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[Assistant] It's just that nothing beats the sunlight in the night, in the summers here. The soft light from the midnight sun, that's like a photographer's dream.


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[Assistant] The reason why I chose to go here to Aubie School is because I was here


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[Assistant] Seven years ago. 2016. I actually went on my very first road trip ever. Back then my life looked very different. Well, not really.


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[Assistant] In a way it's very similar, but I had so much more struggles around my work and financial struggles. I didn't really make a living on what I was doing, but I was still like fighting through it.


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[Assistant] That's why I had never really gone on road trips, because I couldn't really afford gas or...


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[Assistant] Afford being away, doing something fun, you know? Back then I was, uh...


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[Assistant] It was a job for Hyundai, the car brand. They contacted me and asked if I was interested to take photos of one of their car models.


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[Assistant] Which is actually the exact same car model that we have today. We have a Hyundai, but it has nothing to do with the work I did for them. We actually just fell in love with that car, so we ended up buying one. But we didn't even get a discount or anything, so...


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[Assistant] So Hyundai, uh, let me borrow one of their cars and I got to drive wherever I wanted.


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[Assistant] And, uh, my dream had always been to go further north in Sweden, to go to the mountains and these areas, because I had never been here. So I got to borrow this really nice, fancy car and, uh, I packed it full of my stuff and, uh, I headed north.


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[Assistant] Magical days. I also went to other beautiful places up north in Sweden, and I think that that road trip


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[Assistant] Opened up something. Because after that, a lot of things happened. Good things.


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[Assistant] Things started flowing a little bit more and I felt like I, for the first time, had


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[Assistant] Felt that kind of freedom that it is when you just pack your stuff in a car and go somewhere.


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[Assistant] Just to get in a car and drive without a schedule, without a time plan.


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[Assistant] Just go and see what happens. And I think once you have experienced that freedom, it's like you get a taste of something that you wanna feel again. And uh, I think that has inspired me a lot in my life.


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[Assistant] I think you can feel free in so many different ways as a human.


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[Assistant] It all depends on who you are and what gives you that freedom inside your heart. For me.


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[Assistant] Freedom is a lot about just having myself to ask, just to do whatever I want to do whenever I wanna do it.


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[Assistant] To experience beautiful things and to be in the present moment and I'm never as much in the present moment as I am when I'm in nature and I'm experiencing beautiful things. During all these years I feel like I have taken choices that will lead me closer to a life where I can


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[Assistant] Live as much as possible like that. To spend as much of my time as possible doing what I love without someone else telling me when I should do it or how I should do it.


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[Assistant] And to make people feel things, you know, that's always been my passion. I'm just very happy for that.


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[Assistant] And I'm sure that journey in 2016 gave me something. It gave me like a source of inspiration and power.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you need to feel a taste of what you truly love so that you know what you want more of.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the reason why I wanted to go to Abisko again is because I wanted to revisit some of these places that I visited in 2016. But actually the...


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[Assistant] Number one thing that I wanted to go here for is because I wanted to go to Silvarefallet.


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[Assistant] It means the silver fall. It's a beautiful waterfall here in Abisko. And of course I was there in 2016. I took some photos there and


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[Assistant] It was really beautiful. I didn't know anything about it then, I just saw the place and yeaah.


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[Assistant] I went down there to take some photos. I remember someone told me afterwards that there's this saying that if you drink the water from the Silverfall, you will stay young forever.


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[Assistant] I don't know where it comes from and I don't remember who told me it.


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[Assistant] I just like when a place have a story or some kind of myth around it. But the reason that I wanted to go to the Silverfall now was because


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[Assistant] And then I will use the water for creating my future paintings in my new art studio.


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[Assistant] I told you one about this idea and he was laughing. You know, the kind of warm laugh when he's like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, whatever you want to do. It just really made sense to me. I love things like that. For some people, water is just water, wherever you find it. But I just really like to...


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[Assistant] Use, eh, things or pigments or things like that from different places that has a strong meaning for me and using water from the silver fall in my paintings feels like it's gonna add


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[Assistant] Explode once I have my art studio. So what time is it now, my darlings? It is 9.30. So my plan now is that I'm going to go to the Silverfall.


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[Assistant] People. I'm just used to have no people at all around me, so visiting a place that is more attractive to people.


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[Assistant] Have anyone around me while I'm doing photography work or something like that. I wanna be totally myself. So knowing that some people can show up anytime makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. It's not my truest element or what to say.


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[Assistant] But that's just how it is. I totally understand why a lot of people want to visit this place, so. Okay, enough talking for now. Let's go to my first goal, destination of this trip. Which is the Silverfall. And collect some water.


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[Assistant] I spent a couple of hours by the waterfall and the beautiful surroundings. There is definitely something to this place that I really love. I also brought some jewelry designs with me on this journey so that I could take some photos of them by the silverfall. I just had a feeling that silver jewelry would look extra beautiful here.


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[Assistant] So, after a really magical time in Abisko, I then continued driving in the night to my next destination on this road trip. And for that I was going back south a couple of hours.


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[Assistant] On the way there, I parked my van to get some hours of sleep in the early morning, and then to do some work before I continue driving.


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[Assistant] The next day, there was a little bit of drama going on.


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[Assistant] I was really close to my next destination, but first I just needed to make a quick stop in the town called Gällivare to get some gas in the van before I continued. But I ended up spending my whole day there since I had a little accident on the gas station.


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[Assistant] I was a bit stressed out in this moment as you can see, but I was going to get some gas for the van and it was really crowded on the gas station.


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[Assistant] As I was going to drive out from where the pump is, I didn't have so much space to turn the van, so one of the tires went into like a metal edge, which then cut into the tire like a knife, so it was immediately emptied of air.


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[Assistant] I wasn't really sure on who to call first or how to solve the situation, so I called the insurance company first to ask for help.


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[Assistant] And now maybe it's a good timing to let you know that I have a lot of anxiety when it comes to do phone calls. Or even any kind of communication around calling, messages, mails, answering the phone. Even when it's my own friends who calls me. I know, it's weird.


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[Assistant] Calling up people is the worst thing, especially in cases like this. It can take me half an hour to prepare mentally.


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[Assistant] But I feel like I lose 80% of my brain since things just doesn't flow naturally for me in these situations. At least I feel like I say the wrong things.


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[Assistant] I often end up feeling so stupid and misunderstood whenever I have to communicate with people.


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[Assistant] The more I try to just be normal the more weird it gets. It's like a mental blockage I have and I don't really know how to overcome it yet. I hate doing this, I hate doing this.


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[Assistant] But this situation was actually a really good learning experience for me. I had to go outside my comfort zone and call four different companies. And for me, that's a huge step.


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[Assistant] Within an hour, the tow truck came to pick up the van and take it to the closest car service. And the man who drove the tow truck happened to be such a kind and helpful person.


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[Assistant] Peter comes from the area around Gällivare and has lived his whole life here. And on our way to the car service he gave me a tour around Gällivare and Malmberget, which is a huge mining area.


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[Assistant] Because of the mining, there has become a risk of collapse in the ground, so the whole town needs to be moved to another location.


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[Assistant] The same thing is happening to the town Kiruna, further up north.


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[Assistant] And as you can imagine, moving a whole town is a huge project and it affects the people living here in many ways. He shared a lot about this and I'm so grateful for that, cause I learned so much.


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[Assistant] After a very interesting tour, we came to the car service.


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[Assistant] When the tire was fixed I started driving to my next destination, and I arrived in the early evening. After a long day in the town, it felt so good to be back in nature again.


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[Assistant] But I also couldn't help but feel that there was a meaning behind everything. I felt so grateful for meeting Peter and hear his story and get the tour in Malmberget. I learned a lot this day, and if I could go back in time I wouldn't change a thing. Peter, if you see this, thank you again for making a hard day so much better.


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[Assistant] It was a very windy evening, but so beautiful. I decided that before I start doing anything else, I needed to take a bath.


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[Assistant] Usually I take a shower or swim every day. I kinda need the water to not only get clean physically, but to reset myself and my mind. Water is so healing. It's like it peels off layers of built up emotions and energy. So after this bath I felt so much better again.


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[Assistant] It's a national park in Sweden. If you've been on this channel for a while, I'm sure you maybe recognize this place because I've been here before. And the reason why I went here again is because I have a little project that I wanted to do here.


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[Assistant] Apart from just enjoying the beautiful mountains and the surroundings. And I needed a specific place here for that project. And it's the Humming Mountains.


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[Assistant] was in 2016. It was the same time as I was doing the photography job for Hyundai that I told you about earlier in this video. Uhm, so I first went up to Abisko and then I came to this place.


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[Assistant] Of course working, taking photos of the car in different nice surroundings. I also spent the whole night just exploring the area and taking as much photos and films as I could because I was so inspired. This is also the place where I took one of my most favorite photos all time. I call it the mountains are calling.


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[Assistant] It's a photo that means a lot to me because


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[Assistant] When I see that photo, I immediately are thrown back to that moment, which was very, very special. It was in the middle of the night, in the end of May, and yeaah, I was driving around finding beautiful spots to take photos, and then I saw this beautiful view with the


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[Assistant] Mountain and eh, the river, which it was still like ice on the river, but it was melting. Yeah, so I put up my camera on the tripod as I always do. Then I was going to go down to the river as close as I could to the river to stand in front of the mountain. And yeah, I just saw this image in my head.


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[Assistant] So I started walking down to, yeaah, to the river.


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[Assistant] But as I came really close and I started walking upon this u-truck, I started sensing something. It was as if...


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[Assistant] I for the first time in my life could feel that the mountains in front of me was alive. So when I stood there on that rock, it was as if I felt how the mountains were sending out some kind of frequency. And the best way I can describe it is as if the mountains were humming. Like very deep humming.


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[Assistant] And it's, it's not like it was a sound like this. It's not like I could hear it like that.


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[Assistant] It was more like I felt the sound inside of me. I felt the vibrations of the sound.


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[Assistant] Very strange and I had never felt anything like it before. I think it was especially that moment as well, because it was in the middle of the night and it was just a very...


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[Assistant] My experience uhm, I'm not making this up. It's totally how I felt in that moment. And I remember that


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[Assistant] I was so scared. Not scared, that's the wrong word, but you know when you stand in front of something that is so huge.


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[Assistant] It's an experience that I will have with me for the rest of my life. So I got the photo that I wanted and, uh, yeaah, it means so much to me because when I see that photo, I see the realness in it. Like,


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[Assistant] It's not fake, like for me it's so real because I feel like I'm having a talk with mountains or something.


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[Assistant] Something like that. Maybe I'm just really, really weird. Maybe this is all in my head, but for me it's very real, you know? Every place has its own energy and I think


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[Assistant] And yeaah, that's why I'm actually here now, because we made


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[Assistant] A jewelry collection inspired by these humming mountains. And it's a design that Yu-Wan have been working on. And...


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[Assistant] It's called the Barry Collection and also Ancient Collection. There's two different types of, uh, of jewelry designs. We have already put out


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[Assistant] I felt like I really wanted to take photos of them here in this area. The Barry collection. It's actually, I always have at least one Barry ring on me. I don't know if you can see them too well here.


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[Assistant] These are the ones that we put out in the autumn last year. The word badi, that means, uhm, mounting or...


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[Assistant] By making jewelry that looks like it's old.


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[Assistant] You know, that has this dark surface, like it's something that's been out in nature for hundreds of years and I really love that too. Uh, so he made these designs with this, yeaah, these ancient structures. So my goal now is to take some really beautiful photos of


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[Assistant] But when it's low degrees and it's windy, that's when I kinda break down. Oh, these mountains! I feel like I almost can't look at them.


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[Assistant] So huge. Alright, but let's do this. Let's have a date with the Humming Mountains.


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[Assistant] We need to work now before the sun rises. Or I mean the sun never sets now but it's like behind this mountain so I don't want the sunlight to


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[Assistant] It got less windy now. Uhm, I think I've been here for an hour or something. And I think I at least got some of the product photos. Now I think I'm soon gonna go back to the van. But before I leave this place.


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[Assistant] I am going to leave one of my bergring on the stone where I took the photo seven years ago as a gift to the mountain as a thank you for the inspiration to the photos and films and


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[Assistant] Music that I'm, that I will do from this place. Also maybe someday someone finds it and then I guess that's meant to happen.


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[Assistant] When I woke up in the late forenoon after some good hours of sleep, it was like waking up in paradise. There was no more cold winds. Everything was so quiet and it was warm and sunny and just perfect.


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[Assistant] And it's such nice weather. I'm really lucky because I don't think there's too many days that looks like this. I love the huge rocks everywhere.


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[Assistant] After many days on the road with a lot of driving, it felt so nice to just spend my whole day at this place without going anywhere else. I decided to keep my van parked here and sleep here for another night. I wanted to go back to the beautiful river later in the evening. But first I needed to clean up in the van and do some work.


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[Assistant] This is the midnight sun. In the very far north, the sun never sets during the summer months, so you can see the sun 24 hours a day. I filmed this yesterday, a few minutes after midnight.


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[Assistant] And as the late evening arrived, I went outside again to spend another magical night among the mountains.


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[Assistant] With my heart full of joy and gratitude for these amazing days and nights on the roads, I was ready to head back home again. I felt so deeply recharged in a way I hadn't felt for so long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just feel so ready, like ready to go back. I've had...


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[Assistant] I got to do everything that I wanted to do and yeaah, I really got to recharge something inside of me. As you know, I felt a bit tired after this whole fear of renovations and


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[Assistant] Six months of really hard work is done and now I've been out doing what I absolutely love to do. I'm so recharged and so...


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[Assistant] I'm on my way back home to my beautiful family, to my beautiful life at home. Everyone is waiting for me and


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[Assistant] It's midnight sun outside, it's just a beautiful night.


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[Assistant] And when I come back home, my art studio is going to be ready for me to move in. It just feels too good to be true. That everything just, I don't know, worked out.


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[Assistant] It feels so good because I just have three hours left and I'm listening to some good music and I'm just feeling grateful for this journey and for the journey that will come now.


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[Assistant] I'm going back home to Johan, to Nanook, to Naili, to my beautiful home in the woods.


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[Assistant] So, to all of you out there in the world, wherever you are, uhm, I hope you're doing good, I hope you take care of yourself and each other, and as always, I wanna thank you for all your sweet comments and yeah, everything that you share.


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[Assistant] So, I see you soon again. I'm sending you so much love and so much positive vibes.


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[Assistant] Secretary of State Colin Powell told the UN in February that Saddam Hussein was harboring up to 500 tons of biological and chemical weapons.


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[Assistant] So far, coalition troops have not found one ounce.


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[Assistant] Reason for these individuals, uh, to support the New Rock. In fact, it was in their interest to oppose it.


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[Assistant] Week after week after week, the big demonstrations got larger and larger. There was enormous concern where there were actually killings.


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[Assistant] Between Sunni and Shia, that Al-Qaeda tried to fuel as much as they possibly could.


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[Assistant] This violence had so much momentum that it was very, very difficult to stop it.


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[Assistant] I had a consensus of everybody that we had contact with in the administration, uhm, that this would be an extremely dangerous thing to do. These were serious people.


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[Assistant] Uh, consensus across the board of those who


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[Assistant] Talk to us that it was going to be dangerous. A level of stridency that was.


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[Assistant] Quite impressive. And, you know, after much discussion, decided, uh, that we weren't ready to go with it.


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[Assistant] Because we had to either decide we're still not ready to run this story or the situation has changed sufficiently that we are ready to run the story, in which case, uhm,


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[Assistant] He said, you know, listen, if you guys publish this article and there is another 9-11.


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[Assistant] Arthur Salzberger will have blood on your hands if there's another attack that could have been prevented by this program.


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[Assistant] He had barely had time to figure out his way to the situation room and how to get to the Pentagon before he's got the Nobel peace prize. A little embarrassing.


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[Assistant] General McChrystal has been for years the head of special forces, then he brings with him his old special forces group.


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[Assistant] Who speak in a harsh language of special forces. We don't hire the snake eaters, as they call themselves, to be America's diplomats.


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[Assistant] The American people want to keep the terrorists at Guantanamo out of their neighborhoods, out of their neighborhoods, and off the battlefield.


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[Assistant] I learned about the Solsong. The real truth of it. Back when I was with the Order in Luxirion.


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[Assistant] Why didn't you try to run away together? I wanted to. Believe me, I tried reason, guilt, even brute force.


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[Assistant] Even the power she has to hear the dead. She thinks it's God trying to punish her.


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[Assistant] The order says it's the only way to end their suffering.


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[Assistant] The bastards want to pretend their sins never happened, so they can breathe easier. And just for that, they're willing to kill Vanille, in the name of a lie!


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[Assistant] It would have been a hell of a mistake, but there's still time to make it up to them.


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[Assistant] Nope. Though you're right that it's no coincidence. I'm here because I've been keeping an eye on you.


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[Assistant] Whatever, you can save both if you'd really like. But you must have noticed that dear daddy's soul is getting crushed, right, savior?


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[Assistant] You wanted to protect her, so you fell into that crystal sleep.


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[Assistant] And you know who took it out, don't you? But Nevelza did, when he woke you up to do his bidding.


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[Assistant] Vanille has the power to summon all the souls to her. When she does, the order will use the Clavis to destroy them. When it preaches purification, that's what the order really means. But why would they wipe out the past? To get rid of all the sadness and uncertainty. All those regrets that hold us back and make us weak.


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[Assistant] We disengaged not only militarily, uh, at the end of 2011, we disengaged politically. The war was over. We were out.


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[Assistant] Let the chips fall from where they may. Well, I don't think we thought through exactly how many chips were going to fall and what the consequences of that would be.


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[Assistant] Could that be? Is that the angel of legends? The white chocobo! I, I am one of the believers, awaiting the world's end. And you, you are the bringer of the end. That creature with feathers of white will lead you toward your destined path. Now is the time. You must make your way to the temple. I will stand right here, praying for your safety and for your soul.


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[Assistant] You, you have been chosen by the angel of Ahala. I am one of the believers, awaiting the world's end. And you, you are the bringer of the end. That creature with feathers of white will lead you toward your destined path. Now is the time. You must make your way to the temple. I will stand right here, praying for your safety and for your soul.


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[Assistant] The president decided he wanted this behind us. He wanted to normalize Iraq when it's a country that's not normal. The war was over. We were out. Let the chips fall where they may.


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[Assistant] He simply wanted to put Iraq behind us.


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[Assistant] Shortly after the U.S. policy for Iraq is announced, uhm, the Iraq NSC shop, as we knew it, is shut down. Uhm, the directors go from six to two and they're buried fairly deep in the bureaucracy with no direct access to the president.


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[Assistant] Middle East politics is a full context sport. It's a, it's a survival game. And as Maliki figures out that the White House is just really not that vested in Iraq, uhm, he'll take matters into his own hands.


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[Assistant] This is clearly a moment where Iraqi politics begins to fall apart. But Hashemi's really the, the one who triggers everything that happens afterwards.


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[Assistant] General Keane is really highly admired across the army. He's kind of a soldier's soldier.


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[Assistant] And he had argued in the tank before the invasion of Iraq, don't invade Iraq.


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[Assistant] Bush never said mission accomplished, but that banner was hanging up right behind his head as he gave that speech. And it really was a premature victory speech that didn't recognize what was going on in Iraq.


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[Assistant] But doesn't know a whole lot about the Middle East, doesn't speak Arabic, doesn't know the region.


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[Assistant] The green zone became the emerald city, walled off from the rest of Iraq. Uh, rest of Iraq, electricity is intermittent at best, uh, sewage problems, uh,


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[Assistant] Dusty, dirty potholes inside the green zone. It's calm, it's quiet.


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[Assistant] And Bremer kinda says, look, you don't understand. I'm not asking you. I'm telling you, this is what I'm gonna do. I'm not asking for your advice.


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[Assistant] So across the board, it's almost like people are wiping their hands saying, great job fellas, you know, you guys play the next game, we're out of here.


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[Assistant] August 2003 is when the real war for the future of Iraq began. August 7th, the Jordanian embassy gets blown up. A few days later, the UN gets blown up.


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[Assistant] The biggest single tactical mistake was to stuff up a grave with tens of thousands of Iraqis.


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[Assistant] Who may have been neutral about the Americans when they went in, but weren't when they came out.


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[Assistant] In his second generation army general, his father was a general who died in Vietnam. He goes out to Iraq, yet he's never led troops in combat.


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[Assistant] Units based on big forward operating bases, FOBs, going out and doing patrols from Humvees, and then coming back to their base.


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[Assistant] The problem that Casey faces and his advisors are telling him is you're not going to be able to hold elections here as long as Fallujah's out there.


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[Assistant] I think the most intense combat U.S. forces had seen certainly since the Vietnam War.


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[Assistant] David Petraeus is an interesting figure, an intellectual, has a PhD from Princeton, enjoys talking to politicians and journalists, and uhm, in the army that's kind of three strikes.


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[Assistant] You know, Princeton intellectual likes Washington, likes journalists. Uh, you're out, fella.


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[Assistant] You really could see guys with their fingers crossed that month in Baghdad. You know, this has got to start working pretty soon. Betrayers was very worried in that period.


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[Assistant] The biggest change Petraeus makes and the biggest gamble he takes is he puts the Sunni insurgency on the American payroll.


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[Assistant] Remember I asked Petraeus once, how did you get President Bush to approve that? And he said, oh, I didn't need his approval, so I didn't ask for it.


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[Assistant] Well-trained commanders in the Iraqi army and replaces them with political loyalists. It's as if he's more worried about a coup than he is in having an effective military. Because what good is an effective military if it's against you?


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[Assistant] The government in Baghdad led by Prime Minister Maliki and encouraged by the Syrian war and in part armed by the Syrian war have risen up.


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[Assistant] And I think we're probably only in Act 4 right now. Act 5, you know, the bloody conclusion of Hamlet and Macbeth, uh, still has not happened.


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[Assistant] How's your boy doing? He's not my boy. It's his dad. He's not my dad either. He is the President of the United States.


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[Assistant] I don't care. How do you like his stay at the Four Seasons? What are you getting at? I smell an embarrassing moment for someone. Trump's team gave a speech at the Four Seasons total landscaping. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] You want the first one? Don't mind about who. Oh no. That's like spending your honeymoon in Paris.


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[Assistant] Tennessee. Paris, Tennessee is a beautiful place for a honeymoon. It's like taking the kids for a weekend at Disney.


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[Assistant] Land. What did I do to you? That's like celebrating Mardi Gras in Alabama. I did it first. Calm down, android. That's like going to New York for Christmas, but staying in Rochester. That's like getting a job in Hollywood. Florida.


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[Assistant] That was a good one. Are we done here? Oh no. There's more? Oh yeah. Tell me everything. Four seasons total landscaping is right in between a sex shop and a crematorium. And this is real? Yes.


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[Assistant] Use your words. I haven't seen this level of truly poor decision making since 2009 when MTV filmed Spring Break and Panama City Beach for the last time. Are you okay? I'm just, I-


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be so bored for the next four years. That's a good thing. I guess it's time for me to put the team on my back. No!


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[Assistant] So I had a pretty, uh, rough year. In terms of just people who meant a lot to me dying, you know, Lil Peep, that was brutal. Gabe Brooks was like a good friend of mine, BMX rider from LA. Him passing, you know, those were both tough, but when I really think about it, the Combat Jack one is


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[Assistant] I mean that was brutal and I really haven't dealt with it in a lot of ways and it's also kind of like a guilty feeling for me that I haven't really documented any of these uh, passings that I've dealt with in terms of like video content which seems like a really obvious way to go about


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, sorting through my feelings and making something meaningful that other people would care about and everything.


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[Assistant] But you know, a lot of times it just feels weird to have to like cement your feelings into place in terms of how you felt about somebody who passed. But I just have been thinking about Combat Jack so much over the past couple days and I just really, really wanted to speak on him because you know, Combat Jack in a lot of ways, we're a little similar. He's about 20 years older than me.


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[Assistant] At the, the beginning of the blogging era, you know, and before that he was a lawyer. Which is like a really crazy thing that a lot of people don't seem to understand about Combat Jack.


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[Assistant] He was the first, uh, I shouldn't say the first, but he was one of the first hip-hop lawyers. In the sense that, you know,


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[Assistant] For rappers, for somebody like Dame Dash or Puffy or whatever, uh, in the mid, late 90s and everything, you know, the lawyers that they were used to dealing with were, for the most part, Jews and white people, you know, and, and that's fine.


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[Assistant] There's definitely a degree to which, you know, somebody like Dame Dash probably didn't fully feel like his lawyers understood him and didn't understand the culture that he was coming from. And when I talked to Combat about, uh, how he came into the game, that was one thing that he said.


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[Assistant] And then what's really crazy is that, you know, obviously as a lawyer, you can make a lot of fucking money.


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[Assistant] I mean, combat fell back on that shit because he just wasn't happy with it and, uh, you know, got really into just writing, writing about hip hop, which if you want to like look at the totem pole or how much money you can make in the music industry, I would say that being a writer is probably very, very close to the bottom of the totem pole and, uh, being a lawyer is probably


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[Assistant] What really stood out to me about it was that he just seemed to have made that decision.


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[Assistant] In good faith, because he just really cared about the culture so much. So when he saw the whole blogging...


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[Assistant] In regards to hip hop in 2005, 2006 when the whole blogging thing popped up. Well, I didn't, I kind of knew my place at the time. I knew I wasn't necessarily in a place to have like a really, uh, important perspective on hip hop. So instead I did the BMX blog thing and that became my life for 10 years. But then, you know, once the podcast thing sort of started to come around combat, he fell back on the, uh,


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[Assistant] He fell back on the blogging thing and stopped writing so much and just started to do the podcast thing and really found his voice and found his way to affect the culture.


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[Assistant] Deep meaningful conversations about rap. And when I think about it now too, it's like, he probably wasn't really making much money off that, if any, doing the podcast stuff in the beginning. You know, obviously there's, there's brand deals here and there and everything. But I mean, a lot of times that stuff doesn't really, uh, it's not consistent. I doubt it had much to do with why he was doing this stuff every day or every week.


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[Assistant] He was doing it because he cared. Cause he really like just loved hip hop and just wanted to...


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[Assistant] He just had something to say about it, and that's what's beautiful when I look back at that blogging area. That was the first time.


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[Assistant] Where the hip-hop media, and I'm talking about 2005, 2006, that sort of era, that was the first time that the hip-hop media, if you really cared about rap and you had something to say about it, you could just do it. And you didn't have to go intern at the source, you didn't have to go, you know,


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[Assistant] Try to get something going with XXL or whatever. You know, try to find a way to get MTV to give you an opportunity or something like that just because you have something to say about rap music.


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[Assistant] This is the early era of where you could have an audience and you could have a voice just by going online and just being yourself. And combat was a very early representation of that even though he was much older than the average person who got into that field. So, I mean, that was a big deal to me. And then he still had his finger on the pulse in the sense that he recognized what was happening with podcasting.


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[Assistant] When I look at where the passionate documentation of hip-hop is coming from at this point in a...


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[Assistant] In our history, you know, I, I look at podcasting and rap and I'm kinda like, that's where a lot of the most interesting stuff is coming from. And, uh, Combat was at the very, very front of that. You know, I was, I give Rosenberg credit because Rosenberg, I think, was the first hip-hop podcaster, him and Juan Epstein. But Combat was right behind him and Combat did an amazing, consistent job for all those years.


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[Assistant] And when I think about it, it's like, that's what hip-hop needs.


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[Assistant] And that just like occurred to me, I was like, that's a fucking dope thing to base your metric for other people on. You know, like if you truly believe that somebody's pushing the culture forward and you take a look at that and that's how you judge somebody, like this guy's worthy of having a conversation with or having my respect just because of the fact that he


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[Assistant] Is, is concerned with the culture, then that's, that's an amazing thing. In combat, more than almost anybody, I look at him and I'm just like, this is a guy who maybe even, uh, against his, his best interests was so passionate about rap that he just let that become his life and, and just fully, uh, embrace that.


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[Assistant] So, what I was saying, I guess basically I'm just trying to put it in perspective of how hard it was for somebody, you know, in the 90s or the early 2000s and stuff to have a perspective and to get that perspective out into the world if they had a perspective on rap or anything really.


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[Assistant] Somebody like Combat Jack, you know, he made that lane for himself and he was a trailblazer. You know, like, not a lot of people had done what he did before him. He figured it all out.


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[Assistant] I mean, one of the huge, huge honors that I've had in my life was the fact that when he welcomed me into his podcast network, Loudspeakers, and like fully had a conversation with me on his podcast where he acknowledged that he really respected and appreciated what I was doing in my life, that just was like,


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[Assistant] Such a crazy honor that I didn't, I didn't know I was seeking that approval necessarily. I mean, there was definitely when I signed the loudspeakers, I realized that it was a big deal. Like, whoa, this is, this is me really being accepted into like a sort of elite,


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[Assistant] Podcasting network and, and that was incredible and everything, but when, when I really had that sit down conversation with him, where he really like.


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[Assistant] Inspired me to like keep pushing and to keep trying to document what's going on around me. I mean that just meant so much to me. That was just the ultimate...


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[Assistant] That's a form of respect that you could get, just like, having somebody like, combat and his team.


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[Assistant] Acknowledge and respect what you were bringing to the game and like I mean for me to just be able to sit there and have a conversation with combat and have him acknowledge my contribution was like one of the most meaningful things I feel like I've ever had.


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[Assistant] In terms of this, uh, this game that I found myself caught up in and like, I mean, really when you think about it, there's a very limited number of people that are really going to be able to have like a true impact and have a voice that's like loud enough and strong enough that it resonates with people.


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[Assistant] But the more of those voices that we have that are strong enough that they could break an artist or, you know, uh, or take some kid and bring him up to a different level, take him from being a nobody and make him a little something. I mean, that's amazing.


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[Assistant] What's a tragedy is that even within the loudspeakers world, like, I mean, we lost tax.


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[Assistant] I don't know for how long, but we lost him for a significant period of time. We lost combat, like roughly a year after that.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's hard to take, but I mean it just reminds me that I'm so lucky to be in the position.


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[Assistant] Where people actually give a fuck about what I have to say about rap music. And I don't take that lightly. I don't-


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[Assistant] Take that with a degree of like disrespect. I take that as a very, very serious thing that I'm really, really fucking lucky. Especially being somebody who's like from a small town who's not black, who's not...


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[Assistant] From fucking Harlem or something like that and the fact that I still have been able to make a position for myself where somebody like Combat Jack would show me respect. It's like incredible and I'm just so thankful that


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[Assistant] He was able to even, that we were even able to have that conversation. I mean, he probably never could have understood how much confidence that gave me and how, how important what I'm doing with my life all of a sudden felt after having that conversation with combat.


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[Assistant] That's a big part of where I'm at right now is I just, I'm determined to, to continue to push this shit forward and continue to leave a positive impact and that I'm not gonna, you know, get distracted from that.


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[Assistant] I just really wanted to like, communicate that to the world because I just want to see more people take a look at Combat's life, study what he did with his podcast, and...


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[Assistant] How many people he helped and how many people he put on. When he saw Tac Stone and saw how much talent Tacs had, he didn't, he didn't get jealous. He didn't start to think like, oh, this guy's going to affect.


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[Assistant] My podcast numbers, even though it like probably quite literally did like, you know, introducing all these younger faces and everything. Of course that was going to take attention away from the original like hip hop podcast that came out, but he didn't give a fuck, you know, he just wanted to.


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[Assistant] Help elevate people and like even him giving me a voice, you know, he was acknowledging they're like, yeah, maybe I'm not going to be the...


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[Assistant] Most relevant, most important voice in hip-hop forever. These younger dudes that I'm gonna help bring into the game.


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[Assistant] Will be, and I, I mean, he understood the inherent, like, value and-


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[Assistant] Having those people's respect and, and, I mean, that's really what it's all about. You know, if you're selfish, if you're somebody who's just gonna sit in your place,


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[Assistant] Chris Morrow and, and just so many different people that I met. A-King that I met through combat that I just have so much respect for what they're doing and I know that they're all focused on continuing the tradition of what, what combat brought into the game. You know, he believed in like internet content, video, podcasts, whatever. He believed in all that shit and he was fascinated by it and


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[Assistant] He never let the fact that he was an old dude get in the way of the fact that he knew that he could have an impact using this new media. So, for all the people out there watching this, watch him and like,


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[Assistant] You know, watch other people who are similar in this space because there's a lot of people out there that could have powerful voices.


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[Assistant] On the internet. That's one thing that I sometimes am a little bit disappointed is that there's just not enough representation of the huge multitude of voices within hip hop on YouTube. Like there should be ten other dudes who are just as popular as I am on an independent level in terms of making content about rap music, underground rap music.


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[Assistant] There's not a lot holding you back. Like, if you're decent on camera, and if you care about this shit,


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[Assistant] I mean, what the fuck is stopping you? I mean, for me, it's a fucking iPhone. It's just still an iPhone right now. So, I mean, I just, I want everybody out there to just...


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[Assistant] Think about it. Take some fucking time. Think about what combat brought into the culture and think about what you could potentially do for rap music or not even rap music, for whatever you are passionate about, for whatever you care about, whether you're into fucking skateboarding or BMX or


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[Assistant] Whatever. Gymnastics? I don't know. Go out there and just document what the fuck's going on. If you care about shit, it don't matter if it's not gonna do crazy numbers. Just do it. Hopefully I did an okay job expressing how much this guy meant to me. Uh, rest in peace Combat Jack forever. Loudspeakers forever. Love you guys.


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[Assistant] I was, uh, just editing this just a couple days later and, uh, I remembered another example of, uh, the impact that combat had on me. I'll show you a little teary-eyed editing that, but.


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[Assistant] This is the thing. Years ago, in the very, very early stages of the Combat Jack,


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[Assistant] Uh, podcast when it's still kinda like a radio show, whatever. He started out a show.


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[Assistant] Going at Papoose. Just fully destroying him. For those who don't know, Papoose was like the coolest rapper out of New York in like 2003. Underground dude coming out and then his career sort of stalled out and you know, didn't necessarily go anywhere for a while in combat. Being from Brooklyn and everything, he made a video basically telling Pap like,


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[Assistant] You gotta hang it up. You gotta stop. You're making a fool of yourself. Like, it was brutal. A brutal takedown. Like, that's the kind of thing that these days...


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[Assistant] We'll go viral as fuck, it could be on Worldstar, it could be on academics, whatever, but.


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[Assistant] At the time, it really stood out to me because that shit did pop up on the World Star website. And I just was like, yo, like, Combat kinda like knew what he was doing right there. He picked something, picked a public figure, had an opinion, went in.


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[Assistant] And in a weird way I was impressed, but I also didn't really understand because I never saw him do that again. And I got the, the feeling that he was a little bit regretful about it. So that's one of the first things I asked him about when I, when I met him in person. I was just like, yo, like explain that Papu situation to me.


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[Assistant] And the way he explained it was like, yeah, you know, I got a lot of, a lot of hype off of that. A lot of views, a lot of people talking about my podcast for a lot of people. That was the first time that they ever heard about it. But ultimately it left him feeling like shit.


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[Assistant] Because he took a good dude, like Papoose, who at the end of the day, like, I don't know that much about him as a person or whatever, but you know, seems like a good guy at the end of the day just because his raps weren't popping off. It's like that doesn't really have anything to do with-


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[Assistant] What kind of person you are. At the end of the day, he might be the best dude on earth. It doesn't matter that the industry fucked around. I mean, rap is a fucking popularity contest. It's a cool contest. And it's like, just because you're not the coolest rapper doesn't mean that you're a bad dude.


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[Assistant] And combat like broke through that wall for me so that I didn't have to. So that like he figured out that shitting on someone and bringing somebody else down and fucking their career over even just a little bit.


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[Assistant] That's not the way. Like you would way rather build a career slowly off of just making good content rather than having to drag somebody down, like slander somebody.


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[Assistant] Even if that is your real opinion, it's like at the end of the day, like, it just, he realized that he didn't want to be the person dragging people down. He went through that experience so that I didn't have to, so that I realized that


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[Assistant] When I started doing this kind of content, that I didn't want to be that person. I didn't want to be somebody who was tearing people down. Just to make a name for myself and...


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[Assistant] And Jay's very personal, his head was walking fast paced all over, I could tell he was very upset about it.


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[Assistant] There's two reasons we wanted to keep the Ba'athist party intact. One, the only folks who have experience running the government. So we needed to keep them. Number two, the Sunnis need to have a voice.


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[Assistant] And if you don't give people a voice, they have relatively few options. And what the Middle Eastern history and, uh, what it tells you, their next option is violence.


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[Assistant] Who knows how many folks who got disgruntled and went to the other side. I will tell you this, 72 hours after the decision was made, the first major attack from the airport road took place.


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[Assistant] And, uh, had two of our military police killed. And it's sort of been downhill from there.


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[Assistant] It's got a military spin on it. Now you weren't seen looting.


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[Assistant] This is center we're making exclusive for our neighbors here. Now this is.


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[Assistant] Oh, definitely. If the Americans leave now, it's a disaster. Here we have the elements of a civil war. A terrible civil war. So, Kurds versus Arabs.


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[Assistant] Uh, Shiites versus Sunni, Muslims versus Christians, uh, Turks, uh, Turkmenis versus Kurds, and you name it, we've got it. We're talking chaos.


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[Assistant] Marines understand an order. So they saved off their mustaches, fixed bayonets, and went in. And did what Marines do best.


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[Assistant] At a basic level, train up Iraqi security forces, turn over responsibility to the government, and leave.


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[Assistant] As always, I'm joined by some of the leading journalists in the world, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and columnist for the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson. Thank you for having me.


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[Assistant] Alright. Let's start with what everyone's talking about in a new low for journalism. The National Enquirer was accused this week of blackmailing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. You're all highly respected journalists, so when all is said and done...


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[Assistant] What do you think Jeff Bezos' penis is gonna look like?


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[Assistant] I know normally high-minded journalists wouldn't talk about something like this, but it does involve the richest man in America and the President of the United States. So, Jeff Bezos' penis. What do you think it's gonna look like?


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[Assistant] My money's on echo! Now, there are obviously major implications for the story beyond Jeff Bezos' penis. It brings up issues of blackmail, invasion of privacy, and potentially even crimes committed by foreign agents. So my question is, what do you think the coloration is like?


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[Assistant] And the mainstream media has a responsibility to handle this story in a mature adult manner. As you can see from the New York Post headline yesterday, Bezos exposes Pecker.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's pivot away from penises for a moment. Awww.


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[Assistant] And focus on the State of the Union. The President used his speech to champion his tax cuts and his policy of deregulation. Uh, here to explain further is the Secretary of Commerce, Billionaire Wilbur Ross.


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[Assistant] Of course, yesterday, congressional testimony from Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker turned extremely contentious. Uh, here with his side of the story is Matt Whitaker.


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[Assistant] Will the Justice Department investigate the claims that Jeff Bezos has made against the Inquirer and against the President?


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[Assistant] Just to be clear, President Trump never directed you to interfere in the Mueller investigation?


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[Assistant] The Shia begin to fight back with the Sunni, and what was a one-sided insurgency becomes a two-sided civil war.


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[Assistant] Jay Crawford. Adam the Bull. Garrett Bush.


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


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[Assistant] The war on terror is not confined strictly to the al-Qaeda that we're chasing. The war on terror


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[Assistant] We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.


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[Assistant] Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.


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[Assistant] Information from a high ranking Iraqi nuclear engineer who had defected revealed that despite his public promises


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[Assistant] Saddam Hussein had ordered his nuclear program to continue.


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[Assistant] We've learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making, in poisons and deadly gases.


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[Assistant] Will not be permitted to dominate a vital region and threaten the United States.


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[Assistant] American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.


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[Assistant] Not only on behalf of our country, but on behalf of the people of Iraq that deserve a free and democratic society. Good luck to you.


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[Assistant] I suppose the shock was to realize just how rundown the city had been allowed to become by the bat.


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[Assistant] And you don't have an alternative law and order system to replace it. The population went wild.


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[Assistant] And, uh, authority was needed here, now, immediately, instantly.


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[Assistant] The future of Iraq is in the hands of Iraqis alone today.


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[Assistant] He felt that the United States had been wrong in 1991. And to have sought me out to say this thing was something special which I took an immense liking to the man because of it.


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[Assistant] It's very sad to have to say it, but the State Department and the CIA have consistently thwarted the President's genuine attempt, I think, to do something very dramatic in this country.


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[Assistant] What? What is that face? That's my don't mind if I do face. Just him though, right?


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[Assistant] Chetna said that. Wisconsin and Georgia are going in it too.


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[Assistant] I'm so tired. I gotta get drunk for this. I'm surprised you're not already. Oh yeah, I know, I am. Texas, you can't just sue the states that you don't agree with. Yes I can. I do it all the time.


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[Assistant] Fine, you can do it, but if you don't have good evidence or reason, it'll just get thrown out. Then I'll leave. You'll leave what? The country. I'm fixing to secede. This again?


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[Assistant] Take it or leave it. Fine. Let me see your court documents. It's about time.


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[Assistant] There are 17 other states on here. That's right.


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[Assistant] I was bored. I did it cause he did it. Really? Although, I'm bored. Most of this stuff doesn't even make any sense. Kansas, Mississippi, you signed this? Yup, mhm. It says you think counting mail-in ballots after election day is wrong. Yup, mhm. But you both did that! Yup, mhm. What's the issue?


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[Assistant] Nevermind. Texas, you say, uh, executive officials shouldn't be able to change voting rules. That's right. You literally did that. That's right. I don't see an issue.


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[Assistant] What did Puerto Rico say to me?


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[Assistant] Oh, right. He wants to know if he can have Texas' spot. Texas isn't leaving. You ain't my real dad. What? Remember the Alamo. What is happening? The stars at night are big and bright. I-I give up.


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[Assistant] I wanted to remind everybody that no matter all the craziness going on in the world,


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[Assistant] There are good people all over and we all want the same thing. We want a good quality life for our children, our family and our friends. We want a good education for our children. Our hearts and love and prayers go out to everybody. Thanks so much for every, all that everybody's doing.


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[Assistant] Well the answer may surprise you because she's being sued for an alleged skiing hit and run.


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[Assistant] Here's the deal so far as we know it. Gwyneth has been accused in a lawsuit of breaking a man's ribs and leaving him with a concussion when she smashed into him while skiing at a Utah ski resort in 2016. The man is now seeking more than 3.1 million dollars. Or two items on Goop.


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[Assistant] The plaintiff is a man named Terry Sanderson, a 72 year old retired optometrist who claims the paltrow was skiing out of control when she hit the man from behind, knocking him down hard, knocking him out. Even if true, you have to cut Gwyneth a break here, it's extremely hard to ski straight when you're kegling a jade egg. Now, look it up, I didn't make that up. Now, it's a true story.


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[Assistant] This happened at the Deer Valley Ski Resort in Utah, and I'll get back to the story in just a minute, but first I want to talk about Deer Valley. They have the best service of all the ski resorts, and they don't allow those snowboarding hoodlums on the mountain, okay? It's absolute paradise. Try the turkey chili.


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[Assistant] Then take Quincy all the way to the top. This is the best part of the mountain over here. Empire Lodge is the best place for lunch over here. It's got the smallest lines. Uhm, and look out for Jordanelle down here, okay? It's really great. It's the only big gondola on the mountain, but it gets very icy late in the day. Anyway.


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[Assistant] Here's the deal. Sanderson claims she hit him from behind and he was momentarily knocked out.


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[Assistant] While she skied away. So how was he sure it was her?


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[Assistant] Well according to Ramon, an acquaintance of Sanderson's, Paltrow's ski instructor told Ramon the woman was Paltrow. That's not how you do a celebrity hit and run!


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[Assistant] Now I don't know whether this really happened, or if this guy's just suing her because she's famous, but what I do know, and I mean this,


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[Assistant] Watch out for Jordanel, okay? It may seem like a simple blue, but it gets very icy late in the day. We'll be right back with Taraji P.


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[Assistant] I called so many insurance places, they would not take him as a client. Because he was so fucked up, so.


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[Assistant] Do your radio voice again. Announce that she's here.


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[Assistant] I mean, I feel like he would be in his right if he stole her.


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[Assistant] I think I one time accidentally walked out of the art store with a pencil and I went back inside and I put it back. Oh you have such a good heart.


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[Assistant] Really has no flavor at all, it's just fibrous. It's so dry, you gotta dredge it and stuff.


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[Assistant] You have enough to do it. Mine don't move like the other fake. Hers like, hers like the wave, mine are like, pretty stiff.


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[Assistant] There's no, there's no like, there's not really like that much porn and sex work, I feel like newer.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. You guys need to have babies. Our kids would be kind of ugly, but it's okay. I know, wow. I think so. I think we would have weird looking kids. But I hope that they have your eye color.


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[Assistant] No, a white designer dress and a white Fenty boots and they were fucking brown and destroyed and Kim was wearing leggings and a crop.


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[Assistant] She's got years. I'm 27, so hopefully that's okay. Hopefully I'm not old right up.


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[Assistant] On the girl for me, like I, I could pretty much do it with like 90% of the girls that I know and that I meet and stuff, but there's like, there's a girl that I feel like a type of way about.


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[Assistant] Alright, so tonight we're gonna, we're gonna inseminate my belly.


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[Assistant] I don't care about you touching the blunt and putting it in my mouth because you put blunts in your mouth anyways, but it's more like wherever your hand's been when you're in the process of coming home.


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[Assistant] I take a shower like every time before, or I try at least.


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[Assistant] They molded this girl that I know and I was touching the boobs and he was like, I like these better than real boobs.


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[Assistant] We don't really talk about that New Year's that often, but that was a bad night.


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[Assistant] Normal? We're not immediately, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. What if I still don't want people within six feet of me? Uh, I- I guess you don't have to go back if you don't want to.


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[Assistant] Good. How many people need to take the vaccine before herd immunity takes over? About 75-80% of the country.


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[Assistant] Good luck. I ain't taking that. Of course not. I don't even know what's in it. Yeah, you probably don't know what's in most things.


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[Assistant] He's sick! He's sick! That's not what I said! No, that- hey-


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[Assistant] There's no tracker in the vaccine. Well that's just a waste of a vaccine then, isn't it? Do you have Facebook on your phone? Of course not. I got Parler now. They don't censor me. Fine, whatever. It doesn't matter. The government can already track you. The government can track me with the apps on my phone? Easily. I mean, uh, what? No.


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[Assistant] I don't care what you do, but I wouldn't recommend just casually scrolling through my photos. Ah!


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[Assistant] Ew, you should really get that checked out. What if I put on my social media on private? Do you even watch true crime? All crime is true. What? No, it isn't. It can be. No.


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[Assistant] Clem! We got attacked. By who? Walkers. Jesus!


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[Assistant] Calm down? I am calm. You calm down. I didn't open the door. He just came in. She's telling the truth.


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[Assistant] See anything? She better see something. I've been walking for a damn week.


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[Assistant] What did you see, Clem? Was that guy gonna shoot? Fuck you, Luke! You've been on my case the whole week!


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[Assistant] Mind checking it out? Maybe we could spend the night here. Little small for us though.


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[Assistant] Man, I thought we had a bad. Look at this dump. Guess he did have food. Man, fuck Nick. Nick's lost a lot of his people, that's for sure. But that doesn't give him any excuse to start shooting up strangers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and someone died. I ain't no judge, but that's straight up murder in my book. I mean, you ever know anyone would do a thing like that?


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[Assistant] Hey, Clem, there's not a lot of food here and Rebecca, well, she's eating for two. You think we can keep this just between us? I hate to even say it, you know, but, and I'd never go against the group, but I've gotta put Beck and the baby first.


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[Assistant] I know you're right. It's just so hard right now. It's a shame. Nick was a good guy. He's still a good guy. He's just losing it. God knows we're not perfect. Hell, I'm glad you're with us, Clementine.


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[Assistant] Sarah, get behind me. Just tell us who you are. We ain't here to rob nobody.


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[Assistant] Put the gun down, man. Fuck that! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.


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[Assistant] Look, I don't care what that man said. We're staying here tonight.


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[Assistant] Just need to get some food in you. Thanks for staying with her, Clem.


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[Assistant] This is true, and I believe, honestly, I think it was a post on Gawker back in the day. Oh yea. It might have been Deadspin, something like that, but either way, I, I, as a, as a youngin, I played Magic the Gathering quite a bit. Super, super obsessed for it.


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[Assistant] It feels like they're getting a lot better at detecting the, uh,


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[Assistant] The swearing as well because I feel like now when I interview, uh, or when I post a podcast that has a particularly extreme amount of swearing with some rappers or whatever that then


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[Assistant] The depressing world that we live in where you never would have been able to predict ten years ago that we would be now living in a world in which YouTube was so much more restrictive than like most TV stations or like anything else that you can imagine.


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[Assistant] Right, yeaah, and I mean, the really upsetting thing I think about it is just the fact that this is, this is the way forward, that like, more and more censorship seems like it's gonna be the norm. I don't know if you've like, kept up with the gab thing, but that's been pretty depressing.


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[Assistant] See, I'm gonna be honest with you, I am okay with that. I'm okay with the idea that a kid might accidentally see a boob. Like I feel like that is a risk that I'm willing to take for free speech as a whole.


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[Assistant] And do, do you think though that, that's an interesting thing to me. Do you think that the internet is too free in a sense? Like, do you support the fact that there, you know, there's a lot of legislation that's been proposed, I believe in the UK primarily, where it's like, it's gonna be much harder to look at pornography if you're not actually a registered adult.


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[Assistant] Right, but okay, think about it from the perspective of...


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[Assistant] I think that, you know, it's worth re-examining some of the decisions that we've made as a society. Like when you look back at the early days of internet porn, it was like,


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[Assistant] Anything went, and everyone had the attitude of, we can't control this, there's absolutely no way that we're gonna be able to control this, so let's just not even try to control it. But then let's look at the reality now, is that it's incredibly easy for young kids to get their hands on really, really over the top, extreme porn, and I do think it's worth having the conversation, or at least pondering,


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[Assistant] Do we want to live in a world where everything is this open when one of the inevitable results is that you have little kids looking at pornography?


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[Assistant] I wonder if we would see the printed porn world make a comeback if the ability to find porn on the internet becomes more and more difficult. But then at the same time, we all just assume, we all have that assumption that the kids will not give up until they see the boobs. They will find the boobs, they will find a way, they will get a VPN, they will hack their phone.


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[Assistant] Exactly, not me either. Biology is not gonna be tamed. No. No. No. This is not happening.


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[Assistant] That was the first thing I saw on the internet. I remember a friend of mine pulled-


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[Assistant] He pulled me over and he showed me poopsex.com and it was a girl eating a turd and like all of a sudden my 12 year old brain just became...


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[Assistant] You know, but I mean, I definitely do think that, I, I felt it.


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[Assistant] There is an extent, I think, to which we assume that kids are going to be fucked up mentally by the things that happen in their


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[Assistant] In their world, you know, that maybe is not 100% true. And I know this is a strange comparison to make, but there's a rapper Rico Reckless who came in here one time.


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[Assistant] And he had his eight year old with him and he's smoking blunts right in front of the kid. Like it's just no big deal to him. It's nothing. And he does this all the time. And to me, it seems insane because to my mind, like I don't have kids, but I was a three and a five year old nephew that I have that lived like 45 minutes away. See him all the time.


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[Assistant] I love them. I'm obsessed with them. My sister and her husband, they won't really let me, they don't really want anyone swearing around them. They don't like someone saying they'll wear a kill or a gun around them, you know? But then at the same time, like, I'm watching this


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[Assistant] I had that experience, one time I see my nephew, he was running in the mall, he runs right into this trash can, boom, bangs his head on it super hard, and he falls down and he wasn't crying, but I saw him like nervously look up at his mom as if to say like, should I be crying? Like, like, cause her reaction, the look in her eyes was,


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[Assistant] Like are you okay? Like it seemed like in that moment that he could have potentially had a concussion. It's very easy to forget that little kids can like go through whatever and they just survive it.


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[Assistant] But then on the contrary, now we have like today a shitload of different conservative voices, including Louis Farrakhan for some reason. We're all banned from Instagram and Facebook.


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[Assistant] And I mean, nobody on the list of people that they banned is as extreme as the people that you're describing. They're marching and chanting about how they want more dead Jews. You know, Mylonopolis, the worst thing he ever says, not as bad as that. And meanwhile, they're banned from all these social networking platforms. Can you justify that in your head?


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[Assistant] Trump can definitely suck it, but at the same time, I definitely just don't, I don't agree with the idea that...


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[Assistant] If YouTube and Twitter and Facebook and everything had, if there was some sort of court where they were able to say like, okay, you get two years suspension from Twitter. That to me is way more fair.


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[Assistant] Okay, but say you were unsuccessful, say your YouTube channel didn't have 4.5 million subscribers, say you weren't earning a living from YouTube, do you think that it would be more likely that you would be on the angry, resentful side of the fence because you're-


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[Assistant] Right. So you have like a consistent base of people, so wait, the LGBT support center, that's its own business, but is it a non-profit? No, it's definitely for profit.


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[Assistant] Right, I know. What, puberty probably was like the main thing. I started riding BMX bikes and trying to fuck girls and then all of a sudden magic just didn't seem like a fit in thing.


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[Assistant] That's scary, that they have this like liberal think tank mindset going on there.


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[Assistant] That right there, I'm gonna be honest with you, what you just said makes me, there's a very small chance that I was ever gonna play Magic of the Gathering again anyway, but that makes me like want to never support that company in any way because I feel like they're clearly like edging into the territory of being like unintentionally hateful towards the people they think that are their enemy, you know?


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[Assistant] Does he have his pronouns in his bio? No, he does not.


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[Assistant] I am having a hard time wrapping around my head. Cause they're Seattle, they're a Seattle based company. Right. You having, uh, contributed so much to all of these communities that it's far more than I've done to support the LGBT community by you opening these different game shops.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be honest with you though, if I was in your position there, I would probably not be in the position to want to put any kind of effort into changing their opinions because people who are like that can eat my shit.


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[Assistant] Right. So, what led you to becoming a YouTuber in the first place? What was the process there? What was it that you were trying to do when you initially signed up?


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[Assistant] Do you think that resonated with people? That they liked the idea of someone who was calling attention to the ways that they were flawed?


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[Assistant] No, I think it looked great, and to be totally honest, I had never noticed that your teeth were fucked up, but then I started watching your later uploads, and I'm like, damn, his teeth look fucking good, and I went back and I looked, and I'm like, damn, your teeth were gnarly as fuck, but I never noticed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and so are they veneers or are they like, they're fake teeth, right?


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[Assistant] I've heard that from other people over the years that they had some sort of, you know, I've found out about a dude who's a pro BMX rider who claimed that he had like the worst back pain ever and then he had some kind of surgery on his teeth and it turned out that there was something with the alignment or whatever and that was the thing that was keeping him off his bike.


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[Assistant] It's crazy how in tune people are with number one, the teeth thing. Did you have people constantly suggesting that you might be on drugs because your teeth were fucked up?


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[Assistant] I hear that. No, I mean, cheeseburgers were always my advice because I've always kind of struggled my way. Like I'm in a pretty good place right now, but I mean, I was at one point like over 300 pounds. No, you weren't. I've never known that.


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[Assistant] Ice cream and candy in general, you know, it's always like, I just, you know, I'm the kind of person that I have to like pay


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[Assistant] I have to really like consciously eat good because there's a big part of my brain that hates myself and wants to eat terribly all the time.


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[Assistant] You're still motivated though, you like are determined to keep losing weight or how do you feel about the place that you're in right now?


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[Assistant] You know, I think that I, I think I got reacquainted with you as a creator after me originally seeing the Francis meme when Pokemon Go came out. I love that shit. Cause I was searching Pokemon Go and just watching, I think I found out about a lot of YouTubers that way, like I don't think I had ever watched like Nadeshot before that. I know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's weird too because I'm actually, I'm gonna be honest with you, as long as we're talking about addiction and quitting things, I'm one week clean from Pokemon Go right now. And it feels pretty good because I do understand the video game addiction as much as me. I mean, that's been a long two and a half years that I've been playing this damn game.


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[Assistant] I sold all my rares on eBay when I was in college. Oh, you idiot.


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[Assistant] Dude, I went to a draft one time when I was in like, you know, seventh grade and I just remember this horrific memory that I like left my deck on a table while I was like looking at some other cards I was thinking about buying. And that, when I think about it,


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[Assistant] That was the only time I ever went to like a magic event and if things had gone smoother, if I hadn't just left my deck on a fucking random table where somebody obviously stole it, then maybe I would have got more into it and maybe that would have became my life. Right, exactly. That's what I just think about.


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[Assistant] Man, but someone who clearly had sinister intentions, because the person who said subscribe to PewDiePie or whatever, it would be one thing if we were talking about some dumbass kid who really just thought it was funny to say subscribe to PewDiePie before he shot a bunch of people. If you read that manifesto, if you actually look at all the things that he was saying, it's clear that he was


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[Assistant] That he was trying to fuck over Candace Owens, that he was trying to fuck over PewDiePie, that he wanted to create this sort of reaction, and it's insane to see so many people buying into it.


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[Assistant] Being one of his, you know, mega fans is because I feel like he confronts criticism.


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[Assistant] Openly and honestly, and he's not trying to put words into the mouths of people who are his opponents and trying to present


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[Assistant] I'm trying to pay as little as possible, but I'm also willing to pay my fair share. I mean, that doesn't bother me at all. I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you, the amount of money that I paid in taxes this year, I just, I saw that amount leaving my bank account and I just, I was like,


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[Assistant] It makes so many people want to troll you and talk shit about you and fuck with you. From my years of following you, I've never really been able to understand what it is that would make people want to, you know, try to shit on you. You yourself always seem like a pretty nice guy and a guy who's very aware of his shortcomings.


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[Assistant] It's crazy how we've come so far as a society, but it still feels like everybody hates fucking people based on physical stuff. Like, the hatred for fat people is still strong, people that still, I mean, I know this is a ridiculous example, but I've been watching a show at a Game of Thrones, I'm just thinking about the way people treat the dwarf.


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[Assistant] And it, it, I mean, certainly would play out the exact same way. Like if you, if you knew someone was a dwarf and it was your friend and he's around a lot, then you know people are going to be talking shit about it or like, you know, like maybe in our world today, like the kind of people I know that would probably be able to be nice about it and not be in their face about it. But people are still so constantly hung up on physical stuff.


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[Assistant] No, but I mean, it's totally understandable. Uh, my main thing with it is just that I think that it's more important


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[Assistant] But, I mean, shit, there's so much bad stuff that comes with it. I have had to delete jokes off Twitter in the past year because I was getting so much shit for it that it just becomes this thing where it's like, it doesn't really matter if


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[Assistant] And that always gets lost in translation. I was reading this article about how people now, like, they showed the office to all these, like, younger, like, kids, and that these kids just did not understand that the whole point of the office is that, yes, we understand that Michael Scott is a dickhead, but that is the whole joke of the show, is that he's doing all these cringey, terrible things that nobody would actually do. And kids seem, like, separated from that. It's hard for them to understand the concept of, like, this is funny because it's bad.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's how it plays out on Twitter and stuff, but I'm going to be honest with you. I interview all these rappers and every time I interview one of the rappers and they come in with a big squad or their friends or whatever and everybody's joking around and people are making jokes about race and people are saying like, Hey, I'm black and you're white and this is funny. Like, let's call attention to like the differences between us. I feel like in the real world.


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[Assistant] Everybody is still laughing and having a good time talking about the differences between cultures and then on Twitter it's just impossible for that line.


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[Assistant] And the reality is, is that there's no fucking black people that these people have to deal with on any kind of basis. They're just, they're not around people from other cultures in which, so they live in this bubble in which all these white and Asian people are together, like, oh, we have to look out for the black people, blah blah blah. But there's no black people involved in these fucking conversations.


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[Assistant] Right, because I mean, almost all stereotypes are based on some element of reality, and if you then deny the ability to write a character that in any way complies with a stereotype, then you're basically forcing a situation in which every character that you depict is gonna have to be removed from the reality of what most people assume that person's existence would be like.


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[Assistant] Like, I remember I had a weird moment with it when it was many, many years ago, it was five, six years ago, and I posted


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[Assistant] Uh, an article at the time, daily vlogging was not a thing really as far as I knew and there was this family blogger couple and they had posted a video where they announced that they had a baby coming and then the next day they announced that actually they had a miscarriage and I remember there was like a Gawker article about it or some shit and I posted it on Facebook


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[Assistant] And I said something more or less long, and this might have been 2012 or 2013 or something, and I said something more along the lines of,


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[Assistant] This is why you don't fucking depict your life on YouTube every single day.


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[Assistant] Ironically, I now basically do that, but I mean, I was just like, you know, this is why you don't fucking do this. And my, a member of my family hit me up right away and was like super offended. They're like, I had a miscarriage a couple of months ago and you're over here making a joke about a miscarriage. I'm like, I know tons of people who died from cancer.


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[Assistant] I still think we need to be able to make cancer jokes. I know tons of people that have been, who have been killed by drugs and we still make drug jokes. I know tons of people have been shot and we still carry guns around and we still make jokes about gunfights and all this shit. It's like, you cannot live your life in with the idea that like, oh, something traumatic happened to me one time. So therefore I don't want anybody to ever be able to find the humor in that thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I totally agree with that. Do you feel like, I feel like I've seen you on your channel sort of reconnect with your gamer, reviewer, commentator side, which I didn't see for many years, being a subscriber, is that like-


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[Assistant] But I noticed you've been having a big spike in your content, primarily from the teeth.


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[Assistant] But I find that interesting as like you're, now you're, you feel like you're following like your true, what you really want to do by doing like your commentary on video games.


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[Assistant] They're the only people I see who, like, cause I see smaller YouTubers breaking into the game fairly frequently, but it seems like they're always commentating on bigger videos.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's weird times on, on YouTube when I think about a lot of like, when I first got into YouTube, my, well not when I first got in, I first got in was doing BMX bike stuff, but then like pretty soon after I felt like I started to find,


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[Assistant] My lane on YouTube, unluckily, like right before the demonetization wave initially hit, but I was like, you know what?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna make videos where I do all the shit that nobody else is gonna do. I'm gonna do a vlog where I do acid. Boom. Three million views. I'm gonna do a vlog where I have three son with my girlfriend's friend. Boom. Like ten million views. And I was like crushing it by just doing all this content that was fully monetized but was also just me doing stuff that like I felt like nobody had ever done on YouTube. Right, of course.


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[Assistant] Holy shit, the platform has gone in a different direction. I can still post that kind of stuff. It's just...


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not gonna make any money from it and they're gonna do everything that they can to make it so that people aren't gonna really see it. Every single time I interview a porn star and it hits like a million views and it has to crawl there because you know, it'll do really good out the front until it gets demonetized after the first hundred thousand views or whatever and then it'll start crawling up but like people actually want to see that content so YouTube will make it really hard for people to find but they'll still find their way to it.


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[Assistant] See, I think that what my preconceived notions about musically were kind of stopping me from maybe diving in on Tik Tok, but I'm gonna be honest with you. I got an email today from somebody from Tik Tok saying like, oh, we don't have a call discussing such and such. Maybe we work together or whatever. So now is probably the time that I should get interested in Tik Tok. Pass on my number too.


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[Assistant] That is dope. I'm actually really about to start uploading all my porn star interviews to Pornhub.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, cause I, you know, I heard like pretty good, uh, rates being reported back from Johnny Sins, who obviously is like actual talent and everything, but like on his channel with all his videos. I believe that he's probably getting like X percentage from videos that he's in in general, possibly. I'm not sure exactly how they arrange it, but I mean, and they were just saying that porn, I was thinking about my Tumblr.


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[Assistant] Right. And they lost the entire cultural currency of Tumblr over the course of the last year or two or however long since they got rid of the porn and everything. When you think about it, Pornhub might be the unlikely freedom of speech defender that we need in the social media war.


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[Assistant] See, I average like two, three thousand off like a million views, but we're also talking about like an hour long interview.


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[Assistant] YouTube should be MTV, not ABC. They should have embraced who they were. I totally agree. They could have been like, you know, Vice was never making the pitch of like, look how family friendly our content was. They were saying, our content is the coolest, rawest shit.


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[Assistant] And you need to like, get on board with this if you wanna, if you wanna be able to fuck with this audience. And YouTube could have made the same play. I'm sure there's all kinds of financial incentives that made them make the decision that they did make.


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[Assistant] YouTube or her team, like, hit up Juice World's team, like, can you please get that clip deleted? Like, they knew that that was the incendiary moment that was gonna piss people off. Of course. We did remove it, but it also made me think, well, oh, I'm gonna remove this, but I'm also gonna send it to Keemstar.


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[Assistant] The one thing I consider so indefensible is just the fact that I make my videos live and then they get demonetized five seconds later. It's like, how deranged could you possibly be? I feel like I've been a hostage of some sick deranged caretaker for a few years now that this has been a possibility.


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[Assistant] If you're going to, uh, cage and torture somebody, what is the main goal? The main goal is to make it so that they never know what the outcome is going to be of their behavior. So it shell shocks them and forces them to not want to do anything. You want to make them so paranoid about existing.


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[Assistant] That they won't do anything. That's, I don't know, the thing they've, they've effectively done in a way.


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[Assistant] And you know who really need to feel bad for is the sex workers and just women on YouTube in general because they're more often targeted and like I just, and you see it on Instagram all the time where all the porn stars get their Instagrams deleted constantly, but I mean it's particularly insane when it comes to just women on YouTube, anything that they do getting demonetized like crazy.


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[Assistant] I would always hate that. I remember that there was these two hot ass girls in high school and they went down to the BMX jumps one night and I wasn't there sadly.


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[Assistant] I was so bummed. I felt like they just canceled Christmas. Cause I just found out that a bunch of my homies all got sucked up by these two hot ass girls. And then, you know, everybody in school started talking shit about them. And I doubt that they engaged in that behavior anytime soon after that. And I just was like, what a terrible waste of a resource that you have there.


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[Assistant] Ruth Grace is nice, but we were just having that conversation the other day about how in a lot of towns in America, uh, the, the, the cheesecake factory is the nicest restaurant in town.