.


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[Assistant] Just an easy day, stress-free day for the bullpen. It wasn't a nail biter. Isn't that amazing? It's incredible. Logan Allen was fantastic. There he is right there. Yeah. Uh, Allen was terrific.


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[Assistant] And just continues to improve as one of the young pitchers. Pitching is not the problem with this team though. We have to see them hit. And I think Will Brandon had a couple of hits yesterday, finally starting to put things together for him. But yeah, we need to see more of it. And I know I've been saying all along, June 1st is sort of when you sort of know who you are and that's still true and we know who they are.


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[Assistant] They're a team that's gonna struggle to score runs. They're gonna have to scrap for everything that they get. And they're gonna have to rely on terrific pitching. And if they give up three or more runs in a game, they're gonna have a hard time winning that day.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe come up with a phantom hamstring or something to buy yourself a couple of weeks. Yeah. Put someone on DL. I don't know. I mean, Quantrill hasn't been great. Uh, but I, I don't know. It's a good problem to have. I, I don't know. There is no clear cut solution right now. I think by July, a lot of this will sort itself out.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't think so. Certainly not Bybee. He's been fantastic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know how you turn around and tell that guy now. No, I'd be ridiculous.


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[Assistant] We said the other day, the guardians would be, what was it? 15, 16 out if they were in the East. Yeah. I'd, I'd be so mad if I was Tampa being stuck in that division with Baltimore.


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[Assistant] But Tampa just doesn't spend like, even Baltimore has spent big previously.


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[Assistant] His power. The people that they invested the most in have let them down. And that's, you know, we talked about it last week. Jimenez, Josh Bell, and Zanino got the big money contracts. I mean, Zanino is 6 million, but for this organization, that's a big money contract.


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[Assistant] How much different does this lineup look if those three guys are hitting?


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[Assistant] It covers the mild straw. It covers the problems in right field. Quan hasn't been terrible. He's fine. Jose's been fine. He's not off to a historic pace like he was last year, but he's certainly not the problem with this team. Rosario is terrible every April into May.


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[Assistant] But it's those three guys, it's the investment that they made in Josh Bell, the long-term contract they gave Jimenez, and the one year, kind of, see what you got left deal with Zanino.


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[Assistant] Those are the three spots for me that have really dragged this thing down. If they're getting the production that the money should warrant, things would look a lot different and we'd feel a lot differently about this team.


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[Assistant] Right, but I'm just saying, like, we keep talking about all the young guys, all the young guys, all the young guys aren't what's killing them. I mean, Jimenez, half the young guys that played last year aren't even here. When we throw out that seven, that number of 17 guys making their debut, half of them aren't even here.


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[Assistant] And we've, we've talked at length. We don't need to relitigate the fact that they haven't been able to make any big trades, but because of that, because of the 40 man roster be in the situation it is.


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[Assistant] You know, I have top prospects holding utility roles, which hardly ever happens. And they felt in spring, I talked to Tito and Chris both about this and they felt like they could find enough at bats for these guys to keep them sharp and keep them fresh. That hasn't happened. Certainly with Tyler Freeman, that hasn't happened.


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[Assistant] They've made it more of a point to try and get Arius in the lineup a little bit more often.


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[Assistant] But it's difficult and it's all, it all traces back to the inability to swing a big trade and the clog that you now have. That's a failure.


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[Assistant] Because you should have, who was the guy, Mike Freeman a couple years ago, that should be your utility guy. Guys who don't have to play every day, you can come in and pinch run, be a defensive replacement late, but you're not trying to develop and you're not


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[Assistant] You know, you wonder if it's stunting the development of some of these guys. I would think absolutely it is. Because they don't have the opportunity to play every...


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[Assistant] The fact that it's one year helps. Like, I actually, I think the Bell contract could really become a problem.


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[Assistant] If he doesn't turn it around. That's a massive. He's not going to opt out. Not at the rate he's going. Now you're on another 16 and a half next year. But every dollar is accounted for on this, on this payroll and 6 million. I mean, what's their total payroll?


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[Assistant] Six million is, it's not, listen, it doesn't sink the franchise if they DFA them and move on, which is what I think they should do, but it's just a matter of, it's difficult for them to have misses even of that magnitude.


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[Assistant] You have, yeaah, I think it's 10 days to trade him or put him on waivers. If no one claims him, then you can put him to the, you can send him to the minors, but he's available for other teams to claim at that point. Okay. Right.


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[Assistant] Maybe the Guardians can hire someone from St. Louis because they also had Adolas Garcia and Randy Rosarina and gave both of them away.


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[Assistant] Yes and no, yeaah, I was surprised. You think in a game seven they've got all the momentum in the series that they could have had a better performance.


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[Assistant] At the same time, Tatum goes down in the first minute of the game, and I think that obviously had a pretty big impact.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying Boston wins that if he's healthy, but it's not a 20 point blowout that it became in the fourth quarter if he's at full strength. So I'm disappointed at Boston. I've said since February, I thought they're going to win a championship this year. I thought they were the best team.


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[Assistant] Admittedly, I didn't watch a lot of Denver throughout the season. I've really enjoyed watching Denver in the postseason and god, are they good? They're better than I thought that they were. Uh, I think it'll be a good, uh, finals matchup, but yeah, I'm disappointed in Boston. I'm disappointed in how it ended for them and.


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[Assistant] You know, I think Missoula's back. You know, him and Steve, Brad Stevens have a pretty tight relationship. And he was putting a thrust into a really difficult spot.


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[Assistant] When he, the timing of it all when he became the head coach, it really was just, it was EMA staff and they just handed the reins to Joe and said, okay, go. They still have two really talented young players I love in Tatum and Brown. Uh, I hope they don't blow it up. I would run it back at least one more time.


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[Assistant] But, uh, they got a lot of decisions to make in Boston. That's for sure. But Kevin Love is going back to the NBA finals. It's unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Just the fact that in February when he goes to Miami and it was sort of like a pat on the head of there, there, Kevin, you know, have fun in Miami and now they're still alive. He didn't even play last night. Didn't get one minute in the game.


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[Assistant] Why are you playing against the best coach in the league? Well, when you're talking rest versus rust, I'll take the rest every single time because the rust would last one game at most. Fair. And I talked to, when I was writing the book, I talked to David Griffin just about, he said it's just a war of attrition.


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[Assistant] And the more that you play, and the more that you get worn down, and you expose yourself to injuries, and that's where Miami's at right now, coming off that seven game series. The Cavs, where Denver is, the Cavs were always, they would sweep everyone and sit at home for a week, take the week off, and it was a massive help. Now Denver's a lot younger than some of the Cavs players at the time, they were a little bit older, but uhm, well of course we talk about Jokic, he's a little bit older than you'd think he is.


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[Assistant] Never got any close. I remember we were talking before about Boston or Miami had a 3% chance to win the series. Oh yeah. What were the odds? Do you, do you know what?


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[Assistant] How much could you make if you took Miami at the start of that series? They were a pretty significant underdog.


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[Assistant] We've been counting them out the entire postseason. And the one thing Spolster said I loved, after the game six loss, he was despondent. They all were. They were devastated. And he sat at the podium and said, I don't know how, but we will be ready.


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[Assistant] And it was, he is so good. I have so much respect. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, here's a bombshell. Did you guys see this from Wosch? Nope. What do we got? Uh, Golden States Bob Myers is stepping down.


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[Assistant] Wow. Which, I mean, it's been kind of, we've written about that at the athletic at length all year long, that it was probably headed that way, or they could part ways, but Bob Myers has been the architect of that. Wow. Of that dynasty. Really a good dude. Why? Why'd you leave him? Uh, probably just burnout. I'm not that close to it, I don't know. Go ahead, Mike.


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[Assistant] I don't think he wants to jump right back in. I think he wants to take a little bit of a break. I would think, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm totally wrong on that.


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[Assistant] He's done a terrific job of- He drafted all- How long's he been there? He's been there.