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[Assistant] I had been told at least a half a dozen times that it was done, they had a deal, they were moving, they had a big announcement. So when somebody told me that morning the Gang Six is coming, I was like, yeah, great, you know, when I grow hair, that'll happen too.


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[Assistant] We figured there was some seismic shift that had happened there. Did we want to use that as a leverage? Back?


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[Assistant] So the president, he said, get back to me tonight, John. The president didn't hear. I think he called me around 10 o'clock, 10.30 and said, have you heard anything? I said, no, I tried to reach the speaker and I had his cell phone.


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[Assistant] The speaker called back and by then everybody knew what was going on. The president was pretty ticked. We were all pretty ticked.


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[Assistant] But I took a bath just yesterday.


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[Assistant] Geithner says we could trigger a depression worse than the 1930s. It will be indelible. It will be, it will last for generations. Tim Geithner is one scared secretary of the Treasury.


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[Assistant] Obama told his staff John Boehner is a country club Republican, a golf playing, cigarette smoking deal maker.


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[Assistant] He's keeping it as a secret from Eric Kander. He knows how risky this is.


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[Assistant] Boehner kept telling Obama, I'm taking a giant risk. You know, we're risking the speakership because of this.


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[Assistant] Boehner calls these the Nicarets and Merlot.


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[Assistant] Sessions. As Boehner says, the, the president's, uh, having iced tea and chewing a Nicarat.


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[Assistant] And Boehner's having a glass of Merlot red wine and smoking a cigarette.


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[Assistant] Cantor is upset and says, look, I get more information out of Joe Biden than I do my speaker. And he's quite upset.


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[Assistant] The president just says, no, you know, this isn't a bluff. Don't call my bluff. And literally walks out. And this is a bit of a thunder clap for everyone, to say the least. And it's frightening. It's crushing.


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[Assistant] Canter gets Paul Ryan and other people.


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[Assistant] Rob Nabors, the head of congressional relation, sees the president is so angry, Nabors worries that he's going to break the phone receiver. Boehner put it quite succinctly. He said that the president was angry and so angry and so hot he was spewing coals.


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[Assistant] My name is Xamber, thank you guys so much for clicking on this video and deciding to


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[Assistant] But there's a lot of miraculous to go. So I am interested to see how the season unfolds. Um, keep in mind though, if you want to support the channel or just want to see the next reactions early, you can go over to my Patreon page linked on the description below to get access over there.


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[Assistant] But without further, uh, noo, let's get started!


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[Assistant] Oh my god, come on, you can assume who Felix is talking to.


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[Assistant] That's so sad. Yeah, I bet you really got used to them, huh? They were so lively.


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[Assistant] That's embarrassing. Can we never talk about that again, please?


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Girl, I do get her frustrations, but she needs to focus on saving Paris right now, okay? She cannot be distracted.


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[Assistant] How you say hello, but like, she backed away from it. Try number two?


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[Assistant] I don't understand why we were investigating leads, so I'm actually kinda upset at them. Like, I love that they're like, we need to like, get on here, who would he know? They're like, investigating the like, family tree shit. And then they just stopped. Like, why? Investigate!


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[Assistant] Oh no. Oh, they're scheming together. Oh, that's so bad.


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[Assistant] And the little bit that mom told us, she literally was like, I'll protect you. So, meaning he was back home.


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[Assistant] When they came, is that my understanding? Or she's just been hiding him from the world?


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[Assistant] Which is so weird. And then her line of like, I'll protect you from the heroes who think you're a villain. Why did she phrase it like that? Why think you're a villain? Why would she support him? Cause he took a miraculous from Ladybug. If he wasn't bad, why would he take that?


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[Assistant] And I know, uh, I had this discussion a little bit.


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[Assistant] At the end of season four and I guess we should revisit it.


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[Assistant] I think he's bad. I- I tried- I thought maybe he wasn't? I thought genuinely he was helping Adrian?


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[Assistant] Uh, after 25, the first half of the Suspinelli, I thought he was just trying to help Adrian.


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[Assistant] What hold the senti month, the senti being, sorry, senti being of like Felix and


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[Assistant] Adrian, and that's why Felix wanted the rings?


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[Assistant] So badly, cause he's trying to help Adrian be independent cause he, he maybe knows that they're both sentient beings? Is my thought?


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[Assistant] And then maybe he wanted the Peacock Miraculous.


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[Assistant] To free both of them from like, the control?


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[Assistant] of Gabriel and maybe that's why?


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[Assistant] Gabriel's like, you don't wanna be a model? Okay, whatever. Cause he can't control Adrian anymore, so he's like, can't stop him from being a little rebellious teen. That's my thought. I don't know, I'm still very confused by that. But like, what is he going to do?


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[Assistant] Do with it. Like, what is his plans?


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[Assistant] With the Peacock Miraculous, like I don't understand that, like why does he want it so badly? It's weird, it's so weird.


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[Assistant] And he wants his original wife back, but like, I'm pretty sure you can make a wife and just be happy and live and pretend. Just a thought.


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[Assistant] And then you'd have your wife and still get to fulfill your kink of bullying 15 year olds! It's a win-win!


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[Assistant] Dip man, I did it. I solved all of his problems. Oh my god. I should be his new assistant.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but seriously though, uh, Natalie was still helping him, right? She hasn't left. I thought with her, I probably would have left. Like...


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[Assistant] She got so mad at him at the end of episode one, so like, I'm kinda surprised she'd like, even still be there. Like, she came home and like, looked at Adrian and, uuuh. She's there for Adrian and Emily. Uhm, nevermind. She's not gonna leave.


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[Assistant] She can be mad at Gabriel, but like, she's not gonna leave, cause she's, she cares about Adrian, obviously, and she cares about Emily, and she does want them back, so.


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[Assistant] It makes sense, it makes sense. JK, JK, JK, I get that. Uhm, it was interesting, so...


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[Assistant] We know Monarch has some way of giving power.


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[Assistant] Who the people he akumatizes now.


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[Assistant] Which is interesting because that means Kagami's mom knows who.


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[Assistant] Monarch Hawk Moth is, and like, is chill with it. She's like, let's go, totally fine. Which is crazy. Like, if she's so money hungry and technologically like, I must have modern technology, that she would like, agree?


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[Assistant] To help him and he'll be like, lol, I'll make my wish that your tech company does a phenomenal.


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[Assistant] But overall, good episode. It was kind of nice seeing like, them have some peace.


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[Assistant] For a little bit, cause I thought we were just gonna like bow bow bow bow bow bow just be gung ho the entire time.


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[Assistant] But no, we kinda got like, they said two weeks, two weeks apiece basically, maybe more.


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[Assistant] And I know they're like, oh, Felix isn't here, so I guess we can't do anything. No!


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[Assistant] If Felix is not around and you obviously know because you've seen Monarch, you know that Felix is obviously not Monarch. I think you should have been questioning.


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[Assistant] Like, oh, I don't know, people related to him? Like, mmm, maybe, uh, Gabriel Rest?


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[Assistant] I think it's kind of obvious, uh, you know, I know, I know, I know Adrian's like, no, it can't be him. Like, come on dude, like some point you need to just like, you know.


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[Assistant] So a little disappointed. I feel like they should have been trying a little bit harder instead of playing cards. Like that kind of frustrated me that they weren't like searching more. So.


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[Assistant] I think Adrian looked at his father's finances and saw that his dad spends like, probably $50,000 on, uh,


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[Assistant] On, uh, butterflies, every, uh,


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[Assistant] Every, uh, six months maybe you would have some idea of what's going on. Just a thought, just a thought, just a thought.


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[Assistant] The reset of just having Ladybug, Cat Noir.


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[Assistant] Of course, I miss having, uh, Aliyah with Trix. I miss Mifox Moacuus.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it'll be okay. We'll get it back eventually, hopefully. I miss it, so.


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[Assistant] We'll see what happens. I'm genuinely curious to see what goes on this season. So we've watched two of nine.


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[Assistant] As of me watching it, that is all that's on Disney Plus. It might change by the time this comes out. Probably not, but it could. Uhm, I...


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[Assistant] Want to try to keep watching them on Disney+. I'm hopeful by the time we would get caught up.


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[Assistant] That the rest will come out on Disney Plus? That is my thought because I want to watch them in order.


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[Assistant] So even if let's say episode, let's say 16 comes out in a different country, I'm not going to skip ahead to watch it. Uhm, I will wait till it comes out officially.


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[Assistant] So I am prepared to wait to watch them in English. So keep that in mind.


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[Assistant] I really like the voice actors. Christina V and Bryce are awesome. So I definitely want to support this team. So.


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[Assistant] If you wanna help support the channel, you can go down to that subscribe button. Use your nose. Use your nose to your phone.


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[Assistant] Get that subscribe button and use your nose. And when I see a new subscriber, I know that you'll use your nose and it'll be very exciting and I will think highly awesome thoughts about you. So thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you all later. Bye!


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[Assistant] Fine, fine, fine. We will be once we're far away.


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[Assistant] Showing everything on an electrochemical level, emotion, memory, perception, everything. Directly. It's unprecedented.


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[Assistant] Well, it's just a theory, but... I'd say he wants us dead.


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[Assistant] Rich bastards. Think they can buy up all our land. They need to be shown who really owns these parts.


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[Assistant] For more on this and other Frontline programs, visit our website at pbs.org slash Frontline.


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[Assistant] To order, visit shoppbs.org or call 1-800-PLAY-PBS. Frontline is also available for download on iTunes.


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[Assistant] One of those magical moments when you feel at peace and in harmony with nature.


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[Assistant] For me, the Chesapeake is a special place, an extraordinary natural treasure.


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[Assistant] Over the past 30 years, I've spent a lot of time on the bay. Sailing, hiking, swimming, crabbing.


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[Assistant] I love the water. It's calm, it's beauty, it's majesty. And I'm fascinated by its meandering shorelines.


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[Assistant] In the early morning light, the bacon looks so pure and pristine. But that's deceiving.


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[Assistant] I know that like most of America's waterways, Chesapeake Bay is in trouble despite years of trying to save it. And that worries me.


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[Assistant] I wanted a first-hand look, and so I headed out on the water with Larry Simms, a waterman who's been commercially fishing the bay for 60 years.


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[Assistant] Over the past several decades, Sims has watched the good times of bountiful harvests slip away.


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[Assistant] Sims took me to the old fishing town of Rock Hall, where watermen were bringing in the day's crab catch.


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[Assistant] Crabs have long been the trademark of Chesapeake Bay, but the catch is now down more than 50% from 25 years ago.


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[Assistant] But the deeper problem I learned is that the very dynamics of the Bayes ecosystem are being fundamentally altered by human impact.


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[Assistant] The bay is acutely vulnerable because its watershed is so large.


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[Assistant] 11,000 miles of shoreline and it drains big rivers from six states.


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[Assistant] It is the receptacle of an enormous volume of water in a uniquely shallow basin. Its average depth is only 21 feet, making the bay an ecological hothouse.


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[Assistant] One problem for Chesapeake Bay is that humans have drastically overfished the resources, especially crabs.


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[Assistant] But scientists have also tied the dramatic decline in fisheries here to man-made pollution and a growing phenomenon called dead zones.


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[Assistant] Full of lush grasses where fish and crabs can grow.


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[Assistant] A dead zone is completely different.


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[Assistant] In the heat of summer, dead zones now occupy as much as 40% of the main stem of the Chesapeake Bay.


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[Assistant] But it's not just a Baywide problem, it's worldwide.


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[Assistant] All across the planet, dead zones have been doubling in frequency and size every decade.


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[Assistant] There's one in the Gulf of Mexico the size of the state of Massachusetts.


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[Assistant] Pollution is not just creating dead zones. It's playing havoc with human health and recreation.


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[Assistant] Every year more beaches have to close periodically because of pollution.


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[Assistant] What leaves the Bay's defenders distraught is not only its perilous condition, but the public's evident loss of interest.


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[Assistant] And the failure of federal and state governments to stick to their repeated promises over the past 25 years to clean up the bay.


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[Assistant] There was a time when we as a nation did care enough to demand action.


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[Assistant] Four decades ago, when the country was rocked by a series of environmental disasters.


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[Assistant] We could see the pollution, smell it, even touch it. The problem was in our faces.


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[Assistant] And the public demand for action exploded on Earth Day.


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[Assistant] Responding to congressional pressure, Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.


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[Assistant] He picked Bill Ruckelshaus, a Justice Department lawyer with a solid Republican pedigree, as its first administrator. And Ruckelshaus quickly took charge.


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[Assistant] Congress armed Ruckelshaus and the EPA with a raft of new environmental laws like the Clean Water Act.


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[Assistant] that impose strict pollution limits and penalties for violators.


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[Assistant] The Act called for America's waterways to be fishable and swimmable again by 1983.


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[Assistant] It had strong bipartisan support in Congress, but not, it turns out, from President Nixon.


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[Assistant] But with bipartisan backing in Congress, Ruckelshaus took strong action anyway. He banned DDT.


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[Assistant] Imposed a tight deadline for reducing auto emissions.


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[Assistant] Sued several cities and big steel and chemical companies for polluting the air and water. His tough approach made enemies.


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[Assistant] One of the first big regulatory success stories came right here on the Potomac River.


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[Assistant] Blue Plains was the biggest single source of pollution to the Potomac.


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[Assistant] The Potomac had become overrun with acres of green algae, caused by excess nutrients from human waste, like phosphorus and nitrogen.


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[Assistant] But the river didn't improve all that much. It turned out they needed to remove nitrogen too. A costly process. But Cliff Randall found an answer.


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[Assistant] A new, more economical technology called Biological Nutrient Removal or BNR.


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[Assistant] It took a billion dollars in federal and state funds to modernize Blue Plains with several new technologies, including BNR. But the effort paid off.


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[Assistant] And more than a hundred sewage treatment plants around the Bay adopted BNR technology.


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[Assistant] How much of these early gains were not only the result of technology, but of a pretty tough regulatory stick from the EPA and the state governments?


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[Assistant] But the 1980s brought a new era, and the political climate on the environment changed. The winds of deregulation were blowing through Washington, especially during the Reagan years.


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[Assistant] Environmental regulation was a prime target of the Reagan White House for giving relief to American business.


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[Assistant] It shifted to a new strategy of voluntary compliance.


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[Assistant] A strategy typified by the Reagan EPA's new program for Chesapeake Bay.


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[Assistant] The new approach was long on promises and targets.


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[Assistant] The result was the Chesapeake Bay program repeatedly missed its targets, leaving unfulfilled.


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[Assistant] The Clean Water Act promised to radically reduce water pollution.


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[Assistant] I saw the consequences of how deregulation has played out here on the Chesapeake Bay's eastern shore.


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[Assistant] Where huge factory scale farms now dominate the landscape.


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[Assistant] And where half the pollution flowing into the bay, much of it from agriculture, remains essentially unregulated.


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[Assistant] I'd come here to meet Rick Dove, a professional photographer and environmental consultant who under the authority of the Clean Water Act.


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[Assistant] has been gathering information for a potential citizens lawsuit against agricultural polluters.


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[Assistant] Dove took me up on a small plane and gave me a bird's eye view of his detective work on the Chesapeake Bay watershed.


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[Assistant] As we fly, he points out rows of long flat sheds, each a couple of hundred yards long, each holding up to 40,000 chickens.


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[Assistant] Chicken manure is loaded with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. Remember the dead zones in the bay?


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[Assistant] They were caused by algae which is fed by nitrogen and phosphorus.


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[Assistant] The aerial photos lead Doug to a chicken farm he's been watching for more than a year.


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[Assistant] Well that's a pretty big place. We're talking 240, 250,000 chickens there at any one time.


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[Assistant] of how polluted rainwater moves from the farm to the bay.


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[Assistant] Farm owner Aaron Lessig did not respond to Frontline's repeated efforts to ask him about the water tests, which Dove's team turned over to the EPA.


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[Assistant] So, look who he's growing for. Lesick is growing these chickens for Purdue.


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[Assistant] Over five decades, Purdue Farms grew from a family business.


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[Assistant] To the dominant poultry processor on the Chesapeake's eastern shore.


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[Assistant] And as Purdue grew, it transformed the chicken industry.


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[Assistant] Integration meant a few big chicken companies controlling all aspects of production.


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[Assistant] Purdue mushroomed into a multi-billion dollar conglomerate.


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[Assistant] Small family chicken farms became chicken factories.


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[Assistant] Factory style poultry production drove down chicken prices and Americans responded.


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[Assistant] Over the past 50 years, per capita consumption of chicken has tripled.


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[Assistant] But there's been another price to all those cheap chickens.


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[Assistant] Delmarva Peninsula poultry farms raise more than 570 million chickens.


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[Assistant] And all those chickens produce massive mountains of manure. 1.5 billion pounds a year.


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[Assistant] That's more manure than the annual human waste from four big cities. New York, Washington, San Francisco and Atlanta all put together.


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[Assistant] Before mass production chicken farms, local crop farmers used to absorb the chicken manure. Now there's way too much for them to absorb.


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[Assistant] It's a problem all over the country. Hog farms in the Carolinas and Iowa. Poultry farms in Arkansas and Texas.


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[Assistant] Cattle farms in Wisconsin and along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.


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[Assistant] The EPA says it's essential to get control over the animal manure. What's made that hard


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[Assistant] It's deciding just who's responsible for all that manure.


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[Assistant] To understand how the chicken business is organized and how it's run, I checked in with Carol Morrison, a successful Purdue grower for many years.


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[Assistant] When Purdue required that Morrison modernize her chicken houses at a cost of $150,000 or more, she decided to get out of the business. This is her last batch of Purdue chickens.


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[Assistant] So you're saying that the processors dictate the terms. They run the show.


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[Assistant] The terms are very specific. The big chicken companies own the chickens, supply the feed, dictate the growing regimen, do all the processing. They own it all. Except the chicken waste.


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[Assistant] How do you wind up by owning the chickens, owning the feed?


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[Assistant] And not owning in the sense of legal responsibility the manure.


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[Assistant] As factory farming has grown, the volume of excess manure has mushroomed.


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[Assistant] And there's been an increasing push to regulate farm pollution.


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[Assistant] But American agriculture has fought off pollution controls for three decades.


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[Assistant] So cities have their, have their waste treated, go through water treatment plans. Farming, agriculture, these concentrated animal raising operations, they're not treated the same way.


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[Assistant] The Delmarva poultry industry on the Bay's eastern shore doesn't see it that way. It contends that there's a fundamental difference between industrial pollution or urban sewage and agricultural waste. Industry spokesman Bill Satterfield.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about fields, I'm talking about growers and sheds where, I mean I can, I've literally stood in front of farms and I've literally looked at chicken houses, I've seen pipes coming into the drainage ditches, coming from ditches between the chicken houses. The source visibly is quite


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[Assistant] Russell Long, famous senator from Louisiana, used to say when people gave an answer like that, it's not you, it's not me, it's that guy behind the tree. It seems to me as though every time we get to this, even though the evidence is pointing to a most


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[Assistant] Highest concentrations, right near agricultural poultry operations. You're saying, well it could be the foxes or the geese.


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[Assistant] But finding an answer has been politically impossible.


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[Assistant] In the late 1990s, a bill went before the Maryland legislature to require mandatory nutrient management by farmers to curb runoff from chicken manure. Big Chicken didn't like that idea at all.


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[Assistant] You sat in the Maryland legislature for 12 years. During that period, did you see the big chicken companies steadily resist regulation on manure runoff?


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[Assistant] The whole situation much faster. If the integrators, the poultry processors were responsible, you gotta clean it up and you all are responsible.


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[Assistant] So Purdue pioneered a process to recycle part of the chicken growers excess manure to ship it across the country.


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[Assistant] And Purdue launched a voluntary program to teach its growers better manure management than the programs that we're looking at.


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[Assistant] Chicken farmers bristled when the Obama EPA started demanding pollution discharge permits this spring. The industry claims it's already doing enough.


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[Assistant] But environmentalists like Rick Dove remain skeptical.


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[Assistant] While the bay is besieged by runoff from the big chicken and cattle farms along its rivers, I learned about a whole new kind of pollution as I travel up the Potomac as it winds its way past Washington up towards the hill country of West Virginia.


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[Assistant] Up here near the headwaters of the Potomac, I heard about the big new pollution threat, not even known when the Clean Water Act was passed.


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[Assistant] Six years ago, marine biologists became alarmed at reports of massive fish kills on the rivers in this region.


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[Assistant] Every year, smallmouth bass were being decimated by some mysterious problem.


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[Assistant] Spring and fall, hundreds of fish would be found floating in the water, belly up.


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[Assistant] I caught up with Vicki Blazer, a fish pathologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who is trying to figure out why the fish were dying. What do we got here?


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[Assistant] And that's a signal of some, some bigger problem.


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[Assistant] And when Blazer dug deeper, she found a surprise.


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[Assistant] Scientific studies have linked abnormal mutations in marine creatures, like intersex.


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[Assistant] To exposure to chemical compounds that mimic or imitate natural hormones in the body. These chemicals are called endocrine disruptors.


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[Assistant] There are thousands of these worrisome chemicals that have gotten into the environment. And one reason is that they're part of everything we do.


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[Assistant] When you see scientists like Vicki Blazer


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[Assistant] Cutting open fish, finding intersex, uh, in the male fish, seeing high levels of fish kills, seeing immune systems disrupted, seeing other damage to the fish. Is that a warning to you potentially about human health?


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[Assistant] So many new chemicals have emerged lately.


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[Assistant] That scientists and regulators are playing catch-up to industry.


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[Assistant] Trying to spot which chemicals they think pose new dangers in our water.


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[Assistant] So science and the regulators are behind the curve dealing with what industry and society is producing or wants. Correct.


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[Assistant] Playing catch-up and regulating these new chemicals may be a problem for more than just these fish.


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[Assistant] So if fish are having intersex or lesions, that's kind of spooky.


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[Assistant] To get a handle on that question, I headed down river.


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[Assistant] Just above Washington, I found another USGS team sampling water from the Potomac. Part of a nationwide survey.


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[Assistant] Checking for 300 emerging contaminants in our drinking water.


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[Assistant] They were looking for well-known pollutants like pesticides and for newly detected contaminants found in pharmaceuticals, body lotions, soaps and deodorants.


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[Assistant] And all they found, 85 compounds on their watch list.


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[Assistant] What makes this a matter of concern is that this is the intake for the Washington aqueduct.


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[Assistant] Where one million people in the DC area get their drinking water.


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[Assistant] It's one big continuous recycling operation. From the toilet or the shower to the tap.


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[Assistant] The resecting process works well for known contaminants.


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[Assistant] But what about the new chemicals for which the EPA has not yet set safety standards?


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[Assistant] How tough is the challenge just to keep up with all that new sources of pollutants?


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[Assistant] Not just harder, but actually impossible to stop all the new contaminants, according to the USGS findings.


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[Assistant] Because the old filters weren't designed to catch the new threats.


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[Assistant] Emerging contaminants that you found in the river water.


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[Assistant] Denver's findings mirrored what USGS has found all across the country. Everywhere.


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[Assistant] They saw lots of new contaminants in America's drinking water, even if at low doses.


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[Assistant] Were you surprised by the findings of this USGS study or did you, did that fit what you thought was probably


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[Assistant] Were there endocrine disruptors, chemical compounds in the Washington aqueduct intake water that were of concern to you in terms of their potential impact on human health?


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[Assistant] Are we facing a long-term slow-motion risk that we don't recognize because it's not readily apparent?


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[Assistant] Of, uhm, of regulation, or should we be regulating on a different standard?


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[Assistant] It's our failure to control toxic chemicals before they cause trouble in the environment that haunts our waters all across the nation.


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[Assistant] Places like Puget Sound, which I've come to know well in recent years.


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[Assistant] Is a place I've come to cherish as a phenomenal resource.


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[Assistant] A gorgeous natural playground. Gateway to the Pacific.


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[Assistant] And historically a treasure house of fish and wildlife.


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[Assistant] Take these regional icons, the killer whales or orcas. They're a major tourist attraction, but increasingly


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[Assistant] Puget Sound Orcas are being closely studied by scientists as a barometer of the health of the entire sound.


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[Assistant] Hanson and his colleagues have been studying the orca population for several years.


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[Assistant] The orca story is troubling. In one year, seven local orcas died. Their population is now down to 86.


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[Assistant] So low that in 2005, NOAA listed Puget Sound Orcas as an endangered species.


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[Assistant] To figure out why the orca population is in decline, Hansen's team goes out after biological samples.


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[Assistant] They shoot blunt-nosed darts into the orcas and extract small samples of blubber.


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[Assistant] Especially telltale toxins like PCBs. The lab results have been alarming.


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[Assistant] PCBs are cancer-causing chemicals, so toxic that Congress banned them three decades ago. But they keep showing up.


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[Assistant] Scientists worry that PCBs are a problem, not just for orca whales.


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[Assistant] At the Center for Whale Research, Director Ken Balcombe has been keeping records for three decades on the whales that make Puget Sound their regular home.


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[Assistant] The tombstone markers, Balcom told me, underscore a worrisome trend among the youngest, most vulnerable orcas. These older whales up here.


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[Assistant] They died, that's kind of normal, but to have so many down here is younger whales dying.


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[Assistant] He's alarmed at the high levels of PCBs that Hansen's team found in younger whales, which absorb PCBs from their mother's milk.


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[Assistant] Are there enough parallels between the way the human body works, the chemistry and biology of the human body and the whales, so that we can actually take lessons from them?


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[Assistant] are much more heavily contaminated with PCBs than salmon in other Pacific coastal waters.


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[Assistant] One big reason PCBs are a persistent problem is that it takes so long to clean up places like the Duwamish River, Seattle's industrial corridor.


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[Assistant] And today, it's the region's largest hot spot for PCBs.


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[Assistant] To clean up America's worst pollution problems.


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[Assistant] The toxic buildup in the Duwamish Riverbottom.


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[Assistant] Is the product of more than a half century of industrial development along the river.


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[Assistant] Boeing, for example, the area's biggest corporation, had its main operations here during World War II.


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[Assistant] An era when industrial progress brought unprecedented expansion.


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[Assistant] But that progress also left behind an unprecedented amount of pollution, or what's called legacy pollutants.


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[Assistant] PCBs are a classic legacy pollutant found here at Boeing.


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[Assistant] A toxic chemical once widely used by industry.


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[Assistant] Often as a high stress lubricant in power stations and also in building materials.


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[Assistant] Frequently, it takes a lot of detective work to find hidden PCBs.


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[Assistant] Making sure that Boeing doesn't overlook any of its legacy pollutants is the job of Sean Blocker.


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[Assistant] A former Marine who has been EPA's point man on the cleanup at Boeing.


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[Assistant] Boeing says that over a decade ago, it was ready to clean up and all that held it up was bureaucratic red tape from the EPA.


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[Assistant] We had a higher threshold for let's get to the bottom of how bad this pollution is than Boeing did.


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[Assistant] So time and again, Blocker pressed Boeing to do more. More work and more tests.


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[Assistant] By now, Boeing has spent $80 million on testing and interim cleanups.


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[Assistant] Okay, so hundreds more have been drilled because of this back and forth with the EPA. That's correct. Not only has Boeing been feuding with the EPA,


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[Assistant] But it's been locked in a fierce battle with the city of Seattle.


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[Assistant] Which used to operate a steam plant next door to Boeing Field.


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[Assistant] Typical of Superfund sites, these two powerful neighbors have been wrangling over who's responsible


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[Assistant] For PCBs flowing through this ditch or flume when it rains.


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[Assistant] The flume runs from the now-defunct steam plant through Boeing's territory to the river. Boeing says it's the city's PCBs.


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[Assistant] So, was this just the city steam plan or did Boeing and other people put storm drains into this and use it? Pretty much it was just for the cooling water from


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[Assistant] The city flat out disagrees and it has taken Boeing to court.


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[Assistant] But Boeing was attaching its drainage pipes to your flume, sending some of its dirty stuff


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[Assistant] So it's gotta be an endless argument with Boeing over whose line put the dirty stuff in that flume. It's a continuing argument.


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[Assistant] And that argument is holding up the big cleanup on the Duwamish River.


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[Assistant] Jay Manning, who heads Washington's Department of Ecology, which helps EPA supervise the cleanup.


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[Assistant] Showed me the cost of this continued delay to Puget Sound.


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[Assistant] Ultimately the issues of clean up, time and money are tied to a larger question for all of us.


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[Assistant] That is, how clean do we expect our waterways to be?


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[Assistant] Here on the Duwamish, the state has posted warnings not to eat local fish and shellfish because of pollution.


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[Assistant] And so the fight now is over whether the river can be cleaned up enough to let the locals fish the river once again without risk.


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[Assistant] Where do you come down on that? How clean is clean? I mean, do we need to get rivers back to where people can fish and safely eat the fish without fear to their health?


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[Assistant] Just across the river from Boeing, the threat of legacy pollution and the question of how clean is clean became personal. Right here in South Park.


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[Assistant] Where in 2004, the community was rocked by news that some of its streets and people's yards were contaminated with PCBs.


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[Assistant] The city of Seattle realized it had a crisis and moved quickly to pave the contaminated streets, clean up the polluted yards, and tell people how to take safety precautions.


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[Assistant] Suddenly South Park, a largely immigrant working class neighborhood surrounded by industry, was galvanized into action.


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[Assistant] Residents demanded a long-promised cleanup of an abandoned industrial site called Malarkey Asphalt.


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[Assistant] Years earlier, the old Malarkey site had been bought by the Port of Seattle, which did a PCB cleanup on part of Malarkey's property.


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[Assistant] But people in South Park suspected there were still many more undiscovered PCB hotspots upland from the riverbank at Malarkey.


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[Assistant] In fact, South Park was up in arms, insisting on a cleanup to the residential standard of one part per million.


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[Assistant] So the elected port commissioners, sensitive to public opinion, back down.


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[Assistant] They adopted the more protective residential standard at twice the cost.


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[Assistant] By finding its voice, South Park redefined the meaning of clean.


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[Assistant] The greatest threats to our waterways are often invisible to the naked eye.


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[Assistant] Evidence crops up in unlikely places, like Alki Beach, across Elliott Bay from downtown Seattle. It's a favorite spot for scuba divers, but taking to the water here isn't for the faint of heart. Temperatures in the Puget can be in the 40s.


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[Assistant] Underwater exploration offers a unique perspective on the marine environment.


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[Assistant] Like this drainage pipe, one of the main outfalls for Seattle's rainwater runoff.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable, because the water looks so good from up here.


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[Assistant] What's making this water so sick is what scientists have now labeled the number one menace to our waterways, stormwater runoff.


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[Assistant] In Seattle, peak time for storm water runoff is during fall and winter, when the rain comes down in Torrance.


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[Assistant] The pollution and stormwater runoff in major cities like Seattle or in suburban and urban areas across the country is massive. Yet until recently, it was little controlled.


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[Assistant] But the problem remains poorly understood because so much of the pollution is invisible.


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[Assistant] What about the auto traffic? What kind of, quote, oil spill is there from our ordinary living?


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[Assistant] The heart of the problem is concrete, asphalt.


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[Assistant] Streets, sidewalks, buildings, shopping centers, suburban housing, rooftops, hard surfaces.


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[Assistant] What scientists call impervious surfaces that block the downpour of rain from naturally sinking into the ground.


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[Assistant] The combating pollution is not just a matter of regulating industry, but the key to stormwater runoff is land use, how we develop and use our land.


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[Assistant] King County, I learned, has become a laboratory for testing the politics of land use. It's an area bigger than the state of Rhode Island.


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[Assistant] Home not just to Seattle and 1.8 million people, but two thirds of it is still forest.


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[Assistant] So it's an area where environmentalists want to strictly control the pace of development.


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[Assistant] And the man who has been leading the charge is long time King County Chief Executive, Ron Simms.


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[Assistant] Sims says his mission has been to save Puget Sound by protecting critical areas like forests. Way up here, 45 miles east of Seattle, he paid $22 million in tax money.


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[Assistant] To buy development rights on 90,000 acres of forest.


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[Assistant] What does saving this timberland have to do with


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[Assistant] Washington State's Growth Management Act directs local government leaders like Sims to concentrate new growth in cities.


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[Assistant] And to prevent sprawl in lightly populated rural areas.


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[Assistant] For King County, Sims pioneered a critical areas ordinance.


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[Assistant] That limits just how much forest and woodland property owners can cut down.


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[Assistant] A five-acre one-family plot of land that belongs to Howard and Patty Van Laken.


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[Assistant] So why would you want to clear more than 35% of this wonderful forest?


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[Assistant] The Van Laken's problem actually stems from a zoning ordinance passed in the early 1980s that barred subdividing properties under five acres.


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[Assistant] And they formed the Citizens Alliance for Property Rights.


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[Assistant] One throbbing refrain was resentment against political domination by the urban majority, which outnumbers rural voters nearly five to one.


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[Assistant] A series of regulations that, that feel onerous.


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[Assistant] That Ron Simms rarely dared to come to their part of the county.


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[Assistant] He asserts that the county ordinance was prompted by scientific analysis of runoff water flows.


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[Assistant] You mean nobody's come forward and said, I want to do this on my property and you've turned them down?


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[Assistant] The rural people are saying this burden all falls on us there. The city people don't have any burden on them.


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[Assistant] An estate appeals court has struck down part of CIM's critical areas ordinance. That issue is now before the state supreme court.


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[Assistant] While the legal drama plays out, the lesson for Ron Sims is unmistakable.


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[Assistant] Back on the East Coast near Chesapeake Bay, the problems of development sprawl that King County is fighting have played out in the suburbs of Washington D.C.


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[Assistant] Already 17 million people live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. In recent years, 10,000 more moved in every month. And every month, 3,000 acres of forest were lost to development.


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[Assistant] In a suburb of Washington called Tyson's Corner.


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[Assistant] Today, Tyson's is a case study in the harmful impact of unchecked growth.


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[Assistant] But 60 years ago, Tysons was just a rural crossroads with a country store.


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[Assistant] And for growth to happen, what developers needed was infrastructure. Sewers and roads.


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[Assistant] And especially a highway around Washington DC called the Beltway.


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[Assistant] With taxpayers footing the bill for infrastructure, Tysons became a transportation hub. A commercial center.


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[Assistant] And a multi-billion dollar bonanza for developers.


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[Assistant] So the formula is buy land cheap from farmers.


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[Assistant] Get the county and the state to put in the roads, the sewers, the schools, all the stuff that makes it attractive. Yep. And then turn around and sell it for commercial or residential at 30, 40 times the cost. That's correct.


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[Assistant] Over the next 45 years, it became one of America's largest commercial developments and most successful retail centers.


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[Assistant] Now, 120,000 people work at Tyson's every day.


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[Assistant] The car built Tysons. It also built Gridlock that is now strangling Tysons.


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[Assistant] Almost no one lives here. Practically everyone commutes.


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[Assistant] Can't sustain them out. You mean, Tyson's corner has sort of reached the limit?


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[Assistant] Environmentalists call Tyson's a nightmare for the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. It's a fortress of impervious surfaces.


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[Assistant] What many see is the ecological disaster of Tysons.


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[Assistant] ... epitomizes the collision of development and clean water nationwide.


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[Assistant] More than three quarters of Americans live on or near our waterways.


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[Assistant] The plague of Tyson-style sprawl has recently threatened neighboring Loudon County. But here in Loudon,


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[Assistant] Environmental leaders fashioned a new tactic to counter aggressive development and to protect Chesapeake Bay.


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[Assistant] And what people care most about is traffic and taxes.


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[Assistant] Two issues the environmentalists leveraged to launch a political campaign against developers in 2006.


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[Assistant] Tapping into local concerns, citizen activists organize to carry the fight.


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[Assistant] Did all this public outpouring of outrage stop or slow down this aggressive growth?


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[Assistant] That victory in Loudon underscored that land use is a key to protecting the environment.


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[Assistant] I mean, people talk about saving Chesapeake Bay and you get organizations that are talking about, let's have a campaign bay wide, but listening to you, the nuts and bolts of this thing sounds as though they have to be fought out on the local


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[Assistant] And the Bay is going to benefit, but it's not the opening argument.


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[Assistant] To help save vulnerable waterways like the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, environmentalists are also touting a new eco-friendly development model known as Smart Growth.


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[Assistant] One of the nation's showcases for smart growth is right here in Arlington, Virginia.


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[Assistant] A short subway ride across the Potomac from Washington and just a few miles from Tyson's Corner.


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[Assistant] Smart growth is making suburban living look a lot more like city living with a human touch.


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[Assistant] Arlington's strategy is to focus development not around the car.


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[Assistant] But around Washington's mass transit system known as Metro.


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[Assistant] What's been the track record in Arlington County in terms of jobs, development, congestion on the streets?


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[Assistant] Commercial, retail and residential, all mixed together.


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[Assistant] You know, looking at this, there are high-rise buildings here. I mean, to a certain extent, this kind of looks like Kyson's. It's our image of it.


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[Assistant] There's been a tectonic shift in the mindset of business leaders, with the commercial luster of Tyson's fading.


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[Assistant] They're now banking on the planned arrival of Metro's rapid rail to spur a new kind of redevelopment.


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[Assistant] It's a welcome change to advocates of Chesapeake Bay.


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[Assistant] Remaking Tyson's Corner gives local government a chance to fix the stormwater system. Create parks.


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[Assistant] And restore green zones and local streams feeding into the Potomac and the Bay.


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[Assistant] We do have choices to make. And from what I saw and heard on my journey, time is much more urgent and the stakes are much higher than I had once realized.


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[Assistant] The danger signs are everywhere. Dead zones, dying young whales, intersex and male fish.


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[Assistant] The growing risk of serious health problems for humans.


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[Assistant] Success is possible, but the lesson driven home to me again and again is that the key is public engagement.


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[Assistant] In the face of other seemingly more urgent crises. But pollution is a ticking time bomb.


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[Assistant] It's a chronic cancer that is slowly eating away natural resources that are vital to our very survival.


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[Assistant] Nine bushels? Ten years ago? How many would you have caught on an average day?


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[Assistant] So Steve, you found a contamination problem in the flight lane out here? Yea, it's uhm.


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[Assistant] Are you all still finding PCBs and other contaminants in that water?


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[Assistant] Nojumper, coolest podcast in the world. Today I'm in here with Fio Von. What's up, Adam, man? Thanks for having me so much.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, are you trying to communicate with like the hip-hop crowd? Do you feel like that's something you need to improve on?


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[Assistant] Which is funny to think about NWAV and that big with people who are so far removed from what the fuck they were talking about. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is kinda crazy, huh? You know, that's what rap is, is that it's like, it's so good and so vivid. When it is good, it's so good that people who have absolutely nothing in common with the subject matter are still so drawn to it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But okay, that's, that's the question that was like, when you were young, did you recognize that, like, like, do you remember hearing a lot of your white peers sort of have racist attitudes? Or was that sort of, okay.


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[Assistant] Well, I remember sort of like self-identifying as a wigger for a period of time when I was in school that like wigger, like when we found out about that word, I was kind of just like, I was kind of like, am I that? Cause I really like rap music. Am I that?


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[Assistant] Right. No, it was very much like that. It was like the bad kids in school were like, cause I grew up in an environment that was mostly white and that was definitely the attitude of the teachers and stuff is that if you liked hip hop, that that was like a clear giveaway that you were troubled. And I was very much a product of that.


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[Assistant] Dangerous lifestyle. And I'm seeing her sort of sort it out that she's realizing that she bought her 10 year old kid a tape cassette single.


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[Assistant] of some bad stuff. I remember my dad, I was trying to get him to buy me a Dr. Dre single. Oh yea, Dr. Dre really turned it up. It had a pot leaf on it.


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[Assistant] And my dad was like, is that a pot leaf? And I was like, no. I was like trying to make something off the top of something else.


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[Assistant] You know what I think is funny? I was actually, uh, just to change the language real quick, but I was watching your podcast last night and like very, a lot of what we do podcast wise is just straight up analysis of new shit.


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[Assistant] And that's one thing I find very interesting about watching your podcast is it seems like if anything


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[Assistant] You're really sort of like mining your brain for a lot of shit from your childhood or a time where, you know, like that comedy gene is fostered nicely when you're in an environment where you don't have a lot to do except to just sort of ruminate and think about the things that are going on around you. Yeah.


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[Assistant] There was a thing that was important enough that I had to do it because there was so much like cool underground rap happening around me and there wasn't really anybody doing anything about it content wise. So I did have like a pretty clear vision of at least some of the stuff that I wanted to sort of document.


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[Assistant] But, and I guess in comedy it's kinda like, you're either, you're funny or you're not. Yeah. And that's kinda the point of the podcast is to be funny. It's not like you really have to accomplish anything else.


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[Assistant] I think that, like, from their perspective, it's kinda like, alright, we already have a shitload of white men doing content, so a lot of the networks and places that might have opportunities, they're kinda like, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] If we're gonna give an opportunity like to somebody, we should give it to somebody who is maybe, you know, from a different walk of life. Whereas like you being a white male who also is from down south, it's like there's a lot of people. And it's not that there's not an appetite from the fans.


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[Assistant] Because obviously your shit does numbers, your shit does super good. I think it's kind of like a lot of those executives and stuff are sort of cautious about who they're giving opportunities to. And I feel like that might have been part of it.


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[Assistant] And riding BMX bikes and stuff like that. And it's like, if anything, I feel like that might be part of your appeal is that you're.


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[Assistant] A guy from down south, you're funny, but you're not necessarily like trying to play into sort of like stereotypes about where you're from. You know, it's like sort of, you have an inquisitive nature. People can tell that you're, you're sort of still trying to figure out the world around you to whatever extent.


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[Assistant] Yeah, to be able to like speak out to somebody or to have somebody be able to listen to your podcast and actually really get that like sense that they're able to sort of like


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[Assistant] Realize who they are through listening to these conversations, I mean that's a real big part of the value in it, is like if you listen to podcasts and you actually really feel like you're a fly on the wall, like a really like the third silent member of that conversation, I think that can do a lot to like socialize somebody, cause a lot of these


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[Assistant] Here and there for a couple weeks and I'll never listen to them again. Because I feel like I've figured out who they are and you know, I was interested in figuring it out but I'm maybe not interested in listening to it long term.


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[Assistant] Acting like they know everything, acting so committed to a specific ideology, and it's just that very rarely keeps me intrigued with that person in the long run. I'm attracted to somebody like Joe Rogan because he doesn't act like he knows everything. He doesn't seem like he's married to one side or one opinion.


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[Assistant] Makes it for a more interesting conversation because he's not acting like he's completely committed to a viewpoint that maybe he doesn't necessarily have enough to go on.


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[Assistant] I'm kinda jealous of the fact that he, he, like his MMA knowledge and boxing knowledge and stuff seems like he still has quite a bit of use for it. When I think about it, I spent like,


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[Assistant] 20 years cramming my brain full of information about all these BMX pros and BMX tricks and BMX riders. I really almost never revisit it now. Like it was there and I still know it, but it doesn't really feel like it.


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[Assistant] Is that interesting to almost anybody besides people who are actually involved in that world? But I had my blinders up. I had tunnel vision to the point where it's like up until I really started to do this podcast, which is really my way of like branching out into a lot of different aspects of life. I never really thought that much outside of that world that I was a part of.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in the sense that like, you know, I'll just find something that I like and then I'll just...


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[Assistant] Just go crazy with it. Like I've been playing Tetris 99 on the Switch. Oh wow. I think I've put in about like 150 hours over the course of the past few months. Oh dang. You could be licensed by now probably. Oh I'm vicious bro. I'm fucking good as shit. But it's like there's a, you know, once I get going in that.


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[Assistant] It's kinda- and that's what really led me to the podcast thing in general is just that I was-


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[Assistant] You know, just so curious. I was staying up till like 7, 8 in the morning just fucking falling into these wormholes online learning about shit. And at a certain point it's like, well fuck, I wanna talk about this shit with somebody.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well once you start forming that network, once there's like hundreds of people that you've done podcasts with, it's just this like slow process of building up trust within...


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[Assistant] Those relationships to even be able to get a phone call in with somebody or get a meeting or whatever.


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[Assistant] And you realize when you're out here why networking, like, people make fun of people for being like too into networking, but it really is like crazy valuable.


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[Assistant] But that's the problem, is that anybody who comes at you too aggressively, like trying to be, like if you can smell it on somebody, that they're just trying to use you for something. I mean that's, that's easy to spot at a certain point when you're in Hollywood long enough.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think of who it would be. Mad Ox? Yes. Really? Yeaah. You have the fidget spinners and everything?


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[Assistant] It's so weird actually, cause when I did that interview with him, I think he was 12.


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[Assistant] You ever have that problem where in Hollywood like people will want to introduce you to somebody but they're trying too hard to like interject themselves into the middle of it? Like if somebody, you know, somebody will tell you like, oh, I got you this, this brand deal or this advertiser.


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[Assistant] But they won't really let you like really just deal with the advertiser directly. They're trying to insert themselves in the middle of it so that they can take a percentage at some point. Oh yeah, Snake. That's such a sneaky, sneaky, weird part of the game. Cause I just couldn't really see myself.


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[Assistant] Doing that, it's like, you know, I wanna, I wanna do something for you to be nice, to just help you out, and then maybe down the road, I'll kinda think that you owe me enough that I could ask you for a favor or something, but you don't need to like directly monetize it immediately.


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[Assistant] I wanna go anywhere near a snake. I got a cat.


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[Assistant] Great pet. Oh, really? I could see you with a cat. Oh yea, I love him. He comes and sits on my chest as soon as I get home. That's romantic. That's beautiful. I haven't felt like 13 years.


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[Assistant] No, I was listening to this, uh, really popular female rapper the other day talk about, she was saying like, oh, you know, sometimes you'll, you'll hook up with a guy and he's like, rich.


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[Assistant] If anything, you know, and I definitely busted too quickly when I was a youngin', but if anything,


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[Assistant] Like as I get older, the more I value pre-gaming. Like you gotta get a net out beforehand, you know?


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[Assistant] That's crazy. I see Rappaport is somebody who gets a lot of shit where people say that he's like overusing his hip hop card. Which I don't really, I mean the thing about Rappaport is that he very much realizes that he can


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[Assistant] It is dramatic. And he knows that and he uses that. Whenever he feels like being on WorldStar, all he's gotta do is grab that phone of his and just start saying, the other day he was saying like Meek Mill is not top 10.


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[Assistant] New, uh, Philadelphia rappers, it's kind of like, well, like, who, who, what are you talking about? Like, that's a hard opinion to have. Yeaah. But he kind of knows that to have the controversial opinion is good.


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[Assistant] You know, it would be like, like you could do that too. Like you could very easily just have some crazy hot take opinion and just bust it out. The trick is really to do it well. Yeah. To pick your shots and to know how to do that without necessarily, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, making a damn fool out of yourself, I guess would be one way of saying it. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I was listening to you and Delia's podcast the other day and I was really fascinated by him because he's describing himself sort of like just going out and just hanging out and just looking at shit and just sort of thinking about jokes or thinking about ideas from just looking at people. And I'm sort of thinking like,


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[Assistant] The lifestyle that you're describing is the type of lifestyle that people who are as famous as you and have as many opportunities as you to make money, etc. don't tend to really live. Like myself, I am not gonna just go chill in a coffee shop for an hour. I just don't have time.


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[Assistant] I was wondering about that with you because I feel like you are such an everyman comedian in the sense that I think people see a lot of themselves in you and they want to sort of hear you talk about regular day to day experiences and normal shit in the neighborhood type stuff, but you know.


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[Assistant] The problem with you getting famous and having all these opportunities and stuff is that you get less opportunities to really be able to do that stuff.


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[Assistant] Go to this fucking therapist, basically be able to talk to him and I went to him for like almost a year and he had such a positive effect on me and really like made me have a lot more confidence by the end of it. And you know, it was just a great experience, whatever. And like I've always thought over the years about hitting this guy up to maybe like when I go back to see my parents.


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[Assistant] And he's like, you know, it's so great to hear from you, but within like two emails, he started asking me for money. Wow. Because he's like got some, some charity organization or something. Yeah. And that was just this fucking crazy like kick in the face like,


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[Assistant] This guy might have had a huge impact on you at 16, but he's just a regular-ass dude and he's right now, like, he couldn't even go two or three emails without realizing that I was an opportunity for him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I get offended as soon as somebody says anything about trying to ask for money. Cause I'm like, you're soiling any chance of us possibly having a relationship with that request. I see.


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[Assistant] Anyone who asks me for some shit like that, I'm just like, no, it's not going in my brain. Like I'm just, I'm so like cautious of being taken advantage by people that I'll probably ignore.


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[Assistant] Efforts to get in touch with me in that regard that are sincere.


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[Assistant] Cause I'm like 35, so it's like, yea, I'm kinda like, started to make it over the last couple years, but I'm also like,


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[Assistant] I'm so happy that I'm at that point now, and not at 21, where you really have no fucking clue what's up. Like I have friends- I can't imagine.


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[Assistant] I have a friend who's on tour as a rapper and every night lately he's been like just booking the private jet to go between shows and spending like 20 grand or whatever it is on the fucking private jet instead of just taking flights like a normal person.


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[Assistant] That it's important to save that 20 grand that you just blew on the fucking flight.


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[Assistant] You should look into this dude sometime because he allegedly killed a bunch of people. Oh yeaah. He's like just on the run just like living this crazy swashbuckler lifestyle out there with crazy machine guns on him at all times and bodyguards. Pretty awesome huh? It's quite the lifestyle.


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[Assistant] What the fuck? Is this a person that you would consider normal for the most part outside of this conversation?


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[Assistant] I'm trying to figure out how it could ever be relaxing. I mean, I feel like, do you ever think about that? Like, if you killed someone who, but you 100% were justified in doing it? Like, if you walk downstairs from your apartment or whatever, and you just happen to have a gun in your hand, and there's a fucking armed robber, and he's got a gun, and you pow, just shoot him in the head. How's that gonna affect you?


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[Assistant] See, like, I feel like I know people in the hip-hop world who have definitely killed people and definitely didn't give a shit or feel anything about it. That's awesome. You know? And I just don't know if I'm that far gone.


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[Assistant] Showed it before him, scouted the whole place, walked around, made sure everything was cool. As his car drives up, they're all out there and stuff, like he's still moving like the fucking president. It was pretty official.


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[Assistant] That was some of the best shit, and it was like largely independent. Yeah. Do you remember the Juvenile Ha video? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just sucks to think that if you were to start over that you're just gonna have the same total lack of knowledge that you had in the first place. You don't get to take all the shit that you learned this time around.


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[Assistant] You know, I feel like a lot of people who believe in heaven or whatever, it's because that's what they want to believe will happen when they die. For me, what I kind of want to believe, slash, I think it actually might happen because I want it to be, is that when you die, you get to just basically sit in a fucking movie theater and you get to watch your entire life. You get to relive it.


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[Assistant] Imagine how great it would feel to watch like a full quality like movie of you as an infant or you as like a super cute two year old.


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[Assistant] You know one time, you should go to the porn awards in Vegas. Oh really? You'd have a good time there. Ugh. But I went, and there was a-


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[Assistant] My girl was, uh, patting my dick to see if I was getting hard. Oh, that's good. She wanted to see if I was into it.


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[Assistant] And that was the gimmick? That it was all gay dudes doing it? Yeah. Wow. Pretty wild. I would love to speak to the dudes who invented this. That's insane.


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[Assistant] It's like bum fights, but like a travel and gay edition. Yeah, that's exactly what it was like.


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[Assistant] I've had so many people give me coke in my life, but I never really thought any of them were trying to fuck me. But I mean, I guess there's been times when you're like at the bar.


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[Assistant] Wow, cause I used to go to the gym all the time and every time I'd be walking out there was a stem cell clinic. And I would just look at it and just think about it and wonder what that's all about.


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[Assistant] No, I 100% agree with that. Do you want to really wear the title of Wigger?


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[Assistant] I had a Honda Civic like pretty much up until the moment that the business thing started working. Yes. They're great cars, man. And they're great cars. But once you get used to driving a nicer car, it can be really hard to go back to the Civic. Cause sometimes like my car's insurance was fucked up or some shit, so I had to drive her car up to Palm Springs.


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[Assistant] And man, that thing feels like a chintzy little piece of shit after you're used to driving a nice BMW.


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[Assistant] You don't want to kill the Uber driver, they're gonna look at the Uber driver's records and they're gonna say,


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[Assistant] Pretty much as soon as we got in the Uber, we were driving to the hotel and the Uber driver was like Indian or Pakistani or some shit and some fucking dude, like he honked at another car.


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[Assistant] On behalf of my Uber driver. And it's cause I'm mad as fuck and I ain't smoked weed in like 24 hours and I'm just like, I was really just...


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[Assistant] But was that something you had to fall back on in terms of you getting sober, or did that not really count?


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[Assistant] That's insane. That's such a good point. But so what, at that moment you just sort of realize like, I'm out of control.


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[Assistant] I had to do an interview off an hour and a half of sleep because I had been up doing cocaine the whole night and just really like I felt like I did fine in the interview but I also just it was so painful for me to get through it and you know I'm just really like just thinking like this is the worst version of myself like I'm absolutely not


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[Assistant] It was just really occurring to me, like maybe I'm doing okay right now. Doing this interview off a fucking hour and a half of sleep. Feeling like death, like I'm gonna go home and puke as soon as I'm done with this. But...


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[Assistant] Really not really looking out for yourself if you're not willing to give that to your audience.


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[Assistant] But, and it's just taxing, like mentally, like just get this shit embedded in your brain and it's so hard to just feel like a normal person after you've been doing that long enough. And I just had to quit at some point because my addictive ass personality was just too into it. You couldn't take it?


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[Assistant] And it was also just a quality of life thing, cause I started like, my first thing was I started like a BMX website. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not for me with it. Oh, really? Yeah, so you remind me of like a BMX guy. Really? Yeah, you remind me of like one of the guys you used to be riding around with. Oh, that's pretty cool, man. I think you would have made a good BMX rider.


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[Assistant] I can't believe that they just are letting like 60 year old ladies hop on those potentially. Like there's a lot of liability there.


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[Assistant] The bitch is down. Like that's actually what she writes down in the fucking paperwork. Could happen.


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[Assistant] Because you know what happened with us is that a dude broke in here with a gun, like, trying to rob me. And, you know, we beat the fucking shit out of him. Did y'all really? Yeah, he was like,


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[Assistant] No, Laura wasn't there. Laura wasn't actually there, but he was like unconscious on the ground afterwards, and so my fucking friend, he calls the cops, cause he's like,


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[Assistant] We gotta get somebody out here to fucking deal with this. The kid's fucking unconscious on the ground. He's got his head bashed in. It's like, what are we gonna do? We're gonna drag him into the alley and just leave him there to die? So, and the, the 911 operator told my friend like,


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[Assistant] Like, do you really need us? Like, he's unconscious right? Like, why do you need us?


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[Assistant] Are you fucking kidding me? Like, he's almost dead. Like you have to come here. Like this is insane that you're even acting like there's any possibility of me not doing that. Think about what a crime I would be committing if I just dragged that body into the alley and left it there and he died.


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[Assistant] Really? That bothers you? Yeah. I love that, cause it lets you let your brain relax and you can just sort of put your livelihood in their hands and then they fuck up, you get to be mad at them.


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[Assistant] I worked out today for the first time in a month.


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[Assistant] They help out. It's such a weird feeling to, to be, have your brain working against you in such an extreme way. Cause I've just been smoking cigarettes, eating fast food.


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[Assistant] I haven't been like, partying, I'm like, strangling once or twice over the course of the past month.


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[Assistant] Doughnuts, lean egg doughnuts, 1am doughnuts. Dude, I have fucking 6 Oreos left.


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[Assistant] I had a friend when we were in Vegas one time and he bought $500 worth of coke and it was fake and he did it anyway. And he's just, he's, I don't know what the fuck he thought he was getting out of it, but he did the whole sack.


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[Assistant] Can I actually, I'm gonna tell you the grossest thing probably ever that happened to me today.


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[Assistant] Okay. I'm just gonna reveal so much about myself.


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[Assistant] Again, like I said, I was stressed out, so as soon as I get done in the gym, and I get in the shower, and then I'm in the shower, and like my brain is sort of trying to think of ways to be less stressed, so I'm like, I'm gonna jerk off even though I'm in this gym. In the morning? It's such a nice shower though. Uhm, yea, it was about like 11.30 when I was done working out. Ooh, that's crazy to jerk off in the middle of the day. You don't, you would never do that?


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[Assistant] I think of it as such a great way to just relieve some stress real quick if I got a minute or two. I'd save my semen up for something special.


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[Assistant] You have that mind state is that you need to really do something with every nut. Now it's like pissing. You don't think about where your piss is going.


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[Assistant] And then put it in Turkey Basterds. He was like some porn dude or whatever and he was like talking about doing weird stuff to girls with the saved up, not even have to keep it in the fridge because apparently it would start to smell so bad if you were


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[Assistant] So then like, I realized that I forgot my underwear, so I had to put my jeans on with no underwear, I was just like already, awkward feeling, and then I had, I went back home, put on these pants I'm wearing right now.


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[Assistant] It's pretty bad. The worst part, I'm looking around and it's all orthodox Jews all around me in this coffee bean too.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I would like to be a rich tapestry of different ethnicities, that would be fun.


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[Assistant] But do you ever look at the hot Orthodox Jewish women and just think about the fact that you're never gonna get anywhere near them?


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[Assistant] Oh no, I never thought about that. You could basically, you could be, you could fall in love with one and make it the focus of your entire life. This is not happening, they're not interested.


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[Assistant] They don't, they're not exposed to anything besides their little world. Yeaah. So I feel like they don't really fuck with anybody.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but... Like you're just as foreign to them as any other race. Because you're not an OJ. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Adapt a religion just for the cultural elements.


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[Assistant] Because I have nothing. You have no religion. As an atheist, I mean, it's like, you got no culture. You'd watch Bill Maher, and that's it. Oh wow. I can see that.


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[Assistant] I'm just so interested in how you become a black Jew. Like there's a white guy that I know that I just recently found out is like really like into like Muslim shit.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, slims, that's what a lot of people call them. It's just so strange to me because I'm just thinking, I'm like, if I decided I wanted to start claiming that shit, I guarantee that all of the black Muslim dudes that I know would think that it was the fucking goofiest shit ever if I was like, yo, I'm trying to get down. Same way if I was like, yo, I'm trying to be a crit. They'd be like, no, like, you know, like, no, that's not you.


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[Assistant] That'd be a weird, I dunno, it's just like, and then like you hear, it's always like the white muslim dudes are always the first ones who are talking about, oh the pizza might have been in the same oven as the pepperoni.


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[Assistant] You know, there's definitely been like podcasts that we were supposed to do live and then we didn't do it live because I realized like, oh, if we do this live, there's like a very good chance there's going to be people waiting for him outside after. But also there's like, you know, a lot of times dude show up with security and like they can be weird and like scared even with security, which is weird. Like, uh,


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[Assistant] But, you know, the craziest one that happened recently is when I was in the UK, I interviewed this dude. This dude, Unknown T. And he's, you know, he's...


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[Assistant] His vibe was like pretty serious that you get the feeling that he's...


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[Assistant] Grew up in some environments, you know, that type of thing. And I was trying to get them to talk about street stuff to a certain extent. I wasn't pushing too hard, but I was kinda like, you know, yea, like, do you ever get a hard time with the cops, blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] But he wasn't really saying too much, and then, like a week after I did the interview, arrested for murder. Damn.


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[Assistant] Knife. Knife shit in England. They get down with the knives, bro. Which is like, super weird to me because it just seems so intimate in comparison to LA where like, you know, you could shoot somebody from down the block.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just happens, it's like immediate like death as soon as that bullet just enters you. It's not like the knife, like if you, cause you could stab somebody like one time and they're probably not gonna die, you like, you really just knife the shit out of somebody 50 times in their stomach.


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[Assistant] You're a sick fuck. Yeah. You've created a whole lot of evidence, there's a lot of blood that's swimming around in all of this. Yeah. But!


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[Assistant] At least you can really respect the fact that they really had a hands on. It's like when you go to somebody's house and they have like a beautiful table or cabinet and then you realize they made it themselves. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Oh, Lil Boosie, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you were saying like, La Boosie.


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[Assistant] Or like, like La Boosh. Oh nah, Lil' Boosie. Uh, he's my absolute favorite. I'm gonna be honest with you, someone stole Boosie's rental car while he was doing this interview.


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[Assistant] And he was mad as fuck, and it was really weird too actually because he had a-


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[Assistant] Here, still, I still have like another interview to do and stuff, but Lil Boosie's here, and a bunch of his friends.


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[Assistant] And they're mad as fuck about getting the rental car stolen because he had like eight phones that were in the rental car. And, you know, it wasn't like he really suspected us, but he was at least feeling us out a little bit. Like, did you guys have anything to do with this? And the whole thing is just kind of like, well,


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[Assistant] He posts memes that are just like words on the screen, and they're unreal.


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[Assistant] He's a legend bro. And we're gonna actually read some of these because they are so good.


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[Assistant] What psalm is that? When I dunk in my way, your voice is in my head saying, act the f up. Okay. Wow, man. How many posts does he have? So many. No, he never deleted any. Whoa, ten thousand.


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[Assistant] Honestly, these are not as hilarious as some of the ones I've seen in the past. Not everyone is going to play you and break your heart. It's dudes out here that'll make sure you're the happiest girl ever. It's like just a random, sincere meme. There's no joke to be had. Bro, he got sincerity in him. And also, Freddie


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[Assistant] Writing these? Hey, do you, how do you feel about this as someone who's actually from this region? New Orleans, Baton Rouge, I had Alexandria. Damn, that's ice cold, man. Damn, is Alexandria that bad? It's got like the crack edge?


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, he does have, uh, what are they called? Boosie Chips? No, he has a signature wrap snack, but then he has a drink called Boosie Juice. Does he? Yeaah, I believe I read about that.


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[Assistant] See, you gotta check out, uhm, you gotta check out Lil Blurry. Cause that's the artist that he signed. The young, like 12 year old white artist. Lil Blurry?


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[Assistant] A little blurry though, you gotta check out Lil Blurry. Yeah, I guess there's not that many memes that I'm really finding here, but it's like, he'll just go on a spree. Like, we're gonna see like seven in a row one day here. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Cause that's just how he gets down, man. Yea, see, like, all of a sudden he just wakes up one day and he's like, I'm gonna post a shitload of memes. A man that buses ass to provide is a king no matter what his job description is. See, no joke.


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[Assistant] It was crazy too because when he got his car took here, it didn't really seem like it registered as that big a deal to him. He just deals with this kind of stuff all the time.


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[Assistant] But that's what's crazy about getting more successful, getting more established, getting older is that you slowly make your life more and more


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[Assistant] You know, you eliminate risk as you get nicer things or you get a nice house, you get like a car that makes you a little bit more anonymous, etc. It's like you're just doing all these things that eliminate a lot of that risk. Like when I think about my life five years ago,


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[Assistant] I was waking up and going different places all the time. Now, it's like I go here, I go to my office.


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[Assistant] That's pretty much it, unless I have like a set destination of like, oh, I'm going to go to this show or I'm going to go do this guy's podcast or whatever. Like the more and more successful you get, I feel like to be a comedian is to sit around and talk about and think about stupid shit. Like that is the whole.


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[Assistant] Was listening to Delia talk about Armenian people, and saying that every Armenian person's favorite movie is Scarface. It's just basically just like, stereotypes.


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[Assistant] Useless, like very rare that comedy really focuses on anything that really is important. It has to be silly and fun. A lot of people, like as you get older, your mind just gets further and further away from that.


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[Assistant] When I was in eighth grade we used to think it was funny to just pull our ball sacks out in class and like just sort of flash and like get your friend or get somebody to look at your nut.


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[Assistant] If I did that in a junior high these days, they're either gonna expel you or they're gonna call a SWAT team. It just doesn't seem like it would go over the same.


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[Assistant] Cause I was a huge Ace Ventura fan and then The Mask was like Jim Carrey's next movie, which I was so young and interested in.


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[Assistant] The mask, isn't that the fucking Jim Carrey movie? No, it's a different one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like I just don't have the, the, the movie knowledge.


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[Assistant] Like, sometimes I feel like I should spend the next couple of years of my life- Watching movies? Watching a lot of movies so I can have better conversations about movies. Yeah, I can feel that. I feel like 9 times out of 10 when somebody's like, have you seen this movie? I'm just like-


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[Assistant] How are the aliens gonna give a shit about race? Yeah. You have to really be like indoctrinated into that.


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[Assistant] There was like a million people on Facebook who said they were gonna go. That's mostly, most people on Facebook are white people with white hair.


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[Assistant] It's like, uh, a lot of the media entities, somebody was just telling me that, uh, like a lot of the media entities that we view as being super, super liberal.


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[Assistant] Really only got there because the liberal shit was the stuff that was driving page views. Yeaah. It's like these companies don't really have souls. They're just sorta going along with whatever's gonna work for them getting page views and making money.


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[Assistant] Oh, everybody seems very nice. Everybody seems very inclined to just get along and be friendly towards each other and stuff. And then sometimes the stuff you read in the news would just seem so foreign in comparison to that.


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[Assistant] I had a cop, and this seems more and more fucked up the longer time goes by, but one time a cop told me that he's like, he's like, you can tell when people are doing drugs cause you see all the people of different races all together. And I was like, whoa, like.


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[Assistant] A couple of different years when I was a kid, when money was tight or whatever, he would go and he would work either at the grocery store or he would work for like a, doing like post office work or whatever, like he would get extra.


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[Assistant] He's probably still getting checks for the shows being, well actually, cause we're showing him on TV anymore, right, but. Yea, maybe Bill screwed him. Yea, I fucking probably screwed the whole cast and everything, but I mean.


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[Assistant] I mean, is it really that, that out of the ordinary that he wants to go out and be productive? Because I think that my dad, even if it wasn't an issue of making extra money for the family, that he might have gone and made that decision to go do that anyway just because he wants to be productive and working, you know?


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[Assistant] You know, you still see, like, like, I was just reading, like, the, the case against Joe Biden as a democratic national candidate, and it's kinda like,