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[Assistant] Yeah, so my final take is this as we close out the year 2022, let's end it in, uh, in peace, right?


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[Assistant] Return to Watson. I'm, I'm, I'm reveling in what bull was talking about here. Watson with a big day here on Sunday in the warm weather, the DMV because you got to calm people. People here, you know, they, they go to the, they go to the mth degree here real quick. Oh, the world is sinking. The world is sink. I like relax.


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[Assistant] Relax, we already had a tough hand with that suspension being handed down here. And we get into reality. Watson will return.


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[Assistant] After much work is put in, he will return. And in the off season, what we can hope for as we move into 2023 is that what?


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[Assistant] The Cavs make a good run here in 2023 make the necessary moves to get better here. And then we get into the summer. You have the Indians the guardians doing their thing again, right? Tito under good management and then we're going to the fall.


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[Assistant] And by that time, I hope that the Cleveland Browns have their act together and figure out exactly.


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[Assistant] What they have at their disposal. And get out of their own way and stop tripping on their own feet.


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[Assistant] This week we're taking a look at two very different albums from different worlds that have one thing in common. They're both bonafide rock and roll classics. The Cars Candio and Grateful Dead's American Beauty. I'm Scott T. Sterling and this is The Rhino Report.


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[Assistant] Including my best friend's girl. Just what I needed. And, let the good times roll.


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[Assistant] Propelling the record to peak at number 18 on the Billboard 200 in March 1979. Thanks to that album's staying power.


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[Assistant] Artist Alberto Vargas was famous for his pinup girl painting style that appeared in magazines like Playboy and Esquire. Even though he retired from making art,


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[Assistant] Vargas who was 83 years old at the time was convinced to take the job by his niece, a fan of the cars. Drummer David Robinson directed the original photo shoot at a Ferrari dealership.


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[Assistant] Featuring model Candy Moore on the hood of a Ferrari 365 GTC4. And fact number three, the album's title track features one of the best solos from guitarist Elliot Easton.


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[Assistant] Card's guitarist Elliot Easton is one of the most underrated players in the history of rock. His tasteful and understated style didn't lend itself to flashy guitar solos. On the song, Candio, however, Easton turned up and let it rip, resulting in a high octane guitar solo


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[Assistant] Studio album, American Beauty. Following the band's outstanding fourth studio effort, Working Man's Dead, the band returned with some of the strongest and best known material of their entire career. Let's dive into American Beauty with Three Fun Facts.


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[Assistant] Fact number one, Phil Lesh and Bobby Weir flex their considerable songwriting chops. Now by 1970, bandleader Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter handle almost all of the dead's songwriting chores. On American Beauty, however,


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[Assistant] Phil Lesh wrote Box of Rain and Bobby Weir delivered Sugar Magnolia. The album also features keyboardist Ron Pigpen McKiernan's one and only songwriting and lead vocal credit with the song Operator. Fact number two. American Beauty arrived just five months after Working Man's Dead.


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[Assistant] While Optimal handles the 180 gram vinyl pressing. The meticulous attention to detail extends to the aesthetic experience, with glossy covers and tip-on jackets reminiscent of vinyl's golden age. Both releases are limited to 5,000 copies, so act fast and get your copies today.


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[Assistant] Now let us know in the comments which one of these releases you're most excited to pick up. The cars?


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm celebrating, uh, another start from a man baker. Danger Mayfield. You didn't say a good start. No, I just said another start. Hey, every day.


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[Assistant] Nice. Really? Nice. That tells me it's Masters of the Gridiron related.


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[Assistant] You know what, I think he said a lot there too though as far as that fan, and you talk to the, if you listen to these players, listen to Mitchell about why they're so good at home. They mention the fans.


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[Assistant] They, what they did was, unlike the other two franchises in this town, I do believe this, they have done a very good job training their fan base, appreciating their fan base, and not only in the good years, but in the lean years too.


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[Assistant] And those years when the Cavs stunk and LeBron wasn't here, and Post, Price, and Doherty, they were always making sure that that place was still full of Boy Scouts, for free.


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[Assistant] Or boys and girls club people for free. Loudville, giving them these tickets and feeding that fan base. They have a giveaway every night for kids and stuff like that. They've really encouraged the youth to encourage and support this team. Smart. And now, and they've been doing it for a decade, so those kids who were eight years old back then going to a game as a Cub Scout,


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[Assistant] For some of his failings has shown a real appreciation and an understanding of the fanbase and what they appreciate and what they like in a way that the Browns organization and the Guardians slash Indians have not.


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[Assistant] No, he's not the best, but he's got the right combo of like the right demeanor and enough talent. Like if he's stunk, he's not like, no offense to Lopez, bless his heart, but like he's got that kind of like laid back personality, stuff like that, that you enjoy, but also it's like well, but Alan's actually also like excellent.


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[Assistant] Wow. Now picture this. Now picture like Brad Sellers in here saying like, one night, one morning I woke up and Michael Jordan had put a horse head in my bed.


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[Assistant] No doubt. You know what I mean? Without being a D about it. You're right. And he's got that in him. And that's something that Garland doesn't have. That's the other thing. Like he's Garland.


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[Assistant] He's, he is. He can close out a game. He's an amazing player and everything. But, and you can throw, you can pass him the ball at the last minute and he's not going to like, he's not going to freeze up, but he doesn't have that, let's go, I'm taking you down the course and we're going to get this.


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[Assistant] They should make the teams bigger. Yeah, I'll have them go party. Why not? You know, put a few more on there. But I honestly, do you care? I mean, it's nice if they are all-stars, but you think they're gonna like play harder?


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[Assistant] Remember a few months back when the Powerball went over a billion dollars? Yea, and everybody started buying tickets. Everybody's talking about it. It was a conversation starter. Yes! There's nothing wrong with having that dream. Why can't we all have that hope? Let's enjoy it! We know it's almost not like- Say it's one in a hundred.


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[Assistant] I just kind of imagine that's the most vulnerable position too because you've got your hip, here's my neck, here's my neck, giant, uh,


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[Assistant] I take it. They're probably, I could see some like, I could see some uh, special, like inner, some defense touchdowns or something like that.


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[Assistant] Clean living, that's what it is. I just like to live, have fun, laugh. This was obviously like an important one to you because you are from Baltimore and Cleveland.


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[Assistant] I'd imagine it must be easier to come up with content for something like that than it would be like, there have to be weeks against like Tampa Bay where it's just like a bad game and there's no real connection there or something. Are there games where you struggle more than you did with this one?


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[Assistant] I, uhm, just so you know, I have been begging to have another premiere here in Cleveland, where we would show the movie and perhaps inspire the Browns to greatness in the way that it inspired you guys and win six in a row going into next year. So in the off season,


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[Assistant] Jen, you can see this being a big success, right? How would you add to this, this amazing night that we're going to put together with UCSS? How do you see this going down?


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[Assistant] I go Hoyer Dawson because I don't remember the next kicker. Yeaah. Alright.


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[Assistant] I'll say, I'll, I mean, we gotta go, based on that. It's gotta be higher. 50,000? 80,000. 80,000? I think it broke a hundred.


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[Assistant] I want him after the studio. I want to talk to him in a bar afterwards. That's true. Well yeaah, that'll happen too. But yeaah, that's, you have to remember one other thing to add about this. Of course the movie is a little campy, as he said, and what not, but it was very much of its time, and I'm a kid in the 80s.


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[Assistant] I'm playing with He-Men. I'm watching the Browns. So these, the Browns are my heroes and so are He-Men. And then these guys dress up like He-Men. They're in shape like He-Men. So it's your perfect form. So it's like the, it was the perfect time for me to see that movie where I'm just like, everything's coming together, finally! For 10 year old Mike Polk, where everything's coming together, you know? And it was just an amazing part of my childhood.


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[Assistant] She's not over yet. Uh, I don't know how much this means in the grand scheme of things because Lamar Jackson wasn't playing, but you take them as you can get them and the Browns playoff chances nearly doubled. They were 0.4%.


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[Assistant] It was actually, if you win out, I always do the predictor where you win out.


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[Assistant] You're not, you're not going to, we're going to recap the entire Browns, uh, victory from Saturday, which by the way, when the Browns play on Sunday, they're three and eight. Any other day of the week, they're three and oh. We'll talk about that. What the hell is that?


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[Assistant] You know, it could be random, but you also could look at it that I think when you look at the Stefanski record against the Bengals, like how do you explain that?


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[Assistant] It's almost like these non-Sunday games are bigger. It's certainly in the mind of the player they're bigger. The players will always tell you they love playing when they have the stage to themselves. And these are all games where they've had the stage to themselves. Either Thursday, Monday, or now the Saturday.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't know if there's anything to it. We'll talk about that. Tim Couch is going to join the program. He'll be along with us here in about 30 minutes and we're going to dive into everything that was the Cleveland Browns Saturday game. If there's time and we're hoping that there is.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, this weekend may have been the most nutty


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[Assistant] Chief among them was the Patriots, the way they lost.


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[Assistant] When the game was certain to go to overtime, and for that to happen to Bill Belichick, because let's be clear, Belichick did not call that play. He's the head coach.


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[Assistant] That's what I've been told. That's what I've been told. When the players freelance, that's on the players. You can coach players to do the right thing in every moment. If they choose to not, that's on the player. And what they did was I, I almost heard his aneurysm while I was watching that play. I almost


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[Assistant] And that's, you know, for them and the playoff chase.


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[Assistant] There we go. I flipped the box, uh, G to one. Jay, if you flip your IFB box to one, so we all have them now.


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[Assistant] I cannot hear you now. I can hear you now. Yes, yes, yes.


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[Assistant] It tends to be, when we did a very informal poll of our newsroom, more people say Cuyahoga than Cuyahoga, but neither is wrong, is what we've been told.


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[Assistant] Uh, the facts are what they are. And I want to start by just your overarching thoughts on the game. We'll move to Deshaun Watson after we go roundtable.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a, that's a separate issue. We can talk about that more later, but it's, it's not like they took a name player who was also.


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[Assistant] Making huge mistakes on the field. They took a guy who's a rookie who's not overperforming. Easy to sit him down.


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[Assistant] I think you could make a case for sitting down just about everybody on the defense except Myles Garrett.


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[Assistant] Now, that's off topic, but Bush, G Bush, give us your thoughts. Impressive, not impressive, where are you?


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[Assistant] Three and a half yards. Three and a half yards. Is that by design? I feel that's by design. It's Kevin Stefanski putting training wheels on us to gradually bring him back.


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[Assistant] But he's still having success, which is impressive because they know he's not throwing deep. They know that.


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[Assistant] I made some notes. I think overall I'm with you. Was it great? No. Was it horrible? No. It was good. I thought Harbaugh


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[Assistant] This is one of the worst games I remember him coaching collectively and his staff. Greg Roman, I don't know what in the world he was thinking. It reminded me of some of the Browns being dug in on concepts that weren't working and you knew they weren't working in the moment but you just kept going to them. Why he would throw the ball 30 times.


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[Assistant] This Brown's defense gets an F on the run defense yesterday on Saturday. If you're going to grade them out, it's an F because they were getting gashed on every running play. Yet somehow.


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[Assistant] Greg Roman, under the direction of John Harbaugh, who could, just like we've always said, the head coach has the, you know, it's his obligation to step up and say, guys, what the hell are we doing here? Why are we throwing the football 30 times when our run game is working for 200 yards? So for me, my overarching takeaway was,


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[Assistant] This was the worst coach game in the Browns Ravens history ever, I think. Cause he's always done very well coaching these games. I've never seen a hardball coach team look this bad.


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[Assistant] We talk about wanting to see progression. We thought he was awful. We graded in between a D and an F in Houston. We thought he was a B minus in Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] I think he was an A- on Saturday. And what's interesting about that is I went and looked up the QBRs.


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[Assistant] And the QBRs are exactly what we gave him grade-wise. QBR Houston, 53. That's an F. That's what we gave him. We gave him a B- for Cincinnati. Quarterback rating 79.


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[Assistant] He was a 91 on Saturday. I still give him a B, not an A minus. But a 91 is an A minus. What's that? That's at a 158, not 100. I know it is. I know it is, but I'm grading it. I'm not grading it out of 100. I'm just saying that even though I'm not doing it like on a regular scale where 90 to 100 is an A on the QBR, I'm grading it on a curve.


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[Assistant] Like in the NFL, if your, if your quarterback rating is a hundred, that's an A, even though I know it's out of 158. Like that's a good game. That's a really good game. You're going to win more of those games than you lose.


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[Assistant] For what we asked him to do, he handled the tasks. You mentioned the run. That was, to me, that was the moment of the three games where I've said, okay, that's, that's it.


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[Assistant] Okay, I think that's a misleading stat. It has been inaccurate on just 13.6% of his targets.


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[Assistant] I mean, the accuracy rate is, is on a complete, to me, it's a completion rate. Now I know there are drops that factor into that. But his, some, some other numbers to put his-


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[Assistant] Here's my problem with it was, and it's what they're asking him to do, so that's why you gotta grade him, but...


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[Assistant] I wanna see more downfield throws for sure. What he's doing now is remedial quarterbacks. Like he better be better. Like, when you look at his numbers in total, three games now.


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[Assistant] Two touchdowns, two picks. Horrible. Who are you going downfield to? Completion percentage, 60%.


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[Assistant] From the post game discussions and other interview sessions that you've seen with Stefanski, it's clear there's training that he is rolling out this offense in small bits for Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] At what point? I want to see him take the reins off this year. Because this year doesn't matter. I want to see him try things that he's going to be instituting next year. To your point, it's going to look different. These three games are trial games. They're experimental games in my view. Because the season's over.


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[Assistant] And I'm with you 100%. I wish that there was actually a 0.0 so we could say what it is and just go out there and say, okay, now let's just get funky and see what we can do.


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[Assistant] I don't think so, but the fact that there is a chance it fools fans. Well, it just, you're still trying to win. You want to win the game? You're trying to win, but what I want is at this point, it's all about getting the offense to where we need it to be next year.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at these three games as pre-preseason games.


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[Assistant] They mean nothing, but I want to see, I don't want to see him with training wheels on for six


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[Assistant] But it's going to be a normal off season for him. Yeah, Tim, Tim, what do you think about that? Because it is an interesting point. Um, yeah, there were 700 days between snaps and he's going to get six games here, but he's going to shut it down in three weeks and he's not going to take another meeting, but that's normal for another eight months or nine months.


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[Assistant] There's Tim. Tim, from a defensive standpoint, uhm, I don't know if we have him or if we lost him again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there you are. From a defensive standpoint, uhm, my fear here is that we're almost looking at a redo of last year. There were so many issues with this defense, so many blown coverages, miscommunication, guys not knowing where they were, injuries also a big part of it.


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[Assistant] But the last couple of games, they've started to resemble that second half defense that we saw from 2021 that quite frankly saved Joe Wood's job.


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[Assistant] And now as we start looking at the totality of the season, if that trend continues, and let's face it, they're not playing any world beater quarterbacks from here on out. If that trend continues,


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski's in a really difficult spot because it was easy to make a decision that this guy's gotta go if you're looking at the first 10 games. I still think it's easy.


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[Assistant] There are those that are already making the case. No. I've heard it. That are already making the case saying, okay, it's together now. The fact of the matter is it can't take eight or 10 weeks to get it together. I think this is the most critical decision this franchise has to make in the off season. Where are you leaning right now on Joe Woods?


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[Assistant] In fairness, the Bucks were their own worst enemy. They have a fake punt on and the guy who's supposed to carry it out, Bernard, didn't know that the fake was on. They had a fluky fumble on a handoff transition fumble. Brady threw two picks, one of which I wasn't even sure it was still a pick.


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[Assistant] Compare Brissette to Watson, and I know obviously Watson's only had the three games, but there's no denying that the production of this offense has taken a step back. It's down in points, in yards, completion percentage, just about every measurable metric. How do they stack up in your mind right now?


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[Assistant] Well, Stefanski is now 26 and 22 if you count his playoff victory. And there's nothing to write home about. It's above 500. But sadly, Tim, this is now, it makes him the most winning coach, the winningest coach.


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[Assistant] In the Browns rebirth history going back to 1999. Uhm, I think that speaks volumes for where this franchise has been over the last.


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[Assistant] But there has been some discussion about is Stefanski the guy to move this franchise forward? Have you seen, have you seen anything that would lead you to think that it's in the best interest of this organization to make a change all the way at the top?


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[Assistant] Everybody on the planet, except for those wearing Colt's gear,


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[Assistant] wanted that to happen. The officials, all the breaks, there were two fourths of inches that


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[Assistant] Every single bounce of the ball, every little inch that had to be given, everything, even the announcers were just, you could hear it in their voices, they wanted to be part of history, and now they are.


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[Assistant] I do. I don't like it. They're a better team now than they were before the season. Before he took over. No they're not. Yes they are. They're one in four. They are. And they beat the Philadelphia Eagles. That is factually incorrect. And they lost three games by one score. And all three of those


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[Assistant] Colts are just playing better. They're not the better team, but they were playing better. And at the end of the game, when they had a fourth and long, they converted on it.


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[Assistant] You did. And that will always be on his resume. But I don't, I don't know that Jeff wants the job. I've talked to a couple of mutual friends. I'm not sure he wants to do this moving forward past this year. I know it was something that he wanted to try. And he's glad he did.


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[Assistant] From what I'm hearing, it was more of an understanding on his part. I'm gonna get you to the end of the year. And I'm not the guy for this job long term. He can go back to ESPN and resume his cushy life at the click of a finger. And that's, I think that's what he wanted to do from jump.


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[Assistant] No. By the way, Betsy Kling had you in the Secret Santa, so.


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[Assistant] Sam? No I don't think any of the others did. Paul Brown.


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[Assistant] Yes. Absolutely. Well, you can do the same thing with quarterbacks, and Baker was one of the few quarterbacks that had a five-harder record, and he got run.


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[Assistant] When you start looking at quarterbacks that had 500 records, it's going to be very similar. It's Slim Pickens.


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[Assistant] As it turned out, those available quarterbacks, like Rogers has turned the page.


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[Assistant] And I said, come on, three games, we're gonna make that, you're making that snap judgment in three games. But what he said was, and he said, save this text for posterity.


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[Assistant] Deshaun Watson has definitively played the best football he'll ever play.


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[Assistant] Definitively. It wasn't like maybe, maybe. He goes, everybody in Cleveland is projecting him.


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[Assistant] To put the numbers up that he put up three years ago. He says, I'm just telling you with my eyes, he has played his best football.


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[Assistant] Well, by the way, the injury was part of this argument. The injury was part of this discussion. The knee? The knee. Because RG3 was, I think to me, even though RG3, RG3 had more team success.


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[Assistant] Uh, but it was short, it was, it was, but he burned hot and bright. Yep. But the injury for him was after he came back, he clearly couldn't do what allowed him to do everything else. Correct. And are we seeing that with Lamar Jackson right now? I don't know. I don't know that we are. There are people that think that we definitely are.


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[Assistant] How good Robert Griffin was. You need to go back and you need to, in fact, you need to almost watch him. His numbers are one thing. He was doing things that, prior to Michael Vick, we hadn't seen anybody do.


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[Assistant] He took a beating for doing it at the time and he should have because the way it turned out especially, but now we have the benefit of the results. But I remember Ron Jaworski who is an excellent judge of talent. Ron Jaworski said,


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[Assistant] He did preface it with the injuries, but he said if this guy stays healthy and this skill set carries into his 30s, he's gonna be an all-time great.


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[Assistant] True. Well, and the problem with that is too, uh, using the draft.


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[Assistant] Your big currency in the draft you don't have. You don't have those difference making picks. Can you hit on the second and third rounders? You absolutely can, but his track record right now is that he has


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[Assistant] And you can't support what he's done the last four weeks, five weeks. I don't want to hear about the weather, by the way. He's got a kick in his weather.


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[Assistant] 16th. He ranks 16th right now in the NFL in field goal kickers. Justin Tucker. In what? In field goal percentage. That doesn't seem possible.


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[Assistant] Well, Carlson was in a bit of a, he was in a bit of a slump. I mean, it was one awful game. Yeah. And he had some, he, he had some dings earlier too, but, and now Carlson's one of the best kickers in the league.


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[Assistant] I don't think that this is physical at all. It's up here now. And Jay Feely told me I expect him to come unraveled the second half of the season. And I said why? And he said because he's not used to missing.


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[Assistant] And in the NFL you miss. It's not that you miss, it's how you handle the misses and he hasn't handled them well, which I thought was telling. But he said guys go through that particularly in your first couple of years, he'll work his way through that. But what was interesting is I just went back to look at Justin Tucker to see his fourth year, he missed seven kicks. And that was four years in.


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[Assistant] Ever to do this job, missed seven field goals. So, kickers more than anything else, described to me as like, putting. If you guys are, anybody that's a golfer, I think you've played some golf.


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[Assistant] He says it's not a practice issue because I've seen that kid kick on a practice field. He's all world. He can do everything you want a kicker to do, particularly hit very long field goals. With him, he said, I said, so how do you get out of this?


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[Assistant] You get out of it the same way you get out of the yips when you're putting. Jay's a really good golfer. Scratch. He said the only way you get out of this, you're not going to fix that in the practice field. That's not his problem. His problem is confidence on the field during games.


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[Assistant] So you got a guard maybe in year two, blows a couple of, they'll have a couple holdings, gets blown by in a second. We're cutting them? Again, a bad comparison.


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[Assistant] They feel a little heat, they gotta jump. That is, that is the telltale, cautionary tale, why you don't pull trigger. I was, I was, especially at that position, that position is different than almost any other position on the field. Also, what are we talking about here? If he misses his


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[Assistant] Any tournament they play in. Like, it is right here.


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[Assistant] Jay's caveat was, rookie year, rip it up, throw it out, doesn't count. It doesn't, with kickers, it doesn't count. Even if you get a guy that's on a roll and he's 28 for 28, doesn't mean he's here forever. Because what we've seen at that position, more than any position maybe in sports,


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[Assistant] It is so, we're like on a free throw.


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[Assistant] We, we, I had a conversation with some analytics folks about is analytics, are we moving more towards betting on analytics or away from it? And the consensus was away from it and here was why. This was a fascinating stat. I'd never heard this before.


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[Assistant] Analytics, the use of past to predict the future.


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[Assistant] One of the analytics gurus told me, and this was fascinating, there's only one play in sports that accurately predicts the next play. Anybody want to guess what that is?


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[Assistant] He said analytics numbers are given grades. How effective they think they are. The highest grade an analytic is given is the free throw.


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[Assistant] Because it's the one thing in sports that never changes. There are things about the situation that might change the process, but it's always 15 feet. The rim is always 10 feet high and the person shooting it that has that analytic assigned to them is a big body of work. So it's the most


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[Assistant] And it's the most accurate predictor of future results. Everything below that becomes less reliable. And what we're learning from the basis of how we went all in on analytics and they thought the pendulum perhaps has swung too far that way. What we've learned is every single play


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[Assistant] Our kicker. He is? Yeaah. He is. You sure about that? So I think we should cut him.


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[Assistant] Uh, rely, a stat being reliable at predicting future results.


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[Assistant] The equivalent of the free throw is the extra point.


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[Assistant] Now there are, now it's not nearly as reliable at predicting future results because you have a lot of things that change. When?


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[Assistant] Defense, snap, hold. So it's obviously far less reliable than a free throw at predicting future results. But, but in football terms, it is more reliable than almost every other play.


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[Assistant] Okay, so let me ask you this, just from a mental standpoint, because I know you did. When you were in stretches of missing free throws. Really? I know, but it happens. Like even 300 hitters have months where they hit 190.


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[Assistant] Now, I'm not suggesting that you had a month where you shot 60%, but the one thing I'm always fascinated about is shooters, particularly the free throw shot, because it is, nothing ever changes. When you were in periods of missing more free throws than your norm,


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[Assistant] As you would analyze it, w more likely to miss becau


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[Assistant] I like that about him by the way because it was not soft. I saw your text and I went back and looked at the miss and I'm like, his plant foot was solid.


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[Assistant] For as much money as teams invest in everything. Everything. To nutrition.


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[Assistant] To sleep habits, to psychology, to all of that. How in the world is it that the NFL, all games are decided by kicks, we don't like it, but at the end of the day, look at the games over the weekend, almost everything was a field goal game, almost everything.


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[Assistant] In those games, there were a lot of missed field goals yesterday. I don't know what the hell was going on, but there were a lot of misses.


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[Assistant] I don't know what it is, I don't know why the misses tend to be up, but what I'm wondering is, why the hell don't teams take your advices


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[Assistant] Get a sports psychologist and specifically a kicking


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[Assistant] That's where he is. And the hope is that you can get this guy who everybody agrees has all of the intangibles. And by the way, for kickers, the biggest intangible is here.


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[Assistant] And what have you said that you love about him? He's got the arrogance, the swagger. What I love about this is he's going through a bad stretch when it doesn't hurt the team. Nothing at stake here.


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[Assistant] So go through your stretch, figure out how to miss, and how to bounce back from that. Now if he can't do it, he will be out of the league. If he can't do it, I don't care if he was the number one overall pick, he's gotta prove that he can handle misses, bounce back, and be stronger up here. Cause the leg, the body, the physical,


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[Assistant] 100% on all of it. He's got it. But he's gotta be right here. And it's hard to give up on a guy who hit, what was it at Carolina? How far was it? 58 yard. It was the longest field goal in Brown's history.


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[Assistant] Can I tell you quickly on the Betjack front, they have on, their app is live and you can use it with fake money. If you haven't done that for an NFL weekend, please do it this weekend. Download the app.


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[Assistant] And practice bet as if you were really going to bet gains. Now the fun thing is you can bet a thousand when you might only bet a hundred or you might only bet fifty. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. So this is like pre-season? It's pre-season. There's not punitive at all. You can use whatever you want as your currency. Hundred points, five hundred points, a thousand points, whatever.


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[Assistant] But what it gives you a chance to do is sort of learn the lay of the land and how you, how you bet a three team, a four team, all the different things.


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[Assistant] And the commercial is for bet responsibly. Because the impossible happens here. And it does. We saw it yesterday.


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[Assistant] This is the game that in January we're going to say if, and that is playing out to be 1000% true. The Browns playoff chances if they had won that Jets game are over 50%.


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[Assistant] They currently stand at .7%. So, I mean, if you talk about, and we have too, the difference, 47 or 48%, I think, now I haven't done it after all of the games that happened yesterday. Here's what's crazy to me.


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[Assistant] Everything is negative. This person's gotta go, this coach has to go, this coach has to go, this one has to go.


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[Assistant] The game is a game of inches, both in the micro and the macro.


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[Assistant] That lead never, ever, ever should have been evaporated. Ever. I don't know


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[Assistant] Well clearly because a 33-point deficit had never been dug out at, that was a longer shot. But that might be the only thing that we've seen happen this year that was a longer shot than the Browns blowing that lead. Because even when Baker Mayfield scored his two touchdowns in four minutes,


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[Assistant] There was a better chance that he could pull that off. It was like 99.1. Ours was 99.9.


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[Assistant] They could go either way. What do you think would happen if they played right now? Deshaun is our quarterback. I think they win. I'm with Paul. I think it's awesome. I think they would win too.


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[Assistant] Who hasn't quit on their head coach? Brad, as a player who had played on championship teams and played on teams that did quit on their coach. Okay. Cause you've told us your Minneapolis experience, where they quit on the owner, but they also quit on the coach.


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[Assistant] I am 100% with what you just said is that the fact that Kevin Stefanski didn't lose this team after that, that's as crippling a loss as I can remember in Brown's history. I just can't remember another loss. Obviously the playoff loss are more memorable.


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[Assistant] As in terms of regular season games, that was the most crippling loss I could ever remember. And they didn't quit on them.


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[Assistant] That he's the best person for the job like he's in the job now. So he's the incumbent. So, but that's no reason to keep it.


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[Assistant] In theory, your point is absolutely true, particularly for someone who has a work ethic and you don't understand bringing anything but 100% every day. Right. But I think the fact of the matter is, and I'm not saying Denzel is in this camp.


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[Assistant] What we've seen in modern day athletics is there are guys that are there to get the check.


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[Assistant] Big names. By the way, can we just spend a second on ringing the bell for the Eagles and what they've done?


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[Assistant] What was that? Well, it's the league thinking that these receivers now are plug and play. No they ain't. And they're not. And they're learning that. Green Bay's learning that. The Titans are learning that. Like why would you?


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[Assistant] What's weird though is Carson Wentz was an, you know, you talked earlier about, so tell me who at 27 just suddenly was no good anymore.


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[Assistant] Let's do we have 10 minutes left. Let's pick, uh, Packer's, uh, Rams tonight.


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[Assistant] I looked at their roster again yesterday. That Rams offense. It's stunning this team won the Super Bowl last year. I know they've been decimated with injury, but I don't think this team


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[Assistant] There's not a worse offensive roster in football.


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[Assistant] No, they don't, but nobody wants their final chapter to be what Aaron has been, or even Brady. I mean, they're, they're, they're not dead yet in the playoffs, but they're what, six and eight now? They're in first place.


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[Assistant] So it's the Bulls league, the Bull was telling me about the fantasy league rule that I wish was in play in my fantasy league. I finished third in points four. Won it last year, third in points four. I finished ninth in the standings.


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[Assistant] I lost four games by two points or less. Three under one point. Wow. Under one point. I mean, it's the worst luck of all time. Yeah. And I'm sitting here.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? It has to be outside the upright if it's over the upright for it to be a miss. So in other words, if it goes directly over the upright and because the officials stand directly underneath the uprights, they look up and if the ball disappears, the kick is good.


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[Assistant] If they see part of the ball, if the, if they see the ball on the left, if you're on the left upright or the right on the right upright, then the kick is no good. By the way guys.


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[Assistant] So I am Feint. I am the CEO of Feint Boosting, which is a company that provides League of Legends boosting and coaching services. I started as a private booster. Right now we only operate through Discord. We have a website under develop. We are a pretty big company already, only from Discord.


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[Assistant] Almost a hundred boosters. We had, uh, at least a few thousands of customers. We provide everything from boosting to coaching.


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[Assistant] The competition is huge, right? There are plenty of websites.


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[Assistant] Hundreds of people that you heard of and hundreds of others that you didn't hear of. So how do you fit yourself in it? So you have to like, be different. You have to work for it. You have to believe in what you do and give yourself into it. If you are good at what you're doing, the money will be good. Okay?


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[Assistant] That's a concept in life. When people think about boosting, they think about it as like very straightforward. Challenger logs into my account, he ranks it up and goes next. That's not going to work.


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[Assistant] I focus on, on the experience. I focus on providing support to my, to my clients. Like 24-7, they can talk to me personally, uh, update me on their progress and how they are doing. I help them learn as well, fulfill their goals. It's not only the boosting, it's everything that comes with it.


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[Assistant] You add all the things around it. Me, as the owner, talk to him personally, daily.


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[Assistant] Ask him about his experience, how he can add more things. Sometimes I even give them coaching. Tell them, okay, after the service, so you can adapt yourself to the new ELO that you're in. Let's give you a free coaching session.


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[Assistant] With, with my challenger coach that will help you adapt to Platinum now. You make sure that the booster is not only gonna like climb with him.


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[Assistant] Is on also going to contact with him like to communicate to help him to be nice. You don't want him to flame in the game, right? When you think of higher players, a lot of them are toxic, not my boosters. My boosters have to be kind and


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[Assistant] I, first I give them guidelines, like don't flame, don't do the obvious things, don't, uh, try to sell them your own services and stuff like this. I sometimes even play with the booster or trial him, like I tell him, okay, you play with him.


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[Assistant] Let's see how you do. And then I just fix mistakes, like I don't want him to blame in chat. Sometimes I'm supposed to blame others, but they are kind to the client and it doesn't work. You have to be nice to everyone, to all 10 people in the game.


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[Assistant] You have to stay professional, you have to play not for fun, but to win every single game you have to focus. And then sometimes it's not even up to you and you lose anyways. So it can get stressful and then it brings problems. Do my best to treat them just as much as I treat my clients.


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[Assistant] A community. So yea, there are problems mentally, but like just as much as a job is stressful with your boss and uh, working hard. So it's the same thing.


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[Assistant] I've been playing League of Legends for at least 7 years, and after so much time, and you know that this is what you like doing, that's your passion. That's what you want to make a living, and not just play for fun after 7 years. You want to actually...


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[Assistant] Maybe as a streamer, maybe as a pro player, but not a lot of people can do it. So boosting is the easier way to get into.


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[Assistant] I call them, uh, fat clients, or fat fish, or something like this. A nickname that I call them with my, uh, with my boosters, like, hey, look, there's a fat fish here, uh, you should, you should work extra hard for this one. It's, it's very rare, like, usually people, uh, are bronze, I know that I can get silver, so I will get silver.


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[Assistant] They are effectively supporting elo boosting with bad decisions of balancing and like even if they want to or not, they are not doing anything against it.


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[Assistant] As time goes, it only gets more comfortable for boosters. I don't think they are doing anything against it.


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[Assistant] Very, very rare. I'm doing it for over a year, and it's, I've never seen a single guy get banned.


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[Assistant] None of my clients and none of anyone that I heard, super rare to hear someone get banned from boosting.


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[Assistant] You get banned only for flaming or for cheating and stuff like this, but boosting is super rare to the point I believe it's 0% because I haven't seen it yet. But yes, we do use VPNs just to make sure. We use an application that Riot actually approved, which called offline mode.


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[Assistant] And we, we also use like, uh, little tricks that you don't even think of. Like if our client plays with flesh on F or flesh on D, then we're going to keep it that way. Even if the booster is used to the other way.


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[Assistant] And make sure that nothing looks out of the ordinary. So we take the extra steps of, uh, of safety.


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[Assistant] Just keep doing what you're doing. You're doing a great job at not, uh, you know, at supporting boosting. What can I say? They're not really doing anything against it. So don't change. You're doing a great job.


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[Assistant] Let's see an example. Here I have a particular relation.


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[Assistant] This equation, x squared plus y squared equals one, is the equation of a circle. In fact,


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[Assistant] Along the circle of radius 1, centered at the origin. And we could do a little bit of trigonometry to show that that was the case if we wanted to, but it's not particularly important for our course.


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[Assistant] Is it a function from this, uh, back to the minus one one again?


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[Assistant] For every single input that I can imagine, how about like this x value, then there's going to be an output. So it is true that for every input,


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[Assistant] So 0, 1 is x equal to 0, y equal to 1, that's that point up there. Well,


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[Assistant] Yes, it- it works. It always works. A lot of people think I fake my voice, but-


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[Assistant] Right now I'm talking with my real voice. My normal voice, I usually talk, uh, with my normal voice when I speak Russian. I am native Russian. I said, hello?


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[Assistant] So, I lower down my voice and I start talking like this. Do you want me to read you some stories?


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[Assistant] Actually, I've been asked so many times to do roleplays, but I really don't know how to do it. They ask, be dominant to them. But I can't do it!


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[Assistant] I just buy it sometimes when I need to eat.


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[Assistant] She works non-stop, like I'm just looking at her content and it's like-


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[Assistant] Never ending! Like, when does she even sleep? The content she brings is very high quality.


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[Assistant] She always has makeup, like, like full makeup. It's like, it takes so much time. Her hair is always looks nice. Like, ah yeaah, she's so hot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think outfits also matter a lot. And also she has a very hot body.


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[Assistant] I bet like she works out a lot too.


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[Assistant] It drives me nuts. That's more egregious. Yeah, like there's rules and regulations for that.


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[Assistant] And randomly, people was giving me this like, evil look. Yeah, they must have an HOV lane. A multiple occupancy lane.


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[Assistant] You can't ride dirty. You say, what do you, what does that mean G Bush? You can't be riding with an under a quarter tank of gas. Oh no. No, because you never know. I almost found out, I said, I'm good. I got a little quarter tank. I'll give me some gas over here. Man, I was in that, in that traffic.


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[Assistant] For a day near an hour, and this is before your car starts to stop.


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[Assistant] Assistant producer, we got no Anthony today, no Earl today. What I was going to tell you Mike is when you young, you're trying to get in this game. Hey, you know, you got to make business decisions. Sometimes you like, listen, I got about a 20.


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[Assistant] It's, it's these, I can put, I can put 15 in and go get me two McDoubles. Oh yeaah. But I don't want no drink, I'ma just get the water and, and the value. Oh I've been here. Stretching that butt.


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[Assistant] Do you have in your wallet 20 bucks?


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[Assistant] They in real trouble if he's not a, he played like a top five quarterback last year, or excuse me, next year, because to me,


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[Assistant] And I don't think people gonna see it until we get to them OTAs and then you start being like, oh, so-and-so ain't playing. So-and-so ain't getting no contract. We can't really bring this dude back. And as constituted with this offense,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, and, and I'm looking at the defensive tackle room. Man, they gotta get me some receivers, man. They got, they got to get me. It takes them entirely too long to get going. Uh, I watched Coach Prime the other day. He said, we need some dogs.


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[Assistant] You know, we, we need some, we need some dudes to come in here and say, listen, you was playing last year, David Bale, you're not playing this year. Right. Because that's the mentality you need.


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[Assistant] I need one more, but they, but we, we want them. I need somebody coming in saying,


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[Assistant] If the Browns are terrible the last four games, Miles Garrett could ask for a trade.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because. The guys that can do it are the guys that already have generational money. You know, we, we sit here and talk. They're not gonna miss a year. All the time we talk about guys are there for a reason or guys are gonna get better or guys are gonna do their thing.


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[Assistant] And I'm not about to sit here in the prime of my career and wait for you to figure it out. The reality of it is when they said them comments yesterday, it shows.


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[Assistant] As a player, Brad, when you hear that as a player and a coach says something that dumb, as a player, what goes through your mind when you hear that stuff?


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[Assistant] Did he, matter of fact, they let him, he let him come double down. Did he look over that plate? Did he look over that game plan? Did he, if you the head coach, and you on the sidelines, and you see T Higgins and Boyd, and they're starting tight and not playing, what do you walk over and simply say?


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[Assistant] And Leroy, you was around when this happened. Perfect case scenario. I used to like, I used to love watching in AFC Central, the Houston Oilers or Warren Mood, Heywood Jeffries, Ernest Givens, all those guys. I was, one of the games I saw with my own two eyes was I said, Oh my goodness, they about to beat


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[Assistant] They about to beat the bill. There was a 35 to seven or 35.


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[Assistant] 35-3 halftime. And you know what? That Lorenzo White little handoff draw ain't gonna get it done.


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[Assistant] They needed to hand the ball to somebody and take these boys out of here. You know what happened?


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[Assistant] Deshaun Watson had a better offense.


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[Assistant] In, in, in, better complimentary players than in, in Houston in 1-0.


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[Assistant] Hey, nah, look, bro, look, look, I'm gonna just tell you, I feel like, uh, Deshaun Watson, he going, look, because here's the thing, uh,


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[Assistant] They going, we talked about it yesterday. I think he has to be great. I think he got to be great for the Braves to win. Uhm, I don't think, it's going to be a while before they get the pieces of parts. You know what I mean? I like.


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[Assistant] If I'ma play with a certain type of offense, I need a certain type of weaponry out there.


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[Assistant] Right now we ain't got that reppin, we got them old, you know.


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[Assistant] We got big dudes, we got tight ends and stuff. We gotta wait, we gotta wait till next couple years to get something.


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[Assistant] Hey, well, you got it. We are. We're in transition. It's how they built it. Some of the plays is ugly. It looked like the old Jacobi playbook mixed with a few shotgun plays right now.


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[Assistant] Especially if you want to put your backup quarterback in. Especially if you get the herbs. If you get the herbs. On fourth and one. On fourth and one.


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[Assistant] I gotta ask you. It seems that you advocate the Browns do things that the Bengals would never do.


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[Assistant] The Bengals are a very feisty team. They go, they got one of them young coordinators too.


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[Assistant] But when they were down, two of their top playmakers at receiver, there were multiple times where the Bengals said, you know what, we gotta run it away.


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[Assistant] You've, you've, he's not managed what he's had so far. Even when he has Jacobi Berset and he should be playing conservatively. Gee, he's a horrible manager.


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[Assistant] Okay, it'll be quick. The last time he was in Green Bay, he threw four picks. Yes, he did. Now, this time... And really ended the Browns season. Yeaah. I mean... It was a year ago right now. I wanna see, I wanna see, you know, I wanna see, uh, you know, it's a good conversation. I say... If he throws for three, if he throws for three hundred... What do you expect? I, I... No fence-riding. What do you expect? I think it'll play well.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's, I'm saying we get a better Baker. I think he throws from about 285 to touchdown 285.


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[Assistant] I'm asking you a question. Last question. Uh, if, if, if, if, if you, he look good with the Rams last four games and all them Beckham look good the last whole year.


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[Assistant] And they got the yells, lined up. Here's why I can respect them. You know why I can respect all those teams. Everybody you talked about. High standards.


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[Assistant] They'll do anything to win. Yea, high standards. They only care about winning. That's it. We hate them because...


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[Assistant] They do things that we know we would never do. Like, we, we hate them, but they, we can't argue, and not the fact that it's successful. Will you see the Yankees?


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[Assistant] How you get all of them? You know, you, you look at the big cities, the Celtics and the Red Sox, they win championships. They go out and get the people and they feel like this is what they're going to do.


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[Assistant] Those teams, Jerry Jones said, if my team ain't gonna be good, I'm gonna have the best stadium thing moving. I got, I got Jerry's world. They do stuff that sometimes I wish my team would do.


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[Assistant] I saw you in the chat, Tyrus, we was talking about them old school days when you was playing ball.


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[Assistant] And you know how I get, especially see DJ, was y'all on quarters or semesters? Cause after a while, like the students are leave, you down there the whole time. It get real. Do scholarly checks start running out?


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[Assistant] You gonna get a hundred thousand base regardless. I'm talking walk-ons too. What?


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[Assistant] What happens is, if you a mid-tier player, you a four-star, you a five-star, you sit at the table with your mom. You said, well, they offering the NIL over there for, for 750, but they going to give us the 100 guaranteed. What that, how that works is now you can say, well, look, that's guaranteed.


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[Assistant] That over there ain't guaranteed. Your coach can leave. You, you can be benched. They can take that. That's only a one year deal. If we gonna give you guaranteed.


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[Assistant] Because it would keep your four-star or five-star guys from saying, listen, if you go off, and that's my guarantee and I can still get better, then what it's going to tell, it's going to say is, if you're Ohio State, you're Michigan anywhere else, Michigan has to play ball.


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[Assistant] If that would have happened, what would you say as a defensive back? Do you have any wherewithal as defensive? I know you played with Richard Sherman in them. Would they go up to the coach and be like, Hey bro, what are we doing? Like, what is this? Wait a minute.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I've been growing my whole life. Yeaah. Uhm, recently got more serious about it in the last five, six years. Yeaah. Uhm, different concepts in my head, they just come up and I'm a big Cleveland guy. Yeaah. Sports guy, Ohio, there's a jacket. Right. Uhm, and I just.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Which is fine, I like the one on the field, but that one's even better. Yeaah. All these ideas tend to just pop in my head. Right. And I just kind of go with it. Uhm, and change up as it goes. So, it's enjoying to me.


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[Assistant] I already have the idea in my head, uhm, it just kind of pops in. So once I get that, I just go with it. It's just a...


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[Assistant] Something that looks that hard is pretty easy to me. I don't know why it just tends to just go like that. That's incredible.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I watch the show every day. I'm a big fan.


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[Assistant] So, I just decided to uhm, I talked to Steve.


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[Assistant] And I just decided to come up with concepts because I kinda know you guys personally hadn't met you yet, but...


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[Assistant] I just came up with different things and tried to incorporate all the Cleveland teams in it, but make it kind of fun. So that's what your picture is.


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[Assistant] Because I watch the show every day, I kind of know everybody's personalities, so I just had to find the pictures I wanted to use, which way I wanted to do it, make everybody, uh, kind of work with their, no, just the personalities.


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[Assistant] I do that consistently. A lot of people call me and ask me to do their personalized kids, their grandkids. I've drawn puppies, I've drawn anything that people want. I am not


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[Assistant] Uh, you had the one with the headset. So I said, okay, that's cool. Cause that's from a barber shop. Yup. Yup. Uhm, and now try to get your logo on your hat too. Ah, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I kinda have issues with detail. If I see it I go.


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[Assistant] Welcome to Nikkei Japan Report, a program produced by Nikkei, Japan's leading media for business news and analysis. I'm Makiko Utsuda.


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[Assistant] In this 30 minute program, we'll be investigating the latest trends in the Japanese economy.


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[Assistant] Manga and anime may be some of the things that come to mind when talking about Japanese popular culture. But now some brand new trends are poised to go global, powered by the internet.


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[Assistant] That visual concept spurred users to begin posting their own works on the internet.


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[Assistant] You can see many, many songs have been created and uploaded using the Vocaloid software. This is a Japanese video site.


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[Assistant] Users can also leave comments. The free flow of ideas made possible by the internet has been a major driving force for its popularity.


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[Assistant] This virtual phenomenon has even crossed into the real world, driving sales of CDs.


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[Assistant] On YouTube, Vocaloid videos have generated strong interest from internet users from around the world.


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[Assistant] He is part of a four-person group called Zanids, which produces original music and visuals.


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[Assistant] Although still an amateur outfit, they are gaining a large following and have performed live in Germany, the US and Singapore.


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[Assistant] I was able to talk on the phone with his Singaporean friend who he got to know through Vocaloid.


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[Assistant] Vocaloid has spawned over 30 different voices and characters in addition to Hatsune Miku, helping spur new works by users.


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[Assistant] She is actually the daughter of renowned musical composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.


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[Assistant] I see. I believe, uh, developers of our member Pico thoroughly researched Second Life.


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[Assistant] Nojumper, coolest podcast in the world. Uh, my man Chad Muska right here just experienced Instagram Live for the first time, so his whole life just changed. I'm old school man. Your whole life just changed irreversibly, like things will never be the same now that you know what that comment stream is like.


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[Assistant] The hearts in the corner, that's the stupidest thing, cause it doesn't actually like mean it, like, okay, it's just, you're getting a bunch of hearts, it's not really telling you anything, it's just that verification of like, yo, you're important, you're good, here's some hearts.


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[Assistant] Completely. No, I think about that like, you know, growing up I always viewed TV as this just complete waste of time, but now a lot of the best, the best like entertainment out there is basically on like Netflix or HBO or something, and it's like,


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[Assistant] That's still television, but sort of the game has changed where it used to be just these garbage, you know, game shows or whatever, and that still exists, but now that same


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[Assistant] But YouTube now, like, YouTube is one of the greatest learning resources, like imaginable, and it's completely like democratized education in a lot of ways, because a lot of the things, like my buddy Chris Long went to fucking film school and spent like 80 grand to learn how to like edit and make videos and stuff like that, and now he's like,


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[Assistant] That was a crazy use of my money because I could have learned all that shit on YouTube. He definitely learned some stuff, but like to justify that.


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[Assistant] Like people will ask me like, yo, what, what day is that event you're doing? And the first thing that comes to my head is like, okay.


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[Assistant] Like, the traditional way of doing things. As in like, if me and you have to have an important conversation, alright, I'm gonna pull up on you, let's do a little meeting. If I'm mad at you, if I'm, if I'm mad at anyone in my life, I would way rather just FaceTime them or like have a real face to face conversation rather than send them some snarky ass text message. And that's something I like about rappers.


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[Assistant] They don't text that much. They're more into that, that straight up face to face where you can really tell if somebody's bullshitting or not.


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[Assistant] But I like to segment my shit up. Like, if I'm driving, you can't call me. You can't text me while I'm driving. Cause I won't, I won't even get into it. Maybe if I'm at a red light, I start to, you know, a little bit. But for the most part, I don't feel bad about ignoring calls when I'm driving and shit.


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[Assistant] Dude, growing up, like, you know, BMX and skate videos, if I got one VHS tape, I'm watching it like a hundred times, maybe a couple hundred times. Nowadays, you watch a video part on YouTube, and unless it's that one


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[Assistant] Insane that experience of like how big the Tony Hawk game got and how much that changed shit because there had never been a skater really in a lot of ways who got that much like repetitive exposure over and over and over where myself with Tony Hawk, I mean, well, I fucking played it every day for six months. I don't like minimum.


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[Assistant] And like, I just, I'm so fascinated about what that sort of experience was because that's not something that many people get to go through these days of becoming so much bigger than just you.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like that in a way turned you into like a cartoon of yourself in a weird way because your image was being presented in such a crazy way through that game that it almost like sort of locked you into a style in a weird way because people got so used to you being that animated version of who you were.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like blowing the fuck up? Because it wasn't just the video game, you just overall in general, like you became for quite a few years, like one of the most popular skaters ever. Do you feel like that notoriety and fame actually, did that make the physical act of skateboarding harder for you to enjoy on just a raw level?


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[Assistant] Did you feel like you got a ton of backlash for, cause like we forget that 1999 being a white kid who was clearly like really into rap was much more controversial than it is now. Like now if you were


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[Assistant] 20 year old skater who just turned pro and you rapped and fucking made beats. Nobody would be surprised by that.


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[Assistant] At the time that was like way out there and there's probably a lot of people who are not a fan of that, right?


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[Assistant] When you heard the part in your epically later where Tony Hawk said that like, you know, before you, the sort of popular skater pose was to just not give a fuck and then you came out and you were sort of like unabashedly like excited and like down to like go in at a jam and like down to fuck with the kids and just like the way that Tony described that.


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[Assistant] Were you aware of the fact that your sort of attitude towards being a pro was different than what was sort of the cool thing at the time? Like when you were sort of in the moment at that time? Is it weird for you to hear Tony Hawk describe you as that way now?


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[Assistant] Yeah. When you, when you think about being on the road for as long as you were, is like, was there a compromise between you being able to be on the road doing like shop stops and shit as much and you like going in for video parts? Like, was that a concern? Is like, if I'm fucking this out here on the road, like,


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[Assistant] Doing tricks in a parking lot for kids. I'm not going to be able to put my attention and effort into doing kink trails.


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[Assistant] And I feel like that's when a lot of people sort of lose their motivation is once it's like, oh, alright, I got enough money to pay my rent and like pay my phone bill and like maybe I got a car and it's like, fuck, like.


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[Assistant] It's the moment where kids realize, like, fuck, like, if I go kill myself and get ten clips this week, or if I get one clip and just go party and shit, my money is gonna kinda stay the same, at least for a while. You know, like, chill pros. When you're killin', do you use that phrase? Chill pros? I like that.


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[Assistant] See that's, I think about it all the time. Like fuck, like I got money now. Like I could go to the club, like I could actually like, you know, cause I used to go to the club all the time when I was younger and I was just, you know, I was a guy with tattoos and like I could fuck girls because I had personality and stuff. And I think about it now, I'm like, damn, I actually like have what I was pretending to have back then.


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[Assistant] No yea, that's how I feel now. I'm like god, I'm like busy fucking every minute of the day and I don't have a hangover when I wake up in the morning. I don't have to go to the club for five hours at night. Like how the fuck did I used to do that shit and still like keep it together?


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[Assistant] Some are, like fucking Lemmy still sitting in the rainbow while rest in peace. But you know, prior to that, like there's just certain, like it's a, it's a very transitional thing that you do with your life. Like you get into skateboarding, boom, you're a fucking skateboarder till you die for a lot of people.


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[Assistant] The club was like this temporary thing that people are doing during a certain part of their life to sort of compensate for something that they don't have at that time.


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[Assistant] I mean, once you've accomplished something with your life, those same stories that seem super funny when you're like in your mid or early twenties or whatever, now, like when I hear my friends fucking talking about shit that happens when they go out and get drunk or get fucked up, I'm like,


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[Assistant] The trick is, is that you can't think about it like, oh I want everybody to like me.


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[Assistant] You gotta just think of it like, eh, I want everybody to know about me. I wanna just go on here and just say shit that people are gonna pay attention to, and it's like, they're either gonna gravitate towards it, they're either really, really gonna like you, or they're really gonna hate you, and either way is alright.


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[Assistant] You start to get more and more popular though, and then you start to think, well I don't wanna say that because people are gonna get offended. But the trick is to say it anyway because it doesn't fucking matter. You got popular for your opinions or for- DUDE!


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this. Was there, at your worst, in terms of the partying and stuff, did you consider yourself an alcoholic and would you consider yourself a drug addict at that time? Like, and when you got out of it, was it like full-fledged, like, hard to beat the shit that you were on?


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[Assistant] Say you were to meet your, you know, it probably happens all the time that you're around some, you know, 20 year old pro that's got the world at his fucking fingertips and you're talking to him and he's going out getting fucked up, doing pills, drinking, whatever, doing coke.


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[Assistant] Is there a part of you that wants to fucking just be able to lead them in the right direction? And do you think that they're, even in that conversation, is there ever really hope or do they have to learn that lesson on their own?


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[Assistant] Like, I think about that a lot with rappers, is that, you know, the dudes who are conflicted, who've been through stuff, who've seen terrible things, a lot of times produce the best art. You think that's true, uh, in skating? Or, a lot of times when I look at skaters, I feel like some of the dudes who do the best are maybe...


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[Assistant] The people who are kind of almost have like a boring personality and are able to just shut up, skate, learn all this crazy stuff.


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[Assistant] He's a great artist, but then he's like one of the most more troubled dudes that you've met through the shit, even though he's sober now I think.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, do you ever think about like, you know, cause when I look at art or when I was music specifically most of the time, it's like when I look at the greatest, you know, rappers, it's like the ones who have the kind of impact that could just be sort of like a paradigm shift for the entire game. Like you're really measured by your impact on how you're able to sort of change things. Like are you,


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[Assistant] Ability to affect skateboarding was so big that you had kids trying to be like you and you really helped to shift the whole style of dress, the whole style of what skateboarding was for a while. Do you look at that? Are you even able to comprehend the way that people sort of regard you at times?


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[Assistant] Do you ever feel like the, because okay yea, businesses, like, we're just gonna look at skateboarding I guess right now, but these businesses are in the, they're in the business of getting people to spend money.


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[Assistant] Best way to convince people to spend money is to convince them that they're not really going to be happy unless they spend their money on this thing.


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[Assistant] The skate industry has the incentive to convince people that they need to do things or not just skate because you know, obviously skate goes way beyond skate at this point, but in terms of clothes, when I look at all these rappers and how the fucking industry and advertising has been able to


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[Assistant] Going out and saying, hey, like, you know, you don't need a fucking chain to be happy. You don't need to spend all this money on clothes and stuff because that's not a profitable message for anybody really to be spreading.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's a difference between somebody who's spending a shitload of money to sort of like justify their existence and somebody who's like just got an interest, you know, like cars. Like I don't have a fancy car because I don't give a fuck about cars. A lot of people love cars. Like that's the only thing that they want to make a lot of money for in their life is so they can have a dope car because they love cars their whole life.


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[Assistant] See, look at, this is the old Italian fucking mafioso Dom. I'm surprised you didn't say like, hey, I'm gonna shoot you.


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[Assistant] When I look at that whole scenario you have with the ramp in the back and there's a fuckload of room and people could just be sitting back there hanging out and smoking weed and getting in trouble, I'm kinda like...


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[Assistant] Even that seems like a fucking liability cause they come through and bitch about it sometimes, yeaah. The ledge out front is good though, cause that brings a lot of skaters around who kind of at least like figure out what we're doing over here as a result, you know?


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[Assistant] But you know what's crazy for me and it's been like the weirdest thing to happen over the past few years is like as a BMX kid, you look up the skateboarders because skateboarding is a bigger industry.


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[Assistant] What has been going on in fashion over like the past 20 years and that's something that BMX kind of missed out on. It's a little bit smaller, grimier, it's a little bit, it's sort of become, you know, more of like a hardcore thing in the sense that there's just not any corporate money in it. So it's kind of like, you know, when you watch like a BMX contest, there's a lot less like, you know, corporate labels and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] In BMX you always like look at skateboarding as like that's kinda like our big brother. And then skateboarders look at rap.


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[Assistant] As that's like what they look to because you know, no matter who you are, if you're a skater, you're listening to music and most of them are probably listening to rap. So like all these skaters knowing about my podcast and having seen some of my videos and stuff is like the crazy thing for me. It's like, holy shit. Now I'm finally like, we'll see a crew of 10 skaters on the side of the road and they'll be like, what's up Adam?


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[Assistant] I mean, that's been crazy as fuck for me cause you know, with everything from like the skate park issue to, you know, just like sort of being like, you know, piggybacking on styles. Like if I were to really like show you some BMX videos from a certain period in time, I'd be like, look at these videos that were like ripping off Baker really bad at this time. You'd be like, whoa.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's definitely what they were doing. It was dope. It was like, you know, good for what they were doing at that time. But I mean, that's just been like a crazy rewarding thing is to have like skaters fuck with me because as a BMX rider, you don't see that.


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[Assistant] In BMX, anytime there's like acknowledgement from skateboarding towards BMX, it's like everybody in BMX is like, a word?


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[Assistant] Cause it was just such, it was such a crazy gap. How the fuck did he ever think he was gonna do that? And then just any gap like that, if you just don't clear it and just fall into the hole, it's just automatic hilarity.


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[Assistant] He was a big ass dude at the time too, which is why it was kinda surprising, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Look at what is inside your brain and like how your brain is sectioned off into like what you're passionate about, what you're excited about. Obviously there's still skating, there's the brands that you're involved with, like what makes you the most excited day to day that you are like just happy to sink your time and energy into?


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[Assistant] Cause like, you can make a painting right now and you can do whatever the fuck you want and...


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[Assistant] Doesn't matter, maybe somebody will buy it, maybe somebody won't, maybe they'll get used for something, who knows? But like, when it comes to designing a pair of shoes, it's like, certain things people are gonna buy, certain things work, and you can try to be creative, you can do something different, but it's a very, very different mentality from like, you sitting there, just puking out ideas onto a canvas, right?


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[Assistant] But I'm fascinated by like the power of that too though because it's like one popular or successful shoe design, boom, that could be how hundreds of thousands or millions of people experience skateboarding, nevermind just their day to day life is like in that shoe.


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[Assistant] That was probably one of the most experimental shoes I ever felt the need to buy in my life. I've always kept it pretty simple, but I definitely had those. I definitely felt the need to like.


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[Assistant] I am way ahead of its time because now when you look at a lot of brands and stuff, it's like a clear mishmash, you know?


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[Assistant] No, I mean, oh yeaah, that's crazy. It's crazy to think, cause I was watching you with KRS1 in the studio and I was just thinking about like, how did that happen? Like, you just sort of phone him up or you meet him at the club or something?


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[Assistant] There's a lot of like rappers now who have like a half decent like skate skill set.


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[Assistant] But I just wanna see, I wanna see a top 10 rapper who is not scared to like, board slide a 10 stair. That's my standard for what I want. I want like-


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[Assistant] I don't know about him in the 10th stair, I'm gonna be honest. Maybe. But. Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber.


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[Assistant] Like I love when you see like a hipster New York video and it's just such a specific like aesthetic going and stuff, like of filming, of dress and everything.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's impressive just cause it's like, okay, if like, I remember when Lil Wayne came out, there's a lot of people saying like, oh, he's just doing some tricks to try to promote a truck fit, blah, blah, blah. I mean, he's not like crazy good or anything, but he can do some stuff and it's obvious like from how many different places he's been skating and stuff that he really actually gives a fuck.


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[Assistant] The bigger you get, like the bigger the sport overall gets, the harder it is to maintain that like sense of community, like oh it's important to support your local shop, it's important that you don't buy a fucking blank board or whatever, you know?


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[Assistant] So some of the cool, like, new companies they don't want to sell to, like, a store like yours because they feel like it's not the right image?


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[Assistant] You know, trust me, there's a lot of things that happen. Cause I mean, think about it, I run a BMX shop kind of in the front and then like a podcast slash like rap label in the back. They earn very, very different amounts of money.


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[Assistant] I don't know cause I'm pretty sure you get paid quarterly by Atlantic and I'm pretty sure I haven't gotten my first Atlantic check yet, so I don't actually know, but you know, I don't know exactly, but I know that like I hear about the SoundCloud checks, I hear about the streaming checks and that's definitely good, but then it's also the shows.


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[Assistant] It's revenge. It's like revenge by like the young African Americans against the old white people.


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[Assistant] You gave Chief Keefe 75k? No, I know you didn't. I gave him like, you know, 55k. No, I'm kidding. He did not.


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[Assistant] I just want to say, I wouldn't put it past Lil Nar doing like a 10 stair rail and like posting on Instagram just to be like, check it out Adam.


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[Assistant] You think? Oh, no, no, no, no. I think you'll fuck rich the kid up on the, on the, at the skate park.


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[Assistant] If Rich the Kid takes the L in a game of skate, that would be the perfect end to this month.


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[Assistant] No, I'm saying, real good ones. You're right, none. Yeah, a couple. A handful.


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[Assistant] They live in different tribes, and their houses are completely hot!


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[Assistant] Seriously? You think I have anything to do with this ridiculous chimp?


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[Assistant] Are you saying that you're called Tiger Lily? Because don't worry, I don't use my claws.


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[Assistant] Even now, when the world is falling down around us here, I'm not going crazy. I'm keeping my cool.


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[Assistant] Two of those I think are in the closet.


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[Assistant] Also, while we're waiting for this, I'm adding, uh, Comic Con vibes to my Twitter bio. Thank you, G.


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[Assistant] Pudge is a hysterical name by the way, I love that name.


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[Assistant] I got MVP for soccer my sophomore year. Whatever Division Trinity High School in Garfield is. Anthony, give him the stats. I couldn't even tell you.


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[Assistant] Elo boosting, a term used to describe a person playing on another player's account in order to boost their rank.


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[Assistant] Elo boosting has become a full-time career in the last five years or so since the emergence of competitive esports. But not all black markets are made equal.


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[Assistant] For some elo boosters, life is just so much easier than others. Today, we will be exploring why elo boosting in Valorant is not only so much more common than other competitive games like League of Legends, but it is just so much easier as a career.


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[Assistant] We will be exploring how much boosters make, how their strategies differ from the ones in League of Legends, and how effective or unaffective Riot Games is at solving these issues. This is League of Documentaries.


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[Assistant] One of the biggest markets in elo boosting is paying to play with high elo players. A lot of people want to feel like they have friends that are good at the game. Playing normal games with high elo players is sort of like the modern day version of going to lunch with the jocks at your school.


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[Assistant] Many boosting websites offer services like this at the same prices that it costs to actually boost you.


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[Assistant] But there's also apps out there that allow you to find people to play with rather than having to go out and hiring a booster to play with you. Tapin.gg is the sponsor of today's video, and their website allows you to find high elo friends to play with for a fraction of the cost of an actual elo booster. Tapin.gg is the first on-demand platform that allows you to get a duo partner anytime that you want.


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[Assistant] Why would a high elo player want to use tap-in instead of just boosting? It's because they get to have fun too.


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[Assistant] Instead of playing on their main and worrying about how fast they can achieve ELO, they get to relax a bit and play with a new friend. Tap-in gives you a more genuine experience with a high-rated player, whether it's League or Valorant, and it focuses more on learning rather than boosting. Tap-in also provides coaching at the click of a button to help you improve your game. Anyone can use Tap-in regardless of their ELO. You can try tapin.gg today with my link in the description.


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[Assistant] Valorant is one of the most popular online shooting games in the world.


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[Assistant] Despite being on the market for a much shorter period of time, it's virtually tied in popularity with its main competitor, CSGO.


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[Assistant] Valorant has a massive elo boosting market. Enough so that hundreds of elo boosters can make a full time living doing nothing but playing Valorant all day.


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[Assistant] But if you compare Valorant to CSGO, elo boosting doesn't really exist much within CSGO. Why does elo boosting exist for Valorant but not CS?


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[Assistant] It has to deal with the different directions that Riot Games have and Valve have when it comes to approaching their games and how active they get within their communities. Riot Games only has a handful of titles, so they have a lot more time on their hands to micromanage each one individually. When it comes to things like cheaters and hackers, Valve is much more hands-off.


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[Assistant] Valve's anti-cheat system, VAC, is far less effective than Riot's Vanguard.


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[Assistant] Because it's so much easier to cheat and because cheating is so much more prominent in CSGO, most people who want a higher rank will just pay for a cheat instead of an elo boost because it's just so much cheaper. Due to rampant hacking, there's a lot less real competitive clout when it comes to your CSGO rank.


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[Assistant] Even pro players have been caught cheating on multiple occasions during matches. When you show off your CSGO rank, it's not really as impressive as a Valorant rank because at the back of everyone's head they're thinking, eh, maybe he cheated to get there.


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[Assistant] When Valorant first released, one of the biggest selling points and one of the biggest marketing points that Riot drove home was its anti-cheat system. That beautiful, beautiful cheaters detected screen, when CSGO players saw that for the first time, it was like the first time they had ever seen a victory screen.


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[Assistant] Valorant was a very fertile place to create an elo boosting market.


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[Assistant] It's like Riot is spending resources to train the cheaters to become stronger and better every single day. And eventually one day the cheaters will break the entire game.


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[Assistant] But for the majority of Valorant's existence, cheating wasn't mainstream by any means. If you compare the prices of a CSGO elo boost to that of an elo boost for Valorant, you can see a MASSIVE difference. The lowest rank for CSGO is Silver. A boost from Silver to Global Elite will cost, on average, about $200.


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[Assistant] A boost in Valorant from Iron to Radiant would cost thousands of dollars. The Valorant elo boosting market is worth ten times that of CSGO, its main competitor. Ironically, when you solve the hacking issue, you create the elo boosting issue. So how much does an average Valorant elo booster actually make?


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[Assistant] That will depend on the rank that the player is boosting on, but the average amount ranges between 5 to 20 USD per hour. So how are so many people able to make a good living off of an average of $12 an hour?


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[Assistant] It's because of our global internet economy. When it comes to jobs, you're no longer competing with other people in your area code. Depending on your job, if it can be worked remote, you will be competing with everyone across the globe. This is how much food $10 will buy you in America.


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[Assistant] And this is how much food $10 can purchase in a third world country. Because human labor is just so much cheaper in poor nations, elo boosting became an extremely appealing job. Why would you be spending years to become a doctor just so you can earn the same amount of money as a jet main? Many of the top elo boosters today come from Turkey.


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[Assistant] The average salary of a Turkish worker is about 5,000 USD annually.


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[Assistant] If you're an elo booster working for $12 an hour, you can make $5,000 easily within just two months.


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[Assistant] Valorant is very popular in Turkey because Riot Games decided to make a financial commitment to that country specifically.


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[Assistant] Turkey has its own servers, and so it has a much lower ping there compared to other games. But of course, due to this effect, many high-yellow Turkish players are spending all day boosting garbage EU players. The factor of the global internet economy is not unique to Valorant.


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[Assistant] Most of the boosters in League of Legends are also in countries with massive currency differences. But the main difference between Valorant and other games like League of Legends is stability.


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[Assistant] That's not a bad amount of boosting, but it's not nearly enough to give dozens of people boosting jobs. In League of Legends, boosting is a seasonal business. When the end of the season arrives, a website will go from 10 orders a day to over a hundred orders a day.


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[Assistant] Boosting prices skyrocket up to 100% because websites almost never have enough boosters to actually fulfill all the orders.


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[Assistant] But during the middle of a season, there's very little work and almost no orders whatsoever. That may change as of this year because Riot has decided to add a new rank reset as of last year. But in Valorant, there has always been three soft resets every single year.


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[Assistant] And so ironically, that actually creates stability in this job market. There is always a constant stream of steady orders flowing in and more work to do regardless of whatever time it is during the year.


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[Assistant] Regardless of whether you're a doctor, a teacher, or an elo booster, job stability is important for any field in any profession.


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[Assistant] Because of all these factors, Valorant has more elo boosters than League of Legends, and more of them stick around rather than burning out. But the numbers is not the only reason that Valorant elo boosting is so appealing.