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[Assistant] Thus, undertakings are the things we do to vest the lives we lead against the cold, the meaningless, the void, the noisy blather and the blinding dark.


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[Assistant] It is the voice we give to wonderment, to pain, to love and desire, anger and outrage, the words that we shape into song and prayer.


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[Assistant] Which undertaking is it then that does not seek to make some sense of life and living, dying in the dead?


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[Assistant] Is that Mrs. Leonard? Or Ms. Leonard? Ms. Leonard. I'm Tom Lynch. I'm pleased to meet ya. I'm gonna sit down here and chat with you for a little bit, okay?


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[Assistant] Just as we declare the living alive through baptisms and lovers in love binuptials, funerals are the way we close the gap between the death that happens and the death that matters.


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[Assistant] It's how we assign meaning to our remarkable histories.


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[Assistant] And the rituals we devise to conduct the living and beloved and the dead from one status to another have less to do with performance than with meaning.


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[Assistant] Almost everybody can remember some time in their youth or childhood or adulthood having been present for the burial of someone in their family or someone in their circle of friends.


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[Assistant] If you ask any group of, uh, ordinary citizens how many here have attended a cremation, uhm, there are very few hands raised in the room.


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[Assistant] But there's no question that cremation has become normative in a way that it used to be exceptional.


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[Assistant] I remember in those first years as a father and a funeral director, new at making babies and at burying them, I would often wake in the middle of the night, sneak into the rooms where my sons and daughters slept, and bend to their crib sides to hear them breathe. Like my father, I had learned to fear.


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[Assistant] Two foot to five foot six, often estimating the size of a dead child not yet released from the county morgue by the sizes of my own children, safe and thriving and alive.


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[Assistant] And the caskets I ordered were invariably purity and gold.


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[Assistant] With angels on the corners and sheared crepe interiors of powdery pink or baby blue and I would


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[Assistant] Throw in our services free of charge with the hope in my heart that God would in turn spare me the hollowing grief of these parents.


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[Assistant] When people are trying to tell you what happened about someone dying, what they're giving you is a narrative. They're telling you their story. And, uh,


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[Assistant] I notice this about grieving people, that the story takes on sort of a repetitious rote characteristic as if it was, you know, like a prayer.


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[Assistant] He woke up in the middle of the night. He asked for a glass of water. I brought it to him. He took a sip and then there was this heave and he was gone.


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[Assistant] To undertake is to bind oneself to the performance of a task, to pledge or promise to get it done


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[Assistant] The dead I bury and burn are like the dead before them for whom time and space have become mortally unimportant.


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[Assistant] And then I can remember thinking, this is my father dead.


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[Assistant] And it was like a door closing between tenses, you know? Not, this is, this is what he'll look like. This is him.


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[Assistant] It's going from the idea of the thing to the thing itself.


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[Assistant] Seeing what we know to be true and don't want to be true.


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[Assistant] I'd rather it be February, the month I first became a father in, the month my father died. I want it cold.


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[Assistant] I want a mess made in the snow so that the earth looks wounded, forced open, an unwilling participant.


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[Assistant] Forgo the tent. Stand openly to the weather. Get the larger equipment out of sight. It's a distraction.


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[Assistant] But have the sexton, all dirt and indifference, remain at hand.


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[Assistant] What I've written is that while the dead don't care, the dead matter. The dead matter to the living.


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[Assistant] In accompanying the dead. Getting them where they need to go. We get where we need to be.


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[Assistant] To the edge of that oblivion and then re- returned to life with a certain knowledge that life has changed.


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[Assistant] It will be a very carefully crafted speech because people will listen to it with great interest.


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[Assistant] They're studying for the gaokao, college entrance.


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[Assistant] That's impossible. And Zichu said he hasn't been bothering him.


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[Assistant] But it actually makes sense. She's been horrible since the day we met her.


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[Assistant] I just got a call for an audition so I have to be in Beijing. We've been waiting


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[Assistant] I'm the kind of person who has to finish what's already been started before doing something else.


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[Assistant] It's not safe. I mean, you already know. It's because of what I do.


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[Assistant] So, when will that happen? I need an estimate.


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[Assistant] Your room is in the second building. I did some research. Look at this.


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[Assistant] The south gate. You have to use this gate to enter the high school. Come in from the left side, and then when you're done, exit to the right. Left in, right out. Remember? Also, this is Confucius! A statue. So stop and worship the good man. Worshipping him helps!


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[Assistant] Teacher, I made it to top 5. Training starts in Beijing next week.


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[Assistant] Mom, you know there's four others.


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[Assistant] When I become a celebrity, you won't have to work anymore.


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[Assistant] I'll hire two house helpers to take care of both of you. You can just enjoy life.


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[Assistant] You were listening to our conversation? What are you two here? Nothing, actually. Uh, nothing.


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[Assistant] Two bags of potato chips. Popsicle chocolate covered kind, you know that, right?


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[Assistant] Ningxiao, the gaokao's over. Don't you wanna have some fun?


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[Assistant] Ling Xiao won't be coming home. They already had four critical moments with his grandma. The doctor said the family should stay. Dad Ling won't be home too. He said he wanted to be there to help if they needed anything.


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[Assistant] Are you insane? Fuck you asshole. I'm not taking off my clothes for you or anyone else.


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[Assistant] I have heard a lot about you Weishen. I will get to the point.


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[Assistant] If he recovers, we will both be stable and strong.


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[Assistant] Why continue to force girls into prostitution and pornography when there are other, less archaic, more profitable ways for us to make money?


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[Assistant] We both appear to have the same problem, Wei Shen, and the opportunity to benefit if we work together.


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[Assistant] Tu Chin Tsao. He is your true nephew. Your blood.


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[Assistant] Tu Jin Sao seems to be getting very comfortable in his new position as temporary chairman. Too comfortable.


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[Assistant] I hear that he is already planning to make it permanent, should Uncle Po not recover.


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[Assistant] And that would allow Li to take over the Sananyi himself.


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[Assistant] He must step down on his own, after which there will be an election.


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[Assistant] I've arranged for the quality of his supply to improve, and now you will give him a nudge over the edge.


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[Assistant] Obsessed with Feng Shui.


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[Assistant] Wait! We need to have a proper election. That is the way it has always been done. It's the Sanon Eco.


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[Assistant] We are the first ones to respond and we are the last ones to leave. We are there from the beginning of uhm, the death process to the end.


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[Assistant] It works. That store next door, it's quite big. Great.


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[Assistant] Don't just clean up. We will make an expansion and then reopen. Right. Let's make it larger.


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[Assistant] Hmm. Yeaah, that's a good idea. Alright. So, two Chou Strition can be taken from my account. I'll take care of that.


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[Assistant] The high school students have left after their exam, but it's not our vacation yet. So keep your focus, hm? Tang San, you're back in class. How was it?


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[Assistant] Oh, that's good. Let's encourage our very own class actress. A round of applause.


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[Assistant] The homework we assigned last time was a friend I can learn from. Three of you did a really good job.


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[Assistant] And let us listen and learn from them as they read their homework.


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[Assistant] A good friend I can learn from.


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[Assistant] I didn't realize that it was going to be a different day from all the others. I had my backpack and took my usual route to school.


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[Assistant] Along the back wall where the vines grow in wild abandon. That day, compared to my everyday life, was different. Because I was attacked by two bad men, while another man came to my rescue.


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[Assistant] I know where this is. I know when this is.


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[Assistant] You know, it's really great, man. When I was, uh, I was terrified getting that first call.


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[Assistant] You know, cause you know, as a performer, you want to go and you want to do things. I just heard you were talking about the All in the Family, you know, and it's like when you go into something that someone has already really given an iconic performance, it can be scary, you know, so I was thinking about that.


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[Assistant] I don't want to give it away, but eventually you become more you. I become more me, but it was, uh, it was such a beautiful experience. Singing, dancing, rapping, action and romance and drama and comedy. It's like you were born to play this particular TV. It really is.


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[Assistant] You've been all over the world promoting this movie. You've been in Europe, you've been everywhere. So we started, we went, uh, we went New York, London, uh, Paris, Berlin, uh, Amman, Jordan. It's like one of your songs now. I know, right?


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[Assistant] That is arguably one of the most beautiful places on earth, man. You know, and...


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[Assistant] How does that work with the royal family? Are you, when you come, are you then required to, is it expected that you will go to them and hang with them? Oh, you did have to do all the rules.


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[Assistant] Where they explain all of the rules of how to deal with the royal family. So we're there, so they set all our people down.


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[Assistant] So we're in there, so we take the hour protocol, all of that, so I'm waiting in the lobby, and I have to stand by myself, and all of that. And, you know, a Range Rover pulls up, and uh, his highness is sitting in the driver's seat, he goes, B-B-Hey Will, buddy, come on, let's go! That's it.


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[Assistant] That's, that seems fun. Was the whole, did your family go over there with you, or were they? Uh, not, not on this trip, but we, we went previously. I gotcha, okay. Did they like going with you on these movie shoots? You know, so, so my fam, my family used to enjoy, my kids used to go everywhere, so for the first like ten years. When they had no choice. When they had no choice, yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for those teenager years. Willow was the first one that defied me. You know, and then once Willow, once Willow was like, Dad, I really, I don't wanna go. She broke the dam. And then she broke it, you know, and then the boys were like, you can defy him. You know.


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[Assistant] It's called, it's called Red Table Talk, and it's really fantastic. Yes, that's right. Did they run this, buy you the stuff? No! No, okay. No!


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[Assistant] I didn't think so. No, they talk, like, it's, it's, you know, it's Jada and my daughter and Jada's mother. So it's the three generations. Uh huh. It's called Red Table Talk. It's on Facebook. It's actually fantastic. Uh, the episodes I could bear.


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[Assistant] And they sit down and it's really wide open, raw conversation across the generations.


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[Assistant] I was talking about the genie on Aladdin and what I could relate to and the genie wears shackles.


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[Assistant] Right, so the genie is essentially a slave to his, his powers, right? And that's part of what I can relate to. It's like Will Smith became so popular.


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[Assistant] Except for then, like, you and your family are, like, jumping out of a plane, you know? Yeah, yeah. No, alright, so that one, okay, so, alright.


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[Assistant] So Willow didn't go, so I took my, my, my wife and my mother-in-law and my father-in-law and my, and my sons and we went to Dubai and we went skydiving, right?


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[Assistant] So my father-in-law, he was last out of the plane and he comes down and everybody comes in and you cheer when everybody comes out and then my father-in-law comes in and he's totally unconscious.


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[Assistant] Congratulations on making it to the end of the YouTube video. Why not celebrate by clicking the subscribe button? You earned it.


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[Assistant] We've set aside this hour to remember and to celebrate the worth and the meaning and the significance of the life of Dennis Arthur King.


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[Assistant] When I die, I told my wife I don't care. I don't.


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[Assistant] I have nothing against cremation, I have nothing against burial. I guess maybe that's, being in the business it's, to me, it's just a vehicle you're putting in the ground. The person's not there.


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[Assistant] We allow families to be as involved in the burial processes as they would like to be. Something about being there and shoveling the dirt even on your loved one that gives you a sense of peace.


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[Assistant] When you see it lowering in the ground, you realize that there's no turning back.


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[Assistant] You'll never see that person in this lifetime again.


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[Assistant] Silly daddy, what have I done? I got a paper cut on my thumb.


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[Assistant] Would you like to have something to eat?


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[Assistant] It's getting late! Time to start winding down for the night!


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[Assistant] Would you like some milk in your bottle now?


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[Assistant] And to have a cuddle on the couch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you missed all the excitement. Pabu got his head caught in a poo jar. Then Bolin got his hand caught trying to pull Pabu out. Will you let me tell it? Please! All the time!


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[Assistant] da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da


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[Assistant] My god, girl, he's just a guy. You really need to stop. Wait, are we not rewinding?


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[Assistant] Next stop, Main Street. Well, this is our stop.


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[Assistant] Fingerprint examiners have been taught that there's only one person in the world who could have left this fingerprint. There's no scientific basis for that.


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[Assistant] No two people have the same fingerprint. That's the scientific premise. Is that true?


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[Assistant] Before you say that that fingerprint came from this person.


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[Assistant] It varies from laboratory to laboratory and from witness to witness often. And some will say, we need 16 points. No, 7. And what they all end up saying is that it's really a matter of the individual experience and judgment of the fingerprint examiner.


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[Assistant] One thing that we judges do sometimes is look for shortcuts. And credentials are often appealing shortcuts. It's convenient for a judge to say this proposed expert has been credentialed by the Sumptium society.


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[Assistant] But it has an inordinate impact on jurors because jurors have no way of knowing whether this certifying body exacts scientific standards or is just a diploma mill.


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[Assistant] We need a body that is regulated that can say these are the scientifically based professionals who are qualified to be experts. The minute we leave that open to


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[Assistant] The public's interest and the public's legitimate interest in making sure that we've got a scientific basis for sending somebody to jail.


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[Assistant] Una vez más, una vez más, y yo, y si yo, y si yo.


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[Assistant] There aren't many people who do what we do. Sometimes we feel like the Lone Ranger.


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[Assistant] I said, well three times a week. For how many years? He said for six years. So I said, oh really? So that's about a thousand times.


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[Assistant] You can identify her body then, can't you? Any surgical scars, varicose veins, etc., etc.


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[Assistant] He couldn't answer any of those questions, so I knew then we had it. He was a liar.


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[Assistant] Let's just say I haven't found anything that I dislike.


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[Assistant] Oh! No wonder your two brothers thought I'm a dangerous man.


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[Assistant] Uh, they are the models from her work Trinity. They went abroad to study and recently got back. A few days ago, they learned that Jian Jian was out on a date with me. Her phone happened to be broken. They almost called the police. Called the police? Uh-huh. That's dramatic.


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[Assistant] The vulnerability that undocumented women are subjected to? One phone call and you'll be deported.


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[Assistant] Let's recognize something. 1,400 people are deported every day from the United States of America. There is fear.


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[Assistant] And real terror in the immigrant community.


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[Assistant] So what evidence do you have? The personal testimony of those women that I've met with


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[Assistant] The tears in their eyes, the anguish in their face, the humiliation.


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[Assistant] You can say that my information is simply anecdotal. But one, the same information repeats itself.


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[Assistant] The stories I've heard on my travels throughout the United States are the same. And you want to know something? I learned a long time ago that when it comes to these situations, believe the women. Believe the women.


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[Assistant] Why that motherfuckin' nigga expect it? That nigga, I ain't gon' lie, Glop, you got a lot of ism. You got a lot of ism. You let that shit spill, nigga. I really fuck with you, uh, just cause you hella dope. You hella dope. You original.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah, but nah, uh, nah, fuck with you Heavy, bruh. You got a lot of spill, a lot of good-ism, uh, energy, you know what I'm saying, is, is, is for surely present. Uhm, and, you know, you ain't a nigga, you're a nigga, cause hey, you know, man, I remember I first met you, I'm like, nigga, why, nigga, why you ain't, like,


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[Assistant] What we doing? What's going on? Ah nigga, we at the L-Rays. Ain't we at the L-Rays? Yeaah, we at L-Rays right now. Uncle L-Raying now.


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[Assistant] But nah, you know we goin' up. It's ganglandin', it's motherfuckin' ganglandin'. Full attendance, we goin' upwards.


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[Assistant] You ever, did you do a no jumper interview yet? Yup, I did that. I bricked on. On the big, but my jumper on fleek. You know what I'm sayin'?


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[Assistant] Hey nah, uh, that's my nigga Adam. Shout out Adam. But uh, yep, I did a no jumper interview soon as I moved to LA. That's the brother brother function with him having. Fella.


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[Assistant] It's active. It's turnt up. Sac ain't got no high rises.


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[Assistant] L.A. got way more taco trucks than set. You know what I'm sayin'? I'm fuckin' with the taco trucks. You hear me though?


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[Assistant] But nah, I fuck with L.A., L.A., and you know it's gangling. So, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's like, uh, it's just culture, it's just culture. Where I'm from, it's more, uh.


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[Assistant] As far as I'm concerned, it's gang activity. Cause I'm involved in the politics first hand. So, it ain't too much I can really do, but, you know what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] What, killer cities? Yeah. Nigga, they hot. Santos, that nigga, they was tweaking on a nigga. I'm like...


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[Assistant] You know, if it was up to me, nigga, I'd put A-A-A location on that motherfucker. I really don't run the tour list, nigga. I just come do my dougie, but uh, we all through that motherfucker. You know, we slide. Make sure y'all go tweak on that nigga Instagram, nigga.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Make sure you snatch him immediately. Pull up on me. Snatch them motherfuckers even if you don't pull up, nigga. Snatch them motherfuckers. Give them to your baby daddy, baby. Yeah.


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[Assistant] President Barack Obama anxiously waited for the midterm election results.


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[Assistant] Inside the White House, they knew things were about to change.


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[Assistant] But to change Washington, the freshmen would first have to deal with their own leader.


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[Assistant] The consummate political insider, the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner.


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[Assistant] Boehner had served ten terms in the Congress, carefully working his way up the leadership ladder.


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[Assistant] But now, Vayner would have to lead a class of insurgents.


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[Assistant] A star attraction in Baltimore was Eric Cantor, Boehner's lieutenant, heir apparent, and political


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[Assistant] Cantor had rallied House Republicans to oppose President Obama's first major piece of legislation, the stimulus package.


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[Assistant] It was a strategy that Cantor had used again and again during the first two years of Obama's presidency.


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[Assistant] Without raising the debt ceiling, the government would be unable to pay its bills.


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[Assistant] Cantor saw the threat of a no vote as leverage to force the president to accept dramatic spending cuts.


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[Assistant] Ketter told them no president could ignore the threat.


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[Assistant] Majority Leader Cantor had laid out an approach that would put the new Congress in direct conflict with the White House.


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[Assistant] Cantor thought he could count on the new members because he had worked hard to get them elected.


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[Assistant] The first order of business was for the young guns to prepare the new Republicans for the ways of Washington.


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[Assistant] He outlined his big idea, the path to prosperity.


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[Assistant] But in their haste to put the event together, the White House staff made a crucial error.


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[Assistant] Obama's Chief of Staff Bill Daley was one of the first to notice.


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[Assistant] Daly tried to warn the president, but it was too late.


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[Assistant] The president's top economic adviser, Gene Sperling, ran after Ryan.


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[Assistant] If the president wouldn't cut spending, he and the new Republicans would force the issue.


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[Assistant] At the White House, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner knew just how serious Cantor's threat was.


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[Assistant] Geithner said they had only weeks to act before the country ran out of money.


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[Assistant] The president got the message. He knew he had to sort it out with Congress. Find a partner.


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[Assistant] The president decided he'd try the personal touch. He liked to play golf, and so did Boehner. So they arranged a get-to-know-you game.


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[Assistant] Boehner was offering a chance to do something even bigger than dealing with a debt ceiling. Something historic.


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[Assistant] As they left, it seemed like an important first step. They would try to form an alliance.


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[Assistant] Obama and Boehner met in secret. The speaker entered the White House through a side entrance.


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[Assistant] The talks were kept secret from Eric Cantor and the new Republicans.


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[Assistant] Trying to reinvent the size and cost of government.


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[Assistant] Raising the debt ceiling was part of it, but they hoped for more.


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[Assistant] Long-lasting tax reform and entitlement cuts. What became known as the grand bargain.


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[Assistant] Boehner was willing to offer a politically dangerous concession. He'd agreed to an increase in tax revenue.


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[Assistant] At the same time Boehner and Obama were meeting in secret, Vice President Biden had been sent to Capitol Hill to hold very public talks with Eric Cantor.


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[Assistant] He revealed the secret talks between the president and Biden.


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[Assistant] Boehner was offering the president hundreds of billions in tax revenue. It didn't take long for the information to leak.


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[Assistant] Unlike the Nicorette and Merlot sessions with Boehner, these meetings were now filled with tension.


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[Assistant] And at one meeting, the president's chief of staff thought Cantor went too far.


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[Assistant] Boehner had agreed to $800 billion in new tax revenue. Obama to entitlement cuts.


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[Assistant] But then, two days later, upon Capitol Hills.


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[Assistant] But now the Gang of Six claimed they had produced their own bipartisan plan.


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[Assistant] The president would up the ante with Boehner and Cantor.


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[Assistant] Still, Boehner wanted the grand bargain badly enough that he actually considered the president's request.


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[Assistant] He told the waiting press he'd be right back. Now, he would quickly return the president's call.


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[Assistant] Boehner said, we can't go forward with this. For 12 minutes, they went back and forth.


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[Assistant] Outraged Obama immediately called his own press conference.


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[Assistant] On July 31, 2011, just two days before the deadline expired, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reached his own deal with Vice President Biden.


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[Assistant] The deal would create what would become known as the fiscal cliff.


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[Assistant] The tough decisions would be made after the 2012 presidential election.


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[Assistant] It was a high stakes gamble, betting that they would win the argument by winning the election.


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[Assistant] The voters handed the Republican presidential ticket defeat and delivered a serious blow to the young guns.


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[Assistant] President Obama had won reelection.


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[Assistant] But Boehner and the Republicans kept control of the House.


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[Assistant] In the wake of the election, Speaker Boehner saw a chance to consolidate power.


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[Assistant] Canter and Ryan were forced to reevaluate their strategy.


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[Assistant] With his leadership secure, Boehner decided it was time to clean house.


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[Assistant] Four conservative true believers were removed from choice committee assignments, financial services,


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[Assistant] And with the election over, the deadline for the fiscal cliff was less than two months away. Boehner made the first move.


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[Assistant] But in the weeks after his speech, it became clear the White House was in no hurry to negotiate.


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[Assistant] He was arguing for his campaign promise that Congress raise taxes on the rich.


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[Assistant] By the middle of December, with the Fiscal Cliff deadline looming, Obama was back at the White House. It was finally time to meet with Boehner.


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[Assistant] Boehner wanted to return to the grand bargain he and Obama had negotiated before the election.


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[Assistant] A meeting to avert the fiscal cliff quickly soured.


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[Assistant] Finally, Boehner concluded that the negotiations to reach a grand bargain with the White House were going nowhere.


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[Assistant] Plan B called for the House to pass a bill and then make a deal with the Senate.


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[Assistant] But first, Boehner would have to get it past the new Republicans.


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[Assistant] Many of the conservative true believers were angry that Plan B included a concession, raising taxes on millionaires.


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[Assistant] Boehner knew that Plan B was in trouble, and just before the vote, he called an emergency meeting.


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[Assistant] Every Republican caucus meeting starts with a prayer.


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[Assistant] In the days that followed, the political climate in Washington deteriorated even further.


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[Assistant] It culminated in a moment just before Boehner and Senator Harry Reid went into a meeting in the Oval Office.


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[Assistant] Vayner would now watch from the sidelines as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden again worked out a last-minute deal.


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[Assistant] The key was a tax hike on individuals making more than $400,000.


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[Assistant] But it pushed the hard decisions on spending cuts down the road.


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[Assistant] But a striking number of his own caucus voted against him.


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[Assistant] Lately, Eric Cantor has broken with John Boehner on key issues.


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[Assistant] Some say he is laying the groundwork to be the next Speaker of the House.


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[Assistant] For now, Speaker Boehner and President Obama, after nearly two years of trying,


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[Assistant] Face another round of high-stakes negotiations.


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[Assistant] They face imminent deadlines on mandatory cutbacks, keeping the government running, and another debt ceiling vote.


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[Assistant] Hard Scrabble upbringing, arrived in 1990.


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[Assistant] Was part of the gang that went after the Democrats over the bank scandals, rose to power, became a deal maker.


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[Assistant] Cantor is more in tune with the newer Republican Party than John Boehner. He's a very ambitious politician, a skilled operator, and an operator.


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[Assistant] And somebody whose ambitions to be speaker or to be the Republican leader, uhm, have been evident from the start.


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[Assistant] It was clear the Republicans were going to try to extract some price and I think the question was how significant would that price be and how unyielding would the Republicans be in order to get it.


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[Assistant] Ryan was deeply offended by having been put into that position, and his Republican friends were even more angry.


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[Assistant] Coming out of the election, I think Obama did not want to just suddenly go back into closed rooms and start negotiating. He was going to make sure he drove


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[Assistant] Public opinion, or kept public opinion strongly on his side.


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[Assistant] We've seen this drama so many times now. It's, it's almost like it's just an accepted part of the script that things go on and then they fall apart and you know, there's the 9-9-9-1-1 call either from McConnell to Biden or Biden to McConnell.


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[Assistant] I think it confirmed in a sense what the negotiation showed, which is that there are people in the House who are not happy with John Boehner's leadership and they wanted to register that unhappiness.


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[Assistant] Would you like to have something to eat?


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[Assistant] It's getting late! Time to start winding down for the night!


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[Assistant] Would you like some milk in your bottle now?


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[Assistant] And to have a cuddle on the couch.


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[Assistant] So in Paul Ryan's mind, and he told me this, he goes to the George Washington University speech thinking, maybe this is the moment where


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[Assistant] After we've laid out our negotiating positions, we start to come together a little bit. That's what he thinks he's stepping into.


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[Assistant] Ryan and Cantor, those were the guys who basically convinced Boehner, let's take this issue to the election in 2012 and try to win there.


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[Assistant] He strengthened a little bit within his caucus right after the election, because whether he says this outright, it's implied that, look, I tried it your way, guys, uhm, and Obama beat us.


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[Assistant] Even guys like Cantor and Ryan can't bring along the most conservative members of the caucus. That's how unruly the Republican caucus is right now.


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[Assistant] portion of the House of Representatives going into the next set of negotiations with their heels already dug in.


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[Assistant] Kuru niko? Like, neko niko? Like Japanese? Uhm, again?


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[Assistant] I, I don't know if I'm saying it per- like, correct? Or if I'm supposed to say like, guru? Guru-nickel? Guru-nickel? I don't know. Uhm, but I think we're talking about cats.


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[Assistant] Which, uh, you can't do art, but I don't know, maybe there's...


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[Assistant] Other cat Akuma out there, not sure, but nevertheless, I am very excited to watch this episode. We're getting very close to the end of season four, which I'm excited and nervous about. There's been a lot of like these hints being dropped as we've been going throughout the season of some mistake happening and like.


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[Assistant] I'm very nervous because especially with the last episode, that felt like a season finale episode. And if that isn't our season finale, then I don't know what we're doing in the season finale.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, girl. First off, I know you're going through a lot. Second off, good of you for like, not letting that like, take you down right there and get what you need done, okay? I'm very proud of you, though it's very raw. But proud of you.


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[Assistant] I don't think they should split up, but I have addressed this problem before. I have.


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[Assistant] I don't think so at all. He can throw away the pictures, all that stuff, but he can't actually erase her from his heart. Like, okay.


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[Assistant] He's- he's incapable of it, or else he would've tried to before. He can still have a crush on her. But like, you can't let it interfere, you know?


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[Assistant] Okay, he should be, you need some worker's cough, or you need to sue Mr. Grass's fucking ass to the ground. I don't care if you love him. Lawsuit time!


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[Assistant] Aw, wait, now I'm kinda sad. This was fun, but now it's not fun anymore.


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[Assistant] Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uhm, I think we're doing the reverse here. She's falling for him. Cause he's acting more like Adrian. Oh.


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[Assistant] Look, I know he is suave and he is charming the pants off of you, literally. But god, girl, come on.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, this show is so just like, mmmm.


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[Assistant] What would make this perfect is Cat Noir goes out and he finds the cat. And our regular Cat Noir comes back and gives her the cat. Please tell me that's what we're doing. I'm gonna like squeal of joy cause then they both-


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[Assistant] Found their cat. Tell me that's what's happening. I'm so hyped. I'm gonna giggle. Oh no, but it's not our cat no more. Aww. You were perfect.


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[Assistant] I was hoping our cat Noir would have it, but I guess that doesn't quite work.


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[Assistant] But overall, I am very happy.


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[Assistant] That Adrian has come to the conclusion that he was being, you know, too much, a little temperamental, taking things a little too personally, and the one that was kinda...


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[Assistant] Causing issues for Ladybug.


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[Assistant] Some patience and understanding, cause I don't think he was like 110% out of line, and I don't think-


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[Assistant] I want that clear. I don't think his feelings were 110% wrong, but I think he could have talked


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[Assistant] To Ladybug about it and then a team?


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[Assistant] But, when you have a responsibility, like saving Paris slash the world,


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[Assistant] I-I expect you to step up a bit, okay? I-I do. I do. Okay?


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[Assistant] That's where I am at. You may think it's unfair of me, but they have accepted this duty. They could have given up.


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[Assistant] Sent them back, what have you. They didn't have to be this. Yes, they were picked, but they did not have to be Cat Noir and Ladybug. They could have returned them and done away with it. So there is some expectation responsibility that they need to take on and take it seriously. And I felt like Cat Noir hasn't been lately. That he's, you know,


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[Assistant] Just when having these hissy fits what have you, nor does he understand the added stress and responsibility that Ladybug now has being the Guardian. It's not just I have to protect my Miraculous and the random Miraculous I may get from the Guardian.


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[Assistant] No, now she has to protect all the miraculous.


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[Assistant] And keep Cat Noir in check and save the day. All these things are just piled onto her, you know, already hectic life that she is living. So, I think you need to be more understanding of what she's going through.


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[Assistant] Where for Cat Noir, he's just getting upset because, oh no.


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[Assistant] Ladybug has, like, turned me down, like, uh, bleh, even though she's turned him down, like, many occasions, and she's done it nicely.


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[Assistant] Like I think back to like season two, she did it very very nicely and she's like, I don't want to lead you on, I don't want you to like get the wrong idea, there's somebody else I like. And then he still pursued her, which I think is a bit problematic, uhm, kinda toxic if you ask me.


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[Assistant] I, I will stand by my thoughts, my feelings. I get your first heartbreak is hard and that's what he was going through, but she has turned him down so many occasions that like, I can't feel, you know.


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[Assistant] Like, she's already told you, dude. Like, at this point, like, I can't feel empathy for you when you just kept pursuing it and you were hurting yourself. You know?


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[Assistant] About why I have been upset about Adrienne Cat Noir. I think this episode finally helped me to quell those feelings a bit. Having Adrienne Cat Noir kinda, you know, open up and be like, I've been unfair to her.


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[Assistant] I understand that I am not being replaced, like he should have just had these conversations with her instead of going all, you know.


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[Assistant] M-m-m-m-m-m about them getting all sassy. I think he could've talked to them because they had a really good conversation. I also think that Ladybug should give him a little bit more trust. Uh, especially because with the last episode, uh, Aferial,


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[Assistant] She was kind of breaching trust and I'm glad she doesn't know who Cat Noir is. I was gonna be actually really upset about that fact. I'm glad she doesn't because it would have been pretty bad. But.


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[Assistant] I think she needs to let him in a little bit more. I think she does need to, you know, maybe discuss some guardian-esque things with Cat Noir, have him there, cause he has been there from the beginning with us.


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[Assistant] I think that his opinion matters a lot. I am a huge Alia stan. I really am. I'm not blind to the fact that Alia has made mistakes, but...


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[Assistant] I think that Marinette should, well, Ladybug, should talk to Kat Noir more and give him some more trust.


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[Assistant] I think it would just work out better because I think he has some knowledge that would be very useful for us to have. Granted, he's kind of been in the dark for a lot of things, but I think having him on the same page as us, understanding, uhm, what we're going through would just be very helpful.


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[Assistant] That is my thought on that. Moving on though to uh,


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[Assistant] Gold buttons, I would think they're called with the little gold chain.


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[Assistant] Absolutely iconic. I love the, uh, the hair. I'm, uh, the green hair is interesting.


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[Assistant] I don't know what color I'd call it, kinda earthy?


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[Assistant] It's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful, like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I loved it. I loved it. Iconic. So, so good. I absolutely understand why Ladybug's heart was just, uh, going.


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[Assistant] Granted, we know it's because from Plague's words, he's like, just stand up straight, be prim and proper like what your dad wants you to be, you know, basically be that Adrian.


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[Assistant] Which was interesting to see, and that's why Ladybug Marinette started instantly falling for Catwalker, because Catwalker was acting like Adrien and being like Adrien means that Marinette goes all zippity-zoop-zoop-zoop-zoop-zoop-zoop, all stumbly-mumbly with her words and can't focus.


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[Assistant] Again, I love the fact that Adrian admitted that he's probably been...


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[Assistant] Out of line and a little bit, you know, too emotional about things. And I'm glad that we got to have that moment where Ladybug's like,


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[Assistant] You are the only Cat Noir for me. Uhm, just because, like, you weren't on the team doesn't mean I don't need you. I need you. And I think both sides need to hear it, say it, just have it out there.


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[Assistant] Especially going into whatever this season finale is going to be. Uh, we need our babies together and on the same page. We can't have this.


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[Assistant] Heartache stuff, messing with anything going on for us.


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[Assistant] So overall, I really like this episode. It was interesting. I like seeing a different cat Noir design. That was very fun. A very, very lovely outfit. The, uh,


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[Assistant] Cat amuck and, uh, akumatized individual was an interesting little addition. I thought it was cute to see, like, uh, Cat Walker, like, be so in tune and, like,


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[Assistant] Perfect, according to Ladybug. That was nice to see and just kinda playing that all out and then getting the cat at the end for like the little child was very cute. So overall a really good episode.


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[Assistant] Uh, past this, we only have one more episode, and then we go into the two-part finale, so it's gonna be crazy, but I'm very excited to watch. So, thank you guys so much for watching this with me, I really do appreciate it. Uh, let me know your thoughts down below, uhm.


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[Assistant] I know some of you still think I'm being very harsh on Adrienne Cat Noir.


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[Assistant] I get it. I do. I probably am. At the end of the day, it is a child. But...


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[Assistant] I think there's some responsibility and he needs to be understanding and see someone else's opinion. I think it's very easy.


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[Assistant] A lot. And I understand his feelings hurt, but...


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[Assistant] If he's gonna keep being temperamental like this, he's obviously not gonna pick you.


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[Assistant] So I think it's one of those like, hello, think it through situations. But anyways.


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[Assistant] Does not matter, they are animated TV show characters. I still like the show, uhm, and I think this episode finally helped quell my frustrations with Cat Noir's frustrations, so.


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[Assistant] Anyways guys, thank you so much for watching, I really do appreciate it. Please make sure if you like this video to like, share, subscribe, all that fun jazz, and I'll see you all later!


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[Assistant] That's how the golf match started. I told the president, I said, Mr. President, this is about golf.


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[Assistant] Not about anything else. And he and I were partners, so we played well, and we won.


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[Assistant] I suggested to the president, you know, why don't we have a conversation?


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[Assistant] Well, it was very dangerous, but it became clear to me that the president wasn't going to deal.


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[Assistant] Uh, with the spending problem without having a conversation about revenues.


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[Assistant] We always believed that, uh, through tax reform, there were lower rates for everyone. So I felt comfortable putting revenue on the table, uh, as a way of trying to get the president.


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[Assistant] Uh, to be serious about the spending problem that we have.


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[Assistant] I had members, uh, more conservative members, uh, who just thought sitting down with the president was a big mistake.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of excitement in the Oval Office on that Sunday after the President returned from church because we had worked all morning, we had worked out the numbers, and we were there.


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[Assistant] When we walked into that room, it was clear that we had an agreement.


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[Assistant] Uh, that there was $800 billion in revenues, uh, more than that, uh, in reductions and reforms.


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[Assistant] Uh, on the spending side. And there, there in effect was an agreement.


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[Assistant] And I told the president, I said, Mr. President, we had an agreement. We had an agreement on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, you know, if, if I make an agreement with someone, I've got to live up to the agreement that I made. Uh, but, uh, he wanted more revenue, wanted more revenue.


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[Assistant] Dealing with the White House is like dealing with a bowl of jello. The White House moved the goalpost. There was an agreement on some additional revenues, uh, until yesterday when the President demanded, uh, $400 billion more


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[Assistant] Which was going to be nothing more than a tax increase on the American people. And I can tell you that Leader Cantor and I...


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[Assistant] Mr. President, this is your moment. We're ready to be led. Not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans.


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[Assistant] And for the purposes of forging a bipartisan agreement that begins to solve the problem,


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[Assistant] We're willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions.


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[Assistant] Let's rise above the dysfunction and do the right thing together for our country. Thank you.


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[Assistant] I agreed to put $800 billion of revenue on the table if the president was willing to make real spending cuts.


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[Assistant] And reform our entitlement program so they're sustainable for the long term.


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[Assistant] There were spending cuts that we had agreed to in August or July of 2011 that were taken off the table, wouldn't even, weren't even allowed to be discussed in December of 2012. And it was a disaster.


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[Assistant] I heard over the course of, at that point, six weeks.


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[Assistant] On a number of occasions. Well, you have to remember, I won.


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[Assistant] Well, Republicans maintain their majority in the U.S. House. You know, we won too.


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[Assistant] When I gave the president my bottom line, it was my bottom line.


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[Assistant] And the White House response was, well, we don't think we're going to get anywhere. It's a waste of time. Uh, at that point, I had no choice, uh, but to go to some, uh, other planet.


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[Assistant] I was very disappointed, uh, in, uh, in some of my Republican colleagues, uh, who, uh, who didn't see the wisdom, uh, of moving in that direction.


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[Assistant] I thought, you know, this would be the right prayer.


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[Assistant] Hey listen, Senator Reid and I are close friends. We've got to work together.


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[Assistant] Uh, but just like any close friends, sometimes you just need to clear the air. And we do.


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[Assistant] Obama went back to Boehner and said, look, things have changed. There's this other plan out here. I can't cut the deal that I thought I could cut before. I need 400 billion more dollars to sign on the dotted line.


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[Assistant] So the last minute McConnell stepped in, cut a deal with the White House that allowed Republicans to save face, allowed


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[Assistant] Washington to kind of kick the can down the road till after the election.


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[Assistant] And give Republicans a chance to defeat Barack Obama.


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[Assistant] Whatever are you talking about? You are the only soul here. Right now.


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[Assistant] They are America's great coastal estuaries, and they are in peril.


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[Assistant] Three decades after the Clean Water Act, Frontline takes a hard look at why America has failed for so long to clean up the nation's waterways.


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[Assistant] And how contaminated waters threaten not only wildlife.


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[Assistant] In a two hour special report, frontline correspondent Hedrick Smith uncovers the danger to the nation's waterways. Tracking new threats.


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[Assistant] Dope, dope, dope. I seen you tag me, I seen you, I'm like, okay, he doing his research.


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[Assistant] To me, first, uh, the way we talk, you know what I'm saying? The main thing, the way we talk. And uh, what else, what else?


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[Assistant] I really don't know, you know what I'm saying? You know, in the attitude of niggas, you know what I'm saying? In the attitude of niggas, but, it's kinda like you described it, it's like a weird colony type of thing because, Buffalo.


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[Assistant] It's different. I try to tell people Buffalo is western New York. You know what I'm saying? So it's six hours away from the city. You know what I'm saying? From the boroughs, we six hours away. So it's going to be differences. You know what I'm saying? We really are, we, as people can see from the rap, we really our own. You know what I'm saying? Type of shit. We really our own, got our own slang and shit like that.


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[Assistant] I think about it like this, like, okay, boom. The east side of Buffalo is really like the, uh, the streets with the black neighborhood. So the east side of Buffalo, you know what I'm saying? And that's where the bullshit going on that. Now, let's say if it's a murder every week, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes there's more.


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[Assistant] If it's a murder every week, like you looking around and it's like you, you don't know who it's going to be next week.


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[Assistant] And, and, and like you said, it's like, where it's real close to neck. So it's just like, somebody not gonna be here by the end of the summer. But, it's that type of shit.


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[Assistant] I found out a lot of people don't know what to describe it as. As familiar as it may sound, the music may sound, a lot of people don't know what to call it, you know what I'm saying? I heard a lot of people give it different names, but I think it's just...


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[Assistant] You know, we, we know what we good at. You know what I'm saying? We know what we good at and we built a formula around what we good at. So I think...


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[Assistant] By it being three of us and sticking to a formula and, and with uh, Derringer and Alchemist producing a thing, you know what I'm saying? And the stories that we tell them, real official stories, I feel like it just,


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[Assistant] It was just, I don't know what I mean, it was magic in a bottle, it was just how it happened, you know what I'm saying? It took the world by storm.


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[Assistant] Cause it's real, cause it's real trendy. You know what I'm saying? The game is real trendy right now. And that's what everybody doing, but I always say this right. All the top niggas in the game.


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[Assistant] People to this day who will go get a primo beat.


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[Assistant] No matter how big they are, people to this day who won't get a Pete Rock beat, people to this day who won't go get an Alchemist beat. You know what I'm saying? These artists work with them. And when I'm saying this, I'm talking about from...


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[Assistant] Kendrick, to Cole, to Drake, whoever you want to consider the top lyricists, our niggas as rappers, you know what I'm saying, you could say niggas got some backpack in them, you know what I'm saying, we all agree with that, so, you know what I'm saying, everybody likes it.


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[Assistant] Everybody act like this, the lyrics don't matter no more but...


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[Assistant] That's, that's impossible. You just gotta look at, you just gotta look at the facts for what they are.


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[Assistant] Could do anything. Have done everything. Same thing with me. We done, we done, like, we been around for a while. You know what I'm saying? Like underground. And then got like...


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[Assistant] Big club records. You know what I'm saying? Shit like that. That the whole town was playing. 10 years old, you go to the club in Buffalo, they play it right now. You know what I'm saying? You go upstate, they play it right now. We got records like that.


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[Assistant] It's easier to rap like that actually. You feel what I'm saying? It's easier to rap like that. And the shit that we do, see what's important to me is...


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[Assistant] These legends, and the niggas invite you in their circles, and they tell you, they listen to your shit, they fuck with your shit. They don't do that for everybody. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's different trophies and different milestones in a game, and other rappers got different milestones.


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[Assistant] They'll never be able to rub shoulders and stand shoulder to shoulder with a legend and a nigga who put in pain acknowledged you as an artist, as a lyricist. That's big for what we do, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] That's dope. My first time meeting him was when these niggas brought me to L.A. my first time. Right. You know what I'm saying? Nigga, uh, I went to the house, I was really, I was really fucked up. You know what I'm saying? I damn near had the flu. Oh shit. You know what I'm saying? I came out there, I was still smoking moon rocks and shit though. I didn't give a fuck. I came, I came. People come to L.A. and do that. No, you got to. I'm like, this is my first time. What the fuck?


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[Assistant] See right now I got my daughter's shit where she can't even get on that shit. She got no internet access.


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[Assistant] Yo, but you know what? That was my mom's side who did that. But my pops, he always rode in the car with me and listened to any and everything.


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[Assistant] Uh, no Vaseline. I remember, yo, my pops used to ride around playing no Vaseline for the whole day. That's the ice cube. You know what I mean? And I just got a good history lesson. You know what I'm saying? EPMD and all that shit. But my first, I remember like listening to Reasonable Doubt.


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[Assistant] But then when I got old enough and I revisited that, that was like, I was young, I was 96, so I was about 12. When I got old enough to revisit that and a lot of other shit and understood what these dudes was talking about, I tapped in, I tapped in ready to die all years later, so.


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[Assistant] That music definitely inspired me and I got into music early but I understood it a little later.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's dope. That's dope. That's dope because it's Jews in the music. And that's like you were saying, that's what we grew up off. You know what I'm saying? Niggas teaching you shit in music. It was about being the slickest, being the smartest and being a, you know what I'm saying? Being that nigga. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't about...


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[Assistant] Fuckin' off, you know what I'm sayin'? You know what I mean? It wasn't about that, like I said.


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[Assistant] It's way more fucked up. Cause look, cause look, okay, I'ma break it down. Anybody, anybody who been in a game know, if you been in a game you know, heroin's like a...


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[Assistant] It's not, it's not, it's not like cocaine. Everybody got their hands on cocaine, put their hands on cocaine. Everybody haven't dabbled in a heroin game.


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[Assistant] You feel what I'm saying? Now, since it's turned, since that gotten trendy, you know what I'm saying, by the young kids who use drugs, everybody got their hands on it, you know what I'm saying? That's what it is. Everybody's selling that shit. Like I said, I'm from a block that been doing that shit.


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[Assistant] You feel what I'm saying? But, it's a new thing. And uh, it's trendy. Uh, whoever making that fat and all, I don't know what the fuck they doing.


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[Assistant] They putting that shit in there, you know, it's killing people, you know. Niggas ain't got no bolts, we don't own no bolts.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. I was, uh, my man a couple years ago.


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[Assistant] He, uh, his son was in hospital getting heart surgery. You know what I'm saying? So they had the heart surgery and it came out successful and everything. But he was like a little, he got a little aggy so they was about to give him some medicine and they was about to shoot him with fentanyl.


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[Assistant] He told him like, nah, don't do that, give him something else, and then he came, came and gave him something else.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Drugs is a part of America and drugs help build this country. You know what I'm saying? In the streets and pharmaceutical wise. You know what I'm saying? So that's going to forever be an issue. It's controlling it. You see with the marijuana thing, you know what I'm saying? That's, that's interesting. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Because I'm in my thirties. Just imagine, like, weed is legal. I know how niggas been doing that in California, but they lightening laws up around it like in Buffalo, you know what I'm saying? If you get caught with 57 grams, it's a ticket. You know, that's big for niggas. That's crazy. That's big for niggas, you know what I'm saying? That's two zips. That's a ticket.


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[Assistant] What about, what's that country where heroin is legal? I think in Amsterdam and shit, don't they have it like regulated where you can just do it? Yea, Amsterdam. Heroin is legal, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a fact, but, but this what it is though, this what it is though, it's really the, it's really the users. Because look, when people take that fentanyl and shit like that, they not supposed to take all that.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? So fiends will go to the, whatever they gotta do, they'll go to the methadone clinic or whatever, but they gon' need, they gon' need that fix again, they gon' need that rush again.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? So it's really, it's like damn. You know what I'm saying? Like how the fuck, how the fuck you do that? It's about moderation. Yea, they abusing that shit, right. Yea, they abusing it. You know what I'm saying? They abusing it. And methadone clinic, they wake up, everybody get their little shit. Or you know, you take your hit.


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[Assistant] That's how a lot of them, that's how a lot of overdoses happen, you know what I'm saying? You give, you give a, you give a, a motherfucker a tester.


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[Assistant] Yea, you know what I mean? What the fuck? That shit crazy. So, you know, drugs is a part of this shit. Yea.


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[Assistant] It ain't like the wire or nothing like that, but you can get caught like with maybe some weed or something and in situations with some other shit, some small shit. You know what I'm saying? And they looking for guns, man. You know what I'm saying? They looking for guns, man. You know what I'm saying? If it ain't nothing worth their time, they looking for guns, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, like the wire shit. Like I said, I'm from a block where niggas was making $20,000 a day.


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[Assistant] It kinda did, but it kinda didn't. Man, I think, I think, I think...


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[Assistant] This is something I thought about, but it wasn't nothing. It wasn't nothing. That was big on me. You know what I'm saying? It didn't like, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I'm from the destruction of drugs.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I didn't have, I didn't have like, like damn what I'm doing is fucked up.


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[Assistant] You feel what I'm saying? I did have that, at times I did have it when I sometimes I look, I see, you know what I'm saying, I might look at a house and see what's going on with some kids, and then of course.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying, but I always looked at that kid as like, that was me.


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[Assistant] That's a fact. You know what I mean? That's a fact. I always tell this story, like we don't do this shit no more, but I always tell this story. I said it in different raps. This nigga was ruthless. Niggas was about 14 and called this nigga to get a hammer. There's no questions. Gave it to niggas. Really? Who'd you call? Me. Oh, you called it.


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[Assistant] Guess what? Like the government always do, they make harsh, uh, penalties, and then they go back on them. So right now they got something in New York State called gun court. You know what I'm saying? Like they got drug court. You know what I'm saying? They got gun court is where they just like being more lenient because all these young niggas got straps, the prisons is full.


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[Assistant] You feel what I'm saying? So, it's not even in, I know it's in Rochester, I know it's in Buffalo, but.


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[Assistant] Gun court. You know what I'm saying? That's crazy. That's what they do. Like they lock all these, all these, uh, drug dealing niggas up from the 80s and they be like, you know, that was harsh. We gave y'all 10 years back. You know what I'm saying? Same thing they gonna do with the fentanyl. All these, they locking all these niggas up for the fentanyl and the heroin. They gonna do the same thing in 10 years. They gonna let these niggas out.


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[Assistant] You know what? See, a lot of people don't be knowing about that criminal shit, man. A lot, a lot that got, that got to do with your criminal shit is, uh, your criminal history.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? If you don't got no criminal history and you're the first time you're getting caught with drugs, really, even if it's a lot of drugs, it's a slap on the wrist. You know, niggas is getting caught with bricks during five years, you know what I'm saying? If you got money for a lawyer, you know what I'm saying? I know niggas was get caught with quarter bricks during six months in shotgun.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Because it's different. It's drugs. You know what I'm saying? This shit is a part of America. You know what I'm saying? There's more time in the manufacturing, in the traffic, in the conspiracy.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm sayin'? And actually, they kickin' in to find the shit in your living room. You know what I'm sayin'? You know, it's a system, man. It's how they do the shit, man.


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[Assistant] I feel so guilty and I, you know what I'm sayin', and I shouldn't. I feel guilty. I be around.


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[Assistant] Taking crazy risks from money. And I'm like, damn. And, and, and, and this is what I'ma say, it's a difference between a drug dealer and a hustler. You know what I'm saying? See, we hustlers. A drug dealer can only deal drugs and...


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[Assistant] And if you, and if you just gotta be smart at it, and nobody's smart at it, you gotta be in it to, to raise you a few dollars, not a lot. Would you think you're gonna make a million dollars and retire? No.


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[Assistant] You gonna get shot the fuck up, somebody gonna kick in your door, make you a few dollars, retire, get you a fucking pizza shop, get you something, you know what I'm saying? Make, make good enough money where you don't gotta look over your shoulder and nobody do that. See, they don't, that's what I say about the ghettos, we're niggas from the ghettos. The ghetto is so rough and tough and fucked up.


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[Assistant] Your parents could only teach you how to survive in that motherfucker.


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[Assistant] Oh, once you graduated high school and you finish, so you're not in jail, you're not dead, or you're out, they don't know what to tell you after that. You know what I'm saying? They just know how to tell you to get through that shit. That's why we not taught about credit, taught about that business shit, taught about all that other shit, cause nobody, you know what I'm saying? You better learn how to walk to the bus stop.


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[Assistant] Don't talk to these niggas right here, don't do that da da. We not learn to, to function outside of our ghettos, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Of course, of course, of course my kids ain't gonna never grow up in the conditions I grew up in.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? They're not supposed to. You know what I'm saying? They're not supposed to. They, they, they children. You know what I'm saying? And for what we went through, that was, that was really a tragedy. You know what I'm saying? But our kids will never go through no nut shit like that. That wasn't normal. You know what I'm saying? We grew up to see that shit wasn't normal. It was normal when we was going through it. Everybody's mom smoked crack. Everybody's mom did.


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[Assistant] Ain't nobody had no father around. That was normal. You got a dad, you know what I'm sayin'? But, it's not normal now, niggas take care of their kids, and their kids is in, you know what I'm sayin', my kids are spoiled.


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[Assistant] She bout to be 14, she 13 now, right? So, they done been and made visits to federal prisons and shit like that.


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[Assistant] It's nothing that they want to sit and talk about to me. You know what I'm saying? Cause they like so, they not like...


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[Assistant] They was in there writing me letters telling me, yo, you gotta chill, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] We call that chips. Chips? We call that chips, yea. What do you mean? That's like lame wack. Oh, okay. He chips. He fooled. Niggas chips.


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[Assistant] I be feelin' like we upper echelon.


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[Assistant] And do what I need to do in a different city and it's different opportunities and bigger, but I'm always in Buffalo though. I'm always.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? When I go to that motherfucker, I be in and out. I might stop at a store or some shit like that. He be in the hood. He be in the hood.


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[Assistant] Take care of your people that's in there, but the get out is bigger and better things going on, you know what I'm saying? Why would we be subject to that?


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? I heard a lot of people, I seen people say, and I'm saying in our community, in our neighborhoods, everybody talk about what they bought for their kids. Everybody say like, yeah man, I went broke for my kids. Why go broke for your kids? Get rich for your kids. You know what I'm saying? It's like, get the fuck up out of there. Somebody made a comment on my shit the other day, talking about how I moved out the hood as soon as I got money.


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[Assistant] And I just moved off six months ago. You know what I'm saying? But before this, I was on the tour with the Locks living in the projects. Facts, I did Sway in the Morning, I did Funk Flex, I was still living in the P's when I did that shit. You know what I'm saying? Going home to the P's every night with a rollie on. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Like, it's tonight gonna be the night, but shit, I'm from that environment, but like you said, hands off policy, niggas know what come with that.


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[Assistant] We do it all the time and he writes his part and I write my part. Oh, okay. You feel what I'm saying? It's just, you gotta be cohesive when you do it. You gotta sit down and talk and have a conversation and communicate through writing a verse. When you do it, that's it, you know what I'm saying? That ain't like, you go in the corner and you go in there. Sometimes we do do that, let's just black out. And then sometimes you're like, okay, now what we doing? Let's talk about it, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I already knew thought was tapped in. You feel what I'm saying? So.


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[Assistant] I heard the beat and I'm like, you know what? Thought I could get on this. It should've been crazy. So, I wrote my verse before I even... By the time I wrote my verse, I knew he was gonna be on the song.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? So I didn't even write my verse and then called him. I'm like, yo, I got this beat. He like, yo, send it.


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[Assistant] And shit, I sent my shit, then he, uh, ended up sending his back and I'm like, damn.


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[Assistant] He's a bitch, and yo shit, motherfuckin', uh, you know, we got what was shingun do coming, you know what I'm sayin'? Uh, God don't make mistakes, Conway here, that's goin' away, you know what I'm sayin'? Plugs I'm at in stores right now, you know what I'm sayin'?


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Real shit. Just working, you know what I mean? Staying busy doing these interviews running around the motherfucking country, doing shows, fucking this shit up. I got the fucking, uh, plugs I met live at Sony Hall.


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[Assistant] Like we was talking about earlier, it's just different steps you take and all that's part of the steps that you take for everybody to know that. I'm saying Griselda's the dopest shit out. And we going on a run. Facts.


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[Assistant] Enjoy this way of life that I've chose, you know.


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[Assistant] Very, very happy to have you in here, man. You're a hilarious guy. Well, I appreciate that, man. It's an honor, man. This is really cool.


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[Assistant] What else, man? I'm trying to think of growing up like a good...


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[Assistant] You know, I grew up in that area where, like in, in that era where like NWA was really hot and like beastie boys and fatty boys and the other guy, uh...


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[Assistant] Well, I think black culture, man, I remember growing up, like,


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[Assistant] You know, I grew up in Louisiana in like a rural area, and so, you know, my area was mostly poor black and poor white and...


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[Assistant] There was always like a disconnect between some of the black and white community, but there was also...


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[Assistant] Always like a fascination, you know? Cause the black kids always seem to me seem to be...


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[Assistant] Well, to me, I didn't have like a lot of confidence, you know, when I was young, and those kids seem to have a lot more confidence. You know, a lot of things that I didn't have, you know, in some ways. And so I think, uh...


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[Assistant] So I would look up to that kind of group and they were always out and about on their bikes and so those were kids that I saw a lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, there's something about like a...


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[Assistant] Like that fuck you kind of anthem sometimes that, you know, I grew up kind of like in a poor white environment that those kids could, and it wasn't like a redneck environment, it was just kind of rural. I feel like that gets lumped in a lot with redneck even though it's different to me.


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[Assistant] And so there was something about resonating with that, like...


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[Assistant] You know, that kind of fuck everybody type of thing a little bit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I remember hearing in there, like, not a lot, I think there were some like...


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[Assistant] It was, sometimes it was more like a, I don't know if it was like a redneck vibe, but.


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[Assistant] There was definitely beef, like, there was just kind of fear, I guess. Like, I was scared of, like, black kids, like I got, you know, jumped by some black kids and stuff sometimes, so I got kind of scared, but uhm, but then at the same time, I like,


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[Assistant] You know, I was in like, you know, like this little club called NWA, and uh, and it was just like black kids, and one kid was mixed, so he was like 50% black butt.


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[Assistant] Oh, you did? Yea, dude, he was like the only one. Dude, we had a kid in our town named Brian, uh, St. Pierre, right? And he was the first wigger ever, I think. They'd never seen it.


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[Assistant] And they put him in a learning disabled classes. So you had kids at the third lunch that were, you know, you had the kid, the blind guy doing the, you know, kind of.


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[Assistant] You know, that kinda cane, that kinda magic, almost like he's gonna do magic, but he never does it kinda. Like that Hogwarts, you know, that kinda Harry Potter guy. And then you had like the guy, you know, with a walker, you know, real disabled children.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I could see you being a product. I mean, I don't really know you, but I could see it, you know, if I, you know, climbed down your family tree, I could see on one of the branches you doing some of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, uh, I love thinking about when I was young for some reason, or thinking about...


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[Assistant] You know, I got into, uh, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, I don't, you know, drink or do drugs or anything right now. So I got into recovery a couple years ago and that kind of sparked a little bit of a vibe in me that I never knew I had, like, of like...


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[Assistant] I don't know, just thinking about what was going on, like thinking about who I was or why I was that person.


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[Assistant] You know, I'd never really thought about that. I'd kinda just been living, like, reactively to my environment.


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[Assistant] You know, just like constantly and my whole life had really been in reaction.


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[Assistant] And I never really thought, you know, thought about it and then I started to like try and just figure out what some of my feelings were and, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know, it's been an interesting experience, you know, like I didn't know that podcasting was going to be, I mean, I knew it was a big thing, you know, I went on Joe Rogan's and I went on, you know, some of these other guys fighting the kid, they have some neat pods and, uh, but I didn't know.


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[Assistant] That I had anything really to talk about, you know, uhm.


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[Assistant] But was that your same thing you felt whenever you started out?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well it gives you like a lane to do yourself. You know, I feel like Hollywood wasn't given a lot of people that, you know, or, or maybe they were, maybe, maybe they weren't just giving me certain opportunities or I didn't feel like, you know, I went in enough meetings where these people looked at me like I didn't have any value or that.


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[Assistant] You know, I wasn't even, you know, maybe where I was from or the way I sounded or the way I looked some time that I wasn't.


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[Assistant] You know, there wasn't anything that I was gonna bring to the table. You know, so I think some of that like kind of, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, that wasn't any other thing when I started podcasting that was in there. That's always been in there with me and Hollywood a little bit. You know, a real distrust kind of.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and I recognize that. You know, I, I, I do recognize that. I just felt like, uhm,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm grateful for whatever inspirations come along. You know, I've found that sometimes in my life it's been hard to grasp all the inspirations even when they're there.


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[Assistant] You know, I feel them and see them, but sometimes it's been hard for me to really say, okay, I'm gonna go do something to take action in my own life with this inspiration. I'm not just gonna let it be a candle. I'm gonna let it, you know, you know, start a burn, you know, and uhm,


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[Assistant] And so I feel like with podcasting it was just a place where I could kinda just talk about whatever was going on with me. And I could also just kinda share my truth, I mean...


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[Assistant] It was kind of one, actually one of the first times I ever felt like that I understood like some other ethnicities and, and...


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[Assistant] You know, groups that maybe have been ostracized or not given opportunities.


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[Assistant] After a while of being out here, I was like, oh, this is what it feels like when somebody looks at you and the way you sound and where you're from or, and I'm not saying it's exactly the same.


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[Assistant] You know, it was right around like kind of, it was all around like the election stuff and like kind of, and it was like, oh man, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I just never, that was never part of my life. I mean, I just...


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[Assistant] That was around me when I was growing up, but I never fit into that really. There's never, there's, it's weird, there's not a space really for just if you're like kind of a lower or lower middle class white person. There's really, I mean there's space of course, but there's not really, you kind of get lumped in with this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, thanks man. Yeah, I wanna be. And I wanna stay in that place, you know. I mean, it gets easy out here once you, you know, uhm, with popularity, with expectations, uh, even with free shit that people give you. Like, it all gets a little bit, it can get cloudy. You know, it's kind of, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, scary, one of my, the scariest thing to me is an ego, you know, is my own ego. Uhm, so yeaah, just, it's all been interesting, man.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm grateful for the opportunity, but I want to be able to use the opportunity to... I mean, if anything...


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[Assistant] You know, on our podcast, we try to talk about, you know, try and just listen to other young men that are struggling. It's mostly young men that listen. So it's about a lot of like...


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes we don't know. We're afraid to say something, afraid to think or feel and, you know, we try to do our best to do that. You know, sometimes we do it, sometimes we don't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it makes sense, man. Like I get scared sometimes, like I went to a church function the other night, I get scared to like talk about that. Like a lot of it's like just even being brave to talk about things like in Los Angeles and, you know, and, and even if you have like talk about like faith or if you have questions about like, you know, if you have,


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[Assistant] Question is wondering if you're racist or if you're part of like...


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[Assistant] You know, or if you're sexist, you know, like, I think some of the neat thing about some of these movements they've had in the past couple years, though a lot of it I think is some wild turkey shit, at the same time I think some of it has really made people kind of think, you know. Made me think even how I treat my mother, how I look at my sister, how I behave towards, you know, people that are close to me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so some of that stuff, I think there's always positive in it, you know, uh, and then also, I don't know man, you know, you know, I have no idea.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Yeaah, he's a very interesting man, you know, he's very... I...


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[Assistant] You know, he's very loving in some ways. He's very helpful if you really need some help, I feel like. Uhm, he offers some suggestions, you know. Uh, and he also has a unique ability to stay so curious.


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[Assistant] And that's something that is, uhm, and to retain information.


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[Assistant] You know, if you just drove past Joe Rogan on a street, you might think, oh, that guy probably don't retain a ton of information, you know. But that guy, man, most of his arms are filled with information, dude. That guy, it really is, it's kind of fascinating that he's able to do that so much.


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[Assistant] Do you get pretty locked in? Like when you get a- like when you're kinda really on a vibe of something, do you get really locked into doing it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, being brave to talk about it, man. You know, they had a pizza shop. One guy hit me up when I was started out doing podcasts. I was in my kitchen. He said, Hey man, I love your podcast. I'll give you a thousand dollars a month to help you get into a studio.


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[Assistant] You know, and he didn't ask for anything in return and we ended up doing like ads and stuff for him on the pod for a long time. And, but it was just night, you know, like there's so much goodwill out there too. Like, uh, needed a producer and a couple of people hit me up and then, you know, now I, you know, my producer, like, I don't know what I would do without him a lot of times.


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[Assistant] So, uh, it's amazing how many people want to be involved in stuff. You know? It constantly amazes me. It's crazy how...


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[Assistant] The people that I meet through my own podcast are the ones that end up amazin' me the most almost. Really? Yea, I think so. It's just, it's just crazy how when you try to do somethin', other stuff kinda comes along as well.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's crazy. It's crazy how your relationships really start to change everything up.


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[Assistant] And they had a little white guy with kind of who would play with his hair a lot and he was just doing music and I fucking just fell in love with this guy, man. And I was up watching his videos at night on YouTube and it's kind of weird watching a child at night by yourself at the house, you know? But I would be watching this kid, uhm...


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[Assistant] And you guys had a party, the party even could have been here, I don't know where it was, but uhm.


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[Assistant] But I'm trying to think of his name. Uh, he had like a ghost was part of his emot- part of his, like, uh, they would put on the screen during his videos. Uh, it was like, this kid was like 11 or 13 or something.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, my buddy Simon Rex put me onto, uh, onto him and onto you.


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[Assistant] And yet Simon Rex is somebody who changed my whole career in town.


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[Assistant] You know, he saw me do a set one time and he just sent me a tweet afterwards, a set message, a direct message. He said, Hey man, I saw you tonight and you were so funny. And it was like, holy shit, man. I grew up like, or not grew up, but even like in my, you know, teens and young twenties, like watching, you know, his silly videos and him being like a goofball.


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[Assistant] And him being like kinda loved by everybody and trying different stuff.


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[Assistant] And then suddenly like I could talk to him, you know, and then I could relate to him as a peer. And then we became, became really close actually. And, uh, but him telling people this guy's neat, you know, or this listen to this guy.


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[Assistant] You know, and he's always been a guy like that, like, it's never like, let me hold the card and see what I can do with it. It's like, oh, the card came through, let me, let me share this card with everybody I can, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. That's weird. Oh, I shovel a snake where I grew up. They shovel a snake, boy. Only thing that beats a snake really is a shovel. Really? Dude, I was talking to this blind girl the other day and we were talking about animals and she said that the animal you can't really trust is a snake.


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[Assistant] She said when she holds a snake, she doesn't get anything out of it. That's crazy, dude. First of all, if you're blind and you're holding a snake, dude, you should be on X Games, you know?


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[Assistant] That's wild, man. Sex makes me nervous a lot of times, but I try. You know, I try my best, but it also makes me nervous, you know. Really? I think so, yea. Nervous? Why? Actually, I know so.


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[Assistant] Oh, they call me Matthew Bowling when it comes to that wiener, bro. I'm fast and electric, but it's a short, yeah, it's more of a sprint than it is, you know, a long distance kind of guy.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I like casual, little bit of dateline, something to set the mood in the house, put a little bit of thunder. I got a good thunder soundtrack, or you know, scary storm soundtrack, I'll throw that in the background. Oh really? That's your thing? Yeaah, I like the vibe of like, let the weather help, you know? Cause you don't get it here in LA as much, like where I'm from, you know, in a lot of places you get a little weather.


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[Assistant] You know, you got a lightning maybe, you know, the girl's gonna leave, but then a lightning, she sees a lightning and she's like, oh, I'll stay. I'm gonna stay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's gotten wild. He's like Skip Bayless. I feel like he's gotten real wild. Stephen A. Smith, I feel like he's gone to Stephen A. Smith. It feels like he's eaten Stephen A. Smith's for breakfast, man. It's like, you know, it's like, it's just sometimes it's, but it's interesting. That's a, that's a strange thing about,


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[Assistant] The more you get out there and see reflections of yourself in the world, like even videos or anything, or people tell you how you are or say what they like about you. It's so impossible. I feel like it's impossible not to let it affect, infect how you then become. So it's almost like you're doing an impersonation of yourself.