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[Assistant] Like let's just do that. We don't, we don't like, we gotta drop them from this endorsement deal or for this or for that. Like that happens a lot. And we've seen some of that. Like Lil Wayne went through that. You know, a couple of guys, Rick Ross, a couple of guys went through that with, you know, brands. And I did a story on this years ago where I'm like even asking them like, well, did you listen to the music before you signed them? And it's like, oh no. And it's like,


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[Assistant] You basically sign up because they're just popular, but you never did any research. Like there was nothing on your own part. So it's interesting now where I think the conversation, while it is different, cause there's not this huge outrage in terms of like, let's try to stop them from doing shows or things like that that happens. Even though we do see some of that, like college campuses and things like that. It wasn't.


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[Assistant] What they've gone through, which is like, let's try to block them from doing this or, you know, threaten them with like, you're going to be arrested for this. And like, there was no crime ever committed. There's no crime in saying fuck the police, except for maybe just saying it to their face.


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[Assistant] We're firecrackers, like the whole thing, doing way too much, like to prove a point almost, you know, which is we are the authority and you can't say these things about us on a record. There will be consequences.


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[Assistant] You know, we've had, they have fans clowning them like in the lobby, like, so y'all like not doing it. Cause it had became a story already. It was already kind of a little bit of a nationwide story about.


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[Assistant] This song and the blowback from FBI and whether or not they're going to do this on the show, you know, on the tour or whatever. Um, so they were already hearing people that's like, well, if you're not going to do it, like don't even come, you know, so they just felt like we got to, this is the last, the last show, you know, yada yada and you know, we know what happens next.


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[Assistant] Legally, they, at a show, they could show a mutilated head on stage, but you couldn't simulate sex on stage. That was a crime. So these things were happening, like rock bands were doing, like Guar at the time was like on tour at the same time that they were, and like they were doing it, and then,


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[Assistant] All of it is, looking back on it, it's still to me was probably one of the more wilder things cause it just seems so outrageous now. But when you go back and you read the clips and you watch it and it's like, y'all are really mad about this. I was so upset.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, see now it's, it's, but it's fun and it's boastful and then when someone's in trouble, it's like, oh, so they actually did criminal activity that they rapped about? I didn't know. You know, we do this now where it's like, it's very weird where it's, it's sort of examined after the fact, it seems.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was really strange because uhm, you know, it's hard because I struggle with this idea of, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, and I go back to thinking like Chris Brown friends, cause he was sort of kind of the only recent case of like, we still do this with him. We still hang over, hang this thing over his head, you know, whenever he comes out with something. And so he kind of reminds us and he reminds us too, right? He does a good job of staying in a little bit. He never lets you forget. You know, he doesn't always stay clean. So.


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[Assistant] It was difficult because, you know, I, this story started actually as I had listened to the album, loved the album, wanted to do something about the kid. I didn't know anything about what was going on with him.


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[Assistant] You do a Google search, it's not that he is, it's hard to miss any of it. As a journalist, all of a sudden it's a totally different thing. It's very hard. So then it becomes this idea of like, okay, so this stuff is happening, you know, and he's getting these, he's getting deals, he's getting these looks. Is it okay?


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[Assistant] You know, right now we are having a conversation about that. We are having a conversation about if men can continue to be rewarded artistically for things in their, and when their personal life is not so clean.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it was tough trying to tell this story of not necessarily what he's done, but the conversation around what he's done as he's rising. And that was a really tough story to tell, especially cause he's not gonna, he's not gonna talk.


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[Assistant] One week, I'm like, okay, the story is done. And it's like, oh, you're getting jumped and it's on Instagram or, you know, you're saying these things about the case and like, you should probably take this way more serious than you are.


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[Assistant] And it's something where it's public record, so.


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[Assistant] I just, I'm sorta kinda like, why is there no one telling you, like, you've gotta just chill? Right. You know what I mean? Because you look up, and it's, the case is not good. Like, it doesn't look good for the kid, and so it's really tough because you're trying to write.


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[Assistant] About this album, but you can't do that without looking at someone's other stuff because of the song named after her. There's a situation where


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[Assistant] You know, I'm watching it where it's like, I'm not, I wasn't seeing someone who really understood the severity of the things that he is bragging about. And so it's something where it's like, shit, we live in this culture now where it all comes back and bites you.


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[Assistant] You know, so it was something where it was like only a matter of time before you gotta go back and you remember this and he said this and this and this, so.


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[Assistant] They're calling the shots and, you know, and I think too, the conversation with these guys is, you know, it's crimes against women and, you know, and hip hop for as long as it's been around.


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[Assistant] It's always sort of been accepted, you know, to say these things, you know, even you think about NWA and a lot of what they got was it wasn't just like, oh bitch, hold this. It was like.


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[Assistant] That is any of our places to say because it's not our money but what does bother me is when these labels


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[Assistant] You know, versus the nineties where, you know, when stuff was going down with Tupac and you guys shook like on TV, that's like, we getting them out. You know, it's like, it's a, it's a whole different thing now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean even with the X piece where it's like this is coming out in this climate right now and a lot of people are writing about it and like no hip hop writer like mention anything.


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[Assistant] There was no pick, you know, Jezebel picks it up, you know, so it's interesting to


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[Assistant] I think so. Yeah, I agree with you about, you know, that's where we are now. You know, I do go back to that, you know, Babish murder case just because it is a time where...


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[Assistant] The blowback was so loud, you know, where you have like L.A. Reid and I think it maybe it's because he is a black label head that's like so...


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[Assistant] You're not gonna do nothing, you're not gonna say anything or nothing. It's like, oh well. That's not how the label is set up or we're gonna like bail him out. That's not realistic. So it took...


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[Assistant] Like, it took all this public outcry to be like, so you just signed this dude, like knowing that he is involved with this stuff and now that he's in trouble for what he's involved with and rapping about, you're going to turn your back. So they had to say something.


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[Assistant] But I don't, I think it's gonna, I think we're still gonna see labels act the way that they are right now with X, which is like, well, we signed them, but like, let's just like wait and see, like, the court. Let the court figure it out. Let the court figure it out.


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[Assistant] I do. I always try to, any student that ever reaches out, I always hit them back. Uhm, I try, especially when it's like,


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[Assistant] It's such a long road if you really want to do it at a certain level. Uhm, but it's also too really interesting because anybody can do it. You know what I'm saying? So it's something where you, if you are, if you've got the discipline, like you could be blogging right now.


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[Assistant] Reference point, and I've gotten that question a lot because they'll be like, oh, well, you're 30 writing a book about NWA. Like, well what? And it's like, you still know.


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[Assistant] You know, if you're a rap fan, you know, if you're a fan of anything, you become a student of it.


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[Assistant] You know, and I've always been taught that. I was taught that in J-School. And like, that's just what I've applied to like writing about music. Because I was a fan first before I was able to do this. So I come from that mentality of like, I've consumed all this stuff for years anyways. So now it's just connecting the dots along a lot of different things.


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[Assistant] You know, the young wants to always know that it doesn't change. You do see a lot of people get put on really quickly in writing where it's like you look up and it's like, oh, this person's got like a book deal already. And like, all they do is like write like essays and stuff. And it, it gets weeded out so fast because this shit will break you. Like it really will, man. It really will.


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[Assistant] It does, I mean, I, I want to jump back into it, uhm, as soon as I can, even though I'm still trying to recover from writing this first one. Is that how it feels?


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't think there was a day where I like slept a normal hour for...


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[Assistant] No, it actually did the complete opposite. Like the complete opposite. Uhm, but yeaah, I mean I would like to, uhm, if I do the book thing though, I want it to be with an artist who wants to cooperate the entire time. And so there was a couple different things that just fell through because they,


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[Assistant] So I'm just, they want to write a book, but they don't want to write or really even participate in the process, which I just think is weird. Like why would you have somebody like write this story about you and you don't want to actually like.


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[Assistant] Tell them things about you or like sit and talk.


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[Assistant] So there was a couple things that it just fell through just cause it's like the agent is like, this is not.


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[Assistant] So, I'm like holding out a little bit. There's things that, there's dreams that I will, that I want to do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then in terms of like, you know, my actual day-to-day job, like, it really helped me, like, understand sort of,


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[Assistant] How I do write and how I can work and how I can work quicker, like that helped uhm, a lot. You know, I now obviously I want to like do like bigger pieces where I'm like doing a little bit more research just because it's something that's like ingrained in me and so like this X thing was like the first thing that I wrote this year. But it was a story that's been done for like three or four months. And you know,


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[Assistant] It just, I don't overthink it anymore. You know, having to do this where you have this word count over your head and this deadline and it's like, it's gotta be turned in cause they done gave you money, you know, spent the shit already. Like it just changes a lot of things where it's like, alright, it makes you stay focused and it makes you understand like, alright, I gotta turn this in.


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[Assistant] Parts of the writing that was painful, uhm, when I was able to just tell the stories, it was good. But then you have to think about the fact that you're not the only person that's gonna read this. So what's interesting to you might not be interesting to somebody else.


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[Assistant] Wasn't aware of, you know, or there'll be times I get the notes back from editor and he's like, will you cover this particular part? Like three chapters back. So unless there's going to be more information.


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[Assistant] Uh, well Amazon hit me with those reviews would be awesome. The reviews, yeaah. That would be very awesome. Uh, that works out for me, uh, in ways I didn't know it did.


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[Assistant] Uh, but you know any, any bookstore should have it in stock, which is awesome.


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[Assistant] Yes, Justin. But he's left them behind. Yes. Their stalls, row D, numbers 24 and 25. Yes. And you'll let her have them if she asks. Thank you so much. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] Good morning, Mrs. Stratton. Good morning. I'm so sorry, Mrs. Justin isn't at home. Is there anything I can do?


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[Assistant] It's his first real holiday for years, and he has to spend the first two days of it working. It's that royal commissioner again.


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[Assistant] We have to go back and think about this, Jason, that, you know, I remember the all-star break before the trade deadline. We were, uh, people in this town would complain that the guards didn't make a move for some experienced talent.


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[Assistant] And I think we said on our own panel that sometimes you have to realize that


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[Assistant] People who see people every day may know a little bit more than you know. And they had, I knew they had a feeling about this. You think about when Lindor got traded out of town, you got Rosario and Jimenez back, right?


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[Assistant] They're paying, they're paying well more dividends here. I don't think we got to burn at all. Especially per dollar spent.


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[Assistant] Well, I think the other thing that you knew that you have to consider is this, that not only did you get players back, you got youth, you got lower payroll, you got longevity in a market like Cleveland, right? So Cleveland has to have wrap up time.


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[Assistant] What their capabilities are. Am I capable? How far am I capable of going?


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[Assistant] Where am I setting this up for next year? You know, because sometimes you just play with house money and go as far as you can go, right? Right. So the guardians have a chance. Baseball is different in basketball is different in football. They have a chance here, right? And so I will tell you that.


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[Assistant] There's a value on an experienced player when you get to a playoff, right because they have been there have seen some things. The other people are learning on the fly.


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[Assistant] Well, I, well here, first of all, I don't think Gonzalez is a guy who has, uh, two years and 30 straight years, 30 straight homers in the minor league. I don't think that's a guy that I'm sitting down and just DH-ing, right?


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[Assistant] I got young guys. I'm going to use these dudes, right? But I know there's a place for some older people here to school these young fellows up out of here, right? Because you're in a place here, G, where you don't know where this team is going.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I'll go back to my what I was saying earlier.


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[Assistant] So you go into the playoffs, it's totally different. Now here, you got a bunch of young kids. You saw after the post, after the clinch, right? You got a bunch of young dudes running around here. They happy, all excited, right? Which they should be. Cause they don't even know that they shouldn't be here, right? So when you sit here, now we go into the playoffs scenario and Jason will know what I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] Sometimes when you walk into the playoff forum, guess what, it's Broadway baby, bright lights and show time here and somebody can get shell shocked here and you're like, oh, and all it takes me is one or two games to shell shock you and I can get on by you. That's why you got to have, you have to have people of common influence in there to keep people on a level playing.


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[Assistant] No, no, but I'm saying in that in the mix of the entire club, right, right. Somebody's got to be guiding this ship in that area, right?


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[Assistant] The difference here, you can tell the difference here is organization how this is built. You have guys on the ground level that know what they're doing. They know talent. They know how to put things together. The management level from the operation of this team. They understand exactly what to do and I will just, I will just contradict you on the other side of this.


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[Assistant] Not only efficient, but survive here in a market here. That's only going to bear so much. You look about halfway through the season, not have with more than two, three quarters of this season.


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[Assistant] We were still begging for people to go down and watch the guardians, right? Those dollars add up. This is not New York. This is not LA. This is not Chicago. We all know that.


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[Assistant] You can spend but you have to spend differently. I can't spend like I could spend in a bigger market. I cannot do that.


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[Assistant] No, but I'm saying you have when you're running an organization. I'm talking to here. I run an organization, right? I know exactly how it runs right and I contrary to what public belief.


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[Assistant] There's there's limited dollars here. You have to be able to spread those dollars around so that the machine goes forward and some years. It's a little more here. Somebody's a little less here, but it's not it's it's it's your town's not a


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[Assistant] Yes, and we don't know what they can do in these moments. Jason, you're so correct. Were you playing with house money?


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[Assistant] Hey Tommy, you said something very, very profound here shortly ago. You've been in the business a long time. You know this, right? So we got these young players here who have no idea what's going on. They're just enjoying the moment, soaking it in, right?


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[Assistant] Who is the person that's going to keep them from knowing that the bright lights are about to hit? Because you know how stage fright gets to young players sometimes like when you wake up and realize that oh Lord, I'm actually here at the party, right? Who's going to do that? Is that going to be Tito?


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[Assistant] Free time is a problem because when you're on the grind every day as a player, you just you just go in there and do your thing. So to me, it would be apparent to me that Tito is going to keep his foot on the pedal and keep a drive because I let a young person sit down and actually realize what is happening right now. You know, you can I just say you can scare yourself because you like that way. Hold on now.


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[Assistant] And I'll just make it now that we're going in the Yankee Stadium, but if you walked in the Yankee Stadium when the player the atmosphere is different. That's true. It's different. You can scare yourself here, right and say, hold on. I'm really here. So.


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[Assistant] Tito is the guy and I don't know the great point. You made the Sandy's around and then we've got other people in the clubhouse that understand what this about. I just hope that Tito keeps his foot on the gas here and as we walk out the regular season walk us into the playoffs correctly.


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[Assistant] So John, before I get to my course, I see your Jayhawk fanatic sign behind, so I'm sure that you're kind of ecstatic about what's going on there in Jayhawk country down there. I don't even know what's really happening down there. I like, I like y'all really. Jaylee.


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[Assistant] But I watched him this weekend. I'll give you that. I watched him this weekend. I said, okay, let me put an eye on this. Here's my, here's my thing. When you look at the Browns. I think the receiving core needs was shoring up here.


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[Assistant] Now, you know, we got our top pick David Bell from Purdue, right?


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[Assistant] I think what's the grading on the receivers beside Amari Cooper? Amari Cooper has been playing great and Joe has played well the last couple of games. But what do you think about the rest of the receiving corps here?


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[Assistant] So I went good because the Giants were going to take the points and get over on the Cowboys because the Cowboys are just the Cowboys. That's just who they are. At some point they always materialize and end up being the same old Cowboy.


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[Assistant] Right. Now point total, I don't think that both of the offense are good enough to score over 30, 39 points. So we're going with the bad on that. And then you got Cooper Rush and Daniel Jones. You ain't getting no 400 yards out of here. That's not a very high bar. That is pathetic if they can't get over. We're playing Cooper Rush.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I watched the whole, I watched the whole thing. I'll say this for, I'll say this for Baltimore though. I had to take my words back on Lamar Jackson. He looks like an MVP again. He looks like, he has, he has bet on himself and is like, you're gonna pay me every dime.


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[Assistant] I'ma flip over this and say, your bro's gonna get killed.


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[Assistant] I don't think. I guess I look at it like this, you know, and you guys look long ran. I don't look long ran. I look for that day.


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[Assistant] Can I get by that 60 minutes? That's the kind of team. This is not a team that we can start forecasting down the road.


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[Assistant] That's why I asked about, that's why I asked John about the receivers because at some point here, they're gonna stop this thing in Mario Cooper. You gotta get no 100 yards on me, buddy.


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[Assistant] Let's have my old school guy, right? So you know what I'm reminded of when I look at uh, Kobe Brissett and, and, and, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] It reminds me of Miami Dolphins when Greasy got hurt and Earl Morrill came in.


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[Assistant] But Mo came in, uh, he played the heck out that game, right? Cause remember when Greasy, Greasy got healthy at the end, they were like, I might stay with my man here. Zero chance.


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[Assistant] I can't tell, you know, I hope this, this Jets game doesn't come back to bite us in the butt.


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[Assistant] That's huge. I mean, you don't have to hit the road. You don't have to stay in a hotel. You stay in familiar surroundings. You know what time it is to leave. You know how much traffic is in front of you to get to the ballpark. It's just a familiarity about being in a place, in a place, in an environment that's going to be at a high pitch level.


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[Assistant] Cause I expect the facility to be sold out to the fullest, right? I expect the fans to come out and support this club.


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[Assistant] But the thing I worry about, and I prefer to play Toronto, I just do as I feel like it's a better setup for me.


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[Assistant] The thing I'm concerned about is that when you have all this, you, you know, you could get you two ways and get you going or get you killed, right? And so there always has to be a balance here and I just hope


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[Assistant] For the standpoint that that we have a lid on, you know, when you look at this videos on here, right then enjoying the moment. Well, there's a real work after that to write real work because now before when you were sneaking by people.


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[Assistant] They now understand that this team is for real. They're like this could be a problem. So we've got to be able to meet that mentality out here. So make sure that we're ready to go.


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[Assistant] Since you gave me the final take, let me, let me, let me come in here. Get a, get a nice shot here, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, it's just a great time to be a Cleveland fan. High optimism, Cleveland Browns. I mean, uh, fever pitch. I was down to the tailgate fever pitch the other day. Uh, the Guardians doing very, very well, right? Ready to roll into the playoffs. And now we're coming up to one of my favorite times of the season. This Cavalier season is about to get going here.


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[Assistant] We finally look like we've got this thing solidified. We've got a legitimate All-Stars on the team now here, post-LeBron.


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[Assistant] I think we may be one player away from solidifying the entire rotation.


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[Assistant] I want us to stick with the Browns even though we live and die with the Browns on Sunday, right? And then the Cavaliers. So you're spring, summer, fall, and winter in this town.


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[Assistant] There's plenty of appetizing entrees out here to endeavor in and take a part of, take a part of. And so I hope for.


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[Assistant] I'm very hopeful that the Cavaliers are going to live up to their end of the bargain here and do their thing, continue the second step here to get to the playoffs. And I'm just hopeful when I go to the Browns, Jacoby Recess still plays hard and sets me up for the close. He's the, he's a setup guy.


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[Assistant] Right, waiting for the closure. And I know Deshaun Watson is not far from coming back into the building and I need you to get prepared here because your man Jacoby is doing what's necessary to set you up. And then on the lastly, I need Jose Ramirez remain the leader in the clubhouse to bring these young kids on in. I'm just going to sit back and enjoy it.


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[Assistant] and joining a rock and roll band that never formulated but the leader of the group was Indakrishna and he


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[Assistant] Brought me to the Berkeley temple, and that's where I first joined the Krishnas.


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[Assistant] Praying and chanting and meditating on the Lord.


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[Assistant] And after I'd been in it for just a little while, maybe a few weeks, I found that the emphasis was actually on going out in the streets and collecting money and giving out books.


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[Assistant] They taught us how to, uh, take as much money as we possibly could from people. How to, uh, shortchange people.


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[Assistant] They tell us that Krishna is everything and that all things come from Him.


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[Assistant] When I was in the Krishna consciousness movement, I was subject to the bondage that they want us all to live under, especially as a woman. I had to be submissive to my authorities and then take another birth maybe in my next life as a man and come back and do the whole thing over again and become pure.


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[Assistant] There were a lot of things in the philosophy that after I began to think about them, they didn't make sense.


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[Assistant] Why didn't Krishna raise up or any of the spiritual masters? All of them have tombs over there in India where they died and left bodies behind. And it was like a light went on and I,


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[Assistant] Just realize that Jesus was God and that's what made him different. And that's why those guys weren't God.


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[Assistant] My mother sincerely decided that she wanted to become a member of the Worldwide Church of God.


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[Assistant] In order to become a member at that time, which was back in about 1955, she was required to leave my father.


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[Assistant] And at the age of ten I lost my father to the Worldwide Church of God. She spent hours on her knees


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[Assistant] I was crying and praying in order for God to give her the strength to do this. She'd been married to my father for 12 years and they had a happy marriage.


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[Assistant] Shortly after that she married the youngest brother of Herbert Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong.


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[Assistant] Number one, they were not finding the fulfillment and meaning in the traditional churches. And number two, there was a lot of fear of the end of the world.


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[Assistant] Any people outside of the Worldwide Church of God were considered to be


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[Assistant] Pagans and heathen and totally outside of, of God. They could not possibly be Christians.


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[Assistant] Many of us were becoming very disillusioned with the Church's doctrines, mainly because more and more we began to see


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[Assistant] That they were not working for us in actual practice. They were not proving to be, to produce happiness and the results that we wanted in our lives.


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[Assistant] Our leaders, the ministers, were really not keeping them either.


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[Assistant] Whether, uh, whether I would still have God if I left the church.


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[Assistant] I don't think anyone that has not been in a cult can exactly know what it's like to be programmed to totally brainwashed and programmed where you don't have an individual thought for yourself, you're not allowed to think.


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[Assistant] In essence, when you go to meetings, you check your mind at the door.


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[Assistant] I was a shattered, fragmented person as a result of that experience.


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[Assistant] Uh, totally unequipped to deal with, with life.


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[Assistant] I had been lied to so much, I wanted to find out what was really true.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a lot of things that, that obviously a sack is like, what, 1% of the plays of a, of a single season for a guy, so.


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[Assistant] We look at every single play and we're grading the guy in every single play, so we take into consideration is he getting double teamed, even triple teamed on plays, uhm, and what type of impact that makes. And then even, even in those situations, he can get pressure on the quarterback, but if the quarterback


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[Assistant] It's, it's difficult for him to get this consistent pressure that way. So uhm, and he doesn't have any help right now on the defensive line. When, when Jadavia and Clowney's not out there, it's, he's getting triple teamed almost, almost, you know, half the plays.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I took a lot of flack on Twitter for his game against the, uh, the Jets for giving up over 100 yards. Uh, he came out and called me out and said, no, I only just targeted once.


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[Assistant] A lot of cornerbacks think that, oh, I was only in man coverage on a receiver once and was targeted and that's it. And they don't, they don't think about situations like, uh, I was in the flat and they're, they threw to the flat. So that's a technically a target into his coverage. So he gave up.


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[Assistant] In our opinion, the, the, the big touchdown run, uh, to, to Corey Davis in that game. There was a busted coverage. It was cover three in our opinion there. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And basically everybody else on the defense was playing cover three except for him. So he might think that he was in cloud two and that's probably what he thought he was, but he still let Corey Davis has run right by him. He has not been good so far this year. Uh, even against Deontay Johnson, he struggled a lot in those comeback routes. He got injured this summer with that foot injury.


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[Assistant] And I think that's, you know, that kind of really showed in this game because he struggled to cover him. Um, he had a couple of nice plays on the ball, but he was generally getting beat pretty, pretty soundly from, uh, Deontay Johnson, which he's one of the best route runners in the NFL, but usually Ward is better than that.


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[Assistant] It's basically been an a- below average to


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[Assistant] So when he's healthy, he's been decent the first two years, but you can have an excuse in the first two years of him moving from right tackle to left tackle, and that's a


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[Assistant] That's a tough transition, but the problem I have with him is that he doesn't really finish plays and he gives up on plays way too quickly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it kind of shows when, when he's trying to like cut off on the backside of outside zones, he might be pass protecting and he goes, I had a three second clock and that ball should have been out in three seconds. I'm done. Uhm, and he gets beat because of, of those types of situations. So.


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[Assistant] I don't even know if like moving him to guard would help in that situation because you need to be a like physically tough person to play inside and he doesn't play with that physical toughness. He will have like a play or two on tape in each game where he will finish a player, but, and it looks really impressive, but he doesn't do it on a consistent basis. He gets.


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[Assistant] He just gets beat too often in a run game. He's pretty okay in pass protection, but the run game is where he really struggles, where he gets beat really quickly and then turns around and goes,


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[Assistant] What happened? So uhm, you know, he's grading right now in the mid fifties, which is, it's a liability. It's a liability.


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[Assistant] It's not good enough. They're grading in the 50s and 60s.


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[Assistant] It's tough because they're not getting as many targets, but when you don't get targets you don't get graded very well because it's kind of assumed when you're not getting targets you're not getting open.


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[Assistant] And earning, you're not earning the targets. Mari Cooper's playing it obviously really well right now. Uhm, Donovan Beeple Jones had a really good week one game, but hasn't shown up at all since then. Part of that is scheme-wise and, you know, they're, they maybe made, uh, an emphasis to get to Mari Cooper the ball and obviously David Njokun this last game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but they're not, they're just not good enough. And I think we knew that coming into the season. Uhm, I think a lot of people get hopes on Donovan Beebles-Jones, uh, because he does make some really


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[Assistant] Nice contested catches, but he's not a good separator. In my opinion, he has pretty stiff hips and he can't really get in and out of his breaks real well. So he's a guy that when you throw him the ball and if he's got a really large catch radius and it's really good with those contested catches, but


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[Assistant] I mean, you can't live on contested catches if you can't get open on a consistent basis, and Mario Cooper can do that, these other guys don't do that, and even with like,


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[Assistant] With Anthony Schwartz, he's a guy that is really stiff hips. We know he has straight line speed, but they keep you, I don't know if they utilize him in the proper way because I wouldn't be using them on those, those reverses because you have to cut it up field at some point and he doesn't have the ability to do that on a clean and consistent basis. So.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they, they, they really miss Joaquin Grant when, you know, obviously him getting hurt. I think he would have been more utilized in that role.


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[Assistant] It's always, I hate speculating on that type of stuff because especially this early in the season, every team still has hope that they're gonna make it. That's true.


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[Assistant] All that concern with their, their wide receiver group. They obviously have.


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[Assistant] Kareem Hunt, who they utilize in the passing game pretty well. Uhm, and especially this year, they're finally utilizing him out in the slot and more out wide with Nick Chubb on the field, which has been a positive, you know, sign there. I think they are starting to give up on Demetri Felton. He's


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[Assistant] You know, he's been that punt returner and I think he was an active scratch this past weekend. Uhm, and I think, you know, the Browns do need


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[Assistant] More receiver help, but I think if David and Joku kind of emerges as this, this number two weapon for them, I mean, it's kind of like what Kansas City would have had in, in, you know, not, not at that level. I'm not going to even compare it to the level that Travis Kelsey and Tyree Kill were for, for Patch of my Homes, but I mean, you can win


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[Assistant] A lot of football games with a tandem of a wide receiver and a tight end are excellent.


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[Assistant] No, exactly, and I think he's playing about as well as you can hope for. And if he can maintain that for 11 games, it gets you into position when Jashon Watson comes back, that he's going to, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, he's going to have them in a position to make the playoff, you know, playoff run. So I think, you know, Percet has been accurate, which is interesting. I was looking at this earlier today.


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[Assistant] And the difference though is Deshaun Watson's actually third best in that category. The difference though is that he's, when he gets it to his target, it's not like a perfectly accurate ball. It's usually it's outside the frame that makes the receiver work for it. Whereas like Deshaun Watson's at a top five level.


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[Assistant] Always putting it on the frame. So if you want to talk about like Kevin's fancy scheming up open receivers, and then also Jacopo said, has this been playing really well? I think you're just going to see this offense go to another level when if Deshaun Watson can pick up where he's left off, obviously from 2020.


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[Assistant] Not catchable, so, you know, there's levels of that. So we have a lot of different categories where you'd say, hey, he puts it on his frame, he's leading him with perfect accuracy, uh, maybe he'd put it over his helmet, but it's in a catchable spot where you'd expect maybe the receiver to have to work a little bit more for it. Below the waist, you talk about it as catchable, but it's low, so it's not like,


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[Assistant] There are some situations where it's like, hey, the receiver ran the wrong route and there's a miscommunication on it and you don't, you're not sure, but that's, that's like,


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[Assistant] 1-2% of throws that are out there that you're just not really sure on.


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[Assistant] He had a really good game in place of Walker, you know, coming in there, but the difference though between Walker and Phillips is that I think, you know, Walker was actually playing well. Uhm, I'm not...


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[Assistant] without Walker because I still don't trust Phillips, even though he's, you know, he's an athletic guy and he can run around, but.


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[Assistant] He's not the leader that you need for that defense, especially with all the busted coverages that they've had.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think we all know that defensive tackle is an issue. There was an issue last year where they just continually got pushed around. Uhm, especially if teams want to just run it down their throats, they can. Uhm, you know, and they, they made obviously some changes there, but they don't prioritize the position. And that's, I think that's pretty clear. And, you know, I think a lot of people.


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[Assistant] I just don't see them doing it because they just don't prioritize the position. We just haven't seen them even, you know, have an ounce of...


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[Assistant] I'm interested in doing so. I think they want them to be serviceable enough, but they just aren't. Uhm, they, they grade as a, you know, bottom five unit in the NFL, if not the worst. So they,


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[Assistant] They have issues here. The secondary I think is gonna be fine. Uhm, when you talk about


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[Assistant] What's happened in the first three weeks of the season? It's a lot of busted coverages, which, you know,


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[Assistant] It take, you know, tanks a grade pretty, pretty badly and obviously looks really bad. I think miscommunications and busts happen a lot more often than people realize in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And it's not, good quarterbacks are not even good quarterbacks, but quarterbacks will take advantage of it. And the Browns have just had them at like inopportune times. So I think they're going to be fine.


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[Assistant] Not a believer in Grant Delpit, I've never have been. He's a guy that does kind of play out of place quite often, even did it in LSU. He got away with it because he was a good enough athlete there, but you can't do that at the NFL level. You're not Troy Palomalo who can anticipate and play at a high level, you know, with


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[Assistant] Even being out of position, so uhm, they need to be just more sound on the back end. I think Jon Johnson's been actually okay this year, but he's...


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[Assistant] He's not the, the vocal leader that the team needs on that back end, which I kind of thought he would have been this year. Or I mean, when they, when they signed him to even last year and this year, but he's not. So he's, he's more of like a.


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[Assistant] Uh, media in the locker room type guy, but on the field, he's, he's not a great communicator. It doesn't seem like, and that's kind of where some of these busts happen is, you know, there's a lack of communication in that.


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[Assistant] A few years ago, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi came to the west from his Himalayan cave where he had been practicing and teaching meditation.


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[Assistant] The spiritual regeneration movement, as he did at the beginning, started calling it a science.


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[Assistant] So many millions of westerners do not realize that transcendental meditation, TM, is a Hindu cult.


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[Assistant] India is one of the most suffering countries in the world.


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[Assistant] And I know for a fact that the majority of social problems in India have their roots in Hindu religion and Hindu philosophy.


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[Assistant] I was born and raised a Hindu. I descended from a long line of Brahmin priests.


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[Assistant] After I reached the age of about seven, I started living in a Hindu temple.


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[Assistant] And, uh, learning from the Hindu holy men, from the yogis.


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[Assistant] I studied Hinduism, I practiced it and I even taught it. Hinduism teaches basically that the universe is divine. All is divine. Man's goal?


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[Assistant] That the way to achieve this goal of self-realization is through yoga.


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[Assistant] And the real heart of yoga is not physical exercises, but meditation.


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[Assistant] And I know for a fact that Transcendental Meditation is not a science, but rather a religion, a form of Hinduism.


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[Assistant] The more I meditated, the more I experienced the mystical world. I used to be ushered into the other worlds.


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[Assistant] Having visions of the various gods and hearing mystical music.


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[Assistant] Experiencing out of body troubles, astral projection.


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[Assistant] There was a spiritual vacuum that no amount of meditation or yoga could fill.


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[Assistant] Worshipping of the gods could seem to satisfy. I was so frustrated.


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[Assistant] That I thought if I hadn't found the truth, I would come, I would commit suicide. Yet, I knew that suicide wasn't going to solve my basic fundamental spiritual problems.


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[Assistant] Many times one says he's sorry. There is no forgiveness because of the Hindu doctrine of karma, which means the


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[Assistant] Law of cause and effect. What a man sows that he reaps. I had to find some kind of an alternative hope in life. And so I desired that if I had to come back to this earth, I would want to come back as a holy cow. And in order to attain this goal, every morning I stood up in front of a real live cow and worshiped the cow for one whole hour until one glorious morning while standing in front of holy cow,


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[Assistant] Deep in meditation with flower in hand, out of the blue, holy cow charged at me. I had to run for my life.


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[Assistant] It was at the right time at the right hour that a young lady came to my home and shared with me the message of the gospel. She said, Robbie, God loves you.


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[Assistant] And that Jesus Christ died on a cross to forgive you all your sins.


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[Assistant] Because I'd never heard this before, I'd never heard anything like this in Hinduism.


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[Assistant] Krishna in Hinduism said there are many ways. Buddha, before he died, said he hadn't found the way. And here was Jesus saying that he is the way.


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[Assistant] Asking Jesus Christ to forgive me all my sins and to come into my life and to bring me into contact with the true and living God. When I pray that prayer, something radical happened to me. I literally felt tons and tons of dark things go out of me.


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[Assistant] And for the first time I came to realize that all the...


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[Assistant] Mystical experiences that I had had, all the visions I saw and the mystical music I heard.


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[Assistant] All the astral projections, they were all part of the darkness that had gone out of me. And Jesus Christ who said I am the light of the world entered my life. He completely changed me. He transformed me and made me into a brand new person.


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[Assistant] Raiden House. Let's go there, John. I'd love to see it.


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[Assistant] But that was late at night and he must have worked very fast. Maybe he overlooked something. Maybe there's something there that you could use as evidence.


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[Assistant] Hello, Doc. Say, the coroner's here with his report on Pompey. Looks like he gave the old guy a fast shuffle. What do you mean? Well, your certificate says he died of heart failure. The coroner says he was strangled.


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[Assistant] Well, drop in next time you're down this way. We'll fix it up. Don't worry about it. Maybe you had a little run-in with one of those spooks up at Raiden House.


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[Assistant] You're closer to Mr. Raiden than anyone in town. We're in a tough spot. You see...


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[Assistant] You filed a phony death certificate that Pompey kicked off from heart failure. What about that?


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[Assistant] Today, New York's a bull market for you and good, solid, eligible men.


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[Assistant] I buttered my bread, now I have to lie in it. Ah, I choose the weapons and the battleground.


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[Assistant] As I deeply feel an entirely inadequate fashion.


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[Assistant] I have endeavoured to give some account of my strange experiences in his company.


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[Assistant] From the chance which first brought us together at the period of the study in Scarlet.


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[Assistant] Up to the time of his interference in the matter of the naval treaty.


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[Assistant] An interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication. It was my intention to have stopped there.


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[Assistant] By the recent letters in which Colonel James Moriarty, Defends the memory of his brother.


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[Assistant] And I have no choice but to lay the facts before the public exactly as they occurred. I alone know the absolute truth of the matter, and I am satisfied that the time has come when no good purpose is to be served by its suppression.


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[Assistant] As far as I know, there have been only three accounts in the public press. That in the Journal de Genève, upon May the 6th 1891,


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[Assistant] The Reuters dispatch in the English papers upon May the 7th. And finally the recent letters to which I have alluded.


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[Assistant] Of these, the first and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute perversion of the fact.


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[Assistant] It lies with me to tell for the first time what really took place between Professor Mariotti and Mr. Sherlock Holmes.


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[Assistant] It may be remembered that after my marriage and my subsequent start in private practice,


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[Assistant] The very intimate relations which had existed between Holmes and myself became to some extent modified.


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[Assistant] Until I find that in the year 1890 there were only three cases of which I retain any record. During the winter of that year, and the early spring of 1891,


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[Assistant] I saw in the papers that he had been engaged by the French government upon a matter of supreme importance.


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[Assistant] And I received two notes from Holmes, dated from Narbonne and from Neem.


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[Assistant] From which I gathered that his stay in France was likely to be a long one.


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[Assistant] It was with some surprise, therefore, that I saw him walk into my consulting room upon the evening of the 24th of April.


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[Assistant] It struck me that he was looking even paler and thinner than usual.


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[Assistant] Yes, I have been using myself up rather too freely, he remarked, in answer to my look rather than to my words. I have been a little pressed of late. Have you any objection to my closing your shutters?


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[Assistant] The only light in the room came from the lamp upon the table at which I had been reading. Holmes edged his way round the wall,


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[Assistant] I think that you know me well enough Watson to understand that I am by no means a nervous man.


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[Assistant] At the same time it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognise danger when it is close upon you. Might I trouble you for a match? He drew in the smoke of his cigarette.


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[Assistant] And I must beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall. But what does it all mean? I asked. He held out his hand.


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[Assistant] And I saw in the light of the lamp that two of his knuckles were burst and bleeding.


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[Assistant] It is not an airy nothing, you see," said he, smiling. On the contrary, it is solid enough for a man to break his hand over. Is Mrs. Watson in? She is away upon a visit. Indeed. You are alone? Quite.


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[Assistant] Putting his fingertips together and his elbows upon his knees explained the situation. You have probably never heard of


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[Assistant] Aye, there's the genius and the wonder of the thing. He cried.


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[Assistant] The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him.


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[Assistant] That's what puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime. I tell you Watson, in all seriousness, that if I could beat that man, if I could free society of him,


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[Assistant] I should feel that my own career had reached its summit.


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[Assistant] And I should be prepared to turn to some more placid line in life.


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[Assistant] Between ourselves, the recent cases in which I have been of assistance to the royal family of Scandinavia and to the French Republic


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[Assistant] And to concentrate my attention upon my chemical researches.


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[Assistant] I could not rest, Watson. I could not sit quiet in my chair.


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[Assistant] Endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty.


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[Assistant] At the age of 21 he wrote a treatise upon the binomial theorem, which has had a European vogue.


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[Assistant] On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities and had to all appearance a most brilliant career before him.


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[Assistant] But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind.


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[Assistant] A criminal strain ran in his blood which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers.


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[Assistant] Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an army coach. So much is known to the world, but what I am telling you now is what I myself have discovered.


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[Assistant] As you are aware, Watson, there is no one who knows the higher criminal world of London so well as I do.


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[Assistant] For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the Malefactor, some deep, organizing power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrongdoer, again and again in cases of the most varying sorts, forgery cases, robberies, murders. I have felt the presence of this force.


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[Assistant] And I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted.


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[Assistant] For years I have endeavoured to break through the veil which shrouded it, and at last the time came when I seized my thread and followed it.


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[Assistant] And of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, he is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the First Order.


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[Assistant] He sits motionless like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized.


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[Assistant] Is there a crime to be done? A paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed. The word is passed to the professor. The matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be caught.


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[Assistant] In that case money is found for his bail or his defense.


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[Assistant] But the central power which uses the agent is never caught. Never so much as suspected.


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[Assistant] This was the organization which I deduced Watson.


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[Assistant] And which I devoted my whole energy to exposing and breaking up.


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[Assistant] But the professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which could convict in a court of law.


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[Assistant] You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet, at the end of three months, I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.


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[Assistant] Starting from that point I have woven my net round him until now it is all ready to close. In three days...


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[Assistant] That is to say on Monday next, matters will be right.


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[Assistant] And the professor with all the principal members of his gang will be in the hands of the police.


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[Assistant] Then will come the greatest criminal trial of the century.


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[Assistant] The clearing up of over 40 mysteries and the rope for all of them.


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[Assistant] If I could have done this without the knowledge of Professor Moriarty, all would have been well.


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[Assistant] But he was too wily for that. He saw every step which I took to draw my toils round him. Again and again he strove to break away, but I as often headed him off.


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[Assistant] I tell you my friend that if a detailed account of that silent contest could be written,


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[Assistant] It would take its place as the most brilliant bit of thrust and parry work in the history of detection. Never have I risen to such a height, and never have I been so hard pressed by an opponent. He cut deep, and yet I just undercut him.


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[Assistant] This morning the last steps were taken and three days only were wanted to complete the business.


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[Assistant] I was sitting in my room thinking the matter over when the door opened and Professor Moriarty stood before me. My nerves are fairly proof, Watson.


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[Assistant] But I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely tall and thin


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[Assistant] His forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head. He is clean-shaven, pale and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the Professor in his features.


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[Assistant] His shoulders are rounded from much study and his face protrudes forward.


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[Assistant] And is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion.


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[Assistant] He peered at me with great curiosity in his puckered eyes.


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[Assistant] You have less frontal development than I should have expected.


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[Assistant] It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing gown


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[Assistant] The fact is that upon his entrance I had instantly recognized the extreme personal danger in which I lay.


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[Assistant] The only conceivable escape for him lay in silencing my tongue.


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[Assistant] In an instant I had slipped the revolver from the drawer into my pocket and was covering him through the cloth.


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[Assistant] At his remark I drew the weapon out and laid it cocked upon the table. He still smiled and blinked, but there was something about his eyes which made me feel very glad that I had it there.


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[Assistant] You evidently don't know me, said he.


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[Assistant] On the contrary, I answered, I think it is fairly evident that I do.


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[Assistant] Pray, take a chair. I can spare you five minutes if you have anything to say.


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[Assistant] All that I have to say has already crossed your mind, said he. Then possibly my answer has crossed yours, I replied. You stand fast? Absolutely.


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[Assistant] He clapped his hand into his pocket and I raised the pistol from the table.


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[Assistant] But he merely drew out a memorandum book in which he had scribbled some dates.


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[Assistant] You crossed my path on the 4th of January, said he. On the 23rd you incommoded me. By the middle of February I was seriously inconvenienced by you.


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[Assistant] At the end of March I was absolutely hampered in my plans and now at the close of April I find myself in such a position through your continual persecution that I am in positive danger of losing my liberty. The situation is becoming an impossible one. Have you any suggestion to make? I asked.


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[Assistant] You must drop it, Mr. Holmes, said he, swaying his face about. You really must, you know.


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[Assistant] I'm quite sure that a man of your intelligence will see that there can be but one outcome to this affair. It is necessary that you should withdraw.


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[Assistant] It has been an intellectual treat to me to see the way in which you have grappled with this affair.


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[Assistant] And I say, unaffectedly, that it would be a grief to me to be forced to take any extreme measure. You smile, sir, but I assure you that it really would.


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[Assistant] Danger is part of my trade, I remarked. This is not danger, said he. It is inevitable destruction.


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[Assistant] You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize. You must stand clear, Mr. Holmes, or be trodden underfoot.


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[Assistant] I am afraid said I, rising, that in the pleasure of this conversation I am neglecting business of importance which awaits me elsewhere.


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[Assistant] He rose also and looked at me in silence, shaking his head sadly.


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[Assistant] Well, well, said he at last. It seems a pity, but I have done what I could.


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[Assistant] I know every move of your game. You can do nothing before Monday. It has been a duel between you and me, Mr. Holmes. You hope to place me in the dark. I tell you that I will never stand in the dark. You hope to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me. If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.


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[Assistant] You have paid me several compliments, Mr. Mariotti, said I.


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[Assistant] Let me pay you one in return when I say that if I were assured of the former eventuality I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept the latter.


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[Assistant] That was my singular interview with Professor Moriarty.


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[Assistant] I confess that it left an unpleasant effect upon my mind.


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[Assistant] His soft, precise fashion of speech leaves a conviction of sincerity which a mere bully could not produce.


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[Assistant] The reason is that I am well convinced that it is from his agents the blow would fall. I have the best of proofs that it would be so. You have already been assaulted, my dear Watson.


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[Assistant] Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.


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[Assistant] I went out about midday to transact some business in Oxford Street.


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[Assistant] As I passed the corner, which leads from Bentink Street onto the Welbeck Street crossing, a two-horse van, furiously driven, whizzed round and was on me like a flash. I sprang for the footpath and saved myself by the fraction of a second.


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[Assistant] The van dashed round by Marylebone Lane and was gone in an instant.


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[Assistant] I kept to the pavement after that, Watson, but as I walked down Veer Street a brick came down from the roof of one of the houses and was shattered to fragments at my feet. I called the police and had the place examined.


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[Assistant] There were slates and bricks piled upon the roof, preparatory to some repairs.


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[Assistant] And they would have me believe that the wind had toppled over one of these. Of course I knew better but I could prove nothing.


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[Assistant] I took a cab after that, and reached my brother's rooms in Palmao, where I spent the day.


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[Assistant] Now I have come round to you, and on my way I was attacked by a ruff with a bludgeon. I knocked him down and the police have him in custody.


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[Assistant] You will not wonder, Watson, that my first act on entering your rooms was to close your shutters, and that I have been compelled to ask your permission to leave the house by some less conspicuous exit than the front door. I had often admired my friend's courage, but never more than now


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[Assistant] As he sat quietly checking off a series of incidents.


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[Assistant] Which must have combined to make up a day of horror.


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[Assistant] You will spend the night here, I said. No, my friend, you might find me a dangerous guest. I have my plans laid, and all will be well.


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[Assistant] Matters have gone so far now that they can move without my help as far as the arrest goes, though my presence is necessary for a conviction.


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[Assistant] It is obvious, therefore, that I cannot do better than get away for the few days which remain before the police are at liberty to act.


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[Assistant] It would be a great pleasure to me, therefore, if you could come on to the continent with me. The practice is quiet, said I, and I have an accommodating neighbour. I should be glad to come.


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[Assistant] And to start tomorrow morning? If necessary. Oh yes, it is most necessary.


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[Assistant] Then, these are your instructions and I beg my dear Watson that you will obey them to the letter.


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[Assistant] For you are now playing a double-handed game with me, against the cleverest rogue and the most powerful syndicate of criminals in Europe. Now listen.


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[Assistant] You will dispatch whatever luggage you intend to take by a trusty messenger unaddressed to Victoria tonight.


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[Assistant] In the morning you will send for a handsome, desiring your man to take neither the first nor the second which may present itself.


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[Assistant] Into this handsome you will jump, and you will drive to the Strand End of the Lowther Arcade, handing the address to the cabman upon a slip of paper, with a request that he will not throw it away.


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[Assistant] Have your fare ready and the instant that your cab stops dash through the arcade, timing yourself to reach the other side at a quarter past nine.


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[Assistant] You will find a small broom, waiting close to the curb, driven by a fellow with a heavy black cloak tipped at the collar with red.


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[Assistant] Into this you will step and you will reach Victoria in time for the Continental Express.


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[Assistant] It was evident to me that he thought he might bring trouble to the roof he was under, and that that was the motive which impelled him to go.


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[Assistant] With a few hurried words as to our plans for the morrow, he rose and came out with me into the garden, clambering over the wall which leads into Mortimer Street.


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[Assistant] And immediately whistling for a handsome in which I heard him drive away.


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[Assistant] In the morning I obeyed Holmes' injunctions to the letter.


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[Assistant] A handsome was procured with such precautions as would prevent its being one which was placed ready for us.


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[Assistant] And I drove immediately after breakfast to the Lowther Arcade, through which I hurried at the top of my speed.


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[Assistant] A broom was waiting with a very massive driver wrapped in a dark cloak, who, the instant that I had stepped in, whipped up the horse and rattled off to Victoria Station.


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[Assistant] And I had no difficulty in finding the carriage which Holmes had indicated.


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[Assistant] The less so as it was the only one in the train which was marked engaged.


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[Assistant] My only source of anxiety now was the non-appearance of homes.


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[Assistant] The station clock marked only seven minutes from the time when we were due to start.


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[Assistant] In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leaf-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. There was no sign of him.


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[Assistant] I spent a few minutes in assisting a venerable Italian priest.


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[Assistant] Who was endeavouring to make a porter understand in his broken English that his luggage was to be booked through to Paris.


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[Assistant] Then having taken another look around I returned to my carriage where I found that the porter in spite of the ticket


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[Assistant] Had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a travelling companion.


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[Assistant] It was useless for me to explain to him that his presence was an intrusion, for my Italian was even more limited than his English, so I shrugged my shoulders resignedly and continued to look out anxiously for my friend. A chill of fear had come over me.


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[Assistant] As I thought that his absence might mean that some blow had fallen during the night.


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[Assistant] Already the doors had all been shut and the whistle blown when


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[Assistant] My dear Watson," said a voice, you have not even condescended to say good morning. I turned in incontrollable astonishment.


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[Assistant] The aged ecclesiastica turned his face towards me.


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[Assistant] For an instant the wrinkles were smoothed away, the nose drew away from the chin, the lower lip ceased to protrude and the mouth to mumble. The dull eyes regained their fire, the drooping figure expanded.


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[Assistant] Every precaution is still necessary," he whispered. I have reason to think that they are hot upon our trail. Ah, there is Moriarty himself. The train had already begun to move as Holmes spoke.


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[Assistant] Glancing back I saw a tall man pushing his way furiously through the crowd and waving his hand as if he desired to have the train stopped. It was too late, however.


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[Assistant] For we were rapidly gathering momentum, and an instant later had shot clear of the station.


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[Assistant] With all our precautions you see that we have cut it rather fine," said Holmes, laughing.


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[Assistant] He rose and throwing off the black cassock and hat, which had formed his disguise, he packed them away in a handbag.


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[Assistant] Have you seen the morning paper, Watson? No.


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[Assistant] You haven't seen about Baker Street then? Baker Street? They set fire to our rooms last night.


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[Assistant] No great harm was done. Good heavens, Holmes! This is intolerable. They must have lost my track completely after their bludgeon man was arrested. Otherwise they could not have imagined that I had returned to my rooms.


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[Assistant] They have evidently taken the precaution of watching you, however, and that is what has brought Moriarty to Victoria.


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[Assistant] You could not have made any slip in coming. I did exactly what you advised. Did you find your broom? Yes, it was waiting. Did you recognise your coachman? No. It was my brother Mycroft.


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[Assistant] It is an advantage to get about in such a case without taking a mercenary into your confidence.


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[Assistant] But we must plan what we are to do about Moriarty now. As this is an express and as the boat runs in connection with it, I should think we have shaken him off very effectively.


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[Assistant] My dear Watson, you evidently did not realize my meaning when I said that this man may be taken as being quite on the same intellectual plane as myself.


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[Assistant] You do not imagine that if I were the Pursuer, I should allow myself to be baffled by so slight an obstacle.


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[Assistant] Why then should you think so meanly of him? What will he do?


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[Assistant] What I should do? What would you do then? Engage a special. But it must be late. By no means this train stops at Canterbury, and there is always at least a quarter of an hour's delay at the boat. He will catch us there.


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[Assistant] One would think that we were the criminals. Let us have him arrested on his arrival. It would be to ruin the work of three months. We should get the big fish.


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[Assistant] But the smaller would dart right and left out of the net.


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[Assistant] On Monday we should have them all. No, an arrest is inadmissible. What then?


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[Assistant] We shall get out at Canterbury, and then, well, then we must make a cross-country journey to New Haven, and so over to Dieppe.


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[Assistant] Moriarty will again do what I should do. He will get on to Paris, mark down our luggage and wait for two days at the depot.


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[Assistant] In the meantime we shall treat ourselves to a couple of carpet bags, encourage the manufacturers of the countries through which we travel, and make our way at our leisure into Switzerland via Luxembourg and Baal.


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[Assistant] I am too old a traveler to allow myself to be seriously inconvenienced by the loss of my luggage.


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[Assistant] But I confess that I was annoyed at the idea of being forced to dodge and hide before a man whose record was black with unutterable infamies.


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[Assistant] It was evident however that Holmes understood the situation more clearly than I did. At Canterbury therefore we are lighted.


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[Assistant] Only to find that we should have to wait an hour before we could get a train to New Haven.


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[Assistant] I was still looking rather rooffully after the rapidly disappearing luggage van which contained my wardrobe


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[Assistant] Far away among the Kentish woods, there rose a thin spray of smoke.


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[Assistant] A minute later a carriage and engine could be seen flying along the open curve which leads to the station.


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[Assistant] We had hardly time to take our places behind a pile of luggage when it passed with a rattle and a roar, beating a blast of hot air into our faces.


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[Assistant] There he goes, said Holmes, as we watched the carriage swing and rock over the points.


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[Assistant] There are limits, you see, to our friend's intelligence.


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[Assistant] It would have been a coup de maître had he deduced what I would deduce and acted accordingly.


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[Assistant] And what would he have done had he overtaken us? There cannot be the least doubt that he would have made a murderous attack upon me.


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[Assistant] The question now is whether we should take a premature lunch here, or run our chance of starving before we reach the buffet at New Haven.


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[Assistant] We made our way to Brussels that night and spent two days there, moving upon the third day as far as Strasbourg.


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[Assistant] On the Monday morning, Holmes had telegraphed to the London police, and in the evening we found a reply waiting for us at our hotel.


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[Assistant] Holmes tore it open, and then with a bitter curse hurled it into the grate. I might have known it, he groaned. He has escaped.


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[Assistant] Moriarty, they have secured the whole gang with the exception of him. He has given them the slip.


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[Assistant] Of course, when I had left the country there was no one to cope with him.


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[Assistant] But I did think that I had put the game in their hands.


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[Assistant] I think that you had better return to England Watson. Why? Because you will find me a dangerous companion now.


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[Assistant] It was hardly an appeal to be successful, with one who was an old campaigner as well as an old friend.


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[Assistant] We sat in the Strasbourg Salamanger arguing the question for half an hour. At the same night we had resumed our journey and were well on our way to Geneva.


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[Assistant] For a charming week we wandered up the valley of the Rhone, and then, branching off at Luke, we made our way over the Gemmy Pass, still deep in snow, and so by way of Interlaken to Meringen. It was a lovely trip, the dainty green of the spring below, the virgin white of the winter above.


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[Assistant] But it was clear to me that never for one instant did Holmes forget the shadow which lay across him.


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[Assistant] In the homely alpine villages or in the lonely mountain passes I could still tell by his quick glancing eyes and his sharp scrutiny of every face that passed us that he was well convinced that walk where we would.


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[Assistant] We could not walk ourselves clear of the danger which was dogging our footsteps.


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[Assistant] Once, I remember, as we passed over the Jemi, and walked along the border of the melancholy Dobunze, a large rock, which had been dislodged from the ridge upon our right, clattered down and roared into the lake behind us.


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[Assistant] In an instant Holmes had raced up onto the ridge and, standing upon a lofty pinnacle, craned his neck in every direction. It was in vain that our guide assured him.


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[Assistant] He said nothing, but he smiled at me with the air of a man who sees the fulfilment of that which he had expected.


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[Assistant] And yet, for all his watchfulness he was never depressed.


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[Assistant] On the contrary, I can never recollect having seen him in such exuberant spirit.


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[Assistant] Again and again he recurred to the fact that if he could be assured that society was freed from Professor Moriarty, he would cheerfully bring his own career to a conclusion.


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[Assistant] I think that I may go so far as to say, Watson, that I have not lived wholly in vain," he remarked. If my record were closed to-night I could still survey it with equanimity.


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[Assistant] The air of London is the sweeter for my presence.


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[Assistant] In over a thousand cases I am not aware that I have ever used my powers upon the wrong side.


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[Assistant] Of late I have been tempted to look into the problems furnished by nature, rather than those more superficial ones for which our artificial state of society is responsible. Your memoirs will draw to an end, Watson.


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[Assistant] Upon the day that I crown my career by the capture or extinction of the most dangerous and capable criminal in Europe.


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[Assistant] I shall be brief and yet exact in the little which remains for me to tell. It is not a subject on which I would willingly dwell


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[Assistant] And yet I am conscious that a duty devolves upon me to omit no detail.


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[Assistant] It was upon the 3rd of May that we reached the little village of Meringen, where we put up at the Englischer Hof, then kept by Peter Steiler, the Elder.


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[Assistant] Our landlord was an intelligent man and spoke excellent English.


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[Assistant] Having served for three years as waiter at the Grosvenor Hotel in London,


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[Assistant] At his advice, upon the afternoon of the fourth, we set off together with the intention of crossing the hills and spending the night at the hamlet of Rosenlau.


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[Assistant] We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about halfway up the hill, without making a small detour to see them. It is indeed a fearful place.


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[Assistant] The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house.


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[Assistant] The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock.


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[Assistant] And narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth.


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[Assistant] Which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip.


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[Assistant] The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upwards,


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[Assistant] Turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour.


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[Assistant] We stood near the edge peering down at the gleam of the breaking water far below us against the black rocks.


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[Assistant] And listening to the half-human shout, which came booming up with the spray out of the abyss.


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[Assistant] The path has been cut halfway round the fall to afford a complete view, but it ends abruptly, and the traveller has to return as he came.


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[Assistant] We had turned to do so when we saw a Swiss lad come running along it with a letter in his hand.


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[Assistant] It bore the mark of the hotel which we had just left, and was addressed to me by the landlord.


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[Assistant] It appeared that within a very few minutes of our leaving an English lady had arrived who was in the last stage of consumption.


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[Assistant] She had wintered at Davos Platz and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne when a sudden haemorrhage had overtaken her.


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[Assistant] It was thought that she could hardly live a few hours, but it would be a great consolation to her to see an English doctor.


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[Assistant] And if I would only return, et cetera, et cetera. The good Steiler assured me in a postscript,


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[Assistant] That he would himself look upon my compliance as a very great favour.


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[Assistant] Since the lady absolutely refused to see a Swiss physician and he could not but feel that he was incurring a great responsibility. The appeal was one which could not be ignored.


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[Assistant] It was impossible to refuse the request of a fellow countrywoman dying in a strange land. Yet I had my scruples about leaving homes.


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[Assistant] It was finally agreed, however, that he should retain the young Swiss messenger with him as guide and companion while I returned to Meringen.


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[Assistant] My friend would stay some little time at the fall, he said, and would then walk slowly over the hill to Rosenlau, where I was to rejoin him in the evening.


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[Assistant] As I turned away I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of waters.


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[Assistant] It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. When I was near the bottom of the descent, I looked back.


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[Assistant] It was impossible from that position to see the fall.


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[Assistant] But I could see the curving path which winds over the shoulder of the hill and leads to it.


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[Assistant] Along this a man was, I remember, walking very rapidly.


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[Assistant] But he passed from my mind again as I hurried on upon my errand.


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[Assistant] It may have been a little over an hour before I reached Meringen. Old Styler was standing at the porch of his hotel. Well, said I, as I came hurrying up, I trust that she is no worse. A look of surprise passed over his face.


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[Assistant] And at the first quiver of his eyebrows my heart turned to lead in my breast.


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[Assistant] You did not write this, I said, pulling the letter from my pocket.


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[Assistant] There is no sick English woman in the hotel. Certainly not, he cried.


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[Assistant] But it has the hotel mark upon it. Ah, it must have been written by that tall Englishman who came in after you had gone. He said, But I waited for none of the landlord's explanations.


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[Assistant] In a tingle of fear, I was already running down the village street.


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[Assistant] And making for the path which I had so lately descended. It had taken me an hour to come down.


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[Assistant] For all my efforts, two more had passed before I found myself at the fall of Reichenbach once more.


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[Assistant] There was Holmes' alpine stock still leaning against the rock by which I had left him. But there was no sign of him. And it was in vain that I shouted.


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[Assistant] My only answer was my own voice reverberating in a rolling echo from the cliffs around me.


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[Assistant] It was the sight of that alpine stock, which turned me cold and sick. He had not gone to Rosenlau then.


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[Assistant] He had remained on that three foot path with sheer wall on one side and sheer drop upon the other until his enemy had overtaken him. The young Swiss had gone too. He had probably been in the pay of Mariotti and had left the two men together. And then what had happened? Who was to tell us what had happened then? I stood for a minute or two to collect myself.


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[Assistant] Then I began to think of Holmes's own methods and to try to practice them in reading this tragedy. It was, alas, only too easy to do.


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[Assistant] During our conversation we had not gone to the end of the path, and the alpine stock marked the place where we had stood.


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[Assistant] The blackish soil is kept forever soft by the incessant drift of spray, and a bird would leave its tread upon it.


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[Assistant] Two lines of footmarks were clearly marked along the farther end of the path, both leading away from me. There were none returning.


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[Assistant] A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud.


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[Assistant] And the brambles and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled. I lay upon my face and peered over, with the spray spouting up all around me. It had darkened since I left.


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[Assistant] And now I could only see here and there the glistening of moisture upon the black walls, and far away down at the end of the shaft, the gleam of the broken water. I shouted.


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[Assistant] But only that same half-human cry of the fall was borne back to my ears.


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[Assistant] But it was destined that I should after all have a last word of greeting from my friend and comrade.


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[Assistant] I have said that his alpine stock had been left leaning against a rock which jutted onto the path


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[Assistant] From the top of this boulder the gleam of something bright caught my eye.


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[Assistant] And raising my hand I found that it came from the silver cigarette case which he used to carry.


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[Assistant] As I took it up a small square of paper upon which it had lain fluttered down onto the ground.


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[Assistant] Unfolding it, I found that it consisted of three pages torn from his notebook and addressed to me.


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[Assistant] It was characteristic of the man that the direction was as precise and the writing as firm and clear as though it had been written in his study.


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[Assistant] I write these few lines through the courtesy of Mr Moriarty, who awaits my convenience for the final discussion of those questions which lie between us.


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[Assistant] He has been giving me a sketch of the methods by which he avoided the English police and kept himself informed of our movements.


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[Assistant] They certainly confirmed the very high opinion which I had formed of his abilities.


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[Assistant] I am pleased to think that I shall be able to free society from any further effects of his presence, though I fear that it is at a cost which will give pain to my friends, and especially my dear Watson, to you.


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[Assistant] I have already explained to you, however, that my career had in any case reached its crisis.


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[Assistant] I was quite convinced that the letter from Meringan was a hoax and I allowed you to depart on that errand


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[Assistant] Under the persuasion that some development of this sort would follow.


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[Assistant] Tell Inspector Patterson that the papers which he needs to convict the gang are in pigeonhole M.


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[Assistant] Done up in a blue envelope and inscribed Moriarty.


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[Assistant] I made every disposition of my property before leaving England and handed it to my brother Mycroft. Pray give my greetings to Mrs. Watson and believe me to be, my dear fellow, very sincerely yours, Sherlock Holmes.


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[Assistant] A few words may suffice to tell the little that remains.


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[Assistant] An examination by experts leaves little doubt that a personal contest between the two men


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[Assistant] As it could hardly fail to end in such a situation, in their reeling over, locked in each other's arms.


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[Assistant] Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless.