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[Assistant] Wrangleth had chosen the site for his command post well. His tents were in a slight depression at the edge of a large summer pond.


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[Assistant] A hundred yards away, a huge patch of snow covered the hill above them, fed the pond and kept the air pleasantly cool.


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[Assistant] The tents were out of view from below, yet the sight was so high in the hills that from the edge of the depression, there was a clear view across three points of the compass centered on the south.


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[Assistant] Resupply could be accomplished from the north with little chance of detection.


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[Assistant] And even if the damn fires struck the forests below, this post would be untouched.


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[Assistant] Farscout Wrangeleth was lounging about his signal mirrors, oiling the aiming gears. One of his subordinates lay with snouts stuck over the lip of the hill, scanning the landscape with its telescopes.


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[Assistant] Wrangelove came to attention at the sight of Flinzer, but his gaze wasn't full of fear.


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[Assistant] Like most long-range scouts, he wasn't completely terrorized by castle politics. Besides, Flenzer had cultivated an us-against-the-prigs relationship with the fellow. Now Wrangeleth growled at the group leader.


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[Assistant] The next time you come prancing across the open like that, your asses go on report. My fault, Far Scout. Put in a flencer. I have some important news.


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[Assistant] Just past noon. He hasn't missed in four days. The southerners seem to be on one big squat. That will change.


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[Assistant] Fletcher repeated Steele's orders for Vandacious. The words came hard. The traitor within him was restive. He felt the beginnings of a major attack.


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[Assistant] Wow, you're going to move everything over to Margrem Climb in less than two? Nevermind. That's something I'd best not know.


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[Assistant] Under his cloaks, flencer bristled, there are limits to chumminess. Wrangleth had his points, but maybe after all this was over he could be smoothed into something less... ad hoc.


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[Assistant] Flensers shivered with uncharacteristic puzzlement. The trouble with these cloaks, sometimes they made it hard to remember things.


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[Assistant] Flencer with Steel shook his head angrily, his teeth clicking together. Something the matter? Said Lord Steel.


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[Assistant] He really seemed to love the pain that the radio cloaks caused, Flenser. Nothing, my lord, just a touch of the static.


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[Assistant] In fact, there was no static, yet Flanzer felt himself disintegrating. What had given the other such sudden power?


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[Assistant] Perhaps he could fake the two legs death to steal and no, no, no.


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[Assistant] Cleanser grabbed back control, jamming the rationalizations out of mind. The very tricks he had used against Tyrethecht she thought to turn against him. It won't work on me. I am the master of lies. And then her attack twisted again, became a massive bludgeoning that destroyed all thought.


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[Assistant] With Flensir, with Wrangeleth, with Omdi-Jeffrey, all of him was making little gibbering noises now. Lord Steele danced around him, unsure whether to laugh or be concerned. Wrangeleth goggled at him in frank amazement. The two children edged back to touch him.


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[Assistant] And she looked out upon herself in astonishment. After so many days, I am me. And in control. Enough butchering of innocence. If anyone is to die, it is steel and flencer.


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[Assistant] Her head followed Steel's prancing forms, picked out the most articulate member. She gathered her legs beneath her and prepared to leap at its throat. Come just a little closer, and die.


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[Assistant] Tyrethic's last moment of consciousness probably didn't last longer than five seconds. Her attack on the flenser within her was a desperate, all-out thing that left her without reserves or internal defense.


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[Assistant] Even as she tensed to leap upon steel, she felt her soul being pulled back and down, and Flenser rising up from the darkness. She felt the member's legs spasm and collapse, the ground smash into its face, and Flenser was back in control.


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[Assistant] The weakling's attack had been astonishing. She really had cared for the ones who were to be destroyed. Cared so much she was willing to sacrifice herself if it would kill Flenser.


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[Assistant] And that had been her undoing. Suicide is never something to hang pack dominance on. Her very resolve had weakened her hold on the hind mind and given the master his chance. He was back in control and with a great opportunity.


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[Assistant] Tyrathex's salt had left her defenseless. The innermost mental barriers around her three members were suddenly as thin as the skin of an overripe fruit.


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[Assistant] Flensers slashed through the membrane, pawed at the flesh of her mind, spattering it across his own. The three who had been her core would still live, but never again would they have a soul separate from his.


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[Assistant] Flenzer with Steel sprawled as though unconscious, his convulsions subsiding. Let Steel think him incapacitated.


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[Assistant] It would give him time to think of the most advantageous explanation.


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[Assistant] Flenzer with Wrangelith came slowly to his feet, though the two members were still in a posture of confusion. Flenzer pulled them together.


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[Assistant] No explanations were due here, but it would be best if Far Scout didn't suspect Soul Strife.


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[Assistant] The cloaks are powerful tools, dear Wrangleth, sometimes a bit too powerful. Yes, my lord.


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[Assistant] Flanzer let a smile spread across his features. For a moment he was silent, savoring what he would say next.


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[Assistant] No, there was no sign of the weak-willed one. That had been her last best try at nomination. Her last and biggest mistake.


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[Assistant] Flenzer's smile spread further, all the way to the two with Omni-Jeffrey. It suddenly occurred to him that Joanna Olsendot would be the first person he had ordered killed since his return to Hidden Island.


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[Assistant] Joanna Olsendott would therefore be the first blood on three of his muzzles.


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[Assistant] There's one more item for Crabbleheads, Far Scout. An Execution.


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[Assistant] As he spoke the details, the warmth of a decision well made spread through his members.


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[Assistant] Here, said loudly, our most important person attacked like this. It smells of enemy action.


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[Assistant] Rainy spoke up. You ready to pay off? he asked. I told you them hounds couldn't treat a ghost coon. I told him the show wasn't over.


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[Assistant] Little Anne had never bawled treed, and I knew she wouldn't until she knew exactly where the coon was.


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[Assistant] Working the bank up and down, not finding the trail, she swam across the river and worked the other side. For a good half hour she searched that side before she came back across to where old Dan was. She sniffed around the hollow log. We might as well get away from here, Rainy said. They ain't gonna find the Ghost Coon. It sure looks that way, Reuben said.


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[Assistant] I told him I wasn't giving up until my dogs did. You just want to be stubborn, Reuben said. I'm ready for my money now.


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[Assistant] I asked him to wait a few minutes. Ain't no use, he said, no hound yet ever treed that ghost coon.


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[Assistant] Hearing a whine, I turned around. Little Anne had crawled up on the log and was inching her way down the slick trunk toward the water. I held my lantern up so I could see better. Sprattle-legged claws digging into the bark she was easing her way down.


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[Assistant] You better get her out of there," Reuben said. If she gets down in that old treetop she'll drown. Reuben didn't know my little Anne.


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[Assistant] Once her feet slipped, I saw her hindquarters fall off to one side.


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[Assistant] She didn't get scared. Slowly she eased her legs back up on the log


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[Assistant] Little Anne eased herself into the water. Swimming to the drift, she started sniffing around. In places it was thin and her legs would break through. Climbing, clawing and swimming, she searched the drift over, looking for the lost trail.


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[Assistant] I saw when she stopped searching. With her body half in the water and her front feet curved over a piece of driftwood she turned her head and looked toward the shore. I could see her head twisting from side to side. I could tell by her actions that she had gotten the scent. With a low whine she started back. I told Reuben, I think she smells something.


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[Assistant] Slowly and carefully she worked her way through the tangled mass. I lost sight of her when she came close to the undermined bank. She wormed her way under the overhang. I could hear her clawing and wallowing around. And then all hell broke loose. Out from under the bank came the biggest coon I had ever seen, the Ghost Coon.


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[Assistant] He came out right over little Anne. She caught him in the old tree top. I knew she was no match for him in that tangled mass of limbs and logs. He fought his way free and swam for the opposite bank. She was right behind him. Old Dan didn't wait, look or listen. He piled off the ten foot bank and disappeared from sight.


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[Assistant] I looked for him. I knew he was tangled in the debris under the surface. I started to take off my overalls but stopped when I saw his red head shoot up out of the water. Balling and clawing his way free of the limbs and logs, he was on his way.


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[Assistant] On reaching midstream, the Ghost Coon headed downriver with Little Anne still on his trail. We ran down the riverbank. I could see my dogs clearly in the moonlight. The Ghost Coon was about fifteen feet ahead of Little Anne. About twenty-five yards behind them came Old Dan, trying so hard to catch up, I whooped to them. Reuben grabbed a pole, saying, He may come out on this side.


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[Assistant] Knowing the Ghost-kun was desperate, I wondered what he would do.


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[Assistant] Reaching a gravel bar below the high bank, we ran out on it to the water's edge.


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[Assistant] Then the ghost coon did something that I never expected. Coming even with us, he turned from midstream and came straight for us. I heard Reuben yell, here he comes!


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[Assistant] He churned his way through the shallows and ran right between us. Reuben swung his pole, missed the coon and almost hit little Anne. The coon headed for the river bottoms with her right on his heels.


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[Assistant] The bawling of little Anne and our screaming and hollering made so much noise I didn't hear old Dan coming. He tore out of the river, plowed into me, and knocked me down.


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[Assistant] We ran through the bottoms, following my dogs. I thought the ghost coon was going back to the sycamore log, but he didn't, he ran upriver.


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[Assistant] While hurrying after them I looked over at Rainy. For once in his life I think he was excited. He was whooping and screaming and falling over logs and limbs. I felt good all over. Glancing over at me Rainy said, They ain't got him yet.


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[Assistant] The ghost coon crossed the river time after time. Seeing that he couldn't shake old Dan and little Anne from his trail, he cut through the river bottoms and ran out into an old field.


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[Assistant] At this maneuver, Reuben said to Rainy, He's hidden for that tree. What tree, I asked? You'll see, Rainy said. When he gets tired, he always heads for that tree. That's where he gets his name, the Ghost Coon. He just disappears.


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[Assistant] If he disappears, my dogs will disappear with him. I said. Rainy laughed.


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[Assistant] I had to admit one thing. The Pritchard boys knew the habits of the ghost coon. I knew he couldn't run all night. He had already far surpassed any coon I had ever chased. They're just about there, Reuben said. Just then I heard old Dan bark treed. I waited for little Anne's voice. I didn't hear her. I wondered what it could be this time.


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[Assistant] He's there all right, Ruben said. He's in that tree. Well, come on, I said. I want to see that tree.


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[Assistant] I told him he had said that once before back on the riverbank.


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[Assistant] Hatred behind their eyes, lies on their lips, betrayal in their hearts. You will learn one day, great king, that there are but three things that men respect.


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[Assistant] But I want more than they can give. I want your love.


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[Assistant] Forget Ahmet. He's no longer blind. And for men with eyes, the world is full of women.


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[Assistant] In the morning they die the death of a thousand cuts.


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[Assistant] We will petrify it with horror for the evil done among men.


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[Assistant] Whenever the heart of a child returns to us and comes into us, we live again. And so, as that child, you are to be my successor. Now, come with me. And I will present you with two insignia of true kingship.


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[Assistant] As it turned out, we went to lunch several times, and she always wore a hat during the meal.


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[Assistant] I thought that treatments of some sort had caused a lot of her hair to fall out. We shared things about our lives.


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[Assistant] I told her about my schooling and growing up.


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[Assistant] And it was easy to tell that books were a great love of hers.


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[Assistant] I have thought about her often over the years, and how she struggled in a society that places an incredible premium on looks, class, wealth, and all the other fineries of life. She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look attractive. I knew that her condition hurt her deeply.


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[Assistant] Would her life have been different had she been pretty? Chances are it would have.


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[Assistant] And yet, there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that had nothing to do with her looks. She was one to be listened to.


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[Assistant] Whose words were so easy to take to heart.


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[Assistant] Her words came from a wounded, but loving heart. Very much like all hearts.


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[Assistant] But she had more of a need to be aware of it, to live with it, and learn from it.


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[Assistant] She possessed a fine tuned sense of beauty.


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[Assistant] Her only fear in life was the loss of a friend.


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[Assistant] How long does it take most of us to reach that level of human growth, if we ever get there?


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[Assistant] We get so consumed and diminished, worrying about all the things that need improving,


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[Assistant] We can easily forget to cherish those things that last


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[Assistant] In the hope that such beauty will be shared and taken to heart.


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[Assistant] It was a lonely winter for grandma. She sat near the window, looking out at the yard and wondering if she could plant a garden in the spring. It would be hard to care for it by herself. When spring came, she planted only a little garden. One sunny day in the early summer,


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[Assistant] Grandma watched as the bees made their way into a hole up in one of the trees.


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[Assistant] Before long, every one of those bees had disappeared into its new home.


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[Assistant] Grandma wondered what in the world she could do. Should she hire someone to get rid of the bees? That would cost more than she could afford. She decided to wait and think it over.


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[Assistant] During the next few days, the bees were busy making their own business.


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[Assistant] Before long, she decided that the peace wouldn't bother anyone. So she went about her business and didn't give them any other thought.


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[Assistant] That summer, grandma's little garden grew and grew. The neighbors would stop to admire the huge crop of vegetables and puzzle over their own gardens weren't doing well.


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[Assistant] No matter, because grandma had enough give some away. Of course,


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[Assistant] Everyone who came to visit was treated to a meal of good things from the garden.


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[Assistant] Frank said, in Arizona, the farmers often hired beekeepers to set up beehives near their fields.


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[Assistant] The bees pollinated the crops and helped them to grow.


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[Assistant] So that's why my little garden had such a big crop, she exclaimed. From that time on,


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[Assistant] Grandma always believed that since grandpa couldn't be there to help her that summer, he had sent bees to take his place and make grandma's little garden grow and grow.


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[Assistant] These are thugs. And everybody else is signing off, yeaah, you know, rap music and this. Well, they're not saying that when hockey is beating the hell out of each other, but


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[Assistant] Dear June, I hate to cut short your vacation, but, uh, imperative that you return at once. Have great idea for the sequel. Please wire time of arrival.


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[Assistant] I teach neuropsychiatry and I'm doing some research in migraine headaches. The head opens up.


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[Assistant] Yes, we travel at much too fast a pace, especially women.


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[Assistant] Another one with no forehead? Really, you shouldn't read trash like that.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm sorry, I'd like to give you more, but I'm afraid the best I can do is, uh, dollar. Which leaves three dollars and fifteen cents.


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[Assistant] This might take care of the balance. Let's be generous. Call it 40 cents a drink.


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[Assistant] How could she be married? She doesn't know a thing about it.


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[Assistant] Hello? Listen, old man, Miss Cameron's just explained everything to me.


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[Assistant] Of course, I don't blame your reporters for jumping to conclusions. On the surface, it all spelt matrimony, but uhm, well, take a colleague's word for it and forget the whole thing.


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[Assistant] And how many married women are there? Exactly over 25 million. You are going to write that second book. A book about marriage. We'll call it, we'll call it, um, Marriage Ain't Measles. Uh, sorry.


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[Assistant] It'll only be a business arrangement.


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[Assistant] Don't you worry about me. I've been stuck with larger printing bills than $7,000.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, none of that. In this world, you've got to think of number one, yourself. If you want to get anywhere, you've got to be selfish.


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[Assistant] I must be getting along knowing that printer. I'll need a head start. Goodnight, my dear.


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[Assistant] Well, what do you want now? You've ruined her career and you've ruined my business. But I didn't tell the papers.


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[Assistant] You must make the separation look as if it's entirely your fault. Why?


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[Assistant] Oh, and there's one thing more, uh, now that we, uh, married, I, uh, where are we? What are we, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] And Doctor, if she won't see you through this, well then she's not the woman you thought she was, and we've saved you from making a terrific mistake. Yes, but if she sees this before I can talk, I won't even get the chance to explain. That's right. She shouldn't see this. You know how to take care of women. Yes, but why not how to take care of Marilyn?


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[Assistant] Well, no, not exactly. But we have something wonderful for you in the other room. You'd really be surprised how comfortable these things are.


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[Assistant] I suppose they do take it pretty seriously, but if they didn't, there'd be a lot less people walking about enjoying this nice weather we're having.


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[Assistant] Why yes, to get the professorship and in order to make enough money to take care of a professor's wife.


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[Assistant] What were your findings on the oxygen treatment in regard to high prestige of the scalp? Well, I...


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[Assistant] I can't say that I came to any definite conclusion, but I'll say this, that during July at the clinic, out of 15 cases to which we administered oxygen, we found that 13 of the patients had developed a...


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[Assistant] Hello? Yes? Yes, it's Dr. Sterling. A what? A severed pneumogastric? Well, I'll be right over.


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[Assistant] All right, here's your examination, question number one. How many bones are there in the human body, Mr. O'Brien?


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[Assistant] Don't worry, darling, you won't have to. This time you've gone too far. Oh, Johnny.


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[Assistant] June, dear, I forgot to tell you, but the Burkharts invited us up for the weekend. I think you'd better start packing because we'll be leaving in a few minutes.


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[Assistant] And if the last chapter's as good as the other six, then my wife will be as rich as she's lovely.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't we slap? Oh yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. Well, some other time, boys. Good night.


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[Assistant] Oh, hello there, old man. Microscopes all packed? Yes.


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[Assistant] Goodbye, old man. Goodbye. Oh, and by the way, you don't know what a comfort it was to know that she was perfectly safe with you. Well, goodbye once again, Professor.


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[Assistant] Putting it mildly. Well, I give up. Only one thing left to do.


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[Assistant] Don't interrupt. Marilyn never interrupts.


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[Assistant] Wonderful girl, Marilyn. Not like you at all.


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[Assistant] Good time, bless, new year, new me, new attitude, new everything.


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[Assistant] You know, the new attitude is, you know what I'm saying, just the work, the work attitude, you know what I'm saying? Right. We're just having fun this year, everything is just about having fun this year.


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[Assistant] I'm not a bad guy, you know what I'm saying? I made a bad choice, it was a bad decision, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Like I tell my friends and everybody like, a lesson is a blessing if you ask me. I learned from it. I'm past it. It's a new attitude, man.


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[Assistant] My hand got cut over, cause I threw my phone, so I'll make it long and short. I ain't go to jail, she ain't go to the hospital. Thank God for that. It was just my whole like, man.


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[Assistant] That, that situation like, that should never, that video should never get out because that was my personal business, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] But she's the one that chose to post it, right? No. Duh, it was some lady that house songs and all type of shit. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] It was over some money, that's what it was, money to rule all evil, so it was over some money, some money shit.


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[Assistant] Put the video out cause she wanted some money over some, you know, some little funny shit, Justin. No shit in the data cause it's my personal business, so it was just kinda wrong. I was like, fuck, why would you?


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? You could have took the whole situation more differently than that then. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I won't do that same mistake no more, no that. Right. And lesson is a blessing, bro. I really learned so much. Not, not just not put my hands on a female. I learned so much about life. I could've lost everything just in a pop and a snap. I thought about it, bro. Like I could've fucked the Famous Dex and all this fuck.


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[Assistant] A test, it feels like a roller coaster, like you were exploding. Exactly. And God puts you through tests like that to see what you, as you go.


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[Assistant] Everything, I saw so much at that time, I was going through so much about me like having from the internet, don't want to get internet from them seven days, all that.


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[Assistant] No, this ain't the Dexter, you know what I'm saying? Everybody calling me, like rappers calling me, all type of shit, getting my numbers from... I'm like, damn. Why, and then I thought about it like...


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[Assistant] It's so crazy when you do something bad and everybody look at it, but when you do something good, motherfuckers don't say nothing about it.


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[Assistant] And I want nobody to feel sorry for me, you know what I'm saying? I'm a man, I know I made a mistake, I know I did wrong, I shouldn't have had no right to put my hand on her, you know what I'm saying? I could have walked out, everything, but like I said, it was a miss.


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[Assistant] That's so amazing. I come from none, bro. Like every day I think about like,


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[Assistant] This opportunity I got, you only get this one, you only get this one lifetime to do what you gotta do, bro, is you go ho up or blow up.


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[Assistant] Just Giffy gave me every day bro, cause I could be dead on jail cause come from where I come from bro, like it's really messed up, you know what I'm saying? Just a blessing bro.


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[Assistant] Be yourself. You can go a long way if you be yourself. I ain't trying to be Lil Tracy. I ain't trying to be Lil Bo. I ain't trying to be Uzi. I'm Dexter. I like to be myself and I try to show other people like you can be yourself and go a long way. Like everybody know I come from...


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[Assistant] Inglewood of Chicago, no, I ain't come from Chicago to Suburbs, I ain't come from Chicago up north, I ain't come to Chicago down town, I come from Inglewood of Chicago, like, the murder capital, like, you know what I'm saying, like, it's really, I don't really know, bro, but.


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[Assistant] I wanted to finish answering your question. You said where I feel like where I'm at now. Where I'm at now, I feel like I'm the man. And I feel good where I'm at because I accomplished all this shit. I just left Paris the end of the year. The new year, I got my new house.


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[Assistant] I just try to, don't let, don't let, when you, when you make a mistake, don't let it, you know what I'm saying, try to knock you down. You gotta, you gotta really pay attention and make it a lesson.


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[Assistant] Exactly, I definitely want to face up to my, and I want to tell everybody like, I don't want nobody to feel sorry for me. Oh, I feel sorry for him. No, don't feel sorry for me. Just know, don't ever do the same shit you did, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] My whole family, I grew up from like a basketball family. All my family like played basketball and we all just like to go to the gym and it was all


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[Assistant] I'm just going over to high school. I actually, look, I wasn't going to go to college at IUPI in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but like I said, I lost my mom and so it was just like, you know what I'm saying, it's like, uuuh.


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[Assistant] I never went, I went to a Chicago school, a high school for one, like one year, half of the year though. Then my momma moved me to Indiana. Okay. I went to Indiana school, South Bay, Indiana.


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[Assistant] Oh man, they look, they be, they look, it was so crazy like you said, and I thank God about this every day because not even just the rap, me being me, just the energy I got.


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[Assistant] Always liked this bro. That's why I'm, that's why I'm liking that. Like, Chicago?


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[Assistant] That too, and you know, people, and you know, other people.


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[Assistant] I stopped, I stopped really fucking best while I was selling drugs.


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[Assistant] I wasn't, what's so crazy, I wasn't really rapping, I was just this funny, I wasn't no vine, funny guy, I wasn't no Twitter, I was just cool ass Dex, swaggy, I've been wearing the mix max shoes, I've been doing that, I've been showing you old pictures, I've been doing this shit. I was just that energy guy.


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[Assistant] First real song? First real song that I saw the progression like, oh you gon' be nice.


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[Assistant] Were you actually around Trell or you just fuckin' that movement?


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[Assistant] Trill Sladewood, his name was that too. I saw it then. I couldn't know Chief Keef from where I'm from. And then Chief Keef and him did that song together.


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[Assistant] When JoJo, when JoJo died, everybody was like, really like, okay, we finna get some money now.


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[Assistant] I can't really, I can't really say Adam because you know you got motherfuckers really was like.


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[Assistant] Knuckleheads, bro. Really Chicago, right? Really knuckles. It's like, I wanna beat him.


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[Assistant] The big bad wolf or, yeah, fucker, yeah, we did this, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I really thank God that I ain't really had like, you know what I'm saying, in that, you know what I'm saying, really like, in that situation and with that shit.


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[Assistant] I left it alone. I left and had to, you know what I'm sayin', had to get my man right, bro. You know what I'm sayin', had to, found out that gang bang and shit ain't gonna get you nowhere but dead on jail. Right. Had to change a new way, bro. Had to bring a little den to Chicago, you know what I'm sayin', and run a little


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[Assistant] You know why? Because I've always been a leader. I've never been the one to follow.


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[Assistant] I never, and I looked at your eye and I told you that, I've never been the one to follow. I ain't, I've never been the type that...


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[Assistant] We finna go on Bro Krib, I ain't put you on that, I ain't finna go on that.


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[Assistant] I started really hanging around positive people. Like I'ma always say, you is, you hang around. Cole was always telling me shit like, bro, like, you know, everybody know where you from. It's okay, everybody know where you from, bro. But it's time to get some money, it's time to boss up.


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[Assistant] I always listen bro. Listen is a skill and I'm very good at that. I always listen. I say, you know what bro? You're right. It's time to work. Let's get to it.


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[Assistant] It'd be days out, text code me and fuck that I'm not doing no video with you bro. Fuck that. Take my videos off. It was so much flustration. It was just so much bro.


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[Assistant] I thought about, not quitting, I just thought about, I ain't wanna fuck with nobody, period. That's why I was on. That's why I was like, fuck everybody. You know, my mama gone, I don't wanna fuck, fuck you.


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[Assistant] Fuck you, you ain't my sister, you ain't my daughter, fuck you, I don't suck my dick, I don't talk to you, fuck.


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[Assistant] I'm a man I have to have that pride to the side to get some money. It's time to get some money. It's time to boss up. You're gonna need these people. You're gonna have to work with these people. You're gonna have to need these people someday. You know what I'm saying? Put that pride to the side. Pray.


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[Assistant] Listen, I hope these rappers looking at my shit. If you wanna work with me, and I say let's shoot a video and we shoot it,


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[Assistant] Oh my mother, we better drop by the next day or I don't ever want to work with you bro. You're like a real YouTuber man, that's why we all.


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[Assistant] Like, we gotta drop the video, bruh. We don't wanna see how it work. I don't wanna shoot those songs that you rookie, turkey ass people, y'all don't wanna shoot the video.


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[Assistant] Like, we had to get, we got to know each other. How'd you meet him? I met Rich over the phone.


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[Assistant] I ain't meeting him over the phone. He came to Chicago. He had, he had did a, um, a show. He did, he was on a thugger tour. Okay. He did a show.


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[Assistant] I met the nigga, my boy. Shout out to DJ Victorious. Victorious had brung us together. Like bro, you know Victorious from Chicago. So bro, I got rich with me.


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[Assistant] Met him. We ain't never, we ain't do, we ain't do music. We ain't ever do music. We said, Sean Keith's a grip, chillin'. Good God, met him. I said, watch my boy out here, fuck with him. Did, we finally did the music. And it just went from there, you know what I'm sayin'?


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[Assistant] It's, that's my, that's my brother, that's my brother. He work, it's like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] It is so fire, bro, and we, and bro, we really, I swear, we tamed each other. Fervent ASAP went back and forth on the verse and me and-


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[Assistant] He's like, bro, let's do it. And, and like, like I tell everybody, like,


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[Assistant] You gotta look at it like this. I want y'all to hear this too.


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[Assistant] Just, just listen to this. This is why I signed with Rich and that's my brother because he work good. Look. Look what Wayne did to Drake. And look at Drake and Wayne now.


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[Assistant] Hit my boy Rich right now. We been balled. I'm boy on tour right now.


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[Assistant] Me and Rich was just in this, like I just said with this song yesterday, what he at now, he in New York, where I'm at, LA.


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[Assistant] Nah, hey bro, bro, you know what? You gotta go boss up, bro, you, you can't.


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[Assistant] It ain't all, it ain't all about that, oh bro, yo, I got Tony on, I got Tony on some weed, let's get high.


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[Assistant] I ain't saying uh, if, if, if I got a million dollars.


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[Assistant] I can't take care of nobody, bro. Like, I got a kid, I got two daughters, one on the way.


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[Assistant] And it ain't all about going to the bathroom. Two hundred and three dollar Jordans.


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[Assistant] It's family time, that's all. I'm a family man. I always take care of my, I always take care of what needs to be taken care of.


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[Assistant] I can, I can, right now bro, on my mother, I can go get it. Fuck this music. I'll go get it right now. Black shirt, black mask, I know how to go get that money.


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[Assistant] But I want to do it the positive way. I want to take care of my brothers and sisters the positive way. I want to make sure they straight. I want to go do it the black, the, the, the maddest way. It had to worry about, oh, they looking for, the police looking for me now. Okay, I just ride the bike for a hundred million dollars. Now, but I got to watch over my back now. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] We was all knuckleheads. We was young. We was 16, 17. Of course we were knuckleheads. You know we were knuckleheads. You know we had fun. You cracked a beer in your head? Or crushed a beer can? I'm just saying, when you were young. I did it two times, but.


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[Assistant] I gave back to uhm, me and my manager.


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[Assistant] Well me, he told me when he came, he like, yo.


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[Assistant] I think it'd be good, you know, like my website was doing good on my Dexter website. It's like, yo bro.


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[Assistant] I think it'd be good if you, uhm, the first, the first two months, the money, all the money come to your website, if you help take it to the, uhm, the breast cancer little shit they was doing. And so,


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[Assistant] If, you know, I lost my mom to breast cancer, so. Oh, that was real cool. That's what was one of the biggest shits I ever, like, did. You know what I'm sayin'?


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[Assistant] That's where I know all this energy come from, because my mama had so much energy, bro. Right.


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[Assistant] Just everything. Positive. I just try to stay positive, bro. Good vibes. I tell all my homies like, yo.


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[Assistant] If you're not, if you're not working, bro, you cannot be around me, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you go see me with a Tracy, bro, cause you working. You know what I'm saying? You probably go see me with-


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[Assistant] You cannot be around me, bro, if you're not working. Oh, they want to bring your phones out. No, bro, I ain't with that. Should've did that two weeks ago, last year. Know what I'm saying? We ain't with that. We're just working. Good vibes this year. All smiles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a big, it's a big thing for me bro because, like,


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[Assistant] This is some real shit right here. Like, I try to put it like, Fawzi as fuck, the rap and all that.


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[Assistant] I try to be a role model like, when my daughters grow up, I know they go, they go be grown.


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[Assistant] Work, bro. You see what I'm, you see, you see, I'm at no jumper now, you know. I won't, I won't be here if I wasn't working.


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[Assistant] I have a kickback though, I have all the guys come, you know, the Tracy Cosmos, more in common.


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[Assistant] And all my life, and I'ma say this right now, this nigga tweet, he send me a text of the tweet like, bro.


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[Assistant] We sw- I swear to God, my mom, I can show her. He say, we- he say, bro, I supposed to do this song with him. And he like, bro, even if we don't do this song, bro, I'll fuck with you, and we gon' rock. I say, I love that guy.


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[Assistant] Ding ding ding ding ding. There we go. I found, I found the light.


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[Assistant] Working, like, it's just like, like, you like interviewing rappers, bro. It's just, the work, you know, I love doing what I do.


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[Assistant] You know what, I love, bro, he don't smoke or drink, he hate that shit. That's my bro, I love that guy. And he's just doing his thing, man. Shout out to my boy.


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[Assistant] I appreciate you. Don't stop hating. You don't, don't, do not stop hating, cause if you stop hating, my name gon' be Dex. Ay, ay, what'd you say?


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[Assistant] I know she wouldn't because I love her. We just got our matching tattoos today.


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[Assistant] But if my baby Morgan, go say something behind me, I wouldn't go, I wouldn't go, if she just go, go make a, oh fuck Dex and Oom, just make a song, I wouldn't go say nothing to it because it's like chasing Jason.


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[Assistant] Bro, that's my god bro, I love that guy. Crazy energy. There's another guy, he's just himself. He just, I love him. And Morgan, she just, she's just like a flower being grown.


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[Assistant] I fuck with everybody, ehm, I'm not from SauceWalker. I fuck with everybody. I don't give a fuck. I love SauceWalker. Love him. I love him. Love him to death. Crazy, crazy.


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[Assistant] I just, I just did nothing. Right. That's my boy. I say, oh man god damn, I don't even, I rap way crazy. I rap, I got like a little.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't pay that no attention.


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[Assistant] Making motherfuckers look bad. Oh man, motherfuckers. No, fuck that. I appreciate y'all wanna be like Dexter. I appreciate y'all doing it, Dexter. Thank you, Dexter. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] It's his, it's his certain wave now of a beat that you go had to, you catch that little jump. You know what I'm saying? Yes, exactly, yeaah. So, I be catching my foot, I be like...


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[Assistant] But, it's like, God just be putting this shit in my, in my head, like, I don't know, I be coming up with shit, I be like, damn, alright, thanks though. It'll be cool though man, it's like the energy, that's why, that's why I be saying, the energy I got.


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[Assistant] What I wanted to talk about was the real stuff. I really, I really wanted to like...


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[Assistant] Like, don't let nobody tell you like, what you ever can't do or like, not even saying that. Like, father says, when you do a big mistake in your life, it's always a way to fix it.


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[Assistant] And it's always the way to show the people like, yo, I made this mistake and it will never happen again.


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[Assistant] You can't really prove to the world because it's like, fuck the world. They gonna look at you different regardless of no matter what. I got red hair. People don't like red hair. You know what I'm saying? So, just fuck them. Right. But I just want to show like, tell them like, it's not.


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[Assistant] Hell no. Hell no. Hell no. We, we, we go through flaws like that, man. Ain't nobody perfect, man. Ain't nobody perfect at all. We go through flaws like that. Oh shit. We go through flaws like that, bro. Nobody perfect.


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[Assistant] Like I said, lessons is blessings, bro. And I really thank God that it went through that shit.


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[Assistant] A lesson is a blessing. I've been doing great, bro. I did them. I had one some classes, like, I never put it out on the internet. I went to some little


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[Assistant] Anger, Anger Magnum Classic for like three weeks, you know what I'm saying? Cool. Pass that.


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[Assistant] What's going on? Trump our president. It just fucked up. Dad, have you upset?


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[Assistant] Just to all my fans, I don't got no felonies, bro. So I thank God about that. I'm not a bad guy. I'm not a fuckin' one of them guys from Chicago who's fucked up. Nah, nah. I'm just a juvenile. Yea, I got a juvenile shield school I have. But I'm not a felony guy. TSA, pre-check, I'm walkin' through.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Passport. Passport card. You know what I'm saying? I'm doing my thing. I just love Paris. So, I think-


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[Assistant] All my fans that really love me, that really like, really rock with Dexter, I'm so sorry that I'm not dropping the Dexter mixtape. We're gonna hold back on that one. We dropping the album in March.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I really don't want to say too much. I just really don't want to get no jumbled, like, something, y'all are the first person, like, you know what I'm saying? I'm from the going tour, so I'm from the being announced on every radio, so y'all are the first person, y'all are the first person that got this announcement, the album dropping in March. Yeah, bro, number two, right now I'm number two.


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[Assistant] So fire songs, like, we, we ain't even dropped songs right now. We just, you know what I'm saying, we just hopped around. But them two right now, on the album, I got some real special guesses on them.


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[Assistant] I got, uhm, I got my, I got my brother on the album producing side, my brother Geneal's. Okay.


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[Assistant] No, that ass, it's about the fans. I thank God about like, we got, like, it's a fan basis, you know what I'm saying? Like, Drift On My Walk, it was all about that dance and that song of, of, I get to Drift On My Walk and then dance, and you know what I'm saying? It was a bounce song. It was a new, it was a new wave, it was just a new wave song, so, and the people picked on to this shit, like.


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[Assistant] You know how we pile up those points, Doc? I know. The old X, Y, Z play. That's the one where I take out the two guards in the tackle. Pardon me, Doc. And then Louie starts around there, cuts right through center. Oh, boy, I wish you'd have seen it. It worked like nobody's business. I'm sure it did. Thanks for telling me about it. Tell you about it? Well, Doc, we'd cut off our right arm for you.


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[Assistant] Gatsby's fancy car drove up to my door one morning in July.


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[Assistant] Would you like to drive into New York today and have lunch with me? I thought we could drive into the city together. Gadsby saw me admiring his beautiful car. It's pretty, isn't it? You've seen it before, haven't you? Of course I'd seen it. Everybody in West Egg had seen it. It was bright yellow, with green leather seats. We jumped in and quickly drove off.


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[Assistant] I had talked with Gatsby many times in the past month.


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[Assistant] I was disappointed to find out that he did not have much interesting to say.


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[Assistant] When I first met him, I felt that he was a very important person. A person who would help to change the world. Now this feeling disappeared.


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[Assistant] Now he was just the man who owned the big fancy house next door.


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[Assistant] My feelings about him changed when we took this ride. It was a very surprising ride.


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[Assistant] As we talked, he seemed full of doubt and very strange, and he began to speak in broken sentences.


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[Assistant] Look here, young fellow, he finally said. Tell me the truth. What is your opinion of me?


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[Assistant] I began to say some common things that would not make him happy or angry.


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[Assistant] Well, I want to tell you something about myself, he said.


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[Assistant] I grew up in America, but was educated in England at Oxford University, because all the men in my family always went to Oxford.


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[Assistant] He looked at me in a strange way, and I understood why Miss Baker had thought he was lying about attending Oxford.


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[Assistant] It was because he said educated at Oxford too quickly.


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[Assistant] He said it so that I did not have any time to question him.


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[Assistant] After my family all died, I received a lot of money.


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[Assistant] Since then I have lived like a king in all of the capitals of Europe. Paris, Rome, Venice.


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[Assistant] I spent time buying jewels and hunting wild animals. I even painted a little.


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[Assistant] Mostly I tried to forget something very sad that happened to me a long time ago.


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[Assistant] I didn't believe what he was saying and I wanted to laugh at him, but to be polite, I was silent. Then the war started, young fellow.


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[Assistant] I was happy and I tried very hard to die.


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[Assistant] I always ran to the front of the fighting, but some luck or magic always seemed to keep me alive. I became a captain when the war began, and I led a group of machine gun soldiers.


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[Assistant] In the forests of Germany, I led my men far in front of the other soldiers.


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[Assistant] We fought there for two days and two nights, and we killed more than 130 Germans.


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[Assistant] When the other American soldiers finally found us.


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[Assistant] Every government in Europe and America also gave me a medal.


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[Assistant] Gatsby then reached into his pocket and pulled out a war medal.


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[Assistant] This medal is one from the government of Montenegro. I was shocked. The medal looked real. On the medal was written


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[Assistant] It is a picture to remember my life at Oxford University.


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[Assistant] He handed me a photograph of five or six young men standing together. In the background were two towers. Gatsby was in the middle.


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[Assistant] I imagined him staring into a box of expensive dark jewels.


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[Assistant] And trying to forget the pain in his broken heart.


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[Assistant] Today I want to ask you to help me, he said.


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[Assistant] I found out that you are planning to have tea with Jordan Baker after lunch.


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[Assistant] Do you mean that you are in love with Miss Baker? I asked surprised. No, young fellow, I'm not.


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[Assistant] I was not going to tea with Jordan so that we could discuss Mr. Jay Gatsby.


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[Assistant] Gatsby would not say another word about what he wanted. We continued driving.


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[Assistant] As we passed the dirty train tracks, I saw Mrs. Wilson fixing a car with her usual animal energy. Gatsby was driving quite fast.


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[Assistant] A policeman rode up next to us and Gatsby stopped the car. He then pulled a white card out of his pocket and handed it to the policeman.


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[Assistant] Excuse me, Mr. Gatsby, said the policeman when he looked at the card. I'll know that this car is yours next time. Sorry to trouble you. The policeman then rode away. What did you show him, I asked? Was it the picture of you at Oxford?


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[Assistant] No, I helped the chief of police before, and he sends me a card every year at Christmas.


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[Assistant] Gatsby and I stopped for lunch at a little restaurant in the middle of the city. Another man came to meet us.


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[Assistant] He was a small man with small eyes and a flat nose. He looked about forty years old.


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[Assistant] Mr. Carroway, let me introduce my friend, Mr. Wolfsheim. We sat down and ordered some food.


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[Assistant] I like this restaurant, said Mr. Wolfsheim, but the restaurant across the street is even better.


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[Assistant] It's too hot there, said Gatsby.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's hot and small, but it is also full of memories. It makes me think about dead friends. I will never forget sitting at that restaurant the night that Rosie Rosenthal was shot. Six friends were all sitting at the table, and Rosie had been drinking beer and eating all evening.


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[Assistant] At 4.30 in the morning, a waiter came over to Rosie with a strange look on his face.


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[Assistant] Before going out the door he turned around and said to me, Don't let the waiter take away my coffee.


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[Assistant] Then he went outside into the street and we heard gunshots.


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[Assistant] So men had shot him four times in his chest and run away. He suddenly looked at me and said,


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[Assistant] Gatsby quickly answered for me, No, Meyer, this is a different man. We'll talk about that business some other time.


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[Assistant] Before we finished eating our meal, Gatsby looked at his watch, jumped up and hurried out of the room.


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[Assistant] He has to use the telephone, said Mr. Wolfsheim. It's a business matter. He's a fine young fellow, isn't he?


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[Assistant] I met him a little bit after the war and we have done a lot of business together. He's helped me and I've helped him. When Gatsby returned, Wolfsheim stood up.


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[Assistant] I have to go. I will leave you two young men to discuss your young ladies in sports, he said. I stood up and we shook hands.


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[Assistant] Meyer Wolfsheim is an important man in this area, said Gadsby after Wolfsheim left. What's his business? How did he make all his money?


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[Assistant] Oh, in many ways, Gatsby said while looking at the ground.


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[Assistant] Do you remember the big baseball cheat in 1919? Meyer did that. He cheated a lot of people into giving him money. He really became rich from it. I was shocked. Why isn't he in prison? They can't prove that he did it, young fellow. He is a clever man. I insisted on paying for lunch.


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[Assistant] When the waiter came over, I saw Tom Buchanan across the room.


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[Assistant] Come with me for a minute, I said to Gatsby. I have to say hello to a friend. Tom jumped up eagerly when he saw us.


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[Assistant] What have you been doing recently? He said. Daisy is angry because you haven't called. Sorry, I said. This is my friend Mr. Gatsby. They shook hands.


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[Assistant] I turned towards Mr. Gatsby, but he had left.


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[Assistant] Later that afternoon, I went to tea with Jordan Baker. She told me this story.


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[Assistant] The story was in Louisville, the small town where she was a child.


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[Assistant] The time was when the United States joined the Great War. Jordan began telling her story.


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[Assistant] It was an amazing chance that brought him so close to her, I said.


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[Assistant] I remembered the first time that I saw Gatsby. He was staring out across the water. He must have been looking at Daisy's house.


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[Assistant] Suddenly I realized that Gatsby was a man with deep feelings and real sadness. Gatsby wants your help.


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[Assistant] He had waited five years and bought a huge house near Daisy.


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[Assistant] He did all of this just so that he could just come over to his neighbor's house one day and see her. Why didn't he ask you to help? Couldn't you also arrange a meeting?


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[Assistant] Do you think that Daisy wants to see Gatsby? I asked.


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[Assistant] It was now dark, and I put my arm around Jordan's neck and pulled her towards me.


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[Assistant] I looked into her eyes and asked if she would join me for dinner.


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[Assistant] Suddenly I stopped thinking about Daisy and Gatsby.


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[Assistant] I put both my arms around Jordan and her little scolding mouth smiled. I pulled her closer, this time up to my face.


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[Assistant] In the afternoon our judge came over and introduced himself. He told us he'd be going with us that night.


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[Assistant] About sundown we piled in our buggy and drove a few miles downriver. I noticed other hunters doing the same thing. Everyone was trying to get away from the already hunted territory. It was dark by the time Grandpa stopped.


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[Assistant] I untied the ropes from my dogs. Little Anne reared up on me and whined. Old Dan walked off a few yards, stretched his body, and dragged his claws through the soft bottom soil.


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[Assistant] Opening his mouth he let out one loud ball and then disappeared in the thick timber. Little Anne was right on his heels. We took off after them.


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[Assistant] Grandpa got nervous, he said to me, uh, don't you think you ought to whoop to him? I told him to wait a little while, there would be plenty of time for whooping.


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[Assistant] He snorted and said he thought a hunter always whooped to his dogs. I do, Grandpa, I said, but not before they strike a trail.


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[Assistant] We walked on. Every now and then we would stop and listen.


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[Assistant] Papa said, it sure is a beautiful night for hunting. The judge said, you can't beat these Ozark Mountain nights for beauty. I don't care where you go.


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[Assistant] Grandpa started to say something. His voice was drowned out by the bell-like cry of little Anne. In a whisper I said, come on, Dan, hurry and help her.


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[Assistant] As if in answer to my words, his deep voice hammered its way up through the river bottoms, I felt the blood tingling in my veins, that wonderful feeling that only a hunter knows crept over my body.


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[Assistant] Looking over at Grandpa, I said, Now you can whoop.


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[Assistant] The coon was running upriver toward our campground. We turned and followed. I could tell by the dogs' voices that they were running side by side and were hot on the trail. Closing my eyes, I could almost see them running, bodies stretched to their fullest length, legs pounding up and down, white steam rolling from their hot breath in the frosty night.


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[Assistant] Grandpa got tangled up in some underbrush and lost his hat and spectacles. It took us a while to find the glasses. Papa said something about getting them wired on with bailing wire. Grandpa snorted. The judge laughed.


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[Assistant] The coon crossed the river and ran on upstream. Soon my dogs were out of hearing distance. I told Papa we had better stay on our side of the river and keep going until we could hear them again. Twenty minutes later we heard them coming back. We stopped. I think they have crossed back to our side, I said.


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[Assistant] All at once the voices of my dogs were drowned out by a loud roar. What in the world was that? Grandpa said.


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[Assistant] About that time we heard it again. The judge started laughing. I know now what it is, he said. Those hounds run that coup right back by our camp. The noise we heard was the other hunters whooping to them. Everyone laughed.


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[Assistant] A few minutes later I heard my dogs bawling treed. On reaching the tree, Papa ran his hand back under his coat. He pulled out Grandpa's gun.


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[Assistant] Now that's a funny looking gun, the judge said. It's a 410 gauge pistol, isn't it?


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[Assistant] It's the very thing for this kind of work, Papa said. You couldn't kill a coon with it if you tried, especially if you're using birdshot, all it will do is sting his hide a little. At the crack of the gun, the coon gave a loud squall and jumped. My dogs lost no time in killing him. We skinned the coon, and soon we're on our way again.


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[Assistant] Next time my dogs treed, they were across the river from us. Finding a ripple, we pulled off our shoes and started to cross. Grandpa very gingerly started picking his way. His tender old feet moved from one smooth rock to another.


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[Assistant] Everything was fine until we reached midstream, where the current was much swifter. He stepped on a loose round rock, it rolled, and down he went.


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[Assistant] As the cold river water touched his body, he let out a yell that could have been heard for miles. He looked so funny we couldn't keep from laughing. Papa and the judge helped him to his feet. Laughing, every step of the way we finally reached the other side. Grandpa kept going in his wet clothes until we reached the tree where the dogs were.


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[Assistant] After killing the coon we built a large fire so Grandpa could dry his clothes. He'd get up as close to the fire as he could and turn, this way and that. He looked so funny standing there with his long underwear steaming, I started rolling with laughter. He looked over at me and snapped, what's so funny? I said, nothing. Well, why are you laughing, he said.


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[Assistant] This remark, Papa and the Judge laughed until their eyes watered.


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[Assistant] Mumbling and grumbling grandpa said, you fellas were cold as I am, you wouldn't be laughing. We knew we shouldn't be laughing, but we couldn't help ourselves.


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[Assistant] The judge looked at his watch. It's after three o'clock, he said. You think there'll tree another one?


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[Assistant] As if to throw the words back in the judge's face, old Dan opened up. I stood up and whooped, Hoo-wee! Get him, Dan, get him! Put him up a little tree!


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[Assistant] There was a mad scramble. Grandpa tried to put his britches on backwards. The judge and Papa ran over to help him with his shoes. Each one tried to put a shoe on the wrong foot. I was laughing so hard I could do nothing.


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[Assistant] A hundred yards from the fire I realized we had forgotten the coon skins. I ran back for them. My dogs had jumped the coon in swamp land. He tore out for the river bottoms. I could tell they were close to him by their fast bawling. All at once their baying stopped. We stood still and listened.


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[Assistant] Old Dan balled tree a few more times and then stopped. Grandpa asked, what's happened? I told him the coon had probably pulled some kind of trick.


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[Assistant] Coming up to my dogs, we saw they were working up and down an old rail fence. We stood and watched.


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[Assistant] Every now and then old Dan would rear up on a large hackberry tree that was standing about seven feet from the fence and ball-treed.


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[Assistant] It looks like he has him fooled. Maybe you had better call them off, Grandpa said. We can go someplace else and hunt. We got to get one more coon, even if I have to treat myself. For some reason no one laughed at his remark. It's almost daylight, Papa said.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's what has me worried, I said. We don't have time to do any more hunting. If we lose this one, we're beat.


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[Assistant] Hearing the word beat, Grandpa began to fidget. He asked me, What do you think happened? How did that coon fool them?


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[Assistant] I don't know for sure, I said. He walked that rail fence. The hat-berry tree has something to do with his trick, but I don't know what.


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[Assistant] Son, the judge said, I wouldn't feel too badly if I were you. I have seen some of the very best hounds fooled by a smart old coon.


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[Assistant] Regardless of all the discouraging talk, the love and belief I had in my little red hounds never faltered. I could see them now and then leaping over old logs, tearing through the underbrush, sniffing and searching for the lost trail. My heart swelled with pride. I whooped, urging them on.


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[Assistant] In a low voice the judge said, I'll say one thing, they don't give up easily.


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[Assistant] The male 12-wired bird of paradise is the only bird in the world that has tail ornaments like this.


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[Assistant] And she'd expect his carefully choreographed routine to be faultless. He opens with a bow.


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[Assistant] The head-poom shuffle with spin.


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[Assistant] The new absence is always the same. We should be careful of each other. We should be careful while there is still time.


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[Assistant] Passing Brace. Written by Tagor.


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[Assistant] Oh beloved of my heart, this golden light that dances upon the leaves, these idle clouds sailing across the sky, this passing breeze leaving its coolness upon my forehead.


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[Assistant] The morning light has flooded my eyes. This is thy message to my heart.


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[Assistant] Thy face is bent from above, thy eyes look down on my eyes, and my heart has touched thy feet.


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[Assistant] Oh, by all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills.


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[Assistant] Young man, you have caused me a lot of trouble. Though you are weak, you should leave here immediately. Come on, get up.


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[Assistant] The rest of your instructions are in this box Do not open it until you arrive safely in England I shall now return to Paris


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[Assistant] This rude boy from Gascony will punish you first, as you will soon see.


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[Assistant] You still haven't paid for your room and food. Pay him.


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[Assistant] Though he was truly a coward, the lady was truly beautiful. Who?


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[Assistant] Two customers have left me, but it looks like one will stay.


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[Assistant] And I believe he will be here for at least a few more days.


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[Assistant] I think I know. Your letter was not lost, it was stolen.


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[Assistant] I saw the man with the scar on his face going to the kitchen where your coat was. He could have stolen it. Do you think he did?


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[Assistant] I had seen the letter in your pocket when I was curing you.


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[Assistant] When I told the man that you were a friend of Mr. Treville, he looked very worried. Right after I told him, I saw him go into the kitchen. Then he must be the thief.


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[Assistant] I will go to tell Mr. Treville of this affair. Even the king himself shall hear of it.


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[Assistant] And we are still taking applications on YouTube and Twitter for nicknames. So let us know.


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[Assistant] Hey, my Twitter handle has to change. It literally has to change. So...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's both the standings. That is uh, 43 here, Steve. Let's get that.


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[Assistant] We're gonna make these quick, rapid, fire, starting with G. First game.


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[Assistant] Under eight and a half runs in the Guardians White Sox game today. Good bad bad bad.


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[Assistant] Game two, Celtics. Five and a half point favorites at home 2-2 series. Good bet to take the Celtics. Gee.


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[Assistant] What's the last game? Golden State, four point favorites in Memphis, despite the fact, no John Moran tonight.


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[Assistant] Email us at UCSS at WKYC.com. Alright. Hit us up on Twitter at AltKleeSports or comment on the YouTube chat. We have Anthony to my right and Brianna to my left monitoring those for questions. We're taking Judge J questions, mailbag questions. Send us videos. Send us videos. We'll put it on air. I promise you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Mandy Bell just tweeted that, uh, Terry Francona tested positive for COVID. Oh wow. That will not be on the bench for today's game in Chicago. Bench coach D. Marlo Hale will fill in. Okay. That's from Mandy Bell. Alright, very good.


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[Assistant] Today's top cheeses, the five best cheeses that I've interviewed some pretty cool people. I don't get nervous. I'm nervous right now to go cheese for cheese with Joe Thomas.


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[Assistant] It's meltable, it's versatile, and then that's a high meltability rating. Number five, Pepperjack.


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[Assistant] Name any dish, put parmesan on it, it's automatically better. Number four, parmesan.


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[Assistant] Now I'm starved. What's number two? Mozzarella. Mozzarella sticks. Top five appetizers. It's got the ooey gooey goodness.


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[Assistant] And it could be good eatin' cold and not all cheeses are good eatin'.


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[Assistant] It's up to you, Mikey McNuggets. Joe Thomas, an elite guest, but we love our audience. We gotta get the audience boost involved, so we'll still have the poll.


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[Assistant] I must question your choice of words, sir. Now how could he have been afraid? He was afraid that if he didn't pay her enough, she would kill him.


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[Assistant] So that's okay for you. So the first thing I thought is that,


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[Assistant] And whichever narrative wins, that is considered to be


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[Assistant] So, in some ways, if you look at the wars that have started in Mahabharata and Ramayana,


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[Assistant] Can we analyze contemporary wars in ethical terms, in terms of virtue and vice? Is such an analysis, uh,


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[Assistant] It is quite difficult with the information overload to know who is actually virtuous and who is not.


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[Assistant] What is the best way to deal with the reality of violence?


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[Assistant] Ultimately it is individual people with some influence.


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[Assistant] Interpersonal conflicts and interpersonal differences are always going to be there and those will also escalate at times.


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[Assistant] So so are you saying that we, that before we even we look at terms of virtue and vice or saying that one side is virtuous and other side is vicious, we need to recognize that?


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[Assistant] Even if the two sides may be virtuous, still differences and conflicts may still be there. Is that what you are trying to say?


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[Assistant] You know when we say Prakriti will make, Krishna does talk about Prakriti Kriyamanani at one level in the Gita that Prakriti is doing. But then there is, if you see in the Mahabharat in the Udyoga Parva, before the Gita is spoken in the Vishu Parva, there is a lot of discussion about whether we should fight or not.


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[Assistant] So just because fighting is to some extent unavoidable doesn't legitimize any and every form of fighting.


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[Assistant] Okay, so sorry, I mean, I appreciate your point. I think the US President Eisenhower


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[Assistant] After the second world war, he said that famous statement that, you know, we have to be very alert about the military industrial complex.


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[Assistant] And say today when people, some people want to get wealthy, maybe there the Kshatriyas wanting to get wealthy, now it is Vaishyas wanting to get wealthy by causing wars among people or whatever.


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[Assistant] Is the key difference that those who are going to say the beneficiaries of the war


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[Assistant] Don't really stake their own lives or their own efforts in the actual fighting. Is that the key difference?


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[Assistant] That is, that is very important point that, that actually


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[Assistant] It is, in one sense, if we take a human nature or material nature, Prakriti as, then greed will be one force which is always there.


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[Assistant] So is the state anyway benefiting? So in the past,


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[Assistant] Generally whenever wars were there, there was always some kind of plunder happening.


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[Assistant] And whether it was Jungis Khan who came from Mongolia or whether the Arabic invaders came from, came from the, from the Indian perspective, from the West or even Alexander came.


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[Assistant] So, one of the main impetuses for war is, is to plunder and to gain wealth because war involves some expenses.


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[Assistant] So one, I could say, you could say that now it is, war is being systematically, as you said, instigated by people from behind their ways, lobby groups and things like that.


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[Assistant] In lower terminology they have this term of does and hawks.


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[Assistant] And they may even plunder, uh, plunder the cities and may even rob, I mean plunder from the civilians.


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[Assistant] So the second, the first seems to be exceptional and even that, you know, only warriors fighting with warriors and civilians being consciously protected.


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[Assistant] So, even in Indica, which was written by Megasthenes who came with Alexander, he said that this was something distinctly we find in wars in India, that there was a lot of effort made to protect Indians, protect civilians rather.


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[Assistant] Even in the case of I think Rupa Goswami, Sanatan Goswami, that was one reason why Nawab Hussain Shah wanted


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[Assistant] Even if I am, because you could say the western history is much more documented in other parts of the world.


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[Assistant] That's why I am referring to western history. It is also documented but, you know, even in the west, they had this idea of what they call as noblesse glace. That means the nobility has a duty to the community.


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[Assistant] And they have to give charity and they have to take care of the people who are their subjects.


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[Assistant] So even if there was a king, under the king there would be what in India we might call the Sildars and things like that.


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[Assistant] So now that, now you mentioned about Rashtra, Rashtravaad and Rashtravaad being above Dharma. You know, one of the, one of the prominent thoughts in modern political philosophy is that much war is caused because of nationalism.


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[Assistant] So for example, I talk about Napoleon being able to galvanize the common people for fighting.


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[Assistant] So that happened after the French Revolution when the nobility was brought out, was brought down, the kings were brought down, royalty was brought down. And then he said that this is a matter of French pride.


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[Assistant] So and then after that Hitler also came and before that of course there are first world war was there. But the point is that


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[Assistant] Nationalism is often seen as a bad thing because it will lead to war.


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[Assistant] And because Europe experienced two big wars, that's why one of the reasons is that they tried to have a European Union where we all are together.


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[Assistant] Now at one place I heard that there is a difference between we could say nationalism and fascism.


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[Assistant] That nationalism is, my country is special and fascism is my country supreme.


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[Assistant] So, but overall this idea of Rashtra Dharma or Rashtra Bhakti, Rashtra Prem,


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[Assistant] It is that King who becomes the Emperor, not necessarily that Kingdom becomes the Emperor.


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[Assistant] Islamic invasion did not really disrupt, you could say the socio-economic systems. No, it was not possible. There might have been some religious persecution.


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[Assistant] But one of the primary motivating factor was, was religion.


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[Assistant] It seems like no matter how brutal the Muslims were, Islamic invaders were, but it was like the, I believe the British who cut off the thumbs of lakhs of, uh,


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[Assistant] What hand weavers in Bangladesh and that part of Bengal because they wanted cloth to be manufactured in Manchester.


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[Assistant] You know, Hitler, because he killed at that time during the war through concentration camps.


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[Assistant] And the west knew about it because eventually they came to Germany. But Stalin, he also treated


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[Assistant] And the gulags which he had were actually worse than, in many ways worse than concentration camps also. But then people didn't come to know about it much because it


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[Assistant] Russia at that time, they were all jockeying to try to portray how they are the biggest dogs in the fight.


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[Assistant] And even it says that UK bombed certain cities like Dresden and some cities in Germany.


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[Assistant] Which were completely civilian cities with no military camps and they banked them just to show that we can also be brutal. Now of course this is all political and there can be different narratives. So some people say that even that


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[Assistant] America knew that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked, but they didn't intervene.


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[Assistant] So we can also be brutal. Now, I don't want, we don't want, as I said, we don't want to get into specifics of who is bad, but the fact that


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[Assistant] Somebody is good and somebody is bad.


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[Assistant] That's true, you know, uh, actually this point about people not


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[Assistant] The Germans and the French, they put aside their fighting and they celebrated for the night of Christmas and then they again picked up their fights.


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[Assistant] So what we hear about say Arjuna visiting the Buryodhana's camp at the evening, so that is not that utopian in that sense.


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[Assistant] When you say human nature will not change over the yugas, so what we can say is that maybe the percentage of people who are of a more demoniac nature or more godly nature, that may vary.


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[Assistant] That's such a superficial understanding because if that was his purpose.


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[Assistant] And they may evoke nationalistic fervour and get them to attack.


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[Assistant] Resistance to it that also comes because of nationalistic fervour itself.


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[Assistant] That means if a particular country is engaging its common people to fight, then the other country


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[Assistant] Will, its army alone will not be able to defend.


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[Assistant] They were also in one sense considered civilians.


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[Assistant] But, say now, this asymmetric warfare.


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[Assistant] Because his army was very small as compared to say Aurangzeb's army.


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[Assistant] So now this question comes up, sometimes they say that do the ends, do the ends justify the means?


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[Assistant] So, now in a Kurukshetra war, we could say, although the Pandavas were outnumbered, but still the Pandavas had great heroes among them. But it was a direct face to face battle.


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[Assistant] Because in one sense, while it's a matter of skill and strength, but also there are military strategies, take the opponent by surprise, attack them and ambush them. So this is also a part of real politics.


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[Assistant] So would a Dharmic war not involve all these things?


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[Assistant] But even among various forms of questionable practices, so was Abhimanyu's killing especially


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[Assistant] We could say that there are certain things which may be questionable but then again it's a matter of, of brutality will also have its degrees.


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[Assistant] We, we have been discussing getting civilians involved. So, so rashtra prem or rashtra, rashtra vad or nationalism. So you are saying that


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[Assistant] If you see the Kurus, was there Rashtra Prem for their Kuru kingdom or was that for the entire Bharatvarsha or what was the conception of Rashtra and Rashtra Prem at that time?


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[Assistant] So that could be a, that could also be a good indicator of a, that there was a, although there might be smaller kingdoms, but there was still an awareness that there was a broader land of Dharma. Yeaah, very much so.


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[Assistant] So now when we, so there was a national consciousness but that was not we could say weaponized.


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[Assistant] Interesting in the modern times, there is this idea that culture, that nationalism,


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[Assistant] But uh, like the idea of Matra Bhoomi and then like Rashtra Bhakti, is that a relatively modern concept?


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[Assistant] Are these political and cultural, is it more conceptual or is it more functional?


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[Assistant] Uh, but that means because if you see even in Europe as compared to America, but much more in Europe, they have,


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[Assistant] In America also you can say New York and Texas have diverse, diversity. But it's not as much as, not different languages. In Europe each country has its own language. And quite distinctive cultures are there.


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[Assistant] So cultural diversity was there but once the, once there were people who wanted to conquer


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[Assistant] Or there are some things like that happening in Tamil Nadu to some extent. Yeah. Tamil tie against Hindi and things like that.


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[Assistant] So that to an extreme degree may happen, so the cultural diversity does not have to lead to political conflict.


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[Assistant] So one, one, maybe we could, uh, it is a slightly different topic, but in today's world,


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[Assistant] If we just have good policies and if we have good governance then wars will not happen at all.


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[Assistant] And they said, you know, if we just have better social administration then we can defund the police. So, but that didn't work at all.


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[Assistant] Defense and deterrence through defense.


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[Assistant] But once all three countries acquired nuclear weapons, then there have been no open wars.


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[Assistant] We could say that there are two global powers, but there was no major war between the Soviet Bloc and the USA because again there were nuclear powers. Nuclear power was there on both sides. So in that sense, saying that too much money is being spent on defense and you should not spend so much money, that is somewhat unrealistic.


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[Assistant] Now sometimes there is this discussion that, you know, so much of the, so much of the national budget is spent on defense.


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[Assistant] They had a significant level of opulence. They lived in, the Pandavas had a grand palace and they had a grand sabha.


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[Assistant] Their enemy was, their army was also well equipped. So, are there some broad guidelines of, or broad principles that


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[Assistant] Somebody may say that actually instead of spending the money on defence, we can use it for, so for social cause, for social welfare.


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[Assistant] But then if there is an attacker and if you are not prepared, then the cost might be much more eventually.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's essentially required. I think a common saying in, uh,


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[Assistant] Military, it's probably a quote from some American president, he says that the best way to have peace is to be ready for war.


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[Assistant] So that is the violence. That's also violence in one sense. We can't really say that, okay, I am not killing anyone else, I am killing myself, but you are still killing, you are taking life.


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[Assistant] That if there is a spiritual culture and spiritual wisdom given,


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[Assistant] Then there is a greater chance of a person who is more virtuous, more dharmically inclined, gaining power and be influential. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So maybe just one or two last questions, because in Indian history if you see, uh, when Shivaji Maharaj, he fought.


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[Assistant] Even at that time, it was not that there was mass mobilization of people to join the war. No. Kshatriyas were only fighting.


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[Assistant] Then say when, if we consider Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, he called upon people to join.


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[Assistant] That time was it also mass mobilization or that time also we can say people who actually join will be people who are Kshatriya inclined only.


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[Assistant] Uh, circumstantially something is done, it is a great caution that it doesn't become the norm afterwards.


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[Assistant] And in terms of causes of war, to say that the war is simply virtuous attacking the vicious, it is not always like that.


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[Assistant] That, like, when the Rajaswari against be conducted, Vaishnav might also attack another Vaishnav king.


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[Assistant] But the big difference was that the war was fought against the king. It was more like a test of skills and strength, not against the civilians.


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[Assistant] So that was the difference between Yudhishthir Maharaj becoming emperor and Jarasandha.


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[Assistant] Then we discussed about in modern times what has happened.


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[Assistant] Without any consideration of the incite war for monetary purposes alone.


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[Assistant] That is something which is, which is very dangerous in today's world. So war becoming a big business.


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[Assistant] So there is a difference between say political nationalism and cultural nationalism and the main difference is that in the Vedic tradition


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[Assistant] So the idea was cultural and then gradually from that spiritual transformation. But in modern time nationalism is weaponized.


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[Assistant] Or the Pandavas, they actually performed the last rite of even the Kauravas. And so, and then they reconciled with, with Rashtra and Gandhari. So the idea is sometimes war is unavoidable.


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[Assistant] And to think that as humanity evolves, war will become impossible, war will become, war will not happen, that is.


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[Assistant] And even if war happens, they will try to minimize the casualties, minimize the extent of the war. And to that extent, if we cultivate spiritual culture, we support a spiritual culture, then


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[Assistant] The final purpose is ultimately to elevate people's consciousness and that can happen only through a culture and spirituality ultimately. So the purpose of war is to establish Dharma.


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[Assistant] And it is not to establish a particular person in power or it is not to establish, to demonize or destroy a particular person.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, that's a beautiful starting point.


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[Assistant] What matters most to Jay? Uh, his family. He is a big family man. What matters most to me? My family. My safety. Your safety.


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[Assistant] We face challenges every day, some bigger than others, and we never know what's around the corner.


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[Assistant] One time we- Do you want the mic a little closer? When we just opened, we were at, uhm, our friend's house, Nick's, and I think Francis had Above and Below. He was like, oh, let's go, let's all watch it at Nick's house. So, you know, we had drinks and stuff and movie was over or whatever. And I woke up at like 3am to Devin like taking my blanket.


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[Assistant] No, but I knew, um, Julian from Vans and Ethan and me, like back in 2011, like Facebook, I used to message Ethan like, yo, you going to Vans tonight? You know, like, yeah, dude, you should go, like, blah, blah, blah. So I met them there, but never went out and ride cause I didn't, I didn't get a car until I was like 21 or my license.


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[Assistant] Uh, I met Tak through YouTube. Wow, really? Yea. Like, he just commented on one of my videos like, yo, that's my school or I live around that school or whatever. I'm like, oh, let's meet up. And then I saw him at Vans literally the next day, like,


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[Assistant] It was my, my friend Dylan, Cordell, Chaz, Tak, and then, uh, my friend Dan, Adrian.


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[Assistant] They all like faded away, you know, went to college, got work, whatever. And me and Tak were still riding. And I kinda like stopped riding after that like, fuck dude, I don't know what to do now. So like.


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[Assistant] I just did my own thing, kind of like hung out with my high school friends, like party or whatever. And I'm like, well I want to ride again, you know, and in tech, like, he got a car and we started going to Huntington and, oh, let's go hang out with Francis and them. And yeah, just kind of like, I got a car and then I finally started driving there a lot.


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[Assistant] Everyone comes from LA and Long Beach, so that's pretty sick.


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[Assistant] I met Justin once, but it was like at the compound and where is that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, but I didn't like, I never knew we were gonna meet again, you know what I mean? It's weird meeting him now, like, it's like, oh shit, but we didn't speak to each other.


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[Assistant] Now, uhm, I used to do, like before I met them, whatever, I used to do this video called, well not even a video, I just called it Flip Cam Adventures with the little flip cam camera that I got from like Goodwill or something.