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[Assistant] Taking the brewery on my way back, I raised the rusty latch of a little door at the garden end of it and walked through.


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[Assistant] I was going out at the opposite door, not easy to open now, for the damp wood had started and swelled and the hinges were yielding and the threshold was encumbered with the growth of fungus. When I turned my head to look back,


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[Assistant] So strong was the impression that I stood under the beam shuddering from head to foot before I knew it was a fancy, though to be sure I was there in an instant.


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[Assistant] Where I had once rung my hair after Estella had rung my heart.


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[Assistant] Or first go upstairs and assure myself that Miss Havisham was as safe and well as I had left her. I took the latter course and went up.


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[Assistant] I looked into the room where I had left her and I saw her seated in the ragged chair upon the hearth close to the fire with her back towards me. In the moment when I was withdrawing my head to go quietly away, I saw a great flaming light spring up.


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[Assistant] Is it 85, for example? He joked. Yes, I answered, although I knew it wasn't. My sister hit me hard on the head. Boy, he continued. Describe Miss Havisham. Very tall and dark, I said, lying. Is she uncle? Asked my sister, eagerly. Oh, yes, answered Mr. Pumblechook.


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[Assistant] How well you make him obey you uncle, said Mrs. Joe. Now boy, what was she doing when you arrived? She was sitting in a black carriage, I replied. Mr. Pumblechook and Mrs. Joe stared at each other. In a black carriage, they repeated. Yes, I said, becoming more confident. And Mrs. Stella, her niece I think,


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[Assistant] Handed in gold plates with cake and wine through the windows. Was anybody else there? asked Mr. Pumblechook. Four dogs. Huge ones. They ate meat out of a silver basket. Where was this carriage boy? In her room. But there weren't any horses. Can this be possible, uncle? asked Mrs. Joe. She's a strange woman, madam.


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[Assistant] It's quite possible. What did you play at, boy?


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[Assistant] Bedtime reading. Tales from Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew. Once in the city of Padua in Italy, there lived a rich gentleman named Baptista.


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[Assistant] He had two daughters named Katharina and Bianca. Everyone called Katharina, Katharina the Shrew.


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[Assistant] A shrew is a sour, angry, mean young woman. Katharina was beautiful and very intelligent. But she was unkind, unpleasant, and usually angry with everyone.


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[Assistant] However, her younger sister Bianca was beautiful, sweet, and gentle. Many men wanted to marry Bianca, but Baptista would not allow it. When Katharina finds a husband, I will allow Bianca to marry. But not before, he said.


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[Assistant] One day, a gentleman named Petruchio came to Padua. He wanted to find a wife.


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[Assistant] He heard the story of Baptista's two daughters.


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[Assistant] He decided that Katharina's terrible temper did not scare him. She is beautiful and rich. I will tame her. As if she was a wild horse. I will marry her.


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[Assistant] He was excited about taming this difficult woman. His personality was very fun loving, and he thought that it would be fun to marry Katharina.


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[Assistant] So Petruchio went to the home of Baptista to ask his permission.


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[Assistant] Sir, I have come from the city of Verona.


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[Assistant] I have heard stories of your gentle, sweet daughter Katharina. Petruchio was lying, of course. I would like your permission to spend time with her. Baptista wanted Katharina to be married.


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[Assistant] Your daughter hit me over the head with her lute. He cried angrily. Petruchio thought this was very funny. She is a brave young lady, isn't she? Now I want to talk to her more than ever. Then he said to Baptista, Sir, I am in a big hurry. I cannot come here every day to see your daughter.


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[Assistant] My father, who is dead, has left me all his land. I must find a wife quickly. Now tell me, if Katharina agrees to marry me, what dowry will you give me with her?


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[Assistant] A dowry was usually money or jewels that were given to a man along with a wife.


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[Assistant] Baptista thought that Petruchio was a little strange, but he wanted Katharina to be married. So he said, I will give you 20,000 gold coins, and when I die, you will receive half my property. Petruchio agreed to this. Then Baptista went to find Katharina and tell her that someone had asked to marry her. While Baptista did this,


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[Assistant] I will say she looks as beautiful as a young rose. If she is silent, I will praise her intelligence.


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[Assistant] Said Katharina coldly. No, you're lying. You are the prettiest Kate in the country. I have heard stories of your beauty and gentleness. So I have come to ask you to be my wife.


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[Assistant] Katharina of course was very unkind, loud and angry. But Petruchio did not become angry himself. No matter what Katharina said, Petruchio said something nice to her in return. Their strange conversation continued for a while. Then Petruchio heard Baptista coming. Sweet Katharina, we must stop talking of small things. Your father agreed that you will be my wife.


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[Assistant] She agrees that we will be married next Sunday. Katharina was furious of course.


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[Assistant] Then she scolded her father for wanting her to marry such a crazy man. But Petruchio whispered to Baptista, do not pay attention to her angry words. When we were alone, she was very sweet. I am sure she loves me and wants to be married. Then Petruchio said to Katharina, give me your hand, Kate.


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[Assistant] I will go to Venice to buy you beautiful clothes for our wedding. Baptista, you provide the feast and invite the guests. I will return on Sunday, sweet Katharina.


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[Assistant] On the Sunday, many people came to see the wedding. Everyone waited a long time, but Petruchio did not come. Katharina was so angry she cried.


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[Assistant] But this first meeting is over. I feel perfectly easy.


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[Assistant] I know my own strength, and I shall never be embarrassed again by his coming. I am glad he dines here on Tuesday.


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[Assistant] It will then be publicly seen that on both sides we meet only as common and in different acquaintance.


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[Assistant] My dear Lizzie, you cannot think me so weak as to be in danger now.


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[Assistant] From Little Britain, I went with my check in my pocket to Miss Skiffin's brother, the accountant, and Miss Skiffin's brother, the accountant, going straight to Clarica's and bringing Clarica to me. I had the great satisfaction of concluding that arrangement.


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[Assistant] It was the only good thing I had done and the only completed thing I had done since I was first apprised of my great expectation.


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[Assistant] Clarica informing me on that occasion that the affairs of the house were steadily progressing.


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[Assistant] I found that I must have prepared for a separation from my friend, even though my own affairs had been more settled.


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[Assistant] And now indeed I felt as if my last anchor were loosening its hold, and I should soon be driving with the winds and waves.


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[Assistant] But there was recompense in the joy with which Herbert would come home of a night and tell me of these changes, little imagining that he told me no news.


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[Assistant] And would sketch airy pictures of himself conducting Clara Barley to the land of the Arabian night.


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[Assistant] And of our all going up the Nile and seeing wonders.


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[Assistant] Without being sanguine as to my own part and those bright plans, I felt that Herbert's way was clearing fast.


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[Assistant] And that old Bill Barley had but to stick to his pepper and rum and his daughter would soon be happily provided for. We had now got into the month of March.


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[Assistant] My left arm, though it presented no bad symptoms, took in the natural course so long to heal that I was still unable to get a coat on.


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[Assistant] My right arm was tolerably restored, disfigured but fairly serviceable.


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[Assistant] When I had shown this to Herbert and had put it on the fire, but not before we had both got it by heart, we considered what to do.


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[Assistant] For of course my being disabled could now be no longer kept out of view. I've thought it over again and again, said Herbert, and I think I know a better course than taking a Thames Waterman. Take Star Top.


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[Assistant] A good fellow, a skilled hand, fond of us and enthusiastic and honorable. I had thought of him more than once, but how much would you tell him, Herbert? It is necessary to tell him very little.


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[Assistant] Let him suppose that a mere freak, but a secret one until the morning comes.


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[Assistant] Then let him know that there is urgent reason for your getting provisor bored and away. You go with him, no doubt. Where?


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[Assistant] It had seemed to me in the many anxious considerations I had given the point almost indifferent what port we made for. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, the place signified little so that he was out of England.


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[Assistant] Any foreign steamer that fell in our way and would take us up would do.


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[Assistant] Certainly well beyond Graves End, which was a critical place for search or inquiry if suspicion were afoot.


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[Assistant] Chapter 48 of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.


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[Assistant] For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 48


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[Assistant] The whole party were in hopes of a letter from Mr. Bennet the next morning.


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[Assistant] But the post came in without bringing a single line from him.


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[Assistant] His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, the most negligent and delatory correspondent, but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.


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[Assistant] They were forced to conclude that he had no pleasing intelligence to send, but even of that they would have been glad to be certain.


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[Assistant] Mr. Gardner had waited only for the letters before he set off.


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[Assistant] When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on.


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[Assistant] And their uncle promised at parting to prevail on Mr. Bennet to return to Longbourn as soon as he could.


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[Assistant] To the great consolation of his sister, who considered it as the only security for her husband's not being killed in a duel.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Gardner and the children were to remain in heart for chair a few days longer.


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[Assistant] As the former thought her presence might be serviceable to her nieces.


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[Assistant] She shared in their attendance I Mrs. Bennet and was a great comfort to them in their hours of freedom. Their other aunt also visited them frequently.


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[Assistant] And always, as she said, with a design of cheering and heartening them up.


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[Assistant] Though, as she never came without reporting some fresh instance of Wickham's extravagance or irregularity, she seldom went away without leaving them more dispirited than she found them.


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[Assistant] Who but three months before had been almost an angel of light.


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[Assistant] He was declared to be in debt to every tradesman in the place.


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[Assistant] And his intrigues, all honored with the title of seduction, had been extended into every tradesman's family.


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[Assistant] Everybody declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world.


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[Assistant] And everybody began to find out that they had always distrusted the appearance of his goodness.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth, though she did not credit above half of what was said,


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[Assistant] If they had gone to Scotland, which she had never before entirely despaired of, they must in all probability have gained some news of them.


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[Assistant] Mr. Gardner left Longbourn on Sunday. On Tuesday his wife received a letter from him.


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[Assistant] It told them that on his arrival he had immediately found out his brother and persuaded him to come to Grace Church Street. That Mr. Bennet had been to Epsom and Clapham before his arrival, but without gaining any satisfactory information.


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[Assistant] And that he was now determined to inquire at all the principal hotels in town as Mr. Bennet thought it possible they might have gone to one of them on their first coming to London before they procured lodgings.


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[Assistant] Mr. Gardner himself did not expect any success from this measure.


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[Assistant] But as his brother was eager in it, he meant to assist him in pursuing it.


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[Assistant] He added that Mr. Bennet seemed wholly disinclined at present to leave London and promised to write again very soon. There was also a postscript to this effect.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth was at no loss to understand from whence this deference to her authority proceeded, but it was not in her power to give any information of so satisfactory a nature as the compliment deserved.


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[Assistant] She had never heard of his having had any relations except a father and mother, both of whom had been dead many years.


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[Assistant] It was possible, however, that some of his companions in the blank share might be able to give more information. And though she was not very sanguine in expecting it, the application was a something to look forward to. Every day at Longbourn was now a day of anxiety.


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[Assistant] But the most anxious part of each was when the post was expected.


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[Assistant] The arrival of letters was a grand object of every morning's impatience.


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[Assistant] Through letters, whatever of good or bad was to be told would be communicated.


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[Assistant] And every succeeding day was expected to bring some news of importance.


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[Assistant] But before they heard again from Mr. Gardner, a letter arrived for their father from a different quarter, from Mr. Collins.


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[Assistant] Which, as Jane had received directions to open all that came for him in his absence, she accordingly read,


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[Assistant] And Elizabeth, who knew what curiosities his letters always were, looked over her and read it likewise. It was as follows.


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[Assistant] Cried Mrs. Gardner, whose curiosity as to the mode of her intelligence was all alive. I do indeed, replied Elizabeth, coloring.


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[Assistant] I have written to Colonel Forster to desire him to find out, if possible, from some of the young man's intimates in the regiment.


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[Assistant] Whether Wickham has any relations or connections, who would be likely to know in what part of town he has now concealed himself.


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[Assistant] If there were anyone that one could apply to with a probability of gaining such a clue as that, it might be of essential consequence. At present, we have nothing to guide us.


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[Assistant] Colonel Forster will, I dare say, do everything in his power to satisfy us on this head.


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[Assistant] But on second thoughts, perhaps Lizzie could tell us what relations he has now living better than any other person.


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[Assistant] There is no absolute proof that they are not gone to Scotland.


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[Assistant] Well then, supposing them to be in London. They may be there.


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[Assistant] Though for the purpose of concealment, for no more exceptional purpose.


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[Assistant] It is not likely that money should be very abundant on either side, and it might strike them that they could be more economically


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[Assistant] The less expeditiously married in London than in Scotland.


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[Assistant] But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of him as to consent to live with him on any terms other than marriage?


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[Assistant] Whether Mrs. Collins has yet expressed her sense of your kindness in coming to us,


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[Assistant] Our plain manner of living, our small rooms and few domestics and the little we see of the world must make Hunsford extremely dull to a young lady like yourself. But I hope you will believe us grateful for your condescension.


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[Assistant] It gives me great pleasure to hear that you have passed your time, not disagreeably. We have certainly done our best.


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[Assistant] And most fortunately, having it in our power to introduce you to very superior society, and from our connection with rosings, the frequent means of varying the humble home scene, I think we may flatter ourselves that your Hunsford visit cannot have been entirely irksome.


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[Assistant] In truth I must acknowledge that, with all the disadvantages of this humble parsonage,


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[Assistant] Lady Catherine's great attentions to Mrs Collins, you have been a daily witness of...


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[Assistant] There is in everything a most remarkable resemblance of character and ideas between us. We seem to have been designed for each other.


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[Assistant] You will of course wish to have your humble respects delivered to them with your grateful thanks for their kindness to you while you have been here.


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[Assistant] And that's when I realized, uh-oh, things have gone too far. There was a tipping point that took place. And I think the Russians didn't create that tipping point, but they exploited it. They saw the fissures of division. They saw these, these, these, these pivot points and they went right for them.


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[Assistant] That the flood of these misleading or outright false stories was increasing.


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[Assistant] In the past, I'd always been able to push back on my audience and say, okay, you understand this is not true, this is not the case, uh, uh, you know, there are not bodies stacked up in the Clinton Library, uh, and here's the source of all of that. By late 2016, though, I was no longer able to do that. People were not willing to accept the corrections.


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[Assistant] And Donald Trump is counting on this, and this does fundamentally change our politics.


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[Assistant] It was really extraordinary watching Donald Trump take fake news, the term fake news, and adopt it as his own critique of the media. He has created this alternative reality that allows him to dismiss or discredit anything that is negative while pushing his own narrative.


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[Assistant] Everybody understood what the travel ban was designed in fact to do.


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[Assistant] They understood the symbolism, they understood the message that it sent to his base, and what they were saying was, promise made, promise kept.


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[Assistant] This was a fight for the soul of the Republican Party, and Trump won.


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[Assistant] There's no question about it. And it's not so much that Trump took over the Republican party, is that the Republican party completely capitulated to him.


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[Assistant] They're all united in believing that in order to survive politically and not lose in a primary, they have to stick as close to him as possible.


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[Assistant] Even when he engages in the most reckless behavior, you cannot break with him in public.


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[Assistant] The damage of this is going to be long term and I think it's going to be very, very deep.


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[Assistant] What have we been willing to accept that we weren't willing to accept before? How do we think about each other? How do we think about being an American? How do we treat one another? What are our standards? And that's, and I think the damage is potentially going to be very deep.


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[Assistant] Donald Trump caught on tape in his own words, vulgar words, boasting about being able to grab women by their genitals and get away with it because he's a star.


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[Assistant] And you see so many Republicans denounce Trump, even though he is the Republican nominee and there's not going to be someone else to emerge, the Republicans are basically saying, whatever, give it to the Democrats.


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[Assistant] He will never apologize. He punches and then he punches harder and then he doubles down and he refigures and then he punches again. He is never someone that's gonna say, I made a mistake or I apologize. He will never back down.


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[Assistant] I'm a reporter who has reported on race for a long time and I never would have imagined the person


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[Assistant] It's not just a place where racist ideals can exist, but it's a place where racist ideals can be fueled by the White House.


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[Assistant] By the way, real quick, Olive Garden for Italian? What are we doing?


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[Assistant] Well the Ravens have offered from what I heard to make him the second highest paid and the second most guaranteed money. And he's turned him down. Well nobody else out there is giving it to him. Nobody's lining up to sign him.


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[Assistant] Then everybody says, aww, they were soft on him because he's their quarterback and he's a guy they love. If they don't give him enough money, then they took advantage of him because he didn't have an agent. You can't win in that scenario. So I think what the Ravens did,


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[Assistant] They don't have that kind of cash flow. They don't have the same kind of cash flow. That's a problem. Uh, the Bengals, you know, traditionally people have said they're thrifty. Look, I think the Bengals have done a great job, so I don't necessarily agree with that, but the Chargers are a second tenant in the building. I mean, there's no way those two teams are giving out fully guaranteed contracts.


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[Assistant] I love both those guys and I would, I'd make them, give them as high a contract as you possibly can go, but the fully guaranteed deal isn't happening for them. By the way, one more thing about Lamar Jackson. If you took this on the surface and you said, Hey, here's a guy who hasn't finished the last two seasons.


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[Assistant] He has, you know, his play hasn't improved from when he won an MVP. You can take it and look at it from that standpoint. They haven't helped him at all, by the way, the Ravens giving him weapons and helping him around that offense. But you know what? They got a good offensive coordinator now and Todd Monk and we think he's going to help him become a better passer because he's more than capable of doing it. They haven't helped him.


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[Assistant] I was one of them actually, so I got that one right. I've had plenty of Mrs. Christian Hackenberg being one of them, but I got the Josh Allen one right. I love Josh Allen and everybody, if you remember back to that, they killed him. He was inaccurate. If you went back and watch the tape, he was throwing the bouncers and bartenders. They were, they were doping off their faces. It was terrible. And when you look at this guy, here's what Will Levis played with last year. Okay.


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[Assistant] First year offensive coordinator who has since been fired because the offense was so bad.


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[Assistant] Offensive line wasn't good. Wide receivers, no real weapons. Remember the year before he had Wanda Robinson. Then the running back is not a fast guy. He's a good player. And he was shot up twice, uh, in both his shoulder and his foot during the season. And you ask him to go ahead and make a play. Now compare that to CJ Stroud.


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[Assistant] CJ Stroud played with four wide receivers the last two years or first round picks. Four of them.


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[Assistant] I'm not surprised they did it. I just think this is a bad year to do it. Look, Bryce Young is a phenomenal talent. He's a phenomenal passer, makes all the throws, doesn't have a great arm, has a good arm, but stands in there, can move when he has to and make throws, keeps his head up. He's fantastic.


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[Assistant] You know, Stroud again, he played with so much, so much talent around him. It's a hard evaluation.


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[Assistant] He's the guy. When you look at him, he's got some, he can move, he's got some good arm. You know, people talk about Richardson's arm at the combine. The fastest that anybody was timed throwing a football miles per hour was the kid from UCLA. And he threw it 62. He tied Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] I've heard good things about him. He's pretty, you know, third or fourth. He's moving up the board. I mean, there's where you get, this quarterback class is not great. Next year's quarterback class, Drake May, Caleb Williams. I mean, he's got two guys that you'd think are blue chippers. Uh, you know, that could change as we go throughout the season. So I just don't love this quarterback class.


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[Assistant] How many, again, how many quarterbacks around this league?


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence is getting there, I think he will be. You know, did the Browns pay all that money for a win because of Guy or a win with Guy? That's the question of glee.


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[Assistant] You would probably agree more with me with the way I talked about him coming into the season.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, those are the two. Uh, but I think, you know, you can never have enough big guys up front either, but I think when you look at it,


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[Assistant] Look, they got lucky at center last year because, you know, the kid got hurt and then Posek went in and played well and now they brought him back. You know, they had injuries on that offensive line. I think the left tackle needs to play better. He wasn't good last year. That was a major concern for them as well. So I still think they have a lot of talent.


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[Assistant] And in that division, there's teams with a lot of talent. I think the Bengals are really talented.


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[Assistant] I think history would tell us he's on the hot seat. I think Kevin Savansky is a good football coach.


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[Assistant] When they're healthy up front, they're going to push people around, uh, in the way they run the football. And, and so I think that'll make it easier on Deshaun Watson. I think in turn, if he has that season we talked about, then Kevin will have a good year and they'll have a playoff year. If they, if Watson struggles.


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[Assistant] If he doesn't come back and have those number, those season like we talked about, that's bad for the Brown, really bad.


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[Assistant] The Donald Trump who came to the Oval Office on November 10th, two days after Election Day, seemed like a very different Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] He spoke very respectfully of President Obama, who he had questioned whether he was a legitimate president or the birther issue, but here he was saying he greatly admired President Obama. So for someone who's just heard Trump talk in the campaign, it seemed like an out of body experience.


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[Assistant] He's a brilliant marketer and he knew that with the drop in credibility.


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[Assistant] ...of the media and the increase in skepticism and cynicism from the public.


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[Assistant] That he was able to get away with much more. He was able to say things that no other president had said. And to be able to challenge the press directly.


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[Assistant] There's still half of America, which is a significant percentage.


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[Assistant] That did not vote for Trump, did not vote for Republicans in Congress, and did want to repair Obamacare but didn't want to dump it.


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[Assistant] Nobody was expecting John McCain to vote no, and the way that he did.


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[Assistant] Obviously had ramifications, not just in the Senate or in Congress, but in the White House as well.


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[Assistant] And how it would make everything more difficult because members are fighting with each other now.


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[Assistant] He's feeding it. Trump is feeding hostility towards Congress and that tweet storm.


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[Assistant] Galvanized Trump voters to turn against Congress in a way that I've never seen a governing party's supporters engage in.


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[Assistant] We were far more divided in the Civil War. Far more divided during the Great Depression.


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[Assistant] But we've always had hope in the future. And that hope.


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[Assistant] That's the most generic thing someone can say, but it's true. A lot of cartoons growing up help introduce me to new genres of music or artists that I still listen to today. Sometimes it helps expand my knowledge of an artist, giving me the interest to dig deeper into their discography. Sometimes it's-


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[Assistant] Just a vibe. While I work on my Hey Arnold video regarding something similar about music, I wanted to rewatch a show that brought me into the music world even further while growing up. A show that would expand my musical interest palette and give me the drive to truly appreciate what would become one of my more favorite artists out there. And I don't want something this special lost to time and overlooked due to how the show ended after 28 episodes. We're gonna get into it all now. So sit back, drop a like, and get ready to get funky.


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[Assistant] Since 2000's were a time for many entertainment companies of creative growth and experimentation, especially in the world of cartoons. Animation companies were clamoring for the next unique


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[Assistant] It was a show amongst dozen that by that justification should have barely made a blink on most of our childhoods. But something about Class of 3000 sticks with you though. Whether that be the music or the visuals or the concept or the care that you can tell that was put into this show even years later, you can feel its influence. Class of 3000 was a Cartoon Network original series that aired between November of 2006 and May of 2008. The series follows jazz and blues superstar Sonny Bridges voiced by Andre 3000 as he,


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[Assistant] This retirement is short-lived, though, when Lil D, a Sonny Bridges superfan and music student at Wesley School of the Performing Arts, convinces Sonny to return to music by becoming the school's new music teacher. And during the span of the show's 28 episodes, Sonny helps Wesley's seven music students grow both creatively and as people while rediscovering his own love for music. The show was created by veteran producer Thomas W. Lynch and Andre 3000.


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[Assistant] And this was the last Cartoon Network series to be greenlit by Cartoon Network VP of Programming Mike Lazo before he transitioned over to Adult Swim. Each episode involved the kids of Sunny Bridge's class being faced with a strange and wacky situation that the kids


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[Assistant] More often than not, created themselves. The situation would always be neatly tied up by the end of the 22 minute episode through the learning of a life lesson and more importantly, an original song written by Andre 3000.


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[Assistant] Andre 3000, also known as Andre Benjamin, is a rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, actor, and a member of the southern hip-hop duo Outkast, among a million other titles that you could give him.


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[Assistant] It was this time in his life, along Andre's experience at the performing arts school, where he first met other Outkast member Antoine Bigboy Patton.


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[Assistant] That truly shaped the show. In a 2017 interview about Class of 3000's 10 year anniversary, Andre reminisced on this fact saying,


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[Assistant] I had to ride the bus through the projects and through these rich houses. I was that kid. I knew both sides of it. And that's something that the show really highlights that Little D has a lot of the characteristics of Andre 3000.


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[Assistant] From having a single mother parent as well as his school life and where he grew up. He really put himself in this show. Andre and Big Boy formed OutKast while in high school and were signed shortly after graduating to Atlanta-based label LaFace. Their first album went platinum, marking the beginning of Andre's renounced career as a musician and artiste. The Source Awards named OutKast best new rap group of the year 1995.


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[Assistant] When the power of love takes over the love of power, that's when things will change. In 2003, Outkast released their double album, Speaker Box, The Love Below. The former being created by Big Boy and the latter by Andre. It was the second album that spoke to Mike Lazo, who, upon hearing it, wanted to make it into an animated form somehow.


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[Assistant] And then reached out to Andre. Originally, the show was going to be more mature, more edgy, and made for adult swim.


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[Assistant] But as time went on, Andre realized he wanted to make something separate from the love below, something


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[Assistant] It was also during this time that it was decided that the show would be better geared towards kids. Andre was inspired by the music of the peanut cartoons in shows like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, which


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[Assistant] You wanted to make something that would introduce the next generation to music different from what they were normally exposed to. And that's what he did. For two full seasons, Andre 3000 created unique, original music


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[Assistant] Geared towards kids, so different from anything out there on radio, Disney, or other kid-focused stations. The Class of 3000 soundtrack encompassed hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, and pop.


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[Assistant] Class of 3000 elevated how deep art can be portrayed in the guise of a kids show.


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[Assistant] Bringing a cast of kids with multiple different backgrounds coming together over their love of music. Led by one of the most prolific artists of all time, Andre 3000.


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[Assistant] The music was consistently changing, giving you a mix of different genres to explore, additionally with some psychedelic-esque visuals to entrance you into the emotions expressed behind said music. It expressed the importance of environments you grew up in and showed you a look into Atlanta through Andre's mind.


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[Assistant] While the show received predominantly positive reviews, the soundtrack was even ranked 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon.


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[Assistant] The show was eventually and heartbreakingly cancelled. The exact reason for the cancellation has truly never been confirmed by the network, but a few theories have been tossed around as strong contenders. One theory was that the show was cancelled because it had such a high production budget.


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[Assistant] The need to write and record an original song for each episode, along with the unique art style of the show, added up.


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[Assistant] Making it more expensive to produce than a lot of other shows. Another theory was because of the lawsuit. Yes, lawsuit. According to the Boston Herald in 2008, former art student Timothy McGee filed for plagiarism.


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[Assistant] Mickey claimed that in 1997, he proposed a similar show to, at the time, VP of Operations for Cartoon Network,


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[Assistant] Cartoon Network moved forward with cancelling the show and removed all reference to it existing, excluding a small 2019 cameo of Sunny in the final episode of OK KO Let's Be Heroes. Whether it was the lawsuit that finally convinced Cartoon Network to pull the plug or simply the fact that Class of 3000 was created in a time of flux for Cartoon Network, where shows like Dexter's Lab and Powerpuff Girls were all being phased out and seemingly already being forgotten, reruns of these shows were not airing anymore, or at least less frequently, we may never know


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[Assistant] What can be known was that Class of 3000 was an ambitious passion project born from a deep love for music and the culture of Atlanta.


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[Assistant] But it was also a gift to have it while we did. I love when a show specifically a cartoon aimed for kids can invoke something deeper than baseline entertainment.


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[Assistant] It creates moods, it can conjure feelings, attach itself to a moment in time and bring back memories. Life without music will never have a tempo or rhythm for you to follow. We all have a beat inside of us that drives our data to life, your internal metronome. So never, ever,


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[Assistant] I truly hope you enjoyed this video. It was a bit deeper than your average Why You Barely Remember videos I've done in the past, but I had a lot of fun putting this one together if you couldn't tell.


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[Assistant] Music is deeply rooted into who I am and since I talk about how this show really helped propel genre exploration and music appreciation for me, I wanted to share that with you and get your experiences as well. I will soon speak on Hey Arnold, another show that, while great on its own merits, was brought to new heights based on the jazzy undertones. It set a mood like no other show could.


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[Assistant] But that video is still in the works and I plan to get it done sometime in July, so look out for that. If you enjoyed this video, make sure to leave a like as it truly helps out the video and I would truly appreciate it. Subscribe to be a part of my journey through movies and television and how these films and shows affected my life from the past and present. As well as your lives. I would love to hear from you guys in the comments and your thoughts on Class of 3000. Did it affect you as much as it did myself? Let me know.


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[Assistant] And as always, I will see you later this week with another video, but until then, later.


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[Assistant] There's a permanent class of federal employees that don't necessarily agree or voted for this president, uhm, that aren't thrilled to see him in power. They're working internally against the president.


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[Assistant] I reacted in a way that most of my colleagues did as well, that this was not where a president should be. This was a layup. This was easy. You know, if there's white supremacy in any form, you condemn it. I mean, that's, that's the easy thing to do, and he didn't. And he thought, oh man, that's really drilling down on the base.


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[Assistant] I think you knew, uh, at that time that I was out of step.


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[Assistant] Uh, with a lot of the Republican base that, uh,


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[Assistant] That he represented more of their feelings than I did.


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[Assistant] Donald Trump has conflated Republican Party loyalty with loyalty to himself to an extreme degree and has been remarkably successful over the last several years in what amounts to really a hostile takeover Republican Party that was actually quite united against him in 2016.


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[Assistant] No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world and we're back with another interview. Mr. Capone, how you doing?


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[Assistant] Very nice to meet you man, I've been a fan, I've been seeing you on TV and music videos and everything like that since I was a kid, so it's dope to get in here.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, man, no doubt. So, uh, tell me a little bit about your upbringing and everything. San Gabriel Valley?


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[Assistant] So what was your perspective on rap as a kid though? Was that just like the theme song to your childhood? Was it just what was around you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, do you feel like NWA was the first time that like street LA culture was like really being projected through rap? Like up until before that, it was sort of more like just rap was like fun music.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. So what was your perspective on gang banging at that time in your life though?


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[Assistant] Did you ever feel like you were being judged by any of the Mexicans? Like, oh he's not a real Mexican?


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[Assistant] Yeah, what was your mentality at that point in your life? Cause like now I have a conversation with you and you seem very like focused, very on top of your shit, like you know what you want out of life. It's kind of almost hard for me to imagine you as like a 18 year old hothead that was just running around getting into shit all the time.


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[Assistant] When you say you can't help everyone, I mean that is kind of the complicated thing, just the fact that you, you want to be able to just sort of like,


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[Assistant] Help people through whatever, but at the end of the day, it's like a lot of people either they might want to be a rapper, but they don't necessarily have the talent or they might, you know, they might have some talent, but they're crazy. They're a hothead. They're not the kind of person you can surround yourself with.


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[Assistant] Definitely. So, uh, but I feel like you must have been getting like a crazy level of support from like the, the low, low end communities and shit like that because they probably just weren't really used to seeing their kind of lifestyle like depicted.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause if, if nothing negative happens, then they don't really have a lot to go on. That's all they're really concerned about, you know, in terms of like their way of presenting you to make you interesting to basic ass people that don't know what the fuck is going on.


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[Assistant] Because you look at like them as your representative of the culture that I love, even if I personally have kind of grown to a point where, you know, I'm not necessarily involved with that kind of lifestyle on a day to day basis, but there's a good chance that they're looking at you like, this is a motherfucker who, who has everything, even though


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[Assistant] That's crazy though, just to think that like the Mexican community would be like that offended by you doing songs with black dudes.


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[Assistant] You just gotta be so small minded to carry that into your like adult music career. But it's hard for people to understand that. Like no, you don't understand. That shit matters when you're 18 on the block. It does not matter when you're a grown ass man.


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[Assistant] Damn, so yeah, what would you say are actually like your biggest songs or your biggest moments? Cause like you have one song on YouTube that has like 20 million plays.


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[Assistant] Shit's crazy because I feel like, you know, people, if they're not familiar with your music, they'd look at you and they'd think that all your shit would be like gangsters, fuck, but like a lot of your most popular music is the stuff that's more to the ladies or like talking about cars, talking about the culture more so.


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[Assistant] I appreciate it, I'm just trying to connect the dots, you know? It's actually a shitload of people that when they heard they were interviewing you, they were like, holy fuck, that's crazy, I can't even imagine that.


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[Assistant] No, no, definitely. So yeah, is music like the primary thing that you're doing from like a business perspective? I feel like you have anything going on on the side, like different hustles that you have going on in terms of businesses and shit?


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[Assistant] We took photos of this for the social media. Uhm, what, so how, you always been into the boxing thing? Where'd that come from?


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[Assistant] Right, right, so you didn't have like, you don't got like a girl that's like, no you gotta be on for New Year's Eve.


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[Assistant] What's it like being in Japan for you? I've been there a couple of times. You like it?


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[Assistant] They look more like trapped out LA type dudes than the dudes that are actually here. I was in Japan and they point over and there's two low riders like thumping up and down. And one of the Japanese guys goes, it's just like in Los Angeles, right? And I'm like, I mean kinda, but not really.


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[Assistant] What's, people think that Floyd is this like crazy asshole. What's your, what's your perspective on him?


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[Assistant] Yeah, when you got that much money, it feels like, you must just think it feels silly when people are talking shit to you because it's like, you know, like what the fuck do I care?


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[Assistant] Do you have that in your head that that's like part of what you wanna do is you wanna like discover the next dope rapper and like actually help build his career up or is that not that attractive to you?


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[Assistant] Uh, up and coming younger rappers are Hispanic now, which never was the case before. But they're like pretty much like removed from, it's not like they like from a cultural perspective seem like they're super concerned that when you look at like Lil Xan or 6ix9ine or whatever, it's like they're Hispanic and it seems like the audience is super ready to accept.


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[Assistant] Length of the career hits, et cetera. Cause NWA was really around for like one album and it was such a brief short period of time. It was crazy impactful, but they weren't really like a group in the way that a lot of groups are because they weren't friends for very long.


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[Assistant] It's super unfair to judge like a group from 20 years ago versus a group that's out right now because like all of the Migos' wins are like fresh in our minds. We remember, like we see it all the time. Whereas like with Bone Thugs, I mean, they have an advantage too because it's like,


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[Assistant] We've seen that they've been very influential, that they've aged well, that people still look at those hits like they're real hits, but it's kinda, it's kinda silly to judge them against like a group that's still really kinda in their prime.


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[Assistant] We're, they were only really being compared at that time to however many like artists that were out at the time. Whereas Migos are judged against every fucking new artist that comes out every week now. It's kind of, it's different. Like it's kind of like MMA. Like when you look at the old UFC fights or even boxing, the same thing and everything, it's like, that shit's super dope, but it's like,


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[Assistant] Those dudes are not necessarily on the same skill level as dudes right now because this shit is so mainstream that if you want to compete now, there's so many people that want your title if you're trying to do anything.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Now it's crazy to me because I just look at, uh, I look at like the difference between the two and it's like, it's very much about like different generations of hip hop and what they actually appreciate.


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[Assistant] From your perspective, so I'm 35, I feel like you've probably got a few years on me. What do I need to know going forward in life from here? Like how has your life changed in terms of like keeping yourself healthy and keeping your mind right and everything like that? Like what have you had to learn as you went through the years?


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[Assistant] Definitely, yeaah. I mean, when I first heard him, I was like, that was, that was the two sides I was trying to choose between. It was like, is this guy like, incredible, or is this terrible? Like, you gotta, you kinda gotta pick a side here.


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[Assistant] Uh, anything else we should touch on before we wrap this up? Anything else you got going on?


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. Hey man, it was dope getting to know you on camera and everything, getting to force the people out there to sort of see what it was like for us to meet, but that was a good time.


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[Assistant] No, that would be fire. That would be fucking dope if we end up doing that. Let's do it. I'm with it. Let's do it. Alright, hey, it was dope meeting you, man. Yeah. Appreciate you. Thank you for coming through and sharing knowledge with all of us. Guys, this has been No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world. Check us out on YouTube, SoundCloud, iTunes, Mr. Capone. Thank you very much for coming through. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Nothing screams more this season to me than the grim adventures of Billy and Mandy. An absurdist cartoon from the mind of Maxwell Adams, starring a boy,


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[Assistant] A girl and the grim frickin' reaper, who is now stuck under their command. That's one game of limbo hills, surely never forget. One thing I'll never forget is Fred Fredburger, and that this is the show that gave us this beautiful creation. He just wanted some nachos. Oh yeah, and some frozen yogurt.


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[Assistant] Mandy and Grim show up at the door as Hamlet holding the skull, while Billy grabs Grim's scythe to be the Grim Reaper for Halloween. Before they head out to trick-or-treat, they stop by Irwin's, who has a running costume-changing gag throughout the episode.


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[Assistant] First being Sleeping Beauty all is an attempt to woo over Mandy. She tells him to change into something scary and they, they just ditch him right after promising that they'd wait. We also see how obsessed he is with Mandy and honestly he rivals Helga's obsession of Arnold. Without Erwin, they all start their trick-or-treat adventures first stopping at a house of an old lady who doesn't want to give out her candy to any kid.


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[Assistant] So I guess that means the mean lady gets herself a trick. Mandy super glues her welcome mat and tricks her to come back outside, making her get stuck on the mat and then spraying her with a fire hydrant.


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[Assistant] So Mandy leads everyone into her house and they literally just rob her of all her miscellaneous holiday candy. Like there was Valentine's Day themed candy and Christmas themed candy. Either she just hoards the candy or got a super great deal on it all after the holidays. Sorry, that's just the smart shopper and me thinking, trust me, buy your Halloween candy on discount after Halloween.


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[Assistant] While enjoying their stolen candy, Billy wants to know why people can be tricked on Halloween.


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[Assistant] So Grimm tells the tale of a guy named Jack, who liked to play tricks on everyone in town, usually going a bit too overboard with it promptly pissing off everyone in the town who were now sick of his antics. One night, the town comes together to send the Queen a gift in the name of Jack that turns out to be a prank on her to frame him. So the Queen just- just kills Jack.


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm not even joking. We see blood spilt and everything. This isn't an adult swim show, Cartoon Network. No wonder my generation has so many sleepless nights.


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[Assistant] Anyway, Grim, while doing his job as the Grim Reaper, visits Jack to come take him away, as we see an axe stuck in his back. Yeah, again, this dude is dead, but Jack gets the upper hand by using his trickster ways to take the scythe from Grim, now making a deal between them for Grim to get his scythe back and for Jack to have eternal life. But Grim doesn't always cow tail to everyone.


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[Assistant] Except to Billy and Mandy, he's essentially their bi- So Grim cuts off Jack's head, which leads his eternal life-filled headless body to place a pumpkin upon it, thus becoming an alive dead dude with a pumpkin on his head. Fine, Jack-o'-lantern. Which, did he get his name after putting on the pumpkin, or was his name Jack-o'-lantern beforehand?


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[Assistant] Of course though, Billy ends up at the exact house of Jack, and right off the bat we see how annoyed Jack is with Billy's antics. Also, no stranger here to cartoons we've spoken on before, but Jack is voiced by Wayne Knight, which I must say fits really well for the character design of Jack.


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[Assistant] I just personally think he looks really cool and I truly dig the character. Once Jack takes note of the scythe being the real scythe of the Grim Reaper, he tricks Billy into taking the scythe for himself.


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[Assistant] Or demon pumpkins, or whatever you wanna call them, I don't know, it's your life. Quickly, the city gets taken over by pumpkins. Jack reigns supreme with Billy on his side, who's just excited to have Halloween never end. Ah, Billy, never change. Jack wants more than this, though. He wants to take the fight to Grim and get revenge upon him. Back over with Mandy and Grim, Erwin shows up again, as a banana, just continuing his rip-offs of Hey Arnold.


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[Assistant] Billy walks off as he loses interest in the whole situation and then shortly realizes that Grim is actually in real danger and runs out for help. At the same time, Mandy begins making her way to where Grim was taken. Erwin is little bo peep for a second.


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[Assistant] Still, not impressing Mandy. And then Billy runs into Mandy and explains what is going on, causing Mandy to go full commando mode with her own bag of tricks to fight back against Jack. Billy, being used as a distraction,


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[Assistant] You are looking at the President of the United States again.


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[Assistant] Nobody would send money and fighters and others for because they are a charity. They are here for their interests.


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[Assistant] Iran mainly wants to be recognized from United States and the international community as a normal country. Not as a part of the Axis of Evil, not as a country that is not part of the international community.


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[Assistant] The Saudi have withdrawal from Syria. If they are talking about vacuum, about filling power, they withdraw. Nobody told them to go out. They withdraw and by de facto, the power who is here will fill the vacuum.


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[Assistant] For us, it's a matter now to choose between the bad and the worst.


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[Assistant] Sadly, the interest of the average Syrian now is security. Just to be safe. Just to be safe.


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[Assistant] A way that they can send their children to schools. That they can provide food to their families. They can live safely.


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[Assistant] We are against the regime, the political power he is controlling the state? Yes.


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[Assistant] We can't leave the country. We can't afford not to work for this country. We can't. Can't. It's our destiny.


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[Assistant] Yes, let them believe that. I believe what I say. I'm very happy with that.


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[Assistant] You had some business to take care of with your mayoral job. Yeah, a little, a little board meeting this morning. Good. But I will tell you that I'm, I'm coming on Mr. Sean Watson. I would agree with you, Jay. I mean, the world is lukewarm on Sean Watson. They like, they don't care. They're moving on.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't bank on that. Your work on the field shows me what place you'll come in. Cause some people who start the year not even on the radar screen could end up being the one.


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[Assistant] This is the, here, everybody knows I'm an avid, I love the Brown. I love them to a fault, right? So do I. I love them to a fault.


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[Assistant] Oh, I wanted to know as a fan. Let me know that you're in the laboratory. You're back in the lab.


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[Assistant] Right? You ain't got to show me a bunch of, but let me know. I'm waiting for some confirmation that people are in the lab.


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[Assistant] They made big moves in the off season. Listen, we try to fill every hole. I give them credit for that, right? You did that. Now the people that need to be in the laboratory.


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[Assistant] Let me know they're in the laboratory because I'm still waiting for those smoke signals to come up. Sure. Right? Yeah. And here, you don't have to write a big article. Send me something on Instagram. Let me know the dude is in there working, right? That people are showing up at 8 a.m. here and not leaving till later in the afternoon, right? I'm still waiting. So remember to the Browns.


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[Assistant] Right. Let your fans know that work is going on that we're getting it done. We were getting prepared because you don't get prepared Jay in September.


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[Assistant] But I still need to see the signs. There's signs you have to put in the work, right? I can't be in San Trope putting in the work. I'm not saying it's y'all. I can't see you in Hawaii doing the work.


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[Assistant] So the people that just arrived here, you know, you may come from a place and you think that Cleveland is some country town or some small place, but they're very stewed here. They have their eyes on you. You're not going to fool us. We've seen the best. The only thing you're right about


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[Assistant] Jada, one thing, you know, I will give the New Yorkers this. This is what I will give the New Yorkers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like, so I told you there was a motto that we say in Chicago. Old veteran told me that your only good is your last game.


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[Assistant] And if you use, if you think about that. So what was the Sean Washington last game? It wasn't really good. No, that's why.


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[Assistant] I saw the Knicks fans turn on Gerald Wilkins in the guard in the playoff game.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. You're gonna hear that. You're gonna hear those words all the time. You hear those words. They were playing a clip of Katelyn Clark the other day.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Depends on how they call it. See, they call it like they call it against us. They call it against us, and they put us in harm's way. I was just telling somebody yesterday. I said, what if they put South Carolina in harm's way, and South Carolina can't bang like that? That's gonna open the door for Iowa all day long.


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[Assistant] Well, you can run them out the gym. We ran them out the gym, but I said, but if the if it if


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[Assistant] South Carolina got a lot of stuff. They got size, they got athletes, they got power, they have it all and they keep coming at you in waves, right? What happened to us was we got in foul trouble early, right? And that's what did us in. So, I mean, we are two studs sitting on the bench for the most of the second quarter, right?


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[Assistant] That's when the game was won. All right. I said, so I said, what if you flip that today? See, because they let them play the same way. They played against us. They're gonna run Iowa out. That's right. I said, but if they call it so tight, the South Carolina started came bang around like that, right? That's because they don't have a lot of skill players, right? And I said, if you let that flip around, Caitlin, car gonna pick them apart tonight.


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[Assistant] And the atmosphere, right? I want to tell you the atmosphere is fantastic and I'm looking forward to because you know, the Final Four is in Cleveland. It is right. And the Final Four is in Cleveland. I want to make sure the city is prepared because one of the things that went down was, uh, you got to think of things like this. You got people coming from everywhere.


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[Assistant] Right, some of those games in early, some in late, you know, funny things I find in Greenville, South Carolina. Right. On the Monday night game, we couldn't find a place to eat.


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[Assistant] Right, right, so we should be able to do it right, but I tell you what, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, no, cause that's never going to happen. Like you said, I know that was my first answer.


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[Assistant] And I was built with the rest of the team that I have now. Yes. Yes, I would do it because he would put me over the hump, right? I think so too. He would put me over the hump. But!


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[Assistant] That would be Portland side on the other side, they're not getting enough in exchange for Lillard.


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[Assistant] No, here's the, here's the difference. I mean, yeah, you could do it. Yeah, I say you could do it. Then what I would say though is this, the difference is, uh, literally can control a game.


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[Assistant] I don't think Darius can, he can throw stretches.


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[Assistant] Lillard can control the whole game. So you put Lillard and Donald Mitchell in the backcourt. The windows here. You have to win within a three-year window in the NBA now because otherwise people pieces are moving, right? Sure. So you got a three-year window. We don't know how long we got. So we only got this window here. So you have to make moves now, not long-term moves, but


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[Assistant] So you'll be looking like this. G. Do I do if I insert him? Can I win right now?


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[Assistant] Injecting a guy, cause Lucas got a hell of a talent. I just, gee, I don't think that the two mirror, mirror, there's no marriage between the two.


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[Assistant] Right, right. It's not. There's a specific type of person that you have to bring in with this team, right? Yeah, Luca is a guy. This is why the thing in Dallas is going south, right?


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[Assistant] It's going south. It's going south because, right, right, right. It's going south because you have two guys. That, that, that never was going to work. It looks good on, on, in a, uh, uh, the, the fantasy league paperwork.


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[Assistant] If, unless, unless this, I'll point people back to the Pistons in the late 80s, what has to happen is you have two guys, Lillard


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[Assistant] In order for them to win, probably have to step their game down to bring somebody game. Isaiah Thomas, Dumar, Isaiah steps his game down so Dumar's game can come up. It allows the others to do other things. Lambier and them start doing more things. Sally and Robyn start chipping in, right?


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[Assistant] And not that Isaiah couldn't do more, but for the benefit of the group, but you have to be willing to sell sell your soul to say, okay.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you when you gonna see it, cause I like Darius Gaughan, uh, you know, I had to play against his daddy. I mean, good dude. He set up to do the right thing, right? But let me tell you what legends are made of.


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[Assistant] I saw that. I didn't know if it was two, three weeks because they were holding them out, but I said, ooh.


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[Assistant] That's tough, that's tough, that's tough.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you something. The football, the NFL has shown time and time again, they will cut their nose off to spike their face. Lamar Jackson, let me give you a clue here, bro.


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[Assistant] You're getting, you're not getting with the Sean Watson guy. He's an isolated incident. They put him on the side by himself. It's not an apples to apples situation. You're not going to get that. I said, and you're going to get nowhere. I'm going to tell you this. They're going to force you into an agent because I've never thought more.


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[Assistant] I said, because if you don't get an agent, you're going to empower these other people out here to do the same thing and they don't want no part of it. And so guess what? They will take you down like you took everybody else down as ever jumped outside the pocket.


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[Assistant] Because here I think he can elicit more, but you got to play the game. Well, the problem with Lamar is Lamar is doing all the talking. That's why Dianne was like, stop talking, right? Right, right, right. Stop talking. Stop talking because you sometimes you need somebody to do talking for you. Just sit over there, right? And let the people do the dirty work for you and set this thing up. I would tell you this. If he had an agent, it'd be done in 40 days, 30 to 40 days.


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[Assistant] His mom was doing the pseudo-agent role.


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[Assistant] You can do that. Just you do though. You go get the mouthpiece. I don't have to be the one talking.


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[Assistant] No, we launched a military operation. We don't want to emphasize in using this kind of sensitive or bombing airstrike. We launched a military campaign.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you something. When you conduct a military operation, a mistake could happen.


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[Assistant] No, we don't have numbers of civilian death, uh, of cause of the, the Yemeni government have this issue. But what was their number? Ask the Yemeni government.


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[Assistant] Gee, whenever you're ready, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, at six foot five.


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[Assistant] The sad thing is, you got a whole list, and at the end of the draft, Mikey's gonna put a poll up, and somehow, G. Bush is gonna win the nuts. That's untrue. I'd be disappointed if he didn't.


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[Assistant] It's a thirty, I don't think they go for thirty-three, I think they just trying to get to fifty.


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[Assistant] So my question for y'all is, now, when is Bieber's kind of track up with the guards? Well, he's got this year and one more. And one more. So, are they, do you think they gonna re-sign? So, that means Mackenzie will end up, if they re-sign Mackenzie, he will become the ace. Explain that.


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[Assistant] Of the 2023 draft, Team Tyvis selects Jamar Chase, wide receiver out of Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] I would definitely take the last though.


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[Assistant] I was hoping he stayed. That was my next pick.


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[Assistant] Well now, if I'ma go ahead and go all out, then I'ma go next pick and I'ma just go ahead and give it a-


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[Assistant] And this, and this is for what we project next season. Yeah, sure. Okay. Okay. Say less.


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[Assistant] And G still gotta get one or bull gotta get one? No, G. G gotta get one? I mean you gotta read the bull.


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[Assistant] I need a quarterback and a runner back.


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[Assistant] Which my quarterback will be last. Cause y'all already picked y'all, so. It's not like he's going anywhere.


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[Assistant] I'm taking, I'm taking Austin Eckler running back and then their quarterback. This is tough because it's two names. It's two names I'm thinking of.


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[Assistant] Oh I know the guy you should take too. Bull got it. I just said it actually.


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[Assistant] I give you a, I give you a hint. The guy just changed his number to zero yesterday.


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[Assistant] I think I do like, I like the Lawrence pick. He battles to the end. I could play for a guy like that.


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[Assistant] That's the problem. I appreciate I'm in the chat. I appreciate everybody in the chat, man. I know y'all was really puzzled by my first pick of the draft. I like your team actually. Thank you. I appreciate that. A lot of people got a puzzle by like, oh my God, you didn't take my holes.


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[Assistant] You should have took Calvert-Ritley, that's where you messed up.


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[Assistant] What is, to be honest, to be fair, this thing said we're gonna do, this is AFC Playmakers, right?


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[Assistant] Especially a, a rising star like Trevor Lawrence, who just went from 27 to nothing and came back and won a playoff game. I don't, I'm shocked.


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[Assistant] Or Herbert. Was it? Is Lawrence over Watson?


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I was gonna take Herbert, but then I thought about the 27 to nothing debacle. Lawrence played great. And we're talking about guys that's trending upwards, who I think is going to have a better season. I think now that he got Calvin Ritley, that's another big play wide receiver.


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[Assistant] Well, we don't know if Kenan Allen is still gonna be there. He's supposed to be a cap cut, right?


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[Assistant] I also like, I also like, uh, G Bush's Kelsey pick first. Great.


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[Assistant] Swagged out. And he's right. I tell you what, Joe Hayden had the best brown swag I've ever seen. Really? Yeaah. He used to swag his outfits. All you boys. Eric Metcalf was good back in the day.


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[Assistant] Nah, I'm just going, it's too late. I gotta stand on it. I stand on business.


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[Assistant] What type of sick individual keeps score on his own board?


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[Assistant] I'm not a fan of it in the secondary, I just don't think it'll look good on the DB. That's just part of it.


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[Assistant] No, I just think my personal opinion is that Zero just don't look good in his second year. I think it's a, it's a linebacker slash D-line type.


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[Assistant] The number two is for a special player. If you were number two, I don't care what position you're in, if you were number two, you that deal in football. Number two is like universally the best football number.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Two is just like really good. Think about it. Think about who wears number two. Everybody that wears number two is really good.


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[Assistant] Cause I sure can, you know, it's not. Oh, it's a given. Light work, light work.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've ever heard that before. Listen, no, he not wrong. If you, if you play a DB, let's say, let's say you at quarterback, right? You going through your matchups at wide receiver, you look out and see 44. I got him.


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[Assistant] Somebody told me that Paris Campbell is wearing zero for the Giants, so there you go.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Norm Abram. Welcome to the New Yankee Workshop. But today we're going to build an interesting and useful project. I want to build a reproduction of this old, littered bench.


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[Assistant] This one I've been told has been sitting on this property for over 75 years.


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[Assistant] It's really handy especially when you come in with the groceries at the back porch. You can set them down while you find your keys.


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[Assistant] And underneath there's a storage compartment, which is a good place for the dog leash, a garden hose, or maybe some garden tools.


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[Assistant] But if I'm going to build a reproduction, there's one thing I don't want to do. And that's build it out of pine and paint it. Because I don't want to deal with peeling paint a few years down the road. What I'd really like to do is build it out of cypress. Like I used to build these Adirondack chairs a couple years ago. Because they're holding up real good.


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[Assistant] But the problem is, is that the cypress I used for these was recycled cypress from an old brood. And I heard that that stockpile is long gone. So where am I gonna find some cypress?


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[Assistant] You know, I think I heard of an outfit in Florida that might sell me some. I think I'll give them a call.


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[Assistant] Now folks, don't even dare to touch that dial. This is still the New Yankee Workshop. Except instead of being in the workshop, I'm on a river. Now the location is secret.


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[Assistant] This log must be almost three feet in diameter. So how old do you think this is?


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[Assistant] The amount of time we have today, I don't think we can stick around for that.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this is what happens. So what's he doing now? Is he getting...


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[Assistant] Available to all the cabinet makers and home builders around the country. That sounds great. How much does it cost though?


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[Assistant] But now it was time to start thinking about building a prototype.


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[Assistant] And even though I really like the lines of this antique bench, I thought I could make a couple improvements. And one of them was with these boards along the back of the bench. They're just simple square butt joints.


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[Assistant] And these boards are going to expand and contract with changes in humidity.


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[Assistant] You really can't hide a joint like that. So I decided on my prototype that I would celebrate the joint.


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[Assistant] And what I've done is just slightly chamfered the edges of all the boards. Now on the antique original at some point in time,


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[Assistant] The old seek must have rotted away and it was replaced with a piece of plywood.


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[Assistant] That had been painted on the top edge. It's been on there about 10 years and it held up really well and I'll show you why.


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[Assistant] It was actually made out of not just ordinary plywood, but this plywood. MDO board. It's a plywood core and a paper surface. It's waterproof and it holds paint really well. In fact, they make highway signs out of it. But, I don't think a piece of plywood or even MDO board is gonna look good against this nice cypress. So I did a simple glue up. Couple pieces of one by eight, glued together with a good waterproof adhesive.


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[Assistant] The boards at the bottom were tightly butted to the back and the front and even pretty close together.


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[Assistant] And that they used ordinary screws which will rust. The problem with this is that it's not a totally waterproof project. Some moisture is gonna get in there. So when I built the prototype, I deliberately spaced the boards at the bottom to let air circulate in there.


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[Assistant] And I went down to my woodworker's store and found some stainless steel screws. They'll never rust, and even if they get wet, they won't stain the natural wood.


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[Assistant] Now if you really like the look of this project and you'd like to build one, I'd like to reassure you that a measured drawing and a materials list for all the parts is available. I'd also like to take a moment to talk about shop safety.


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[Assistant] Be sure to read, understand, and follow all the safety rules that come with your power tools.


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[Assistant] Knowing how to use your power tools properly will greatly reduce the risk of personal injury.


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[Assistant] And also, remember this, there is no more important safety rule than to wear these. Safety glasses. Now last night, before I left the shop, I glued up the panels that I'm gonna need to build our bench.


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[Assistant] Because the waterproof glue has to cure for about six to ten hours before you can start working with the panels. And I'll show you how I did that.


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[Assistant] As nice as this Cypress is, right from the mill, there's always a little variation in wood and thickness. And when you do glue up, sometimes that can present some problems. If you have a surface planer, you can run all your stock through in a matter of a few minutes, ending up with a consistent thickness.


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[Assistant] It hooks up to a hose, which goes to a vac. And what it does is it keeps the dust down, but more importantly, it removes all the chips from the planning operation. If you don't have this, they're all over the floor.


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[Assistant] Now if you have a joiner like this, and you should, that's the preferred way to straighten the edge of a board. But if you don't have a joiner, there is another method, and that's to use your table saw.


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[Assistant] Which way it's curving. Now this board has a slight curve in this direction. I don't want to run that edge through first because if I do, I'm basically just going to follow that curve and end up cutting a parallel curve. I like to turn it around and put the side that is curved away from the fence against it.


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[Assistant] Then I'll run it through, removing just a little bit of material to straighten this edge. After I run all the boards through, I'll move the fence in slightly, flip the boards over, and run the other edge. Surprising how good of a result you'll get.


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[Assistant] Now I'll just move the fence 16th of an inch closer to the blade and rip the other edge.


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[Assistant] Pretty good considering I just used a table saw. Now to secure this joint together, I'm gonna use a waterproof glue that's generically known as resourcenol. Comes as a little kit. There's two parts and it's not cheap. It's $18 for these two cans. A resin and a catalyst. You mix it together by volume. Four parts resin, three parts catalyst.


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[Assistant] The instructions advise that glue be applied to both edges.


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[Assistant] And then allow to sit in the open air for about 5 or 10 minutes. Then they can be clamped together.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's had enough time to set. Now I'll just clamp it together. Now one thing about this waterproof glue is that


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[Assistant] As long as it's not cured, you can clean it up pretty easily just using a damp sponge. But believe me, once it sets, there's no way you're gonna get it off.


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[Assistant] Now this glue will be fully cured overnight.


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[Assistant] Well you've seen this device plenty of times, my homemade panel cutter. And it's perfect for squaring up wide boards or panels. I'm going to take off about three quarters of an inch.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be building several of these benches. So I made a pattern of the side profile out of some poster board.


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[Assistant] And all I have to do is take the pattern and trace it onto the side blanks.


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[Assistant] I suppose I could cut these side panels on my bandsaw, but it's such a big piece it's kind of awkward. The jigsaw will do just as good a job.


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[Assistant] I suppose I could put my drum sander in my drill press.


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[Assistant] But again, the piece is kinda big and awkward to be hard to hold.


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[Assistant] I also like to sand both pieces at the same time because I end up with a wider surface.


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[Assistant] To keep the drum perpendicular to the side. If I was doing one board at a time, it might rock back and forth becoming uneven.


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[Assistant] I'm laying out for the cleats that go on the sides. There are three cleats. One at the bottom, one at the front, and one at the top. The top one is slightly sloped.


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[Assistant] So that the water will run off the seat rather than just setting there. It's very easy to lay that out. First, I just square a line across.


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[Assistant] Then I measured down a quarter of an inch, which is the amount of pitch I want at the front edge.


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[Assistant] And using my square as a straight edge, I go back to the back corner at nothing and draw a line down for the correct pitch.


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[Assistant] With all the layout done, the next thing I want to do is ease the corners on all the curved sections. And to do that I'm going to use my router, which is equipped with a quarter inch rounding over bit. And I only want to ease just a little bit, so I've raised the bit just slightly above the table.


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[Assistant] Let's look again at the original. I want to show you this intersection where the backboards join the side. Couldn't be simpler, just a butt joint.


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[Assistant] The problem with that is when the boards move or shrink, you get a gap through there. So on my prototype, I did something a little different. I put a rabbit joint in the corner. That not only gives strength to it, but it eliminates that problem of seeing through the end.


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[Assistant] Well I've made the rabbit in the side panel with my


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[Assistant] Stacked dado head cutter, which is set up in the table saw, and I attached this wooden auxiliary fence so the dado won't hit the metal fence. It's set up for a quarter inch depth and three quarters of an inch in width.


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[Assistant] To fasten the cleats to the sides, I've pre-drilled and countersunk for these stainless steel screws that I mentioned earlier.


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[Assistant] They're expensive, about 8 cents a piece, but we don't want them to rust, we want it to last.


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[Assistant] I'm ready to mill this stack of boards, which will become the pieces that join the two sides together. And the first thing I want to do is chamfer the edges. I could use a router with a chamfering bit, but since I have a joiner, I'm going to use it. Now some joiners only have a fence which tilts to the outside. And that's okay, you'll still get the same chamfer.


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[Assistant] Mine also tilts to the inside, which is kind of nice because I think it gives you more control in holding the board in position. I'll just make one pass on each corner. It does a great job.


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[Assistant] You might have noticed that next to my radial arm saw I have a wooden table. And it's built at exactly the same height as the radial arm. And that comes in real handy, especially when I'm cutting long pieces of stock.


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[Assistant] It also comes in real handy when I want to cut a whole series of voids exactly the same length because I can set up a stop.


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[Assistant] Now the boards for the back of the bench want to be all exactly the same. So I've positioned the stop at the right distance from the blade.


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[Assistant] And notice that I've angled the stop block, so I just make contact at a point.


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[Assistant] The reason I do that is if I was to put it square and sawdust built up in there.


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[Assistant] You see that the board would not go tight to the stop. And I would actually cut it too short.


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[Assistant] I'm going to start the assembly by tacking the back boards to one side. And all I'm going to really use is one nail in the center of each board to hold it in place for now.


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[Assistant] Well now I can finish attaching the bottom slats, making sure to leave that gap between the boards.


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[Assistant] Before I can attach the cleats that hold all the back boards together, I want to cut the arch on the top board. So I'm going to use this little


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[Assistant] Layout stick that I made using some basic geometry.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to lay it out again so I can show you how you do the geometry.


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[Assistant] First of all I want an arc up here on the top wood which I've left loose so I can remove it for trimming. And I want the arc to end an eighth of an inch above the top of the side.


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[Assistant] The peak of the arc will be right here, along the center of the bench and at this height. It can be almost any height, but this is closest to the original. Then I connect those two points together with one line. Divide it in half to find this point. Then taking a framing square, I carefully draw a line down the back of the bench until I cross the center line, which is across the width of the bench.


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[Assistant] Then from that I can make my stick. I measure from the intersecting point to the top of the arc. Put a nail for a pivot point. And now I can just tap the nail in.


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[Assistant] Now this is a place where these stainless steel screws are really going to earn their keep. They'll never rust and they won't leave any stains on the wood.


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[Assistant] Now these two boards are gonna make up the front of the bench. And this is the inside. I'm just gonna hold it together with a couple of cleats.


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[Assistant] Now the front panel gets slipped in against the cleats and held in place with a couple nails.


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[Assistant] Assembly is on the workbench. I wanna put this cleat on the bottom boards to stiffen them.


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[Assistant] I'm adding a couple nails in each board from the side.


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[Assistant] They're about an inch and a quarter up from the edges. What they are is actually four penny galvanized finish nails. They come in clips like this for the nail gun. Because they're countersunk, I don't think they're gonna stain. And they won't rust because they are galvanized.


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[Assistant] And what it actually does is support the back edge of the seat.


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[Assistant] To dress up the front of the seat, I'm adding this strip, which has rounded edges, and it'll actually give it a thicker look. I'm holding it in place with some glue and nails.


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[Assistant] Well, that about does it. Now all I gotta do is find a home for it.


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[Assistant] The New Yankee Workshop features the craftsmanship of Norm Abram.


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[Assistant] Norm Abram is the author of the book, The New Yankee Workshop, which is available in bookstores and libraries nationwide.


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[Assistant] The more data, the better the AI works. So in the age of AI, where data is the new oil, China is the new Saudi Arabia.


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[Assistant] When I increase productivity through automation, jobs go away. I believe about 50% of jobs will be somewhat or extremely threatened by AI in the next 15 years or so. AI and corporate surveillance.


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[Assistant] I was one of the commentators at the Lice Idol games. And yes, it was watched by tens of millions of people.


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[Assistant] That move 37 was a move that humans could not at them.


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[Assistant] But yet, it ended up being brilliant and woke people up to say, wow, after thousands of years of playing, we never thought about making a move like that.


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[Assistant] Became mature and everybody jumped on the bandwagon.


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[Assistant] No country has ever moved that fast. And in the short two and a half years, uh, China's AI implementation really went from minimal amounts to probably about 17 or 18 unicorns that is billion dollar companies in AI today.


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[Assistant] And that, that progress is uhm, is hard to believe.


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[Assistant] Three, four, five, six in the general AI area. And Unicorn means a billion dollar company. A company whose valuation or market capitalization is at one billion dollars or higher.


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[Assistant] I think we put two unicorns to show five billion dollars or higher.


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[Assistant] So the Chinese entrepreneurial companies started as copycats, but over the last 15 years, China has developed its own form of entrepreneurship. And that entrepreneurship is described as uhm,


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[Assistant] Tenacious, very fast, winner take all, and incredible work ethic.


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[Assistant] I would say these few thousand Chinese top entrepreneurs, uh, they could take on any entrepreneur anywhere in the world.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's 50-50 right now. U.S. is ahead in technology. China has a larger market and the Chinese government is helping with infrastructure efforts. For example, building a new city the size of Chicago with autonomous driving enabled and also a new highway.


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[Assistant] China is the best place for AI implementation today.


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[Assistant] Because the vast amount of data that's available in China, uh, China has a lot more users than any other country, three to four times more than the US.


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[Assistant] There are 50 times more mobile payments than the U.S.


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[Assistant] There are 10 times more food deliveries, which serve as data to learn more about user behavior than the U.S.


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[Assistant] 300 times more, uh, shared bicycle rides. And each shared bicycle ride has all kinds of sensors submitting data up to the cloud.


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[Assistant] We're talking about maybe 10 times more data than the U.S. And AI is basically run on data and fueled by data. The more data...


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[Assistant] It's probably unfathomable to an American how a country can dramatically evolve itself from a copycat laggard to all of a sudden to nearly as good as the U.S. in technology.